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TMM sumt?s watchman, Eetebi?Bhed April, iS O. "Be Just and Fear not?Let all the Ends thon Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." the true socthbon. Established jone. 2 s68 Cosolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER. S. G.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 29, 1902. New Series?Yol. XXII. No. 13 Published S?ez7 ^s?nss?ay, i* -? - EST. C3r. Osteen SUMTER, S. C. tssks? % $1 50 per s&saa?ia advance. adtistisikskt: Ob\? Square first ?38ertion^........c....?.$l 00 Svery sabeeqcent iDsertioc.-. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer wilt be made ac reduced rates. Ali coacinnications which subserve private interests will be charged for as ad versements. Obs tueries and tributes of respecta will be 3&ar?*ed for. ill m ILLS THE FACTS. Iporance in the North-Many Think Slavery Just Grew Up in the South-Few Know That firant Owned Slaves. Atlanta Constitution. Wanted?In 1881 General Henry R. Jackson, of Savannah, delivered in Atlanta the most notable, instructive and eloquent address that has been . heard in Georgia since the civil war. The subject was "The Wanderer," a slave ship that landed on the Geor gia coast in 1858. But the whole ad dress was an historical recital of many political events that led to the civil war and of which the generation that has grown up since were profoundly ignorant and still are/ It was deliver ed by .request of the Young Men's Library Association, when Henry Grady was its chairman, and I suppose was published in pamphlet formt and could be had on application, but I have sought in vain to f?nd a copy. I have a newspaper copy, but it has been worn to the quick and is almost , illegible. I wrote to Judge Pope Bar- ; row, who is General Jackson's execu tor, and he can find none among the general's papers. Can any veteran furnish me a copy? I would also be pleased to obtain a copy of Daniel Webster's speech at Capon Springs, which was suppressed by his publish ers and to which General Jackson makes allusion. General Jackson was a great man. He won his military lau rels in the war with Mexico. He was assistant attorney general under . Buchanan when Jeremiah Black was t h chief. He wa? the vigilant, deter-, mined, conscientious prosecutor of those who owned and equipped and officered the only slave ship that ever ? landed on th? Georgia coast. He was a man of splendid culture and a poet of ability and reputation. Strange it is that this magnificent address has not been complied in the appedix of some Southern history, as a landmark for the present generation. It is sad and mortifying that our young and middle- aged men and our graduates from Southern colleges know so little of our ante-bellum history. The Northern peo pie are equally igno rant oi the origin of slavery and the real cause& that precipitated the civil war.. Most of them have a vague idea that shivery was born and just grew np in the South?came np out of the ground like the 17 -year- old locusts? and was our sin and our curse. Not one in ten thousand will believe that the South nerve imported a slave from Africa, bat got all we had by purchase from oar Northern brethren. I would wager a thousand dollars against ten that not a man under fifty nor a school boy who lives North of the line knows or beli ves that General Grant, their great military hero and idol, was a sl?ve owner and lived off of their hire and their service while he was fighting os about ours. Lincoln's proclama tion of freedom came in 1863, but Gen eral Grant paid no attention to it He continued to use them as slaves until January, 1865. (See his biography by General James Grant Wilson in Ap pleton's Encyclopedia. ) General Grant owned these salves in St Louis, Mo., where he lived. He was a bad man ager and just before the war began he moved to Galena and went to work for his brother in the tanyard. While there he caught the wax fever and got a good position roider.Lincoln, but had he remained in St. Louis would have greatly preferred one on our side. So said Mrs. Grant a few years ago to a newspaper editor in St Augustine. How many of this generation North or South know or will believe that as late ?3 November, 1861, Nathaniel Gordon, master.of a New England slave ship, called the Erie, was con victed in New York city of carrying on the slave trade. (See Appleton. ) Just think of. it and wonder. In 1861 our Northern brethren made war upon us because we enslaved the negroes we had bought from them, but at the same time they kept on bringing more from Africa and begging us to buy them. How many know that England, our mother country, never emancipat ed her slaves until 1843, when twelve millions were set free in the East Indies and one hundred millions of dollars paid to their owners by act of parliament? It is only within the last half century that the importation of slaves from Africa has generally ceased. Up to that time every civilized coun try bought them and enslaved them. English statesmen and clergymen said it was better to bring them away than to have them continue in their bar barism and cannibalism. And it was better. I believe it was God's providence that they should be brought away and placed in slavery, but the way it was done was inhuman and-brutal. The horrors of the middle passage, as the ocean voyage was called, is the most aweful narrative I ever read, and re minds me of Dante's "Inferno." About half the cargo survived and the dead and dying were tumbled into the sea. The owners said we can afford to lose half and still have a thousand per cent profit. Rev. John Nekton, one of the sweetest poets who ever wrote a hymn, the author of'"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like?" "Saviour, Visit Thy Plantation,"' "Safely Through An other Week," and many others, was for many years a deck hand on a slave ship and saw all its horrors. He be came converted, but soon after became captain of a slaver and for four years pursued it diligently and mitigated its cruelty. Then he quit and went to preaching, and says in his autobi ography that it never occurred to him that there was anything wrong or im moral in the slave trade where it was I humanely conducted. The Saviour said : "Offences must needs comer but woe unto them by whom they come. " La Appletons' long and exhaustive article on slavery it is said that slavery in some form has existed ever since human history began. And it appears to have been under the sanction of Providnee as far back as the days of Noah and Abraham. The latter had a very great household and many ser vants, whom he had bought with his monej?: The word slave appears but twice in the Bible. It is synonymous with servant and bondsman. There has been+no time since the Christian era that the dominant nations have not owned slaves?sometimes the bond age was hard, but as a general rule the master found it to his interest to be kind to his slaves. As Bob Tombs said in his Boston speech: "It is not to our interest to starve our slaves any more than it is to starve our horses and horned cattle." Shortly after the little cargo that the Wanderer brought were secretly scattered around I saw seme of them at work in a large gar den in Columbus, Ga., and was told that they were docile and quickly learned to dig and to hoe, but that it was hard to teach them to eat cooked meat. They wanted it raw and bloody. They were miserable little runts, "Guinea negroes," with thick lips and flat noses, but they grew up into better shape and made good servants, and I know were far better off than in their: native jungles, the prey of stronger tribes, and made food for cannibals. No, there was no sin in slavery as instituted in the South by our fathers and forefathers, and that is why I write this letter?perhaps the last I shall ever write on this subject. I wish to impress it upon our boys and girls, so that they may be ready and willing to defend their Southern an cestors from the baseless, charge of suffering now for the sins of their fathers. A Northern friend writes : "Do please let up on the negro. We up here are tired of him. Give us more. of your pleasant pictures of domestic life,' etc., but let the negro go dead." He does not know that the negro and what. is to become of him is a ques tion of tremendous moment with us and it must be written about. But I will refrain as long: as it is prudent. Just now I would like to hire a man to cuss the biack rascal who came in to my back yard the other night and stole my grind stone. For five years I have let every darkey grind his ax who wanted to, and now I can't grind my own. The fact is I have no ax to grind, for they stole that first. Bill Arp. LEARNED IT FROM HIS WIFE. How an Englishman Knew Bishop Keiley Was Joking. Bishop Benjamin J. Kelley, who spent some days in London, both going to and resuming from Rome, says the Savannah Morning News, has brought back with him to Savannah a story that the bishop says illustrates the typical Britisher's perception of a joke. He has a nephew in the British army, who entertained Bishop Kelley while he was in London at the service club to which he belonged. Sitting in the club reading room with a party of men, officers and civilians as well, when the Irish spirit of mischief, bubbling out from between the warp woof of his cloth, induced the bishop to say : "By the way, perhaps one of you gentlemen can settle a question that has often troubled my curiosity. Is it possible to make butter of goat's milk?" The Englishmen around the table stared at the Bishop with well-bred amazement, somewhat startled, seem ingly, that a clergyman should be really curious on sueh a subject. None of them ventured, however, to answer the question. "I don't know, I'm sure," said one of them, "but I'll aswk my wife.1' "Oh, don't trouble yourself," said the bishop. It was mere idle curiosity on my part. But as the party broke up and started towards the door the bishop nudged his obliging acquain tance's elbow and murmured: "I should think you could, you know, because a goat's a good butter.'** ? "Hah," said the Englishman, with bland and perfect uncomprehension? and the bishop went on his way in Rome. Some weeks later he returned to London and to the ?same club where assembled in the course of time much the same party. He of the obliging disposition button-holed the bishop on the spot. "I say," he said : "you remember you awsked me if goat's milk would produce butter." "Yes," said the bishop. "Well, I awsked my wife and she said it would make very good butter indeed." "Ah," said the bishop. "And I say" continued the Eng lishman with a constantly rising" in flection, "you remember you said you thought it could, because the goat is a good butter," "Yes," said the bishop, possibly in some trepidation o^. spirit. "Well, my wife says," said the Englishman, " that that was a j?ke. Whereupon the right reverend bishop of Savannah, unable longer to conten his mirth, turned and fled. J?L BSav GEN. JONES RESTRAINED BY G. WALT WHITMAN. Also D. C. Heyward Held Back From the Governorship?But Dr. Babcock is Foot-Loose. Special to The State. Union, Oct. 22.?G. Walt Whitman has brought action for an injunction against Col. Wilie Jones, chairman of the State Democratic committee, re straining them from putting the name of Hon. D. C. Heyward on the ticket for governor. He has also filed an in junction against the Hon. D. C. Hey ward himself restraining him from running in the general election in November as a candidate of the Demo cratic party under the guise of the Democratic nominee. The matter was brought up before Judge Buchanan while he was here at court which has just closed. Mr. Whitman says in his petition that he filed his pledge within the prescribed time by and according to the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic party in this State. The pro ceedings are supported by the affidavits of S. C. DePass, who was then in his brother's law office, but is now a student in the South Caro lina college. Further in the petition he says he has never been a candidate in the true meaning of the word, "but that he is not averse to filling the office of gover nor if elected on the platform of broad and liberal ideas of education." He says he has exhausted all the rights and remedies by appeal to the State executive committee. He now thinks all the candidates for governor ought to be allowed to run on their own merits in the general election and let the people decide who they want to be governor. The proceedings before Judge)|Buch auan tvere based on a number of affidavits, sworn to before W. W. Dix on. United States Commissioner. The affidavits were those of Dr. J. G. Go ing, CoL James Munro, Dr. Wallace Culp and Capt. Jas. E. Hunter. Most of the affidavits were to the effect that they knew Mr. Whitman to be of age, and a qualified elector, that his Democracy is above par when com pared with other members of the gen eral assembly of the State. They say they . know that Mr. Whitman is anxious to be governor. Mentally and physically, they know he is able to run for governor and that he will do so, and may make a good executive officer. Then Capt. Jas. E. Hunter says that Mr. Whitman^ pledge was filed, in writing It was written on a postal card and was mailed by S. C. DePass. Judge Buchanan after hearing oral arguments from all the Union bar on the case reversed his decision. It is said that Mr. Whitman has car ried it to Greenville before Judge Bradley. &1r. f?itchei! on Mr. Morgan. Mr. Mitchell's expression of good will to Mr. Morgan is in.atlogether a different spirit from that part of his letter to President Roosevelt reflecting upon the motives of the coal operators That letter showed such deep personal, feeling that it is surprising now to find him speaking so well of the man supposed by very many people to be the head of a great conspiracy of cap ital against labor. Mr. Mitchell, how ever, is in a position to be informed as to the facts, and when be says Mr. Morgan has been anxious for two months to have the strike settled, more on humane than on financial con siderations, he must speak from in formation. It quite accords with what we know of Mr. Morgan's unostenta tious but extensive charities which show that the millionaire has never lost touch of the common claims of humanity in spite of his vast ; ac cumulation of wealth. Furthermore, Mr. Morgan has never stooped to dis honest methods of business. The worst that can be said of him is that he has been a builder up of great corpora tions, too great, most people think, for the safety of the country. In other words, Mr. Morgan has taken advantage of the consolidation movement and placed himself at its 1 head, though he did not begin it. *He has unequaled judgment as to finan cial, commercial and industrial devel-. opments, but he is not a creator of them like Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Hill. What Mr. Mitchell has done in the unification of the mine work ers is as great [a task,??comparatively, as Mr. Morgan has effected in his rail road, steel and shipping combinations. The labor organizer has recognized a similar spirit in a different but closely related field, for Mr. Mitchell is doubtlesss, too sensible not to re cognize that capital and labor are not natural enemies. Capital, according to political economists, is simply stored upjglabor accumulated in the begin ning by men who have had self-denial enough not to spend all the products of their toil. Without it there could be no labor not immediately pro ductive, for the workingman must have subsistence while engaged in such occupations as mining, whose products require time before they pass into the hands of the consumer. The difficulty is to adjust the part that labor and capital should take of the products of labor. Capital will not?be used unless at a profit, for otherwise the capitalist would have no motive for his invest ment in such great enterprises as the anthracite mines. It should not take too large a part, and this is the point that Mr. Roosevelt's commission must determine. Mr. Mitchell, probably recognizing this, is willing to say of Mr. Morgan what lie would not say of the operat ors, that he is not essentially selfish. Certainly a mutual understanding of each other will aid powerfully in ar riving at a solution of the problems in which all labor and all capital are in terested.?Courier-Journal. ?NITE? STATES MUST PAY DAMA8ES. King Oscar Decides Case Grow ing Out of Samoan Rebellion. Washington, Oct. 22.?An intimation has been received here that King Oscar of Sweden, who is acting as the arbi trator of the issues between the Unit ed States, Germany and Great Britain growing out of the Samoan rebellion of 1899, will decide that the facts ^presented to him in the briefs of counsel which have been pending for nearly a year warrant him in proceed ing to assess the damages sustained by foreign residents of Samoa as a result of the landing of a combined force of American and British sailors and marines and the destruction of property incident-to the ensuing fight with the rebels. By the terms of the treaty un der which the three powers agreed to submit these claims to arbitration, the arbitrator was first to declare whether or not the Americans and British were at all liable for damages, and if so then he was to determine the - amount of that liability. He has, it is under stood, concluded to decide the first question in the affirmative. The next step is to fix the amount of the dam ages, and this must be done by King Oscar upon the basis of the facts now to be presented by the representatives of the governments concerned. The German claims are far larger than the others, amounting to $103,918, while the American claims are $77,605 and the British only $6,285. It is not the amount of money involved in this approaching decision of the arbitrator that concerns the government of the United States, but rather the enuncia tion of a principle which if accepted as a precedent would be most unpalata ble, and would so seriously restrict the assertion of American rights in foreign countries in case of revolution or riot ing jeopardizing the lives and property of our citizens, that it would amount to the total withdrawal of protection. This can never be admitted and so it may be positively stated that while the United States government will accept the arbitration loyally and pay any damages assessed against it it will ''ut terly refuse to be bound by such a principle or to recognize "it as estab lishing a precedent. Otherwise the United States . government could be held liable for enormous damages in cases where it lands troops upon the Isthmus of Panama resulting in a col lision with rioters or rebels, even though the government is solemnly bound by treaty to preserve free traffic across the isthmus. The United States ceo?rnot- land marines in any of the West Indian or Central and South American ports in any emergency with out risking liability for heavy dam ages. These considerations will lead to the declination to recognize the de cision as a precedent, and incidentally to the submission of the next similar case to The Hague tribunal in the hope of another and different decision. Over 17.500,000 Pup?s. Washington, Oct. J9.?The annual report of the Commissioner of Educa tion, just ^submitted to the Secretary of the Interior, shows that the grand total of pupils in schools elementary, secondary and higher, both public and private, in the United States for the y6ar ended June 30, 1901, was 17, - 299,230, an increase of 278,520 pupils over the previous year. Of this num ber the enrollment of pupils in institu tions supported by general and local taxes furnished by Stetes and munici palities were 15,710,394, as 'against 15,443,462, the number reported^ for the previous year. Adding the enroll ment in special schools to that for general education the aggregate is something over 17,750,000. The value of property used for public school purposes has risen to $576,963, 089 from $130,380,008 in 1870, and the expenditures for the common schools, including elementary and secondary schools, but excluding all institutions for higher education, amounted to $226,043,236, having risen to this sum from $63,396,666 in 1870. In 1870 the expenditure for schools per capita of the population was $1.64. The past year it was $2.93 per capita of the popultion, the highest that it has ever been. The average attendance of each pupil for the entire number enrolled was ninety-nine days for the year, an increase of twenty-four days over the previous year. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Associate Justice of the United States' Supreme Court, will not take his seat ion the bench until his nomination shall have been sent to the Senate and confirmed by that body, This is in consonance with a custom which has prevailed since 1795. In that year John Rut ledge, of South Carolina, was appoint ed Chief Justice in place of John Hay and sat in Court at the August term that same year. In December the Senate rejected his nomination. Oliver Ellsworth was then nominated and confirmed. Never since that episode has a Justice of the Supreme Court taken his seat before being confirmed. A Typical South African Store. O. R. Larson, of Bay Villa, Sunday. Kiver, Cape Colony, conducts a store typi cal of South Africa, at which can be pur chased anything from the proverbial "'needle to an anchor." This store is situat ed in a valley nine miles from the nearest railway station and about twenty-five miles from the nearest town. .Mr. Larson says: '*I am favored with the custom of farmers within a radius of thirty miles, to many of whom I have supplied Chamberlain's re medies. All testify to their value in a household where a doctor's advice is al most out of the question. Within one mile of my store the }iopulation is rhaps sixty. Of these, within the past twelve months, no less than fourteen have been absolutely cured by Chamberlain Cough Remedy. This must surely be a record." For sale by Dr. J. A. China. C?RKEG?E POINTS WAY TO PEAGE. He Urges Formation United States of Europe to Eliminate Neces sity For Armament. St. Andrews, Scotland, Oct. 22.? Andrew Carnegie was today formally reinstated as rector of St. Andrews univeristy, in the presence of a large and brilliant assemblage, over which Principal Donaldsen presided. Mr. Carnegie's rectorial address con sisted of a lengthy stndy of the com parative growth of nations in the paths of industrial ascendancy, with a strik ing commentary on their future. In his speech, which was replete with notable statistics and important economic prophecies, perhaps the most remarkable feature was an appeal to Emperior William to use his influence toward the eventual creation of the United States of Europe, under the form of a political and industrial union. In this way alone, Mr.' Car negie declared, can Europe conqoer the foreign markets or repel the American invasion. France, Germany and Russia, who had already taken joint action against Japan,' would suffice to ensure as satifactory union in Europe. "The czar," he continued, "having taken -the first step toward the peace of the world in The Hague confer ence, the other mighty emperor might some day be impressed with the thought that it is due to himself and to Germany to play a great part upon ! the wider stage of Europe, as her de liverer from the incubus which op presses and weakens her the appalling, paralyzing fear of war and ruin be tween members of her own body." ^ Dealing with the events which caus ed the industrial supremacy "once yours but now passed to your lineal descendants, who bears the industrial crown," Mr. Carnegie maintained that it was a physical impossibility for Great Britain to produce material things rivalling in amount those of countries the size of {[America, Ger many and Russia, nor would a union of the empire change the situation, for ' ' neither Canada nor Australlia gave premise of much increase in population or industrialism. All thought of material ascendancy even with the British empire united must therefore be abandoned." Mr. Carneige spared his Scotch audienec no details. " America," he said, "now makes more steel than all the rest of the world. In iron and coal her production is greatest and it is also so in textiles. She produces three-quarters of the world's cotton. The value of her manufacturers is about triple that of your own. Her exports are greater and the clearing house exchanges at New York are al most double those of London." Hie speaker also said now there is a threat to oust Great Britain even from second place. "There is no escape, " saidZvlr. Car negie, "from the influence of magni tude which gathers as it rolls and must finally conquer." The Sinful Brother. It was at a certain church meeting, and the good bishop was calling for reports. He had a rather stern, sharp manner which sometimes jarred a little on the nerves of the more timid. By and-by he came to Brother B., a lay delegate. "Brother B. what is the spiritual condition of your church?" demanded the bishop, briskly. "I consider it good," said the brother. " What makes you think it is good?" went on the bishop. "Well, the people are religious. Thats' what makes me think so." "What do you call religious? Do they have family prayer?" "Some of them do and some do not." "Do you mean to say that a man may be a Christian, and not hold family prayer?" " Yes, sir; I think so." "Do you hold family prayer?" ."Yes, * sir" returned the brother, quietly. r "And yet you think a man may be a Christian and not hold family prayer?" "I have a brother who is a better man than I am who does not hold family prayer. " "What makes you think he is a better man than you are?" "Everybody says so, and 1 know he la. "Why does not your brother, if he is such" a good man, hold family pray er?" thundered the bishop. 4 ? He has no family, ' ' meekly answer ed the brother.?A. J. B., in Harper's. Chicago, Oct. 21.?By a fire which broke out shortly before midnight in the plant of the" Glucose Sugar Re finery, situated at Taylor street and the Chicago river, that factory was al most entirely destroyed, and it is said 20 men lost their lives. The number of dead has not been establish ed as yet, but it is known that the men were in the building and all were working on the seventh floor. The flames spread so rapildy that a man who was working on the third floor had barely time to escape with his life and it is not thought by the employes of the concern or by the firemen that the men in the upper story could have avoided death. At midnight two bodies have been taken from the ruins, but the fire was burning so rapidly that it was impossible to make further search. XiM His Life in Peril. "I just seemed to have gone all to piece?," writes Alfred Bee, of Welfare, Tex., '-bili ousness and a lame back liad made life a burden. I couldn't eat or sleep and felt almost too worn out to work when I began to use Electric Bitters, but they worked wonders. Now I sleep like a top, can eat anything, have gained in strength and en joy hard work.'' They give vigorous health and new life to weak, sickly, run down people. Try them. Only .">0c at J. F. W. DeLorme's drug store. [ Collecting Special School Tax. In response to a request from Comp troller General Derham Assistant At torney General Gunter Assistant At torney General Gunter has furnished the following opinion : Dear Sir: Your communication en closing the letter of J. P. Mozingo, Jr., auditor of Darlington County upon which you request to be advised whether a tax voted upon a special school district on the 18th day of Oct ober, 3902, can be collected by the county treasurer during the remaining time for the collection of taxes for this year, received. I presume the tax referred to is levi ed under Section 1,208 of the Civil Code of 1902, which allows special school districts to vote a special school tax. This section provides that within ten days after such election, if the majority shall vote for such a levy, the board of directors shall furnish the county auditor with' a statement of the amount so levied, and the auditor shall enter the same in the tax du plicates, and "the county treasurer shall collect the same as other county and State taxes." While the law directs that the tax officials shall enter and collect this special school. tax it does not direct that it can be entered and collected at any time, and it must, therefore, conform to the law- govern ing all other taxes. Section 352 of the Civil Code of 1902 directs the auditor to prepare a book containing a list of all the tax able property in a county, the value and ownership thereof, which list shall be retained by the auditor, and another made for the county treasurer and delivered to him on or before the 30th day of September as his warrant for the collection of the taxes, assess ments and penalties charged thereon, each and both of which lists are de nominated the county duplicate. The county auidtor is directed to charge on the duplicate the taxes re quired to be levied and collected. (Sections 353 and 354. ) It is further provided by Section 9 of an Act of 1902, to be found at page 1,132, that the county treasurer, im mediately upon the receipt of the tax duplicate for the year from the coun ty auditor, shall cause a notice to be inserted in one county newspaper stat ing the rate per centum of the levy for State purpose, and if any levy has been made on the property of a school dis trict the rate of such levy shall also be stated in such notice. Now as Section 8 of an Act of 1902, page 1,131, providing that taxes shall be due and payable from the 15th day of October to the 1st day of Decem ber, 1S02, it is manifest that, inasmuch as the special school levy in question was made for the 30th day of Septem ber, it was not contained in the duplicate given to the county treas urer, which is his only warrant for the collection of taxes, and that the levy could net be contained in the notice of the rate of the levy required to be published immediately upon re ceipt of the tax duplicate by the treas urer: that the special levy in question comes too late to be collected as other county and States taxes for 1902. This view is strengthened by the fact that a taxpayer has a right to expect that he has discharged his tax obligation upon the payment of all taxes due on the first day of the opening of the tax books, and that for the further reason that an election resulting in favor of a special levy could he held immediate ly before the close of the tax books, thereby denying the taxpayers the privilege of paying a tax voted upon him. The only difference between a special school tax and the State and county taxes is as to the manner of levy. The collection is governed by the same law. Out of Death's Jaws. "When death seemed very near from a severe stomach and liver trouble, that I had suffered with for years," writes P. Muse, Durham, N. C, ";Dr. King's New Life Pills saved my life and gave perfect health." Best pills on earth and only 25c at J. F. W. DeLorme's drag store. Fire in Oregon's Coa! Bunkers. San Francisco, Oct. 23.?The Bul letin today says that a fire has been burning in the coal bunkers of the battleship Oregon for three days and that the officers of the vessels at noon today would not say that the fire had been extinguished. A board of survey has been sum moned to examine the vessel and it will be some time before the battleship will be able to depart for Manila. Repairs will have to be made and a new supply of coal put on board before the battleship can sail. America's Famous Beauties. Look with horror on Skin Eruptions, Blotches, Sores, Pimples. They don't have them, nor will any one, who uses Bncklen's Arnica Salve. It glorifies the face. Ecze ma or Salt Rheum vanish before it. It cures sore lips, chapped hands, chilblains* Infallible for Piles. 25c at J. F. W. De. Lorme's drug store. Willemstad, Island on Curacca, Oct. 21.?Troops belonging to the revclu tionary army re-appeared in strong forces Sunday at Los Teqnes, a few hours from Caracas, Venezuela. The government of that republic sent troops from La Victoria to impede the advance of the revolutionists upon Caracas. Goes Like Hot Cakes. ' The fastest selling article I have m mv store,** writes druggist C. T. Smith, of Davis, Ky., "is Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, be cause it always cures. In my six years of sales it has never failed. I have known it to save sufferers from Throat and Lung diseases, who could get no help from doc tors or any other remedy." Mothers rely on it, best physicians prescribe it, and J. F. W. DeLorme guarantees satisfaction or refunds price. Trial bottles free. Regular sizes, 50c and $1.