Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I ? ? * ^1 i M * OTHi: CONFEDERATE BATTI r FL-\GS. P ^ We loved the wild clamor of battle, The crash of the musketry's rattle, The bugle and drum. We have drooped in the dust, long ai IUUC1) , The blades that flashed joy are rust only ^The far-rolling war music dumb. * ?d rest the true souls in death lying, f or whom overhead proudly flying f We challenged the toe. ~ . The storm of the charge we have breaste Chi the hearts of our dead we have rested In the pride of a day long ago. Ah. surely the good of God's making Shall answer both those past awaking And life's cry of pain; But we nevermore shall be tossing On surges of battle where crossing The swift-flying death bearers rain. * JEFFERSON DAVIS' TRIBI In the dedication of his able h the Confederate Government," Pi some tribute to the women of the To the women of the Confedei wounded soldiers soothed the last ject of their tenderest love; whose supply the wants of our defenders our cause shone a guiding star undi whose fortitude sustained them un were subjected; whose annual tribu and reverence for our sacred dead; emiaren to emulate tne aeeas 01 ou dedicated by their eountryman.? SUNBEAMS. These book agents always were s nuisance! Big crop of spring insurgents at Washington! Peary found Atlanta almost as frigid as the North Pole. As to Jones' Falls Boulevard, wh\ not the Great Wet Way? Maryland is getting her dander up as a tobacco growing State. Uncle Joe Cannon is beginning tc lose the use of his whip hand. Siguor Caruso is determined not tc ' give up any of his high notes to the Black Hand. GEX. CLEMEN^ A. KVAXS. Retiring Commander-in-Chief United Confederate Veterans. jfflkmoriat 2)av> l^nrw>^ GEN. ROBERT E. LEE. 1TF TO eOlITHFDM U/AMFN I JIL. IU OUUIIILIXM TTUITIL11 ! istorical work, "The Rise and Fall of resident Jefferson Davis pays a handSouth. The Dedication is as follows: *acy whose pious ministrations to our t hours of those who died from the obi domestic labors contributed much to in the field; whose zealous faith in .mmed by the darkest clouds of war; * der all the privations to which they te expresses their enduring grief, love, and whose patriotism will teach their r revolutionary sires; these pages are Jefferson Davis. \ Improvement of a City. Paris has learned by experience i i that city improvement pays. The i work of reconstruction and beautify- ! ing undertaken by Baron Haussraann when he became perfect of the Seine >' In 1853 coat about $265,000,opo, onethird of which sum was provided by ' the national government, the remaining two-thirds being furnished by the ? :ity. The expenditure was tremendous, 1 but the wisdom of making it never has been seriously disputed. 1 Further costly but valuable bene1 Bts for Paris are now -planned. Reo- I sntly the French chamber of depu- j ties authorized -the municipality to i incur an Indebtedness of $180,000,000 ' ,Y>r another elaborate scheme of im- j provements, including the demolition ' pf insanitary quarters, the construe- 1 ?Anf ef rArtlc owr/lona a n H I .iUU VI lit n oti ttuo, gui uviio MMW schools and other public works. Americans are accustomed to beast >f their enterprise. This boasting may bo justified as to undertakings 3f a private nature. But in the matter of public improvements American municipalities lag 'behind the moro progressive cities of Europe.?Chicago News. HIS OPPORTUNITY. "How did you manage to go through every house on that block in broad daylight without being detected?" asked one burglar. "Very easily," replied the other. "I selected a time when a moving van drove up to a vacant dwelling. I worked while the neighbors were hanging out' of the front windows to ' criticise the furniture."?Washington i Btar. Again in the wind we are streaming, Again with the war lust are dreaming 1'he call of the shell. What gray heads look up at us sadly? Are these the stern troopers who madly Kode straight at the battery s neu: Nav, more than the living have found us, Pale specters of battle surround us; The gray line is dressed. Ye hear not. but they who are bringing Your symbols of honor are singing The song of death's bivouac rest. Blow forth on the south wind to greet us,' O 6tar flag, once eager to meet us . When war lines were set. Go cam- to far fields of glory The soui-stip??^--,*,*jB of the story, Of ^*Vjve met. Yeir Mitchell. t . ^ PRESIDENT DAVIS' LEnER TO DR. R C. HOLLAND. Below we reproduce, in type form, a copy of the letter written by President Jefferson Davis to Rev. R. C. Holland on July 25, 1881. In another column the fac-simile is printed. On account of the small letters, and style of penmaship, we reproduce it in type si that it may be easily read: Beauvoir, Harrison County, Miss., <[ / July 25, 1881. J| ]> R. C. Holland, E^q., ]> 11 My Dear Sir: |i Accept my thanks for your !? j[ kind letter of the 28th ultimo, j! I1 In reply to your inquiry I would / ]i say: ji !; The states cannot be deprived <[ j! of their reserved rights ex'ep; ji i[ by their own actions in a general [ ] convention such as formed the \< <[ constitution. \ I1 As each state did by its own ![ '[ consent, in separate convention \ / delegate certain powers and re- / '! serve the rest, so must each state Ji !| grant any additional power as i[ ] the only means bv which it can / i| justly be deprived of it. Force [ ]> may prevail over right, but can- j> J 1 J i l iL i, not aesiruy iruuj. <( |i The exercise of the power to |? <| coerce a state cannot give to \ !? that act constitutional authority, ([ but it has been so acquiesced in Ji i1 that the remedy of secession by i| ] an oppressed minority must be ] <[ considered impracticable. <[ The South never asked for j> i[ more than a faithful construction Ji of the constitution as interpret'! ed by the men who made it, and (! I1 if in the future that can be se- <[ \ cured we may be content/ though \ i1 we cannot surrender a right even <j S while admitting our inability to ji i| maintain it. <[ ji I was much gratified by the <[ expression of. your opinion in regard to the past and tender i[ to you my sincere regard. (i J' Respectfullv and truly vours. < JEFFERSON' DAVIS, j I Sloth never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. i j THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD The Heart of Happenings Carved From the Whole Country. Investigation of the fasting fad, which has won many advocates recently. at Lake Forest university. Chicagb, revealed the fact that one of the girl student^ has been existing without food for five days and that four of the men students have been starving themselves for a week. Young women students adopted the practice of starving in the belief that it would improve their health. In order to settle the moot question of whether Jews. Armenians and Syrians may successfully apply for citizenship in the United States the Committee on Immigration and Nat uralization favorably reported to tne House a bill by Representative Hayes of California, providing that nothing in the statutes shall be construed to prevent " Asiatics who are Armenians, Syrians and Jews from becoming naturalized citizens." The lone prisoner in the Jay county, Ind., jail, Ira W. Porter, possibly will be set free in a few days, although he is charged with murdering his wife, for the reason that opinion in the neighboring county of Randolph, where the alleged murder was committed, is divided as to whether it is worth while for the county to go to the expense of a second trial of his case. With the determination of breaking up the evil of sending obsence matter through the United States mailsi Postmaster-General Hitchcock is seriously considering the advisability of suggesting that hereafter all treaties m^le with foreign powers shall contain provisions for the extradition of those found guilty of the offense. Three youths, each less than 20 years old, were taken to the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., from Coving* tou, Ky., to serve sentence of a year imposed by the United States District Court for a fraudulent banking scheme which they conducted in the little mountain town of Orr, Ky. A fourth was sentepped to four months in jail. - After they had danced 19 hours and 38 minutes, breaking all known terpsichorean endurance records, a contest in which four San Jose, Cal., men were the only survivors out of a list of 12 entrants, was stopped WVfcrrum rolnvprl with "J * *?* rv,,vv- -?^ ? the contestants. Although Vue plan had been under consideration for some time, it came as a surprise when about 3a of the 1,200 convicts at the Western Penitentiary, at Pittsburg, appeared for the Sunday dinner dressed in neat black suits instead of the regulation prison stripes. Thirty-six divorces were granted in the Bibb county, Georgia, Superior Court 'in two hours. Only four of the suits were filed by negroes. One wife was sued for drinking her husband's whiskey. One man who sued r. woman for a divorce, was himself sued by another woman. William Kendall, near Williamsport, Md., has a cat that, besides taking care of five kittens, is Raising a rat. She seems as fond of the young rat as she is of her own offspring. vThe rat suckles at the cat just as the kittens do. An epitome of the relation between man and his animal companion, the dog, is found the following want ad. which appeared in a Ney York paper the other day: "I want a crackerjack bulldog, qualified to be mv nal." One of the most daring burglaries ever perpetrated in New York City was committed in the office of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at No. 434 Broadway. The big safe in the center of* the main room was drilled, its combination lock was opened, and all the money ,ind ticqpts were stolen. Fleas and ticks which carry the Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tuberculosis germs, the hookworm and leprous organisms may thrive without the further light of Government publicity if Secretary MacVeagh's recommendation for a $50,000 appropriation fails of approval by Congress. The trouble springs from the exhaustion of the printing and binding fund for the Marine Hospital and Public Health Service. E. H. R. Green, of Terrell, Tex., president of the Texas Midland Railroad, and son of Mrs. K^tty Green, of New York, and who r%-?ently announced in St. Louis that ke had not married because he could find no woman who would accept him except for his money, admitted the receipt of 150 letters from women asking his hand in marriage during the last two weeks. A judgment of $3,750 was given in the Bridgeport, Conn., Superior Court to Mrs. Ida Rowley, who sued Mrs. A. Hollard Forbes, wife of the aeronaut, for alleged alienation of the affection, of her husband, Ernest, a chauffeur for Mrs. Forbes. At Dany, La., Ernest Maxie. a wealthy cotton planter, killed his seci ond man within a month, an overseer named James Flannagan. Maxie's young and extremely attractive wife was the cause in each case. Early in March young John Pel ton, a neighbor, was killed. John Hall, aged fifty, and Alda Ilorsman, aged fourteen, who eloped from Sanford, Del., were arrested near the girl's home. They were on their way back to ask forgiveness from the girl's parents. \ i HELPS THE EDITOR, g ?"? ^ Messages From Kings and i? Presidents to Publishers. PRESS' "TREMENDOUS POWER." The Associated Press and the Ameri- ' can Newspaper Publishers' Associa- ' tion Banquet Together?A de, the Humorist, Makes Notable Address. New York, Special.?An interesting feature of the joint banquet in New York Thursday evening of The Associated Press and the American Newspaper Publishers' Association was the receipt in the banquet room -a a. iv.i j?e ? 3.1 lilt? ? uiuuri'iisiuiia uuiui^ buv ^ progress of the dinner of some twenty-five or thirty cablegrams of congratulation from all parts of the * world. These messages were sent by mc> crowned heads, presidents cf re- rel publics, 'prime ministers and promi- m( nent statesmen from the four corners tie of the globe and expressed the s?nd- ^ ers' views of the American press. Following is from AH. Roosevelt: "The American Press: gh "Brussels, Aprl 28. ~ "I send you my hearty regards. H It is unnecessary to say anything Eg about the enormous power- of the I press. The wise exercises whereof , is not only an essential for the nation BO but an essential to the perpetuity of gr< the press itself. With best wishes N< to those upon whom rests the heavy tic responsibility of using that tremendous power aright, I am, sincerely ' vours, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." George Ade delieverd a brief address on "Helping the Editor." Afr. Ade said: , "The A. P. is a great institution. ? My out-of-town assignment was usu- M: ally given to me in the following words: Send' in a good story, the A. an P. will cover the facts. W "Every man who has not tried it fit thinks' that he can edit a newspaper, pr write a cornier opera and manage a grj hotel. I still believe that I know a lib lot about, the hotel business. e? "Everybody wants to help the edi- ca tor. Not as regards cheaper wood- bit pulp or keeping down the pay-roll but toi with suggestions for filling up the paper. Most people still believe that every newspaper must hustle to get thi enough copy to separate the adver- tai tisements. ''The first newspaper with which I A was associated came out every Thurs1 day from a room over a hardware store. The fires of civil war were still smoldering Indiana's chief oc- I cupation was politics. Nearly every | man was voting as he shot, and some of them a good deal oftener. Our office equipment consisted of a Wash- J ington hand-press, a foot-power job < press, a perennial towel and a few fonts of type?mostly italics. Ah, ^ but we had an editor! |T "The old-time editor, the one we M all read about who stamped his in dividuality on every issue of his paper and didn't bother about the press-work, do yous remember' what I* he called a man if he didn't care Fj much for him? He didn't call him ^ a mollycoddle or an insurgent or a be malefactor or an undesirable. He ev said that the man was a poltroon, a le hell-hound, a pusilfinimous liar, an un- M mitigated horse-thief, a jackal, a marplot, a caitiff, a reptile, a viper, a p cur and a whelp. Here are a lot of ^ valuable expressive words that are _ gradually being eliminated from our vocabulary because the editors of to- ^ day, steeped in commercialism, have abandoned the methods of William H? F. Storey and accepted the leader- H ship of Edward W. Bok, "Also the newspapers of today are K criticized because they are kind to ^ the big advertiser. I think news- ? papers are somewhat under the domi- ?r nation of the big advertiser. In fact 1 the big advertiser has go! them so worked up that many of them want to run him for a third term. "I read not long ago that down in Brown county, Indiana, the front room of the county poor-house, a ^ large, cheerful apartment with southern exposure and plants in the windows is occupied by a man who for many years conducted a newspaper that pleased everybody. On the other hand, it's hard to be successful without disappointing some of your best friends. So if you can't please all your critics do the next best thing and please your subscribers." Lt no Millionaire Killed in Folding Bed. New York, Special.?HAiry Wellington Smith, millionaire paper man-. ^ ufacturer, of Lee, Mass., and delegate to to the Republican National Conven- I 1 tion of 1880, was crushed to death & . Wednesday night in a folding bed. * 1 With him in the boarding house at ' the time was an elderly woman, who I 1 was slightly injured, and who has I 1 subsequently disappeared, leaving be- N < hind a case of mystery. She was known at the boarding house as his vc wife, but investigation showed that m, Mrs. Smith had not left her home in Lee. 13 Encouraging Crop News. ^ Wilmington, N. C., Special.?Local ^ wholesale merchants and cotton seed c0] oil mill interests are advised from j cifi tLis section of the North Carolina ' It and upper South Carolina cotton dis- '0I trict that very little, if any, damage ^ resulted to the crop by reason of the cold wave. Much of the acreage in qJ this district is either planted or the T? plants are not yet above ground. J* ? V ACKACHE! fared Over Nine Months, Nothing elieved Me Until I Took PE-R U-NA, Urs. Joseph Lacelle, 124 Bronson St., tawa, East, Ontario, Canada, writes: 'I suffered with backache and headhm fnr over nine months and nothing ;levcd me until I took Pernna. Thia sdicine is by far better than any other k i sdiclno for these troubles. Afewbofc* s relieved mo of my miserable, half* ad, half-alive condition." Peruna is sold by your local drugits. Ruv a bottle todaj. .AZY LIVER "I fir Cascarets so good that I would t be w.thout them. I was troubled* eat deal with torpid liver and headache. >w since taking Cascarets Candy Cathasw I feel very much better. I shall cernly recommend them to my friends a* e best medicine I have ever seen." Anna Bazinet, Osborn Mill No. a, Fall River, Mam Pleasant, Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good. Never Sicken. Weaken orGripe. JOc. 2Sc. 50c. Never sold In bulk. Tbeaennhie tablet stamped C C C. Guaranteed to cure or your mouey back. SZS r. and Mrs. Taft's Generosity. President and Mrs. Taft attended amateur performance, given by ashington society folk for the ben*of the Working Boys' Home. The esident was besieged by proimrne and flower girls, and was a eral purchaser. He and Mrs. Taft tered into the spirit of the oc3ion and heartily applauded the y* strionic efforts of the amateur aers. N jyj Anna Held is going to retire from 5 stage to have time to raise po:oes and asparagus. So. 17-'10. Package Mailed Free on Request of MUNYON'S f 'AW-PAW PILLS - The best Stomach and Liver Pills known and a nnsitlve and sDeedT J cure for Constipation,." 1*3 "Indigestion, Jaundice, Q |w Biliousness, Sour StomJ. i^ii acb, Headache, and all ailments arising from a> disordered stomach qt [tTTfj^P sluggish liver. They irr* B w,? contain in concentrated form all th? > rtues and values of Munyon's Paw- i iw tonic and are made from the Ice of the Paw-Paw fruit. I unisitatingly recommend these pills ae | sing the best laxative and cathartic er compounded. Send us postal or tter, requesting a free package of unyon's Celebrated Faw-Paw Laiare Pills, and we will mall same free . charge. MUNYON'S HOMOEO&.THIC HOME REMEDY CO., 53d id Jefferson Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. lISY FLY KILLER fc&aasa 'jg nj|it cunillllt. chflpb > 'I ItallUlMMU Mad* of MI.OMI iou'or tah>r*?MdM? M^'un ?M prcp^d kw ? <* ?. ? V saaoLD aomfl xl HE REAL FACTS . | ABOUT MRS. F1NCBER f s Told by Herself, in a Letter Lately Received, Giving Particulars About Her Case. Peavy, Ala.?"I had been troubled a tie for about 7 years," write* Mrs. idie Fincher, of this place, "but was it taken down, until March, 1907, \ J len I went to bed and had to hare e doctor. * $1 "He did all he could for me, but I it no better. I hurt all over, even my arms, so badly I could not rest, bad pains in my sides, back, bowels, oulders and chest. I can't tell how < did suffer. "At last I began to take Cardui, and hadn't taken but 'half a bottle until I began to improve. "I continued to take it until I had cen four bottles, and now I am in ; ry good health and able to do all j r housework." Ifou may wonder why this medicine so successful in curing sick women, er other medicines have failed. The swer is not far to seek. j Cardui is successful, because it is . mposcd of ingredients that acf spe- "JB ically on the womanly constitution. is not a cure-all. It is a medicine ? women ana oniy ior women. Its success is due to it* merit. i. B.?Write to: Ladles' Advisory Dept. J attanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooc*i I an., for Special Instructions, and *4? J fe book. "Home Treatment for ? n," sent In plain wrapper. on riqjM>k 1