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MeLaaria Captures Moon tai? Stronghold. A Lively Meeting ia Wal halla., ia Waich Irby is Worsted. Walhalla. Aug- 2.-The campaign meeting at Walhalla to day was attend sd by SDoae seven hundred of O^onee's representative citizens. Messrs Irby, Evans ?nd Mclaurin spoke in the or der named. Bath' irby and Evans were severe io arraigning and ridicul? ing McLaurin's record in Congress, es? pecially his votes and speeches on the Dingley tariff bili. Their jtisoal charges of Republicanism and protec? tion tendencies against Mclaurin were answered io detail by the latter dories his speech of an hoar and a half. His speech took weil with the crowd, and the occasion may be written down as a complete vindication and victory for McLaurin. Towards the close of Mr. McLvarin's speech ao episode of more than passing interest occurred. A question was asked McLaario ?by some citizen rela * tive to the metropolitan police imposed on Charleston. McLaarin answered promptly be woald never have impeded it on the city. Col. Irby then asked him if he woald remove it if he were Governor. McLaarin answered: "I would.7' Irby : "Then you stab Governor El lerbe io the back." McLaarin answered that Governor EUerbe was an honest man, and he thought that the metropolitan police woald haye been removed from Charleston before cow bat for a com? bination of circumstances over which Governor Eilerbe had no control He said that it was unfair to drag Govern? or Eilerbe into this discussion when be could not answer the charges made against him The crowd drew near as McLaarin waxed warm in defence of Governor Eilerbe, and approved of what he said. Irby theo asked to be heard by way of explanation. (Voices : "Sit down Vf "Hurrah for McLaarin I9') * Irby advanced to the front of the stand and began speaking in a very ex? cited and vehement manner. It seem? ed for once that he would be bowled down.. McLaarin and Chairman Hern don requested that be be heard. Irby was permitted to proceed, and charged that Governor Eilerbe had said he in tended to use the constabulary force to , elec McLaarin. (Cries: ;"Ear rah for McLaarin !" "Sit down I? McLaarin replied, that Governor Eilerbe had told bim that he had ?aid po such thing, but he had said thai: if \bis Administration was attacked he would have to use bis influence. (Voices: ?'Hurrah for Eilerbe !" "Hurrah for McLaurin I") McLaarin proceeded tb close his speech io a happy manner, and many gathered around the platform to shake his hana and congratulate him on bis magnificent reply to the varions charges of sinister purposes made against bim. This afternoon the expressions of citi? zens from different sections of the conn ty show McLaarin to be far in toe lead. If every other county goes like Ocooee, judging from the meeting today and preferences of the voters expressed since adjournment. McLaurin wiil win ; easily against the field in the first pri? mary. E T. JA YNES. South Carolina's First Bale. A dispatch to The State from Allen? dale received by The State yesterday evening brought the news of the ship- j meut of the first baie of new crop, of cotton from that point. It was picked on Col L. W. Youmaos' place and was shipped yesterday to F W. Wagener <& Co., at Charleston. This is an osai - ly early, for the first bale of new cot? ton to get io, so chose who know say. Now the new crop of colton iu this j State will begin to reach the market rapidly no doubt. Reports from all over the State indicate that the crop is weil advanced io every direction. Look Before You-. "Have you heard what happened to j the DMlicam girls?'' "What was it?" "They had Been photos of actra^se-* with the head through a tom newspa- I per, and were so delighted with the j idea that they decided to get themselves i taken the same way. They arranged I it with a photographer, and the resal: j was a charming picture. They were i very proud of it. and sen: copies round to all their friends." "Well, what of that?" "Only that they had chosen the sd- j vertisemeot page ot the newspaper, and ander their heads were the wordd, in big tyne. 'Oar Pants are Double Seated * A negro girl lo year3 old is under arrest in Charleston for burglarv. Tennessee towns are enforcing a strict quarantine against Birmingham, Ala , on accouot of the smallpox epi? demic ia that place. Great floods have done immense : damage in Austria and maoj lives have been lost. Johnson-s Chill and Fe* i ver Tonic is a ONE"DAY Cure. It cures the most stubborn case of Fever in CITIZENS CF f'ril 'WORLD. ? distinguished number cf congres as an exploring parry ci that body w; idosing a long vi-ic to thc Pacific, coas pronounced an crude cn tili comic rtai piazza cf a Puget sound hotel which well worth remembering. The duties of the committee had r quired that tho members should pass r the "coast," as the natives call it, fro: ''Aunt Jane," or Tia Juana, as tl southwestern corner of this nation called, as far north as Vancouver scum They had discharged this duty, and ha doubtless discharged it well, when tl oracle was delivered. In the afternco comfort.cf a breeze which had passe 10,000 miles across the ocean, with cigar not yet exhausted, which was gee enough for its purpose, the senator sai that cn the first opportunity when L could expect success he would introduc ? joint resolution into congress, provic ing that each member, as soon as h was elected, should be sent on a we. planned journey through all the state and all the territories, that he migh have personal knowledge of what th country is whose-service he was to hav in hand. The senator expressed tho belief which is certainly well founded, tba the nation would save in money am would gain in administration if such ? plan could be carried cut. He was certainly right in this opinion and this is no matter cf pleasantry or c the affairs of a single nation. 3?r. Mor ison said very wisely in his Phi Beti Kappa address last month: "The nev epoch must, from its very nature, be come universal. The manufacture o power has given the means of traversing the entire glebe with a speed whicl brings all races together. It will gradu ally substitute the natural bound arie.? of convenient government for accidenta tribal divisions.1 It will finally make the human race a single whole, working foi things which we cannot yet under? stand. " We cite these opinions cf two distin? guished men because the excellent coun? sel they involve is applicable to the whole business cf education and is needed in our systems of education, public and private, as these who man? age them are too apt to forget. The whole tendency of life in oui time requires, net simply a national but a cosmopolitan direction of education. Men are really citizens of the world now as they never have been before, and the boy cr girl ^ho is educated with th* old and now absurd notion that the village where the schoolhouse is is the capital of the world is destined to receive many shocks and to make many blunders, all of which might have been avoided. The jobbing merchants have found this out, and they know that they must send their young men over the whole country ::?f they would know the needs of different localities and bc able to pro? vide for them. Adam Smith taught that d' mand created supply. We have learned that a supply, well provided, creates in tura a new demand. The enterprise which has sent these bold drummers, the pioneers cf civilization as they have been called, into other countries, that the traveler may know what those na? tions want and that the nations may know what the country has to sell, has been well rewarded. The steady in? crease in cur exports of manufactured goods shows that the nation is reaping the reward cf such enterprise. But if our young men, not to say cur young w?men, are to take on a cosmo? politan habit in education, our schools must co more in this line than they like to do. I can remember when the arrival bf a boy fresh from Paris, with a good French accent and an easy way of speaking that language, was a cause of real terror in a well appointed school. "What shall we do about his marks? It will not be fair te mark him cn the same sqale with the other beys." As if the giving cf marks was the whole busi? ness of a schoolmaster. Really, the arrival of sach a boy might have teen made a blessing to all the other boys in schcol. They would have learned more French from him, under any. sensible handling of the case, than they would have learned from any primer cr reading book. .Now the opportunities for such education in our country are endless. Fortunately for us., there is hardly a public school in one cf the larger cities in which the ability cf some cf the children to speak German, French or Italian might net be utilized for the convers?t ional habits of the others. An American banker who had gone through the whole course of our higher public education used to say that when he went to Paris he found that the French were so stupid that they did net understand their own language. This was a gocd natured ciethcd cf criticising the training he had received in that language. Now one bey frcm Paris, from Bordeaux or Lyons, in the class in which he was, would have given him just the habit cf listening to real French and the habit cf imitating a speaker of real French, | which was what he had not had given to him in the < lab?rate arrangent nts cf Schcol committees. It is too much to ask, as the United j States senator asked, that; all our schcol I children cf the proper age may be s< at round the world. Ir is a geed thing for these of them who are- so sent when they are between the ag' s of !(*> and j five and twenty. They gain thc aovan- : tages which, under tho old wander- | jahr, the German apprentice, released ; from his first training, received as he | saw men and cities which were new to ! him. Bat if we canno; send our chi!- i dern round the world, we can at least | see that they are made familiar with ! the habits of thought, not to say the habits of work, of other countries. It is from this point of view that one learns to welcome with ?pecial interest the arrival of student* nf our better ep?pped scientific schools ..and colleges . - -.*.._=_J._ . i from" rho other nations ot the world. I Ehe presence cf an accomplished young I gentleman frc:.-?- Germ any or Italy ex Japan opens the ey? s of tho youngsters who surround him in the classes cf such : institutions. They begin to learn, what ? it is so hard to teach boys, the mysteri ? oas lesson which had been alluded to j above; they learn that Cranberry Cen i ter, although it is an important metrop j olis to itself, is not so considered by the I rest of mankind. ! As the United States senator said, it ! will be a great thing when the average ? congressman can he taught what are the ; resources of Arizona, of the state of j Washington, of Maine and of Florida, j in an object lessen which shall fix itself upon his memory as no misty cloud of , statistics will ever do. The college stu? dent cr thc college class which should be trained rightly to understand the place of the Argentine Bepubiic, the ! place of Japan, the place of Ceylon or tho place of Hungary in the commerce of the world, how much and how little each cf these countries has to do with the balance of trade or with the course of exchange, would be, as things go, an exceptional class or an exceptional stu? dent in cur institutions of education. The intelligent president of a college or thc intelligent head of a high school ought to be on the lookout for every op? portunity of which he can avail himself to introduce such cosmopolitan habits of study into schcol cr college. EDWARD E. HALE. I - A FARMER ON THE SINGLE TAX. ? ara only a Kansas farmer and not used to writing for the papers., but I no? ticed in one of your late numbers an ar? ticle by Clarence A. Miller advocating that all taxes should be paid by the own? ers cf the land and that all money and other personal property go free from taxation. These men who wish to put all the burden of taxation cn the al? ready overburdened farmer are men, as a rule, who own no land and who know ! nothing about farming. The farmer al? ready pays the great hulk of the taxes, and if all tho money and houses and machinery and factories and railways cf the rich are to go untaxed and the ad? ditional burden be laid upon the farmer, then I for one want' to leave this coun? try. Mr. Miller's argument is that if land were taxed so heavily that the owner could not pay the taxes he would be obliged to sell part of it, and thus there would be more farmers. If he or any ether of the single tax theorists knew anything about the condition of the American farmer, he would know that the great trouble aow is that there are already too many farmers in the United States. We are overproducing in nearly every department of the farm. Wheat and corn are drugs m the market and are selling for less than the cost of production. No farmer can today sell a j horse, or a cow, cr a hog for anything like the amount that the animal has j cost him. If all the farmers in the Un? ion would agree to raise just one-half of the wheat, 'cern, hogs, cattle and horses they have raised in years past, they would get some return for their work, but at the present prices and at the present rate of production the farmers, who are now nearly bankrupt, must soon go to the wall. The solution of the present trouble is not in compelling1 the farmers to pay the taxes of the millionaires and the other rich men, nor to ask them to sub mis to taxation that will compel them to sell part cf their farm at a low price to seme single tax theorist. Anarchists, socialists, agitators and ad\ocatcs of ? new and unjust theories have, by their j threats cf bloodshed, revolution and appropriating the property of others, so frightened the owners of capital that ! many hundreds of millions of dollars are now.lying idle m the banks all over the United States. Had it not been for these threats, much of this now idle money would have been put into fac? tories that would today be giving em? ployment to the idle throngs that are suffering from the lawless methods of these unprincipled men. Let factories be built to make the ar? tides we now import in large quanti? ties. These would give w ork to the un? employed, who would then be able to buy the wheat, corn and bacon that thc ] farmers cannot now seil unless at ruin? ous prices. J. W. HENRY. EXTENSION OF COMMERCE. The commercial spirit is the domi? nant practical force in our country and ' is ever alert for new fields of activity, j The recent inauguration of the Phila- j delphia Commercial museum is a wor- j thy movement, as it brings together ! representatives of all American repub? lics. This is a great gain and will en? courage the spirit of co-operation. At the meeting held in Philadelphia M. Meinhard, consul of Venezuela, said: "While the unity of interests of all the republics represented was frequently dwelt upon as against the political and commercial aggressions of European nations, it was generally accepted that the United ?tates, as the most devel- i oped, must take the lead in thc pro- j posed new movement. As tho most : effective means of overcoming European , supremacy in the markets of Latin- | America the delegates unanimously : recommended, principally, that the tariff rates on South American products . bo never made so high as to exclude them from the United ?tates, thereby : removing the main obstacle to the de? velopment of closer and larder business connections; that greater banking facil ities be assured through the founding of American banks, which so far do not exist in South America: that American ! steamship lines provide tho necessary ! transportation facilities between tho northern and southern trade centers; j that longer credits bo granted to the ^ southern merchants, the same as Europe ? allows, and finally, but not least, that American manufacturers adapt their goods to the precise requirements and wants of those markets. ff Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar? rhoea Remedy always affords prompt relief. For sale by Dr. A. J. Cbioa. Meteorological Hecord. The following is a report of observations i of the weather taken at Statet-urg, by Dr. W. W. Anderson, for the past week ending ? August 1, 1897 : Tempera* ii re. | ! <? ? I 2, i Condition. * ! 3 : 26j 90 ! 72 ! 8t. i sw ; .70 . Cloudy | i 27 j 88 ! 72 j .80 s ! .00 j "Cloudy \ \ 28; 87 ! 72 !?79 l\ w i .00 ; Clear I 29? 88 j 71 ! 79.5 NW | .00 | Clear j 30! 90 ! 70 . 80. ! E i 00 I Clear j 3? i 90 : 74 ; 82. | sw j 00 j Clear - 1 j I1 93 1 74 i 83 ?1 sw ! 00 I Clear j *fnrtjy cloudy. The wind has been generally light and va- | riable during the latter part of the week, ! which in connection with the humidity of j the atmosphere has caused the increasing temperature to be quite oppressive, almost as j j sultry as the first week of the mooth. Rain, i j though not seriously needed, will bc refresh- j ing and acceptable to most people. ---?--?? Perfection in Cake-Making. Housekeepers frequently wonder why it is that they cannot make biscuit and cake that j are light acd palatable and that taste as deli j cious as the biscoit acd cake made by their mothers and grandmothers, the delightful memory of which even to tbi3 d*y creates a sensation of pleasure io the palate. The j trouble arises from the highly adulterated j state of the materials they have to work with, i particularly the cream-of tartar and soda j used to raise or leaven the food. Cream-of j tartar and soda tht.t are now procurable for j domestic purposes contaiu large quantities of lime, earth, alum , and other adulterants, J frequently from 6ve to twenty-five per cent., j and consrquently vary so much in strength ', that no person can tell the exact quantity to j use, pr properly combine them, to insure per j feet results. From using too much or too 1 j little, or because of the adulterants in them, j bitter, yellow, or heavy biscuits or cakes are j frfqueotly made. These adulterants are also ? injurious to health. All th 13 trouble may be avoided by the use I of the popular Royal Baking Powder. Where j this preparation is employed in the place of j cream-of-tartar and soda, its perfect leaven ! ing power always insures light, flaky, digest? ible biscuit, cakes and pastry, that are per ! fectiy wholesome and free from the impun? ities invariably present wben the old raising j preparations are employed, i The Royal Baking Powder, we are inforra I ed by the most reliable scientists, is perfectly j pure, being made from highly refined ingre I dients, carefully tested, and so exactly pro j portioned and combined that it never fails to j produce the best and uniform results. An ! additional advantage in its employment j comes from the fact that bread or other food ! made with it may be eaten while hot withoot j fear of indigestion or any unpleasant results, while being equally sweet, moist, and grate? ful to the palate when cold. HOMICIDE NEAR BISHOP VlLIcE. Two Men Shot, One Fatally-A Woman the Cause. BISHOPVILLB, Joly 28.-A shooting occur? red at Burke, S. C., tour miles from here, yesterday. The circumstances .?re known only from general rumor, as to the cause. The factsare that B. B. Britton, leader of the recent Lucknow rio?, was at the bouse of Ben Hill and the shooting occurred. Hill was dangerously wounded with four 44 cal? ibre bullets, and Britton slightly wounded in the back. Britlon's whereabouts are not known and Hill is expected to die. Dr. McLure attended Hill and thinks it a serious, if not a fatal case. On the night cf the 17tb inst. Hill's wife disappeared mysteriously and left three small childreo on Hill's hands, and report says Britton knew something of her whereabouts, and in all probability, ibis the cause of the trouble between them. M. E. T. A Remarkable Cure of Chronic Diarrhoea. In 1862, wber, I served my country as a private io Company A, 167th Pennsylvania Volunteers, I contracted chronic diarrhoea. Ii bas giveo me a great deal of trouble ever since. I have tried a dozen different medi? cines and several prominent doctors with? oot any permanent relief. Not long ago a friend sent me a sample bottle of Chamber lian's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and after that I bonght and took a 50 cent bottle; and now T can say that I am eotirely cured. I cnno ft thankful enough to you for this grt . .*dy, and recommend it to all suffering veterans. If in doubt write me. Yours gratefully, HENRY STEINBERGER, Allentown, Pa. Sold by Dr. A. J. China. The 3tore in the City Hall building fi sr ly occupied by the China Bali, has been leased to Frank O'Donnell and it is stated on good authority that be will open an original pHckage agency within a very few dajs. The dispensary wiil now have active competition that will cut down receipts and mike the net profits decidedly leis than they have been in the past - ?rn - - -mm* Ic is always gratifying to receive testimo- j niais for Chamberlain's Colic, Choiera and ! Diarrhoea Remedy, and when the end?rse? me it is from a physician it is especially so. "Tiere is no more satisfactory or effective j remedy than Chamberlain's Cbolic. Cholera ? ar.d Diarrhoea Remedy," writes Dr. R E j Robey, physician and pharmacist, of Olney, j Mo ; and as ha bas used the Remedy in bis j own family and sold it ia his drug store for ! six years, he should certainly knew. For j sale bv Dr. A. J. China. Quinine and other fe? ver medicines take from S to 10 days to cure fever. Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic cures in ONE DAY. The commissioners of election fur the Lee j Couti tv election hive tabulated the votes ari;4, j ri .-erk rei the election in Sumter County. Thc i vo?p was the game as reported in this papei the day after the eiec?on The commission- i era of election for Darlington County met j and deferred action, for one week, pending j the protest of the Ashland box. Why take Johnson's Chill & Fever Tonic? Because it cures the most stubborn case of Fever in ONE DAY. Tbe new bridg*- across Lynches River which has been Du tit b? tbe ermin gan? and ia ooe ot' the longest noe best bridzes ?cross tbat stream, ii Dot the best, will re ope? for travel within a few days It is said thai Overseer L. E. White has doo- tine work ?nd the bridge is a job to be proud ot. State of Ohio, City of Tefcdo, ) Lucas Couoty. Frank J Cheney makes oath tba: he is the senior partner of the Sra of F. J. Cheney & Qo., doing business tn the City of Toledo. County and Sta'e aforesaid, and that ?aid Srto will pay the som of ONE HUNDRED DOL'ARS for ench and every e.i=e of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hali's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in rn? presence, this Gth day or December, A. D. 1895. , . A V;. GLEASON, lSEALJ Notary Public. Hail's Catarrh Cure is taken iaterualiy and acts directly on tbe blood arjd mucous sur? faces of the system. Send for testimonia'?, free. F.J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. J85*SoId by Drugeists, 75c. THAT LA!X?AR BALL GAME. A Statement From Manager La? mar Ciub. Editor D?i!y Item. Lamar, S. C , July 2)-Ia your issue of the 23'h, I notice a party signing "Bail Play? er," claims the game between Lamar and Elliott on the 24tb to heve been five to seven ?D favor of Elliott, saying that the first report of nine to nothing ia favor cf Lamar was an error. 4;2a?? Pilfer" ii cff. When the score ?tood ten to seven in Lamar's favor a high ft? bail WHS knocked co the ic.side of diamond, near 3d base and on account of the wind, the bali curved after pat-sing 3d base to foul ground. Of course this was a fair hall, as any hall butted that passed first or third base on ioside diamond is fair. When the umpire decided it so. Elliott refused to play, thereby forfeit? ing the game. .Elliott wa3 whipped already, though, Lamar beiog three scores ahead, but the umpire could not call the garie otherwise, according to rules than 9 to 0. S C STARB, Manager .?. B. C. 9 I have on hand a lot of 1895 Victors that I will sell at $37.50 These wheels are every inch Victors and have as good material in them as any wheels on earth. This is a good oppor? tunity to get the most durable and easi? est wheel on the market at a very nom? inal price. So give me a call. I still have a fine assorted line of New Home Sewing Machines On hand that need selling very badly, and if von are in need of such an article, my agent will be pleased to call at your residence, whether in town or country and show them to you. Very respectfully, Sumter, S. C., August 4, 1897. Y Beginning on July 1st, We will offer mir entire "ML Straw Hat&9 1Jnd?rw0ar9 hirts Negligee .A.T We sell goods as advertised, and you can count on a genuine bargain when purchasing from BROWN, CUTTINO & DELGAR, Leading Clothiers, ?Hatters and Furnishers*