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t 1865e111tfBEl41 q. e.nib mill . ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., TUURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1891. PRICE $1.50 A YEA R THE DUTCH FORK. BY DR. 0. B. MAYER, SR. No. 5. at thy commanl, Again the crumbled halls shall rise; Lo! as on Evan's bank we stand, The past returns-the present flies. CADYOW CASTLE. There are two considerable stretches of original forest remaining in Dutc -Fork, to indicate what was the natu ral appearance of the country in the far past. One of these is the tract of one hundred acres of superb oak-land that surrounds St. John's church, and belongs to it;the other contains about fif tee'n acres of heavily timbered land, and lies in front of the Pomaria residence, of three hundred yards from it. There are many othi4"L remnants of primitive woods scattered about, but they are not sufficiently ex tensive to aid the fancy in picturing the "boundless contiguity of shade' that once extended so widely over thi; fair region. When the white people following John Adam Summer, cam( into these wilds, they found that the Indians had made a few small clear .-igs, and had been cultivating them rudely for the production of a large kind of grain, since a time to which their memory did not reach. Botanists have given to this grain the name, Zea Maize, but in common language, it is called Indian Corn, from the fact that it waa first found among these Indians. They, however, must have used it very sparingly, in the form of hominy (an Indian name, according to Webster), or by simply parching the grains, since their little fields probably did not yield all together more than three hundred bushels. It is easy to infer that the white "settlers, accus tomed, as they were, to eat bread with their meat, and soon discontented with jerked beef and vanison dried in- the sun or smoked in the chimney jamb, speedily brought. into tillage much larger fields, which under the plough share yielded prodigious crops of this new grain, as well as of wheat, rye, and barley: so that it was not long before the face of the country beamed with the smiles of civilization. When we walk through such memo rial remnants of woodland as I have mentioned we sigh over the destruction of the forests,-the desolations which the natural strength of the soil has so beautifully struggled to repair by means of the old-field pine; and we say within ourselves: The of ks have been need ' essly wastedl! _ The tilling of the ground to supply man with necessary bread would not require the yeomanry of the Dutch Fork, nor of any other section of coun try, to destroy the vast areas of original growth-which we see to-day abandoned to the broom-sedge, wherever nature has failed to reforest the waste places with the old-field pine. Nor would there have been a necessity for any prodigal clearing of land even by the introduction of cotton, so long as the young people for pastime separated from the seed, with their fingers and thumbs, sufficient lint to aid the flax and the wool in supplying raiment for the families;but when the cottoa-gin was patented in 1793 by Eli Whitney, and gin-houses and screws we~ erected all over the land to supply t ie world with -what had suddenly become a great staple,-then, and not tii then, did the murderous attack upon the glorious forests begin. Before cotton came into use in the Dutch Fork, fiax and wool were the materials from which ordinary cloth ing was obtained, and altogether by domestic manufacture. The cloth woven upon the simple primitive loom was wonderfully durable. To illustrate this quality as well as to publish a fine moral, I venture to introduce here this Prose Song of a Shirt. When I was eight years old they made me a shirt out of flaxen cloth which had been i perfectly bleached by being spread several nights upon the grass. After it had taken on the shape of a garment it became as white as snow, through] ~'~repeated washings during my intimacy with it, inasmuch as every other Sab-1 bath for four years (from my eighth to1 my twelfth) we went t:o church together1 in the closest comapanioniship. Those < were the days of ruffled shirts; and this one (made for me, the favorite of the1 family) had a profusion of ruffles that - engendered pride in my young breast- < pride which, like all other instances of it, had its fall. It happened in Colum- ] bia, on my first visit to that city, and when I was ten years old. The shirt 1 was done up in the best style, two days befor~e my departure. The ruffles were crimped most delicately, and were starched so rigidly for this occasion as I to stand out in front like the quadrant of a glistening circular saw. The shirt was carefully folded and placed in ai time honored, blue bandbox, in which i it was to rest uudisturbed until the s morning of lea'ing camp (for I went a with the plantation wagon), when I 1 was to be dIressed in my ruffled shirt, '. my striped waistcoat, my jacket died e brown in a decoction of walnut-bark, C my copperas-hued breeches, and my little strawv hat. It was a bright, hot C day in June. We had camped at the c "Forks of the Roads," the well-known t camping place for wagoners, about five* t miles from Columbia. The season for c the cotton market was over; but we r had one bale-thle last of the crop-in e our wagon. The other loading consist- s ed of three barrels of new flour, a large t coop of fine poultry, several bushels of t well preserved sweet potatoes, anld a E Muscovy drake of such terrible physi-t ognomy--his head and neck being em- E: bossed with frery red carbuncles-r hatd dressed according to schedule, and to prevent any premature derangement or soiling of my clothes I was placed upon the top of one of the flour barrels, until we should enter the city. Near by me on the top of the poultry coop and tied to it by his feet was the indig nant drake. He seemed to "view me with a critic's eye,"-extending his plethoric head at one time towards the left of me, at another towards the right of me, and then straight at me, utter ing each time a hideous hiss prophetic of disaster, until I was really glad when the time came for me to be removed from his scrutiny. We entered the city a little after sunrise. At my re quest I was lifted from the wagon; and I began at once to strut along the side walk, gazing in wonder at the magnifi cence by which I was surrounded. I saw,many boys of my size. They looked it are~aiMr Ued; but as they - had no ruffles under their chins my pride blazed high. I tossed my head and protruded my chest so as to thrust forward my ruffles conspicuously. Then came my fall. I approached a group of three boys somewhat larger than myself. They observed me closely; and smiled, as I thought, contemptu ously; but these like the others wore no ruffles. So I gave them a haughty look, and passed on; but, alas for me! not until I heard one of them remark quite audibly . to his companions: "WeE-, he has pretty black eyes; and I must say that he would certainly show off well with his ruffled shirt-bosom, if he only wasn't bare-footed." It was the mortifying truth. My friends to whose care I was entrusted had given no more thought than I myself gave to the preposterous manner in which I was dressed; and there was I, with a flaunting shirt-bosom, standing in the town where the Governor lived, and not only bare-footed, but with my feet and ankles covered with the red clay dust so abundant to this day about Co lumbia. The inconsistency of going bare-footed while wearing a ruffled shirt did not strike me or any one else, as Sun'day after Sunday I went to St. John's church. It was then as it still is, the custom in the Dutch Fork for boys and girls to dispense with shoes and stockings through the summer months, with a view to comfort and economy. When I returned home, and with tears of mortified feelings recounted my c misadventure to my people, I derived v consolation from their advice to treas ure up my mishap as an experience i capable of teaching, that whenever one c is puffed up'witf. iaudty; oaiznl2tian; or spiritual pride accompanied by her n sister, hypocrisy; or covetousness lean- n ing on her daughter, idolatry, all one r has to do is to look down at one's feet, o I have often followed this advice, and feel that it has saved me from some vanities and vexations of spirit which, i: if I had been puffed up with them, d would have been too much for me: they would have overwhelmed me. C From this digression I return to a, further consideration of the durability belonging to the fabrics manufactured on the old-time looms, by the banging ti of which the belated stranger might be guided on his way to some home t'hree- e' quarters of a mile off when the sun went down and the need of hospitality was first felt. The shirt that clung sou closely to me for four years was as free a from decay the last time I wore it as it g was the first time. Unless it has been c' burnt, every thread of it is in existence somewhere, to day. I can, however, call up a witness-one which I inter viewed ne' >ng ago-a witness of such reliabilit.), i.. regard to the durability of the textures used for raiment in the Dutch Fork long, long ago, that there will be no need to question any others. Si I'his witness has a history which de- to ierves to be made known; and it is as ce follows: Among the Lutherans of a Dutch Fork, before and several years tl after the erection of the present St. cc rohn's, and while Geisselhart preached v n the little church that once stood just h within the grave-yard gate, there was custom to have a Communion Hand terchief, or towel, or whatever other iame it bore, for the purpose of wiping he Comxmunion Vessels after each cele- se >ration of the Lord's Supper. It was ye nade of the finest domestic linen that :ould be produced in those days. fo ['here never was another; because this n< irst one is to-day (in 1891) as durable w' is it was in 1788, when in one of its li< :orners the grand-daughter of the pic 1eer Summer embroidered her initials, wJ N. . S., and gave it to the church. wi it this moment it is in the drawer of I he altar in St. John's, into which it is vas transferred from the preceding Ibi hurch-building. There it remains in ge ts retreat, applied no longer it is true tic o the use for which it was first in- P ended, but serving as a witness, more han a hundred years old, to the last- it. og quality of the home-woven textures th a those remote times, just as the woods IS urroun ding the ch urch-building serve o s a witness to the grandeur of the tu rimitive forest. This handkerchief, r towel, after serving its purpose at ach Communion, was taken home by ne of the lady members of the church, Ca rhose duty it was by rotation with na( thers to wash and iron it for the next C ecasion. It happened that it came to wi e the turn of one Mrs. Son to "do up" in his wonderful piece of cloth. She orn arried it home with her, and the very G9r ext day washed it and hung it upon a of lothes-line to dry, but being three feet ges quare, one of its corners very nearly ne ouched the grouhd. Having sonme- 3 hing to attend to in the house Mrs. on left her little daughter to watch be he venerated linen for a few moments. tin he had scarcely passed within the i oor when she heard her daughter an cram, and all loudny fr- help. In +hi great alarm she hastened back to th, yard and found in the mouth of 4 hug( sow the handkerchief, which the ani mal was shaking to and fro for the amusement of nine pigs. The dis tressed lady went in pursuit and sool took hold with her hands upon thi stolen property, bu, it required all hei strength to separate it from the ani mal's teeth. At length it tore loose; and Mrs. Son fell triumphantly to the ground, waving as a trop.y the rescued goods. Although this happened in the good, utilitarian days of darning, th rent was never repaired, and that is the reason w.hy it is still visible, ragged and jagged, in the corner of the hand kerchief opposite to the one where were embroidered a hundred years ago the initials, E. M. S. This attempt at a "digression within a digression," in weak imitation of Swift, has been so much more than I w a fe9f that I find myself in the necessity of pausing here, ant making effort to recover the simplicity of narrative with which I began. In my next number, I shall endeavor tc exhibit more fully and methodically what I remember, and what I have gathered from satisfactory sources con cerning the industry of the people of Dutch Fork, from an indefinite past to the introduction of cotton among them. A NEW REFORMATION COMING. Editor McClure Talks to Roanoke College Students on the Next Century. SALEM, Va., June 9.-The Hon. James W. Marshall and M. T. Reedy delivered addresses this morning be fore the Alumni of Roanoke College. This evening Col. A. K. McClure, ed itor of the Philadelphia Times, deliv .red the annual address before the lit ,rary societies. His subject was "The rwentieth Century." He admonished the students against tccepting the belief so often taught in >olitics, journalism, and the pulpit, hat this is a degenerate age, and that he great task of the educated young nen of to-day w'ill be its reformation o old-time putity. He said the world iever was as good as to-day ; that pol ties, society, and religion were all bet er now than in the past, and that, vhile the world always needed, refor nation, it never needed it less than tow, and that it was better and greater n heroism and state-manship than ver in the past. The speaker then pointed out the rave problems to be solved. Among hese he mentioned the issue over hurch creeds, which he predicted Fould produce a new reformation uring the twentieth century, and one bat would make religion stronger than is to-day. The great battle against entralization, the race issue, and cap al and- labor he -also indicated as roblems which might be manfully 2et and solved. He also discussed the eed for educated men in the depart rent of mechanics, which he said was pening a wider and better field than ie professions. He closed with the. rediction that the new century would ee a new South, equaling or surpass ig the North in her diversified in ustries. o tell it, ye breezes, from desert to sea. he "Prescription" has triumphed, fair woman is free ! Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is ie princely remedy above all others ! [ade expressly for women. It is lapted to her special needs, an fulfills rery requirement. No condition so critical as to defy it ! No emergency so great as to baffle it! As a woman's restorative and reg lator, the "Favorite Prescription" is taster of "ie situation. Positively :aranteed to give satisfaction in all ses, or money paid, for it returned. be only medicine f or women sold on jal ! The Cadet Camp at Spartanburg. [Carolina Spartan.] Captain W. W. White, quarter aster of the Citadel academy, and eutenant Towers, of the United ates army reached the city Saturday select a place for the summer en mpment of the caaets. Dr. Fleming id Colonel Walker showed them trious places, but they finally selected ie Dean grove for the camp. The mpany drill ground will be on the cant lot opposite Doctor Fleming's.] 2e cadets will come July 2, and be tre two weeks. 1 -___ _- I Alger is for Blaine. SEATTLE, Wash., June 9.-Gen. Rus ll A. Alger of Michigan arrived here sterday. In an interview he said: f Mr. Blaine indicates to the Repub an party that he wil.l be a candidate - resident, I believe he would be3 minated in a moment. I believe he >uld be the strongest man the Repub ans could place in nomination." The Witty Irishtnan. ien told by a doctor that his liver a ts almost gone, sid, "Faith, it's glad 1 tm. it's allers bothered me ! l'he liver more than any other organ, I the index of the body. With a mor- d i liver the whole system is out of c tr ; Most powerful for the restora- s n of this "citadel of health," is Dr. s arce's Golden Medical Discovery. t action is direct, prompt, effectual! E commended by eminent ph:ysicians, 2as gained a universal reputation as fi S"Great Liver Regulator !'' Correct I Larranted in all case, of liver disease 3 :i blood disorders to benefit or cure, ] money promptly and cheerfully re -ned. L'he Wvar for Southern Independence. ICHMOND), June 9.-The Grand r mp 'f Confederate Veterans will c et iL Fredericksburg to-morrow. v I. H. I Smith, Grand Commander, s 11 procent his annual report. This r 1 show that there are fifteen camps y the State of which six have been y ;anized within the past rear. The a and Commander favors the adoption 1. A name by the Confederate veterans I the late war, and approves the sug- tl tion made in Charleston (S. C.) 1, wspapers that it be called "The War v tthern Independence." f - ii The benefits of vacation season may S greatly enhanced, if, at the same a le, the blood is being cleansed and ti alized by the use of Ayer's Sarsa- I -illa. A good appetite, fresh vigor, o I buoyant spirits attend the use of f< s wonderful medicine.+ NEWBREYCOLEGE Srseou esonCoe--Th Wo-kAo th Isttuio adth PosecsCo th -.. utur--Itdalerea d Neds The nterst o ou peole i ouredu ST eWJera BndNw oE. Thecolegewaise ac.I-s ute pleasureftolus that A>ropeoe iNwer Clos ntiue ok~ tha iewsRv tege Ittion andome sectstion. Ith prsist; Arig ieldsean influence fo goodgthatncanno. The peopleofbNewberr evidence he interest in, our ppreian for,u otsohtsi can institutions wheve wanres.n yeroosnwocpe "Eduti ontited hoeofuanryy"0,0 of chfudn ahemne frto utecre tes pesrhaentredmovalvaf the olefrald ahalwa to nte thsormer dasaruea fat.Inid prop rher inltesret uistha seIn wihcedtt our eope in theerylee Tiey to Thlaimgeha sothifr appeiationey o horownever, nemnecoe legept th goo theolle intto. is aoindgodsusat poeorodniy outri thmisaoty diloalreadw weld man inflenrepi foro that cantavlaladitr This peolmmN byeienced aspTecieskona their iterst done and ape caion for ha _______ pgon the publicbuted tneeds $2000do troey o tohecuure.termvlo Ah colew ferm aohe toitermeran aleand e hmen wowe theirme,t I ne snse dout is hitry lee sTilhfes clim except the oodetheocolege issdoin their communty,nbuteinatis alone7the are many timserepaidtfoDtheAinvest At this commencmentuseason Th ~ome littlemkeths offthhcollege-th work it hs doneoadstheoclamscitied ipon the pblincandhte needsian prosphave forethe future. A few yearsaago TheaHeraldhan >~Fews publihedea shortcketchtofoth ~ollege ad thehme wholeoredhthere ~he minds ofourareadersandbdoestno :eed at this time to be dealt with in etail. The Newberry College was the 'but ~ome of the old classical-school located t Lexington, S. C., where some of the ading ministers and laymen received heir education. In 1856 it was chartered as a college y the Legislature of South Carolina and locat ed at Newberry. Not until July, 1857, was the corner one of the building laid and not until 858, was the college opened for stu ents. The first board of trustees were: ohn Bachman, D. D., L L.D., Revs. . B. Hort, N. Aldrich, T. S. Boinest, , P. Margart, J. H. Bailey, and [fessrs. G. Muller, WV. K. Backman, acob Schumupert, M. Barre, Patrick odd, Henry Summer, N. A. Hunter, . C. Garlin gton, J. P. Aull, Simeon air, and J. P. Kinard. Of this num er none are on the present board and 1 are dead except Revs. Margart and- - ~ailey and Mr. Bachiman. Rev. J.3J. Brantley, A. C.- Gariington, hmcladpioo ~sq., and Dr. Bachman delivered ad-toltrr sceisi resses at the laying of the corner stone l nwl unse the first building. The first building, nee placs hich stood where the present one is, Tecus fsuy as a beautiful structure, in fact one of tecriuu ilc e handsomest college buildings in the ~t h edn n >uth. cuty The first faculty was copsdas Teclee~a llows: Rev. T. Stork, D. prospeoresident;o obert Garlington, A. M.; 0. B. Mayer, rng a engo . D.; J. Bachiman, D. D., L L.D.,;o h uuei rg ev. J. A. Brown, A. M.; C. A. Stork, . P.; Rev. M. Whittle A. B.; and A'n. Mne ya . Pifer, A. B. wrigfclyi e The war soon came on, however, and rcietelbrls eyugmen were called to take upteLterncuc ms for a cause they thought to be ht and the bright prospects of the dnmnto.l u ~llege were very materially interferredo hti hsdn o ith. The large endowment fund .v-s wiepopru ept away by the fortunes of war, or oItnesi ~tained in Confederate bonds which adsol aei.I ere worthless. The college buildingdetanshudae as occupied by soldiers and it too after I h attoya while crumbled and fell down. Indoenegdthg ~68 an offer came from the citizens of alhalla for the removal of the college Trepoesr'lo ere and it was accepted and the col- eetdo h olg ~ge was conducted there for nine yearsthprsdnadt' ith varying success and great sacri-soSOnofteeI e on the p art of the faculty. BeforeAlmihuete s removal to Walhalla Rev. J. P.to aigdtrnn eltzer had been elected Presidentonyeraotbul d continued in that position until hue r opee e return of the college to. New berry. cpe ytepoes Pr. Smeltzer was the second president 'the college and deserves much credit teoeigo h e r the hard work he gave to the insti- o h aps h chmiaianopilso "f/ v r ooved to Newber- with will give the reader who has nol nd the faculty at seen the buildings some idea of them. G. W. Holland, The present faculty is Rev. G. W on,.-G. D. Halti-- Holls.nd, Ph. D., D. D., president, Rev 3. Cromer. The J. B. Fox, Ph. D., 0. B. Mayer, M. D. IIatroc teee-mtil.Rev. .3... -Bawersa. M., and W. K I the first four Sligh. A. B. a were taught in__ by Mr. Salter as p - Presid ent Holland's Report to the Trustees of the coll'ege 92 The following i9 the annual report of n graduated and President Holland to the Board of ous avocations of Trustees at their meeting on Monday acquitted them- The catalogue of the session of 1890 ,heir alma mater- 91 sbc ws a roll of students as follows : >eautifl locaion Colegiat deatet5;Peaao ookngth twn ryDearmet 7; usnes eprt Sbuldin. Thre mnt 2, ofwhomnn eeecuie I elctd iray,lvinte usnes ors. otl n stig clletio ofrolmnt. Teerlmn oh noeidymse u to thewthwl givenio the readed sn biche meety eek eutn uingshe deaoy teart Gall and Holland Thmpeent f5naeslty is9. Had thi on thoroug and Hoedind, session, our rol foreset, ev mpae avral now. closi Bwud ave& , lla-nly six Thetheospecsforothe neigsessionBi nee tnaumore incugigThadsiostte byhan atras.,olgaecssaeaolw:Sn yal buPh a-irside, Houniors Re Spooruees9 adted andoo resident 11'Hoald 50. Wth Boar os ands anocationsuof accessiona tei mting orsmn Mclays Sacquettd hrd- The netalgeh session otoso the0 heir aldshal matrge cst anrolln of udetsats inlows pportifat loation hisoyeofthe coleatet. rprt oin the taown,- Thearutmey7 recommendsha youart . buldng Teregei thriethe9 oferrm ine werte exluwive LI selctediriay, d degree ui scus.Ttle ting collectio of A.n 93lrs . W. enolent for A. nturlm sor cicy of H.8E. as 12ho hs uccss-i ie Sihe huseum,a ue toise the opeied t Gand for beee. Egiheorss eshiave appaatu so into autorrize wh aprectdnt hiameeton wek-redctofi the getrcneratr epart-H halls and pofsDcnthe tfn5 nege o A. Had hsh :ter s caled t earthaet boee d fullprescribedre struni Ascad cladicl courion, our rollfortise sssio dare fitrbl nowcting wouldor exmiave uponl setix .Twto of theesus hinftheo pred sessin. s. Th thid isthe pthroect follege nowsesin i ebr ocinaied bynstiuriong aalthe denomionton-h sessin. pr~et alollegin clsss res folls:y aen ores anhouuld byathestabnrlsment of legitsnh ,he college isr tholee the nferringnof1th folloi for increased loyalty to Newberry Col lege on the part of theLutherans ofSouth Carolina and Georgia, and the citizens of Newberry town and county. New berry College deserves and must have this support. She exists for the church and for Newberry, and to these sources she must look for patronage and in creased equipmnent. The time has come when an enlight ened zeal and a liberal policy must I character:ze the counsels of those who < are charged with her interests. ] The college endowment must in the < definite future be raised to $50,000. 1 The faculty must immediately be strengthened by the addition of at least one full professor-if possible by the addition of two professors. Steps should be taken at an early a day to provide another college building1 for Library, Laboratory and Museum U purposes. t The erection on the college campus o during the past year of three residences ? for professors at a cost of $6,000 is cause s of sincere congratulation. The college a property is much beautified in appear- t ance and enhanced in value; the inade- t quate salaries of at least three professors have thus been increased about 25 per L cent., and about $10,000 invested at t 6 per cent. per annum added to the en dowment of the college. The election e of a fourth professor may at an early i day bring with it the necessity for a l fourth residence on the campus. a The following methods for the im mediate strengthening of the teaching force are suggested for your considera tion: 1. In the event that the Board of Di- b rectors of the Theological Seminary f decide to nominate to the synod a Pro- f fessor of ,in the Seminary, m t at you ratify ion, and give said nominee the chair of in the coilege, and that you for pledge o said professor a salary of $1,000 a year. For this plan the sum of $4,600 would J be required-no provision being made t for the business course. t 2. In the event that no seminary o professor is nominated, that you divide the chair now called mathematics and natural sciences into two chairs: (1) , Mathematics. (2) Physics, Chemistry and Astronomy, allowing the present incumbent of the chair as it now is his choice between the two chairs, and that you elect a professor of the other chair a at a salary of $800 a year. That the -' business department be provided for as follows: Book-keeping and kindred A studies to be taught by the professor of mathematics, and telegraphy and short- t hand by Prof. A. J. Bowers. For this plan, the income of $4,400 0: would be required. 3. The interests of the college and seminary might be served by adopting s plan one, and in addition, electing an as sistant in the preparatory department at at S400 a year, thus allowing the princi- a pal of the said department time for in- i struction in certain departments of the college, proper. This scheme would al cost $5,000. of 4. The faculty concur in recommend- si ing a combination of plans 1 and 2, viz: tc the Seminary professor at $1,000 a year, fo with an assigned chair in college, and aL a professor ofmathematics,orofphysics, =n as.may be deemed best_The -coAt of this scheme would be $5,400. The income to the board from inter est and tuition fees for the past year is in about $4,500. Plans 1 and 2 are feasi- ei ble from a financial point of view. lit Plans 3 and 4 would necessitate the jo creation of additional income to the th amount of $500 and $900 respectively. - n To meet the additional expense in- of curred by the adoption of plan 4, it 'is er recommended, re (I) That you ask the Synod of South pr Carolina for an appropriation of $600. (2) That you urge upon' synod the m importance of putting a;college financial St agent in the field, who, in connection of with other duties, shall raise funds for tL the current expenses of the college. tb It is the reg iest of the faculty that at th least the following prizes and medals be TI provided for the session of 1891-'92, viz: Senior Essay Medal, Junior Orator's of Medal, Sophomore Greek Medal, Ju- tk nior Mathematical Medal. Prize of $10 fu worth of books to best admitted Sopho- se more in the classical course. thi Prize of Websters International Dic- m tionary to best admitted Freshman in dc classical department-.h It is recommended that you direct de your treasurer to settle in full with the faculty for the year now closing-not af! later than July 15th 'proximo. ta Trusting that your deliberations may m, result in increasing the efieciency of the di: College. th I am your obedient servant, in G. W. HOLLAND, President. du June 15, 1891. ba th PEFFER GIVES IT UP. co He Thinks There is No Chance for the Sub Treasury Scheme. RALEIGH, N. C., June 10.-The m Chronicle will to-morrow publish an interview with Senator Peffer upon the sub-treasury bill or plan. He regards . the principle as all right' but the meas ure as of secondary importance to that cr of putting more money in circulation ho and reducing the rate of interest. He n is inclined to the opinion that the best Ju way to put the sub-treasury into actual F' operation will he to allow the State leg- is islatures or alliances to do it instead of pa the general government. He does not' think there is any chance for the meas- OP ure at any time in the near future. . tel When We Get There. Fyrom the Yankee Blade.] t On the thirty-second day of the thirteenth month or the eighth day- of the week, On the twenty.fift.h hour of the sixty-fhr minute we'll find all things that we seek A They ate there in the limbo of Lolli pot land, a cloud islan.d resting in air, On the Nowhere side of the Mountain of Mist in Ate Valley of Overthere- P On the Nowhere side of the Mountain of an Mist in the Valley of Overthere- all On a solid vapor foundation of cloud are pal- ral aces grand and fair; m And there it where our drear.' will come sio true and t he seeds of our hope will grow Ac On the thitherward side of the Hills of Hope pr( in the hamlet of HOScus ?o. , Ks On the thitheward side of the 11111 of Hope da in the hamlet of Hocus Po. - p We shall see all the things that we want to shi sec, and know all we care to know,'- tai For there the oldl men will never lament, pai the babies wIll netver sc;uca'k. Ime In thec Uross Road CorTers of Chaosville, in to the County of Hide'angoseek. an4 the In the Cross Road Corners of Chaosville, in the County of H ideeangoseek, On the thirty-second day of the thirteenth month or the eighth-day of the week We' shall do all the things that we please to do, and accomplish all that we tryL On the sunset shore of sometimeorother, by , the beautiful flay of Btiehy the _________ -his No greater triumph in medicine or fin' chemistry has been recorded than to Hall's Bair Renewer to revivify and Br< restore gray hair to the color of youth. the BERE'S MORE OF A MESS. The Enterprising State After Superinten dent Mayfield and Mr. Thackston Two Circulars and an Interpret. tion. [The State.] The following circular letters have )een sent to the school commissioners >f the several counties of South Caro ina by W. J. Tbackston, the chief clerk f,Le State Superintendent of Educa ion: "OFFICE OF "PALMETro SCHOOr,JOURNAL, COLUMBIA, S. C., June 4, 1871. "DEAR SIR: The State board of ex miners, at their meeting in April, uade the Palmetto School Journal the flicial means of communication be ween the trustees and the department f education. The State superintendent f education designed to aid and in truct trustees in the de rhich he will conduct. In -this Way < rustees will not only have their atten on drawn to the laws governing the 7 ublic sebools of the State, but will also e helped and encouraged to improve eir schools in many ways which be 'ill iodicate and make practical. . The iclosed letter, whieh fully explains self, I beg you to sign -end return-to - e at once. I will have copies made ad mailed to each board in your coun "Your cordial assistance Is most ear estly solicited in this effort, believing mat the interest that will most sanly aroused will repay you an hundred Id in the help it will give you in your forts to improve the schools com-= itted to your keeping. - "You are especially invited to send Sointerest concernin th f your nt? on a copy of be Journal. As each number of the ournal will contain vital information mat will appear only once, it is impor int that you give attention to this at - nee. "Very truly, W. J. THACKSTON, Editor and Owner Palmetto Journal. (Enclosure.) "DEAR SIR: The State board of e miners has adopted the Palmetto chool Journal as the official means of. )mmunication between the depart tent of education and school aloer. special department will be edited by le State Superintendent of Education, which school law and improvement 'the schools will be discussed. "The State board, with ourselves, ost arnestly desire that every trustee tould receive the Journal, and by re lution of the State board, trustees ire ithorized to subscribe for the same id issue an order on county treasurera payment for same. "Enclosed you will find claim parti ly filled out for the three (3) trustees your district. Have these c a ,m gned by your board and return them me in order that your name may be rwarded to the State superintende id have your names put en the ma g list of the Jour al, Very truly, This is a veryinteresting -situation deed! The State superintendent.of ucation and his chief clerk havea tle alliance among themselves, and-a urnal is issued by the latter, of whieb e formeredits-a department. We do >t know whether the superintendeit education is a "silent partner" in the terprise or not, or whether -be is to ceive compensation forediting his d ztment or not. That is a side issue. e do know that an attempt is being ade to make one department of the ate government at once a public $ce and a private "trust"-to take e money of the people and put it Into e pocket of an officeholder-to make e taxes of the counties support Mr. iackston's journal. T.he declaration that the State board trustees has passed a resolution au orizing this provision of the public nds does not come directly, it will be mn, from Mi. Thackston. He sItin e mouths of the county school comn issioners. If it be true, the board has -- ne an act which it will find very rd to justify. If it is true, there is - ception as well ajobbery. But no matter how it stands, ths air is scandalous. It compels the king of three copies of the -Pal tto School Journal in every school strict of the State at the expense of e tax payers, and the money goes ao pockets of Mr. Thackston minvI ally, or Mr. Thackston .and his ekers. It is estimated that-tbe sum uns proposed to be drawn from the inty treasuries will amount to from 000 to $.5,000 annually. GORMAN IN THE RACE. ,ryland Democrats Will Push Him in the National Convention. BALTIMORE, June 1l.-The Demo tic state committeeldecided to-day to Id the state convention for the nomi tion of a candidate for governor on [y 30. The indications are that Hon. mnk Brown will be the nominee.[He - he choice of Senator Gorman, the ty leader. several significant facts were devel, ad at the meeting. One was the do mination of the state Democrats to sh German in the National presiden I convention. A friend of the sena said to-day that the latter was in Srace sure. OLK AND THEi PEOPLE'S PAETY. Call for Mass6 Meetings Kansas Takes Hold In a Hurry. COPEKA, KANs., June 10.-President ik, of the National Farmers' Alli me, has issued a circular to all State ances requesting them to make ar igements for holding a number of ss meetings, one in each congres aial district, some day in September. tint on ihe advice of the national sident, Secretary French, of the nsas State Alliance, will in a few rs issue a cirsular designating a ce in each district where meetings Lil be held, and suggesting the de s necessary to success. It is also t of the plan to have these district etings followed by county meetings live all the opportunity to attend I participate in the boom which y are intending to give the new pie's party.otvI Special to the Charleston World.] LTLANTA, June 9.-John Brown, Greek, who kissed a young girl in employ against her wishes, was d $100 and costs in the city court lay. "It no worth it,' protested >wn to his interpreter, as he paid money.