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Tha Laurens Advertiser Si.$6per Year in Advance. 44If he loved us why did ho leave us?" asked the child, with that logic which exists only in the unwarped minds of children?of all ages. Even harder to answer than that un answerable question wero the sincere blue eyes raised with questioning look to her own; aud Alico Nowcomb, as if seeking an answer to give the trusting child, whose Ik 1 nestled so lov ingly on her bosom, looxed out of the window to the sunshine and the birds and all the pretty growing things and sought in vain for an answer. "Why had ho left them? The ques tion that had never left her nuud by night or day for five years; the harass ing, stinging, burning question which it seemed to her was branded into her very soul. Hor last thought each night, her first at dawn, haunting hor dreams by night and her work by day, never forgotten, always unanswerable: 44 Whv had he left them?" The village had known no happier home, had never coutaiucd within its boundaries a cosier nest thau tho c tage where now sat the lonely woman with tho winsome child in hor lap. Tho sunshine peeped through the honeysuckle and iuto the room where these two sat, just as John Newcomb had known it would when with his own hand ho had planned aud built the little home, full of hopes and pur poses for the future. Their married life had been of unu sual aud perfect content. Lovers for many years, they had waited until John's prospects as a partner in the firm of Newcomb & Miller, carpenters and builders, gave them assurance of dnancial safety, and then they bad married and settled in the prettiest of cottages, almost beforo Alico could be lieve it true. Threo happy years had they spent in their home, during which an added joy had conio to them?the little golden-haired girl whom they bad named Madeline. She was a beautiful and an ideal child, boru of the love of a perfect and a happy homo, and her comlDg had Oiled to tho brim tho cup of happiness which life held to the lips of John and Alice Newcomb. John Newcomb was a manly man, as the men who said who worked for and with him, he was " every inch a man." And with evory inch of his many inches, for ho was more than six feet tall, did he love " his girl," Alice, and his baby, Madeline. To all that was rough aud burly and hearty in him did the dainty littlo girl appeal, with tho unconscious strength of girlhood. The first word and tho first step and the first tooth were events never to bo for gotten in John Newcomb's life, so tightly about his heart did tho little Madeline weave the meshes of love, giant meshes woven by baby hands. The partnership prospered, the cot tage was almost entirely paid for, aud John's reputation for tho practical part of his work, as well as the theoretical, for he had been known as an excellent draughtsman, grew apace, and was the source of some modest pride to John and of much wifely pride to Alice. The home-coming of John at night was the joyful part of tho day to all of them, and as the littlo one grow to more of tho pretty ways and words of babyhood and childhood, more and more did John look forward to the restful evening time at home. One night, it was soon after Made line had reached her third year, and had had a " beefday party," something happened that had never happened be fore. John did not come home. Never before had such a thing oc curred. He was superintending the work of a handsome school building in a neighboring city. It was a contract the Arm had been proud to get, und he he had gone down to supervise the work in person, coming home each night. As the hours went by Alice first became alarmed, but her perfect faith in John and confidence that nothing but tho missing of his train could have delayed him, soon quieted her fears, and, like the innocent baby, she soon went to her rest. Poor Alico. It was the last peaceful and perfect day that had been granted her. Five years of torment had she lived through, and yet John had not come home The love for her child and his had held her to lifo and sanity; the work of her hands, with somo aid from her friends, had kept tho little home. And the sun shone in at the windows and the honeysuckle grew and blos somed above them, but she sat a sad dened and a lovely woman, with tho fair child in her arms. ? ? * ? * * The fall of a heavy stone archway in the building, where he , had lingered alone that night, going over the woik of his men, a crash of stone and brick upon a man when none were by to see and tell of it, hours of lying uncon scious in the darkness in the chill Oc tober night, had blotted trom this man's mind all memory of the past. When in tbe early dawn his conscious ness returned his mind was as totally without memory as that of the new born babe. The home that he had built, thoHo dearost to him, the center of all his thoughts and hopes, the ambitions of the past, were all as though they had not been. In the chill g"ay morning he aroso as one who dreams, walked aimlessly through tho deserted streets, and when a lumbering freight train drew heavily into the lit tle station, without idea of timo or place or season ho climbed aboard and was borne eastward. ? ??*?? About the fire in a miner's cibin in the far West sat four men. Tbey were clad m rough clothes and were lounging about in the easiest attitudes that occurred to them, finding comfort in their pipes of tobacco after the hard work of the day. One of these, some What differing in appearance from the rest, sat a little apart. His face was fine and there were lines of suffering, but the unusual thing about the face wai the expression in the eyes; they were kind and sad eyes, but un less he spoke directly to another, an expression, not of being hunted but of hunting, dominated them. As if they were always seeking and never finding. That was John Newcomb, Ills com panions called him odd and talked of him among themselves, always ending by saying that there was something wrong?no doubt about that. That man had a past. And yet tho great goodness of the man forbade their thinking any evil of him. No man In camp was so kind-hearted or half as enduring of hardship or trouble as was John. None of them was so patient when in hard luck, so willing about the bard drudgery, and none so helpful in an emergency of sickness or accident as this same John. They pondered, these rough miners, as to what had made the man, as they put it, " kind o' queer." For during the years that he bad lived and worked with them no word or sign of the lifo that he had lived before had John ovor given them. Nothing of the wife and child for whom ho had worked so hard had they ovor heard. It was the mouth of Octobor and the mountains wore their purplo and gold on hazo, preparatory to snowy winter gaib. Soon the liillo cabin would be snowed in and communication with the town shut off. In anticipation of this timo^two of tlio men took a journey to about this season of each year and purchased tho necessary supplies for the coming cold weather. John was almost always one of theso, for his knowledgo of household economy in making the purchases was valuable. Several days wore occupied usually in making this journey, aud this littlu pe riod of change and activity was wel comed by theso men of tho mountains and tho woods. One evening while his ?' pard" was absorbed in a game of cards, whore the bags of gold dust lay thick upon tho tablo, John wandered away through tho streets of civilization. Tho sun was just resting on the hori/.on before it bade good night to the pretty little mountain town. And up and down tho street, lined with grnccful trees aud cosy homes, were to bo seen the child re ll in their happy nlay. And the hour was full of peaceful foreboding that the twilight brings to the tired sou of man. Hut of these things about him .lohn seemed to have little know ledge or c ire, until one of the homes ho passed by seemed for a moment to attract him. It was a low cottage, standing la the midst of a (lower deck ed lawn, and over its windows climbed and bloomed the honeysuckle. The sight of it stirred somclhing in tho breast or brain of this man, as if n dream forgotten had almost conic back to him. lie looked ngaiu at the house, and from the rear of it, chasing joy fully in pursuit of a playful spaniel, came a golden-haired child, very fair to look upon. As the ran on toward tho walk in front, keeping closo after her playfei- I low, a woman stepped out into the broad porch under the honeysuckle and called to her: "Madeline, come?it's supper time." Madeline?Madulinel in a Hash the curtain of darkness lifted from the man's brain, and tho life that he had forgotten all came back to him, and tho magic word, tho name of his owu little girl, spoken by another mother to another Madeline was tho key that started the wonderful wheels of memory. The joy of feeling, rcniom boring, of living, was his again. Tho woman on the porch was almost frightened when she saw the strange, rough miin lako her lbllo girl in his arms and kiss her passionately. And the child was frightened, too, at tho expression on the man's face?so licrco, so passionate, as he compelled his re creant memory to bring back to him that which it had hidden all these years, lie turned and left the child, who ran to her mother, not a little shaken by her strange friend's actions. Four days later tho darkness was turned to light and the mourning to joy, and his own Madeline's question had been answered. And a week later from tho Madolinc in the East to the Madeline in the West thero came a box containing the most beautiful of French dolls, and with it was a note which ox plained 3W sho of Ihe West had found a lather for she of tho East. ANTI-TRUST LAWS Klbl.KI) The Supreme Court Hold* Tlint Exemption of Furm Products Invalidates the Law. The United States supremo couit has decided the Illinois anti-trust statute to bo unconstitutional because of the provision of tho law exempting agricultural products and livo stock from the operations of the law. Tho decision was rendered in the case of Thomas Connelly and others against the Union Sewer Pipe Company of Ohio, and was dolivercd by justice Harlan. The decision of tho court in effect declares unconstitutional the anti-trust laws of Georgia. Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. In each of theso States there is an exemption in favor of livo stock and agricultural products in tho hands of tho raiser or the producer, or of labor organizations. Uuder the ruling of the court an anti-trust law t.) he constitutional must apply indiscriminately to all combina tions, with no exemptions or excep tions whatever. First stating whaL could be done un der the statute without tho exempting provision, Justice Hailan said: 44 That the arrangement or combina tion between tho Union Sower Pipe Company and the other companies, corporations and firms, created and constituted such a trust as the Illinois statute forbids manifest from the evi dence in tho record. It is equally cloar that if tho plaintiff was an Illinois corporation its charter could bo for feited and an end put to its corporate existence by proceedings instituted by tho attorney general of the Slato. It is also clear that if the statute is valid, the defendants could plead non-liabil ity for tho pipo puichasea by them up on tho ground that the plaintiff was an illogal combination and the con tracts which it made with tho dofen. dants wero void uuder tho statuto of Illinois. The statute exprossly author izes such a defense." Ho then took up tho question of the effect of the exempting section, ?us tainiug the view of tho circuit court that tins section is repugnant to the fourteenth amendmont of tho consti tution of the United Stales and, fur ther, that it is so connected and inter woven with other sections of the act as to invalidate the entire act. Following is a portion of his argu ment in support of this position: 44 If combinations of capital, skill or acis, in respect of the sale and pur chase of goods, merchandise or com modities, whereby the person", Arms, corporations, or associations forming such combination may control or es tablish in their discretion the prices of such goods, merchandise, or commodi ties, are hurtful to the public interests and should be suppressed, it is impos sible to perceive why like combina tions in respect of agricultural products and live stock are not equally hurtful. To declare that some of tho general class engaged in domestic trade or commerce shall be deemod criminals if they violate certain regulations pro scribed by tho State for the purpose of protecting the public against illegal combinations which have for their ob ject the destruction of competition and ihv control of prices, and that others of It ho general class, also engaged in sucyi trade or commerce, shall not bo bouud to regard those regulations, is so manifestly a denial of the equal pro? tection of the laws that extended ar gument to establish that position would seem unnecessary." Justice McKenna delivered a dis senting opinion. He contended that tho equality of operation which the constitution requires in State legisla tion cannot be construed as demand ing an absolute universality of opera tion, having no regard to different ca pabilities, conditions and relations of men. Hence classification is neces sary. He then suggested that the dis tinction mado in tho Illinois statute are proper, and added that 44 the ex cluded class is composed of farmers and stock raisers who are scattered on farms; tho othor class io composed of persons congregated in cities. 44 In the difference of these situa-! lions and in other differences which will occur to any rellectlon," he asks, 44 might not tho legislature seo differ ence in opportunities aud powers be tween the classes in regard to the pro hibited acts?" UK VAN TO NEWSPAPER MEN He TalkH About IIIh Cnuipnij?tit* und 'IVIis u Few Storle? nt u PrcHH Club Dinner. Mr. William Jennings llryau, edi itor of Tho Commoner, was outortain ed at a smokor given by the New York Proas Ulub, and it was the tlrat I line iu many months that Mr, Bryan has boon a guest at any public gather ing. Two hundred men listened to his remarks, which wore judiciously di vided between the jocose aud tho grave. He touchod upon ins nowspa pnr experiences and also upon his last campaign. William Cull en Bryant, tho president of the club, introduced him. Mr. Bryan said in part: As you all know, 1 am myself in tho newspaper business now. I can't say that I took it up voluntarily. There were certain circumstances, nono of which need be mentioned horo, that led me up to it. t must say that I Qod it very con genial work?that is, tho brauch of it in which I am engaged, lu the past I have had uo time to writo much, but I havo bad two opportunities to test my ability as a speaker. I spoke for somo time, as you all know, but it seems 1 was uot able to couviuco a majority of the pooplo as to the merits of my doctrines. When I was nominated in 'DO a well-known Republican said to me: 44 If you stay at home you'll bo de feated, but not disgraced. If you go out and work you'll bo defeated, any how, but there'll be more mortification attached to it." I'm glad to bo with tho newspaper men tonight, because I think a more practical, useful and common-sense body of men cannot bo found in any sphere of life. One thing iu the news paper business impresses me more strongly than anything else and that is tho great responsibility of the work. I beliovo that uewspapor men, whether they writo editorials or chronicle news, should present all the facts?not a part or a fraction?but all the facts. I beliovo that if a man only gives a part of a fact, that man is do ing an injustico to his newspaper, the person whom bo quotes and himself. A part of a fact is misleading and it may be, and in many cases is, a com plete contradiction of tho meaning which the original utterance convey ed. Mr. Bryan also said that truth need not fear the light and that contro versy ought to be encouraged. If a government was a good government it I wanted its errors pointed out; if not it was tho very kind of a govornment whose errors should be pointed out. "And that," said he, 44 is where you newspaper men come iu. You point thorn out and vigorously." (Laugh ter.) ? This was his last word about news papers: 44 If our papers gives us ar ticles by men of thought and convic tion, men whose words could be weighed carefully and whose names are known, then our papers would be mere potent than they are." Mr. Bryan then told a story apropos of tho declaration that he had defeat ed himself by talking too much: 44 I did'nt tell this story in the cam paign," be said. 44A man died in a town and no one knew him. Thoy took him to the morgue, where a young man came and said it was his father. Ho ordered a handsome funeral. The un dertaker put tho body in readiness for a fine burial, and when all was pre pared the son camo to take a farewell look. Just then tho corpse's mouth fell open aud a set of false teoth rolled out. 4 It's not my father,' cried the young man, and rofused to pay for tho funeral. 44 Tho indignant undertake r nro tested, but it was no use. He pulled tho body out of tho upholstered coflln, remarking angrily: 4 You idiot, you might have had a glorious burial if you'd only kept your mouth shut.' Well, that story doesn't hurt ray feel ing now. I'm used to it." Story No. 2?4? My mouth has been a subject for criticism ever since I en How many mothers realize that when the baby's advent is expected they need strength for two instead of one. Wom en, -weak, nervoua, ?'just able to drag around," find themselves confronted with coming maternity. They have not strength enough for themselves, how can they have strength to give a child ? We don't look for the birth of strong ideas from a weak mind. Why should we expect the birth of strong children from weak mothers? The way to ensure health and strength - to mother and child is to use Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a preparative for motherhood. It brings the mother's strength up to the requirements of nat ure, so that she has strength to give her child. It nourishes the nerves and so quiets them. It en courages a natural appetite and induces refreshing sleep. w Favorite Pre.sc rlp-| tlon" makes weak' women strong and sick women well. There is no alcohol in "Favorite Pre scription" and it is free from opium, co caine and all other narcotics. ?I wish to let you know the great benefit ray wife derived through taking your ' 'Favorite ?.-, ...-Robert Harden, of I Brandon, Manitoba, Dox at*. "It waa when Prescription,*? writea Mr '* "as, nox l_ We had heard so much of your medicine that my wife decided to try It four medicine that my wife decided to try It I may say my wife's age was thirty-three Sid this waa her first child). She commenced take ' Favorite Prescription ? five months be re her child was born. We have a fine healthy girl, and we believe that this was mainly owing' to the ' Favorite Prescription,' taken faithfully according to directions. We shall certainty etc ommendit wherever we can." Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, paper covers, is sent free on receipt of ai one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, NT Y. \ tered politics. ~When I look in tho glass 1 fool Ihovo is room for criticism. 1 spoko during tho campaign in a little Illinois town. In front of mo sat a I man rigidly attentive. lie drank in every word that I said-, I think ho had I drank in something olso besides. When I finished ho came up ami wrung my hand. ?Mr. Bryan,' he said, 4 you are wonderful, wonderful. You are the first man I cvor saw whoso back tooth I could sco all the time ho was speaking." Story No. 3?44 I enjoy the cartoons, even though they aro at my expense There was ono I enjoyed best of all. It appeared just after the Kansas City convention. It represented me as a toper standing in stale of utter In toxication in frout of a gin mill, a bot tlo in my baud labeled 4 1(5 to 1.' David B. Hill was represented as a little girl, with braided hair down his back, tugging at my coat-tails and pleading: 4 Father," Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now.' " Story No. 4?41 Hack in 1888 1 took part in my first campaign. In the fifty spoecbes I mado I explained as well as I could the reasons why 1 thought the Republican candidate for governor should not be elected. I wont more into detail than I do now. After the election and the Hepublicau can didate had beou olectcd by 28,000 ma- I jority, 1 felt that the governor-elect must" feel a littlo hard toward mo for the part I had taken against him. i 441 felt nervous every time I was in his presence. I expected him to ro proach me. A fow months afterwards wo wcro on tho same platform and I was all trepidation. It was a mixed program, and tho goveruor introduced ?the apoakeis. When it camo my turn a man whispered, 4 W. J. Bryan next.' He said: 1 I Introduce W. J. Bryan.' Thou as I stepped forward he detained mc by holding out his hand. 1 was greatly agitated, remembering bow I had antagonized him. Ho said: 4 Beg pardon, Mr. Bryau, do you speak or sing?' Story No. G?44 I havo hail occasion several times to nay that 1 am not a candidate for any ollico and have no plans for any nomination whatever. I thought 1 had mado tho statcmeut broad. A young reporter came to mo the other day in St. Jo and asked mo the question over: ?Do you mean to say that you would not run for c ilice under any conditions whatover at any timo during tho rest of your life?" I told him that was asking too much. 1 said, * I won't give boud for lifo.' Ho sent it out pretty accurately. One edi tor has said of that statement: 4lf Bryan decides to give bond he will find plenty of secuiities.'" I dltor Bryan said he was only an editor of a country weekly. 141 am iu the newspaper business," said he, 44but I can't say that I entored it vol untarily. There wore somo circum stances that led to it. It is vory con genial. Iiis hard to compare it with spoaking. I have hnd two opportuni ties to speak, and I find that I failed to convince tho majority of the Ameri can people of the merits of my propo sition. I find writing tho best." He said he had no feeling against those who loft tho Democratic party because he was nominated. Ho be lieved in controversy and free speech. HISTORY OF MOUNTVERNON Facta About the Beautiful Monit or \\'.isli i ii?>(on on the Poto mac. The report of the Virginia Board of visitors to Mount Vornon for 1001, as compiled by Judge Jumes B. Sener, a member of tho board, presents in com pact form the entire history of the beautiful estate on the Potomac which came into George Washington's pos session before he. was twenty-one and remained his home until ho died there, just 102 years ago on December 14, 1001. The chain of title to tho estate from the timo of the original grant to its passing into tho possession of tho Ladies' Mount Vornon Association, is presented in an extract from tho writ ings of the late Dr. J. M. Toner, of Washington, who at tho time of his death was ono of the association's advis ory members. The estate, until taken over by tho association, was always in tho hands of the Washington family from tho date of the grant of Lord Culpoper in 1070 to John Washington, the great-grand father of President Washington. The original graut was of 5,000 acres to John Wa hh.gton and Nicholas Spencer. Soon after there was a division of tho estate into two parcels of 2,500 acres each, the part bolween Doguo Run and Littlo Hunting Creek falling to John Washington. It included tho site of tho present. Mount Vernon man sion and was known as tho Hunting Creok plantation. Upon tho doath of John Washington the estate passed by devise to John's son, Lawrence. This was in January, 1077. On tho death of Lawrence tho estate passed to Lawrenco's son Augus tine, the father of the great George. Augustine left tho estate by will to his oldest son, Major Lawrence Wash ington, who was half brother to Georgo and fourteen years his senior. Notwithstanding the fact that they were only half brothers and notwith standing the disparity in their ago-, there was between Lawrence and Goorge the warmest brotherly affection. Lawrence was a progressive, far-seeing man, active in business and in public life. He was interested in tho manu facture of iron, both in Virgiuia and Maryland, and at the time of his death was president of the Ohio company, of which he was one of the originators. He served several terms in the House of Burgesses and was Adiutant-Gen oral, with tho rank of major, of tho OABTOXIIA. Northern District of Virginia. It was ho who named the estate Mount Vor non in honor of the English admiral, Edward Vornon, under whom ho had served in tho war against Spain. Lawrence died in 1752 and his re mains rest iu tho Mount Verton vault near thoso of George Wasbiugton. Iiis will provided that in tho ovent of the death of his child Sarah without issue, to whom tho ostato was bequostcd, it was to go his "beloved brolhor George." Sarah died soon nftor her father und thus it was that Mount Vernou becamo forever associated with the illustrious name of Gcorgo Washington. George Washington bcqveathed tho estate to his nephew, Judge Jiushrod Washington, totako effect on the death of Martha, Goorgo Washington's wife, who died May 21, 1802, in tho room immediately over tho one in which her husband had passed away less than threo years boforo. Bushrod Wash ington in turn bequeathed tho cstato to his nephew, John A. Washington, who died in 1832, leaving Mount Vernon to his third child, John A. Washington, who becamo of ago in 18.'ll and lived at Mount Vornon until April 0, 1858, when '200 acres of the estate, including tho mansion, the tomb and the wharf passed to tho Ladies' Association on payment of $200,000? Speculators had repeatedly tried to get bold of tho estate prior to that, offering muoli larger sums for it. Iu 1887 the late Jay Gould bought 33 1-2 acros that had belonged to the original Mount Vernon estate paying $2,500 for it and transferring it for the sum of $1 that day to the Mount Vernon association. Judgo "Sener's exhaustive report, which is highly commended by Gover nor Tyler, of Virginia, in his last an nual message, gives, in addition to tho minute history of the estate, tho entire legislative history of the Ladies' Asso ciation, its constitution and by-laws, the opinion?concurred in by Attorney Genoral Montague?of J. Randolph Tucker as to tho legal status of tho association ; a sketch of tho life of the first regent, Ann Pamela Cunningham, and tho interesting incidents connected with tho formatiou of tho association and Miss Cunningham's loucly resi dence of,many years at Mount Vornon - in a word about everything that la borious research could get together concerning tho Washington family, Mount Vcruon and the patriotic asso ciation that has Mount Vernon in Charge, the whole being illustrated with portraits and maps of much his torical value. TIL,L,MAN'S KX 1?I,A NATION. The litt 11 g ltag?C Used in His Apology?Dinner Incident Not Iiis Doings* Tho Greenwood Journal priuts the following letter from Senator Tillman in answer to a noto of incpuiry from his friend, Mr. D. H. Magill, in which ho gives an explanation of recent occur rences that will intorcnt the puhlic : Unitkd Status Sknatk. ) Wasiiinoton. D. C. March 4. 11)12. ) Hon. D. II. Magill, Oreouwood. 8 O. Dear Sir : 1 havo your kind letter of March 1 at In reference to the expres sion used by me in my apology to tho Sonato, that " My previous servico ; s Oovornor of Smth Carolina for four yi th had unlittcd me in a measure to outer this august assemhly, with the dig nity and regard?proper regard-I will say, for its traditions and habits and rules that is desirable," I would say that tho only roasonablo constiuction to put i n tho words, and my moaning was tint when I was Govornor it was my business to haudlo problems, many of them very important and without consulting any one. and act entiroly on my own respon sibility, and tho habit of mind which naturally resulted from that manner of thought and action and tho work as ozocutivo, unfitted mo in a moasaro for service horo. Nono but a gangrened imagiiiutiou, or sotno ono anxious to mi8couBlruo, will think that I meant that a Covor nor of Boutb Carolina can not be dignified and act with decency aud cour tesy on all occasions. Things are B'> dif ferent in tho Bunato that I havo never yet ho o no used to them. Whilo I am writing, I wish to spy th t my ac. 01 bore was a necessity, and wL. o I rogrel as much as any ono that circum stances woro of a natnrn, an 1 had no alternativo but to striko ray uollcaguo, I bulieve my action meets with the appro val of a largo majority of tho Democrats in tho House and Senate Not that thty approve tho giving of a blow in tho Sen ate, hut thuy think thoro was nothiu^ else to do, aud had I taken tho lio my own self respect would havo boon gone and my snrvlco horo in the future of uo 0 licet. So, then, I havo but ono comment to make iu auswer to newspaper criticisms published in Bouth Carolina. It does look hard, that when I am making the best fight I can agaiust the Republicans here, and acting in tho capacity of one of tho lighters in tho Senate, delegated by the Democratic side to answer the strongest llcpublicau, Senator Spoonor on a party quuBtlon, that some of my own people, Democrats iu reality or appa rently, shoulil stab mo in tho back, while 1 am engaged all along the line in front by Republicans. It, however, demon stratcs tho fact that there are some in Booth Carolina who are anti Tiilmanitcs first and Domocrats afterwards, and will soi/.o on any and every thiug to give me a stab. Wo will let that pass, though, aud I will go back to my people feeling, as I havo felt for a long while, that 1 havo tho respect and support of a large majority of theui, and for those who arc so narrow and prejudiced as to bo un ablo to 8co any good in auy thing that I do, 1 feel only contempt and pity. Tho dinner iucident was not of my making ami in that I havu no doubt as to tho sentiment of tho folks at homo Tho stat mont has been made that it whs an ollleial dinner. This is untrue be cause Piorpont Morgan, Hobt. Lincoln and ten or lifteuu othor private citizens wcro Invited. Tho invitation to mccani i unsought. I had no special desire to at tend the fuueti >n, but before I had any notice whatever that it was desired that my acceptance he withdrawn the whole thiug was ventilated in the morning papers, and I was thus notified publioly that the President was trying to punish a Senator before the Sonate had t iken action. Had the 1'rosidont sent a mil tual friend,in a qntot way, mi/getting that it would hi; an awkward situation, any man who knows me at all, knows how quickly I would have relieved him of his cmbttrassmcnt. Thanking you for your kind letter aud with good wishes, Yours sincerely, B. H. TlI.I.MAN. There is a curious growth of trees at Tilden Point, Ale. Three yellow blieb Hees nrc growing on- a pine slump. The tree, which was about two and a half feet in diameter, is thought to have been cut down some fifty years sgo leaving a Btutnp IhlOO and a half feet high. Tho seeds of l be birch must have lodged on this stump, ami as they grew they sent their roots down its sides to reach the ground. Tho threo tveos ai c, respectively, live, six and soven inches in diameter. Senator Hamm now possesses the pen with which T. B. Hoed, when Speaker of the IIouso of Representa tives, attested the passage of the Mc Kinley tariff net. The Worlds Greatest Fever Medicine. Kor all forma of fever take JOHNSON'S CHIM, and KKVKK TONIC It ia 100 timcB hetter than quinine and does in a single day what alow nui? nitie cannot do in 10 days. It's splendid euros are in striking contrast to the feohle cures made l>y quinine. COSTS 50 CENTS .IF IT CURES. Why Not Save The Middle-Man's Profit? Tho McPhail Piano or Kindergarten Organ direct to tho buyer from fac tory. Write me If you wish to buy an Organ or Pin no, for I can Bavo you money. I travel South Carolina, and would be pleased to call and show you my Pianos and Organs. A postal card will bring mo to you. L A. McCORD, Laurons, - ? South Carolina. B0UTHERI1 SMURTHRfllJ 8,000 Graduates. Receives from 1 to 6 ap plications daily for bookkeepers and ste nographers. Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Telegraphy taught. Refers to Atlanta's buslueBB men and hankers. Write for cat alogue. Address A. 0. HRI8COK, Pres. or L. W. ARNOLD, Vico-Pres.. Atlanta, Ga MONEY TO LOAN On farm lands. Easy paymonts. No com missions charged. Rorrower pays actual o hi of perfecting loan. For information write JNO. B. PALMER * SON, Columhia. 8. U. Charleston and Western Carolina R. B AUOUNTA AND AmUi'.VIU.IC HlIORT IjINB. In effect May ?0,1901. Lv Angnsta.10 05 a 3 20 p Ar Greenwood.Ii 15 p . ?' Andorson. 7 40 p ?? Laurenn . 1 35 p ?' (Ireenvllle..... 3 25 p " Glenn Springs. 4 45 p ? Hpartanburg . 3 20 p ? Baluda. 6 38 p " Hcndersonville. 0 11 p " Ashevllle. . 7 15 p Lv Ashevillo. 7 C5 a ?? Henderflouville. 8 06 a ? Flat Rook. ? 15 a ? Haluda. 8 30 a ? Try on. . 0 13 a ?? fjpartanburg. 12 10 p m Glenn Springs. 0 00 p " Greenville. 12 15 p " Lburona. . 2 00 a " Anaurson .. . 7 25 a " Gc enwood. 2 50 p Ar Angusta. 5 20 p Lv Augusta. 2 30 p Ar Allenrialo. 4 42 p " Fairfax. 4 52 p " v,.>?<. .. ? 63 p " Boanfort. ? 60 p ?? Port Royal. 7 00 p " Havannnh . " Charleston. Lv Charleston. Port Royal. 5 40 a Beaufort. 5 50a Yemastee. 0 40 a Fairfax. . 7 41 a Allendale. 7 62 a Ar Augusta. 10 00 a Close connection at Greenwood for all points on 8. A. L. and C. A G. Railway, and at Hpartanburg with Southern Rail way* For any information relative to tickets rates, schedules, etc., address W. J. CaAioi Gen. Pass. Agent & If. NohtA.HoI. A?t. Augo WLtias T.M. K*imwo?,Traf0o * onager; How the Farmers Can Save Mon ey To (he Editor of The Karmcr: The following communication issued by the Assistant Agriculturist of Clem son Agricultural college is of so much value to the farmers of this State on ac count of the present high price of all feed products for farm animals and stock, that 1 l;avc determined to get you to puhlish this as an advertisement for which our company will hear the ex penso. As some of the products made up in tho ration as made by Mr. Connor may not be available to various planters, I suggest that any planter writo to Mr. Connor aud stato what food products aro available to him, hoth rough forage and concentrated food, and Mr. Connor will take pleasuio in making up a ration to suit his needs as he has dono in this instance. Yours truly, C. FitkBimmons. General Manager The Southern Cotton Oil Company. Cheep Rations for Horsen and Mules. I To t? ? Editor of Tlio Farmer: Farmers from various auctions of the Stato have bcun writing asking about the advisability of feeding horses and mules on cotton seed meal and hulls and also asking for a cheaper ration than corn. The- following prices aro given in a letter from Scranton, H C : Corn, $10 per ton; oats, $45 per ton: wheat bran, $25 per ton; cotton seed meal, $25 per ton; rico meal, $22 per ton. Of course corn and oats are out of the question as a food for horses and mules at the above prices, so something cheaper must he lookou for. Tho analysis shows that rico meal has about tho samo composition as corn meal and we havo found that it is just ae good for feeding pigs. We havo fed it to horses with good results. I think we aro safo in saving that it may bo used in placo of corn pound for pound. If no hay or fodder is used in the ration and hulls aro resorted to as rough ncsa somo nitrogenous food such aobran or cotton seed meal must bo used to supply protein. Hulls may bo fed with out auy further fear of injury to tho ani mal. Should thoy refuse to oat tho hulls a little, corn meal or bran sprinkled over tho eurfaco will tompt them. A good cheap ration may bo made up as follows: Bix pounds of rico costing (i.O conts; four pounds of wheat bran costing 6 o cents; two pounds of cotton seed meal, costing 2 5 conts; ton pounds of cotton seed hulls, costing 0 cents ; total cost of ration per day 17.1. Tho abovo is for a horso or mulo of 1,000 pounds in live woight. It is evident that a ration mado up of corn and foddor and containing tho same amount of digcstlblo matter as tho above ration would cost much moro than the abovo. Tho North Carolina experiment station has fod cotton scod meal and hulls to horses with good results, bnt tho export monts along this line havo not bcon ox tensive enough to say that cotton seed I moal can bo fod in unlimited quantities for any length of time without injury to the animal. Numbers of farmers, howovor, have reported that they havo fed cotton sood moal to mules and horsos with good results. O. M. Conn kh, Asst. Agrlst. 8. O. Kxporlmontal 8ta tlon. rt7irniiiRTr?il CASTORIA AYcgctable Preparation lor As - similating ilic Food andRe? ula - ting the stomachs and Bowels of 1nfan ts /C.h1ldkkn Promotes DigestionXheerfur rtess and Rest.Contalns nelltier Opium,Morphine nor >Ui\?fal. KOT >l Alt C OTIC . /tape aTOM nrSAKUELMTCHt'lt i^iwfjktn Seed' sf/X.Sf/IH/t ' HothelU .Solu - yfiuv Scrtl f /hfyjrntv'/it - M Hi fi/riii/fint'-fafa *? Otuifitd .Hignr hiiilr/y/rrti rlatxtr. A perfect Remedy forConsllpa lion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms,()oi\vulsions .feverish ncss and Loss of Sleep. Facsimile Signature or NEW YOTIK. Att> mnnlhs old j5 Dnsvs-J5Ci in is CXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTQRIA For Infants and Children. 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THE PATENT RECORD, Baltimore, Md. Miia, iwtai] & Laws RR. Passenger Schedule in effect July 21, 1!? I Subject to change without notice. EASTKKN STAN I AKO Tl Lead Down. Head I i I.cave. Arrive Atlanta SAL. 7 45am 8 K) i n Athens.1" i lain ? >2 [>n Kllicrton .11 10am 4 spin Abbovillo ..1223pm 3 15 |>m Greenwood . ..1248pm 218 jn Ar (Minion .... Dinner... I 18pm 2oOpn ?. .V w. o. Leave. Arrive (ilenn .' i ? i' j ? i ? ?.lOonnm Sparenburg. 11 45 in (irccnvillc.12 01 .UK) Watcrloot .12 52pm 2 0i Ar Latircns.Dinner.. 1 hi Lv 138 Nu.M No. 52 I.rave. Arrivt Laurens. .12 55pm 1 I7|?n Parka. 1 05 1 40 Clinton.1 25 1 25 Goldvillo. 1 37 1 12 kinards. I ll 11'5 (iary. . . 1 4U 1 10 .Inlapa. I 54 12 55 Ncwberrv.2 10 12 111 Prosperity.2^1 1220 Slighs. 2 34 12 20 Little Mountain. 2 :>s pj in Chapin.2 5M 12 03 Hilton .2 68 11 r>7 White llnck ...3 02 II 61 Kalcntiuc . 3 (>7 lit!) Inno ... .3 1(1 11 40 Lcapharl . 3 22 II It.! Ar Colombia. 335 l.v 1120 No. 22 No. 8"> Leave. Arrive Laurens.(I 00am f> (iOam Parks.(i 10 I .so Clinton. (i 10 l 30 (Joldvllle_._o 5:5 :! 51 Kinards. 7 os 3 40 <:ary. i 17 3 31 Jalapa.7 2?! 322 No wherry.8 i.O 3 on Prosperity.....8 25 2 ?2 Blighs . 8 42 202 Linie Mountain.8 55 150 Chapin.....?15 1 80 Hilton . 0 21 1 20 White K<ick.*.) ??) 1 24 Ualonline.?37 115 Inno .5? 52 1 ih) Leapharl . . _10 02 12 18 Columbia.new 12 to A. CJ. L. Leave Arrive Columbia. 8 45 11 10 Burnt er. I 65 ?40 v.narlcsiton. 8 10 7 On 1 Harris springs. *Dnlly except Sunday. Kor Hales, Time Tables, or further iii formation call on any Agent, or write to W. c. Guilds. President. t. M, I'.MRitSON, Trail 10 M'gr. J. K. LlVlNOSTON, Bob Aa't. Columbia, H.C. II. M. ICmkkson, don. Freight and Pas scngor Agl, Wilmington, N. (;. The Entering Wedge To your consideration is gon orally the cost, though cost should always be relative to valuo to be a fair toBt. Tho lumbor wo soil may not always bo tho cheapostin price, but it's always choapost in tho long run, bocauso wo givo tho host valuo. Thoroughly kiln-drind,pro porly sawod and plunod, you'll find it "matohos" woll, and will be a lifo-long sourco of satisfac tion. H.Hudgens & Son. O. B. COLLUM DROPSY MEDI CINE CO., 312 ia Lowndes Building, Atlanta, Ga. Dropsy Cured In thirty tonixty dsyn Ten days treatment khkk' Would 1)0 glad tohuvonrtmoB of all BiifTerinK with Droimy. ^M?^p [IM1TED ^?PTrains Double Daily Service CAPITAL CITY KOUTB, Shortest, line bot WOOD all principal citie North, Kast, South and West. (JciiRDUiiBa In Kkkkot Dec. L 1001. NORTH bound.' No. ?I, No. 3 LvSavannah,Central T. ..1130pm i 65pm Fairfax . 1 t Ham 3 40pm Denmark. . 1 M)nm 4 ic7|>m Columbia, Eastern T... 4 loam 7 05pm Camden.107am 800pm Clieraw.Jfl 30am ? 40pm Ar Hamlet . 7.0r>am 10 Ifipm Lv Caihoun Falls. 1 oopm 4 21pm Abbovlllo. 1 83pm 4 .Mam Greenwood. I 5<>am 510dm Clinton. 2 4'iani 6 08am Carlisle. 3 3 Jam 0;.r>3am Chester . 4 OOam 7 20am Catawba Junction. 4 33am 7 Mam Ar Hamlet. T.Ooam 10 16am Lv Hamlet . 7 26am lit 10pm Ar Kaleigh.1<> 15am 1 30am Petersburg....*. 2 20pm 6.61am Richmond. 8 03pm 6 3)am Washington. 6 35pm*10 loam Baltimore.ll 26pm|l 1.26am Philadelphia. 266am 136pm New York.fi 3<iam 1 I >pm Portsmouth-Norfolk.. 6 25pm 7 15am LOOAI. atlanta to CLINTON. No. Lv < 'alhoun Kails. 12 2 A bbevillO.12 57pm (irecnwood. 1 22pm _CP.nton. ... 2 15pin SOUTHBOUND. Daily. Dally. No. HI. No. 27. Lv < heraw. Kastorn T... 7 11am 11 00pm Camden. 8 31am 12 53am Columbia, Central T.. 8 mam 1 0.">ain Denmark.0 52am 2 17am Fairfax .10 80am 2 67am Ar Savannah.12 o5pm I plain Jacksonville. 3 50pm 0 05am Tampa. 5 00am 5 40pm Lv Catawba, Eastern T.. 0 07am 12 57am Chester . 0 45am 135am Carlisle..... .lo i5am 2 00am Clinton.Ill tiam 2 67am (irecnwood .11 5iam 3 43am Abhevillo .12 21,un 4 10am Caihoun Kails.12 5pm 4 38am Ar Athens .2 21pm 6 13am Atlanta. I 55pm 860am local clinton to atlanta. No 58 Lv Clinton.2 45pm Greenwood. 836pm A bhcvillc . . I 07pill Caihoun Kalla. 4 45pm Ar Athens.... .(i )<ipm Allanta .. . 8 6l)nm Columbia, Nowberry & l.aurc Kail way nain No. r?2, leaving Columbia, Union station, al 11.20 n m daily, oonnttnts at Clin ton with a A l, Ky No r>;t, affording shorl o?t und quiokost rout? by Rcveral home to Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville,8t. Louis, Chicago and all points West. Close connection ai I'eierehurg, Rich mond, Washington, l'ortfunouth-Nottoik, Columbia, Savannah, .1 aoksonville and Atlan a with diverging lines. Magnificent vestibule trains carrying through Pullman sleeping cars hoiweou all prtnoipal points. l or reduced rates, I'ullman rcservatioiifl. oto. appiv lo W. P." HCnuoofl,T. P. A.,Savannah,Ga, .1. M. llAitn Ist. V. I?. am> G. M., It K I, RliNi r,G I' A. Portsmouth. Vs. c<i(ialle<t Seliodnlcs to Pan-American ion at lUit'ialo. THE YOUNGBLOOD LUMBEH COMPANY AUGUSTA, ua. OkFK'K AND WOBKS, NOBTII AUOUSTA, H. 0 Doora, Saab, minds and Bnlldor's Hardware. FLOORING, SIDING, CEILdNO AND INSIDE FINISHING LUMUKIt IN GKOKGIA l'lNK. All Correspondence ?iven prompt at ention. nualncHS f banco*. DO YOU want to mako 14,000 hchvccn now and March 1, l?ui?? If so, soml ten cents (silver) for our apooialty and rccoivo freo coupon which ontilles you to one l?ue?s; capital prize $1,000 tract of land lo cated in Laurons County. Houth Carolina; hank reforences given. Addross TW1N-N (GKLtt Co,, hauroru?, 8. C.