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6 THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFKEY, S. O., DECEMBER 19, 1995. “FOOL NOTIONS” Squire Rufus Sanders Still Fresh and Quaint. Ih« Smartest and th« Best of Peopln Have Fool Xotlona—A Few From Aunt Xaocy Newton—Bier ScrorginH Starts the Procession—Andy I.ncas and His Mark—“An Under>Bit In the Left.’' (Copyright, 1898.) About the most strangest thing 1 in this world to me is how many smart people take up fool notions. It ain’t no ■ign for common that a man is a natural- born fx>ol be cause he takes ijp fool notions. Me and you, my friends and fel low citizens, and most everybody, have our own fool notions. tTbe fact is I have took notico that rale smart people are more probable to have weak spots on that line than anybody else. The onlyest man I over saw that didn't have any fool notions never had a lick of sense to start on. Aunt Nancy's Fool Notions. You mought saddle up right now and pitch out and ride three hundred miles before you could find another woman as smart as my Aunt Nancy Newton. She has never went off to college and she don’t put any on frills and fancy figments to speak of. She is what I call a plain, old-fashion, fiint-and-steel woman. But when it comes to bavin sense—plenty of it and some to spare—my Aunt Nancy is right there. And yet still at the same time, that dear, delightful old soul can take up more fool uotions, it seems to me, than any one woman in the whole discovered country. If Aunt Nancy was to turn in tonight and dream about crossin high and muddy waters—freshets and floods and the like of that—sho wouldn’t sleep no more in a week. She says it is a dead certain sign of death in the family for anybody to dream about crossin muddy waters. But if a death in the family bad come to pass every time I have dreamt about crossin floods and freshets and muddy waters the Sanders genera tion would of faded out years and years ago. So that is jest simply one of Aunt Nancy’s fool notions. 1 was buildin of a new bouse last summer in one of the most loveliest spots on the broad bosom of the earth perhaps. There is a big oak grove all around and a spring right down there under the hill. “You will have to take your ax, Rufus, and cut them trees down,” said Aunt Nancy tbo first time she driv by. “It will never do to leave ’em standin there. They will draw ligbtnin, Rufus, they will draw ligbtnin as certain as the Lord made little apples.” Well, I never have cut them trees down, and what is more I never will. They have been standin right there for a hundred years, I reckon, and thoy never have drawed any lightnin yet. And so far as I can see there ain’t no particlar reason why they will start to drawin of it now. But at any rates, that is one more of Aunt Nancy’s fool notions. If Aunt Nancy was to run out of a job on a Thursday night—as smart and stirrin as she Is—she would set down and smoke her pipe and hold her hands and play with the children a whole en tire day before she would start a piece of work on Friday. “It’s bad luck. Rufus, it’s bad luck,” says she, and that is the onlyest reason she can give*. Tbo Good Book tells us to work six days and rest on Sunday, but it don’t say nothin about taken Friday for luck. Every day is workin day with me, ex- cepin Sunday, and I have had more good luck than any man in the settlement. Whereas, accordln to my doxology, that is another one of Aunt Nancy’s fool no tions. And then Aunt Nancy she runs every thing by tbo moon. Sho regulates the weather, and sows her garden seed, and plants out her flowers, and sets her hens and kills her hogs all accordin to the size and shape and stage and general appearments of the moon. As to me, it takes my level blamdest to keep up with the sun, and I don't know ono turn of the moon from another. But the weather changes with tho seasons, and the garden seed come up, and the chick ens hatch off, and the flowers grow at our bouse the same as they do over at the Newton plaoe. So there we are with one more of Aunt Nancy’s fool no tions. Finally at last, accordin to my figura tion, it would take a hamper basket and a good big book to hold all tho sense and all the fool notions that Aunt Nancy has got in her head. 4 1 1 The Proce*lion Proceeded. It ain’t so very often—maybe not more than oncst a year—that my friend and fellow servant Blev Scroggins breaks out in a fresh place, but whensomever he does turn loose he can take up some of the blamdest biggest fool notions of any rale smart man I have evfer saw. One day last week Blev come by my house drivin four mules to a big wagon, and hit empty. Him and his wagon and mules was raisin more dust and noise i and confusionment along the big road ' than a drove of wild steers on a stam- | pede. I wondered in ray soul what in i creation was comin to pass, but Ulev bo driv up and stopped to tell mo tbo nows. “I am goin over here in the hill country to movo Jule Nabors this raornin," says Blev. “1 reclcon no doubts you wonder how it comes to pass that an all-wool, iron-bound, moss-covered Democrat like me can hook up his mules and go and move a rantankerous Third party idiot like Jule Nabors. But you will see tho pint when I give you the mainest facts in tho case. Little Bunk Weatherford has sold h s place to Handy Stribblin* and bought tho old Turner place where Jule Nabors is now livin. In the main time Handy Srib- blin sold out to the VVidder Brantly, and the widder she rented her place out to Tunce Stringer, and so forth and so on. Now Tanee Stringer is crowdin the widder, and tbo widd r she is crowdin Handy Stribblin, and Handy bo is crowdin Little Bunk W’eatborford, and little Bunk is crowdin Jule Nabors. You see Jule Nabors is at the head of tbo procession and holdin down the whole shootin mat h. Ho is the onlyest Third party man in tho line, and to a man on the fence or up a tree it looks like he won’t movo his pegs more for pure cussedness than anything else. “Naturally of course it ain’t my funeral, Rufe, but by gatlins th“ pro cession must proceed. It ain’t fair and it aim right for one sorry man like Jule Nabors to block up tbo business of a settlement in that way. Little Bunk and Handy and the wilder and Tance Stringer are all ready to movo and dead crazy to start, and whilst I ain’t got nothin particlar to do with the case I am sick and tired .of so many people fussin and foolin and liddlln around on account of Jule Nabors. From last reports it seems as if Jule has rented land from old man Moso Tram mel, and tbo onlyest reason ho can give in now for scotch in tbo procession is that he can’t get no wagon and t am to movo with to mo last night and I am now on my way to the bill country. When I get there Jule Nabors he will move and the procession will proceed.” And Blov ho driv on. It was after supper that night when Blev como thunder in by on his rctunn back from the bill country, but I belt him up and got the latest nows. “By gatlins, Rufe, I moved him and the procession can now proceed in rog- lar order,” says Biov. “Julo made out like ho want ready and tried his blamd est to turn me back. Ho took tho studs and bucked and kicked and snorted and cavorted. But I told him it want no use. 1 bad como over to move him, and he bad to move. I couldn’t mako that long trip with a four-mulo team for nothin, and dadburn him, I moved him. I know it want my funeral, and you mought maybe say I took up a blame fool notion, but it bad to h-> did, Rufe— it just simply bad to i>o did.” I will leave it for you to say as to whether Blov was right or wrong in takin the job to move Jule Nabors. And I will say that ho was dead right about one thing. It was my private opinion that bo had wont and took up a blame fool notion. AN IMMODEST AGE. Pictured Advertisements, Thea ters, Etc., Doing Their Work. ‘am Jones Answers Bis Critics, Who Charge Him with Vulgarity, and Otters a Timely Warning Against n Orowing Bril. OOPTMQHT IWY I mm styled a vulgar preacher. The word vulgar comes from the Latin vul- gus—the common people. If my critics mean 1 am a prtacher of the common people, 1 accept the friendly criticism— 1 I bank on the common people. Human society is like pie; there’s an upper crust, and an under crust, and there is the between material that names and constitutes the pie. The upper crust of society is brittle and unreliable; the un der crust is soft and spongy, but the middle class is where you find the gen uine folks. 1 am always as modest in my preach ing and writing as the work in hand will allow. If a uiun with broadcloth clothes, white kid gloves, button-hole bouquet and stove-pipe hat should come up to a street contractor and offer an a hand to clean out t- sew ers. the contractor and all the bands employed by him would laugh. He might appropriately perform a mar riage ceremony, but ns to work on the street, he is not dressed for that occa sion. There is such a thing as adapta- ’ ion of muu and clothes and implements That is tho news that come lo the job in hand. As a minister I’m sure 1 have never Iressed immodestly, have nevercarried on an immodest conversation with ladies and gentlemen, have never at tended the schools of immodesty, such as the theater, dunces, eireuses. variety shows and bawdy houses. And 1 have only been accused of vulgarity wben 1 have been trying to clean up some flirty gang or institution; und.it is true, that the most immodest folks, the grad uates of some of the above-named insti tutions. have been my severest critics. The ballroom and theater-going wom an cannot tolerate my immodesty. The blasphemer detests my irreverence, and the libertine abominates my vul garity. A sore-back horse despises the curry comb, and a sick man can’t en joy his medicine. In many respects this country is growing better. We are reforming along almost nil lines but immodesty and gambling are on the iucrea.se. We’re constantly furnishing more food lor vulgar appetites, and men are gam bling on everything. riiere's scarcely a business house in any city upon whose walls and about whose writing desks may not be found mmodest pictures —nude women used as advertisements. These pictures are daily feeding l he lust of young men and destroying the modesty of young wom en. in these business houses every thing from a cigarette to a national bank is now advertised by half nude woman’s form, and these advertise ments are hung up to the gaze and put in the hands of little boys and girls, voting men and you;:g women. And just as sure as that the constant use of dumb bells strengthen and develop the muscles, just so sure these immodest pictures quietly and constantly feed and develop the worst things in us. Our advertisements are great kinder garten schools of passion and lust. 1 know of only a few business men who go through their stores and tear down these pictures and refuse to advertise iheir business with immodest pictures. A few years ago 1 he nude actress and nigh kicker rind impure woman was found only in the low variety shows; but of recent years » woman, the mot her ot illegitimate children, has come to the tront with a “divine voice,” and is u star in the nest theatres. The kick- higher is given at the leading theaters, where would-be mode a men and women go. *uul where some men are fools enough to lake sweet wives and inno cent daughters. I don't go to the thea ters. but, if the pictures on tho bill- boards of the citVs I visit are fair rep resentations of what is on the stage, then 1 say no modest woman can at tend, ami in, sensible man ought to ex pose his wile tuul daughter to such sights. I he Rain's Horn, that wonderful |>enodicnl published in Chicago, last week on its trout page gave us the pic ture ot a modcstly-dn smuI lady stand ing on the Highway v. ,ih the word “modesty' wntlen across bet bosom. Down ttr.it same strict -umes a modern woman on a bicycle, clad in shirt waist, cap and bloomers, anti w aving her hand and saying to modesty, "get out of my way,' That's a fair picture of thisuge, '1 he circuses have said to modesty, get out ot my way, 1 he houses of ill-fame nave said, get out ul my way; the thea ter mis said, get out of my way; the ] variety show has said, get out of my NEWS NOTES FROM EUROPE. : wu .v: the ball room has said,get out of my way; the high tea has said, get out of my way: the modem woman has said, get out of my way; the skating riuk has said, get out of my way; the 4U0 of every city and tfle doz.pq of every town has said, get out of my way. And poor, sweet modesty, wit If fief form neatly clad, her face covered with blushes, and her eyes shocked at tbu sights she sees, is sadly ami quietly re tiring from the public gaze, and is welcomed now only a ton ml the ii reside of the pure i hristtan home and in the country oitut ehee, I here is no more immodest, vulgar sight to me than to see the boys and young men grouping tu trout ol the church doors on Sunday morning or theater doors during the week, and gu/mg on the faces ami forms of every woman passing through. There ought to ueuii ordinance passed in every city forbidding Mich assem blages in I roof Ot Houses of wot ship and around the iioms ol everything where lieople congregate, f tom .’0 to a()() of these gsi/.mg puppies, w ril» iigiile<| rig urrettes nnd ving.tr eyes. <n front of cbiircnes Muu'nv morning*, nr in front rt| hails and 1 healers t he crowd goes out, is am uisuU tamv*9y virsouus wots- “An Unilorhit in the Left.'* Years and .years and years ago—when wo was only chunks of boys—Andy Lu cas had a ralo nasty tight ono day at school with a youngster by the name of Bunch Marlowe. It was a fair fight witli nothin hut tho weapons which mother nature had give them, and the way they fit and scratched and chawed and bit was a plum sight to see. The performance wont on fast and furious till finally at last Bunch hit a plug out of Andy’s arm, and Andy ho bit a three- cornered slico out of the other boy’s left ear. “Dadblatne him. I put a clean, smooth underbit in bis left ear,” said Andy, as wo went on homo that evenin, “and honceforwards from now on that is my mark, if I over come up to bo a man and have any stock around mo l will mark every blasted ono of ’em with an underbit in bis left.” Time went on and Andy waxed big and strong and devilish accordin. BJr- and-by he married off and settled down, and presently ho got some stock around him. It was now time for him to pick a mark and put his stock in it, and he marked everything with “an underbit in the left.” Tho last time I was over to bis house mo and Andy wont out to the lot and down in the pastor to see bis Stock. “1 have now got thirteen bogs and nine sheep and twenty-three goats and four cows and three calves and ono man in ray mark, Rufe,” says Andy, “and every blame ono of ’em wears an underbit in the left.” Curious like, ain’^ it? I know you think so. Me too. But that is only one of Andy’s fool notions. Remember now, and don’t mako no mistakes in regards to fool notions and fool people. They don't come together by a whole tremondius big lot. Bat in this present day and generation mighty nigh all the people—particlar tho smart ‘St and the best—most in gen erally always have some few fool no tions. Rufus Sandkks. Vodka, which being interpreted is Russian brandy, is now to be found on all Parisian hills of fare. Mr. Asquith, late English home sec retary, has broken with all precedents by appearing as counsel in a law case. France has solved the problem of ap plying the rule for compulsory military service to priests by assigning them to ambulance work. From Turin 89 brothers of the order of St. Francis de Sules and 20 sisters were sent out in October as missionaries lo South America. Grand Duke Alexander Mikhnilovitch, who married Czar Nicbolas' sister Xenia a year ami a half ago, has consumption, and has been ordered to the Caucasus. A concession to build a carriage road from Teheran to Bagdad and also to build electric railroads in the suburbs of Teheran has just been grunted to a Ger man contractor. At Berlin the academy of arts is pre paring iiij exhibition of the paintings of Adolf Menzel, Andreas Achenbach nnd Julius Schrader, who are all now 80 years old and still Ttuo ^09* an. and ought to arouse the resentment of every decent man. Is an era of immodesty going to be a craze in the close of t his century ? The question is largely in the bands of mothers and wives and daughters. Everything immodest should tie re buked. No young men who stand in front of a public place and gaze at wom en ought to be tolerated in decent so ciety, but they ought to be tatiooed oy every woman who loves virtue and cher ishes modesty. The champions of marriage without license or ceremony; the lax divorce laws of our country; the want of com- mandership and watchfulness of par ents over their children: the turning of the kids loose from the sight to roam like wild ass colts; the pictures aud presence of high kickers, etc., must be downed, or they will down the modesty of the age. Sam P. Jones. THE LARGEST BISLE. News Notes From All South Carolina. INTERESTING, IMPORTINT A Deputy Kills a Man at Walhj Was Resisting Arrest—A Mor« Foot to Build a Railroad From burg to Henrietta, N. C. Tha| •f the Lynchers. ^rts of Review of the Situation In the South For a Wedc. | ~ - _ ITEMS. COTTONIS ' d.:: ;G FORWARD. Sacred Rooks of the ISuddblsts Are Ap pallingly Long. The sacred book of the Buddhists are perfectly appalling in their hulk. They are culled the Tripitaka. the Three baskets, and were originally written in Pali, a vernacular form of Sanskirt. They have been translated into many languages, such as Chinese. Thibetan and Mundshu. They have also been written and published in various alpha bets, not only in Devanagari. but in Singhalese, Burmese and Siamese let ters. The copy in l!i volumes lately presented to the University of Oxford by the king of Siam contains the Pali text written in Siamese letters, but the language is always the nine: it is the Pali or the vulgar tongue, sis it was supposed to have i.ecti spoken by Buddha himself about ;>0() B. (J. After having been preservesl for centuries by oral tradition, it wsis reduced for the first time to uritin' 1 under King Vat- tagamani in 8S-7U B. ( .. the time when the truly literary | .vl of India may be said to begin. Ard besides this Pali canon there is another in Sanskirt aud there are books in the Sanskirt canon which are not to be found in the Pali canon, and vice versa. According to a tradition current among the southern as well ns the northern Buddhists, t !.e original canon consisted of S4.0U0 ixml.s. sM.OOO being ascribed to Buddha himself and 2.000 to his disciples. Book, however, seems to have meant no more t han treatise or topic. But, as a mutter of fact, the Pali canon consists, according to Rev. R. Spence Hardy, of 275.2.70 stanzas, and its commentary ot .'{01.550 stanzas, each stanza reckoned at 22 syllables. This would give us 8.808.000.syllables for the text and 11,509.000 syllables for the commentary. This is. of course, an enormous amount, the question is only whether Rev. Spence Hardy and his assistants, who are responsible for these statements, counted rightly. Prof. Rhys Davis, by taking the aver age of words in ten leaves, arrives at much smaller sums, namely, at 1.752.- 800 words for the Pali canon, which, in an English translation, as he says, would amount to about twice that number, or 2.505.000 words. E’en this would be ample for a Bible; <t would make the Buddhist Bible nearly five times as large as our own; but is seems to me that Spence Hardy's account is more likely to be correct. Prof. Rhys Davis, by adopting the same plan of reckoning, brings the number of words in the Bible to about 900.000. We found it given as 77J.692. But who shall de cide ? What the bulk of such a work would be we may gather from what we know of the bulk of the translations. There is a complete copy of the Chinese translation at the India oliiee in Lon don, also in the Bodleian, and a cata logue of it, made by a Japanese pupil of mine. Rev. Btinyitt Nanjio. brings the number of separate works in it to i,6G2. The Thibetan translation, which dates from the eighth century,consists of two “o I lectio as, commonly called the Kanjur and Tatijur. The Kanjur consists of 100 volumes in folio, the Tanjur of 225 volumes, each volume weighing between four and live pounds. This collection, pub lished by command ol the emperor of China, sells for i>20 pounds. A copy ol it is found at the India office. The Buriates. a Mongolian tribe converted to Buddhism, bartered 7.000 oxen for one copy of the Kanjur. and thesume tribe paid 12.000 silver rubles for a com plete copy of hot!) Kanjur and lunjur. What must it be to believe in 125 vol umes, each weighing live pounds—nay. even to read through such a Bible! — Nineteenth l entury, Wllut llelmholtx Did. To appreciate his many-sidedness, we hove but to follow the development ot his life. While his first work was main ly mathematical, his second was in quite a different field. It consisted in the measurement ot ftie velocity of propagation of sensation by the nerves. To accomplish this he must needs have been an anatomist, too. His moors in the line of physiological optics show that he was also a muster of psychol ogy. But ,>erhupH it is by his achieve ments in the realms ol music that tie is best known and most celebrated, |n his hook. "The Scnsut ions ot I one," he solved completely the riddle ot nut life which tuul puzzled the world stiice t|)e time of Bytluigonts. Thus, to give u rational iiumeneal explanation n| tfie intricacies of linriuoiiy nnd their effect on the ear. there was need not out v of a mathematician, an mui'miust.tt physic ist ,ind 11 psychologist, 1 ut iilsoof mu sicinn. alt uuiled in 01. man. Helm boil/ was 1111 this, an t even more.— ten titter’s Magazine. rtw i.ime I'hlnt;. Kite—Dearest, pupa lias spoken to me about your i.eing so niueti at the house, .uni ne wanted *0 know when it was going to Mid. r|e *Ii;I you tell him we were en- ra.vcd V She- I told him this whs >nly the be- I ginning.—Ruck. ore Columbia, Dec. 11.—For thel; of the three negroes in Colleton last week the friend* of the four men who did the work make the fi ing defense in a card for publicatio: Several month* ngo th* negro I_ Kearse attempted to assault criminu married lady of good family in the ty of Jeuuy’s postoifioe. Ha further was charged with buruiug Folk store iu upper Coll-toa. He was lo< upon geuerally a* au outlaw, and men or lower Barnwell and upper ton, aided h, tho u ifiroe* o' that dist have been exercising all diligeaci to ture him. Their combined efforts, h ever, proved futile until last Mon night. Recently some potty theft committed from St. Nichol-re church, in following up the clews conuected 1 the same the loag sought lor Ish Kearse who jiroved to he the thief, wk-i, located and captured. " Isam Kears •'* mother proved to be _ necomplic", whereuooa she was taken o and whipped. She was by no means verely beaten as reprexenteu hut died fro freezing as testified to by Dr. Hires, w _ held the post monem examination. Her exposure 10 the cold was her own fault as on the following morning her tracks show ed that she left the scene of her chits 'se- ment iu the dir-ctiou 01 home, and after pursuing her course ccross the field, she turned aud went into the swamp and fell iuto the water where she was found. Isam Kearse was severely U* iten, but not enough to cause death. He took from his pocket a bottle of whisky and drank every drop of it. It cau now he proven that he had stolon said ho tie of whisky from a ueyro iu tho ueighiiorhood, aud that the same was doctored for Id* especial benefit by the darky, Irom who u he hud stolen wh s •. y before. The parties who waited on these negroes had 110 idea of killing anybody, and none of them believe t at lb/ did but that death in each car:- nns ;'r;m a combina tion of ciicumMn ve- .os stated above. There are ctj: r mil:-caling circum stances wuien wi.l he proven that will put quit- a new face on 1 hi* transection, but at pr s-iit the defend ;:its do not see fit to divulge them. T 1 . ;'-. is i ': ir iie>d “OBirons in ami around Folks’ HI.ire.” THE LAURADA RELEASED. She auU Uer Cap tain Hud Ue<-u Held For Vioiuiiou of Neutrality Laws. Cuah,, : :sion. Dee. lo.—la response to onion; is- u-d by Judge* Brawioy of the United States district court, Captain Hugh ok • the Amori-an steamship Laurarln, > “'Moved his b ind of $8,000 to appear 1, " to the J inaiy term of tire district c n- t n* . ) —e.-{ violation of the I 'm;' . • the Am v i v- patty < 1 li t t. la Who Large l’laiif-r, Ir- In n I'ositiou to Hold ent on Tlicir Crop M.u-L l' ,:- M.gtier I'riocs and partan- They Are Doing -o K'l.tling Mills Being leoso i’ut In Opreatioa -New Textile Mill*. Lumber Steady, Die. Chattanooga, Dec*. 17.—The Trades man's reports as to southern industrial and business conditions for the week ending Dec. 16, shows that no unusual activity exists, while there is little or no falling off in the amount. Cotton is not coming forward. Large planters are in condition to held their cotton for tip- higher prices which they believe will be realized before the new seas a. Lale returos as to the amount of cott >n on band show that it has boon underestimated. Str mg efforts will be made to inllu -re th • planting of a lim ited area, f;' rn cotton mills are! busy, atidipcri 1 in number from weekj to week. A good many knitting milUj are being put in operation, and there is an increase in the number of woollen' mills. x The list of new textile mills for the includes <• tton mills at Mountain VId, X. C., and Chesterfield, S. C.; Knox\"g mills at Atlanta, (fa., and Mar- dnotion V', Ya., and woolen mills at has g' tie Tenn. The agreed upon re- thc supnly \vt£ho output of pine lumber dema; p, and a fi’“ct. itnd by its terms will result. Ci lp‘r\i he in excess of the Steady, but ml iaAam .unt of business ami prior'.-, , ;v well vinos of lumber are pr t : n < ait inn ord-rs nr > h -• :l ifn omare n ei ve . . r orders yet nehlb'd nar os in active to come. Coal i prices, and the c fi' ld is n.if aeci; Maoufacturi; coni ;■ m demami. Anion; ted< r es The i \ Buena the (h New C the S. I'i( kn The In *0 ! an xc< .-ive demand, I'.tained. Iron changed. Large but many small hy to day, aud ill keep the fur- ti m for some time fi* m at unchanged imf in the southern dating iu first hands, md mercantile business baf there is no excessive -10 c MW: the United States, g and Trust com- r*' 1 ••• raing his surety. The s'-ii't?- MV', w! i -h has been in t’ marshal's ' u*t -e.y v; ■,> ij,.). arrival lie: iu re; n n- e t > a li-m iiie.i by Kerr Co. ot m 1. was aim releu 10 J 0 new inonvirios ittcorpora- ished dun ;.. the week are: rd Oak Leather company of ista, Ya., capital $1,000,000; nCocper: e .11'.cany Ltd. of Tea-.'.;. Tat... esnifal $100,000, and f. Vv -i.o Chc h al company of with ..">0.000 capital, ml Ceal company has it ekda’c, Tex., with ' barrel factory T mu., the Reid Wheeling. W. x.. capital A.-O. >), and the Southern tatii • . y company, capital $25,000, lias 1.'•<*.• chmtc : at New Orleans. La. The • Y;up ('111.' ■ company, capital Y::.. with W'AV:> 1 /inmoiid C r e!’.. * 0 Cd ;:! R Cl foot) eapil .. L*portea a Me «i h - and ' -as eoni’i 1 >’ 1 on a h 1 1;: j.fO Bad *.V r**oU «tii tli,. Kontlicrn. Gaffst.y. S. C . 14-A freight true, on the - > t ai 1 way was be ing run in three oo ing uorth. The first two w -ti iiis rweivod orders at Spartanburg to meet a Buiu at Thick- etty, a sidetrack seven mi'es below this place, hut the train dis’iatehor either failed to give » sinailir < rdor tot third section, rr t ** .gr was mini dorst od by th* * 1 -i and conducts A terrible wre k * •-■.; 1* 1, in which Et gineer David Car en w is aim 11 1 instar ly killed K* ui'vi within an hot without gaining eousei •isuoks. fireman was i nk,- slightly injured,j he jimno !. A negro bvakeman also soveioly slink*' *. nr*. Will Balid a tLiilroul. SPUD'aNBUIW. B. C., D". 17. the P <rt R oral ami W<M* *r;i railr a I is t > pass iut > the ha nil Southern railway and : part,iob| have n*. eoimceti m wit!: tho I world cv*ept over the ii;es ->f tli] a decided movement h.-s b *-.-un a mad fioru Imi’* t > H^nriott-i. conmct there with (no SealmJ $12, r,..n f. 11, M i s.. the ilanufaetUUM" e-.n capital, at C 1 1. The T1v .io. c1: ■ ning facti t y at J oil mi!) at if 1 plants - i- Lain . villo. N. C.. aud :*. •. mi - vo. . 1 •re to c al mines a:o ’ > 1 0 vilh*, Kv., ami L LVa.. a :V- [Aram s Pa: , V i. o' - are 1 in 1 lakt ■ •*.' t ! C.. and Mem' , 'i Tli'* new bn: 1 : dam* a >' 12,0:).) eh iiie.im 11 at od at Jack- > .'■>*•1! Mining and v. with $10,000 Ark. 1 lerr.-r's a can- ■>0. !, 1 ; ucotton ‘ : electrical ■a., .md Groen- ! mill at Bir- ;.*,,; v ire works it . Ten| 1 . t P iinqi ... .J Troutvillt i 1 t • b • bnrt sil ■ ! new w ■ dw >rk- , ■ 11 a large scale . ; 1 fi m-aster. S. week in- a at! ! eh mi A l.i 000 oltioh a: a $85,00 ) ie of til a; V .Id st:t. (fn.; <ia . a A100,- > •• .ea'is. i > > . and j.iWrem 1 vh.'*, Ya NAVAL MILITIA LAWS Tin- Line. iitsiati''* is omv 21 and il is est »nat<xl that the c.’itil could be ; shed for $50,000, w! people of .-p irtaubur r ar * exjv] raise. The Scahoi-. Lil promised l > put down the rails' pe. )pl<* road. of Spartanburg will Stirrlff Can't Find tho Lynch--i Walterb iso, S. C., Doc. 17.—! Black of Colleton county has re: to Solicitor Bellinger that ho fiud the four white men who the two negroes recently by them to death. The sbertff says t believes that the white men are out iu the swumuK. -Since Carolina of the irg will outside bit road, to buihl C., to lird Air miles ie road |ich the •tod to Jio has the to the 1 i au-H 11<- stilt* . r -.1 iiniH If 1 i: * navy do- : 1 1 <• 01 pact form ccd 1 iiotial. re- lil ia. ll Killed by a Deputy. Walhalla, S. C., Do^. 17.—El Cane, who ^vit* shot by I"*paty Domhitt in resisting airogt on a di sary warrant, Ls (MKd. Douthitt' been arrested. Donthitt is tho sou Sheriff D.mthitt and is a boy about years old. TO BE TESTED, t TU* Coni«t!tt|ttonality of th« tVn P«.r Con^ * «* «u “tati* Buii!<*. Atlanta, Dtx.*. 18.—I’Im* Go irgia lejj islutnrehas opened the way for a 1 of the const it uti'malt ty of the ton cent tax on state hank notes. The Cuiviti hanking net, passed former se*.Kim, ha« been amended that within a short time some pnblJ spirited citizen of this utiitc will estate ItKi) 11 bonk sad issue Uoi™ fur the ex press purpose of tiding tho state bank tax (juestiou in the courts. Many able lawyers who have given tho subject close study are convinced th«t thir tax is Uirc^iustltuli*>uul and some of them will volunteer to defend in the courts an issue of state hank notes. This ease will attract the atten tion of thn whole country. Sheriff jorted kannot iich»Ml gating lat he iidiug Nii.v 11 -ga: 1 1 • it ■ an.I -Nati nai \V\smN<<;o:>. Dec. pat t me:> 1 Iu. pul all of t: c laws, -ml'* lilting t > Hie m.; mi Th'*r * have been main inquiries from diffeie 1 t (jU 1 tets as to the s ! ops neces sary |: 11: t-,.. n to rga m/. 1 * naval mili- tin bait .U • -. r. 11 11! 1 • department hav- iugitive’W the e.li t ■ be derived from practically unitW-n state laws on the snl j* ct. b s jjrepare.! tliis pablica- tioti f 1 r th'* . nidatic< !''’;•* iuqutrei-s. Then* is a < iiieem i liistory of the naval militia from it inception in 18S7 to this v ar. whe" it teaclmd a «trength of 2,65)5 men, isi the 18 states which, have provided bv law for a naval milig tia. No AVorli at N’orfotl; Navy Yard. Norfolk, Doe. 17.— Nearly 500 were uischar *d at the navy yard. p:pis to tho ftaleigh and Monty have been completed and very lii mains 1 > be done mi the BnicnJ Dol]»hin About all the m mey' printed tor the li cal year has lieJ pended, and only .*ix months of year has passed. Three thousand lars m-oived, with what other tnonel on hand, is only sutliciont to keep, men leit ic the eoustructtoit depary employed t».ii tin* end of the mont A N’«*w M«'tlio<l of llaii'tliiic Fij Ni’.w Ouldans, Dee. 17 Tlt| of handling cotton and otln witli compross'*d air 1 coraotij terminal of tin* N-w Oileans tern railr ad at B rt Chnl been tested end proved nn i*/ cess. This system was dev| Bwanitz, chief cm Oonstructiou cou^iaiiy Md In great saving of eos*a freight and *.11 eotnpj( dgaiitht fire in tin* P . miJ PrcH« l-'ccitoi ’’LEVF.LAN'l*. Di* , large j h pri, press fe<M|L ‘ J r*'lo,t at * l TC Ull'J Louse, havitiK'ierK striK feeders demttll'MB- Bt about $1.75 iier' prieturs so far 1 in