The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 05, 1903, Image 7
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I STATE'S NEW ACTS.
What Was Done By the Session Just
Closed
i rr was a conservative body
There Was a Large Amount of Busi
ness Done?A Resume of Principal
LUwr? tuavicu.
There were 183 acts passed by the
legislature which adjourned Saturday.
The greater part o! this number is devoted
to local legislation, building
.school houses, refunding over-paid
taxes, etc. There was not much nntisorporation
legislation. A number of
| acts merely correct errors in the code.
The first act passed by the general
assembly was Senator von Kolnitz's
bill to provide for any deficiency in the
drawing, of grand juries for the year
1$03. This act was ratified on the 29th
of January.
The following were the acts passed
by this general assembly.
GENERAL LAWS.
To provide lor the erection 01 a
monument to Wade Hampton.
To prevent the sale of toy pistols,
etc.
To regulate the employment of children
in factories, mfnes and manufacturing
establishments in this State.
To protect fish by regulating the sale
v of dynamite, etc.
To establish a table of mortuary statistics
for evidence in the courts.
act to allow wholesale druggists
( to seJJ alcohol without profit to licensed
druggists.
An act to amend section 563 of the
criminal code of 1902, so as to further
regulate the location and establishment
of dispensaries.
An act to provide specimens of mineral
of this State for Clemson Agricultural
and Mechanical college.
An act to provide for chief States
constable, etc.
An act to fix the weight and regulate
thetrado in corn meal.
An act to require the State treasurer
to publish a monthly statement showing
the amount of money on hand and
the banks in which the same is deposited.
An act to amend section 1066, civil
code, relative to the persons entitled
to pensions, by climating age limit, j
An act to definite the law relating to
certain forms of commercial papers.
An act to amend section 169 of the
code of civil procedure, in reference to
demurrers.
An act to amend section 2165 of the
ode of Laws of South Carolina, 1902,
volume 1, in reference to mileage on
short roads.
. An act to amend section 17C of the
?rlminal code, volume II., code of laws
1902, relating to the punishment for removal,
destruction or leaving down Of
any gate, fence bars or other structures.
An act to amend an act to create a
State hoard of entomology, to define its
powers and prescribe its duties, and ;
provide for the inspection of fruit trees, 1
vineyards and vegetable farms; to prevent
contagious diseases and destroy
destructive insects in orchards, vineyards
and other places in the State.
An act to require the sergeant-at- !
arms of the senate to take care of the
furniture of the senate chamber and
senate committee rooms, etc.
An act to amend section 169 of the
atlminal code, so as to give magistrates
Jurisdiction of stealing from the field
when the property stolen does not eieeed
$10 In value.
An act to require banks having on
deposit State funds to render to the
State treasurer, at designated times,
statements showing balances on hand
o credit of the State.
Aa act to abolish the office of phosphate
inspector.
An act to Hx the hurden of nroof on
the party accused of violation of game
laws.
An act to prohibit the sale, leasing,
?tc^ of pistols.
An act to repeal the provision of the
dispensary law allowing board of directors
to make direct contract with dis- j
Sillers in this State.
The general measure as to magistrates
and their salaries.
The three appropriations acts.
An act to amend section 276 of the
ocde of civil precedure by prescribing
the number of calendars to be kept by
dbe clerk of court, and the issue to he
plaoe on the same.
An act to amend section 2608, volume
? dvU code 1902, limiting admission of
villa as evidence.
A join resolution to authorise the
comptroller general to draw his warrant
or warrants in favor of the State
printer and the State treasurer to pay
the same to an amount not to exceed
Old snm 01 ^d,wv, upon account 01 i
amount now due to the State printer
under his contract for the public
printing.
An act to amend section 2863, volume
> 1, of the civil code.
An act to amend an act entitled "an
act to provide for the incorporation of
towns of not less than 1,000 nor more
than 5,000 inhabitants."
An aet to amend section 2432 oi the
civil eode, 1902, by changing the time
fn which distress warrants may be
issued.
? An act to prohibit the driving ofcattle
and other live stock into thi3
State from other States .and to provide
a penalty therefor.
An act to amend section 2038 of the
code of laws of South Carolina, 1902.
?A naet to amend section 826, civil
code (being volume I., at page 315, code
ef laws, 1902.)
An act to amend section 1857 of the
code of laws of South Carolina, 1902,
Tolnme I (civil code), to correct a
typographical error therein.
An act to supply bound copies of the
code of laws of South Carolina, 19C2,
to certain members of the general assembly.
An act to #tmond section 2170 of tbr
civil code, volume I, code of laws, 1902
no as to Increase the penalty provide."
therein and to give one-half to the person
aggrieved and the other half tc
county.
An act to authorize the regents o
the State hopsital for the insane t(
clone up a part of the extension o.
fldtg street and a part of the extension
of Elmwood avenue.
A Joint resolution to authorize the
regents of the State hospital for the
Insane to purchase the Seegers property,
and to provide paying the snme.
An act to authorize and empower
counties and incorpated cities and
towns to own and operate rock quarries
and to work convicts thereon, and
extend the police jurisdiction.
An act to amend section 1814 of the
code of laws of South Carolina. i902,
volume I (civil code, so as to correct
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An act to prohibit the importation ct
diseased stock into this St ite.
R AILROA D LECI SLATON.
\n art to r^T:i.e oil raih'n's r*wating
in tlifUBTate to protect the rafcs
of freight in the bill for carriage of
all freights, goods, wares and merchandise,
and to provide penalties for
the violation thereof.
An act to amend section 21">9. vol. 1,
of the code of laws of this State, by
adding a provision that on short
roads there must be separate apartments
for the races.
A nact to amend the code of South
Carolina, 1902, volume 1, (civil code),
by inserting section to be known as
section 2096a, in regard to freight rates
on melons.
An act to authorise the Lexington
and Columbia railway to construct Its
tracks through certain counties, and
for other purposes.
An act to provide for refunding certain
railroad bonds in Greenville
county.
An act relating to the recording of
railroad mortgages.
An act to amend section 1SS0 of the
civil code'(volume 1, code of 1902) so
as to include "tramways" in its provisions.
An act relating to the State and
county taxes due by the Blue R'.dge
Railroad company for the fiscal years
commencing November 1st, 1872. to
and including the year commencing
November 1st, 1887.
An act concerning the lien on railroad
mortgages.
An act to amend section 3002 of the
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cone, eAi_'ejJwu5 ?iuu-. ?deeds
of trust.
An act to fix the liability >f railroads
having relief departments.
Joint resolution to adjust the indebtedness
between Collection aud Dorchester
counties in regard to Greenpond
and Waterboro railroad bonds.
SCHOOL MATTERS.
To authorize Bishopville school district
to issue bonds for building a
graded school; and similar acts relating
to building or improving school
houses for Greenwood, for Greenville
for court house school district In Chester,
for- Gantt township In Anderson,
for Camden, for Prosperity, for Saluda
;and also an act authorizing sinking
fund commission to lend funds to
Saluda; for Kingstree, for Easley, for
Marion, for Sumter and for Bamberg.
An act directing disposal of surplus
school fund in Saluda county; an act
to define the limits of school district
No. 18 fn Greenwood, to increase the
bond of the superintendent of education
of Saluda; and another act to
increase the salary of that offlcial:'-an
act to authorize trustees of Marlboro
graded school district to levy an additional
tax; to increase salary of superintendent
of education of Williamsburg
county; same thing for same official
in Bamberg county; to allow
county superintendents of education to
find room in which to keep school
books for sale; to Incorporate tne
board of trustees of the Presbyterian
college of South Carolina; to pay on
teachers' salaries at Beauty Spot
school in Marlboro county; to amend
the acts relating to special school districts
in Marion, Mullins, Latta and
Dillon; to Validate election and levy
in Blacksbrrg school district; to
change manner of electing trustees of
Orangeburg graded schools; relating
to time of meeting of trustees of South
Carolina college; to authorize town
of Wagner to use dispensary profits
for schools.
An act to amend section 1208 of the
civil code (vol. 1, code of laws, 1902).
so as to limit the time of elections of
trustees of special school districts.
An act to amend section 1210. cod*
of laws of 1902, relating to election of
boards of trustees in school districts
having not less than 2.500 inhabitants.
PENITENTIARY.
To increase the salary of chaplain.
To permit directors to exchange
lands wun ueo. r. j-igmsey.
To permit 10-year convicts to be
worked on the chaingangs.
To provide for the erection of a new
jail for Berkeley county.
Likewise for Lee county, and for
Clarendon county; and an act author,
izing sinking fund commission to lend
funds for building the Lee county jail.
To pay the commissioners who built
the new jail in Oconee county.
NEW ENTERPRISES.
To authorize erection of a dam
across Wateree river at Catfish shoals.
To provide for the erection of a
bridge across Saluda river at Ware's
shoals.
To incorporate the Indianola Power
company of Lancaster.
To ratify the right to construct
power plants on Tugalos and Seneca
rivers In Anderson county.
To authorize manufacturing establishments
to take out mutual fire insurance
policies.
To Incorporate the Spartanburg
Light and Power company.
CHARLESTON COUNTY.
To cede to the United States government
rights of way to deepen the inland
waterway between Charleston
harbor and McClellanville.
To amend the drainage law so that
property owners must keep ditches in
repair.
To allow an additional magistrate
for Charleston.
To allow fruit trains to be operated
on Sunday.
To allow H. M. Lofton, Jr., to be reimbursed
for purchase from the State
of lands with defective titles.
An act to amend section 278 of the
criminal code, 1902, by maklrg certain
offenses in connection with partv registration
and primaries misdemeanors,
and prescribing penalties therefor.
An act to amend section 38 of criminal
code of laws of South Carolina,
1902, relating to grand Juries.
An act to amend section 258 of the
civil code, 1902, by prescribing certain
qualification for voters on and certain
regulations In connection with party
registration for primary elections in
counties containing a city of 40,000 inhabitants
or more, and for the prevention
of frauds and Illegal voting In the
same.
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An act amending the act in regard to
the city court of Charleston.
MUNCIPAL MATTERS.
An act to empower towns and cities
of five thousand Inhabitants and over
to subscribe to the maintenance of
public libraries.
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act entitled "an act to Incorporate certain
towns and villages and to renew*
and amend certain charters heretofore
granted," passed 19th December, 1SS5.
and to confer the power to condemn
lands for streets.
An act to extend the jurisdiction of
the board of health of Florence so
that the same may include all cemeteries
lying adjacent to such city.
An act to authorize and empower
the city of Sumter to refund its bonded
indebtedness in coupon bonds.
An act allowing the town of Bamberg
to assist in repairing certain
public highways in Bamberg county.
A joint resolution to empower
towns and cities of uve thousand inhabitants
and over to subscribe the
maintenance of public libraries.
An act authorizing the city council
to Aiken to fix and pay unto the mayor
an annual salary.
An act designating the holidays to
be observed In the acceptance and
payment of bills of exchange, bank
checks and promissory notes in Columbia.
ats act to authorize municipal or
other corporations or individuals to
lay pipes for water supply across public
toads and non-tidal navigable
eti earns.
An act to provide for a voting precinct
in each of the four wards in the
town of Union.
An act to amend an act entitled "an
act to amend an act entitled 'an act
to authorize the election of a town
treasurer for the town of Union.'"
An act to validate and confirm all
acts of the city of Spartanburg in relation
to the issuance of certain street
improvement bonds, and to make provision
for the payment of interest on
such bonds and for retiring them at ,
maturity.
An act to create a board of fire
commissioners for the city of Greenville,
in this State, to define Its pownr\A
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COUNTY FINANCES. ETC.
A joint resolution to provide payment
tor the treasurers and auditors
of Sumter. Darlington and Kershaw
counties for services rendered in compliance
with section 4 of the act establishing
Lee county.
An act to establish an additional
voting place at "Roper," in Edgefield
county.
An act to provide an additional district
for Chester county.
An act to authorize and require the
county commissioners of Anderson
county to reindex the real estate mortgages
recorded in the office of clerk
of court for said county.
An act exempting certain portions
of Kershaw county from the operation
of the general stock law.
An act to provide for the special
election in Horry county on the question
of the stock law.
An act to declare certain bonds issued
by the corporate authority of
T'chens and Wise townships, in Edgeliela
county, to be tfalid and legal obligations
of said townships respectively.
and to provide for the payment of
tne same.
An act to enable the commissioners
cf the finking fund to lend funds to
the county board of commissioners of
Abbeville county to pay the past indebtedness
of said county, and to an
thorize the said county board of commissioners
to pledge the special tax
levy herein provided for to secure the
same.
An act to provide for reindexing
the judgments entered up in the office
of the clerk of court for Anderson
county.
An act to amend section 816 of the
code of laws of South Carolina, volume
I, so as to include Laurens county in
the provisions of- said section.
An act to exempt Glenwood and Liberty
Mills for cotton weigher's act for
Easley and Pickens.
An act to enable Newberry county
to get on a cash basis.
An act relating to stationery and
stamps of the officials of Berkeley
county.
An act to authorize the construction
and maintenance of a dam across
Kinloch creek in Georgetown County.
An art to authorize sinking fund
commission to lend Colleton county
funds for current expenses.
An act to increase the salary of the
sherifT of Horry county.
An act to provide for the reindexing
of the records of Barnwell county.
An act to allow the supervisor and
county commissioners of Colleton
county.
An act to allow the supervisor and
county commissioners of Colleton
county to apply surplus funds to ordinary
county expenses.
An act to authorize and provide for
the erection of a new court house for
the county of Darlington and for re?
indexing and otherwise perfecting the
public records of said county.
An act to empower the sinking fund
commission of Cherokee county to retire
and refund bonds of said county
ami fixing compensation of said commission.
An act to enable the commissioners
'of the sinking fund to lend funds to
the county board of commissioners of
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edness of said county; board of commissioners
to pledge the special tax
levy herein provided for to secure the
same.
An act conferring certain jurisdiction
upon the trustees of Peniel Camp
Ground association, in Coleton county,
and limiting the same, together with
power to appoint a special constable.
An act to amend section 20 of the
code of civil procedure, fixing the time
for the holding of the circuit court of
the third judicial circuit
An act to fixing the salary of the
sheriff of Cherokee county at f1,500.
An act Increasing the salary of the
county treasurer of Cherokee county.
An set to abolish the ofllce of township
commissioners in Bamberg county,
and make the general law as to
county government and assessment of
property for taxation applicable therein.
An act relating to the salary of the
auditor of Aiken county.
An act to provide for reindexing the
public records in the office of the clerk
of court for Laurens county.
An act to confirm the title to certain
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lands made by the county board of
commissioners of Saluda county.
An act to repeal the law requiring
the magistrate at Greenwood to issue
process to the sheriff.
An act to amenu an act relating to
the salary of the auditor of Aiken
county.
An act disposing of surplus funds
in the hands of the commissioners of
the home of the poor, of Hampton
county.
An act to establish an additipnal
voting place at "Ropers," in Edgefield
county.
An act to fix the amount of salary
of probate judge of Georgetown county.
LEE COUNTY.
In addition to school and jail bills
elsewhere noted, the following Lee
county measures passed:
A joint resolution to provide payment
for the treasurers and auditors
of Sumter, Darlington and Kershaw
counties for services rendered in compliance
with section 4 of the act establishing
Lee county.
An act to provide for the transfer
of certain records to the office of
probate judge of Lee county.
A joint resolution to provide for a
special assessment of real property in
Lee county.
An act to create an additional township
in Lee county.
An act to fix salaries for county
officers of Lee county.
An act to change and designate certain
townships in Sumter county, antf
to provide for changing the registration
certificates.
TAXES REPAID.
There are a number of acta to fifund
over paid taxes, etc., to certain people.
These are as follows:
An act to. authorize and require
county commissioners to refund certain
commutation road tax to school
trustees. x
An art to refund taxes to the church
of St. Philip. Charleston. Also to the
following: Mrs. S. J. Nettles and Miss
E. S. McCall, Darlington; Bowling
J Oreen Knitting Mills. York cpuntv:
J. S. Gilbert. Abbeville (back salary as
schol commissioner); Jno. T. Youngblood,
Pickens; 0. A. Malono, and Jiati
tie E, Stokes, Dorchester county; E.
i Keith Dargan of Darlington; Jno. C.
Funchces of Orangeburg, and J. D.
Langley of Lancaster; Mrs. Carrie
Halltord of Florence.
The whole of the above claims will
aggregate considerably less than tho
cost of getting these bills through.
PURELY PERSONAL.
An act to provide for the passage
upon and payment of claims of N. W.
Brooker.
An act to authorize and direct the
commissioners of the sinking fund to
sell and convey to Delphia A. Vercen
all the estate of her stepfather, A. L.
I Pendergrass..
| An act to entitle Malcom P. Harris
to apply for admission to practice law.
A joint resolution to require the
I payment of $125 to Bright Williamson
of Darlington for money advanced by
1 him for the county.
REPEALS.
To repeal the act incorporating the
town of Scotia in Hampton* county.
To repeal the act incorporating the
Clinton college association,
j To repeal act ordering an election on
school bonds in Elloree, Orangeburg
county.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
A' stringent child labor law has
passed the Kansas Senate.
Khaki uniforms are now worn by nil
the foreign troops in China except the
j Russians.
The fireworks display at the dcdica;
tlon of the St. Louis Exposition is to
cost $100,000.
There Is at present no prospect of the
abolition of the tax on exported coal in
I Great Britain.
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extraordinary shortage in tlie supply
of servant girls.
St. Louis vegetarians are planning to
establish In that city a co-ooeralive
vegetarian restaurant.
A party of English Mayors Is to
! make an inspection of the chief municipal
undertakings In Switzerland.
The Prussian Statistical Office reports
that there arc 70,829 Insane patients
in the 279 asylums of Prussia.
The Weather Bureau at Washington,
D. C., is to give lessons to Gilbert T.
Walker, ap English scientist, appointed
director of the weather service in
India.'
It is said that a well-organized seditions
movement toward capitalism and
the Government has been discovered in
several of the largest labor centres in
South Russia.
The will of the late Professor Sylvester
Waterhouse, of St. Louis, Mo.,
leaves $25,000 to Washington University,
available in 2000, when It is expected
it will have reached $1,000,000.
The Idaho Senate Committee has
recommended the passage of an eighthour
bill, which provides that eight
hours shall constitute a day's work In
underground mines and reduction
work.
San Jose, Cal., school teachers have
taken Initial steps for the formation ot
a teachers' union. Among the objects
In nlnm ot?h nn??mo mnnor nf foniiro
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equalization of salaries and the eliiu*
ination of polities from the schools.
Loss bv Storm.
Jacksonville, Fla., Special.?The industrial
record of the official naval
stores trade journal published Friday
reports from the turpentine belt
which state that not less than 20 per
cent of the virgin boxes and 10 per
cent, of the old boxes were destroyed
by the storm of this week. The tim
ber was blown down by the winds.
This loss will greatly reduce the tur- |
pentine production in this State.
Would Like a Guarantee.
"I wish," said the rabbit who found
himself in the boa constrictor's cage,
"that the Monroe doctrfne prevailed
in this menagerie." "What do you
mean?" inquired his snakeship. "I
wouldn't mind getting a good scare
now and then if I could only be guaranteed
against being swallowed alive."
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Brom The Atlanta CSnstitation.
My wife reads the papers more or
less every day and keeps up with the
sensations. Most of the time she sits
In her accustomed corner and plies
aer needle and thread, making little
garments for her grand children, or
new covers for the cnshions or mending
underclothes or darning stockings
or something. When she gets tired she
walks in the garden or goes down to
see Jessie and the children. She went
to town yesterday and bought some
thread and some toilet soap and got
weighed and asked the family all
around to guess how much and one
guessed it, exactly one hundred and
fifty pounds. She asked me to guess,
but I said no?she had had her way
so often and so long that I couldn't
come near it aod she shook her fist at
me. GOod gracious! when I married
her she didn't weigh a hundred and
wore number two shoes and stepped
like a deer. "Tempus fugit" next week
will be the fifty-fourth anniversary of
oyr wedding day, fifty-four?the talismanic
number made up of nines or its
multiple, as 3, 6, 9, 18, 27, 54?3 and 6
are 9, 1 and 8 are 9, 2 and 7 are 9, 5
and 4 are 9, And soon our birthdays
will come along again, the flrot and
fifteenth of June, and time keeps rolling
on.
My wife was reading the paper and
suddenly stopped and spoke to me,
saying: "Well, Isn't it about time to
ouit writing abont the negro?" "Why
so?" said I. 'Why, don't you see that
the whole business of the race prob
i Ic-m was settled m ^tiania iasi sunday?
The mayor and the preachers,
black and white, all made speeches,
and seemed to agree and everything
is harmonious. So If I was you I would
write about something else. Take up
Cleorge Washington for a change and
let Booker go dead."
Well, they did play on the harmoni:an
right smart and I hope the problem
will take a rest, for everybody Is
tired of it. Even Crumpacker is tired,
and now says the negro must work out
his own salvation. That's all right
When they call off the dogs, I'll quit.
They?are wa'-dng up to the true character
of the negro. A Chicago man
who has been visiting the prisons says
there are about forty-six thousand negroes
in that city, which is about two
per cqpt of the population and that
the prison records as shown him by
wardens, show the negroes to be thirty
per cent of all the criminals confined,
and that the negro quarter of the city
Is the rendezvous and the refuge of
nearly all the white burglars and
thieves tljat infest the city.
But that's none of my business, as
my wife says. Chicago needs them for
municipal politics. But I have quit. :
Let the negro go along and evolnte, as
Crumpacfesrr says. I had rather look \
out of my window and see two little
girls coming up the walk hand in hand
to see me than to write about anything !
And the little boy is coming, too. HlHs
nurse is rolling him In his carriage
and he will run to me as soon as he
gets In the room, and will nestle on
my knees and say his little words, and
my greatest comfort Is that all of
them love me and won't go homo i
Hcctnc mo a awpat vnniihv
That nurse is a copper-colored girl
about twelve years old, and she loves I
that baby and watches him as carefully
as a mother. She is the daughter
of our sexton, who is the janitor of the |
public school. He and his good wife
are exceptions to all the fratlltles of
the race, and so are their children. If i
there were many like them there
would be no race ,problem. Those
three little children come to see me
every day and make me to forget my- i
self and my long illness, and I find my- '
self whispering, "Suffer little children
t'? come unto me." "And a little child
shall lead them." What a pity they
have to grow up and lose their inno- I
cence and see grief and trouble. How
sweetly sad are the memories of our
youth.
One poet says:
Oh! would I were a J?oy again,
When life seemed formed of sunny
years,
An/1 all the heart then knew of rutin
Was wept away in transient tears.
And another says:
I remember, I remember, the hoas<
whe-e I was born.
The little window where the snn came
peeping in at morn.
It never rose a wink too soon.
Nor brought too long a day,
Btit now I often wish the night
Had borne my breath away.
And so do I remember the little
window and the long happy days, but
I have never wished that I had died in
childhood, nor do I wish to die now. I
wish to live for the sake cf these same
grandchildren, for I know I can do
something to guide and comfort them
along the journey of life, and they
wouid miss me. A child without a
grandpa and grandma has not bad its
share of happiness. -What
a beautiful verse is the last
one of poor Tom Hood's poem:
*T remember. I remember, the fruit
trees, dark and high,
I used to think their slender tops were
close against the sky,
if u'hr a rhildish ienorance. and now
'tis little joy
To know I'm farther off from heaven
than when I was a boy."
Last summer the little baby boy
was sick. We feared he would die. Asj
he lay upon a pillow in his toother's
lap. the little 4-yeor-old girl went up
i close and whispered to her mother.
"Mamma, if baby dies mayn't I keep
him for a dolI?', I never tire of their
childish talk. It is always sincere. and
that is truth, for sincere means with
out wax?unsealed, "Bince ceruni"?
no secrets, open and read if you wish.
It is an old adage that "children and
fools never lie," and this reminds me
of George Washington, who, tradition
says, cut down a cherry tree, and
when his father inquired who did it.
replied, "Father, I cannot tell a lie: I
did It with my little hatchet." I don't
believe that. It must have heen a
1 mighty little tree that a little bov
-ry WW!
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could cut down with a little hat^st.
Aad if he was bad enough to do it and
knew better be wouldn't bare node
such a saintly speech ae "Ifcthor, f
cannot tell a lie." My hi8tory says tied
many of these little stories came from
the nursery. But that he did, wbea yet
lr. hfg teens, undertake to mount and
subdue an untrained blooded norse.
and the horse reared and ran and
plunged so furiously that he bursteda
blood vessel and fell dead with
George on top. His mother was greatly
grieved, and scolded him severely. 1
never knew until recently that he took
the smallpox on Barbados island, and
was slightly marked all his Hie.
George says in his letters that his nozroos
crave him much trouble and
great concern, for he had to be awaj
on public business most of the time
and could not look after them. He inherited
one hundred and forty and six
hundred acres of land and his wife one
hundred hnd fifty more an seven hundred
acres of land, and I reckon^ they
did give him trouble. He never
bought or sold any, and set them aH
free in his will.
Mrs. Robert B. Park, regent for the
Georgia room of the confederate
museum at Richmond, wishes me to
give notice that next month (April)
the confederate bazaar will be held
there for the benefit of the mosaom
and the Jefferson Davis memorial
arch. Mrs. Park asks for special
Georgia contributions for the Georgia
room, and all the regents of flto
southern states ask for help from or*
ery man, woman and child, so that tho
entire south may share in the honor.
The circular is much too long to bm
appended to my letter, but I /will laclose
it to The Constitution.
And now please excuse my mcnUwa
of a matter personal to an old holdier,
W. F. Lee, a private of Company D in
Hampton Legion. He has lost Ha N
horn, a large, long beautiful horn that
while in camp below Richmond be
dressed and polished .and engraved
with his name and a wreath. He look
the bom from the head of a Texas
steer at a butcher pen in the rear ot
Grant's army. He sent it home la the
fall of 1864 by his brother, who *
stopped over night at Columbia at tho
Wayside Home and there lost it Ho
says, "Major, I ' am growing old.
aVaiting the blast of the last trump. .
but I would like to blow my own bom
once more before I die."
Do please somebody send him thai
horn C. O. D. to Piedmont S. C.
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HABOR WORLP.
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4a n Jose, Cal., pressmen hare formed
a union.
Kansas miners earn $350 on an average
a year. f"
Rhode Island factories employ 91,219
persons, 5447 of whom are children
Albany, N. T.t nnion retail clerks
ore agitating an early dosing matt*
ment, ? ,
There were sevanty-Bve strikes m
Canada last year, most of which wefa
successful. 4
There are over 15,000 men and womea
In Cleveland, Ohio, who belong to lahsr
organizations.
Gas workers at San Francisco. CML,
hare been granted their demand for an ,
eight-hour day.
Of the 437,000 miners of Great Britain,
347,000 are members of the union
in good standing.
The demand for skilled Filipino
clerks has been greatly in excess of
the number available.
Sherman, Texas, painters have asturned
to work, differences having bean
satisfactorily adjusted.
The average number employed at the, a
London docks is nearly 2000 belay the
number when trade is good- r ''4
Reports of the labor leaders indicate
that good work is being done In tke
formation of labor unions throughout
Iowa.
There Is a strong movement oa foal
In Oakland, Gal., to form a co-operauvo j mm
anion stable. It will soon take delta#*
shape.
The International' Association of
Building Laborers, which is made up
of hod-carriers, has a membership ef
25,000.
Des Moines, Iowa, express drtrem
and clerks have organized for the pur
pose of making demands for an Increase
in wages.
The city of Alton, 111., claims to ho
the strongest labor union city In the
United States, Seventy per cent.,of its
voters being members of trade unions.
PROMINENT PEOPLED
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Borne has bestowed the freedom Pf
the city on Signor Marconi.
M. Witte, the Russian Minister Of
Finance, Is an ardent temperance ?
worker.
The Rev. S. Baring-Gould, one of the
most prolific and versatile of modem
authors, is sixty-nine years old.
Professor John Lyle Campbell bm
JUSC rouuucu UUl Ulljr-lUUl JUIa w *
teacher at Wabash College, Crawfosdsvllle,
Ind.
S. M. Inman, of Atlanta, Ga., baa J
given $25,000 toward the proposed
Presbyterian university to be erected
lu that city. *
Joseph Battel!, a millionaire land
owner of MIddlebury, Vt; has offered
to rebuild the business portion of that
town, which was recently destroyed
by fire.
Ferdinand IV., Grand Duke of Tuscany,
is now sixty-seven years of age,
and has held his title for;forty-|lyree
years, his father, Leopold II., having
abdicated in his favor in 1850.
The German Emperor is said to have
remarked on nis rorcy-mui uiruiuu/,
"I am Impressed by the fact that Napoleon
and Wellington were Just my A
age at the time of Waterloo." On
June 15 the Emperor will have reached
the sixteenth year of his reign.
Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson.
who recently resigned from the United
States Navy, is quoted as saying that
it is his intention to devote his time
"in the immediate future to the writing of
a novel, to lecturing, literary work %
and to the education of the American
people."
Professor Mommsen, the venerable
historian, who tvas knocked down by
a cab in Berlin the other day and.
slightly injured, htW just recovered
from a painful injury he received from
a fall while looking for some books on
the unper shelves of bis library. About
a year ago the historian was knocked
over by a runaway horse In Berlin, j
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