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THE INAUGURAL MJJSSAGK. The Governor and lieutenant Gov ernor are Inducted Into Office Thursday at noon tho inauguration Of tho recently elected State officials took plnco at llie State Capitol. The oath of office was itdminisled to tho Governor and Lioutenaut Governor eleet in tlie hall of the House ol Re presentatives. Although tho day was inclement, a large crowd assembled to witness the ceremonies, and * the two hundred South Carolina college students who formed the governor's escort were not able to crowd into the hall. The Columbia orchestra in the gal lery rendered several inspiring selec tions while the crowd was gathering and during intermissions In tho exer cises. At 12 o'clock Mr. Wilson, the sor gcant-at-arnis of the House announced that " the honorable, the Senate is in waiting." The Speaker commanded the House to tise and receive the Sen ale. When the Senate had been seated the joint assembly was called to order by the President of the Senate. Im mediately afterwards the sergcaut-at arins announced the Govornor-elect and his escott in waiting. The joint assembly arose to receive the dis tinguished party. The order in which thoy came was: Chief Justice Henry Molver and Rev. Juo. O. Willsou, 1). I).; lion. V. .1. Pope, associate justice, and Col. Wilie .Jones, chairman Stale Democratic executive committee; Hon. Ira 1$. Jones, associate justice, and Representative T. H. RaioBford; M. l>. McSweenoy, Govoroor-elect, and Sena tor Louis Appell; James II. THltuan, Lieutenant Governor-elect, and Repre sentative VV. II. Parker. Then fol lowed the other new State ofllcials; G. Duncan Bellinger, attorney general; M. LI. Cooper, secretary of State; Jno. L\ Dorbam, comptroller general; .1 no. J. McMahnn, State superintendent of education; H. II. .Jennings, Stale trea surer. Capt. .Jennings was accompani ed by the retiring treasurer, Dr. VV. II. Timmerman. As an escort for the Stale ollicials were Senator J. S. Price and Representatives .J. C. Campbell, W.U. Wells and J. W. Ci urn. The faculty of the South Carolina college were also in the party. The Governor-elect and Iiis escort were seated on the rostrum behind the Speaker's desk. It was an impressive scene. Hon. Kohl. B Scarborough, the retiring Lieutenant Governor, gowned in the handsome new helio trope silk robe of the president of tlie Senate, took charge of the exercis I5y his side stood the Speaker of es House, gowned in loyal purple. GrouP" ed around them were the men who ;irc to conduct the affairs of State, while conspicuous in all this array were the justices of the supreme conti, Mclvcr, .Jones and Pope. The exercises were opened with prayer by Dr. Wlllson. The preacher referred feelingly to the illness of George I). Tillman, father of the Lieutenant Governor-elect. Mr. Scarborough then announced. "The Hon. Miles B McSwceney, gov ernor elect, is present and ready to qualify." The Governor stepped for ward and gave assent to the oath of ollice administered by the venerable Chief .Justice Mclvcr. After he had taken the oath the Gov ernor addressed the General Assembly as follows: Gentlemen of the General Assembly: In taking the oath of ollice for the second time as chief executive of this gieat State 1 feel more keenly than ever the responsibilities which rest upon me. 1 realize the poverty of my vocabulary when I endeavor to expiess my appreciation to this people for the partiality which they have shown in elevating me to this exalted position, and when I think of the duties and responsibilities which the position carries with it I am brought face to face with nay own weakness. I l>eg that you will convey to the peo ple whom you represent my heartfelt appreciation of the honor which they have conferred upon me and that you will alsocairy to them my pledge to give them the best service of my bead and heart in the administration of the ollice to which they have elected tne. It was, T believe, the greatest, gen eral of modern times who said, " The graudost and most expressive word in the ICnglish language is duty." Dur ing tho time that I have held the ollice of governor my main purpose lias been to discharge my duty honestly and con scientiously and without fear or favor. During the term upon which I am now entering all that I can say is that this same purpose will characterize my every action. Put the same responsibility which rests upon the executive is also laid, only with a greater degree, upon the members of the legislature. My prov ince is only to execute tho laws. You aro clothed with power and authority to change existing laws and to make new laws and by your action you can either clog the wheels of progress or give them now impetus. Our forefathers budded wisely when they provided that tho three depart ments of government should be forever separate and distinct. It has been my honest endeavor and purpose to recog nize this division of our government and to let each department discharge the duties belonging to that depart ment. In complying with the man date of the constitution to lay before tho general assembly a review of the I different departments <>f government and to make such suggestions a", may seem proper to the chief executive, 1 have not incsumed to dictate or under taken to control legislation but have simply made such suggestions as aecined to mo just and necessary. Ry wise and careful and prudout action on your part you can do much to ad vance the material prospciity of the Stale, and contribute to tho happiness of the people. I can only pledge yon, and through you tho people whom you represent, my best effort in the faith ful execution of tho laws as they may be interpreted. Our educational intorosts have also made remarkable advances and there is a great awakening in all sections on the subject of education. It is a gratifying evidence of our progress, for . with the material development of the 8r|11||tobuUJItt,,0,^,ork, ,??, mills lhoi'0 is constant demand formen who know how. Whatever you may Wo to lit our young men ami young women to iill tho positions, which arc constantly opening ill view of the wonderful development of this section will he so much wisely contributed to happiness and prosperity. Hut while WO train them lor these positions and supply the demand for men who know how WO want also to train them to think noble thoughts and they will then perform noble doods. One of the cry ing Deeds of these times is an elevated manhood. ".Sublimity of character must come from sublimity of motives and the humblest man walking in the. most circumscribed place can and OUghl to live subllmoly." Disraeli said truly, "circumstances are beyond the control of man but his conduct is in his own powor." No man should be called away from ''plain work and common duties," but be should be made to un derstand that he can breathe "while in the midst of them inspirations from the heights of manhood." But iO all these matters WO should not forgot those who have the burden to bear in furnishiug the moans neees saiy to cany on these institutions; and their rights and interests should ho carefully guarded. This century upon, which WO are now entering holds lot us achievements and opportunities of which we can not even conceive. It should bo our high privilege "to show how intelligence, enterprise and relig ious freedom, and respect for the ma jesty of the law, may constantly in crease comfort, intelligence, prosperity and happiness.'' '? We stand here at the end of mighty years. And a Kreat wonder rushes on the heart. While cities rose and blossomed into dust, While shadowy lines of Kings were blown to air? What was the purpose brooding on the world. Through the larger leisure of the cen turies? And what tlie end?failure or victory?" As you stand here in the dawn of this century much depends upon your actions whether the end shall be fail ure 01" victory. We should lay the foundations broad and deep, for there are great possibilities before us as a people. It might bo well, howovet, for every one ol us to ask himself the question : " What hast thou wrought for ri^ht and truth. For God anil man. From the golden hours ol" bright eyed youth To life's mid span?" The last year of the last century is a record unsurpassed in the history of this State and possibly of any other Southern State in industrial develop ment. I call your attention to tho fact that during the past year some $15, 000,000 have been invested in this State, tho greater portion of which has been put into industries for the manu facture of our great staple crop. Some thing over 200 miles of railroads have been built and received for traffic dur ing the past year. Any proposed legislation touching these great arteries of trade and com merce should be wisely and caiofully considered. Those industries derive their right to life and existence from the State and.you us the representa tives of the State have a right and it is your duly to see that they do not oppress the people. But m guarding the interests and rights of the people it is well also to remember that these corporations have rights and it should he yours to sec that the strong do not oppress the weak and that justice and equity are meted out. Mr. Tillman was then presented and sworn in. The retiring Lieutenant Governor dofl*ed tho beautiful silken robe of office and placed it upon the shoulders of his successor. The pret ty tableau evoked applause. Mr. Tillman then look Ibognvol Olid announced: 41 The purpose for which the joint assembly met having been ac complished, the joint assembly is dis solved. The Senate will return to the chamber." Tins closed the exercises. i.ii.i t. (iov.'in.i..man's ADDRESS. When X^iOUtenaut Governor Tillman called the Senate to order tho nisi, s on I he lloor, as well as the galleries, were filled with spectators. His inaugural addross was brief, but his words and his sentiments were well chosen and he was greeted with applause as ho concluded. His address was as fol lows. "Senatois: In assuming the duties of tho ollice to which I have been elected 1 am net unmindful of the re sponsibilities thrown about it, nor am I ungrateful to the people, who put mo here, nor can I forget that l preside Over a body which bus written some ol* the highest pages in South Carolina's history. What standard of merit will mark my career in this ollice, 1 do not know, hut impartiality shall be my guide star. ?'It is hardly necessary for me to express tho wish or even refer to the fact that I trust the accustomed har mony will prevail in this body. " In the vast domain of the old cen tury, I am grntiticd to know that there may be found the cemetery of factional differences in South Carolina, ami that standing here in the dawn of the new century, we llnd this is not only a re united Slate, hut a reunited nation. Centuries have faded into shadows; in that great period of the past Napoleon had his greatn<**3 and his grave; tho I Southern Confederacy blossomed like the rose, faded and fell; 4 we stand here nt the end of tlx; mighty yuirs' with all the responsibilities of an advanced Citizenship; grave conditions confront our country; perhaps a decade may find this the greatest Republic that tho world has ever known, an empnc ruled by an emperor in royal robes, or a president with imperial powers. It therefore behooves tho party to which we all belong, to unite and join in the desperate struggle that will decide tho destiny of our country. 4< Invoking tho blessings of the Deity upon your deliberations and asking tho guidance of His divine hand for myself, I now declare the Honate ready for any husinoss that may properly bo bctoro it." Mr. Henderson offered tho following resolution, which waa seconded by Senator Mower and others and adopted by a rising vote: " Uoaolved, That, tho thanks of tho f^jfl) im am WMw ia?A*? od lo tlu? Hon. It. B. Scarborough, our iciiring presiding officer, for his uniform kindness, Urinuoss and ur banity in llie discharge of bis arduous duties." THK STATE'S ROLL OF HONOR An Appropriation Needed to Cotn pltee and Publish Confederate Rolls Charleston News and Courier, The Daughters of the Confederacy, of Charleston, through their President, Mr?. .Janu s Conner, have meinoi ial/.rd the Legislature of t ii> state lo appro* prialO a SUlilcient sum of money to complete the records of the men who fought for South Carolina in the War for Southern Independence more than thirty years ago. It would seem to us that 110 other argument is needed thru that contained in tlic Memorial itself, as follows : " To the Honorable, the Sonate and [louse ol lloprescnlatives of the statt; of South Carolina : The Memorial of the Daughters of the Confederacy ol Charleston, South Carolina, respect fully bheweth : " That llic principal object of tho organization of Daughters of tho Con federacy is to preserve the truth of the history of the War between the States. In common with all thinking men and women, they deem ii essential to this end that a record of all who took part in that great struggle for freedom, not only tin- Officers, but also tin; pri vate soldiers, should be put in perman ent form, so that the youth id' OUI State and coming generations may sec and judge of the immense sacrifice made bv their lathets. Only by printing these rolls can the rank and file of the <'on federate soldiery be honored. In no other way can the names of such find their place on the historic page. Monu ments in many cases perpetuate the names of otlicers, but only on these rolls is a record kept of the men who gave everything and received nothing, but the consciousness of duty done. Surely, you will not deny them the pos sibility of at least being remembered by their own people for whom so many of them died. " Feeling thus the Daughters of the Confederacy have watched with keen interest the action of your honorable bodies in making yearly appropriations to have, such records compiled under the supervision of Col. .lohn L'. Thomas, as Stale Historian, and it was with the greatest regret that they learned of its failure, when the work was nearly finished, of the appropriations neces sary to have the rolls completed, and the valuable matter already collected put into proper form, " With these convictions, they de sire to bring Ihe matter again to your attention, and earnestly ask that a suf ficient appropriation lie made to en able the State Historian to continue such further compilations us may bo necessary, and also to print all the records collected, so that they may be put in permanent form and distributed among the people of the State and all others interested, thus disseminating through our laud the valuable informa tion which they contain." The several Chapters of the Daugh ters of the Confederacy ill tho State Will join tho Charleston Chapter, and it is hoped that the General Assembly will give, prompt and favorable atten tion to their reasonable request. It will not take much to complete and publish the Confederate rolls, but what ever the amount required it should be given not in a grudging sphit, but as a matter of the highest patriotic duty. A people who do not cue for their he roes, for the men who fought and died for their country, have lost their self respect and deserve the confidence of no self-respecting people. The women do not ask for much from the. State? they do not besiege the Legislature With petitions for help ; they do not nsk now for anything for themselves, but only that the brave, mm who serv ed the State long ago shall not be per mitted to pass into oblivion ; they, speak for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the dead who died for their country, for the living rem nant which will soon cross over the river. There are only a few men in the Legislature who served in the armies of tho Confederacy, but there is not a single member of that body who Is not pjoud that ho comes of the old slock, which dared to face death for the sake of* his State. Wo do not believe that any one of them will vot" gainst tho petition of the women. THE WORLD IS MORI$ SINFUL Bill Arp Reads of Horrible Crimes and Says We Are Growing Worse. "Sorrow endureth for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." I started to Wlito my weekly letter last night, but 1 was not in a calm and serene frame of mind and concluded to put if off till morning. I had read the morn ing paper that was unusually lull of crimes and sin and misery and when the evening papers came there was another catalogue of calamities and I felt sad and depressed. When will theso things stop? Hut I am no weep ing prophet nor does the public care to read the lamentations Of Jeremiah as a matter of choice. And so I have waited until sleep and rest revived me and the bright sun of tho morning dis pulled the mists and the gloom. But how can an old man help com paring the present with tho past? Memory is his enpitnl stock?and ins best recreation. If I was now in my teens I would ho better reconciled to tilings as they arc?to modern manners and customs and to tho sin and crime of this fast and re. .icss age. Our young people cannot rcalizo that there' ever was a better time and a better people. Thercforo they give tho mor ality of the past no thought and the crime of I he present no great concern. They look upon the fearful catalogue in tho daily pnpers as our normal con dition and many join it to keep up with tho procession. Homo apologists say that there is not much difforoueo between now nud then, but that it appears so because of tho telegraph and tho ten thousand newspapers that spread the news. The records of the courts tell the truth and .1%.-../ n>?UM Mw.? ?n/A.Jl..? l~ *1 - -V.l.. population of our Stalo there are ten minders to Where liiere was one fifty years ago. There are twenty-live divorce cases to one, and in our cities there are forty times as many bur glaries, larcenies and shooting scrapes. The number of suicides does not up pear in the courts, hut the increase is not less than a hundred to one. Jef l ei son said that the intluence of gn at cities was pestilential to good morals. Just think of it. In the little city of Atlanta there were over 10,000 arrests during the past year. The nineteenth century leaves us this record as a legacy and our great concern is, what are we going to do about it. Our lamentation is that the people have gotten used to it ami reconciled to its continuance. It is looked upon as the normal condition of public morals and human affairs. Old men, old editors and old preach ers cry aloud and spare not, but the young generation do not seem to be greatly concerned. Young men, young Women and even old women commit suicide somewhere every day and the editors tell us of it in the press dis patches and pass on without comment. What an awful condition of mental dis tress it must bo that provokes the. de liberate sacrifice of one's own life, e fear we are getting hardened to thl ptcseuco of crime- -hardened by daily contact with it; hardened like the rich of New York aro to the misery and crime in her tenement houses and to the miserable beggars on her streets. They see them every day and pass thetn by without a sign, but they send large monies down here to educate a lot of lazy negroes thoy have never seen. What a fool, what a fanatic, what a hypocrite is human nature. This reminds me to answer a letter of inquiry from ail Old Democrat who lives in New Hampshire He wishes to know who was responsible for the slave trade that peopled this country With negroes. Ssinc of Ins neighbors insist that the South did it, while the North protested against it and Now Imgland was especially hostile to it. 14 How long, ah Cataliuo, will thou abuse our patience?'' How long will the descendants of the Puritans cover up their own iniquity? My friend will Hod in Appleton's American Cyclope dia, fourteenth volume, the liest his tory of slavery and the slave trade ever published. In that he will lind that slave traders Mom Portugal brought tho first cargo of twenty negroes and landed them at Jamestown, in Vir ginia, in lti'20. Shortly after this most of the Northern colonies engaged in il and Indians acre enslaved as well as negroes. The son of King i'hilip was sold as a slave at Plymouth in the year 1(180. The slave trade between the Northern colonies and Africa was carried on with vigor until 177'?. In that year it was resolved by the Con tinental Congress that no mote slaves should be imported. In 1788 Congress extended the trallic to 1808, but the Slate of Georgia refused to ratify the extension and in 17'.ts enacted the most prohibitory laws against it, The feeling against the trallic was stronger in the Southern Stales than in the. Northern. Some of the North ein States continued to carry il on long alter it had been prohibited. And as late as 1841 Judge Stoiy, of Massa chusetts, ( barged the grand jury ol Boston that their people were, "steeped up to their eyebrows in the infamous slave trade with Africa." But Now England could not make the service of the slaves profitable and so sold them to Virginia and the Carolinas and to South America as late as 1847. When her Ships could no longer dodge the pursuer? from England ami France the trallic came lo an end and then began the howl of the abolitionists against the. South for keeping them in slavery?tho very negroes whoso an cestors they sold to us. This is his tory, und it is also history that after 1770 never did a slave ship land on a Southern coast save, once, ami thai was the case fo the " Wanderer," who tried to land a cargo of 3(1(1 near Savannah and was seized and con fiscated, This is enough of slavery and those responsible for it. The nineteenth century has left us some good, sonic signal blessings, and chief among them is the great advance in the social con dition of woman and the general re cognition of hor equality wiih man in most all civil rights. Unless she chains hcrscll to a brute she is no longer a slave, hut stands up side by side with her husband. Her demands for her self ami her children now flud a re spectful nudienee in courts and legis latures (except, perhaps, that lasl mis erable abortion called tho Georgia Leg* islalurc). and no great newspaper could pass \> Itbotlt giving a good part of its columns for their pleasure and com fort. Woman is fast coining to the front as mistress of the situation. In every calling she has proved herself as intelligent and as progressive as man and Infinitely his superior in public, morals and private virtue. When she does come fully to tho front she will control legislation and then whisky, tlu cime of tho country, will be for* ever banished. Whisky is woman's greatest foo, tho cause of nearly all the tyranny, infidelity and erlitte that makes her existence miserable. She will not have to beg a LogtSlatUrO toj protect the factory children, for then the children will have sober fathers to protect them. A good mother writes me from I Atlanta about the mutiny at the Tech, ami nays tluil the trouble with the boys of this day is the lack of discipline at home. They are not tauyht obedience in their early youth and they grow up I without restraint and Imagine they know as much or more than parents or I teachers. That is so, of course, and every parent knows it, and that ac counts for many of the crimes and mis deeds that bring trouble to parents. Instead of children fearing their par* ents, most parents fear their children, and dread to have a rupture with them. But they get paid for it soouer or later. Diogenes hoard a boy swearing on the | sticot and he hurried off with his cano and found the father and mauled him. If ho was living hero now lie would bo kept bu-iy mauling parents, and I reckon the fatbors of those Tech boys would catch nfew strokes. If a teach er has not the hearty co-operation of the parent the boy had bettor bo sent TWO ROYAL OLD MAIDS Why Queen Victoria's Grand daughters nave Not Mnrrid. Thoro nro only two old maid prin cesses in Europe. Not very long ago the Empress of Germany succeeded in marrying off the last of her sisters?a lady vorging upon 2b ?and it is annoy ing to Queen Victoria that the only two royal spinsters left are her name sakes and her granddaughter. The QllCCU dislikes old maids as heartily as she dislikes cats, and the Unmarried state of the daughter of the Princess of Wales and Princess Chris, linn of Schleswig-Holstein has been the cause of many royal family jars. Seriously as the patents and grand parents may threaten and repine there remains little or no possibility of the two spinlors liuding mates. Princess Victoria of Wales reaches her thirty second birthday in the. Bpring and Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein will never sec ."50 again; and in spite of their deplorable, conspicuous and un natural singleness they are. not the most, unhappy Of high horn ladies. They are last friends and allies, and though they enjoy few of the same studies ami pleasures, thoy are equally callous in iheir estimate of the world's, and even grandmothers' opinion, and equally determined to prove that the life oi an unwedded princess is neither forlorn or unprofitable. It is an interesting fact that of all the royal households the Prince ol \Val08 has afforded his daughter tin; most kindly countenance in maintain ing her position. The piince is noth ing if not modern and liberal ill his vims; ho believes in a woman making her life to please herself, and he has never exercised the high parental au thority over the only one ol bis girls who preferred not to be forced into the bonds of matrimony merely lor the sake of (he conventionalities. Furth ermore, it is whispered loa*, the prince was on her side when for the only lime in her life she fell In love. That event look place many years ago, when a ruinously rich, handsome, amiable and enlightened young Indian prince visited (jucou Victoria. His gorgeous jewels, bis charming manners and bis excellent pronunciation of the English language oreatcd a great sen sation on his appearance iiisl at a gar den party given at Buckingham palace. He was Iben introduced to Princess Victora, who was then far and away the best looking of the three, sisters and always the cleverest. The young Hast Indian found her royal highness most attractive, and when he went to pay a visit to Sundring haill be shortly found that the princess was by no means indifferent to his ad miration; that personally she was quite willing to make India her home and privately her lover asked her hand in marriage. He pledged himself to make her his only wife, to conduct his do mestic affairs on Hie European plan and he was not refused point blank. Ho was told lo go home and the prin cess' family think it over. He. went ami died of the plague three days aflOl reaching Imlia. The princess well knew that her lover bad been ordered home merely to afford her family time to put other obstacles than the seas between theni. It would not have been tactful to ro luse so honorable p, proj osnl from a powerful Indian ruler, so when Provi dence, intervened and cut the thread of the young man's life the whole loyal household breathed a sigh of mingled regret and relief. Very hell the lamily knew that had he lived Princess Vic toria would have insisted und the prince would have clamored and the highest diplomacy and the severest pressure would have been n quired to balk Cupid of his victims. What the princess' grief was the public has never known, bill she has never been very strong since. Shortly after the sad news from India she pleaded with her parents to let her study nutting at Nfetloy hospital', she refuses to even listen to any proposals to arrange a marriage between herself and any stout young (Herman duke, and she wears always a ruby ring of sur prising beauty. They say the ring was sent her by the Indian prince just be fore be died to be put upon her linger by one of his faithful servants, who brought it to her with instructions to that effect. Gossip has never associated the name of Princess Victoria of SchlCS wig-IIolslein with any romance. She is a plain-faced girl without any of her cousin's keen wil, but has a good strong will of her own. She is devoted to her grandmother, is one of the Queen's constant attendants, and she is one of the tew persons who cheer illy dis agrees with the, sovereign la- ?' ??n many points without vexing or disputing with licr. Princess Victoria sews, knits and cooks admirably; in short, is conver sant with every household art, and having visited about among her rela tives a good deal, has cot.ie to the sage conclusion that many of the diplomacy made marriages among royalties arc deplorably unhappy. " I could marry a farmer and make, him a good wife," she said to the QUCOII, but I have none of the tastes or graces thai would suit ii spoiled, extravagant liusbiud whom I d? n't love; so 1 don't think I will marry at all." Perfectly amiably, but quite deter minedly, she has stuck to her point. She evades fioutt ceremonies as much as posnhle, but in adored by all her boy and girl cousins, reads aloud Lo the Queen, does quantities of serviceable, ugly fancy work, is her mother's hard worked secretary and one of the jolliest, most contented old maids in England. ?Chicago Record, Senator Vest has a story he tells to illustrate Arkansas character of the mossback type. According to the narrative the Senator, in the days following the civil war, was on a wild country road, which had been blocked by a hugo tree. The natives were trying to drag it out of the way as a I whole whon Senator Vest arrived on the scone, looked at the tree and at the helpless crowd of Arkansas natives, and then said: "Why don't you cut the troo iu two at the middle and hau tho cuds out of the way ?" Thoro was a raomont of silenco, broken suddenly by one of tho crowd, who reached foj his,gun and oxclaimod: "Yapkco, by , ? - - - -? - -? i? LYNCHING IN BARNWKLL The SherifTof' the County Makes a Thorough and C omplete Report. Tho sheriff of Barnwell County baa tuudo a report to Gov. McSweoooy about tho llrst lynchlug of the now cen tury and the now year in Sentit Caro lina. The report shows that tho shonlT did everything he could to prevent n lynching, but it was beyoud his power to do so. Here is tho report in full, being dated Jan. 15! Dear Sir: Von have doubtless re ceived the news through tho columns of the press that a rape was committed 011 a lady of our community, about three miles from the town of Klko, yesterday morning at It) o'clock. I re* ? lived the information about 12.20, and before I could gel olT from my of fice a colored man was arrested who filled tho description of the parly wanted. Ho dcclmcd bis innocence and furnished names of parlies to prove his ./hereabouts. !n the mean time public feeling ran high 30 much 80 that before I could r< ccivo the desired information 1 found it necessary to transfer him from the guard house. where ho was placed, t? Iho c< uuty jail by a strong posse, and 1 also had a guard at the jail. 1 left foi the scene of (rouble, which is about eight miles from Barnwell, and reached theiv about sundown. I found no one at tlte place except the family ami the posse that went with me. We remain ed there about one hour; and while there I was informed that the man bad been seen near sundown going in the direction of Reynolds station and in about half a mile of the place. 1 soon found out that there was no doubt in the minds of the people as to the identity of the man, as he had been secu by several parties and recognized just prior to the net; and going in the direction ol the home where his awful deed was perpetrated. With the near approach of darkuess 1 was satisfied that under the cover of darkness he would make his escape and elude his followers. His mother lives in the. town of Denmark, or near there, and the direction he was mak ing was proof conclusive to my mind that he was trying to reach his moth er's bouse. And there being posses in every direction and on eveiy road, and being uunblo to cover the entire Hold personally aud inasmuch as the party in jail was threatened, 1 was advised by my Barnwell friends to return to Barnwell to look after the prisoner in jail and to semi a telegram to Denmark in order to intercept the party, which 1 tlid in the following words: Kent s 1"> p. in., Ian. It, 1001. 17 Paid. Intkndknt Town or Dknmaiik, lieumark, 8.?.! rharlie hang Robinson outraged while woman. Mother lives in your town. Catch him tonight; will pay hill (Signed) Krank H. Chrboii, 8herifT. 1 went to my Olllco early this morn ing, alter being up nearly all night at the jail, to receive the news that Charlie Lang liobinson had been caught aud lynched some lime bet ween tin' hours ol it i.ml In o'clock last night. 1 notified the coroner, and, alter some little delay, we went to the scene of the tragedy; reached there this morn ing at 11 a. in.; to lind the body of ( bailie Lang liobinson swinging to a tree with the following notice attached thereon: " Thus We Protect Our Wom en." Signed, "Citizens of Barn well (lountv." The coroner organized the jury of white and colored. The body was let down, jury examined same, and there being no evidence the usual verdict was rendered: ? That he came to his death by gun shot wounds in the hands of persons unknown to the jury." Upon investigation from rumor i Und that he was caught in about a half mile of Reynolds station about sun down. He was then brought to the place, identified by his victim and three other parlies who saw him prior to the commission of tho crime. He con fessed Ins guilt, not only in tins case, but in another one that he committed Oil his own race; and from what 1 could b arn, about 1,0(>0 of Barnwell County's citizens, white and colored, led him away about ."500 yards distant from the place where he committed the crime, on the public road lending from Wiliiston to Harnwell, swinging bim by a 1 1 -2 inch manila rope to a pine tree and riddling his body with shot and hails. Thus he paid the aw ful penally of his ciiine, and another (lend in human form has darkened the pages of old Bamwcll's fair history. 1 labored hard and faithfully to pre vent the innocent from being punished tinder the excitement and succeeded. 1 court investigation as to the. dis charge of 1113' duty as a public ofllcor. My conscience is clear. 1 did my whole duty. I could do no more. Respectfully submitted. Frank II. Ckkki u, Sheriff of Barnwell County, S. C China's Kmpkror, Tea used by the Knipcroi of China is prepared with the utmost care, it Is grown in a walled gardon, so that neither man nor beast may be able lo touch the plants. Whotl the timo for gathering it comes those lo whom the task is intrusted have to abstain from (lsl), lest their breath should spoil the flavor of the. tea. They must wi ar gloves and three times a day they are obliged lo bathe. When an Emperor of China reaches a suitable age lo many ho ha* the choico of all the nigh bred young women of his dominion, their parents being com manded to prepare them for prcfcOnlft lion at the. court. This command is ( given to families of Officials of the Ill'Sl to the third rank, none others being deemed won by of such a distinction. In anticipation of the imperial com mand, the daughter of the h?hest nflicials arc kept unmarried till the Emperor arrives at a marriageable ago. When Cue times comes for the Emper or to select a bride certain days and hours are sot apart for tho daughters to enter the imperial city and to bo presented to tho Emperor. When at last the Emperor's choice has been made the other women are freotowed, but in each ease they must obtain permission from the sovereign. m ? ? > wm ? INTRODUCING NEW PLANTS Valuable Products Brought to This Country by Department of Agri culture. There i? no feature of the work of the Department of Agriculture In winch the Secretary and his assistants take more pride than that of tho introduc tion of new plants into the United states aud the improvement of those which are already grown in this coun try. It may he said that not one of tlie plants producing the great staple crops of the United -tales arc indigen ous to the soil. A few varieties of grapes, plums audbertie? are Improve? incuts upon those which were found growing wild by the settlers of two cenlures ago hut none of the grains, sugar cam s, rice, or other well known staples wore known to Americaus in the early days of white settlement. The Indians had a little corn, hut even Hps, it is believed, was hi might from Central America, and the grain itself is so old that its origiu haj never been discovered. The same may be said of wheat, though it is probable that the latter originated in the Eastern Medi terranean regions. Since ihcwoik of the Department of Agriculture commenced the charac ter of nearly all of the grains, practi cally all of the rice, much of the cot ton and many of the grasses have been entirely changed from that produced for market twent) years ago. Hardy and spring wheats have been hi ought from Russin for use in all the North ern States ; date palms have been brought from Algeria to grow in Ari zona ; Egyptian cotton and Earypllau clover ate now being planted in many of the Gulf States, and a seedless raisin grape has come to us from Italy. Up m Michigan along tho sandy lake shores a German clover is being plant ed to hold the sand dunes in place against the prevailing winds. ,lapau has sent us a clover which is used ex tensile-/ in the South lor a winter crop, and a score, of improved vegeta bles have succeeded those which for merly grew in American gardens. It was not many years ago that all of the rice grown in the United States was of the ilonduran variety. This was found to be unprofitable, ami the rice industry languished perceptibly. The Department of Agriculture took the matter up, and introduced the Ja pan or Ktlishu rice, which has created such a revolution in rice growing as to eliminate all other varieties. It is claimed that at least $20,000,000 have been invested in rice Heids in Texas and Louisiana since the introduction of the Japanese grain, it yields J? per cent, innre to '.be acre, and nulls at least 26 per cent, more unbroken rice than did the Ilonduran variety, ami has, Ihci'cfotc, increased the rice production per acre over 50 per cent. The department has long since given up the rice business to legitimate busi ness enterprise, for it is a principle governing the introduction of a new plant that as soon as a variety is found desirable and is recognized by the seedsmen, the department withdraws from the held and leaves to private en terprise the opportunity of handling the business. Growing just a short distance from the agricultural building in Washing ton is a thick, horny hedge of orange trees. Citrus trifoliate they arc called. The fruit is inedible, being small and bitter, but the orange is hardy, grow ing to maturity as far North as Phila delphia. The great frost of 1800 in Florida, which destroyed so many or ange groves, suggested to Secret; ry Wilson the great advantages which would follow the discovery of a hardier variety of this fruit than is now grown in this COtltltiy, It was decided to produce a hybrid orange, crossing the Florida plant with a trifoliate, in the endeavor to get a sweet orange winch should be likewise hardy. The depart ment has succeeded in getting 3,000 of these hybrid plants. It is too soon to say what the result will be with the fruit. It is not believed, however, that a sweet orange will result, though Ibore is still some hope of that, It is thought, however, that by again cross ing this hybrid with tin; sweet orange in time a marketable fruit may be pro duced from a tree which will grow very much farther North than the one now known to the orange gr0V68 of the country. In the meantime, however, this hy brid orange is a new and remarkably valuable, hedge plant, with an ever green foliage, and long thorns, making it an impenetrable thicket. This in itself, in the opinion of Secretary Wil son, is a SUtllcloully valuable discovery to justify the work already done, hut the experiment will hi; pushed to a conclusion in the endeavor to secure a hardy sweet orange. As the Secretary says, u One of the marvels of tho new century may be an orange tree bearing marketable fruit which will thrive in the temperate /.one.'' The Importation of Egypilau cotton has been watched with a great deal of interest by the Secretary, owing to its adaptability to (he arid belt of the United States. In Egypt this collon is irrigated, and the purpose of its im portation into tin: United Stales is to lind a profitable crop for Arizona, N'cw Mexico and Texas west of the San Antonio river. Winter mtiskmolons are another curiosity which promises to become commercially valuable when grown In larger quantities. These mtiskmolons arc grown and harvested in the sum mer, stored in cellars and ripened suf I flciently to be eaten about Christmas tune. Some of these melons have al ready been grown in Colorado and give considerable satisfaction. They do not look much like the, inuskinelon now known to the market gardener, bull they are sari to be net only a marvel, but a very desirable addition to the winter bill of fine. They are dark in color and elongated in shape, weighing on an averago from twelve to fourteen pounds. The department is now endeavoring to introduco into Oregon and Wash ington tho Bavarian and Bohemian brewing heps. These sell for twice as much as do the American varieties and produco certain qualities of beer now only secured in this country by impor tation. Experiments aro now being Imade on a field scalo with tho Swedish brewing bavloy, which took the, grand Two hundred bushels of po tatoes remove eighty pounds (iv* of "actual" Potash from the soil. Unless this quantity ->. is returned to the soil, . .. the following crop will materially decrease. \Vc have hooks telling about Coni|?tsitfin, \xia mill valuu ol '-fcii.?..'>r^i*?^. FOR DUTCH CONSERVATISM. Grover Cleveland on Imperialism ?The Rep >blic is in Danger. Ex-President Clcvoland made a Bpeech at ilio annual dinner of the Holland society in New York, in which he plead for the nood Of " Dutch con servatism" to steady the popular im pulse, in "this lime of headlong uatlo lal hccdlessncss." lie said: "The question is suggested 'wheth er in present condition this conserva tism characterizes the conduct or guides tlie sentiment of our pe iple.' There can he hut one nilSWOt' t ? tins question. Conservatism has in a great degree been jauntily cast aside, or con demned as Opposed to our country's welfare and glory. A strange voyage has been entered upon without count of cost, ami without chart or compass. The tried and sure, foundations of our liberty aud national happiness have been discredited, liovoronco for our national traditions has been relaxed and satisfaction with our country's mission has been undermined. The restraints aud limitations of our Con stitution have become galling and Irk some undoi the temptations of national greed and aggrandizement. Our old love of peace, honor and justice has been weakened, and frugally and con tentment aie not now traits inseparable from American character. " War, even with tho world's ad vanced civilization, may still be some times necessary and just liable, but whether necessary and justifiable or no'., the dcmoializalion that follows in its train can never be. evaded. It teaches bloody instructions, which, in a country whose citizens do t'ao light ing cannot fail to leave their impress for a lime at least upon public and pri vate life in time of peace. "Thirty years after tho close of tho war for the preservation of the Union a treaty of arbitration was formulated between the United Slates nod Great Britain, which, if completed, would have gone far towards removing every pretext of war between the two conn t'-ics. This treaty tailed of confirma tion in the Senate of the United States. Less than live years passed and these English-speaking champions of peace and arbitration are still operating 00 parallel lines ?one in the Philippines and the other in South Africa?-but no longer for peace and arbitration. Both art: killing natives in an effort to possess their lam Is. "This indicates a sad re lapse, and mi our case it is a most serious one. If Englaud succeeds in her attempt in South Africa she will hut add another to her list of similar acquisitions; n brave people will bo subjugated, and because of our engagement in n similar venture m another quarter tboy will miss the expressions <,f American sympathy which we are accustomed t<> extend to those who Struggle for na tion;.', life and independence. ?in the oll er hand, with success in our sub jugating effort, a new, untried and ex ceedingly perilous situation will he forced upon us. We can conquer the Philippines,and after conquering them can probably govern UlCIU. It is in the strain upon our institutions, the demoralization of our people, tho eva sion of our Constitutional limitations ami the perversion of our national mission that our danger lies. Asa dis tinguished Bishop has said: 'The question ia not what we shall do with the riiilippir.es, but what the Philip pities will do to us.' " Our country will never be the sain ; again. For weal or woe we have already irrevocably passed beyond the old lines. " The Republic will in some sort be saved. Shall it bo only in namo and semblance, With fair external ap pearance, but with Ibe germs of decay fastened upon ils vitals; or shall it, though changed, still survive in such vigor and strength as to remain the hope and pnde of Americans ? " The problem is a momentous one. I.i the midst of reckless tumult ami in tho confused rage of natio ial greed and bloodiness let it be proclaimed that American freedom ami popular rule can not perish except through the madness of those who have the 111 in their keeping and by the blood and sacrifices ol our fathers, by tho lofty achievements of the free Institutions they established, by our glorious vic tories of pence and by our reliance on tue promises of God, let Dutch con Iservatism onjoia upon our people a faithful discharge of their sacred trust." Aust rnh in frozon beef and mutton are now supplied to the army in the Philippines at a very considerable sav ing as Compared with tho Chicago beef trust prices. OASTOI1IA. floarsthe _/y II? Kind Yuu Have Always Bought MONEY TO LOAN On farming lands. Easy payments. No [Commissions chared. Borrower pays ao I tual cost of perfecting loan. Interost 7 per I cent, up, according to security. iMl) n l>> Llft?a * ai\u-?