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VOL. XV. LAURENS S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1899. No 6 McKINIVEY TO VIRGINIANS. ATKIUl'IK TO VUIAkt U IlKAT ?J ION The President liefern <l to tho Old Dominion Iii War and Peaeo ?Tho Great Historical Fvr-nts at York town and Appoinattux. Tho launching of thn torpedo boat Shubriok, built in Richmond, Va., aud named iu honor uf Commodore Shu briok, a Southern roan, was a notable event in tho hlfoory Of Virginia, and tho occasion was honored by tho atten dance of Prosidont McKiuley and motu bors of his eubinut. The launching uf tho boat wac a great succors, und the boat was duly ehristoned by littlo Miss Carrlo Shubriok, of Hocky Mount, N. C, a groat-grun? niece of Commodore Shubriek, with tho usual formalities. The Prosldont was introduced by tho mayor o( Richmond, and rosponded us follows : " Mr. Mayor, Ladles and Gentlemon: 1 am glad to meet, my fellow citizens of ltlchmond and join with them in this interesting ouiebratlon in honor of the launehing of the torpedo boat Bhubrlck. built in this city of Amorl oan material) b^tho labor of American worklngmen for the use of tho Ameri can nary. 1 congratulate tho bulldors i.nd workmen upon this evidence of bhoir skill and industry, so creditable to tho manufacturing compuny and so highly commended by tho omoors of tho government. "Tills Is not tho first contribution which Richmond has mudo to our splendid navy. She equipped the war ship Texas with all her mnchinory, boilers and engines, which wore tried and tested wito entiro satisfaction in the brilliant naval cngagtmeut in tho harbor of Santiago, when that gallant vessel so gloriously assisted in the de struction of Corvora's Hoot, winning a memorable victory aud hastening an honorable anu enduring peace. I hoartlly rejoico with the people of this groat city upon Ita Industrial revival and upon the notable prosperity it is reeling in au 01 Iis Dusincss cntorprlM?s. You aro taking advantage of the, com met clal opportunities of the hour. You arc advancing in manufactures, extend ing your markets and receiving a do sorved share of tho world's trade. " What can be morn gratifying to us than tho preseut condition of tho coun try ? A. universal love of country and a noble national spirit animate all tho people. Wo are on ihe best of terms with each other and on most cordial relations with every power on earth. Wo havo ample revenues with which to conduct tho government. No deficit menaces our credit. Money is abun dant in volume and unquestionable in value. Con?denco in tho present and faith in tho future arc linn and strong. The people aro doing business on busi ness principles and should bo lot alone ?encouraged rather than hindered in their efforts to increase the trade of the country and Und new and profitable markets for thoir products. Manufac turing was never so active and so uni versally onjoyed throughout all the States. Work was never eo abundant. Tho transportation 'jompanies woro never so taxed to handle tho freight offered by tho people for distribution. The home and foreign markets contri bute to our prosperity. Your locomo tives go io iiusslu ; tho watch cases from my little city of Canton go to Geneva ; the bridges of Philadelphia span the Nile, and the products of the American farm and factory aro carried upon evory sea and arc found In most of the purls of the world. " in what respect would wo change theso happy conditions with the prom ises they give of the future r The business activity In evory part of tho country ; tho bettor rewards to labor, tho wider markets for tho yield of tho soil and tho shop ; tho increaso of our shipbuilding not only for our govern ment but for purposes of commerce; the enormous Increase of our export trado in manufactures and agriculture ; the greater comforts of the homo and the appiness of tho people ; the wonderful uplifting of tho business conditions of Virginia and tho South, and of the whole country, mark this not only an era of good will, but an era of good times. It is a groat pleasure tome to stand in this historic capital and to look into the faces of my countrymen hero assembled and to feel and know that wo are all Americans standing as ono for tho government we lo"o and movn to uphold, united for tho honor of the American name and for tho faithful fulfillment of evory obligation whloh national duty requires. I can not fur/et In this presence to make my acknowledgement to tho men of Vir ginia fot their hearty and patriotic support of the government in the war with Spain and for he continued and untllnchiDg loyalty in the suppression of the insurrection in Luzon against the authority of tho United States. They came In swift responso to tho call of country?tho bent blood of tho State, tho boub of noble sires, asking forsorvlco at tho battle front where the fighting was hardest and the dan ger the greatest. Tho rolls of tho Vir ginia volunteer contain the names of the braven, rnd best, some of them the descendants of tho most Illustrious Virginians of its eprllest and latest times. They have shed tholr blood for tho flag of their faith and aro now de fending it with their lives in tho dis tant islands of the sea. All honor to the American army and navy. All honor has been shown the men return ing from tho field of hostilities and all < honor attends those who have gone to take their places. ''My fellow citizens, two great his torical ovoots, separated by a period of 84 years, affecting the life of tho ro publio and of awlul import to man kind, took placo on the soil of Virgin la. Both wore participated in by Vir ginians and both marked mighty epochs In the history of tho nation. The one was at Yorklown In 1781 wbon Oornvtallts surrendered to Washington, whioh was the beginning of the ond of the war with Great Britain and the dawning of Independence and union. The great Virginian, sago and patriot, illustrious commander and wise states man, installed the republic in tho fam ily of nations. It has withstood every shook in war or peaoe from without or within, experiencing its gravest crisis in the olvil war. Tho other, at Appo mattox was tho oonoluslon of that crisis, and tho beginning of a unification now happily full and complete, resting in the good will and fraternal affeotion of one toward another of all tho poople. Washington's torms of pnaco with Corn* wallis secured the ultimate union of the colonies ; those of Grant with Lee the perpetual onion of the States. Both events were mighty gains for the hu man family and a proud record for a nation of freemen. Those were tri umphs in wblob we all have a share ; both are common heritage. The one mado the pation possible, the other made the nation imperishable. Now no jarring note mars the harmony of the Union. The seed of discord has no sower and no soil upon which to live. The purveyor of hate, if there be one left, is without a follower. The voice which would klndlo tho flame of pa? slon and prejudice Is rarely hoard and no longer heeded In any part of our beloved country. '?'Lord of Iho universe Shield us and guide us Trusting Thee always; Through shadow and sun ! Thou hast united us. Who shall divide us ? Keep us, oh keep us, Th6 many in one.' " Associated with this great com muuwealth are many of tho most sa crod ties in our national lifo. From hero came forth many of our greatest statesmen and heroes who gavo vigor aud virtue and glory to the republic. For thlrty-soven of tho sixty-one year., from 1789 to 1850, sons of Virginia oc cppled tho presidential ofllco with rare lidclity and distinction, a period cover ing more than ono-fourth of our na I tional existence. What nation can have a greater horltago than such names as Washington, Jefferson, Madi son, Monroe and Marshall ? Their deeds insplro tho old and tho young. They are wrltton in our histories. They aro a part of tho oducatlon of every child of the land. Thoy onrlch the school books of the country. Thoy are cherished in every Amorican homo and will be so long as llborty lasts and tho union ondures. "My countrymen, the sacred prin ciples proclaimed in Philadelphia in 1770, advancod to glorious triumph at Yorktown, made olTectlvo In the form ation of tho Federal Union in 1787, sus tained by tho heroism of all our peoplo in every foreign conflict, sealed in solemu convonant at Appomattox court house, sancti?od by the blood of the men of tho South and of tho North at Manila and Santiago, and in Puorto Kico, have lost none of their force and virtue ; the peoplo of tho Unitod States will moot their now duties and re sponsibilities with unfailing dovotlon to those principles and with unfalter ing purposo to uphold and advance thorn. " Standing near tho close of the cen tury, wo can look backward with con gratulations and pride, and forward into tho now conturv with confidence I and courago. Tho memories of the past impel us to nobler effort and higher endeavors. It is for ua to guard tho sacred trust transmitted by our fathers and pn-H on to those who follow this govornment of tno free, strongor in its principles and greater in its power for tho execution of its bonotlciont mis sion." A WOUNDED OONKKOKKATK liAD An Incident at the Battle of Williams iim 7. and a Beautiful Tribe to to Dr. Grlor. The Associate Reformed Presby terian has published many just and worthy tributes to its late editor, Dr. W. Ii, Grior, but tho following will bo road with groat interest by all of his friends, especially his comrades who woro the gray. It has boon written by Dr. Joseph H. Twichell, a prominent Congregational minister of Hartford, Conn., who is distinguished both as an author and as a preacher Ho has re cently returned from Europe, and writes as follows : The news of Dr. Grler's death Btruck me with griof as well as surprise, for I held him in very warm esteem, and had ardently hoped to meet him in this life. In fact there were fow things that I so much desired, or had antici pated with so much pleasure. During the civil war, in my youth, I was chap lain of the 71st Regiment Now York State Volunteers, in tho Army of the Potomac. Ho was among the wounded Confederate prisoners who fell under my care after tho battlo of Williams burg in May, 1862. Though he was only a boy In age, he so impressed mo with hip intelligence and with thee manly fortitude with which he bore his sufferings, tbat I spoke of him at considerable length in a letter written home to my fathar in Connecti cut. 1 was with him only two or throe days then, and I saw him no more ; but 1 never forgot that bright brave boy. It wus, I should say, seven or eight years ago, (but, no, I find it is ten years,) when I had been pastor here nearly or quite twenty-tbreo yoars, that a gentleman named Courtenay from Charleston, onco Mayor of that city, camo to Hartford on a visit to friends in my parish. On meeting him one evening, 1 asked him If he knew of such a man In South Carolina aa W. M. Grier, explaining the rea-on of my question. AU I could tell him, to identify the person, was that ho wae the son of a minister and that he lost a leg at Williamsburg. To my delight, Mr. Courtenay at onco replied that he knew all about him. Accordingly he proceeded to give me an account of him ; of his high standing in point of scholarship and of character ; of his eminence as a preachor, &c, &o., and of his honorable position as president of Erskiro College; all of which it gratified mo extromely to hear. In fact, 1 almost wondered that it was so much to me to hear It. But it showed how deeply that wounded lad hud in terested mo and was lodged in my me mory. After tbat ho was ofton in my thoughts. I goo out my old army let tors, which my father had preserved, and read again what I had said of him in 1802; and feeling strongly moved thereto, one day 1 transcribed it and, with a note of explanation, sent it to Dr. Grier. I bavo now before mo tho lottor he Immediately wrote mo in reply, beginning, " Yes, 1 am that Confederate boy who lost a lear at Williamsburg, and who received buch marked attention and kindness at your hands, and at tho hands of other F?d eral soldiers." But he had to own that he could not soparato mo in his recolleotlon from my comrades, which, of course, was not surprisl g, for everybody liked him and manifested good-will to him ; and besides he was then vory weak and full of pain. From the time wo thus after so long an Interval resumed relations, so to speak, there has been an occasional In terohango of lottors betwoen us ; but, as I have said, wo have not met. He hoped 1 would como South, and I hoped he would como North sometime, to give us tho ohanoe to loon one another In the face again. But it was not to be. The last time I wroto to him was to toll him that my son was adjutant of tho Third Connecticut Voluatoer regi ment, enlisted in the United States [ service for the war with Spain, end was in camp at Summorvillo, South Carolina, and to ask him, should ho pass that way, to givo the young man a oall. He straightway answered that in case ho had the opportunity he cer tainly would do so. In January I ran down to pay my son a visit thore, and thought of going to see Dr. Grler ; but I han to limit my absence to the days between t*o 8abbaths, and there was not time. Had I known?but, ah, we never know. God grant that I may meet and greet him in the better coun try I ?Thunder can be heard at a dis tance of fourteen miles. A WAR STOr.Y OF BILL ARP. HOW HUTCH1N8 MAVIOD HIS MEAT. Hid it in the Hearth of an Old Black smith Shop?Advice to tho Cotton tots. A frlond writes :uo from Florida that bacon will uot keep well In that climate, und that the old settlors say It always gets rancid. Bo wante to know If thero is any remedy for this. Yes, I think so, unless hogs futtened on pinders aro dilferont from those futtened on corn. This reminds mo of a war story. In 180-1 my wife and half a dozen lit tle children found refugo from tho foul invader at her father's plantation on tho upper (Jhuttahoochoo river. Thero was no whlto man there or near thoro save her old father, Judge Butchins. Thoro were ubout a hundred nogrooB, more than hull of them too old or too young to work. Food for our soldiors was gotting scarcer every day and ordors oamo that ovory farmer should bo tithed?that is to Bay, he should givo up to the government agents a portiou of his corn and meat and beef cattle. A mounted detail from tho homo guard was sent out with wagons to enforce tho ordor and gather in the supplies. Thero was nobody to resist them, for everybody was in tho army save old mon and invalids aud women and children. Late ono oveuing a company of thirty men camo to JudK'-> Hutchins's house and rudely informed him that they oume for bacon and beef cattle. The judgo very calmly told them ho had nono to spare. For a while they parloyed with him, but finally demanded the key to his smoke house. My wifo and children and two othor little grandchildren listened in fear and anxiety. They know that tho judge was a foarless man, but thoro woro so many well armed men against him, the odds wore fearful, and when ho refused to givo up tho key, they said they would arrost him aud break down the door Then ho pleaded with them in a trembling voioo and said to tho cap tain : " Here is my dautrhter and her littles holplcsB children und here are two others whose mother is dead and their father is in the army, i have but four sons and they aro in tho army. My two sons-in-law aro thoro. Horo on this place are fifty or sixty nogrooa who aro too young or too old to work, and it is a struggle for us ull to iivo. 1 am alono and getting old. f have done my share for tho'Jonfodoraey and cannot do more. Now I know that you can overpower mo or kill mo and take away tho little meat 1 have saved for these helpless ones, but let mo teil you, captain, the first man who goeb to that door to brtak it down will ho a doad man before ho can do It." His black eyes flashed as If lit up hy sparks of fire and bis voice no longer trembled. Ho was despernto. Lightly ho as cended tho stairs, where ho had two double-barreled guns well loaded, and plautiug himself hy tho window that overlooked tho smokohouse, he said, " Now break that door If you daro to," and the percussion lock went click, click. Tbo captain looked at tho door and thon at tho judgo. Thero was an aw'ul Bllenoe for a few momonts. My wife and children had heard It all an? trembled. Some of the negroes had gathered at tho cabin doors, and old Sara dared to exclaim in a low, husky voice, " Better not?bettor not?old massa kill you?kill you shore." The cuptain suddenly reconsidered. "Come, boys," said ho "It's getting late, and thero ain't no u-o in lighting about a little meat. We can report tho case to headquarters und If wo aro ordered back wo can try It again, 1 reckon." Without saying goodbyo or farewoll they left. That night about midnight the judgo called up old Jack and Virgil, whom he know he could trust, and had tho joints of the meat and a part of tho sides carried quietly down to tho old blacksmith shop on tho bank of tho rlvor. With pick and shovel tho cinders and earth in tho old hearth were soon excavated and a chamber fashioned that would hold ar.d hide a thousand pounds. It was burled thero and the hearth was covered just like It had been. Some scattering charcoal filled In the spaces and some was loft on top and tho black old baskot placed where it long had boon. With shovel and wheelbarrow tho surplus earth was taken down tho river bank and tumbed in and tuen all wusqulot on the Chatta hoocbee. Tho burial of Sir John Moore was not more silent. In January, 18<J5, I joined my family at tho plantation and net long after the judgo furnished us a good mulo toum and wagon aud we returned to our homo in Homo. Tho day before wo loft his hospltablo new..dun he opened the one he and found tho meat all sweet and sound and wo brought a good portion of It with us and it was as precious as gold. My wife says the charcoal purified It and kopt it from tasting old or rancil. Now thon I havo answered my friend's question. He must got up an other civil war and hldo his moat in the hearth of an old blacksmith shop. Earth and charcoal are both good dis infectants and prosorvors of flesh, aud if I was in Florida I would pack my meat In charcoal, not dust, but small crushed coal. Buforo putting tho mout down I would powder it from a pepper box with borax. Borax Is almost uni versally used now. It Is sure douth to sklppors and other vormln, and a druggist told me that tho salo of it had Increased a thousand per cent within tho last live years. When my family got homo wo found that it was not good to livo by meat alono and wo had to send down tho river a hundred miles for a fow bushels of corn and hid It near a mill iu tho country, because the outlaws and de serters wore patrolling tho land and taking everything they could find. A good friend brought us half a bushel of meal at a timo on tho sly, and so we got along. The memory of old Row land Bryant is still precious to us for his klndnoss in thoso days of tribula tion. It is encouraging to know that Armour & Co., have not abolished all the smokohouses in the land, nor drawn our homo made meat into their mighty trust. Our farmers are gen erally raising their own meat and bring a good deal to town to sell, and I my wife says that country lard is purer and bettor than any that comes from the packing houses of the west. Our home market Is well supplied by our farmers with almost evorythlng that Is good to eat. Beef, pork, butter, chickens, eggs, potatoes, turnips, cab bages, beans and apples are In great abundanoe. Of course we can't have I mutton, for the negroes must have dogs and the candidates must have negro votes. I lost olght flno Morinos in ono night and my neighbor, Mr. Dobbins, lost three hundred in Qvu years, and quit tin buslnoss. But with all our drawbaoks, our people aro on the upgrade. Seven cents cotton has helped greatly, and if our farmer will out down the aoroago still more, it will bring 8 cents next year and loavo more land for wheat and corn. The South ern farmers ought to form a mighty , trust and regulato acreage and price. Our own county could regulate Itself ' by organizing and combining with tho I local banks. Our average crop is 10,000 bales, and at 8 eonts a pouud would bring $100,000. About one-half of ibis could bo carrlud and hold by tho more woalthy producers Tho other 5,010 bules could gut an advance of 0 cents a pound, or $;H) a bale, from tho bank^ on warehouse certificates. This would take only $150,000. Even $25 a bale would pay tho cost of production and leave tho margin for tho producer, and this would require from tho banks only $125,000. If every county was to do this a 10,000,000 bule crop .vould jump to 8 cents wilhin sixty days. That's tho way to meet trust with trust and defy the speculators. Why can't It bo dono P Bill. Akt?. TUK WONDKit OF TUB WOHIjU. Tho Telephone is n Faint HcHOmb l.i i- oi'iho Voice that M?hch 11 curd on f?lnai. Tho wonder of tho world is tho tele phone. Evorythiog olso can bo ac counted for and explained, but when explanation is made in full of how tho telephone works, tho mystery still ro mains, for, lo, tho voice of a frlond hundreds of miles away comes sound ing hesido one, as though face to face, and tho fact is made clear that thero ia a divinity in that voice that dls tauce, and rouriug storms and all the clamors of a mighty world cannot hroak one tone of. it is as whon tho Infinite spoko to Moses on Sinai, as whon, after all tho clamors had passod, tho still small voice smoto upon tho ears of tho seor and ho know that God was nigh. Ono asks a question, his own voice dies away in tho room in which bo sits, but a moment later out of tho darkness a voice replies, and ho knows thut his question has penetrated all tho spaco for hundreds of miles, aud that tho answer had come and brought with it all tho tones that love or friend ship would demuud for identification. It is easier thau formerly to ooliovo that tho prayer preferred Is recorded on tho receiver of eternity aud in some way is proof of man's dominion over not only the earth, but ?11 its elements, und that he has bicn from the first possesscd a of divinity which is sufficient to command and make a servant of mere matter, thai his place is, after all, only u little lower than tho angels, and that when the environment of this world shall be east olT ho will Und that instead of depth being u close it is but tho opening gate to a higher and freer lifo. Wo hear a bell, and a voice that we have no', heard for months or years responds, and so we know that voice is still, with all the old tones, to ho heard. Who shall say thut when an other summons comes we shall nut hear voices that we thought had gono out forever in whispers, hear them with all tho old rythm sweetness? Listening, there is brought to us the music of an orchestra playing hun dreds of miles away. What mucic shall wo hear when tho liual key is touched ? The storm, the interposing mountuiiif, tho boom of cataracts or tho roar of rusning trains?nono of them intorpose any barrier ; what will be that music that will come to us when all the barriers are re moved and upon our sublimated ears strikes tho far-off mighty, but incom parably sweet refrain Y What ia going on ought to exalt men, It ought to make them humblo, for -vhy should such specks as they be given tho blessings and the glory that are bestow od upon them V THANKSGIVING DAY. Tho Governor Calls Upon iho People to Givo Thanks Tor Abundanl Bless ings. Governor McSweeney has issued his first Thanksgiving Day proclamation. It Is brief and reads i\s follows : Tho people of this Stato have been abundantly blessed during tho past your. Gratitudo Is ono of the Chris tian virtues. Wo should givo thanks at all timos. Men too ofton forgot tho guudness uf Cud. Thero should nut only bo gratitudo in our hearts, but there a^e times when wo should give visible evidence and audible expression to that gratitude. Wo have boon romarkably free from pestilenco and scourge. We havo boon permitted to plant and to garnor. The rains Lavo como and the ourth has yielded tcr fruits, and we have been allowed to onjoy the labor of our bunds. Wo havo made progress In manufac turing tho products of our fields and our forests. It has long been customary to take one day out of the three hundred and sixty-fivo when wo shall ccaso from the toils of our lanot and render thanks to tho Givor of all good for tho many blessings we receive. To tho ond, therefore, that we may with thankful hearts show our appreciation of the tender care of our Heavenly Father, I, M. B. McSweonoy, Governor of South Curolina, In conformity to tho pro clamation of the President of the Unit ed States, do hereby appoint and Bet apart Thursday, tho 'Mlh day of No vember, 18U9, us a day of thanksgiving and prayer, to bo kept and obsoi vod by all the peoplo of this Stato. Lot all public offices bo closed and all private.business and labor of evory kind cease and let the people assomblo in their accustomed places of worship and rordor thanks with grateful hoarts to their Creator and Preserver for the blessings of life and liberty and happi ness which they daily receive. Let tho peoplo on this day also romomber tho fatherlods and not forget that the poor and tho needy ye have always and that wo aro told hy Iii in who made the groat sacritico for us that It is more blossod to glvo than to recolvo, and by our own doods of charity provo tho sincerity of our gratitude. In testimony whereof I havo here unto sot my hand and caused tho great seal of the State of South Carolina to ho atllxod. Done at tho Capitol, In tho city of Columbia, this Hist day of Oc tober, A. D. 18??. M. B. Mc?WKBNKY. By tho Govornor : M. H. Cooper, Sec rotary of Stato. ?Tho British troops that aro bolng dispatched to tho Traosvaal have to travel almost as far as the American troops that aro sent to tho Philippines. It is about six thousand mllos from Southampton to Capo Town, and tho soeno of operations Is from three hun I drod to ono thousand mllos inland from that point. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought TRIBUTE TO MRS. PICKJ$NS. A liOVEliY AND TOUOUINO 8CENK. Boaiitlful Kulogy by Ono Who Know Both Mrs. Plekons and Illustrious Husband?Two Great Friends of the Confederacy. Tho following is a brief outline of tho excellent addross delivered by Bev. Dr. L. It. Gwaltnoy, at tho me morial sorvloos at the grave of tho late Mrs. P. V/. Plckons, the sorvlcos being conducted by tho Ladies' Memorial Association of Edgetiold. Dr. Gwalt noy is tho beloved pastor of tho Baptist church iu that town, and a man of brains and olcquonco. Tho spoakor said iu part: I appreciate tho honor of bolng thus associated with tho Memorial Society of Edgoliold in tho touching and beau tiful eoremony of this qulot hour. Doad must be tho soul that is not warmed to generous enthusiasm ; cold and hurd as udamaut must bo the heart unmoved by tender emotions on an oc casion liko this. Forty years ago, at this season of tho "sore and yellow leaf," 1 entered this villago cemotory to take my part in burying an honorod clti/.on. Since then thoro havo been many changes. Tho order of naturo has continued in its unchanged course The sun has como forth daily, "rejoicing as a strong man to run a race," aud more than fiOO moons have waxed and waned in their appointed orbits. The planets and stais bave kept their courses and stations in unimaginable space, the binding sky has kold in constant em brace tho swootly coy, yot faithful horizon, "seed tlmo and harvest havo remained," tho increase of Heids, and herds, and Hocks has been yearly gathered for tho toiler's uso, spring and autumn llowors, bright gifts of heaven's lavish bounty, have como in their season to gladden our senses with perfumo and beauty. All these have continued "as they wero." " Not so, not so " with tho children of men. They must " come and go," their eartlily places knowing them no more forover. Alas ! that ho who was mado lord of ull things that live on earth, that he m ist bestricken from tho seat of dominion and stately honor. Ltow many hundreds, during tho last forty yeara, havo come to thoir graves in this cemetery I know not, but 1 do know that many noble tons and daughters of anoblo ancestry sleep around us today, and you, their child ron, do well to cherish with becoming pride tho memory of their faithful lives. It is becoming in you to rejoieo that such lives constitute a heritage which no decrees or schemes of raon can take away. Nor should wo roplno whon wo think of the buppy past in which our lives blended in part with tho lives of those wo honored and loved. 1 know It has been written, "sorrow's crown of sor row Is remembering happier things." I do not quite uollovo It. Sumo memo ??lea of happier things aro link d with unutterably swejt and precious emo tions. True, " tho tender grace" of tho years that aro dead will como to us no moro, but wo drunk thoir brim ming cup of joy as they passed, and now wo remember thorn wltn an over In creasing wealth of tondorness and chastened bliss, as much a soul-foast as woro tho brighter things of thoso happy day6. 1 neod not call tho names of tho noble dead whoso dust you mli'ut find beneath this almost sacred soil. "Tho world holds record" of their nar.ies and deed;*, thoir dauntless courage, thoir lofty patriotism, their fidelity to ovory generous impulse and conviction of duty. I will venture, to say that not anoth or single aero of tliis broad continent ehorlsnes In its embrace tho dust of so many heroic men and gracious wo men, They had their faults, all men have, but high a ntimonts of truth, and r.ght, and generosity, and loyal devotion characterized thoir speech, and adorned their privato and public walk. This day and this occasion will justify mo in making mention of two who sleep so well thoir last sleep be neath our toardiinmod oyos, Francis Wllkorson Pickens, and hla worthy consort, Lucy Ilolcombo lJlckons. They woro cast In no ordinary mould. Nat ofton havo suporior dignity and manliness, hoauty and graeo boon com bined In earthly companionship. As minister from tho Uuitod State*, this honored son of South Carolina carried his Texas brldo to tho brilliant court of St. Petersburg. Amid its sploudor and its brilliant galaxy of eminent men and beautiful womor., no scant courtesy : .nd honor was shown to thoso representatives, of republican simplic ity and strongth. Thoy might havo remained thoro, bolovod and honorod by tho noblest of continental olroles, sponding a lifo of case and Ideal earthly happlnoss, but when perils threatened their bolovod State and scarcely loss bolovod Southland, these patriots turned from tho rlchos and pleasures of court lifo and hastonod to cast their lot with "thoir own," pre ferring to suffer afflictions with them rather than onjoy the safety and charming luxury of European life. True, such sac nil or. othors havo mado, but such aacrifico thousands havo boon unwilling to make. Noble souls stand linked In sympathy and high ondoavor, whothor thoy bo of peasant or princely blood. Ab "war governor" of his nativo Stato, lion. F, W. Pic kens atood among tho foromost in unmoved steadfast ness, in passionate ardor, in unoom plaining fortltudo, in glowing patrio tlbm. ills devoted wife was not ono writ hlu inferior in steadfastness, in ardor, in fortltudo, in patriotism. When tho civil war onded, many cltl- I /.ens of tho South moved from thoir | country, thoir States, thoir old neigh- I horhoods and forrror associations. Govornor Pickens oloctod to abldo tho I fortunes of hla nolghhors, and work with them for the reconstruction of govornmont and social life. I low woll I ho served in this roga-rd is known to I those who still survivo those troublous I times. After his death, Mrs. Plekons bo camo dooply Interested In tho effort to eroct a monumonton our public square to tho memory of our Confederate I dead. A memorial socloty was fo: mod under tho inspiration of hor lervld patriotism, and sho was elected its first president. Tho fast revolving years closed the. lifo of hor only ohild, tho bolovod Dousoha. Thon, widowed and childless, sho gavo hor lovo and on orgy to tho ono aim of completing tho monument, and thus blending her own namo imporishably with tho names of tho men she honored as patriot heroes. Why this noblo enterprise has so long lingered in its accomplishment, I know not. Her deopest anu strongest desire, was to complete It boforo her death. It stirs tho gonorous heart with deep rogrot and sadness that this desire was not fulfilled. She has fallen ere her self-appointed work was finished, but this work has been oom mit ted tu worthy and faithful hands. 1 commend to your cordial support the president and members of the Memo rial Association. Citizens of Edgollold, join heart and hands with thorn, and ?nnlsh tbo mar ble shaft tbat shall tell your posterity how the patriotic women of EdgeQeld lovod and honored tho "mon who wore the grey." These women, noblo In themselves, and ennobled by tho task they will accomplish, and wo, thoir co workors, will soon finish all tho to Is and sacrifices of lifo. Wo linger and work yet a llttlo while boL.e."th our bright Southern sky, and wo also shall find our resting place In this llttlo "city of tho dead." " Through sorrow's night, and dunger's path. Amid the deepening gloom, We, soldiers of a heavenly king, Are marching to the tomb. Our labors done, securely laid In this our last retreat, Unheeded o'er our silent dust The storms of life shall burst. Yet not thus lifeless in the grave Tho vital spark shall lie; For o'er life's wreck that spark shall rise To scok its kindred sky. These ashes, too?this little dust? our Father's care shall keep, Until tho tinal trump shall break The long and dreary sleep. Then love's soft dew, o'er every eye Shall shed its mildest rays. And our long-silent dust shall rise, With shouts of endless praise." AN INTKKKBT1NO STOItY. Ono of the Original Corps ol Suivcy ors Tollt* About the "Building and Equipment 01 tho Old South Caro lina Railroad. Tho Augusta llorald glvoB tho fol lowing story as rolatod by a pio neer railroad builder, which tho young folks will road with groat iu torest: Dr. W. W. Smith, of Williston, S. C, holds tho distinction of being one of tho corps of surveyors who built the tirst railroad in the United States?tho old South Carolina railway. Ho was born In Darnwoli County, South Caro lina, in 1813, and is, therefore, 85 years of age. Ho is both a minister and a physician. According to Dr. Smith tho first rail road in tho Uuitod States was tho South Carolina Railroad, afterward called tho Charleston and Augustu Railroad, running from Charleston to Augusta, a distauco of ono hundred and forty miles. Dr. Smith was one of tho corps of surveyors of tho road, beginning at Charleston in tho year 1820. Ho says that they wore seven years building tho road, and that ho helped iu tho work throughout that time. ,The road was eomplotcd in 1833. Below are given some of the tacts as furnished by Dr. Smith : Tho firs*, molivo power usod or. this road was wind, utilized in sails made of cloth on tho cars. Dr. Smith is tho inventor of tho lever switch. Before his invention they moved tho rails by moans of wedges. In building the road a hoavy grade was encountered at Aiken, S. C, whore thoro was a stationary engino that pulled the cars up the grade by ropes and windlass. There was a double track at that plaeo and a car loaded with rocks furnished the weights to help pull up tho cars. Tho locomotives had two smoke stacks, ono at each end. In going to Charleston one of tho stack.* was used and in coming back tho other. Thoro woro no spark arresters, and everybody along the route had to watch their property to prevent its being burned up. Ono hundred miles a day was good travelling in those days. When night came on all hands struck camp and waitod for daylight to come in order to proceed. The track was composed of ties and 32 foot stringers, on which a band of Iron about like a common tire was laid and nailed down to the wood. A track walker wont ahead of the engino every day to knock down tho "snake-heads," or nail heads to pre vent accidents. The dread of tho en gineer was tho " unlike heads " or nails protruding above tho iron rail, for thoy4 wore prolific 60urcon of accidents. Tho conductors collected tho fores from the outsldo, walking on boards about like tho open street cars aro now ar ranged. Edward Roath and Nathan Colder banks woro engineers on this primitive road. They died a few years ago. There wore no conveniences on tho cars as in this day and tlmo. Tho cars stopped at stated intorvals for tho conj vonlonco of the passengers. The mall facilities wore meagre and vory primitive. A split stick served for a mall bag, as lettors wore put in sticks and handed up to the conductor, and woio thrown out the samo way. Dr. Smith introduced tho plan of having tho outor rail on a curve made hlghor than tho other rail. The coupling links woro mado of wood, so that when a car ran oil it would break and save tho others from running off. Tristam Tuppor was ono of tho pre sidents of this road an ' introduced some novelties during his administra tion. llo had tho car* romodolled and Bhapod llko a barrol. This was done so that in caso they ran off thoy would roll down tho hill and not hurt so many passongors. It was thought thoy could be rolled back with tho name degree of case. Thero was afterward an effort made to shapo tho cars in order to " split tho wind," thus Increasing tho spood. Ono of the groat mogul engines of the presont day would havo crushed tho track beneath tho earth. A Call to PROHIBITIONISTS.?Mr. A. C. Jones, of Nuwborry, chairman of I tho State Prohibition oxeoutivo com 1 mlttoe, has Issued tbo following call i for a conforonoe this week : To tho Prohibitionists of South Ca rolina : It has been suggostod to me hy a numoor of Prohibitionists that a conference be hold in Columbia during Pair week and I have decided to re quest the membors of the Stato Pro hibition exocutlve committee, tho Pro hibition county ohalrman of eaoh coun ty, the president or head of the torn peranco organizations, and as many of tho ministers of the State who may bo in Columbia, to meoi with us on Thurs day, November tho Oth, at 12 o' iock noon. I ozpeet to bo at Wr";,lit's Ho tol and will arrange for '?ud notify our frlonds whore the meeSng will bo nold. A. C. Jones. Chairman State '.'rohlbition Execu tive Commlttoe. Tho friend that an freo you from pain and arrest the dai gor whioh threatens your life, Is a friend ndeed?you havo just such a friend in lligatnr Idhimont. ThoueantB havo adoi.'ed it as a household friond for all pains. V? < want you to do so. Give it a trial today. Ho.* evory where. FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN 8?IK\OK Mit), b'ddy Declared to Bo an IiupOHtcr and a Moat Prosperous Humbug. Worcester, Mass., Deacon. When some weeks since, we com menced our investigation of tho life, reputation ami character of tho so called discoverer and founder of Chris tian Science, wo had co Idea wo should wind up iu bog and quagmire. Wo had assumed Mrs. Eddy to be a person of somo culture, of puro and spiritual life aspirations, sincere in her belief, and nothing worse than a fanatic. vVe not proceeded far before wo became doubtful of tho accuracy of our pre conceived opinion. To bo suro, we had no facts upon which to base an in telligent opinion, and woro disposed to be, uo far as her claims did not exceed tho limits of credibility. Wo bolloved | her, in brief, to bo a womaa of good charactor and rather exceptional hypnotic power. Wo close our investigation, which has been very thorough and entirely judicial in character, not with doubt uf tho accuracy of our earlier views, but with coniidence that we entirely mis judged tho woman known as Mary Bakor G. Eddy, and that she, while definitely claiming to be the equal iu nature and in powor of Jesus Christ, is in almost everything his precise op posite, is insincere, dishouest, full of deceit and ' > jehood, unclean of heart, impuro of life, venomous to the last dc greo, despotic and arbitrary almost be yond belief,?an exceptionally clever charlatan, who has built au immense fortune upon tho credulity of hosts of innocent dupes. We had no other purpose in looking into tho charactor and antecedents of I Mrs. Eddy than.the discovery of tho ! truth, and it would havo aiforded us genuine pleasure to have been able to say, as tho result of our inquiries, that she is tho saintly, immaculato, even divine person her followers believe, it is with regret, but with entire con fidence, that we affirm her to bo none of theso things. We allege nothing that is not sus ceptiblo of legal proof when we Bay that years ago Mrs. Eddy was a spiri tualist, taking a prominent pa.'t in the spread of spiritualistic views (she denies this now, but her denial is an untruth); that she received tho ideas, upon which hor so-called Christian Scienco 1b based, fiora a man named Quimby, to whom she- has very defi nite); and unoquivocably tlmcand ngalu credited them over her own signature, and whom shu extolled as one of tho greatest men tho world had ever pro duced (she now repudiates her former repeated statements and maligns the man whom she formerly praised): that her claim to revelation of abso lute truth from God which sho em bodied In her book " Science and lleaith, ' is whoily fraudulent, and known to her to be so; that tho book in a perfect mosaic of tho thoughts of ^ers, having been written largeiy with scissors and been thoroughly revised, punctuated, rendered gram matical and consistent with itself as much so, at least, as her stubborn igno rance would permit by literary skill, purchased and paid for,?pages of it written by otner hands and published unaltered ; that for years she has been addicted to the use of morphine, tak ing it regularly in substantial dosos ; that falsely, protending to bo in good health and possessed of tho usu of faculties in perfect condition, she is, in fact, in tho most feeblo health, with faculties greatly Impaired ; that her pretended religion is morely the basis of a religio-commerclal ontorprise con ducted upon strictly business princi ples, and has made hor a very rich wo man ; that pretending to love her onemies, sho hates with unspeakable hatred thoso, who, having yielded to hor Influence, daro to throw It off aud disregard her wishes; that holding completely subservient to her wlil a largo number of men and women through tho use of tho fortune thus fraudulently accumulated, through their belief In her supposed power to puni9h hor onomlos hy means of men tal influences exerteci la collusion with others, she terrifies into silence those who could of their own kuowledgo dls closo her absolute depravity of char acter and the fraudulent nature of her claims. . To such an extent does this fear go that many bollovo Mrs. Eddy to have punished her enemies by causing thoir death, or tho death of some member of their family. One of her formor be UovorB, at ono timo most intimately in her confidence, has recently told us, with bated broath, of four death she belloved to havo been caused by Mrs. Eddy's mental powor exortod upon people she believed to bo hostile to her, or upon somo ono dear to them, whoso death would Inflict pain. We are astounded, simply astounded at the absolute terror with which somo people regard this supposed powor of Mrs. Eddy. She claims to be able to ralso from tho doad, and hor fol lowers bollovo sho has rostorod to lifo ; and If sho poBsessos tho powor to make alivo, it logically follows, as these peo ple bollevo, sho possesses tho powor to destroy lifo. W" havo novor In tho course of our experience oncountored hutefulnuss so Intense as that of this false feminine messiah, who, proclaim ing lovo of her enemies and having founded a religion upon tho principle of lovo, "treats" her enemies in the frantic and hideous hope of her making them fool the pangB of bell. The wholo thing is explainable to us only as a business enterprise. The fraud pays ; it pays most substantially. People are most oasi'y gulled by ap pealing to high sentiments, by tho vague uso of meaningless terms. If wo havo varied in opinion regarding Mrs. Eddy since the commencement of our Investigation,?feeling at ono time that she raubt bo insane and irrespon sible, and at another that sho is only lnsano as abnormal depravity couplod with unusual Bhrowdnuea Is insanity, wo havo finally arrived at the fixed conviction that not insanity, but wick- | odnoss alone oxplains her. Greed, truo love of money, tho lovo of power, vanity and utter lack of scruple in the accomplishment of bar ends, those things explain, and fully explain, the lifo, tho charactor and tho accomplish ments of Mary I3akor G. Eddy, the most successful 'mpoater, tho most I prosperous humbug that e vor Ii veil. ?Miss Nancy Hanks was the mothor of President Lincoln. A story goes tho round, that she had a ioom which sho carried around with hor on trips she would make from hor homo in Larue County to Stophenport, 111. During her journey sho would stop at various points and weave cloth. The old loom is still in existence. It was made of whlto oak and all tho parts are decayed excopt the beam, which is eight Inches in dlametor and eight foot long. OAST03HA. Beantlw /) tl* WnJ Vojj HgW Always Bought lTfrMS OF GP.NKHAL IMlHIMSr. Quaint and Curious Paragraph* Gathered lruua Various Source*. ? Negotiations will soon bo oponed at Madrid for a now treaty botwoon tho United Statos aud Spain. ?It Is U80I088 to acquire knowledge unless you have a little common sonso with which to season It. ?Gonoral Wheelor thinks a brigade of cavalry could bo advautageously used In tho Philippine war. ?Tho doath roll of tho army for thirteen months, it is ollicially report ed from Washington, numbers nearly 7,000 mon. ?Tho Supremo Court has dooidod that an Indian chief's ol?ost son Is en titled to all tho property and titlo of his fathor. ?President McKinley has boon in vited to visit Nashvlllo on the roturn of tho First Tonnessoe regiment from tho Philipplnos. ? It la now possible to tolograph from San Francisco to tho Klondike, a Ca nadian government lino having boon strung from Bennett to DaWBOD City. ?Thero havo boon more than 5,000 suicides In this country during tho past twclvo months, which broaks tho record for thia or any other coun try. ?Germany is the third greatest iron country in tho world, and yot a twen tieth of ltd entire output of iron ore comes from the Krupp mines and is manufactured in the Krupp works. ?Miss Grace McKinley, who was graduated last June, at Mt. Ho)yoke college, taking tho highest honors of tho class, will spsnd tho winter at tho White House. Sho Is the President's niece. ?Tho graveof President John Tyler, In Hollywood cemetery, of Kiehmoud, Va., is at last to he marked by a monu ment, which will bo of granite and fittingly inscribed. Only a handsome magnolia tree now marks tho grave. ?A woman in Pennsylvania who has 25 children is being givon somo prominence In the newspapers. The Wilmington Messenger says that Mrs. Archie Gordon, of Granville County, North Carolina, had 27 children, all sons. ?In commenting on tho great lo?s of tho 15th Massachusetts at Gettys burg, 313 out of liu? men being mor tally wounded, the Des Molnes State Register says : "In those days, how over, it was the best soldiers on earth against the bi st soldiers on earth." ?It is expected that iu tho next ses sion of Congress Senator Clark will bo among those to urge that territorial government bo granted to Hawaii. Tho Western tnultl-millloaalro has made large investments on the islands and intends to build a summer home thero. ?Mr. Edmund O. Osgood, of Angoli ca, New York, lias just celebrated his golden wedding. Cataracts formed on his eyes at tho age of 17, and when ho married ho was totally blind. Tv only six years later an operation restored Iiis sight, aud bo saw Iiis wife and chil dren for tho first time. ?A former private, Hurry Hall of tho 1st Colorado, who did duty in tho 1'hilippines, says that there is a line field for lawyers In tho arcliIpclago. Hall has enlisted in the regular army and will go back to Manila, bis pur pose being to study law and to perfect himself in Spanish ut spare moments. ?Tho town of Boson, which 1ms 100, 000 Inhabitants has just been admitted into the rauks of Gorman cities. Tho town was made by the Krupp j^uu works, which was started there by the grandfather of the present owner (Al fred Krupp) it, 1810. There are 11,000 employees, and thero has never yet been a strike. ?Mr. R. A. Moore, president of tho Texas Tobacco Growers' Association, reports that ho is in correspondence with six or eight cigar factories which contemplate moving to Houston within tho next three or four months, and ho estimates that within the next throe years that city will Lave factories em ploying from l,li00 to l,f>00 oigarmak ers. ?A Manila correspondent of tho Chicago Record, speaking of tho de parture of the Twentieth Kansas Reg iment, notes the curious thing thut when tho men turned in their arms most of them turned in Mausere, when thoy woro charged with Springfield rifles on tho books of tho rogliueot. They had captured the Mi.usors from tho Filipinos. ?Miss Frank, a woman of Benson, Minn., 07 years of age, took a very un willing ride tho other day. She triod to climb over a stock train while on tho way to church, when the train started with her on the bumpers and carried iior to Willmar, thirty miles away, In fifty minutes. She arrived safely, with her Bible In h r hand, having ridden between tho caio all tho way. ?A big Western packing concern has embarked in the business of separ ating the whiles anil yolks >'A eggs, canning them separately, freezing them and unloading them on the market. Some thirty dozen eggs are put up in a two-gallon can, Which Is exactly the number that a case holds. When a baker uses thirty or fortv dozen eggs in a day it takes time to break tho egg-, und separate them. Tho now plan aaves time. ?Tho impurity of the V7Ater in tho Mississippi Kiver, from which the city of bt. Louis ia supplied, wiil compel tho adoption of filtration as a moans of remedy. This worn ia made more im perative by the noarlng OOmpiotloD of tho Chicago drainage canal. It is pro bable that legal proceedings will b i in stituted by tho city of St. Louis to pro vent tho opening of the Cuieago canal unless tho aoworago emptied therein shall havo first boon submitted to somo ollioient process of purification, ?There aro reasons for anticipating a possible disappointment oo tins re turn of tho main body of November meteors. The meteors have boon scat tering during tho last sixty years and tbo planet Jupiter has had a hand in tho vandal work. Hut there is cortain to bo a meteoric showor, which will bo robbed of somo of its aplondor by a bright moon. Tho maximum of thodls play may bo expectod soon aftor mid night on tho morning of Novorabor 10. During tho middlo of November tho en-tern sky will bo ospocially boautiful at midnight. ?A woman in Indiana rocolvod a lottoi tho other day that had boon mailed to her in June, 1880, by a Cali fornia friend, who died livo years ago. The lottor had boon misdirected, and has been moanJorlng around the coun try for ten years Booking proper desti nation. It was sent aovoral t'.mos to tho doad lotter ofllco, covered by ad dresses and postmarks, and forwarded again In fresh envelopes. It reached tho owner yeilow from ago, and i'ie news was somewhat etalo. Tho lottor contained a money order for $2 trat time has outlawed. Too department will replace it with a duplicate