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e{?6ulftt!ii» of N«wfl|»«pAr in the Fifth Cofifreislonal District ot S. C. SEMLWEEKL¥-,.PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE Th# inability of 1C vary Advt r* tjter Who Use* the Col umn. of This P.per. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 1G, 181N. GAFFNEY, S. C. t TUESDaV, AUGUST ‘^7, 1901. 81.50 A YEAR. TRIENNIAL CONCLAVE OF KNIGHTS TEMPLAR Commanderies Invade Ken tucky Metropolis. J. \V. Ifall, an operator at the CITY GAILY DECORATED ( ' ran l ) y Mills, at Columbia, was found dead in bed Saturday morning ! at his boarding house. Mr. Hall's family live in Union and were notifi* I ed of his death. OVER THE STATE. Nt*\vH> Itenifi from Otlmr CotifitleN firoiiprtl Together. W. I). Freeman shot and killed Holland Durham in the government distillery of the latter's half-brother, M. C. Durham, near I.audrum, lust Thursday. Indications Arc That the Conclave Will I’rove the .Most No;able Kver Held—Over o0,000 Visitors Now on Hand. Louisvili.k, Aug. 20.—The rush of Victors to the triennial conclave of Knights Templar in this city began in earnest today, ami by night the Ken tucky metropolis will be completely in the hands of the invaders. Trains poured into the city all day, bearing sir knights aud their ladies. The streets were filled with marching detachments, aud the air fairly trem bled with the music of numberless brass bands which escorted the various com- manderies to their headquarters. Scarcely a buildiug was without its streamers, or a gorgjous dress cf bunt ing. Even shop windows were trimmed in Masonic emblems, aud street fakirs, not to be outdone, painted Maltese crosses on the toy balloons they hawked about. At local headquarters the opinion was expressed that tue conclave wnich be gins tomorrow will prove the most no table ever held. It is claimed there are 50,000 visitors in the city today. Tne Chicago com- manderies, traveling in trains of live sections, arrived at upon and made an imposing spectacle as they marched to the customhouse, where they separated aud scattered to their quarters. imposing Spectacle. Other commanderies arrived from Kansas City, Charleston, S. O., Con necticut, Pennsylvania, District of Co lumbia (accompanied by the famous Marine baud), from West Virginia, New York, Uhio, California Bin, Michigan, etates. fCorgia and other iy visitors came on regular trains ^ Ind joint d their comrades here. The ’'Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin aud Oiiio delegations are numerically the strongest hero at present. There were reunions today and es corting of commanderies to their homes while in the city. The festivities of the conclave will begin at 8 p. in., when the grand commandery of Kentucky and the subordinate commanderies of the state will give a reception to officers and members of the grand encampment at the customhouse. Grand Master lleubeu H. Lloyd of California aud Deputy Grand Master Henry Bates Stoddard of Texas were given an impromptu reception during the forenoon because of tne accepted elate, which makes Mr. Stoddard Mr. Lloyd’s successor as grand master of the grand encampment. Sir Knight Lloyd and the man who is to succeed him spent an hour in earnest conversa tion concerning affairs of the grand en- campmen t. Both expressed the greatest admira tion for tiie exhaustive preparations which have been made to make the con clave a success. Governor Yates of Illinois and Gov ernor Durbin of Indiana have arrived with the detachments from their re spective states. ODD FELLOWS TO MEET. Over 100,000 Delegates ami Visitors Expected at Grand Convocation. InpianapoLIS, Ind., Aug. 20.—Prepa rations for the seventy-seventh annual convocation of the Odd Fellows sover eign grand lodge in this city, beginning three weeks from today, are now prac tically finished Indications arc that the meeting will attract the largest number of fraternity men ever assembled at one time. The committees are counting ou an attend ance of lOO.OtiO. hiclu4ipg visitors aud delegates. Every state in tho Union is to bo represented OthSr visitors will come from Canada, Nova Scotia, Mexi co and even from Europe. Officers of tho Indiana grand lodge gay the advance arrangements for the meeting exceed those in advance or any other meeting they have attended, aud it is expected that the meeting will be a record-breaker. The principal feature of the week will be the parade on Tues day, Sept. 17, in which 25,000 Odd Fol lows will appear, 500 of whoni will bo mounted. The parade is to be reviewed by Grand Sire aud(Joiumauder-in-Chief Cable from a jxiiut in Monument Place. Tho Indiana state fair aud exposition is to bo held tho same week of the sov ereign grand lodge meeting. Ou Thursday memorial services will be Reid at the ktatueof Schuyler Colfax, the founder of tho liebc-kah organiza tion, in University park, aud the golden anniversary of llebekah Odd Fellowship Will be celebrated. There will also bo receptions and other social events Friday. The “grand decoration of chivalry” will ke con ferred and prizes will be distributed. Played Ills Last Game. Bai.timokk, Aug. 2(3.—Manager John J. McGraw of tho Baltimore American league team announces that he has played his last game of baseball. He will retain his interest in the Baltimore 4cam and manage it from the bench. At present McGraw is in bod with bis broken knee in a plaster cast. His doc tor says ho will not be able to play again this year. McGraw gives no defi nite reason for his retirement. He has aaood ikying business hero and is a heavy stockholder in the local club. Cotton Company Formed. Montoomkry, Ala., Aug. 20.—The Ho man Cottou company is the newest or ganization in Montgomery. Its mem bers are among tho oldest, most sub stantial and experienced citizens of this place. The company will succeed to the general warehouse business of the Leh man Durr oouipimy, aud will operate tho Alabama warehouse, located at the corner of Perry and Jefferson streets. This warehouse has been operated as a pottou wareuousu fur more than ttu year* The secretary of state has received ! notice that an application will be made for a charter for the Blue Ridge railroad. The company pro- , poses to operate the Blue Binge rail road recently purchased. The 1!) months’ old daughter of Mr. A 0. Comer, of Alpine, Ander son county, fell into a barrel of wa ter standing at the edge of a piazza of the family residence last Saturday and was drowned. \V ork on the dam of the Anderson Water, Light and Power Company in I Seneca river, two miles from Broyles, has been totally suspended for sever al days, owing to high water. It is expected that the work will be com pleted in October. Three little boys of the Baptist Or phanage at Greenwood ran away from | the Institution at 5 o’clock last Mon day morning and returned ou Tues day night at Mr. N. O. Farmer’s at Broyles, where two of them had been entertained for a month this summer. A good roads convention will be held at Edg; field ou September 5). It is hoped the attendance will be good. The fallowing gentlemen are among those who will address the conven tion: B. R. Tillman, John C. bh p- pard, 1*. B Mayson, VV. A. Strom and 1 Thomas II Rainsford. Messrs. W. P. Pollock, former rep- resentative from Ch^r»w county i n the general assembly, and. M. J. Hough, clerk of the judiciary com mittee, are making the race for tho house of representatives, there being a vacancy caused by the death of G. J. .Redfears. The election takes place today. Work will soon be commenced on the new cotton mill, the Mollohon Manufacturing Company iu New berry. Side tracks from the C. N. A L. railroad to the site selected, have already been graded and the ground is being leveled and prepared for tiie erection of tho building. Over 80,000 pounds of tobacco ex changed hands ou the Florence to bacco market last Friday. It was one of the biggest and most success ful breaks of the season. Tobacco sold remarkably well. Planters were hi re from several counties. The fa mous Puddin’ Swamp section was well represented. Governor McSweeney last Thursday pardoned Col. \V. A. Neai, formerly superintendent of the State peniten tiary, who was convicted of failing to turn over tiie funds to his successor. Col. Neal was over $7,000 short in 1808, but his bondsmen paid the full amount aud have been repaid by Mr Neal. He abandoned his appeal to the Supreme Court, aud bus never been actually imprisoned. Johr Murphy, a machinist, attempt ed to kill his brother-in-law, Frank Mayatt, a pilot, at 121 Church street, Charleston, ou Saturday afternoon at f> o’clock. Mayatt shot twice aud Murphy wounded him slightly in the shoulder. Mayntt was sent to the iniirmary, while Murphy was lodged at the station house by the police. The trouble between the two men grows out of Mayatt’s alleged brutal treatme t of his wife, who is a sist* r of Murphy. This is not the first oc casion upon which the two men havo been involved in a serious personal difficulty. News reached Charleston Sat- day of the killing of “Wild Bill” Johnson in a negro cab in near Adams Pun last Thursday night. Johnson possibly was the most dangerous and notorious char- after that ever infested the mining districts of Charleston. He has kill ed a number of men in his time, and the police there have been watching for him carefully on account of a par ticularly brutal murder which he committed during the early part of July. Thursday Johnson was locat ed by Colleton county authorities in a negro cabin near Adams Run. A posse was sent out to capture him, armed with Winchester riHes, and the deputies opened lire upon the build ing as soon as they came within range. Johnson, aa was his wont, fought desperately but was finally killed. A few days ago, about 11 o’clock, while the men were at work in the mill, two negroes stole a trunk con taining valuable papers from the house of Mr. W. H. Koon, on Factory Hill, at Union. Mrs. Koon heard a noise in the room, but the negro had secured the trunk and departed when she went in. Hhe at once misfed the trunk and gave an alarm. Thejieigh- boring women took the ter in hand and gate chase. The wo men scattered, some of them follow ing, while others made for the road to cut him off, and Miss Mertie Koon ran to tho house fora gun. The ne gro finding himself so hard pressed concealed the trunk in a gully-' and covered It over with brush, and made his escape before they could get a shot at him. A search was made and the trunk was found intact. He did not have time to go Into it. PRESENT STATUS OF AFFAIRS ON ISTHMUS Revolt of the Liberal Colom* bian Rebels. UNEASINESS AT PANAMA Distinguishing Feature of tho Revo lution is the Actual Support the Lib erals Are Receiving From Yciirzuc- la, Ecuador and Nicaragua. Colon, Colombia, Aug. 23, viaKixos- tox, Jamaica, Aug. 20.—Tho censorship here prevents the transmission of politi cal news or news unfavorable to tho government. The revolt of the Liberal Colombian rebels, now two years old, lately as sumed a more serious aspect by the Liberals’ concentrations on tho isthmus. It is believed they are contemplating aggressive action. Couesquently uneasiness prevails at Panama, the Liberal objective, which was nearly captured a year ago. It is not believed the rebels will mclest the railroad, or interrupt traffic. The re cent rebel raids along the railroad amounted to bloodless raiding and the robbery of Chinese storekeepers, whiou the presence of a lew government troops apparently stopped. There is a report that tiie government is bringing troops to protect tho isthmus. This will be difficult, without exposing to rebel at tacks tho points whence they are taken. The area of the revolt is extensive. A noticeably distinguishing feature of the revolution is the actual support the Liberals are receiving from Vene zuela, Ecuador aud Nicaragua, in which countries liberal goverumeuts prevail. Colombia’s Couservat’ve government is popular with the governments of the countries meutioued; but is pvmlar with the revolutionary elements iu the same countries. The situation can bo likened to a disrupted federation, com posed of Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia aud Nicaragua, iu which Liberal aud "''miservativo partisans are helping each intriguing together. But, otner^B^^^^iyg^Lthe political and being separateuRMHI^^^g^itioual armed intrigues threaten " trouble. It is reported that the Conservativ revolt in Venezuela agaiast President' Castro is receiving actual support from the Colombian Conservatives. Nicara gua’s threatened revolution will proba bly be similarly aided on tho occasion arising. Ihe conditions give ground for the reports of actual or threatened international complications between the countries mentioned, iu which the Liberals are generally opposed to Co lombia’s Conservative administration, whose prophesied downfall is accompa nied by talk of a federation under the idea of a Grand Colombia Colombian government is in straits, financially, at present. TURKEY'S PROMISES. Will Pay an Indemnity of 700,000 Francs to Quays C« inpany. Constantinople. Aug. 20. — Tho amount of the indemnity which the sultan agrees to pay tho Quays company for interference with its rights is 700,- 000 francs. Tho sultan will also pay 000,000 francs to a Frenchman on ac count of the seizing of lauds in Alba nia. The Quays company renounces for a year the clause iu its concession regard ing tho transfer of the quays to Turkey, only, it is believed, to save nppearaucos for the sultan. M. Coustans, the French ambassador, after making farewell calls on his col leagues yesterday, left hero today on board tho Vanltenr for Staniboul, where he will take the train. May Mean h urtlier Trouble. London, Aug. i'G.—The dispatch from Coustautinoplo announcing that the French ambassador, M. Coustans, left there today, is not understood either iu Loudon or fttris, though it is believed it means a further difference between Franco and Turkey. The supposition is that M. Coustans is taking a holiday. Chun’s Milieus a Pretext. Rome, Aug. 26.—The illness of Prince Chun, a brother of tho emperor of China, who, witn a Chinese mission, has arrived at Basel, Switzerland, on his way to Berlin to apologize for the assas sination of Baron Von Kettler, the Ger man minister at Peking, is, according to a dispatch' received here today from Basel, a pretext for delay, Prince Chun having received orders from Peking not to proceed, us fresh complications have arisen with reference to tho settlement of the protocol Steamers Collide; Four Drowued. Havre, Aug. VG. — Tho Spanish steamer Amboto, Captain Mnnoz, for New Orleans via Norfolk, Aug. 9, for this port, collided last nivjht with the German steamer Lusitania, from Ham burg for Mediterranean porta, off tho Casket rocks. Four of the crew were drowned. The remainder were picked up. Lusitania was a vessel of OHO ton* She belonged to A. C. DeFreyists & Co. and hailed from Hamburg. She was bnilt iu 1881. Miot Wife and Child. Birminoham, Ala., Aug. 2(1.—Will Hudson, a Bessemer negro, is wanted on tiie charge of shooting his wife and 2-year-old child at that place. The man had separated from his wife and went to her home to get his clothes. The bullet passed through the child’s body aud lodged in the womau. The child will die. The womap will probably recover. _ _ _ Married on Horseback. KtmiEBroRDTON, N.O., Aug. 20.—One of tho most unusual marriages that has over occurred iu this comity was that of Mr. Okey Uiggerstaff and Miss Lydia Washburn, near Forest City. They were married iu the middle of the long iron bridge crossing Broad river, ou horseback. Only three witnesses were present. Kefc 4. ii. Carpenter tied the kuot, NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. IliipiM-nliiKs him) the Doing* of Our Nt-lgh- lior* Aero** the Line. Rev. Jno. A. Wray, of Milledgt- ville, Ga., is holding a revival at the Hendersonville Baptist church. Architect Milburn, of Columbis, S. C , is desigoiog plans for a new passenger station at Asheville. At Cherokee court in Murphy last week about ;>o persons were tried for burning a Sanctification church. The jury acquitted them. W. B. Mitchell’s son, Earl, win lost a leg in the Philippine war, has arrived from thecovalescont hospital, San hransisco, where he was placed after his arrival from Manila. The old Buncombe warehouse on the corner of Patton avenue and Bailey street, Asheville, has been torn down and a handsome street car building will be erected on the sit« by the Asheville Street railway. LOWER CHEROKEE LOCAL CULLINCS. Upland Coin Tired by Much Rain. Too Saturday a week ago B. Riddle was killed by lightning two miles from Burnsville while stacking oats. A mule was also killed. One son was rendered unconscious for awhile, hut another son was unhurt. The furniture, in the way of special cases, etc., for the North Carolina exhibit at the Charleston Exposition, Is nearly completed. It Is being made in Raleigh of native oak, and the designs are artistic. Ihe fact that the North Carolina State convicts havo in the past 27 years built over 1,100 miles of rail road in that State is read with inter est by the officials at Raleigh. In all tl.ny have built 20 roads and branch es. Miss Kate Friar, aged 2.1 years, wts instantly killed by lightning at Tar- boro Saturday. Tho bolt entered the house above her head, played over the room, and going to an adjacent housq severely shocked the occu pants. Architect Ii. S. Smith has com pleted plans for Asheville’s $25,- 000 \. M. C. A. building which is to be built on Haywood street near the postoffice. A cut of the building appeared in the Citizen a few days ago. The contract for the erection of National Bank building, , Sterling streets, corner lJnTUmilWBfc^-,* ,, , »i . Hotel Morganton—the old corner—has been awarded to W. H. Sloan, of that place, and work will begin at once. Richard Harris, a colored man who was a tenant on the farm of Mrs Lucy Randolph, near G-eenville, was drowned near Farkland, in Pitt county, on Sunday. The man at tempted to ford the ereei that was badly swollen and got in where the water was too deep. Henry Flagler, Standard Oil mil lionaire, and Mary Lily Kenan were married at 10 o’clock Saturday morn ing at the Kenan homestead by Rev. 1’atton H. Hoge of Louisville. It is stated by frieuds of the family that just previous to tiie ceremony Mr. Flagler presented his bride a certi fied check for $7,000,000 and $3,000,- 000 iu government bonds. RUST ATTACKS COTTON. Di'ntl Deal of -Fruit !><■*!royi-il l»j- \V«-t AVmtlier IVik-Im-h Ar«* .Nearly all (lone Tree Itloivn Into a Creek Other Matter* New* Note'll. (Correspondence or The Lodger.) Iyita Jam:, Aug. 23 —Nearly every newspaper wo see has an account of some seriuus disaster—railroad acci dents, vessels wrecked at sea, or on our inland waters, where many lives have been lost and property destroy, ed, storms, Hoods, drouths, sickness and death. There is no end to this train of calamities, and still their admonitions are unheeded. That these visitations of Providence come either by His direction or permission no sane man or woman will deny. Isn’t it time for us to stop and re- llect? Whither are we drifting? Do these events portend good or evil for ourselves and our country? On the heels of this train ofdisasters comes the agitation of great political questions that we are unable to solve to the satisfaction of ourselves and others; and.as we stop to consider we are impressed with the thought that our troubles are multiplying and the evils increasing while we are power less to overcome them or effect a remedy. There must he a cause when there is an effect. Finite minds fail to devise a scheme by which tho situa tion can bo changed. Science is unable to overcome t! • obstacles or show the way of escape Div ine revelation alone can meet the emergency and correct the evil. ! History repeats itself. Nearly three thousand years ago the Prophet Daniel saw and spoke oi what was coining; Ezekiel knew it; Isaiah fore told it, and even the minor pnn’iet, Arnos, speaks of it. Yet all tP-se authorities have been disregarded and treated with contempt, “iloin- mercialism” has come to the front and crowned tho “almighty dollar.” “King of Kings” arid whole nations are worshipping at its footstool. The brain power in the land is today golving the great prob- itical economy, thousandth the explosion at Cherokre Kails last Monday morning in which the three colored men lott their lives. Mrs. Mildred McDaniel and her children, of Hickory Grove, are j visiting on this side of the river. During the storm last Monday a tree was blown in the creek at the 1 Hoty ford on Gilky. Mr. Torn San ders with his road hands has taken it out. .j l. g. A I*lao for the Funner'* Wife. Correspondence of Tne Ledger.l In these latter days of ours when push and hurry are necessary to keep us apace with the times. In these days when rest must only mean a change from one occupation to anoth er, there is a degrading side toennob : ling labor that is not properly consid- j ered, nor is the dues and rights of its i patient victims protected. I mean | tiie rights of the wife of many an average fanner. I esterday, in our home, the self-j sacrificing toiler, brutalized by days, | weeks, months and years of industri- ! al oppression, gave under, and last night as 1 sat by the bedside of her , whom I pledged myself to love, hon or and protect, aud placed my hand upon her burning brow and felt the rapid pulse in the wrists of those j precious overworked hands, I though how many » farmer (perhaps thought lessly) was allowing his wife to en dure this endless, hopeless, joyless ; labor. I have been to town and have seen mothers, wives and daughters, well dressed and at their ease while tho women in the country financially as 1 well oil as their city cousins are en during a monotoneous routine of nev er ceasing servitude. Wby is this? NEGRO’S HORRIBLE FATE. I'or .%MtHti t Mini Murder Near Win- «Jn‘*ier, Icon., lie |* < r< ratted. ( it at i a vooga, Aug. 20.—A sneci truru WiUcUesur, 1 •nu , Kays Heiq Nolcs, the neyro who criminally KiifiM i and -hot to death Mrs. CiiarlL,, V liiuitiiK, wife of a prominent farmtY ncu' Winciujut, Tumi., last Friday, •was captured yesterday morning at Water lank, near Unwan, Tenn. He was carried to Winchester by his cap- tors and placed in the county jail. Cs tier iff Stewart made Dasto to try to barricade the jail ami protect tho pris- oner Soon an angry moo of several hundred citizens gathered about the jiii!. Assistant Attorney General Matt N. Whittaker appeared at the jail and made a siiecoa to ih > infuriatedcitizeu*. He appealed to tii*- cu.z n- to assist him iu allaying ex iom-nt aud upholding the majesty of the law. ihis appeal w.i- .■•upiilemented by Judge J. J. Lynch, Captain W. P. Tol ley. Jes-e M. Littleton, Foster Ramsey and otners. N i sooner hail their appeals been made than several hundred citizens •rum the neighborhood where tho crime was committed came up and augmented the crowd to thou->auds. They swept forward upon tiie jail, overpowering the sheriff and ins deputies, secured the prisoner and started lor the scene of the crime, 1J miles distant. Ine mob was orderly, but grimly de termined. Arriving at a pain: in sight of tiie scene of the crime the negro was placed upon a stumpand given achance to make a statement. He mounted tiie stump stolidly aud t t < ri > <»/ • j Iftrt l • . . t- -r laughed as he began his statement. He saw: “i’eliall my sisters and brothers to meet me in glory. I am going to make tnat my home. Tell my mother to meet me where parting will be no more.” “Why did you kill Mrs. Williams?” was asked. just done that becanse I had noth- Ihe reason is obvious to any one who ingelse’toda" Uy ii not hai af e ^ ^ C °T ^ tbt ‘ U taken fr, ’ m the try is not haif as easy to get as in carried to a tree near by, bound to it by town. Negroes are rapidly enoigrat-| chains and his body satuated with oil; be William Monroe, tho rapist will he the fourth man to be hanged by Sheriff Wallace of Mecklenburg county. He officiated at the hang ing of Joe Jackson, colored, who was hanged for rape in 181)8; at the exe cution of Julius Alexander, who was hanged for rape in 1898; and at the hanging of William Truesdalo, for murder in 19IK). through his ids With a bullet wound stomach' and a knife cut across head, Robert Hall, colored, a native of Cabarrus county, was taken to Charlotte Friday from Fort Mill, K. C. He said that he and a negro named 8id Conner were working to gether at the big power-dam near Ruck Hill, S. C. They got into a dispute over a womau and Conner inflicted the injuries. Hall is iu a very precarious condition. It was printed in a local paper at Charlotte last Friday that the plant of the Charlotte Oil and Fertilizer Company has been bought by the company representing the Yirginia- Caroiina Chemical Compay and which has been buying up plants all over the Houth. Tiie price paid for the plant is said to be $125,000. Fred Oliver was president of the Charlotte company. The plant is the largest in the Houth, with pos sibly one exception, combining oil mill, fertilizer factory ; and a cotton batting and wadding mill. The Virginia-CarolinuChemical Company is sai 1 to have been seeking for its control for a long time. One of the worst freight wrecks that ever occurred on the Atlantic, Tennessee Sc Ohio Railroad, occurred last Thursday afternoon about 4 o’clock. It involved the Winston freight and occurred just two miles south of town, and no one seems to know tiie cause. There were nine Hat cars and one box car, all loaded with coal. Heveral of the cars are lying on their sides on tho roadside and the coal was thrown out into the field, probably 25 yards from the track. Two cars are tquarely across the track and al! are badly broken up. The cross-ties were cut into kiddling wood, rails bent Into all shapes and the axles of the car wheels were bent as a child would bend a straw. No one was on the wrecked cars, and no one on the train was seriously hurt. A negro brakotnan jumped from tho top of a car to tho ground when he saw the cars begin to pile up. He was badly jolted but •ays he is not hurt. lems of finance a while not tiie one part of it is working out problem; “What is tho chief end of man”? Can we expect any better than we are receiving when we compare the notes before us and see bow we are using or abusing the priviliges we enjoy? If tiie spirit of commer cialism is not ruling the world today in every department of our civiliza tion it at least betrays an alarming nearness to it. Laying ail jokes aside, and looking tho situation squarely in tiie faee, we are forced to the conclusion that tho state of affairs in this country is serious. The present generation has never had anything like it. With crop failures here and elsewhere throughout the land, the helpless condition of the poorer classes to better themselves only adds to the trouble. Next year this State will, in all human probability, be convulsed in political chaos, and the destitution ofj many of our people of the very necessities of life will be taken advan tage of to put men in power wiio will chasten their constituents with scorpions instead of whips. Now is the time to take the matter into consideration and work for the future by putting away the strange gods from among us and setting our houses in order. Like the Psalmist, let us take God for our refuge and our strength and all will be well. Money is not so much the servant of the people, as it is their master. The man behind the sermon is no longer the secret of its power—it’s the dollars in front of it. The highest object in life with some people is to procure a fortune, rather than establish a character. Thomas Jefferson said: “Not a throne in Europe could stand against the character of George Washington.” Were he living to-day ho might reverse that saying. Of Francis Horner, (a poor ohB.'ure Englishman with no extraordinary talents who finished a long and use ful life and died at the age of only thirty-eigut years,) Sydney Smith says: “The success of his Hfe may be attributed to his having the Tun Commandments stamped upon his forehead”. Isaac Newton, the Christian philos opher, who made tho Bible the man of his counsel, said: “1 should not wonder if some day men can travel at the rate of fifty miles an hour.” To this Voltaire replied: “It was the reading of the Bible that made u fool of Newton.” “To err is human,” is a maxm that it’s not hard to live up to. Mr. Dan Baltimore, of Hickory Grove, came over c few nights ago for a fox chase. So much rain has fired the corn on the upland, and wo learn that in many places rust has attacked the cotton. Mrs. John Edwards and Mrs. J. L H, whoso indisposition was . met • tioned in our previous letters, are both better, wo are glad to say. The wot weather has destroyed a good deal of fruit—tho peaches are nearly all gone. Home of our people think they beard ing to tiie cities and towns and tiie few that remain on the farm are not forced to exert themselves for a liv- ing as much as those living in the 1 towns. Then another reason for the! burdens that the farmer's wife has to 1 endure is the popularity of acountry homes for city folk?. In summer when it is too warm and faiigueing for a mother in the city to cook and take care of her household, she sends them to sp^nd awhile, (perhaps vacation from school) in the country with a country cousin or friend. I was amused at Aunt Jemima Slabridi’s remark to my wife last May. ’Tolly, we had as well open our hotels as the summer visitors are arriving.” Je mima and Bully’s hotels have been crowded ever since. Town folks reach your hands into your pockets and carry your family to somd of the ^y^arnniis springs with which our statTiTWtt*. *"<1 you wish, give your tired couTSjjy friends a cordial invitation to recupW*^ with you. Turn about is fair play Wife Lov 'III*; N«MM|IM|M;r US H Itllftlll*-**. (Augusta ll)‘rsil<l.| Circulation, news and advertising all go to make up a newspaper and all are dependent upon each other and should work together. A newspaper without news and without circulation is worth nothing to an advertiser. The way it works out is something like this: It is tiie reputation for integrity, intelligence, and judgment that should give the newspaper its cireu- iiition ; it is tiie circulation that gives it advertising’and it is the money received for advertising that enables the newspaper to be sold at such a price that comes within the reach of the masses of the people; then the subscriber receives tho benefit of the money paid the newspaper for adver tising, as well as saving money by reading the advertisements and find ing where he can get the most for tho money he spends. Mr. Gladstone said that the adver tisements in newspapers were worth infinitely more to the peuple than the paper cost them, not to mention tho news. If you pick up a news paper well tilled with paying adver tisements, you may know that the paper is on a paying basis, if it is properly managed; it can therefore he at more expense for news, which, adding merit to it, enables it to ex tend its circulation, which result in duces more advertising and better rates, and again enables the paper to become a better medium of news, and so on ad infinitum, all of which helps the people, giving them for the same price a better medium both of news and advertisements. a match was applied, and instantly tho qaivering body was enveloped iu flames. Laiis were pitched about the burning body, and soon life was extinct. The ne gro marie no outcry at any time, aud died u< stolidly as a stoic. Ar least (>,000 people witnessed the horrible fate of the negro. MOB AFTER HIM. Alabama Negro Wrote to White Wo man, Proposing an Klopenieut* Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 20. — The storehouse aud dwelling of Miles Brooke-, a negro, at Tnompsou Spring ui i.r Bessemer, was burned to the grot yc.s: onlay morning by a mob of wl cit.zms, who were incensed agains negro because a day or so ago ho ■i note to Mis. Dau Cutliff, wifq white rolling mill man, asking* dope with him. Several visits were made to of tne negro, bur he could found. The mob organized in,.:ir aud marched iu tne negro and his wife in ri iuni decamped and got oui try. s Hie moVburucd tiie ing To rh8 7! 40 or 50 shots into it. The house of Dau Carson, a negro, was punctured with rifle and pistol balls, and lu and his w ife narrowly escaped death, but no one was injured. Armed bodies of white men are still seeking Brookes, determined on ven geance. FATAL SUNDAY AFFRAY. in A Kitglng, ICiHtruiK Fioo*! Washed down a telegraph line which Cbas. C. Ellis, of Li&bon, la., had to repair. "Htundibg waist deep in icy water,” he writes, “gave me a terrible cold and cough. It grew worse daily. Finally the best doctors in Oaaland, Neb., Sioux City and Omaha said I had Consumption and could not live. Then I began using Dr. King's New Discovery and was wholly cured by six bottles.” Posi tively guaranteed for Coughs, Colds and all Throat and Lung troubles by a Quarrel at Hulls Grove, Ills., I wo Receive Dcaiii Wounds. Seneca, Ills., Aug. 20.—Justin Applo and George Sinclair of Geneva and Janies (Jolgou and Edward Kelfe of this village became involved in a quarrel at Bulls Grove yesterday. Several hours later, while on the way to Cayuga Lake park to take a trolley, the men met again and resumed tie quarrel, during which Apple and Smelzer were both stabbed with a large pocketknife. Apple died this morning and Smelzer is not expected to live. Relfe and Col- gon were arrested, together with two u< gro women ami two white men, who are heM as witnesses. One of the lat ter, it is claimed, saw the blows struck. . A meric.! n Deserter Captured. Manila, Aug. 2G.—Pitcher’s first dis patch from Mindoro tells how Lieuten ant Hazzard of the Third cavalry, com manding a troop of Macabebe scouts, captured tho American deserter How ard, who, as a leader of the Filipinos, had been annoying the Americans for many mouths. Ferguesou, one of Lieu tenant Hazzard’s civilian scouts, dis guised as an uixurgcnt, with eight Mac- abebes, penetrated into the camp of Co lonel Aliensa, commanding 250riflemen and 200 bolomen, at night, located Howard, bound and gagged him aud led him away without disturbing the camp. I nor.nil's of Nurili Carolinians. Winston-Salem, N. C. m Aug. 20.— Winston has a citizen who* income an nually is greater than the salary of the president of tin* United States. Mr. R. J. Reynolds will pay an income tax ti is year on $57,7 )6. A- is generally known, the income is not taxable until it ex ceeds the $1,000 mane. In Winston there arc 07 taxpayers wno e incoan ■ * xcte 1 this amount. Salem has 37 taxpayers whose incomes exceed $1,000. ( j Cherokee $1 00. Drug Co. 50c and of Engagements are love; marriage the t^* I*. T. Thomas, KumtB a., “I was suffering from dyi|^ Aen 1 commenced taking Kodol Dyspep sia Cure. I tooiC several bottles and can digest anything.” Kodol Dys pepsia Cure is the only preparation containing all the natural digestive fluids. It gives weak stomachs en tire rest, restoring their natural con dition, Cherokee Drug Company. Nrw Coni Company, Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 20.—The Ex- celsior Goal aim ‘Coke company ha* been incorporated here witii a capital stock of $100.0vX> for the purpose oi operating the pr qiortics of the old Cooling Coal and Coke company, located in Tusca loosa, county. The incorporators of the company ato George 4*. Howard and R. K Watson, both of Atlanta, Ga. Tha headquarter* of the company will be in this city. Young Lmljr Kllicd by Ligltining. Tai,% ho, N. C . Aug. 20 — Mu* Kata I'rta*-, aged 25 y*-ar*. wa* instantly ^ killed by lightning at thu place, bolt entered the haute above her played over tn * room, an i going to an artj iceut house, severely tbocxod oouupaul*. The bead. mn