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im (invention of the Daughters of toe Confederacy. ESfeva and Ooarier. Abbeville, December 1 - The Daughters of tbe Confederacy aa sembled in tb.e Court House at 10 i ; o'clock this morning The Hon. W. W C. McGowan, in very appropriate word?, welcomed tbe delegates in be? half of the city and the local Chap ter of Daughters. Mrs. Capers, tbs State president, could not be here, - sad ber address was read by Mrs. W. ? O. McGowan, Mrs. Capers baring appointed ber to do so. It was vigo rooa?y applauded. The report of tbe committees and otber routine work, closed tbe morning's session, when the Convention adjourned for dinner. At 8 30 P. M tbe delegad? reasiem Wed in tbe Court House, and the wo man's monument question was die ; owed, but nothing was dono. There ?ms considerable diecossiion, notably ' by Mrs Smythe, of Charleston. Tbe election of officers for the ensu? ing year waa tbe most important fea tore Mrs Capers resigned the preei - ; dency, and Mrs WTC McGowan wa? unanimously' elected president. This i if an honor to the Abbeville Capter, . Abbeville County and clay, and no . more worthy president could have been elected Otber officers elected are : First vice president. Mrs H. B. Buist, of Sock Jini ; second Vice president. Mrs C. R. Holmes, of GEarleston ; third vice president, Mn* ? Jiffies Evans, of Florence ; fo?rih rice president, Mrs Vend i wer, of Anderson ; secretory, Mrs Thomas i Taylor, of Columbia ; treasurer, Mri ; S E Durham, of Marion. Io res? ponse to an invitation from tbe v G^reenviile Dangbters, mad^ by Mrs Williams, of that city, who isa daugh? ter of Ex Jodge Hodson, the State ^.J?^?yentlon decided to meet in Green rille next year. fe T?E PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. || Colombia, December I.-One of the most interesting and important of m the public utterances in connection ;:- w4tb the Daughters of the Confeder . ?cy is tbe address of Mrs Ellison j: Capers to the State Ccnvention ia Abbeville to day Aside from giv ir iojr. a record of the work of the year, Kr ?t contains the- views of a patriotic i woman on the matter of sectional his tones The address, however, speaks pr beat for itself) and reads sys. follow : Columbia, November 17, 1897. To the officers and representatives ? of fibe South Carolina Dividion, United Daughters of Confederacy : I greet you, ladies* in ail loyal affection, as ; IIthe representatives of our South <3^rolina Div?Po?oftbe United Daugh ? tess of the Confederacy, and wish you a happy and successful meeting of jour third annual Convention ' Yeo could not have aseemled any where in our beloved State where ' you would meet a warm? r welcome ; Ioe heartier, aympaty than in the good ] v old town of Abbeville/ which gare actable soldiers to our country and j distinguished citizens lo our State. /' Aa Daughters of the Confederacy 1 we cherish the memory of her heroic dead, and hold up to oar children the examples of her distinguished sons. lt is my doty, ladies, to present to ( yon a report of the condition of the division and to offer yon sach sog- { gestions ?s have impressed my mind , : with their importance. The Sooth ( % Carolina Division is now composed of { % the following chapters : ( ' 1 Charleston Chapter, organized , November 17, 1894. , 2 Wade Hampton Chapter, Co lombia, organized December 20, . ms , 3 Marion Chapter, organized , ,March, 1896 , 4. Greenville Chapter, organized April, 1896. 5 Abbeville Chapter, organized , Jone? 1896 6 Mary Ano Bowie Chapter, Ches ter organized March, 1896. 7 Spartanborg Chapter, organized April, 1896 8 Sumter Chapter, organized Jnly, 18)6. 9 Ch??raw Chapter, organized Sep? to nbfr, 1896 10 Maxcy Gregg Chapter, Edge fiVd, organized 1896. 11 Arthur Maniganlt Chapter, Georgetown, organized 1896 12 Ellison Capera Chapter, Flor? ence, organized 1896 13 Edisto Island Chapter. Edisto Island 14 John K Mciver Chapter, Dar? lington. 15 Johnston Chapter, Johnston, lo. Edward Croft Chapter, Aiken, 1897 17. Robert E Lee Chapter, An? derson, 1897 18 Ann White Chapter, Rock Hill. 1897. 19. Drayton Rutherford Chapter, Newberry, 1897. Of the above named chapters the last four have been organized since oar last Convention, and I am happy to state that others are now in pro? cess of forming. From correspond? ence with friends in different parts of the State we may confidently expect quite a number of additions to oar chapter list by the time of oar foartb annual Convention. I hive th? honor to report that all the chapters of the division are actively at work, a pa triode interest being everywhere manifested in the preservation of oar Confederate history in its honored io . >?ij i K.f ililli1 nu., i To excite ?D te rest in the st ad, j oar history I recommend that several chap tera offer sai table pi for the beat essays on subjects r< ing to our great struggle. A recent review of Gold Smith's popular school history, ah Ex-Con feder?is, bas brought important subject before the So ern reading public I make a extracts from tbe criticisms of an Confederate to give emphasis to whole subject. The extracts abundantly justify the referenc bore make to the study of Confer ate history. I quote from the p pblet of the ex Confederate : .'The United States history wi tooday enjoys the widest circul?t and tbe highest fame is the rec work of Goidwin Smith, Doctoi Canon Law and Professor of the J m an i ti es, Toronto, Canada. "South Carolina, he says, made start by combining buccaneer with slave*owning, and utilized ports by making them a shelter pirates and corsairs such as Cs ! Kidd and Blackboard. "Georgia he deals with more 1 tently. Her people wert not c tinctly criminal, but just langui and lazily vicious., shiftless, dronl and beggarly. 4 Bat Virginia seems to be bis pecia) aversion. * * * Her fi settlers were an unpromising I lackeys, beggars, broken down gi tlemen, tapsters ont of a job. * * To} the crew, of vagabonds w< afterwards added jail birds. Con vii were offered their choice betwe Virginia and the gallows, and soi were wise enoogh to choose the g lows.7' 1 Treating of the Confederate wi the pamphlet of an Ex-Confedera makes the following extracts, tak at random from the history be is cr ieising : "Jefferson Davis, when captare was farcically disguised in woman clothes "Slaveholders escaped military sc vice, while they thrust the poor und fire. "Confederate prisoners were wc fed and suffered no hardships ; * * if many of them died it was b cause the caged eagle dies "Guards pressed men in the stree of Southern cities, and conscript were seen going to Lee's army i chains. "The Southern clergy were n< only ignorant, bat cringing and dc graded. "At the taking of Fort Pillow tb negroes were nailed to logs and bon ed alive." If an Ex Confederate hoe not don gross injustice to the history of Prol Smith., the above extracts show th grossest injustice and misrepresents don on the part of the historian. The preservation of ,a people's hi? tory, in its integrity. Ja the isommemora doo of a people's character. While cultivating a sincere patrio;isa for our reunited couotry. with anfeUer ing devotion we cherish aod hold dea to our hearts the memories and tb? traditions of that Confederacy of South ero Sutes, on whose pure shield im partial history will verify the post'i words: "No nation rose so white and fair, Or fell so pare from crimes." But as I do not deem the stud? ol ?ur history tbe only doty ?nco m be ni upon as, I recommend that onr chapters devote more thought and attention tc the doty we owe to our less fortunate listers, who shared with us tba trial? tod sorrows of the war, and whose necessities plead with us now to share with them in their poverty and dis? tress. I have read with ioterest an article io the May number of the Veteran from the pen of- Miss Alice Locke, secretary to the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Picket Damp, Biehroond, Va. The article is addressed to Virginians, bot it is, I think, equally applicable to ourselves, and 1 respectfully ask your consid?ration of the following cxtraot : "If there is anything in which the Southern people have shown high character since the war it is in their loyal response to every appeal and every obligation growing out of their immortal straggle. You have provided generously for tbe disabled survivors of our heroic Confederate soldiery tn their deolioing years ; yon have boilt prood monuments to the deathless dead who died, for ns, and yon have decked their graves with flowers; yet, today, io sight of the beautiful 'Home' you have thrown opeo <o the living, and under the shadows of the lofty pt!liars and pyramids you have erected to tho dead, those who are dearer to living and dead than life itself are shivering in cold and almost starving for the lack of proper food aod eare. Here io Riobmood, and, as we are informed and believe, throughout the Commonwealth, widows, sisters and daughters of dead or dis? abled Confederate soldiers are in dire distress through age, sickness aod poverty, lacking shelter, food, fuel, clothing and medicines." I have quoted this paragraph from Miss Loose's address, ladies, because I fear itt application may be suitable to oar own condition. We may not be able to provide a beooming borne for oar indigent sisters, bat cannot eaoh chapter make it a sacred obligation to provide something throughout the year for the comfort aod assistance of the needy and the help? less? At the reoeot reunion of South Carolina Veterans and Sons of Vete? rans, io Greenville, it waa resolved to build a monument; of marble to com? memorate the devotion our South Caro? lina women daring the war? We deep* ly appreciate thia tribute of respect from ibe Veteran?, bot would cot the sufferings, the self sacrifice, the patient and unfaltering devotion of onr women receive a nobler reoogoition and a more oaefat and fitting commemoration if oar Veterans wonld erect some institution of charilr which wonld be a daily bless ing to tba living and a Heaven-blessed monument to the dead ? And in snob a. work of eharitj and love could we not co operate with onr husbands and sons ? If the constitu? tions of separate chapters should be so written as to preciado snob chapters from sharing ic snob a work, I wonld respeotfally recommend that in each case the constitution be so amended as to leave the chapter free to bless the living by deeds of obarity, while hoqor iog the dead with a last monument of love. A practical matter of m ooh import ance to oar organization is that of se? curing a good representation of the chapters at the annual conventions. In order to secare such a representa? tion I recommend to our divisioo that oar by-laws be so formed as authorize eaoh chapter to pay the traveling ex penses of one delegate. This will secure a proper representation at onr annual convenions, and through such a representation greatly increase the interest/and the work of our organiza* tion. Still another recommendation, ladies, I would submb to your judgment: In organizing chapters I recommend that they be named in honor of some gal? lant soldier of the town or connty in which.the chapter is formed, and who gave his life in the defence of the Con? federacy. From several of the active members of onr different chapters I have receiv? ed a complaint against the time fixed for our annual meeting because of its incoo ven ien ce. Coming so near to General Conven? tion of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and to the festival of oar Lord's birth, wheo we ail wish to be at oar homes, oar constitutional day ts most inconvenient, and I think should be changed. How wonld the anniver sory of the taking of Sumter do as the anona! day of meeting ? Any other day specially associated with Sooth Carol io a history wonld do as well. I respeotfally submit these views aod recommendations, assured that your good judgment will determine what is best. I assure yon, ladies, of my warmest appreciation of the honor yon conferred apon me by eal ling me to preside over oar division the past year. I assumed the duties of president against my owo judgment and in def? erence to yonr wishes. As my health ts not strong I could oot have discharg? ed my duties if I bad not received the constant and eBoient aid of the officers of the divisioo Io every way they have assisted ma, and before 1 lay down the doti ?a of president I most heartily assure my sister officers of the division of my appreciation of their valued services Regretting that I cannot be present, with you in convention, and wishing you a happy and saceeasfal session, 2 retire from the office of president, as? suring yon that as a member of the Wade Hampton Chapter I shall feel and express the warmest interest in onr organization and work as a division of the United Daughters of the Confeder? acy. With warmest esteem, very respeot? fally, CHARLOTTE PALMRR CAPERS, President S. C. Di?isioa. ? D C. A word of caution. When you go to buy doods advertised iu this paper, be sore that you get just what you ask for, aod nothing else Those Dreadful Sores They Continued to Spread in Spfto of Treatment but Now They are Healed-A Wonderful Work. "For many years I have been a great sufferer with varicose veins on one of my limbs. My foot and limb became dread? fully swollen. When I stood up I could feel the blood rushing down the veins of this limb. One day I accidentally hit my foot against some object and a sore broke out which continued to spread and was exceedingly painful. I concluded I needed a blood purifier and I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. In a short time those dreadful sores which had caused me so much suffering, began to heal. I kept on faithfully with Hood's Sarsapa? rilla, and in a short time my limb was completely healed and the sores gave me no more pain. I cannot be too thankful for the wonderful work Hood's Sarsapa? rilla, has done for me." MES. A. E. GILBON, Hartland, Vermont. HOOd'S parilla Is the best-in fact the One True Blood Purifier. Hood's Pills cure all liver ills. 25 cents. The State cf South Carolina, COUNTY OF SUMTER. By T. V Walsh, Esq., Probate Judge. WHEREAS, HARRY RYTTENBERG made suit to me to grant bim Letters of administration of tbe Esmte of aod effects of Mrs. Isabella S in res, deceased These are therefore to cite and admonish all and eiozuUr the kindred and creditors of tbe said Mrs. Isabella Suares, late of said Connty ned State, deceased, that they be and appear before nv, ir? the Court of Probate, tobe held at Sumter C. H , on December 8th, 1897, nen, after publication tbeieof at ll o'clock ia the forenoon, tc show cause, if any they haT?>, why the s?id administration should not be granted. Given under try hand, this 24th daj of November, Anno Domini. 1P9T. THOS. V. WALSH, Jndge of Probate. NOT. 24-2t. responds readily to proper fer* tilization. Larger crops, fuller ears and larger grain are sure to result from a liberal use of fertilizers containing at least y% actual Potash Our booka are free to farmers. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nama St., New Yee* LANDS WANTED. PERSONS WITH LANDS FOR SALE are requested to pat tbem in tn j bands for aale. I ?ni in constant r?e*iptof to I?SDV letters of enquiry about lands from Norbert) and Westert* partirt, tt at I maj bo able to effect saies for ihpse who will give me iccu rata detailed descriptions ot what the/ bare. No charge will t># made unless satisfactorj sales are made Descriptions mest be soeb .8 can be guaranteed and must gire : . No of acres, location, character of land, proximity to railroads, post offices, schools, churches and lo?.LS, kind of improvements. Communications strictly confidential ?ben so desired. JAMES 6 GIBBES, State Land Agent, Nov. 10. Columbia, S. C. TIBEri LAND FOR SALE. rpHREE B?NDRED ACRES fine Saw I Timber, two miles from Florence, on ' W. C. * A R. R. for eale. Address, s. M. MCCALL, Nov.17-4t. Mayesville, 8 C. THE Weather DID IT! In making our contract for Blankets, which we did in June we failed to consult the weather man, so that the mild Fall we have had has beaten us and left us with just 34 pairs Tar Heel Blankets, On hand which we do not care to carry another season, for two reasons, the first of which is we need money, and the second, it is hard to keep them clean and free of moths, and for these reasons we have determined to dispose of them, even at a loss to us, and will make the price as long as they last $2.85 per pair. Don't be surprised iii you should call in a few days and find them all gone. Another item in our stock that has not moved as rapidly as we would wish, is Children9? Jackets. We have picked out 31, sizes 4 to 10 years tfiat we have been selling at $1.50, $2 and $2.50, and make a round, price of $1.15. This is the greatest opportunity ."offered this season of making your child? comfortable for little money. O'Donnell <$ Co. Noir 29-3aw-3w Exact reproduction of our $8 Suits when worn. DON'T BUY A CHEAP SUIT. Buy a good suit at cheap as possible. This you can do from D. J. CHANDLER, THE CLOTHIER. Oar Suits at $5, $6, $8, $10, $12, $15, $18, $20 ?nd $22 are undoubted ly the best values ever offered by any reliable house. Our stock is large and you will baldly have any trouble in getting suited. Sep 2-3m. HOLIDAY GOODS Dressing SETS. Manicure SETS GLOVE AND Handkerchief BOXES, Jewelry Boxes, We have only a few of tbe best gooda io this Hoe German Silver, "Uostneon," pera Aluminum- these goods are guaran? teed unchangea? ble. Io Manicure Sets, we have leather goods, of the ver v best make in both cases aud instruments. PERFUMERY. VIOLETS OF SICILY. BLUE LILIES CUT BOTTLES. BEST PERFUMES. ALL SIZES. You all know what these odors are. We have it put upN in fancy packages for pre? se* :s. This is the only place that you will find these goods io town. Elegant cot bot? tles for Christmas gifts, containing the best extracts The perfume ? is worth more than we ask for all. SMOKERS ARTICLES, FINE. FRENCH BRIAR PIPES, Amber Bits. You no doubt have seen the line of Pipes we han? dle-it is the best in to* n. Gold and silver mounted Pipes make handsome gifts. J. F. W. DeLORME, Pharmacist and Prescription Specialist 8UMTER, S. C. Take Pine Tar Cough Balsam for Coughs and Colds. NOT 17 DENTIST. office OVBB 8TOBB Of SUMTIS OBY GOODS OOMPABY f?otrnuce oo Main Street, Between Dry Goods Co. aod Dorant k Son OFFICE HOURS : 9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock. April 9. 2 HARB Y 4r CO., WHOLESALE BROKERS, -AND Cotton Storage Warehouse PROPRIETORS. UP-TOWN OFFICE :. COURT HOUSE SQUARE, 1,000 Tons High Grade Am moniated Fertilizer, 1,000 Tons Acid with Potas::. 500 Tons Dissolved Bone. 500 Tons German Kaimt, 400 Tons C. S. Meal, For Sale. We are prepared to meet any and all prices for STAND? ARD GOODS. Get our prices before purchasing. Respectfully, HARBY & CO. Dec. 16. ARE YOU NEEDING AN IRON SAFE? HAVING BEEN APPOINTED GEN? ERAL AGENT for tbe Alpine Fire and Burglar Proot Safe Company. I am prepared to offer liberal terms to those who are in Deed of a good safe. For prices and terms address J. A. RENN0, Mcb24. Sumter, S.C.