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Work of tb Assembly. A Day Without Excitemen in Situer Sud of the Capitol. FRIDAY, JAN. 26. Tao assembly got down to work very slowly after th holiday of Thrsday. There vas a large attendance. Few embers of either bouse vere absent. A flood of oe bills vere introduced, but there was little of io te rest in the proceedings. Mr. Wioklsr was elected sneaker pro te io the absence of Mr. Gary. The boose passed Mr. Wharton's bill requiring cottee: buyers te buy light bales and ordered it test to the senate. After some discussion tbs different bills relating to the special fertiliser tax were made a special order for Tuesday, the judiciary committee har ing a bill in preparation in view of the pinwot decision in North Carolina declaring the tax unconstitutional. Citizen Josh Ashley made a forcible speech on the subject. He wanted the provisions kept so constitution al until the farmers could get rid of it. . The senate promptly killed Mr. Sullivan's bill looking to a change in the constitution by eliminating the homestead provisions. The discussion in this measure was the feature of the day. The vote was 10 to 25. Among the aeir bills presented was ese by Senator Archer providing means by which counties caa get rid of dis By Senator Manidin looking to tax ing the succession of estates which had been avoiding taxation by improper toros . A resolution was iso introduced j advising an investigation into the eoe* trol cf the Ohio River and Charleston road rf tf inconsistent with the law t* vacate the sale. Mr. Patton's redistricting bill was made a sp cial order for Monday. Josh Ashley's ragged eloquence delighted tba house oa the subject of requiring bicycle riders m get permis* sion to pass horses. This discussion j afforded more amusement in the house j then ai! other incidents of the session pat together. The bill was recom mitted. Mr. Harvey Wilson, of Sumter, made an - eloquent acd impassioned repeal against Mr. Baeot's bill provid ing for a change of the color of the flag. It was without question the most eloquent speech of the session and it was listened to attentively, and he was warmly congratulated after its delivery. This address sealed the fate of Mr. Baeot's bill. Other good addresses vere made os much the -same lice hy several eloquent speakers. Following is the bill io change and ix the color of the banner, or iag, or standard of the State : Whereas, the blue ground of South Carolina's fag has purpled o'er with tibs red of the very life blood of ber esas, which eosauguined its folds from 1861 to 1865; and, whereas, the ..red" and the "blue'* of "the red, white and blue," Anno Domini 1865, faded into a purple pall, mantling the sinking sun of the "Lost Cause" in the western horizon of the Southern Confederacy, and fadeless as its mem ory ; and, whereas, otherwise the color "purple" ia symbolic of power ard distinction of sovereignty, while "whi e" is emblematic of spotless purity. Now, at the setting of the ninteenth ard the rising of the twentieth century, as a memorial of the sacred past, and as a type of the great future of this eec. mon wealth Be it eo8cted oj the general assem bly of the Stete of South Carolina. Section 1 That oo and after the t*t day of January, A. D. 1900, the regulation color of the baooer, or flag, or standard of the State shall be royal perple, iostead of bine, and that the palmetto tree and crescent thereon eball be pore white. Mr. Wi&rn said that, not withstand ing the beautifal sentiments expresse'1 io the preamble, he feit called upon to aove to strike out she enacting words. He said to part **i shall not attempt to paint the glory that clusters aronod the "Boonie tijas Flag my remark st Ml be in the oature of ao earnest protest io the name of the gallant dead who fell be neath its folds. When South Carolina was burying ber gifts and placing them nee by one upon the altar of the "Last Cause," she brought no nobler, purer, grander gifts than the young lives of ber private soldiers. They sleep-many of them in unmarked graves-io almost every cemetery of the State from the mountains to where the magnolia blossoms by the se ; and in their jame Lass you not to change the eoior of the Sag. lo the name of every gallant officer whose sword added lustre to the fame of South Carolin a, from the gallant Breoard E. Bee, who fell ear liest io the fight, to no less gallant Alexander McQaeen, who fell after the flag was furied, I ask you oct to change the color of the flag. Io the name of the women of Carolina., who made so many sacrifices to uphold that flag, I ask you oct to change its color. In the name of the Daughters of tbe Con federacy of South Carolina, who are doing so much to perpetuate the his tory of that flag, I sk you not to change its color. "Whee South Caralie a, in obedience to what she conceived to be the guid ance of duty, severed her connection with the Union she raised aloft the .Bonnie Blue ?lag that Bore a Single Star/ Aronui that Hag ber Southern sisters rallied, sd soon 13 bright atara glittered arcana tbs palmetto tree. Are yea going to say to those southe ra sisters, 'the bine flag is no looger the embican of the State V Forbid it, jas t c ; ; shades of oar honored dead, forbid h; forbid it, God." McGraw's Bicycle Bill. What Charleston Wheelmen Think of the Cherokee Statesman. The Charleston Wheelmen have read something recently about a bill before the present legislature to prevent cyclists from passing any person on horseback or driving with oat thc permission of the owners of the horse or team, and they are wondering whether the author of the bill rides a wheel or owns a horse. They are also ansi os to know what the Slate of Sooth Carolina will do in regard to this attempt at "class legislation." If there is any reasoo why he proud owner of a nag should be consulted before the bumble wheelman or wheelwoman eau cross his path and spin ahead, then the average bicycle rider would like to hear of it. "Just imagine/' said a man yester day (who rides a wheel to and from his bc 3iness and also uses this mod ern steed for pleasure trips), "how delightful it would be for me to come up behind a procession of cotton drays on Meeting street, for instance, and be obliged to ask permission from .each of the negro drivers before I could proceed across their path and get to the office? I don't know who Mr McCraw, the author of the proposed law, may be ; bat I'll bet a hat he has tried to learn the wheel and found it too swift for him. Anyway. I fail to see why a representative from Cherokee should undertake to legislate on such matters for the entire State. If they need rules like that in Cherokee, why let the local or county authorities fix them Charleston doesn't need any such thing, and if she did the city council would very properly pass an ordi nance to that effect There are something like 5,000 wheelmen and wheelwomen in Charleston and the riders range in age from 8 to 80 years. ''There is rarely an accident of any kind to riders, and the law proposed, to -compel a cyclist to wait behind a team until permission is given to pass, would be utterly absured. On the whole, I believe it would be worse than ridiculous, for it would give the driver of any vehicle the the right to be insolent, and, as snob a law would be openly violated every boar in the day, it would encourage iii tempered teamsters to interfere with cyclists whenever the opportu nity occurred "-News and Courier A FAMOUS EULOGY. Of all tbs eaiogies in literature there ie none more beautiful than the follow ing upon Gen. Robert E. Lee. It hts been printed in this paper before, bot will bear repeating. It fell from the silver ton g ne of that eloquent Georgian, Senator Benjamin H Hillend is said to bate been extempore: 4'When the fa* tare historian comes to survey the char acter cf Lee be will find it rising like a hage mountain above the undulating plan of bamanity, and he wili have to lift bis eyes bi?h towards beaven to catch its summit. He possessed every virtue of the other great commanders without their vices. He was a foe without bate, a friend without treachery, a soldier without cruelty, aod a victim without murmuring. He vas a publio oScer without vices, a private citizen without wrong, a neighbor wi tb ou s reproach, a Christain wirb ant hypocrisy and a man without guilt He was Cse sar without 1 bis ambition, Frederick without bis tyr rany, Napoleon without his selfishness, and Washington without his reward. He was obedient to authority as a ser vant and royal in authority aa a trae king. He was as gentle as a womsn ia life, pare and modest as a virgin in rhcught, watchful as a Roman vestal in duty, submissive to law as Socrates and grand in battle as Achilles. " An Enterprising Druggist. There are few men more wide awake and en terprisiog than J. F. W. DeLorme, who spare no pains to secure the best of everything in their lise for their many customers. They now hare the valuable ageocy for Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Thia ia the wonderful remedy that is producing eucn a furor all over the country by its many startling eurea. It absolutely eures Astbma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness and all affections cf the Throat, Chest and Lungs. Cail at above dng store and et a trial bottle free or a regular site for 50 cents and $1. Guaranteed to cure or price refunded. 5 --?? mm -i Just alter bia return to Washington from speeding Christmas in bis Iowa home Congressman Hepburn waa asked by Clerk McDowell, who looks after the mileage of Congressmen : "How far ia it to your home, Mr. Hepburn ?" The Iowa mao reflected for a mon ot and then aid : "Five hundred and thirteen dollars' miieaga. The sooner a cou eh or cold is cored with out harm to the sufferer toe better. Linger ing colds are dangerous. Hacking congh is distressing. One Minute Cough Cnrc quick ly cure3 it. Why suffer when such a congh core is within reach ? It is pleasant to me taste.-Hoghsjn-Ligon Co. Good Sewing Machines from $10.00 op at Randie's. TO BE OR NOT TO BE. "To be, or not to be : that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them."-Hamlet. I Hermitage Hill, Daophi No County, Janurember, Anno Diablerie 1988 Dear Mr. Editor : We must beg you to excuse the bewildering cou fusion of this communication from head lines to heel lines, for, indeed, we don't know our head from our beela, or whether we are on cur head or our heels, or what we are OD, or where we are at. Our condition is one of chaotic complexedness and confounded commotion and combusti bility, and a state of complete obfcs tification. This is our. state, our county is worse ; indeed, it is said ! that our dear little, precious tittie, darling little baby is dead. We don't know if itre dead, dead drunk, or desperately ill. We don't think it's dead because, it is said, two of its members are evincing much signs of life and vitality over in Columbia The names of these members are j Bob and Ezra and they have never died before, are not io the habit of dying and, from what we know of them, don't hardly believe they'll be I properly dead at the judgment and may bave to be knocked in the bead I on tbat awful day, and we doubt if they die easy theo. Theo there are other minor members and parta here chet are quite torpid at present, bot they can't be altogether dead until these two aforementioned members are killed. Aa to being drunk : we did hear that this babe got a bad ; "jag-on" ita side on the eight it ! tried to be boro This "jag on" its side waa io the the neighborhood of the Ashland ribs and come mighty nigh proving fatal, bot they sorter bandaged it up and appealed to the Legislature and it furnished a large, thick, fat poultice ; bot some of oar family was of the opinion that that "jag oo? its side was still a festering underneath the poultice and woold iojore the babe's constitution ; it being constitutionally weak aoy way from having been brought forth be fore its time. So they referred it to the supreme council of legal L L. Ds , and they called up a whole bane of mioor L.L Ds and, perchance, some A doable 8*8 among 'em, and they administered an anesthetic io jectioo-or injonction-and ordered perfect quiet while they went of and drunk spring water;, qualified with other beverages, for the balance of the sommer, and, also, prepared the funeral sermon to be delivered over our very dear offspring, aod left os in charge of the rigid, torpid body, shot op io the graveyard. Then they reassembled over il and toro off the poultice and pronounced oui' in fant as "dead aa a door nail/' and that it was born dead, and never had been born at all, aa it were, or w>rds to that efect. Bot, like the ghost of Banco, this babe won't down and die lawfully and constitotionally and we are* perplexed and stnpified and dumbfounded to know what in the Dame of Jehosaphat sod Thoa P. Walker we are to do with tads writh ing, wriggling, kicking corpse "hat won't keep still and lay out decently and properly aod let itself be buried according to the supreme decree If H would only retire to its comforti,ble grave like a well behaved, law abid ing carcass, we might spill a tear from one of dor eyes, at least, md promise to help to raise it again at the last day-sooner or later-bot if its going to nop around like a bantam with its jead chopped off and refuse to do, or to demise, according to contract and role, aod cootioue to proceed to keep os oot of foo or funeral, why theo we hope it may Sop right into a deep sepulchre, and we'll help to erect a ponder os mau soleum over its dear, its very dear and costly remains, if there are aoy. This bas been a babe of much travail aod tribulation A child of many earnest aod varied petitions, but we think its birth was prema ture and it was, therefore, constitu tionally weak Bat, strong or feeble, it has been the cause of a robust agi tation and more complications than -than-the knots in an old cow line, and any oce who has ever tethered a cow knows that King Gordins, of Phrygia, was a fool to the cow in the matter of complex knots Oar case is even worse tbao the Gordian knot, for it found an Alexander to cut it. whereas our own condition is more like a tangled web, aod as fast as yoo find and poll at a strand the more intricately complex the diffi culties prove aod we don't verily believe that the (J S. Supreme Couti, Magna Charta aod E Pioribus Unum, all combined can untangle the skein If we fool too much with courts they may declare Bishop vi lie to be the capital of the State ; then what will you 'una all do. Oar nurses, selected to train this babe io the nurture aud admonition from the suavified brevet clerk to the urbane little fellow who is breveted to hold court over our stark, cold bodies at $10 per cadaver, were anxiously "waiting, only waiting"-not to give the babe any pap, bat hoping lo feed and wax fai on the baby's pap. j There waa once a nurse who I brought suit against a baby's estate, j and the case drew it's aiow length j tbrocgh the chancery court and the j babe grew and the lawyers waxed fat, QDtil the babe died of old age ; ; then the nurse got a verdict, bot the lawyers had the money. There was another case in which plaintiff sued for breach of contract to give him the "preference" in a purchase of wheat, in which the defendant got the wheat, the lawyers got the money and the plaintiff?-Well he was awarded the "preference." The descendants of the Pilgrims and the Huguenots are again clasp* ing hands, while the bitterness of sectionalism and factionalism is dying and the nation is jubilant ; bot there i s no Jobe Lee over in this Bailiwick for Le(e)8 miserables. Guv P. 8-Shoold we survive oar presont desperate legal condition, we suggest that this be called tho "Ban tam Corjnty," as a seceded portion of the old "Gamecock" county, for it is proving the grit of the family by dying hard G. Genera*. John M. Palmer who rao | on the Palmer and Buckner ticket for the presidency in 1898. has lost the eight of bis right eye, aod bis hearing is so mach impaired that be bas been obliged to abandon bis law practice. It is proposed to ask congress for tbe pas sage of a bill to give bim a pension of one haodred dollars a month. Ha is 82 years old.-A cg asta Chronicle. Last Tear's Gold Production. In any case the statistics of the world's gold prod notion are ac ap proximation, and it is needless to say that estimates of the results of a year like 1898, so soon after its close, can not ba deemed exact. It is, however, geoerally known that the year jost end ed bas been marked by an enormous increase in tbe aggregate amount of gold added to the world's stock, and io view of the interest which attaches to the matter, to say nothing of its bear ing on monetary problems, tbe eon dosions of so well-informed a periodical as the Engineering and Mining Journal are decidedly entitled to attention. The rigores it presents ia last week's issue are, it should be noted, based apon complete estimates for the twelve monthes io the case of cooatrias which yielded about 83 per oeot of the world's total gold production. According to tbe tabulated statement which is given io the article from which these facts are extraoted the world's mines yielded dario g 1898 a total of $286.218.000 gold, against $237,332, OOO in 1897, an increase of 48,886, ; OOO. Considering that according to the best authorities the gold product ion of 1896 was only $202,000,000, and that io 1894 it was $181,000.000, the notable character of the advaoee which recent years bas brought in the advance which recent years has brought in the output of gold cao be more readily appreciated. There ia real merit in Representative Dargan's biU to incorporate io tbe con stitutional oath of office oow required a declaration that the parson taking that oath has cot since a specified date been engaged io a lynching. It applies to this crime a treatment which has proven most effective in suppressing dueling and there is no reason why it should not ac complish tbe same result. If there rs aoythiog the white men of South Caro lina fear more thao others, it is depriva tion of political privileges, particularly the privilege of holding office. The number of candidates for office is enor mous; the camber of perjuries, we are glad to believe, is small. If a maa who wants to go a-lyochiog koows that if hs indulges that taney he will be dis franchised and disqualified from becom ing a magistrate or a county supervisor or a member of the legislature, be will have ' that sober second thought" mighty quick. Assuredly this is a good bill to pass.-The State. Go to 3. G Osteen Co. for pretty Paper Dolls, ladies, misses and babies. London. Jau. 19.-The Paris corres pondent of Tbe Daily Grapbio says : "One of the principal chiefs of the Carlista here informs me that everything is now ready for the rising in Spain ; that Don Carlos is absolutely resolved to take tbe field and that all are waiting for the signal." Your friends may smile But that tired feeling Means danger. 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SEARS, ROEBUCK & COM tSoar , Roob-ek A Co. awi t*oro x*h)7 reliable-* .*. i Order Yo,,r PROVISIONS AND GROCERIES FROM GIO. f. STEFFENS & SON Wholesale Agents, Charleston, S C -Agents for MOTT'S CIDER RED SEAL CIGARS, AND DOVE HAMS Tbe session of 1899 will 'begin April 7 and end July 7. The Scbooi famishes the oppor ta oily for students and post-grad oates to contiene their studies and receive clinical instruction during the recess of the regular medical college. Unrivalled opportunities for practical instruction in the special branch es are a feature of thia institution. For fur ther information! addrees, DR. C. M REES, Secretary, Wentworth Street, Charleston, S. C. Dec 7-3m BOARDING. HAVING TAKEN the Houee cn Main Street seco d door south of the Nixon House, I am prepared to accommodate a lew jegular boarders, and also lodging and meals to transient customers. Term3 reasonable. MBS. W. B. SMITH. Sept. s PLANT LIFE, to be vig orous and healthy, must have Potash Phosphoric Acid and Nitrogen. These essential elements are to plants, what bread, meat and water are to man. Crops flourish on soils well supplied with Potash* Our pamphlets tell how to buy and apply fertilizers, and are free to all. QERflAN KAU WORKS, 93 Nassau SL, New York. OSBORNE'S Angus sa, Ga. Actual Business. No Test Booka. Short time. Cheap board. Send for Catalogue. TAI REIMS FOB 1899. OFFICE OF COUNT Y AUDITOR SUMTER COUNTY. SUXTSR, S. C., NOT. 30, 1898. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I will atr.eed, in person or by deputy, at the following places on the days indicated re spectively, for the purpose of receiving re turns of Personal Property, and Poll Taxes for th p. fiscal year commencing January 1st, 1899 : At office Samter, S. C., at all other times np to Feb. 20th, 1899, ioeloaive. Tindals, Tuesday, January 3. Privateer, (Jenkins Store,) Wed nesday, January 4. Manchester, (R. I. Mannings,) Thursday, January 5. Wedgefield, Friday, January 6. Statesburg, Saturday, January 7 Hagood, Monday, Jaouary 9. Keosberts Store, Tuesday, January 10 Grail!ards X Roads, Wednesday Jan uary l.*L. Boseards, Thursday, January 12. Gordon's Mill, Saturday, January 14. M ay es ville, Monday, January 16. Scotts vii Ie, (J. M. McElveeo,) Tues day, Jaouary 17. Shiloh, Wednesday, January 18. Norwood's X Beads, Thursday, January 19. Lynchburg, Friday, January 20. Magnolia, Saturday, Jaouary 21. Reid's Mill, Monday, January 23. Bisbopvilie.Taesday and Wednesday, January 24 and 25. Mannville, Thursday, January 26. Smithville, Friday, January 27. - . . , The law requires that all persons owning property or in anywise having charge of such property, either as agent, husband, guardian, trustee, executor, administrator, ' etc , return the same under oath to the Audi tor, who requests all persons to be prompt in making their returns and save the 50 per cent, penalty which will be added to the property valuation of all persons who fail to make returns within the time prescribed by law. Taxpayers return what they own on the i first day of January, 1899. Assessors and taxpayers will enter the first given name of the taxpayer in full', also make a separate return for each Township where the property ia located and also in each and every case the No. of the School District must be given. Every male citizen between the age of twenty-one and *ixty years on the Sm day of January, 1899, except those incapable of earning a support from being maimed or from other causes, are deemed taxable Polls, and except Coo federate Soldiers 50 years of age, on January 1st, 1899. All returns must be sade on or before the 20th day of February next. I cannot take returns after that date and all returns made after the 20th day of February are subject to a penally of 50 per cent. The appointments hereby made for points in Lee County will be filled by the Auditor of that County if be bas qualified at the time indicated, otherwise, by mvself or my deputy. J DIGGS WILDER, Dec 7 Auditor Sumter County. MEDICAL WORK MEN, FREE SC tO UO HOMEY. My new revised scientific work i real i ste on erery weakness and dise iee pe en! LAT to moa is inst from the press. Erery man. no matter hat Iiis occupation cr position in Iii , will find thia work unlike anything eeorpobliahed. It is of rita) interest to the married or unmarried; to th healthy and strong or to the weak and broken-down. While the edition lasts I wiU end u copy socwwly swlsd in a ateto wrapper. Mai ana yrepalrf. to erery man wac writes for it. Thia edition is limited and those desiring a copy mast write promptly. Address B. M. Bess, X. D.. Puo ltehtog Department D. I'S Clark St.. K. E. Coe MOOT oe. Chicago. Illinois. State of South Carolina. COUNTY OF SUMTER. IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. COPY SUMMONS FOR RELIEF. (Complaint Served.) Elisabeth Oliver, assignee, plaintiff against Colin C. Manning, defendant. To the Defe dant, Colin C. Manning: You are hereby summoned and required to answer tbe complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you. (Tba original complaint having been flied in the office of the Clerk of said Court on December 13tb,1896, ) aod to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office in the city ot Sumter, Sumter, S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service ; and if you fail to answer ib? complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in tht3 complaint. Dated December Ttb, A. D., 189S L. D. JENNINGS, Dec 14 6 Plaintiffs Attorney.