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NO. 34. CARNEGIE IvS DOING GOOD. Bill Arp Endorte? the Gieat Steel Kiny and Makes Suggestions "Scale it, Mr. Fricks, Bcale tbe8< profus down 5 per cent for lite uoxi liscul year, The books show thai w< are getting too rich, l'ul down tin price of Meel rails and put up the price of labor. We arc hut trustees for our] fellowmen and a million a year is enough for u?." j It" Mr. Carnegie hud said that ten years ago, tu; wouldn't be so perploxed now abi ut giving away his money. He Bays it is a sin for a man to die rich, and us life is uncertain and death Is sine, he seems to he in a hutry about getting rid ol liitt millions. The live millions he lias settled upon his aged and indigent laborers is a belief ction that everybody commends. Tin twenty-live millions that he bat. given to the cities for public libraries is not especially commended by anybody ex cept those who receive it. It is aboul OU u par with Rockefeller's twenty five millions tc the great universities Neither gift reaches the masses of Un people nor alleviates the condition of the poor. Geoigo Peabi dy's and Peter Cooper's charities were much more sensible and effectual. George M?ller?' life work, who without a dollar of ??apital to begin with, established or phanages in London until he had over 3,000 in charge when he died, and from year to year maintained and edu cated them, was a much grander charity thau giving mil ions lo colleges and libraries. Goorgo Peabody's mil lions built blocks of good comfortable tenement houses for the laboring poor ol* London, bouses thai were furnished | uud equipped wilh every comfort and every safeguard for the health of the tenants. Besides that, lie left a large fund for the promotion of education in the South. There are many charities far more needed by the people than giving them a chance to read free books. The poor do not have time to ready very much. A right hungry man can hardly get religion, much less enjoy a story book, But still WO commend Mr. Carnegie for his good intentions, and if lie had given Iwo or three thousand dollars to Cartersville, I would have said. " Mr. Carnegie, you are a big-hearted Scotchman, sit !" 1 hope they will elect him mayor of New York. The reason why the public praise Air. Carnegie so is because the public is surprised. Such nnniilloenco is eo unc< lunion that it is unexpected. The gift is really no act of generosity, for, as he says himself, ii is a sin to keep it and die rich. IIo got all his millions from the labor of the people, and now he is trying to pour some of it back in the jug. That is right and honorable tor the ore was God's and the labor was the toil of his men. He ought to pour it hack ami give sonic to the toilers whose sweat earned the money. This is pure morality and common sense. Every mau has a moral right, and it is his duty to make sufficient profit from his labor to maintain ioni se if and his family in comfort, and even In luxury, and also to lay up something for his children and for old age anil for the accidents of life; but beyond that his lights under a Christian civilization do not go. IIo then becomes a trustee for bis fellowmen who are in need. Not that he should parcel out and dis tribute to each one his share, for it cannot he done, but ho should make some investment that would insure the greatest good to the greatest number. Nevertheless, Mr. Carnegie is scatter ing his money. lie is sowing wheat among the tares. He is giving largely to the wealthy cities who can provide their own libraries. He is scattering his money; 1 mean the surplus, that has grown to hi a burden. II? has just finished a million dollar mansion iu Now York and has another in Scot land, and a few millions iu reserve for contingencies. Wo hope that these small holdings will not interfere with his intention to die poor. No, there is no peculiar grace in the gifts of Car negie or Rockefeller. They arc a sur prise, that's all, for not one m a hun dred of the millionaires do such things. Most of them hold on and pile it up for their children to quarrel over. The Staudard Oil Company has just de clared a dividend of twenty million for Rockefeller. He crushed out and ah Borbcd nil competing mills and still sells oil to the consumers at 15 cents per gallon. Cheap isn't it ? But he could sell it at 10 cents and make n hundred per cent. It is the common people, the masses, the toilers and the poor who buy tbo oil, and exery gallon takes a nickel from them that ought not to ho taken. God made th- oil, and man gave the labor. Mr. Rocke feller bud but little, to do with it. Most of his millions really belong to (rod and tbe laborers. It is no sutlloient answer that be has endowed a college. The children of the laborers are not in it. It's too far away and too high up. These coIosbuI fortunes are becom ing Alarming. They endanger good government, for it is still a fact *? that riches and virtue are rarely found com bined." haws grind the poor and rich men make the laws. A graduated in come tax would limit these great for tunes, but alas, wo will never get it. It is too late. The opportunity has ' passed, for ricli men make the laws. Millionaires control the Uuiled States Monate, and will resist any tax that limits or lessens their estates. HHut it is wr.mg for us to envy the rich. In the economy of life and the pursuit of happiness it seems necessary lo have rich roon. They build ships, railroads, canals, telegraphs and tele phones, cotton and woo'en mills, roapers, mowers, flour mills and a thousand othtr plants that furnish us with food and clothing and add to the comfort of mankind. The world would mako slow progress without them, but when they begin to unload their vast profits mankind will criticize the manner of it. Goncrally thoy un load it on their children, who never earned a dollar of it. Homo of hem would carry it all to heaven with them if they could. Many of them give a part of it to some church or chanty as a kind of passport to heaven. An old friend of mine who wai pretty hard up borrowed $6 from me one morning to pay one of theso darn little just debts, as he called thtm. He said his creditor waa annoying him, but before he left my oiiice a coiutuitteo fro tu the coun try called and asked US to kelp to build a country church. I gave thtru a dol lar, hut my friend subscribed 85 and handed over the hill thai 1 had loaned him. After they had left i asked him why lie gave so much and he said: " Well, 1 always give that much to help build a church. 1 do not belong to any, for i have not yet fell good enough lo join, but I have lived in live counties and practiced my profession In fourteen and I have helped to build country churches in all ot them, it I may be Ibat death will catch me un awares before 1 do join iho chuich and St. Peter will rctuseme athnisalou into the heavenly gate, but I will have one credential, for I can say : 'St. l'eter, 1 know I have not bee;, a good man and am not lit to mingle with the saints, but I have, got a little stock In every country church from Kabun'n Gap to Tallapoosa?and maybe he. will let me m?maybe ho. Major, could you lend me another $5 without incon venience V" Of courso 1 did, for he was oik! friend whom I never refused. He did join the church and i believe he is in heaven now. Charity is the greatest and most blessed of all virtue*. As the poet | says: "It is twice blessed. It blesseth him that gives and blni that doth re ceive." But when a man with 8100, 00U income gives away 81,000 of it lo easo his consilience and secure a pass port lo heaveu, he makes a mistake. It will do neither. A man's standing In the community is determined more by his chanty than anything else. How much does ho give to the church and how much to the poor is discussed by his neighbors and ho is rated ac cordingly. Not long ago 1 gave a problem to the young people. If a man sells a sow and pigs for $18 and gets as much for one-tenth of the sow as be. did for nine-tenths of a pit bow many pigs did site have V I have received scores of answers mos-t of them making it nine pigs and sonic say ten pigs?one smart girl makes it seventy-two pigs and one smarter man proves that the sow had 1,701 pigs. Strange to say every answer is correct. Nine pigs gi\es S'J for the sow and 1 each foi the pigs; Seventy-two pigs gives 8 for the sow and 11 2-0 cents for a pig and it would take the seventy-two pigs to make the 810. Nine cents fertile sow would give 1 cent for each pig, and therefore require 1,701 pigs to make up the$18. It is a see-saw sum. As the price of ih* sow goes down the number of the pigs goes up and any number is correct. Now let me a*k tile school boys and girls to hold up a little on compositions and speeches, l'lease excuse nie for 1 have not the time. It would takeeveiy hour in the day to comply with all their requests. Hit.I. Alii-. AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT. The First Public Appeal for Jus tice and Mercy to AnltunUi. In the early part of the century just past, in the year 1811, in the English House of Lords, a scene was enacted that, so far as known, was without a parallel in any legislative assembly. Vor in that small chamber, in the very home of conventionality, surrounded by men whose names were synonyms lor exclusiveness and conservatism, Lord Ktskine made the flrst public ap peal for justice anil mercy for the lower animals. The " noble lord," for such he was, stood up in ins place and presented the case of these creatures on whom the passions of the callous or cruel had been vented without rcstaiht from the beginning of time, and the other noble lords broke forth in deris ion at the absurdity. " It is said that loud jeers, vulgar ejaculations, in le corous demeanor, and even whistling and cock-crowing were practically the only reply uiven to the grand speech of this high-souled man." There was no one who took part in the astonishing scene in the House of Lords who could have imagined that he was assisting at an era in the his tory of civilization, and thbt from ii wou.d date the inception of one of the most important and far-reaching of all movements, the movement known as '? Humane," which has for its object the elimination of cruelty from the world and the inculcation of kindness to all living creatures. Yet here have always been humane hcarls, ami imag inations SUflicientlj alive to comprehend suffering even in the persons of beings below tlic human level. About a hundred and forty years before this time Sir Samuel 1'epys put into his diary one of his little sketches that probably gives us the situation as clearly as anything Being out fori pleasure with some friends, he says ; 1 ?? I carried them to Kensington, to llie Grotto, and there we sang to my great content, only vexed in going in to sec a son of Sir Hensage Finch's heating of a poor hltle dog to death, letting it lie in so much psin that made me mad to see U, till by and by the servants of the house, chiding thsir young master, one of Ihom came witli a string, and killed the dog outright presently." Tue bystander was not without feeling, but be could do nothing till, when the boy bad tiled of his sport, the servants might finish it quickly. In spite of the brave words of Lord Srsklne tbe law took no cognisance of I lie suffeiing of animals until 1822, then a statute was enacted in England 4 To prevent tho cruel and improper reatment of cattle." Af'.erward other tcts wer* obtained improving upon this, and in 1824 the first " Society for Lbe Prevention of Cruelty to Animals" was organized in London. This grew in grace until even Hank and Fashion, those twin gooddestes that can nia'.e or mar anything, smiled upon it, the Hoyal family gave it patronage an i by command of the Queen it te n the name of lbe " lloyal Society." Then, in the year 1862, the United States sent to St. Petersburg, as secre tary of legation, a man by tu? name Oi Henry Bergh, who in Russia received an education that wan awakened to f duty not contemplated in his ofllcla instructions for there bo saw and wa> enabled (o interfere in cases of grea cruelty because, of bin diplomatic posi lion, without whicli ho would Uavi boeu exposed Iq personal violence. On his way borne, three years later he made th? acquaintance of tho K?t of Uarrowly, President of the Hoya! Society, who gave h in valuable inlor tnation concerning lhe work of ijjo society, primed wilh which lie landed In his own country and immediately ?et about creatiug interest in a similar movement in New York. His first lecture aroused much sympathy ; the press took it Up ; the lecture was pub lished in all the <. real cilics in the coun try and the fust American Society for the Prevention of Cruelly to Animals was incorporated ill New York, April 10, 1800. Since that time many otbci such societies have been orgaui/.cd in different parts of the country. An important step has been the or ganizing in the United Slates of nearly all such societies into one great body knowa as the ?? Amerlcau Humane Association," which meets every year in one of our cities, each local society being represented thereat by dolegates, and of which the President is now Hon. James M. Browu, of Toledo, Ohio. To these meetings delegates bring their experieuces and discuss the best methods of action, one of the ob jects being the amelioration of condi tions in the transp ortation of eattlo. Another is the missionary work by which it seeks to extend the numbci of these organizations, with the hope that there may be eventually no city or village without a hutuauo society. Hut what does all tili? mean ? Ih the humane society merely an ageucy tu prevent the abuse of animal* or little children ? Not so. Amiable ami necessary jus is the work from Ibis point of view, ibis is only one of its objects, Tins humane movement is one of the most important of all elvi? ii/.ing agencies, and its advocates hold that in it* evolution it cannot cease from the out th until in ihe human r ue the predntoty animal is extinct and his place is taken by a person of right rea son and alUembraciug boui llcicnce. Till? ST.\T1J SUMM?R SCHOO!, Official Announcement ot the Faculty and I/cading Features. It is still two months and a half l>c fore the opening of tho third session of the State summer school for teach ers, but the Hues of work to he offered have been definitely determined and most of the proposed instructors have been engaged. Already the teachers id the State are making their plans for attending the school, and many hoards i)f (iUStecs are taking action looking to tiding their teachers to attend. Super intendent McMuhan regards, the pro meets of the school as most satisfactory tud furuishes the following informa tion, which will be given in greater lotail in the announcement of the ?ourses of instruction soon to bo issued md distributed to the teachers : Free hand drawing will again be aught by Prof. Jas. William l'attison, >f the Chicago institute, With four lady issistauts. A course in South Catolina history ind one in general history will he ?ivcn by Prof. It. Moan? Davis, of the South Carolina college. That in South Jarolini history will be particularly 1 live," Stressing the personal element n our politics of the past. A course of conversalional pcr.*.oual emiuiscences on South Carolina bis ory will be given by Dr. .lames II. Carlisle. Dr. ?}. I. McCain,of Krskine college, vili teach English grammar, with spe :ial reference to IJuehler'a grammar 'ccently adopted by the stat? board or use in the public schools. Courses n English literature will be given by L'rof. St. James Cuminin^s, of the Cit idel. The effort to introduce into the pub ic schools the leaching of sis;ht fciug ng will I'u continued by continuing to iffor the teachers ihr opportunity to )0 tbeuiselves instructed in this art. The instructor this year will be Dr. X. 11. Piters, of Converse college. As leretofore, the musical director will irganize a chorus, whose entertain nents will prove the means of aniuse neut as well as culture. The grand irgnn in the new auditorium will con* .ribute to make these choruses mag* lilicent. l'rof. W. C. A. Hammel, of the Maryland S*ato normal school, will lontinue the course so admirably be <un last year in school physics md in manual training. The latter work (to which a largo number of teachers were necessarily refused ad mission last year) be will bo able to plan on a larger scale, as ho will bring with him an assistant trained in bis methods. Prof. .1. V. Lewis, of Clenison col lege, will teach physical geography, using Tan's book, which lias been presciibed for the public schools by the Stale board. Frye'a geography will be taught by Superintendent Frank Lvnns, of the Spartauburg city schools ; and Superintendent 10. Hughes, of the Greenville city schools, will uive a course in school geography, globe making, etc., along the lines which proved so practical and popular than last ycur. This course will be fuller last year and will include certain facts of history related to the geography study. Prof. Marshall I). Katie, of Furinan University, will teach mathematics, and Prof. A. (J. Keiebert, of Wofford, will have charge of Latin and Greek. Kindorgarlon principles and primary methods will be taught by Mus Min nie Macfeat, of Winthrop college, and Miss Sarah Withers, of the Chester graded schools. Miss Sarah Chandler, of tho Spar' ^burg city schools, will illustrate primary methods with a class of small children. Nature study will be in Charge of Misa Sarah C. Thurs ton, of the Columbia schools. Courses in pedagogic! and school supervision will bo given by Prof. Wardlaw, of South Carolina college, and Superintendent W. II. Hand, of the Chester graded schools. Mr. James L. Hughes, inspector of schools ol Toronto, Canada, will probably give a week's course of lectures. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tin Kind You Have Always Bough! Bears the (HCMtmr* of ???Ii The Blood needs a Spring Cleaning as much as the house. All the family need to free the blood from the humors that gather during- the winter months,in order to keep the appetite good, the complexion clear, maintain health, give strength to the entire /nunc and double the pleasures of life. Solchstorfs Quart Bottles has been the standard blood cleanser for 30 years. Your parents used it?your children and grandchildren will find nothing better for its humane purpose. No other remedy comes in so large a bottle for the price?a full quart for only one dollar. Don't neglect your health when so small an expenditure will accomplish so much. There is no substitute?though plenty of imitations. Get the genuine. Sold by all druggists. Made only by THE MICHIGAN DRUG CO., Detroit, Mich. For Sale by The Laurens Drug Co , Laurens. S. C VEST'S TRIBUTE TO THE DOG. The One Unselfish Friend That Man Can Have In this World. Years ago Senator Vei-t was attend* ing court ill a Missouri town and In caoie interested in a dog ease. Volu minous evidence was introduced lo show that the dcfeudiinl had shot the d< g i'l malice, while other evidence went to show that the (log had attacked defendant. VeM took no part in the trial and was not disposed to speak. The attorneys, howovor, urged him lo make a speech, else their client would not think ho had earned his fee. Being thus urged he arose, scanned the face of each juryman for a moment, and paid : u Gentlemen of the Jury : The host friend a man has in the world may turn against him and heeo.i e his en emy. His son or daughter thai he has reared with loving care may prove, un grateful. Those who are. nearest and dearest lo us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has he may lose. It files away from him, perhaps when hn needs it most, A man's reputation may he sacrificed in a mo ment of ill-COnsulercd action. The people who arc prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may ho the first to throw the btone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one abso lutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts bun, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is bis dog. A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in povorty, in health und in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, wlie.ru the wintry winds blow and the sinnr drives fiercely, if only he may bo near his master's side, lie will kiss the hand that has no food to offer ; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. Ho guards the sleep of his pauper master as if lie were a prince. When ail other friends desert he. remains. When riches take wings and reputation falls lo pieces lie is as constant in his love as the sun in its journeys through the Heavens. If fortune drives the master forth an out* j cast in tho world, friendless and homc I less, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than ihut of accompanying I him, to guard against danger, to fight | against Iiis enemies. And when ttie last scene of all comes, and death takes the muster in its embrace, and bis body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if ail the oilier friends pur sue their way, there by tho giaveside will the noble dog he found, Iiis head between his paws, hh eyes sad, but open in alerl watchfulness, faithful and true.even in death." The jury gave a verdict for $000, al though the plaintiff had asked for $250 only. Rufus llcrron, au Alnb.vmn Negro, who WHS born a ?luve, and who can neither read or write, recently con tributed 810 toward the support of a newly-established school for white stu dents in bis Stnte, and a few days Inter contributed tho same amount toward the support of the Tukegeo institute for colored students. This man owns several hundred acres of hind and good live ?lock, all acquired by bis own in dustry and that of bis wife. l?*r* th* lhJ Kind You Have Alwayt BotifM ro THR AMEKiCAN PBOPI/P, rhe Britl?h Condition*, of Peace Offered the Boers-Why They Were Rejected. Mr." Chns. I). Pierce, consul gen sral of iho Orange Fieo State and reasuror Iloer relief fund, writes as ollows in an appeal i<? Americans: The offer of peace proposals by the tritish and their rejection by the Doers, opens up a new period in the druggie in South Africa. In again ippcahng to the American people, hero fore, to make their voice heard md exercise their undoubted and ae tnowlodgcd influence in the affairs of he English-speaking world, it is coll ude red desirable to lay before them he intents and purposes of the peace propositions which the Doer leaders iaw hi to reject, in order thai Ihej nay judge impartially and give their verdict Ol) the side of light and justice. To this end it will be necessary to con sider the. propositions in de tail ns they were put forward by Lord Kitchener, iommnnding the British army, and Sir Mfrcd Milncr, British high com mis doncr, in South Africa. In the Iiist place, it is to be noticed hat the overtures for peace came from he British through the intermediary if the wife of the Boer eoinuiandani genera), Louis Botha; tins is a signi ieaid fact. It is also to be noted that lien. Botha always spoke in the name if his government, while the British colonial secretary, Mi. Joseph Cham lierlain, endeavored to|draw bun into a False position by making the question it issue a personal one between the British and the Boer general. Lord Kitchener, at the meeting with Gen. Botha, declined to consider lbe question of the independence of the ItOpubllCS. This was quite natural, as the war has proved to be one waged solely for their dcstrucliou. Mr. Arthur Balfour's spincb at the out break of the rvar, in which he spoke of "the insolent Republics," and Lord Salisbury's refusal 10 allow " a shred of independence,'' cannot be forgotten. The military administration in, after the war, to be replaced by that of a Crown colony, that is to say, taxation without representation; After an in definite period, this again to be suc ceeded by representative government. I Amnesty to be given in tho Trans vaal and Orange Free State for all bona-fide acts of war during the hosti lities. In so far as this is not non sense, it is suggest ivo of bad faith. When the war broke out tho Orange Free Stale was politically and legally constituted and recognized free and in dependent Slate, and il was the only State in whose relations with the South I African Republic the British govern I mcnt expressiv an .l i U _ _:.".I. i . .uequlvocnlly tilt climned the right or power to interfere. By the convention of IH84 tho then British government reserved no othor liglit over tiio (South African Republic except thnt of revision of its treaties' with foreign governments (always ex* ] j cepting the Orange Frco State) during the six mouths following their con clusion. The belligerent rigid? of tho two republics were recognized by the British government when it communi cated its being in a state of war will? them to foreign governments; these rights cennot now be withdrawn by SUCh a subterfuge, unless Gen. Botha had accepted this nmncsty condition. The offer to respect land, church property, trust funds, and orphan funds, was superfluous. To lists done otherwise would have btfwn naked piracy. The permission t?> have ihe Dutch and LSuglish languages taught lu I ho schools and employed in tho law courts was offeied simply as a piece of political expediency. The offer to give assistance to tann ers to rebuild and restock their build ings and farms was subject to limita tions making it of little value. The commission t" inquire into the circura* stance* of the destruction of buildings and stock, appointed as it would have by tuen in whom the Moers can have 110 confidence, would have been open to suspicion from the beginning, and would have repelled high-minded men from seeking relief at its bands. The sum offered, also, was derisory??.">, 00(1,(100. The condition permitting arms to he 'Claimed under license lor defence against natives and wild beasts, re quires no comment. Tho recognition Of the legal debts of the two republics also needs no comment. It is only following the custom of civilized gov ernments. The next ami last conditions wore the really serious ones. The giviug of tlio franchise to the Kafllrs after the establishment of representative government is a proposition bearing all the marks of the sinister inllucnce of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. It had never been even br< ached in the dis cussions that preceded the. war, anu could only i.ave been put forward foi the purpose of humiliating the Boors, and swamping the Dutch element by means of >? loyal " natives, trained in the Knglish language. It would also have served another purpose. The certainty that representative govern ment would bring with it the native vote, would lead many Dutch to pte l'er the continuance of Crown colony government?I he very (lung Mr. Cham berlain and the prcseut British govern ment is aiming at. In that way theii disfranchisenu'iil would be indefinitely prolonged. The refusal of the British lonmncsl) the Colonial Dutch who bad made common cause with the republics was, of itself alone, calculated to secure the rejection of all the rest of the British conditions. Hail the. republican lead era delivered over to the British gov ernment the men who stood by them in the dangers of the war, without conditions and guarantees of their safely, they would have deserved the reprobation of the American and all other liberty-loving peoples. It would have been dastardly and dishonorable beyond expression. ll would ulso have well served the purpose of the British government whose motto every where is to " divide in order to rule,'' b} creating a gulf of mistrust and enmity between the Colonial Dutch and rcpUDiicanlDurglier& ror all time. In refusing to accept tiic british conditions, the republican leaders have shown great political sagacity, and the same wisdom that marked their conduct during the negotiations preceding the war. While they have 10 do with men who have shown them selves so unscrupulous in all their dealings as have Mr. Joseph Chamber lain and Sir Alfred Milm r, the safest manner of negotiating is at the muzzles of their trusty rillcs. While they con duct their negotiations in this way they know at least with whom they are dealing ?with a cruel and implacable foe. Lord Roberts distinguished him self ill South Africa by the same fero city that in the Afghan war called dowti on him the condemnation of even such truculent exponents ol British sentiment, the London Times and Standard. The ghoulish exploit of Lord Ki'cbcner at Utndurman, and the terrible savagery of the British in their lighting against the Egyptians and Soudanese are loo fresh in the re collection of tho American people to need dwelling on here. Looking at the claims of the British lo he a Christian and civilized people, 'be doing, ol their army in South Africa arc little to he distinguished from thos' of the Turks in Bulgaria and Armenia. It is indeed a pitiful spect.ude that is presented at this dawn of the twentieth Century, of a people whose name both the free and op pressed of all nations hail hitherto re garded as synonymous with honor and justice?the British -delivering them selves over io do a work of unrighteous ue*8 ami greet I. In the interest of humanity at largo, the Amol n an people are asked 10 raise their voice in no uncertain manner and demand the cessation of the fra tricidal strife in Smith Africa, and the restoration to the two republics of the independence and liberty they have so nobly and heroically defended at the Baerl lice of all that hrave men cherish am? revere. As the greatest and freest Di tiie, Knglish-spcaking nations the American people can appeal to the British in a way no other people can. Wo lb 01 of ore appeal to them to bring their mediation in favor of peace and reconciliation. The British conditions left the burghers of the republics no choice hut to continue the Struggle for I freedom, as did the Americans of the Revolution, even When all was dark around IhOIO. Is the struggle 'ogo on until the republics are utterly wiped out or tho British Knipire destroyed? Or ia it to lie arrested that both may he saved? It lies now in the power of the American people ut this supre me hour to decide. New York, March 20, 1001. Some very prominent and induce* tinl religionists claim to discover a fulfillment <>f Daniel's prophecies with regard to ihe millennial poriod. They assert, With a good deal of earnestness, that WO have already entere.i Ihat era. and that the time is rapidly approach* ing win ll we will reach tho meridian of peace and Christian development. They surely read tho omens of the limes in a brighter light than we in joy. The newspapers teem daily with reports of sin, Wickedness, crime, war, and all manner of wrong-doing. The world may be growing better, as many assert; but certainly there is still room for improvement before '.he promised era of peace and holiness blesses the earth. Bssrs tha _J) ?B Kind VP" Hat? AlnM/t Bou?W llfistnr* THE HAUNTKD RED HOUSE The Prntik ot Mischievous Bovs ? Told By One ol Them In After Ycnrs. Tho YorkvllWj Enquirer is ropriutiug bits of local history w ritten by Dr. Maurice Moore aud Urft published in Tho inquirer of l^?1'. In its hist issue is hu excellent ghost story, which will be enjoyed by our retiders even if they are not acquainted with tho local sur [ oundiugs; There still stands on the crotss street in Yorkville. opposite the residence of Hie late Colonel Withers,) >on and at present occupied by Mr. Whit, a house built by John McKulght, U carpenter, aud known in my day as " the red house." McKnight sold the house in a few years and moved to Florida It passed from one hand to mother-frequently changing hands, it bore an ill name. Strange aud unaccountable noises had been hea d in it It was said to be a haunted house, and, therefore, was often without a tenant. A man named Aberuathy. from Charleston, a Bailor previously, moved up to Yorkvlllo, bringing with him some trunks of dry goods on speculation. He reided the " red house," ami in one of tho lower rooms laid the goods out on a long table, in default of a counter, re tdy for inspection and sale Himself, his wife anil his mother, occupied apart incuts upstairs. They soon to d of being awakened at night by the sound of a crush, like goods falling oil the table. As soon as they could get a Candle lighted they hurried down stairs. No one could be found. The table, though, was overiurneJ, and the goods all lying on the lloor On examining them not a piece WAS gone, red nothing else they could discover appeared to have been disturbed. Looking to holts and bi.rs with redoub ed vigi UUCC, they set the table up as they were before Hardly retired to their beds until they heard the same sounds of a crush On fcoing down, it was a repctiti n of the tirst disturc.uce. Table overturned ? goods on the lloor?but not the wrap ping of a linger to be missed. This, Au crumby, his wife and mother, all solemn ly alllrmcd, happened night after night They also neard, they said, strange rap piogs iu dilTerent parts of the house for which they euuld lind no cause, nor in any way explain The reputation of the house continued in his mind by thosi mysterious occurrences ? determined Abernathy to move his family, as booh as he could get another house to go in, (irmly believing this one to be a haunted house. Kur a long time " the reil hoUBO " was Without an occupant, and had conse quently fallen much out of repair. It had got into Dr. Crcushavv's hands, 1 think, when an opportunity of renting it, if in a better state, induced him to have it fixed up, Abcruatliy had moved into the country ; hut, being a "jack of all irado*," Dr. Crenshaw g. V him to lake the jou of glazing it, the windows boing nearly guiltless of glass, there being scarcely a pane to the Bash, Abernathy came to town and went to work quite readily, for in daytime he did uot mind being in the haunted house. One evening, having been drink ing a good deal duiing the day, he laid down before tho lire ho usually kept up in one of the tireplaces when he was at work, and fell asleep. He did not awaken until next morning, and then was proud beyond measure at the ac cident, boasting that he had stayed all night, alone, in the haunted hoii&o. Abernathy, in Iiis elation, began to banter mo for a bet that he would spend a night alone in tho haunted Imune. 1, of course, caring nothing about the matter, declined. For a day or two. every time wo came in c intact, he WOUld again propose and insist on it At length, becoming annoyed by his per unaeiiy, I determined on some fun at his expense, and agreed lo make the bei with him on certain conditions, lie was so eager for tho wager, he sub scribed to anything to get it up. The stake, by his own Choice, was a tine hat, mid a condition of the bet was thai after lie once laid down thai night ho was uot lo rise. If ho did bo on any account lie lost. Afler supper, armed with his tools uid a bottle of whiskey, he went into Iho " haunted house ' He worked until late, taking frequent pulls at his bottle to fortify his courage. He locked aud barred the doors, aud over each lower window sash drove a nail to prevent them from being hoisted. At length, tired and sleepy, ho laid down on his pallet before the tiro Outbido watching our chance, wore beside myself, William McCaw, Kan dolph Krvin, anil one or two others We were tired of waiting, for Abernathy had worked later than we had anticipa led. As soon as we paw through the windows that he had laid down we be gan operations. His head could hardly Have touched the pillow till he slept aud so sound was his slumber, he \sas not easily disturbed We were provided with one of old Mrs. McCa'l's cats, a bladder containing shot to tie to ils tail, and William McUaw had a syringe which hold nearly a quart, tilled With water ready for use. Abernathy had fastened the window so securely, it was a Kreut deal of trouble lo get one open. With the help of a crowbar, we at length succeeded : i doing so. We threw in tho cat as Wi raised the sash, for sho was getting ob streperous, and using her claws vigor ously, ami then let the sash fall of its own weight. This noise aroused Aber nathy for the tirst time. Around the room went tho cat, dragging the bladder of shot afler her on the lloor. " I'd shoot sonic of you !" roard Aberna'.hy : " I kn >w you boys are trying to scarce mo." Rattle, lattlc. " I'll shoot tome of you, 1 say," again he cried, afraid to raise from the pallet on the tloor, the condition Of tho bet being that he was to lose if he arose The cat found a daik I corner, and the lire was nearly burned out, and rested a moment on her I terrified circuit. A cor federate, under l ihe house, gave a sepulchral groan, and ii) ti ghostly VOlCO pronounced tho awful words, "This night shall thy soul he re quired of theo." The eat again began to run around the room as furiously as before K ittle, rattle, went tin- bladder j OD tbe floor, and groans issued from different corners of thfl building, "I'll shoot you! I'll shoot you!' halloed Abernathy. Tho threat was echoed by a hollow groan. On went the cat in its frtntic course, fairly mad itself with terror. " tjroat heaven ' I can't stand thiB," said our hero Groans buifit fl..... ceery side in response "I must git up," beconlinuod. He arose and dashed I > the door of the ro >m in which he was lying. He had this so securely fastened ,hat it took him some 1 ttle time to un do it, and in tho meantime wo were on ablod to meet around the corner. The I front door opens near tho corner. At I last ho got the door unlocked, and reached tue front entrance, where he paused a moment on tho slop William McUaw, from our station around the I corner, dhchargod tho whole contents ? of tho syringe full In his fs.ee. Tho tin rilled man looked up at tho sky ?il was beautiful starlight -and exclaimed, To produce the best results in fruit, vegetable or grain, the fertilizer used must contain enough Potash. For partic ulars sec our pamphlets. \\re send them free. GERMAN K AI I \V< ?HKS, i/i Nj-.^.iii :?! , Now York. " Merciful goodness ! raining and not a cloud in the heavens"' With that hu Bt&rtod at full spued down the street ; in his fright and baste leaving the door open. Guessing that he bad gone to get some one to help him fathom the matter, we ran in and liberated the cat, in order that no evidence of human handicraft might appear to aid their investigation. " We hid ourselves in some rank weeds near. Presently Abernathy re lumed, accompanied by his landlord, Mr Smith. As they drew near, we heard the latter say soothing.y, "Ob, its just some of the boys who were trying to scare you." " 3ul, I tell you," sud Abernathy, "forty empty wagons running away vould not have made tho noise " j A full examination of the dilTerent I p.irtB of the house revealed nothing, and at length they came out, Mr. Smith ad hering lo his belief, and accounting in various plausible ways for the noises. "You were scared, Abernathy,and could not judge closely," said Smith, " isn't it clear asked Aberualhy (irmly. " 108, perfectly so," rep led Smith, for there were myriads of stars stud ding the etberal vault with ils cold brightness. " A ell ! 1 declare 1 never saw a hard er dash of rain in my life. Here, Smith, just leol my clothes; 1 am right wot now.-' This was a poser Mr Smith, with all his imagination, could not clear up " lie shuddered, us no doubt the bra\cbt cowers vVhen be can't toll what 'tis that doth appal, How odd a single hobgoblin's non enity, Should cause more fear than a whole host'B identity.'' Abernathy never said hat or bet to me afterward, and neither again did he try ibo experiment of slooping in the " hauntoJ red house H Puhor tiik Pension Holls.?Tho -hunter hum says : ' There is s >mo ? lung about the pension system tlint ap i?ears to l>e an incentive to fraud. A re w days ago we beard of a case that came before the ?umtor County pension board that shows how carolesB some men are ibout swearing to things of which they have no knowledge. A certain man made application for a pension and two reputable Bx-Coufcdoratca signed alii davits that lbe applicaut had served in the Confedera'o army ThO hoard as certained the fact., however, and the application was refusod. Tue facts were thai the applicaut whs a conscript and never saw a day's active service. While in charge of the conscript olllcer on the way to Columbia be put his hand under ?i car wheel at Kiugville and deliberately let it crush four fingers He was sent to the hospital, instead of the army, and when his hand, minus the four lingers, healed, he was discharge! and ro lUrncd home. The men who Bigned the application of this conscript-fraud did so, we are informed, Inking the word of the aforesaid fraud and making oith that he had served in the army, without knowing that he had done so. Instead of making it easier to obtain a pension every possible precaution should he .rtken to purge the rolls of frauds and to keep them olT " Ruraii Prbk Dri.ivbrt. ? Superin tendent A. W. Machen, of the free de livery bureau of the postofllce depart ment, h:is issued a circular of instruc tions governing rural free delivery thr > i hout tho country, h directs that petitioners for such sei vice bo heads of families, who shall show the rolatiVO popu ation along the route, character of the roads, principal vocations of the people and diftancea each one now has to travel to receive mail. A map of the routes proposed isrequirod. The peti lion must he indorsed by either a .?senator or Representative in Congress. v. ich route must bo over twenty miles long, serving at least LOO families, and those desiring the delivery, hereafter I must be prepared to put Up suitable I boxes, Rural carriers may carry other busi ness other than Unitod Stales mail. Pat rotiB are required to co operate by koop kng the roads up to the standard In a I weather. The m-isiiuiiin pay ! ?r car riers now is f?j IU per annum for a full route of approximately twenty live miles. Carriers a*c to carry a supply of i stamps stamped envelopes and postal cards and must cancel slump- on all I letters col ecled. Lahof.st Vksari, Kvkk Buii.t.?Tbo steamer Collie, ol ike While rtiar line, was successfully launched at Belfast ou tho tili iiiHt. in tiio presoDce of h large gathering. The christening was per f,.,iuud by the MarchionoBs of Dufferln. Tho arrangement- for the launching wero similar to those of tho Oceanic and Iho new vessel glided from tho ways and was pulled up within her own length hy dropping three pairs of anchors. The launching occurred amidst choors of Un people and tho blowing of Hirens and fog horns. ThO Celtic has nine decks and a cs )acity for ii850 passengers. 8he will c,rry screw of :r>5 men. Her tonnage is Ii ISM) greater than that of the Oceanic and nearly double that of tho Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, and her displace ment is 12.500 greater than that Of tho I latter vessel, While hordisplacement and tonnage aro 10,300 over that of tho Orsat Kastore. Tho Celtic dimensions are as follows : Length CWO.O foot; beam ?.'? foot depth 411 feet. Gross tonnage 20 880; not tonnai{0 l!l 050 The Coltic will have a displacement <>f 38,000 tons. Tho mayor of Richmond has voted