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1 N 1e r. Tr .)V :i# l i t . " ,i r p ' . Si s r ' t} 6 yyl 9 -t ti + tY -11 4 -- eber I crW an+eu~ ,- - E S . ES4TABLIS1JED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1898. T WICE A WEEK, $1.50) A YEAR OLD GLJRY, WAVES ON PORTO RICAN SOIL OUR HOLDIERs TAKE POSSESSiON OF PORT eUANIOA. t spasslards Were Conptetely 'aken by Sur prisO and tested-TIhe tlallant, Little Gloucester esoes Sosae More bpen di Work. e * [State, 27.J Washington, July 20.-The war depar ment at 11.80 p. in. posted the following: St. Thomas. July 26, 1898. d Secretary of War, Washington: Oircumstances were such that I deemed it advisable to take the har- q bor of Guamnoa, first, 15 miles west i of Ponce, which was successfully no- I complished between diylight and 11 o'clock. Spaniards surprised. The F Gloucester, Commander Wainwright, u first entered the harbor; met with r slight resistance; fired a few shots. t All the transports are now in the a harbor, and infantry and artillery I going rapidly ashore. This is a well g protected harbor. Wittor sufficiently a deep for all transports and heavy vessels to anchor within 200 yards of shore. The Spanish flag was low- I ered and the American flag raised at 11 o'clock today. Capt. Higginson a with his fleet has rendored able and t earnest assistance. Troops in good 1 health .and best of spirits, (Signed.) Miles, Major General Commanding. t TBE FIRST DETAILs. (Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.) Port of Guanica, Island of Porto Rico, July 25, 2 p. m., via the Is land of St. Thomas, D. W. I., July 2&--Morning.-The United States military expedition under the com mand of Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, commanding the army of the United States, which left Guantaunamo Bay during the evening of Thursday last, July 21, was landed here successful- t ly today after a skirmish with a do tachment of the Spanish troops and a crew of 80 belonging to the launch of the United States auxiliary gun- I boat Gloucester, formerly Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan's steam yacht Cor sair. Four of the Spaniards were killed, but no Americans were hurt. The troops were pushed forward in order to capture the railroad leading to Ponce, which is unly about 10 miles east of this place. From Ponce there is an excellent military road running 85 miles north to San Juan. The whole of (n. Brooke's force, wihthe New Orleans, Annapolis, &' Cincinnati, Lieyden, and Wasp, are Sexpected here within 24 hours. 4THE TRANSPoitT FLEET AND CONVOYS. The ships left Guantanamno Bay suddenly on Thursday evening, with Sthe Massachusetts, .commanded by 'Capt. F. J. Higginson, leading. SCapt. Higginson wvas in charge of the n aval expedition, which consisted, in d4ition to the Massachusetts, of the ~~pmbia, Dixie, Gloucester and Gen. Miles wats on bourd the n amed versol. The troops were Sjoard the transports Nuccs, asu monanchle,'Rita, Unionia.t, ater, City of Macon and Spec 1This was the oraer in which <transports entered the harbor o~voyage from Guantanamo tthis port was uneventful. At *yesterday Gen. Miles called a altationi, announcing that he letermined not to go by San *Cape, but by the Mona Pan instead, land here, surprise tho iards and deceive their military ritios. The course w- then ed and the Dixie was semt to - Gen. Brooke at Cape San Juan. Guapica has been fully degerib by Lieut. Whitney of Gen, Miles' Lft, who recently made an adven nrous tour of Portp Rico. YEOMAN LAOT HoISTS oOLLORiY. Quartermaster Beck thiereupon Kiold Yeoman Laoy to haul down the Wapanish flag, which was done, The first Onitud States flag to float over .Porte Rican soil was raised on the fagstaff. The best medicine you can taike Is .lhat, which builds a solid fourndation for' health in pure, eich blood-Hood's Saraakilla. Escelsler Etehinas. Our farmers are busy now laying by heir crops. We are needing a rain gain. Mr. J. M. Epting, of Pine 1idge, ,exington County, has been on a visit o Prof. R. C. Counts. Mr. A. A. Nates is attending court at lowberry this week as a juryman. Mr. Boland and sister, Miss Flor nec, have been '.a a visit to Mr. John lettz and wife, of this section. Miss Mary Peterson, who is visiting Ir. J. C. Singley's family, was given a ocial at Mr. Singley's home on Wed esday night. We learn the atten ance.was large. Sorry to learn Mrs. John Cook, of his section, is confined to her room uite sick. A good many of our peop)le are look ug forward to a pleasant time at the ,ittle Mountain reunion. Mrs. Henry Suber and children, of 'eaks, visited relatives in .his com unity last week. Glad to sec some of our friend cor espondents are speaking in favor of he picnic at Brown and Moseley's rove. Don't think a more suitable lace could be selected for the picnic athering. Misses Bessie Counts, Mattie Counts, nd Marie Dominick visited relatives a Taborville section last week. Prof. I. C. Counts, who was elected rincipal of our school for another chool term at a recent meeting held y the patrons, informs us that he has ccepted of the school after considering he matter carefully. Prof. Counts ,aught the Bethany school in Saluda ounty last year and our school brings Aim back home. While our present eacher, Prof. J. S. Wheeler, goes to he Mt. Pilgrim school another year, till we are glad our school will con inue to be in the hands of a good eacher. SIGMA. siver Street Dois. Miss Sallie Spearman, of Whitmire, s visiting at Mrs. 1N. H. Longshore's. Wister Gary, of Johnston, is in town isiting. Messrs. Jim King and Mr. Dan Proc or, of Dyson's, spent.the day in town few days ago. Mrs. Fannie Maffett is ofT to Spar anburg for a summer outing. Crops are almost laid by, and ' I am 6fraid that some grass will be left in he cotton. Cropu are looking fine. The war seems to be on a standstill. think that the United States has be run a trouble that it will take more han one generation to get rid of. We nay expect another war or the prolon ration of this. The influence from this var will reach out far into the minds if other nations and soon all the world vill no longer be dictated and ruled by he Roman Church. She may kick at he loss of Cuba, but soon the inde cndonceof mankind willdown any reli ion of a taxation by force of a govern nent. The idea of a church being orced to keep up its church by the acking of a financial government will ie blotted out by higher p)ower. Tihe nissionary movement, will no longer be topped, and D)iaz's influence will spread ride and soon Cuba will say all is vell. Judge Hodges is a good man for the Probat,o otilee, and there will be no roubie in his holding tihe oilee. Lookout for IClierbo on the first The gardens areo coming now and eon we will have plenty of beans. PUCK. camnipaign A ppusintament a. The report of thme sub-committee mn campaign schedule was adopted is follows. Union, Saturday, July 30. Newborry, Monday, August 8. Laurens, Tuesday, August 9. Greenville, Thursday, August 11. Pickons, Friday, August 12. WValhalla, Monday, August 15i. Anderson, Tuesday, August 10. Abbeville, Thursday, August 18. Greenwood, Friday August 10. Aiken, Monday, August 22. Edgefleld, Tuesday, August 23. Saluda, Thursday. August 25i. Lexington, Friday August 20. Columbia, Saturday, August 2'7. valuable canok noek Free. If you will send The N. K. Fair ank Company, Chicago, Ill., your aine, address and one 2 cent stamp o pay for postage, -'they will mai rou free of charge a copy of "Home -eps," a practical and useful book >t Recipes, with much valuable in ormation on- cooking and serving [Breakfatsm, Lunoheons, Dinners and Lreas, Table Decoration, Invitations, I~tiquette and many others subjects >f special interest and value to the lousewife. "Homxe Helps" contains 100 pages, is handsomely gotten up md illustrated, and is edited by kira. Rorer, tho eminent lecturer and mthority on Pure Foods and House molk Economy, and Principal of the P~hiladelphia Cooking School. SPAIN SUES FOR PEACE FIENUUI A MIISAsAI)R CA MOON :'II sHNTS s1'AIN's MESSAGE. snply a Proposition Tisat Peace N. gat lions be Opened-Preeldent RItserv,n Ills Answer In Order to ('onsult lil cabinet. Washington, July 20.-Spain h sued for peace formally and direct to President McKinley through Cambon, the French ambassad< The following official statement mado: "The French ambassador, on t half of the government of Spain, a by direction of the Spanish minist of foreign affairs, has presented the President this afternoon at t White House a message from t Spanish governmont looking to t termination of the war and the st tlement of terms of peace." Spain's communication presont by Ambassador Cambon is genei in terms, and does not make any d tinct propositions as to Cuba, t Philippines or any other possessic It is simply a regtnest that peace r gotiations be opened. No armisti is proposed. ; After Ambassad Cambon submitted the proposal general talk followed bt'tweon hi the President, Hit'eretary Day and Thiebaut. The President ret-erved his ai wor, an understanding leing reach that he would at once lay the a joct before the cabinet and then i vite M. Cambon to another con*< once at the White House when t final answer will be given as to t willingness of this government open negotiations. The manner in which the pot negotiations shall be conducted, case the United States accol Spain's tender, has not been det mired upon, but it is understo that the method likely to be adopt is to have Gen. Horace Porter, Ui ed States ambassador. at Paris, i Senor Leon Castillo, Spanish a bassador at Paris, carry forward I negotiations from the point arrn at by the President and Ambassat Cambon. TiEC QUEEN REGENT IN UREAT i 0111511. . With Tears she lmplores Her Minister sue for P-ae-Ier One (Jar, is for 1ho Litt I King, JAtlanta Journal, 25.] Paris, July 25.-A special i patch from Madrid gives the folk ing account of the queen reget daily life dnring the p)resenIt crii "Poor queen! This is the ex( mation so often heard of late,< after day, an matters grow wc and worse as the Spanish disast repeat themselves, and as the thri of the little king seems slipp from her hands, into which it given trust. I see her majest.y lo ing careworn and anxious. E her drives are hecoming fewer fewer.. "It would surely appeal to mother in the world were she to Life way thin queen-mother each< seems to cling~ closer and closer her boy, as though to shiel I from the dangers closing about 1 with almost fatal force. IL is toa ing to witness it. Hler worst f! mica recognize in the queen porso qualities worthy of the highest miration. The queen used cv means at her disposal to prov' war. Her great hope lay in Se Moret (Senor Mo rot y Prenderg the former minister of the hisonit and lie would have carried col pc but for Senor Gullon, the fori minister for foreign affairs. "Today, and ever since the1 began, the great occupation of queen is to find the quickest way its termination. AL many oC council of late held at the palace queen has burst into tears, begg and urging her ministers to seel solution for the terms of pet which they seem incapable of mnai ializing. Peace--which the qu with common sense sees to be of a1 vital importance, and which ministers keep poatponing with word so fatal to Spain--Mani (tomorrow). The queen has tal every chance olfod in the coui of putting in a word for peace, a little by little, she has flnally m aged to bring the cabinet to eaw and to thoughts of pace" -- UATT'LE PHIOTO UKAPHa. Lieutenant di e U eid Ills au,ora an ie . charand ule SAn Juatn Huii. Now York, July 21-A staff cor 14- respondent of the Press, writing a,r from Sibonoy, gives an account of a peculiar feat performed by Liout., Hugh S. Wiso, son of John S. Wiso as of Now York, and formerly of Vir ginia. Lieutenant Wise was among those who charged up tho hill at >r' San Juan. n is The correspondent of the Press col says: 0' "Ho charged up the hill at the he nd head of his company in tho faco of da; or Mauser bullots, thick as hail and to with shapnol shells bursting all ho be around him, and carried in his right ho he hand his sword and in his loft a th he rapid firing camera of his own do it- vice. He took twelve views on his ab film plates while he was running n and when he and the standing rom nant of his company were in poss- er "-nion at the top of the hill, and theh h0 Spaniards were flying down the of n" other, Lieutenant Wiso turned to a 0- sergeant aid said: or "I think I've got somo pretty live- y ly pictures this time. If there was sh a only son.o ico in this sunburned country I'd develop thon right thl now." d Then he gave his camera to a pri- of od vate to guard and resumol fighting. vo If that isn't bravery, coolness, nerve fo and audacity combined I novor heard of them. And everybody who knows tr ho him will say that it was "just like tin he Hughey Wis." wi to McCluro'u Magazine for August. th of c Short stories by Rudyard Kip. he i ling, Rowland E. Robinson, William so Allen White, Cutchffe Hyno, and )ts several others, make McClure's Mag sr- azine for August especially a fiction od number. In Mr. Kipling's story we ni ed have a now and most diverting chap- sp it ter in the lives of those most ingen ious and audacious English school na boys--Stalky, Beetle, and McTurk. tic m- In Mr. White's we have an account he of the first real passion of our old an ,ed friend, the King of Boyville, Win field Hancock Pennington-familiar ly known as "Piggy." The other a stories are no loss characteristic of fr their authors; and all are interest- as LN- ing, cheerful, and wholesome, af- al fording a diversion that is both nu- Tp ,, tritious and palatable. The fiction, however, is by no means all that is noteworthy in the number. It con- he tains a religious poem by Mr. Glad- bi stone; an account by Colonel An- hi is- drew S. Rowan of a peculiarly haz >w- ardous secret journey made by him t' across Cuba, after the war began, in c 'sorder to carry messages from our al ius: government to the insuirgents; the fs la- conclusion of Charles A. Dana's rem- "] lay inisconces, giving now information hi rse regarding the fall of Richmond, the assassination of Lincoln, the arrest w ers of Jefferson Davis, and other events hi me at the clone of the war; and an ac- rc ing count by Major-General Miles of vas his observations and experiences as a ok- guest of honor, last year, at special royal reviews and manmiuvers in Run- h, ton sin, Germany, and France. The ii md lustrations of the unumbor are romar- hi kably fine; and no is the special cover my designed by Kenyon Cox. e THE S. S. McCLUJRE CO h lay New York City. n~ to im TE10 Hl sPINtIs OF ARLKANsAs. c im -- oh- The Riountiln-Lockoit miracie of the nal ~ iid- The hot waters, the mountain air, d equable climate anid the p)ino forests al ory make Hot Springs tihe most wvonder- hi ant fiul health and pleasure resort in the nor world, summer or wvinter. It is own - mt, ed and controlled by the U. S. GJoy is) rmnent and has accommodations ' itfor all classes. The Arlington and " rPark hotels and 60 others and 200) S boarding houses are 0open all summer. ai var Having an altitude of 1000) feet it the is a cool, safe and1( nearby refugo for during the heated term ini the south. the For informat,ion concerning Hot ti the Springs address C. F. Cooley, Man- ti ing ager Bnsiness Meni's League, Hot jSprings, A rk-.i For reduced excursion tickets and particulars of the trip) see local agent or address WV. A. 'Tnrk, Gen'i Pass. chAgent, Southern Rly., Washington, a her D. C. 'i the g a"[Lat sumnmer one of our grmd-k achildren was sick with a severe boawelk {en trouble," usys M rs. E. 0. GJregory, ef bi iell Fredricksto,wn, Mo. "Our udoctor's ad, remedy had failed, then we tried i an- Ch,amberai's Cello, (Cholera and e1 l)Diarrhoea Rtemedly, which gave very o erspeedy relief." For sale biy WV. I. ltlami S. HOBSON IN ATLANTA THIER OF TIIE FAMOUS LIEUTEN ANT OF THE MIEIRIMAo VISITS THE GATE oITY. Is a Pleasant Lady and Was Kindly eosmed to Atlanta-Thful:e tich stinl Will surely Visit Atlanta Tiste W. ek-she Fuels That the Gov urnauent Ought to Send Illn. (Journal, 25th.) Mrs. Sallie O. Hobson, of Alaba , the mother of Lieutenant Hob i, of the nevy, who has recently no to Lithia Springs for her tth, is in Atlanta shopping to Mrs. Hobson arrived hero at 11.30 look this morning and was met by e son, of 59 West Mitchell street, s city. She went immediately to ke some purchases and to see )ut some things she is having do at one of the largo establish its here. After completing her antis she took a carriage which i boon called for her and drove to i residence of Mr. W. Ii. Beatty, 520 Woodward avenue. Mr. Be y is a second cousin to Mrs. Hob i, and she will stay with his fain until tomorrow afternoon, when 3 will return to the springs. Mrs. Hobson expresiod regrets d, she was unable to visit Atlanta ring the reunion and meet many the persons who had written her ry kind letters, but she says she Ind tho trip from Alabama fatign and (lid not feel equal to the p. She says her trip hero this no is puroly on business, but she il return next Monday and spend a entire week. The greater part this time she expects to give to r son here, hz:t says she shall do me visiting, too, during the week. MRS. HIOBSON IN ATLANTA. Mrs. Hobson, when soon this mnor ug, seemed in excellent health and irits. She has a very kind face ich reflects an amiable disposi m. The mother of the brave liouten. t of the navy is quite sure her son ill visit her before returning to his ip. She has received no word 3m him, but her mother's instinct sures her that she is to see him, A she confidently expects him ursday or Friday of this week. She said this morning: "I know will come here before be goes Lek south, and he will probably ve to como through Atlanta." When told that a dispatch was re lived saying the lieutenant wis out to sail from New York her ith was unshaken and aho replied: Iguess that is a mistake. I Iirmly liove I will see him before thec ook is over, and I expect to find a tter from him at my hotel wheni I turn tomorrow afternoon. TALKS OF JHER SON. "Have you heard from him since was exchanged ?" she was asked. "Only indirectly," sihe replied. '.. weo not received a line direct from y son since ho escaped from the mtds of the Spaniards. I am in ronod that lhe wrote ire the mo ont lie was exchanged, but letters mie slowv fronm that part of tbc muntry, and it will doubtless come~ ong in a day or so. I also he ive that Richmond haes writteri ne he reached New York, b)ut het d not know I had left Alabama id his letter was perhaps add ressetl mo and has been forwarded tc Mrs. Hlobson knows that her sor safe, and from that she is deriv Ig much comfort and happiness Lie has been through ai great strait id is now enjoying relief. Sh( id this morming that sate haed stir red many anx'ious hours during thi( me her son was held a prisoner b3 me Spanish. "Wheni I first boatrd of the sink. ig of the Morrimac," she said, "I as in great suspense. Then ] arnted my boy waes safe and it was relief. Then it occurred to inc ai tat time that he might be in dan ir event from Americn shells, as ] mew Ite was in the town to be bomn irdled. But I have enjoyed a coin irative peace since hie was exchang I. I wiil be glad when the war is ,er. I am impatient to have ma n with .a naain. It would hto bittet disappointment to me to have in hin go back without sooing him. I c know his !tme is precious and that ct his services belong to the govorn mont, but I cannot believe they A would send him back without first th tlh sending him to me." ti When asked if she had receivt d rl any recognition from the govern. of mont for her son's daring feat, she replied: I "Only from the presidetnt. Ir. vI McKinley sent in a very .kind mea- ht sage of congratulation." 114 wIMTA,iKows OF 1SETTERHs. i "Do you get many letters ?" dt 'Many' doesn't express it," she I said with a smile. "I got an ava- d lancho of them--wheelbarrow loads. I appreciate every one of then. I ht have been unable to answer all of ' them, but, I have answered a great d uany. I have also complied with a number of requests for my photo- f graph, but with all muy efforts a num Hl ber of letters and notes have been nt neglected. I am thinking seriously Y of getting a typewriter operator to i help Ie with ily correspondenco for a short time until I can catch up I with it." Irs. Hobson said she had a nunu- nt ber of invitations to visit Atlanta, and that next week when she comes r for a longer stay she hopes to moet all of those who have boon so kind. I Mrs. Robson received the follow- I ing telegram from President McKin- h ley: "W1ashingt.on, ,July 26. "Mrs. S. C. Hobson, Atlanta: "The secretary of the navy re- t ports that he tendered your son leave of absence last Friday. At my requent he has telegraphed to the same eifect, today. lie is at lib orty to leave at any time and has boon notified of your message. "WIILLIAM MxKINLEY." t PROHIBITION DEPARTMENT. AlIIUlt K li l,ICIt, County Chairman. A. U. JONIa, Member state Prohibit,ton Ex ces ive Com mitt cn, Newborry om,, ty. ''ho following are taken from the ed itorials Southern I'resbyterlatn, pub lished at Clint,on, S. U., .1uly 21, 1898: PitOHinITION Olt IPIi'NSAtY. The peoplo of South ('arolina have an mportant problems to wolvu at, the next election in the settlemnent, of the liquor question. ''he State has come to the point where high iicense will iot, satisfy it. Before the present dispent sary law was onneted, a popunlar vote was taken at which tie) people declared in favor of prohibition. The l4egisla ture gave the State the dispensary in stead. A better regard for the will of the people would have saved many law suits, much expense, much strife and several lives. Tme d ispensamry laiw has been pat ched ump by the Ilaegislature in-cmd punmicture m bcIiy 1,hie courmt.s un1t,i It, is al - miost, uinreco)gnizxable amnd whiol ly in elTect,ivo~ as a t,lcinporanmce mneasumro. If it were not, for t,he decisionis againmst it, the law would cert,ainly have beemn t.o some1 degree eleetive. We cannmot g back to tihe highm icenise system. Tne dIispensary system is unmconstituit,iomnal in so miamny feat,mures that it isi a falluren ini practico, It, onmly renmis t,o adopt p)rohiibit,ioni. n)OER P'itOiiiIll'PiON PRHOmin'PPY This question is asked by t,be oppo~ nents of a pmrom hit,ion memasur-e as if it, could rnot be answer-ed otherwise than In the negat,ive. We woulid say diecid cdly, prohmibitiomn does prohi ib)it, as nimch as any prmoibitive lawv could prioh ibit. It cannot, compjletely stop) t,be sale of intoxicants bet it camn mmakoe suchl sales illicit, and danigeroms amnd soi redurce time quantity old1 anid :onisumed)( as to4 woni deirfuilly bemnelit, the peop01le rel igiouisly, socially, morally and financially. Thmem-e is no l aw whichd cani pm-ocur p- erfect obedience. Amid as ovemy ot,her- law umifers meany infr-act,oins so also imulst, t,he law restraining t,mo sale of inetox i cants. Bunt wit,h its manny ifractons it would gmreatly reducme dulnkenness amid would elevate societ.y. A CA1IF IN P'OlN'f. Theli above I. written in a little town of some t,wemty-two oir ti,bre(i hundmIred oplai, whI eroi a local pIrohi ibiti,iin awhsbe operative fomr somne twenty yeam-s. Whmen the towni went, druy it was a wretched lit,t,le lamnlet having aomt, as mnaumy bar-r'ooms as of all othemr mer cantio hecstmubl ish mnenit. toget,her. It, hmad pract,icailly niotin mg to) co11mmend !t,, and t,ravelers feam-ed to pass thrioughl it. In t,hie night.. Now, it, is pr'obably tbe most moral place in t,he State, amnd t,bemre is less whisky comnsumed by its l>eople now in a year t,han was former ly eommsiuiied by one si xthi of t,he pr-esent, poplulation ini a month. Thlemre are two othier laces inm Sout,h C'arol ina wich1d have follo(iwed thle sanie policy of pro hibiting t,he sale of whisky, Itock 11111 andl Greenwood '* 1 e have made womi derful material a, o ial as well as i-el igious pr'ogress. A e mention these among othmems because thmey are well known as loaders of pr'ogr-ess in, Soumth Carolina. Not only (10 we fIid Ci' -istian people for pr'ohibition arid ag ist, whiskey, but, listen to what, Itohit. d. Ingersoll, the infidel, has to say aboumt it,: "I anm aware thant, there is a prejudice against any man who manufactum-es al cohol. T believe that, from the t,ime It issues iromi thie coiled and pisonous worm in thnealiatille' until it. empties to t to jaws of death, i ishtonor and imu, it demoralizes everybody thnt nches it, from its source to where I, ds. I do not believe anybody ca1 ntonplate the object without being ejudiced against the liquor crime. l we have to do, gentlemen, is to ink of the wrecks on either bank of e stream of death, of the suicides, of o insanity, of the ignorance, of the stit,tion, of the littie children t.ug ng at the faded and withered breast weeping and despairing m<e thers, of ives asking for bread, of the men of mius it has wrecked, the men strug In1g with Imaginary serpents, pro eied by this devilish thing; and when mt think of the jail4, of the alms m1ses, of the asylums, of the prironers, the scalfolds upon either bank, I. do >t, wonder that, every thoughtful man projud iced a* 'nst, this d'amnt od rt,mIT Liled alcohol. Intemperance cuts >wn youth in its vigor, manhood in its rengt.h, old age In its weakness. It 'caks the father's heart, bereaves the .ting mother, extinguishes natural rection. erases conjugal love, blots out lal attachment, iights parental )pes, brings down mourning ago in rrow to the grave. It produces weak 3 8, not, strength; sick ness, not health; ath, notlife. It, makes wives widows; 111dren orphans; fat.hers fiends; and I of thomn pti u;mrs and beggars. It 'eds rheumatism, invites cholera, in orts pestilence and embrnces con timption. It covers the land with idle LH, misery, ri11e. It tills your jails, ippies you' alnshouses, and demands mu asylum1s. It en gienders controver es, fosters quarrels and cherishes ots. It, crowds your penitentiaries ud furnishes victims for your scalfolds. is the life blood of the gambler, thn urment of the burglar. tie prop of t,e igh waymnun and 511)iort, of the 1uid1 ight incendiary. It countteuanc;'e, the ar, respects the thief, esteems the lasphuner. It violates obligationl, 3verenees fraud and honors infamy. defamws benevolence, hatoc love, iorns virtuo and ;4anders innocence. incites the father to butcher his elpless offspring, helps the husband ) massacre his wife and the child to rind the paricidal ax. It burns up tei, consUm1es women, detests life, ursos (od, despises heaven. It uhorns witnesses, nurses p1)rjury eilles the 1ry lox and ntailns judicial rmine. It degrades the citizen, debases he legislat.or, dishonors the statesman nd disarms the patriot. it brings shame ot honor; misery, not safety; despair, ot hope; misery, not happiness, and vith the malevolence of a fiend it, alnly surveys its frightful desolation And unsatiated havoc. It poisons felic ty, kills peace, ruins morais, blights Onuidence, slays reput,ations, and wipes ut national honor, then curses the vorld and laughs at its ruin.' It does All that, and more. I t murders the soul. t, is the sum of all villainies, the fath wr of all ernes, tho mother of all Lbominat,tions, the devil's best, friend umd G(od's worst enemy." And yet there are some men who -lain,to be Christians that are support. ng the State (dispensaries) bar-rooms In Newherry County. Is the life and nil oience of the late Jludge O'Ncall en .Irely forgotten. A . C.t.tIONEICS. 'Thil Efrect" for 11un161". 'T'he number of woullde(1 soldiol"s in the tight at Siboney near Santiago was so entirely out of proportion to the comparatively snall number of killed that. Major Lugarde, who is in charge of the hospitals, was asked if ho could throw any light. on the roa son for it. Hie saidl that, t.he lienmarie restilts of the rdedlle( cal ibre projectiles have boeon[ sp)oeially shtownt among thoseo-onded int th joinit ced of biotns, the parts of lungs. T1hie long bones have showni but few expkle.e efWeots. The casuall.y list, with the old leaden buillots, like the 4(5-cali l)re might have showvn fewer wounds, but the proptort ion of the severe wound1s mttight predominate so great, ly thait stul oring wvouldl h0 mtor~O goen oral. Geoneral atmphut.ation andt restric. Lion woero rarely nece'ssary with thle modern bullet. Thoi Matusor 1bu1lets need( by the Spaniiards show few of the injuries suffered from the old1 leaden01 butlLs oif large calibre. Th'ie absence of caises of gtunshiot wound1s in thte inutest inecs amttong the wvoutid1ed is niot icoleld. Th'e infereinco is thmat there are a number of such wvound(s a"ang the dead in the field. This is what m)ust lbe (expoeted( to be fond from the htydlraulic effects of the small calibrto pirojectihcs. Ont all or gans withI fInmd( contents thmo effect is terrilol-the mnaximiumt, in fact, of oxp)losivo result. T1hec other wotunds are trivial, and are seldomt seriouis enongh to cotmpol the wvounded mnen to keep thteir leds unless the butllels are lodged. Even then the woundeltd merely show slight local izedO pneiumoiOa. The0 numider o lodged balls is greater than was anticiphat ed. TI'i s is prob)ably duoc to detorioration of the smokeless powder ulsed by the Spaniards, or, perhiapsm, to tho imn p~eed velocity of the0 projectiles ini p)assinIg Lbhrough the grass and birusah bietweon thme fightinig lines. The suffering and the list of the dead would have been far greater if the Spaniards hand used 45i-calibro buil. lens