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A "Zw TM-WEEK-Y EDITION WINNSBORO, S. C SE PTEMBER 2 1895 00NSTiTU 'IONL CONVENTION .OW N SESSION AT THE STATE CAP!TAL. Many Important Measures introduced. Th. Proceedings from Day to Day. Ihe following were the most irlipr tant: By Mr. McWhite: "Resolved, That no portioi_ of any fund or tax now ex isting, or that may hereaftcr be raise'. er levied for educational purposes shall be appropriated to or used by or In aid of any church, sectarian or de nominational school." Mr. E. J. Kennedy vfered the fol lowing: 1. The General Assembly shall at 6ach re gular session after the adoption of this Con stitution levy an annual tax of not less than 2 mills on the dollar on all property. through out the State for the support of public ichools, which tax shall be collected at the same time and by the same agents as the qeneral State levy and sh3ll ba paid into the State treasury. There shall also be assessed on all taxable polls in this State between the ges of twenty-one aid sixty years, an an aLWl tax of $1 on each poll, the proceeds of which shall be anlied solely to the support -f the public schools. The school tax shall ',e distributed among the several countieb iii this State in proportion to the whole num oer of persons bet ween the ages of sIx and twenty-one years, to bt distributed in the several school districts of said counties as may be orovided by the General Assembly. hatin addition -hereto all monies derived trom fines imoosed for the breach of the Deace of the penal laws of the State and from l forfeitures which may accrue; all net in come to be derived to the State from the sali of spirituous and malt. vinous or intoxicat i2g liuore. whether tie same be derived by license < otherwise; the rroceeds of all es cheated proprty, all licinse fees collected under the laws of this State from plays shows or other sources; all donations, gift devises and grants of property to the State ,when the purpose of the gift, grant or devis6 is not specified; all the waste and unappro priated lands belonging to the State, whicl Terms shall inclu de the marsh and tidewater lands; and all the income to be derived from .said lands b leasing them, shall be set apart and be, and remain forever, a perpetual school fund for the support of the common schools of this State. All gifts, grants and donations of property to the State, all funds devised from escheated property and all monies derived from the sale of the aforesaid lands, if the General Assembly should ever deem it best to sell the same, shall be invest ed and the interest alone shall be appropria td. Mr. George Johnstone introduced the following: "That the boundaries cf.the several counties of this State shall remain as they -now are establish ed, provided, that the General Assem bly shall have the power at any time to organize new counties by changing the lines of any of the old ones; but u_ new county .shall be fiereafter formed of less extent than 450 square miles, nor shall any exi-ting counties toc reduced to * less extent than 550 sur-deis. . Each county shall con stitute an eltectio-- district." ByX r. Austin: "That the GeneralAssem ly provile for a license to be imposed for I he ,:rrying f -.oncealed' weapons and the Pnes and f.:,rei.ures for its violation to be :a-led to the A'com;aoR schools in tbc , un'ty iu sui-h manner as the General As srumifv shall declare." B-: .Mr. Au:stin: "That .there shall be ium jx.9e I -n arlI l! itizens between the ages .f twienty-ou' and ilfly years of age, who are able try prfrorm ordinary raanual labor, an annual tax of one dInlar, which shall be applied to the free p~ublic school fund of the - ounty, and the General Assembly shall pro .-ide for the 'ollection of the same, and imt ;'ose the penalties, iues and forfeitures for the non-payment of saidl tax. "Canarv" 3illier, the colored member: of fered the following: 1. That the Legislature shall never pass any law, for the p'urpose of founding, main taining or aiding institutions of learning that are d.enommxational or sectarian. 2. That th'e Legislature shall never use the dit of thie State, or appro prat-any money for the payment of the ,. rt of -t ber expenses of any school or in 'uia o higher educatiog which i wholl or in p'art unde-r sectarian or eXele3i -t.al cntrol. T E Mi:.er presented the following wh i was' referred -tu thet committee a . .- :e:4 .malu I au Crside in the -e1 .-.s- reney We recog is. . e- ma--1 1 our Americau 1:e: s:.- :n-i:: aR + eds the pros br r-;. h:ippes 'A al th-: l':ople of our --. a -edor dgradd by' a vicious or im m.,l ...- i b...te a evil, dangerous. :; s .ru . ut ::Iny r.apbl of correction -ait4 ly frau,s or disbnenety it becomet iu're' terribb- in its' result' than pestilence or ar It bihhtsl wi its~ polluting touch every stra't.o s-.y. rea-bing from the Corruption. dIis.hnesty. per.iry and every spec.i"s orf em.:.'eesa jest and a pa.M time. "For these reios arfd many others. equally vei;:hty and important, we humblyI petition and respetfully aisk that your hon orabl" b:ody to srike out and refuse to inceor p tein the. orani law af the State that ;iorti" of petin it. of Article -, reported fromt the comm*"ittee on corporations and police dgultions. which reads as follows: '0r who can ;'o:nplish the same satisfac torily "'h.' readI to him. ' The e words con tain ~i thm.lve tne elements of fraud. To a b- ard, p."rhapus partis.an, it will be left to dleeld" wh-:th'r tficu, for the right of suffrage. - : i fatorily explains' the clause tea-' to him,i and in the exercise of this no-r -.1. to<'-d avt"er's quaill-artion, the *lor:te .'r :ar: y d.irminatirn. fraud -'W- fut~ ther repe tfull as ,.k that what everm:lun -: i:eiposed up:'n the ex lru:'o t-hrt of suffrage, they be of :nif -'m.:"par'til ir' and uuchangeable -ad "":- 'm"i ma .radgrd .And y.;ur Peti Dr. * .1.han off-:,d th'e following. 'Tha th L.:--latur '-all in the es:ercise th'e right~--i -mn dain, have power prott ad Mar he oets of the State to regulate 'h - etr-u'tion of timber and plnigo- tree, so as to preserve the ir-i resour.ces of te State and to pro te favra a s-i:'natti. conditions. And 11 al " 1-'vide fr a geneoral system of .reoerlI ibsted an --on 'tru'ted highways Sthi nd it sial -.r- ' et . partment of oads and for-fstr. Oldest American Lineage. Mrs. Mar) Batrstw 'e ' seventy-four, :wife of Dr ..--ye 1.......ed. at 'spring dield. Ma"s. o' b!. :-M '-'-was a ~ATES"I _1EIS IN BRIEF LEAN!NGS FROM MANY POINTS. npertant Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, Briefly ToMd. America Wins Again. At Centre Island. L. I., Ethclwynnn, the -foot defender of the Seawanahaka Yacht .ib's internationai trophy fur small boats, ilonday dcfeatd Spruce IV, the English lf-r-ter and lirt chalogcr for the cup, in 12-iulo and l2ward rac3 byseven minutes, rtv--.!ven sL dS. Newsy Southern Notes. Alabamas cotfton acreage, reported to the ato Dcpartment of Agriculture, is SO per nt. lesihan that of last vear. Bob Pvolc was hanged at Spartanburg, S. on Friday for tIhe murd,-r five years ago Will Lrng. Poole was firm in his demean and bid farewell to his friends from th. affold. At Ocala. Fla,, on Monday eMning, Tom icker, a negro, killed his wife. The couple arreled and separated on Saturday. icker asked his wife to return this evening Le refused and he shot her dead. By an agreent Vtween the Wheelinr n and Steel Works Company, at Ben )od. W. Va., and its enipoyes, an advance 10 and 15 per cent. in wages will go Into ect at once. The advance affects 1,500 1ployes. The Kentucky Distillers' Association last turday adopted an agroe-ient to limit iiskey production in Kentucky for the next ree years to 55 per cent. of the average tput during thi fiscal years of 1890, 1891 d 1892. The agreement is not to become iding unicss 90 per cent. of the distillery pacity of the State goes into it. Washington. rhe President, by an executive order jus'4 ued, has extended the civil service system a modi!ied form to all consular officeri ioseocompensation directly or through fees rge from $1.000 to e2.500. This will in de about one-half of the total number of suls who receive more than $1,000. This ange has been gain-d by reviving in sub. !iee an old order of 1973. Vacancies in servi.e will be filled hereofter by transfer i.romiotion. by appointnent of qualifled rs formerly in tbe employ of the State -paron.nt and by appointment of persons te.ted by the President after passing a non mpetitive cxamination. t a meeting of the congregation of the rst rresbyterian Church. Washington, own as tbI President's ch:rch) a call was At to the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, of o,U1-. calliu; him to the associate pas hip with R.ev. Dr. Byron Sunderland. j Cnditius upon which the call was tie- arc that Dr. Sunderland is not to thdraw. and the c,-pastor. Dr. Adolas le. is nt to bo disturbed in his position. t may resign at his option. and with the sent of the church. Dr. Talmage is to ve exclusive charge of the Sunday evening vices, while Drs. Sunderland and Allen to divide the services during the week. Foreign. he Spauislrforees have captured therebel queto hospital after a severe fight in dich 87 insurgents were killed. A dispateii to the London Globe, from rne, says the village of Bodmen. in the riss canto a of Upper Valais, has-been de oyed by fire. The Chinese governmenthas withdrawn its jeetion to the proposed investigation by a government of the missionary riots that eurred at Cheng-Tu late in the spring. eg -Tu is one month's travel from Tien in. Tho investigating American com ssion will leave the latter city at once. Fires. A speciail from Ipswich, S. D., says that e entire business portion of the city was red Friday morning. No estimate of ~ses an! lnsurance is given. Labor. The weavers union of Fall River has voted t to 4rike for advanced wages. The Turf. At Gravesend on Saturday Clifford won e Oriental handicap over Sir Walter, sec .d, and Henry of Navarre, third. Rey del rrerres won the Atlantic stakes. 3Iiscellaneous. At Herningford. Neb., last Friday the mer y fell 40 degrees in an hour. A evelouie itorm swept over various per. msof Miehigan last week in which several -s were los't and fully 150.000 worth of .mage was done to crops 'and property. mnilac and. ifi un counties suffered most. During a te-r rihle storm Sunday evening SLake Bu-lah. Wis., a summer resort, Ho i|1izuib, was des-troyedl by fire, causing a is of %0.000O. The' guests made their es pei :--alv, b:ut lost their valuables. A m~ is sui .Ise-1 to have been the cause of o flr-. HE EFFECT OF THE DROUGHT. tton Picking Progresses Well. Dam age to Corn arnd Fall Crops Small. The weekly weather crop bu'letin of the epartment of Agriculture embraces the fol wing summaries from the various State eather services: Virgfiia-E..xessively hot, dry weather aking crop conditions critical: ground ked; pastures b)urning up; no fall plowing seeding (lone; fodder mostly saved, but sme of it poor from firing: tobacco cutting id curing progressing; crop generally in ir condition; many farmers feeding and atering stock. North Ca rollina-Very abnormal unfavor >le week, with intense hear, glaring sun ine untroken drought, cotton opening :ematu rely, late blossoms and small boils edding; turnips, potatoes and peanuts tfering from drought, and fall plowing and edig impossible; rice harvest under way. South Carolina-Excessive heat and no tin favor cotton picking, but young boils re opening prematurely, growth having opped; good harv.:st weather for all crops, o dry for growing crops or fall seeding. Georgia-A hot and dry week, favorable >r far:n work; cotton opening rapidly and t some casesS pre:muturely, an occasional >mplain: of ra.t. but no shedding; picking eneral; corn still uninjured and being gath el in southern eOounties; fodder-pulling rer in" so.uhrn nd nearly finished Ia >-thrn and cnlt ralI counties. Te e-su--Excel' showers on the 16th, . w-aimaigdogt haz prevailed, seriously feing cotton, peanuts and late potatoes 'id delaying, plowing and fall seedings; to io. mostly housed, bat considerably dam ed by wormas; cotton opening rapidly, and icki....; orgum-making, fruit-dry ig a-i saving iate hey progressing faver Visible Supply of Cotton. -The total visible sr.ply of cotton for the orld Is 2,276,895 imes, of which 2.013,695 ce American, 'e:ainst 1,911,881 bales and 548,287 bales respectively last year. Re sipts of netton this week at all interior wns, 81,490 bales. Receipts from the plan tin 114 ... baes mo:~ in sight 244,889 DR1BATEDL) ALL DAY. Over Two Sections of the Executive Department Article and Finally Compromised on Both. The constitutional convention on Tuesday. the thirteenth day, was c.n tirely occupied with the article on the G Executive Department of the State government. The two sections most vigorously fought over were those cre- It ating a board of pardons and giving the governor the right to summarily suspend oon:y officials on report of defalcation or mnalfeasance. Compro miscs were adopted in botil cases. A 15 board of pardons was provided for,but cl the Legislature is to name its mcpabers or and ite decisions wiil be subject to re vision and change- by th- Governor. In other sections it is made the d:l-: v the Governor to order an investigation by the proper judicial ofiicr on receiv ing a report of malfemace or defalca.- St tion and to susned ' the acused oficial c on the finding of a true bill againe , Z5 D :C. him by grand jury. of -- - ------- - or s C. MIAIL OF THE MiLLIONS. Ti Annual Report ofPourth Assistant rp Postmaster General. Tt The annual report Of the rourth Assistant a Postmaster General shows that the number of post-ofli-es in operation in the United States on June 30, 1895, was 70,004. Of these of 66,560 were fourth class offices and 3,504 et presidential. being an increase over the last fiscal year of 259. During the year 2.422 post-offices were established and 2,163 discontinued. The total number of appointments for the year was 13,342 and the total number of cases acted upon 17,68. The n,imber of changes made b on account 01 deaths of postmasters was 769. 59.546 complaints affecting the ordinary mail were received during the year; 31,849 referring to letters and 27,697 to packages. This shows an increase of 2.669 over last iz year. Of the total of complaints received, tu 46,4 have been investigatid. No loss oc- r. curred in 7.564 of thtse causes. Some special ra classes of eases to which the inspectors are -h giving much attention are those of rob- '0 beries of post-offices, burning of post-offices, 'h wrecks of postal cars, and highway robbery :t of mail messengers. mail stages and railway 1 : postal cars; and the figures submitted in the vr report show that the depredations and P casualties in these classes of cases are gradu- P( ally on the increase. although the increase is not so uniform as during the preceding i year. A gratifying decrease in the number of postofce burglaries is noted, but high- Ij way robbery of the mails has increased some- I k what. Train robbers have grown more bold : and now do not hesitate t> ply their voca- U tions in the older States and near large cities, oae of the most daring of last year's train j robberies, the Aquia Creek case, having been committed within a few miles of the City of Washington. Under the head of foreign cases thereport U emphasizes tbe superiority of the registry system of one United States over that of most : foreign countries. -l During the year there were 2,240 arrests I for offenses against the postal laws of which 175 were postmasters, forty assistant post masters, fifty clerks in postofflces, twelve railway postoffice clerks, thirty-seven letter :arries, fl,ty-two mail carriers, and thirty eight were employed in minor positions in the postalservice. The concluding pages of the report are LE leveted to a series of sketches of important 3V mses. Hottest September in 17 Years. Excessive heat prevailed over the greatei )ortion of the country lat week. This bot rave was unusually severo throughout the ~entral valleys, the maximu:n tcemperaturo ranging from 90 to 100 degre:!, and eceed ng by from~i 2 to 10 degrees any pre:vious re ord for the seco id ten days of September. At Charlotte, N. C., on Thursday, the tem- rb perature reach 96 degrees, which was a de free higher than ever before recorded by t he Weather Bureau during September, the records covering a p)er;od of seventeen years. The following are some of the highest temn :eratures that have beenu reported from ther sections of the country: On Tuesday,1 ioux City. 104: Omaha and Huron, 102. and sorth Platte, 100. On Wednesday, Omaha, Worth Platte and Sioux City, 100). On Thurs l.y, Omaha and North Platte, 90; St. Paul, 3t. Louis and Cincinnati, 96. Amusing Thrilt. A curious and amusing denmonstra- e ;ion of Teutonic thrift and simplicity as been made at Charing Cross rail- Lii way station, London. One Saturday I 2ight the officials discovered a black ox chained to a pillar on the plat form. It was removed to the left cm property office, and not till Monday t.I id a claimant turn up, in the shape er f what appeared to be a somewhat la custic German clerical student. He ad gone on Saturday ev'ening to Mar ate, and not needing his box and de iring to save cloak room fees, had followed this primitive mode of stor age.--New York Advertiser. C A Farewell sermon. A country minister in a certamI own took p~ermanent leave of his con gregation in the following pat hee manner: "Brothers and siuIerg, ome to say good-by. I don't think b God loves this church, becaniae nlon' o of you ever die. I don't think you love each other, because I never wa ry any of you. I don't think you lIe me, because, you havo not paid my salary. Tour donations are mouhil s fruit and wormy apples, and 'by thir fruits ye shall know them.' Brother'. sI I am going away to a better place. .1 5 have been called to be chaplain of penitentiary. Where I go y e cann it ir go, but I go to prepare a place fo,r a ou, and may the Lord have mercy t on your souls. Good-by. "-Ne w Yor Pot. f Sun sets a llouse on Fire. C g At St. Louis. 'io.. tL an :et are to thbL residence of E. H. WV:arner. '.au.ing $10,0J00 damage. On the upper fleer was a large a sembl-room. The windows contained :. d number of circular glassus about six inches~ a in diameter, with 'otvcx .-urfaces. Th -" a acted asso many"bu!EL eye" s un: glasses,an l b the rays of the sun were brought to a focus a on the tioor, setting it on hr'.p .Profesror K~oeee of the California hrtinitural. cormmission, has diiscot' eredi in Jar'" a beetl which feeds on the lar'e:e i he p'otato bug. He be hves the mitroduction of the heci> in tis countr- wdli result in the eGr a :m oes of maiiins of dolla.rs to t EM!IR? T1i~DE~310CRACY. Tho Ticker Nomiated Harmoulously. A Fowerjfully Drawa Platform. The New Terk State Democratic tion met at Syracute ou WedneZday lst. A reso!ut4.in was ado>ted making the five itointed star as tho em'.le: of the Democeratic party of NLw Yorll Sae for u;s on ballots. William Sult:er. of New York, asked for the adoptiou of the folluwing resolution: "Res-lved. That we extend our ympathy to the Ctuban patriots and to all people sttug glir- against oppression and eaeavoring to ieve their freedom aal iudepudence. The follo-wii- nominatios were made: P earL of :-ats. Horatio C. King; At tcrney Ge-r--a!. Nrtun Chase: Comptroller. rn P. i : Stat- Treasurer.D. (. Dow; ugju~Nr. Rusil R. IS-Lart; .Tuidge Court of Apnu%a's. Jol-.. "P. K.dIetr. Fo!wing~ is the i?ull platformn: "The De:nocrati-- party of New York, in convnThIi tsseiblid. makes the followiog ditS plincipt-i and policy: 1 iloie-rule-the first essential cond tion uf good municipal government. local j u risdictior and control ovor purely local af fairs n eiati meddling. Eco-inV:1y in public oxpense; no puo lic money for private purposes c - political jtb-; strick audit of offeial expenditures; a low tax rate. 3. Honesty in public offke-no tainted Legislature-no corrupt trafti, in legislatioa; clean uwu and free agents; no hypocrites. 44. Equal and honesi enfore iment of all the la %s; a proner observance ol a day of rest and an orderly Sunday; moditication or re peal ot laws unsupported by publip opiniom; no unjiust suii,tuary laws; no blue laws; ra eognition of the fundamental American rrin ciple of free-dm of conscience; hom;) rtue in excis a.s well as in other matters within rea sonabie limitations established to protect the intere.sts of tmperance and morality and an amendmtent of the excise and other laws by the Legislature of the State which shall per mit each municipality expressmng its s.ati ments by a popular vote of a majority of its citizens to determine. within such proper leg islative restri-tions as shall be reqaired by the inter.sts of the entire State. what may be't suit itc special nesessities and condi tions. "3. Tiae attempts of prominent Bepublican politi,-ians in the large cities of the State to r_pudiate their own platform are renewed evlence of their hypocracy and dishonesty on th. exerise questlon and their desire to de eiv- the pe qpie. "6. Equal taxation; no unjust discrimina tion: no favored interests; no partial legisla tinl. ... Individual liberty: the right of all it-izens to eq ual opportunities before the law: equal and exaAt justice to all men. ". Honest elections; compulsory o 5le6:l a.o)unting of expenditures by poUtical com mittea- a'ell as ;andidates; personal regis trat'on ()f voters as a safeguard against fraui. ".I rraob-al andi honest reform in the -1u. Iet( ligeut and liberal promotion of "11. 1 m proved highways of travel trrough Iut the State in the nciir citizens and prticuarly of the farm--rs and hieyele riders. .12. enficial and needed legislation iW the interc.-) of labor. 'A. F."Jral tax:tion for revenuo only; no governm,nt partnership with protected onopolies: no meddling with the presad refornied tariff. to the injury and unsettling of business audindustrie-. f"14. Sond money; gold and cilver the only lgal tender; no currency inconvetibl witi coiu; gradual retirement and exti-tion o! the reeabai'k :irreacy; no free an-. un I 1ited coinage of silver. "1 Strict onstruction of the Federal constitution; rigid maintenance of the re 'rved rilghts of the States; no force bibs. I-1. No entangling alliance with foreign nationz- th vigorous enforcemtnt of the Monroe doctrins. no jingoism. .-WI r;affirm the Democratic national p4atform of 1592, and congratulate the lco I le that De-no,rati_ legislation and Demo-. Irat ic administration have suecessfully brought the -ountry out of the disastrous finantial nar- industrial condition into which it was plunged by the ill-conceiVedl acts of -We endors-. the admrinistraltionl of Presi " T impublican t orrd I We inpvite the' afttentiqn fl eleto- to thu party in its rcnt restorauon to l" .~ ir hin'State In 'all --onti l of all br hues ot the Stat rvrnment. *. nipped witl c-l plee Ipower t to " l.-mpish~ prOfmie" r -rm. Ie ei3t~o th.- Populahr wvill antd its sn;nu1 lisrega r:1 f th:e puiblit: wel1fare. As :t resuI of th-ir less thna orn year of power. S *tn taxat ion has b)eeni increased over $4.500.000:i he tax rate has been raised from 2.18 to .24: mauy new and expensive state cm mnittees n'ave b.een created. honudr'ls o' thousands of dollars have been frultlegyl ud on'-..ssarily expended by le,gislativ .ommittees in su.rchitig through the Statte tptmnits for Democrati- inijputies which we'r n.tt foutnid because they dii not exist; the pr1iuniple o-f h1ome rule has~ been dilber - at'.lv a-il cont iuually violated. the elvdi ser i r ftorm laws have been inarantly disr gare. o,sp-ially in refe'renc to the die ~vg~ veterans; -and. the entire legislative retrd h:U: bCen one of sca-ndal. inomit-. t'n-r. as I extravai-ance. p O.; su a record of faithlessness to ub.' tr st the Pepublican party deserves he t.,wla:nnation of the people at the poll nd thle Uemio-sratic party invites thec cirai of nili citizenS in restiring good ..-vern;en;t to the Empire State." Tammniy failed to shut out the Gra Fihilil emcera4ts from all recoy-iut n Iht wen t he foes of the Tiger fotund1 thatt -uvuton would graunt them only one-aith ofthe Novit York delegation they left Li hal and Tam:nanly is happy tomight. l_oa opponents took the first tramn for New Iorta ndt sharptned. knives and groun.d ax~ s l the wa o the p)urpose of Slayving the TiE t November ->. Senator Hill failed in hi s attopt to) heal thbe breach. :He also fail'-i It)keep his slate juta.-t. for t.le --nventn howed that it hot a mind of its own. s*n tt.r Murphy an-d Ex-Lietenmant GovernorC ihean reeived a decided set l!ack frttm iC ovention,and the wise boss who stay at home was Rlichard Croker. for bo escaped the fate of the others. Thel'( So;dhl Alrican ?ilan. The pjlins here stretce in illii blen expanse to the horizon. Far to the west is a range of mountaus fot goojd miles away, which in ibe c ear maorning air stands out as sharp ia- if but'a dozen miles dista'n. Yo may see the dark lines nadL athes of the time-woxn seamsad K~razes that scar its sides. This trrnslueenecy of atmosphere is very ommon in Southern Africa. The rains have lately fallen. au-d ee-rywhere around the dry plains ae started at the breath ot moisture into a splendid if short-lived beauiy. Miles upon miles flat, all glowing ain-i blaze w;ith purple and a rich flame ike rod, are spread around. The wonder ful Comnpositae are in flower. nd the barren, desertlike flats are for a few brief weeks transformed into crpet of the noblest coloring ai nttrn. Look closely and you ma-s se- the bleached rind blackened limha et frmerg:owths of low shrubs whih sandamid the gallant blaze, gaunt reminders of the transitory ex itence of African flower life.-Blackl -v:ma's Ma'tazine. RAM'S HORN LASTS. Warning Notes Caning the Wicted to Ia pentancC. NY is a robber. herever God - puts us he will support uS. The faith that -Moves m1ounitains stands on God's haud to lift. Prayer is not prayer unt*l it be I ~ 49 mes comn ionlla I with God. Imay lose his gold. but he can uever lose his God. God will give us all the truth we will jove and live. Mlauy a-wan norships an idol with an opeu Bible In his lap. The devil and whisky are two of the best friends in this world. The devil hurts us most when he slites us through those we love. WVhen God puts a good man In the dark it is to give somebody light. God can say things in the fiery fur nace he couldn't sp'eak in heaven. When the mountains are cast inmo the sea. God's hand is under them. Job sinned not with his tongue be cause there was no sin in his heart. The devil is close by when the Chris t.an worries about things he can't help. A man must be born from above to know for himself that God is ibove all ec. If church membership alone could save. heaven would be full of hyp-i crites. C There are people In every commuuitY, who -.ant to be religious without Christ. When Job's wife told him to eurse ;od and die. It hurt him more than all -is boils. There is sometimes as much venom in the point of a pen as there is in the lite of a dog. Every man has a religion of some kind, but only those who know Christ are Christians. When you go Into the closet for se rr-t prayer be sure to take the key of yo-ur safe aiong. The man who can take hold of God fPr others has to be Gne who knows him weh fer himself. The devil In some shape Is belng~ made welcome In every home where the ile is not read. When the scribe said, "I will follow Ile whithersoever thou goest." there was no cross in sight. 1 Let the preacher leave Christ *out of his preaching and the devil will help him to fill his church. Dad surroundings do not make peo ple bad. They only bring out the bad that Is already In them. A detective association has for Its motto: "We never sleep." It would be a. good one for a chureb. The preacher misses it who tries to substitute for the bread of life some thing of his own tmake. The church is a help to the Christian, but it cannot do anything for the sin nier who will not repent. Prayer has no favor with God unless It is prompted by a heart that either loves his Son or wants to. There atre people who will rend so many chapters or verses in the Bible and call it being religious. There arte people wlo thirik they could be very good Christians if their circumrstanuces wer.e 1ba,tter. We shall be sure to lose something f we turn from the lion's den when (od's band points that way. Making the Bible a center-table orna ment is an altogethier different thing fromi making it a lamp of life. The oInly fear Stephen had when he was being stoned to deatht was that those who were killing hitu might be lost. The world is full of people who be-. lieve the Bible with their heands who take no step toward Christ ryth their hearts. The' man whose wife (doese E inow that he is a Christian had better keep his seat when at rising vote is to ken at church. Plucklr.7 the feathers fr-om an eagle's wigs may keep his body on the ground. but his he'art wvill still tiy to ward the sun. H ad some modern church pillars been In Job's place they wouid have rent their robes and put ashes on their heads when the first messenger camne im. Out or Love for His Mother. A notable es~ e of filial love camne to liht in Pittsburg a few days ago, says tile New York Sun. when a 7G ear-el d son came to the office of an d society to claim his mother, who is t wo years past the century mark. from whomt be had been separated by the l'na illness of both. It was shown h ' man had remained a bechelor a 1 hi ie in order to care for his moh-r. Trhey caiue from Ireland thir ty- yars ago. and had lived together since that time, as they had pirevi ously 'iu the r.ll 'tustry. Util ti;-e itonths a.go wb. ha o1 were tak 'u sick andi Iind 1 s', e.red to an hospitel. Tread.inmg 'WP ter. *t informiation cannot be reteated t,: t 1 tat1 one can kep alleat fo T., ;o- what to dto wvill pritit you' node unlessyou know how to do it. A .IDL$000 COITAGE. nd One That the ow:nr Can Build by Day's Wor!k. The greatest mIj"rt.v Inust .r .nS 1ht1mto. BWl art. cantu in.i hvuty uni Uity of design to ma.ao uuedoei not: Nefuse y or neat them wi th vines and arround tio-im with lowers a nd 'J So far as tlhe ex.terior ap carantcs are concerned small cot- A ges of good dezigi with well kept i aIrroumlings, maty be very pleasing idlced, often viEing in attractiveness t ii thcir lare,r and more preten Thore tire more valid reasons for eii di.ssa ed with the interiors; a a hie number of rooms must be limnit d and ti,ey miust be of smail, or, at nlost, of clymoderate slze; theref an be no plumbinig to speak of. no C f-...C ardw,ood floors or finish, no high eiig.no large cellars. A 1"-r::e cellar under a low cost ouse is where the owner often buries ,disproportionate sum. Excavat no, walls of brick or stone and a ment bottoi are costly, ad i hould be bjorne in mind that a ec-lar loes not provide living roobe. i mi ess a cellar -e well built.of is a ted iv se o of danger to health. n'or ow co-it cottagres it may be safely tated afs a rule tP.-t wh:ere Llhe *oil ias wood natural drainage a himl :allar or no cellar is preferable. A :eaply built largendella will be lamp and therein lies the danger. A description of the cottage which s illustrated in this artice. will be ound herewith. Size of st-ructure-width (over all) i 7 feet, depth 30 feet. Materials for I exterior walls-foundations, stone r brick first story, clap boards; see 2nd story, shingles; roof, shingles. [eight of stories--cellar, 6 feet nchles; first story, feet incles lseco) nd sthre 8iethe dnzesroom Aescriptobo the rtpans tee wis a oelrunderwthe alad alr Sizeialstruature-wthi (ml otteral d7fet,g inotedeptd t. 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Her hasrte mit ooms dspaying no chrieap eaond n tadr trimminge, nothing lie joininethe enralhimney issta,tihla butan xa ndi atpericlsets rcuied with he work ha coran e one[ iny chaic squdiaryt Thell amatu the ealnerwill ofinhedsign isnteredtin tue ito rerne the sxrooms,n adderaingle irc sioe teacoennmoa ainso pasaal cottge jiig e etral by iing sacuttl wi a s way an ampe cletslinoe withnd inoo wassa thcoereyctn an air ol Lovere willdows ith altesWen study te romsran ether foors are add ah sule i eteo t.hemoa tIons nyb this co est iath hetiromteepae and efetv ctlte kich escre by rasiaetitte whirm th wa endsflieny wamtescn laedi ohe ocebiling vrthesconag aour pasg,0.Ofre therebycet n are aurr: wich psems bit theoph attima ot toueclare esmall nooumae widws theales. absre ever the romsk other declaron w ith ther eyestshue wicerthut oin nth any at haclde -lmtet QALIETTO PENCILLINGS STTERESTING ITEMS FRO31 ALL OVER THE STATE. Smashup in Greenville. At Greenville while out riding Misses .nnie and Geritrude Parker of Charles >n met with a serious accident and a arrow escape fro:n death. The horse uey were driving became frightened :-- Miss Annie Parker was thrown out f the bug-.y and painfully bruised, Ld it is feared that a rib is broken. Tiss Gertrude Parker is badly bruised nd her left arm seriously sprained ud it is thought one bone is broken. ewis Houston, son of J. H. Houston, urinerly of Charleston, was very badly. urt. His nose is broken and his face cry much gashed. The escape from eath of the three young peopleiscon dered miraculous, as the horse was nmanageable and.madly ran through 0rove of trees, breaking the buggy ato splinters. M\Iiss Gertrude Parker ut entangled in the lines and was [ragged a hundred yards. A Convict Captured. Wm. Kitt, an escaped negro convict, rho was sentenced at the October term f 1893 from Colleton county to a term f five years in the State penitenti.ary or housebreaking and lareeny, was aptured at Summerville last week. Citt escaped from the pemtentiary in rannary, 1894, and has been tmbling round promiscuously since. As soon s he arrived iu Summerville Chief of .olice 31cManus gut on his tracks and as been watuhing him closely. Chief IcManus claims that Kitt was iu -ompany w7th the negro who shot at im some weeks ago in Saw Mill, 3ranch. Kitt. before he surrendered, vas shot in the thigh by Wm. Lesesue. Ie was taken to Colmbia and handed >ver to the State authorities. Good Times in York. Cotton is opening quite rapidly in Cork county and is 'being gathered as ast as circumstances willpermit. The ield about YorkVille -will be from 25 o 33 per cent less than last year, but he-farmers will realize a great- deal nore profit from it than on any crop aised in the past':atwelve or. fifteen rears, owing to the very small expense it which it has been produced. .As an llustration of this point I wil'men ioiamStance that comes und~er~my 6ersonal-observatioi.- $There is-a-far ner who lives iear Yorkville whose.ae; ount.for supplies for the past -several Fers has been- from, $25% to $30Aa ear. flo had 6 raised corn, b-.con, o molasses and only bontsugar, coffee,* fertilizers and tools. A Historic Counterpane. A counterpane bearing the date of anuary 10. 1826, was exhibited at Major P. H. McCully's store at Ander.. son. It is the work of Miss Teressi Acker, who seeded the cotton, spun and wove into a handsome counterpane and then elAborately adorned it with fie needlew.ork. The -centre orna ment is an eagle surrbunded by a laurel wreath. Under this is worked this sontence: "Immortal be their Mem ory who Fought and Bled for Lib erty." This curiosity is .now the pro~perty of a daughter of the maker and will be on exhibition at Atlanta ini the South Carolina ladies room. Lynchburg people are "enthused" with the ide~a of Artesian wells. Sev eral wells have been bored, getting a good flow at 150 to 160 .feet. The value of these wells, aside from the item of health, is. almost incalculable on the farms. The parties boring charge $50 for the first 150 feet and 50 cents per foot for any additional feet, furnishing piping and: fix tures at these figures. J. S. Fowler, of Anderson,has ereeted a silo, having a capacity of three hun dred tons. Col. . . F. Crayton also has two of the receptacles, the two hav a capacity of three hundred tons. These genitlemen are busy filling these receptacles with green corn and sor ghum cane. This green food mixed with cotton seed meal and hulls will be fed to stock. Dr. J. H. Witherspoon, who lives near Yorkville, has extensive farming interests in Laurens County. - He -s that one ten horse farm .the expendi tures had for several years previous to this year for supplies, fertilizer, etc. averaged about $200 to the plongh,but this year the expense would ' be less than $40 to the p!,ough. Owing to the fact that .the cotton rop is about two weeks late- as com pared with lIst year and that the price is almost double wh'tis was last yc&v, 'some of the farmners are lamenting the .fact that they used no commercial fer tilizer this year. They say this is one year of !l 'years that it would have lae directors of the Anderson Cot ton Mills at their last annual meeting deided to double the capapity of the. mills. The books will be open for sub scriptions to the new stock January 1, 1896. When this imprdvement -is affected thirty thousand spindles will be in operation. The United States Printing Of!ce i the largest establishment of the sot in the world. It employs more than :3000 people, with a pay roll of neerty o.3.00,00J a -ear., and in 1SI% turne4 gt more th'an -10,00.00Y copies e vaious doumtnents. YA. uai Indians of Mexico have beeni demonstrating that they a e: uncnquj~eed, by raiding ranches t a Yaqui River valley, killing the ..,.. ... -ad driving off their stock.