Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Afternoon Paper. It is an incontestable fact, says The Atlanta Journal, that the evening newspaper ls the last and best prod act ft in the evolution of the fittest. The " causes of its supremacy, though trite, ?V will bear repetition. Every invention that facilitates the transmission of the news adds to the ability of the evening press as a news caterer- Improved ser? vice makes it possible to print the news, the world over the some day it happens. Especially is this true as to the foreign field. The earlier time of the East gives the evening paper the b first chance at the happenings on the other side of the world. And thus it is that the revolution of the world aids in the evening press. The stars in their courses fight for it. When the fiinal editions of the even? ing journals are printed little remains for the morning papers save to reprint the story at greater length, i But these advantages of the evening press are supplimented by many others Chief are these. The morning paper is necessarily, shut up to a small clientele. The bus? iness man who gets down town late, or the professional man, is able to read the morning paper. The entire class-the bulk of the population-goes ^ to i ts work before the morning paper a r ^"rives. Aside from ? few women of leisure, housewives ate too buisily employed at . the morning hour to read a newspaper. This is the weak spot in the morning paper's scheme of things. Women are the greatest readers of advertisements. ? The after >supper hour is the leisure & hour of all the people. That is why the evening paper goes to the doorstep. If, an addition to these advantages, j the evening journal is fearless in poli- s tics there rs no excuse for a limited circulation. The broad paper, filled with news of interest to all the family, wins i te way. - The evening paper is the paper of the people-^-the people whose ratio to the special constituency of the morning pa? per is as one hundred to one. : ?And,so the evening press can say, witn Caesar, "I came,.I saw, I ?con? quered." Watterson on Gambling. * (Monte Carlo Letter to Louisville Courier-Journal. ) All gambling is vulgar. Call it w hat you will, assign for it whatever ; reason you please, it is an irrational, v an ignoble struggle for money. Money got for nothing on the turning of a ? card or ' the revolution of a wheel bringe th good to no man, not even to ; ii?n who wins it. And to him that loseth sometimes perdition, often, very often, that sinking sensation, that tired feeling-even where the ' value lost is immaterial-which* fol? lows futile effort and says as plain as whisper in the ear, "The world's against you." There is a postal-card picture which shows us the facade on their Casino at Monte Carlo, with a drove of sheep, fee and wool going in and the same drove nude and skinny coming out and no friendly voice to cry : ' *May Henven temper the wind to the shorn lamb!" Gambling, like everything else is p relative. The sin lies in the over r play/ with its collateral vices, ebief among them improvidence. The reigning sovereign who has only his ij^oney to lese, and plenty of that, is not so classed with the banker or the banker's confidential clerk or secre? tary who has everything at stake, character included, though each plays for the same end-that is, the diver? sion and excitement. Asked what was the greatest pleasure in life,. Fox j said. "Winning at cards.? There| was a gambler for the love of it, I and yet Fox played never for high I stakes after he was forty, if he played 1 at all. Exports of cotton cloths to China from the United States in the first eight months of the present fiscal year broke all previous records, and indi? cate tli at our total exports to China during the twelve months ending June i 30 next will reach the unprecedented figareof $40,000,000, while tothe Orient as a whole, the total will probably ap? proximate $150,000,000 in value. These conclusions are based upon fig? ures just compiled by the Department of Csmmerce and Labor throngh its bureau of statistics, which show that our exports to Asia and Oceania in the eight months ending with February, 1905, amounteed to $92,523,412- prac? tically equal to the total shown by the full twelve montes of, the fiscal year 1904, and exceeding the total for the eight months of any preceding fiscal year. . ' Bider Haggard's missionin America is directly connected with the British Government's scheme for the agricul? ture! settlement of South Africa. The development of the uncultivated lends in South Africa by suitable im migrants was one of Cecil Rh od es's i most cherished schemes and the ex- ! penses of Mr. Haggard's journey will be defrayed by the trustees of Mr. Shodes's estate. Louis W. Mayer, formerly of Phila? delphia, has just died in San Francis? co. He was last member of the artil? lery company commanded by the late Gen. Sherman in the Mexican war. Thia company went to California around the horn on the na?y ship Lex? ington, and was the first company of United States troops to arrive there. This story is making the rounds of the press in Europe : The story was told me by a Nihilist who declared it to be true. An eminent German spe? cialist was recently consulted by the .Czar about the health of bia heir. The German made an examination, pursed up bis month and seemed dis? satisfied. "Well," said the Emperor, "what is the matter? I insist upon knowing." "In that case," quoth the blunt Teuton, "I shall tell you. He is a congenital idiot." Then the imperial temper boiled over; th?? im? prudent scientific man received a sounding box on the ear and was ig? nominiously kicked out of the room. At present the only thrones in Eu? rope not occupied by a descendent of James L of England are those of Ser? via, Turkey and Sweden-Norway. But as Princess Margare of Con? naught is to be married to Crown Prince Oscar the throne of Sweden Norway may be in due time, occupied by a descendent of James L, like the HEWS IN THE STATE CAPITAL. Maj. W. Loring Lee Called in to Unravel Railroad Tangie. Comptroller General Jones Increases Franchise Taxes on Big Corporations -Boards of Health to be Forced to Perform Their Duties. By W. H. McCaw. Columbia, April 5.-After hearing a delegation of business men, including several cotton mill presidents and the mayor of the town, the railroad commission has appointed Mr. Loring Lee of Sunter to make a survey of the physical situation at Union to see whether a more feasible route can be secured for the proposed new Sea? board connection into Union than over the tracks of the Southern at grade. The Southern is vigorously fighting the proposed new line, which will give the Seaboard a part of the shipments of the mills at Union. The net receipts amounting to over $50,000 a month, over $650,000 a year. The Southern began the fight last September by securing an injunction against the new line crossing the line at grade, but later abandoned this and took it np with the railroad commis? sion. The Southern bases its objec tion on the ground that at the point of the- proposed crossing just before reaching Union, the Son the rn's line is ona curve, one rail being higher than the other, which would render a crossing at grade dangerous. The Union people contend that it would cost $30,000 additional to build the road a more circuitous way. It pro? posed to make the connection with the Seaboard at Pride's, a station on the Georgia, Carolina and Northern line of the Seaboad, near where au immense power plant is being devel? oped, run on through Union to the Buffalo mills, and later build a 14 mile connecting link with the.Spar tanbnrg and Glenn Springs road, which will give connection with Spar tauburg,'where the Southern has com? petition in the Coast Line over the C. & W. C. tracks. It is thought Thomas Austin, a well known Greenville man, will die as the result of fractured skul) he received in a fight Sunday at a livery stable in Greenville ac the hands of his friend Thomas Boss, with whom he had just dined. The meuj who wore the nest of friends, had just dined I together. Austin slapped Boss's face I and followed this with other forms of I play, which Ross considered too ron^h, and the latter seizing a rake struck Austin over the head. Incomplete returns indicate that Mr. St. Julian Jervey has been select? ed solicitor over Mr. ^Turner Logan in ?the new low country ninth judicial circuit. Six out of nine boxes in Beaufort, 17 out of 25 in Charleston and 7 out of-SO in Holleton give Jer? vey 1,777 and Logan 1,588. In the first primary Jervey received 1,132 Logau 1,950 and Padgett 1,060. The grand jury in the federal court at Charleston has returned a "no i bill" in the case against W. H. Sellers, the "Booze King" of Gervais street, at Columbia, alleged to have been conducting a ^hole-sale liquor business without a wholesale license. If one sale of more than four and a half gallons could have been proven against the alleged wholesale tiger, who admits to mest anyone who will question him that he receives many carload shipments of the stuff ina ye*r, the case would have been made out. A peculiarity about the federal statute on this subject is that as many sales as desirable may be made of 4^o gallons, but these sales to the same person must be made at separate times during the day. The comptroller general has more than quadrupled the return of the V-C. concern for taxation under the franchise tax act. The company's original return of that proportion of its capital represented by its property situated, in this State was slightly over half a million dollars. A few days ago this was amended by the company by the correction of errors which the Comptroller General point? ed ont to SI, 395,000. This was more than double the original zeta rn and now this last retrnn has been more than doubled "by the comptroller gen? eral to $3,000,000, on which the half mill tax is SI, 500. Comptroller Gen? eral Jones was once State phosphate inspector and knows something about the property used in this business in this State. Be has indicated to the officers of the company that if .they desire to protest he will set a day on which their protest will be heard, but in case they do this he will require them to make a showing of the property not only in this State but everywhere else, the total capi? tal being $54^000,000. The Royster Guano company's return has been raised from $45,000 to $350,000. This State will be represented at the Seagirt target practice the latter part of next August. A full team of 13 men will be sent on to New Jersey by the adjutant general's office, the team to be selected after a match shoot in Charleston the latter part of July. The team to be selected will likely be in charge of Capt. T. T. Hyde of Charleston. The State board of health is about tc get smartly in behind the sub boards throughout the State under the new health statute passed by the last legislature, which renders a sub board refosing to carry out the in? structions of the State board liable to prosecution. The new law not only places contagious diseases within the authority of the sub-boaras with ample provision for enforcing the re? quired regulations, but it gives these boards power to prosecute for market? ing impure or unhealthful foodstuffs. The attorney general is now preparing a skeleton ordinance along this line which will be sent to the sub-bo a rds in a few days. Rheumatic Pains Quickly Re? lieved. The excruciating pains characteristic of rheumatism and sciatica are quickly re? lieved by applying Chambei Iain's Pain Balm. The great pain relieving power of the liniment has been the surprise and de? light of thousands of sufferers. The quick relier from pain which it affords is alone worth many times its cost. For sals by all druggists. NEARLY 400,000,000 PACKAGES of this most nutritious of all foods have already been consumed but CHEER UP! Good wheat is plentiful. Flour mills are grinding steadily. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY bakeries, the cleanest, largest, most modern in the world, are working day in and day out to supply you with your favorite soda cracker. So Uneeda Biscuit are still in abundance-the price is the same Don't forzet Graham Crackers Butter Thin Biscuit Social Tea Biscuit Lemon Snaps NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Mr. McLaurin in Sumter. The rippling good humor of the altogether melodious speech of former Seuator John Lowndes McLaurin| to the cotton producers of Sumter yester? day compels applause. It was disinct ly gay- 1? the*e days of strenuous Jiojitsu statesmanship an exhibition of cuteness and coquetry in oratory is refreshing. His hearers must have delighted in being regaled with the soft drink, optimism and phosphore? scent glow of his spring eloquence. Mr. McLaurin describes himself in effect as a babbler and bubbler from a political grave. His story of the snorting and rearing horse that broke its neck has au aptness not yet to be disputed, and we shall not suggest that our departed statesman is unsatis? fied with bis sepulture. Mr. McLaurin's speech was packed with truthful statesmenta. Its infer? ences fell of their own weight. The fact that Southern cotton producers should hold their cotton and make good their right to help in fixing the price, is no more than The News and Courier and all others in the South have insistently voiced. That there is room for enormous expansion in the distribution of cotton and its pro? ducts equally is an old tale. None the less Mr. McLaurin deserves credit and thanks for again exploiting them. They will bear everlasting hammer? ing, and the Senator delivers a good blow. We rejoice in the power and suppleness of his elbow. When Mr. McLaurin touches, in high places only, the reasons of the failure of this distribution there comes a faint aroma of the incidents of his "funeralizing." In the statement of the aching absence of an American merchant marine one sniffs the scent of the ship subsidy. In his allusion to the early views of Mr. Calhoun, which that gentleman spent a quarter of a century repenting, the odor of Mr. McLaurin's "protection theory" arises strong. When Mr. McLaurin draws his con? clusions and calls upon the South to "make a platform in accord with the commercial spirit of the age," and naively remarjks. "Call it Demo? cracy, "or what you please," he un? consciously and unhapily muddies clear waters. Why not call it by its name? Why, rob it of the title which the "robber barons" gloat in? Whv speak of it with bated breath as other than Repnblicanism. Why at? tempt to tell the intelligent Demo? crats of Sumter County that tae life giving and life-sustaining ess nee of the Giand Old Party may be dosed in? to their party without dishonoring its name and destroying its existence? If it be Senator McLaurin's belief that the D?mocratie party has outlived its usefulness, ij would be more credit ble to his candor to advocate the ap? plication of Dr. Osier's chloroform theory. But in sq doing he can have no excuse for urging Republicans to steal its grave clothes and leave it naked, while they masquerade in the garmenture of the Democratic name in these Southern localities, because Republicanism in them nas made it? self, and still makes itself, a term odious and infamous. Meanwhile, there is no objection to McLaurin's revel in protection views. They are jiot so dangerous as they were a few eyars ago, when the gentle Mr." McKinley was living. The Com? mercial Democracy that he mi-jbt have primoted died with him, and the darker hued brand of Mr. Roosevelt supplanted it. The prob* 'lilities now point to the revitalizing o. low tariff forces in the North aud Wtst. Even should protection sentiment here live down the African stench with wbici? Mr. Roosevelt bas associated it, the procession will have passed. We think that Mr. McLaurin is to be j praised for the interest that he mani- : fests in affairs. Our opinion that he j is a wrong notioned person does not j carry with it any critiism of his ! patriotic purpose in addressing the farmers of South Carolina. There is | no sign of any personal and selfish motive in his activities. His speeches do not fail to entertain and they are always stimulative. At the same time they remain no more than what is im? plied in his description of himself at Sumter-ghostly emanations.-News and Courier. PARR MUST DEE. Solicitor Timmermim and Governor Heyward Refaire to Interfere With Sentence. . Columbia, April (5-Solicitor Tim merman has refused to recommend and Governor Hey ward today ref c sed to appoint a commission to examine into the question ofd the sanity of Marion Parr, thc cotton mill opera? tive who is to hiing here tomorrow week for the murder of Clarence Shealy. Answering a petition which was re? ferred to him Soiieitor Timmerman says that Parr gave no evidence at the trial of insanity, that on the con? trary he constructed a very plausible excuse and stoutly denied his guilt, until hope was gone, then he freely confessed, fully substantiating the charge, and that, inasmuch as not even a prima facie case is made out, he must refused to endorse the peti? tion. Paris, April 6-lt is officiially an? nounced that President Loubet will meet King Edward who is enroute to join the queen at Marseilles. The interview between Preisdent Loubet and King Edward will occur in the Royal carriage ard will last only about a half hour. The old claim that prohibition in jares the business of a town_or city does not seem to hold good in Char? lotte, N. C., which town voted out the saloons some months ago. The Char? lotte Evening Newsi says: "Prohibi? tion in Charlotte continues to prohibit and dry goods stores, grocery stores and other stores continue to get a large part of the money that formely went for whiskey." CASTOR IA Por Infents and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of THE EQUTARLE LIFE ROW. Forecast cf Hydes* Plans for His Contest. New York, April 5.-The course which the Hyde forces will pursue in tomorrow's special meeting of the Equitable Life Assurauca Society's directors was forecasted tonight in a statement given out by one of Hyde's friends. While the starement bears no signature it originates in the same source from which others giving Mr. Hyde's attitude have come, and is re? garded as authentic. The statement asserts that Mr. Alexander will be called upon to ex? plain to the directors why he sent a Tetter requesting the commissioner of insurance to make au examination of the Society .without having informed the executive committee, and that%he will albo be called-'upon to explain "his conduct in assailing the personal integrity of his associates, James Hazen Hyde, the vice president; Jacob H. Schiff and E. H. Harriman, directors cf the Society, and causing the publication of matter derogatory to them." Continuing the statement says: "Both Mr. Alexander and Mr. Tar? bell will be called upon to explain the sale of the renewal account for the sum of $150,000 on the day that the memorable petition, asking for the removal of Mr. Hyde, was presented to the directors. "Mr. Alexander will be charged with having retained Frank H. Platt tc oganize what is so commonly known as the Crimmins policy "hold? ers' protective committee, for the ex? p?ese purpose of assailing the board of directors and maligning James Hazen Hyde, the vice president, and also impairing public confidence in the management of the society. "Mr. Alexander will also be charged with having instigated t?e suit known as the Brackett-Mary Young suit, and the action taken by Senator Brackett in the office of the attorney general and also in the Legislature-acts which are detrimen? tal to the good name of the society. alisbury, N. C., April 5.-A violent tornado this afternoon did great damage to Livingston College, blowing down Ballard Hail Auditorium and the laundry. Two students in the printing shop, L. Hall and Ernest Robinson, were serionly injur? ed. The loss is about ?7,500. Andrew Carnegie recently gave the institu? tion $ 2,500 for a library. Two churches were destroyed by the wind storm. Last Hope Yanisned. When leading physicians said t\at W. M. Smithart, of Pekin, Ia., had ir.curable consumption, his last hope vanished; but Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumpt? ion, Coughs and Cords; kept him out of his grave. He says: uThis great specific com? pletely cured me and saved my life. Since then, 1 have used it for over lo year?, and consider it a marvelous threat and lung cure." Strictly scientific cure : for Coughs, Sore Throats or Colds: sure j preventive of Pneumonia, (r-iaranteed, j 5 lc and > ! 1 ottles at J. F. W. DeLorme's drug store. Trial buttle free. ? THE RUSSIAN LOSSES. Harbin, April 5.-Complete returns: ' received at headquarters give the total j Russian losses killed, wounded and ! prisoners at the battle of Mukden as i 107,000. The wounded are being tak? en away from over the Siberian rail-, road as rapidly as possible in order to free the hospitals preparatory to a re? newal of the fighting. By Gen. Linevitche?s orders the*, the bands play daily at all the Rus? sian positions. . -1 O i i I i mm - Indianapolis, April 6.-A wreck is reported to have occurred on the Cin? cinnati, Indianapolis and Western rail-' road at Morefield and several of the killed are from this city. Several per? sons are also reported fatally injured. Indigestion. Causes Catarrh of the Stomach. \ For many years it has been supposed" that Catarrh of the Stomach caused indigestion: and dyspepsia, but. the truth is exactly th? opposite. Indigestion causes catarrh. Re? peated attacks of Indigestion inflames th? mucous membranes lining the stomach and exposes the nerves of the stomach, thus caus? ing the glands to secrets mucin instead of the juices of natural digestion. This is called Catarrh of the Stomach. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure relieves all inflammation of the mucous membranes lk-ing the stomach, protects the nerves, and cures had breath, sour risings, ?sense of fullntss after eating, indigestion, dyspepsia and all stomach troubles. Kodo? Digests What Yon Eat Make the Stomach Sweet. Bottles only. Regular size. $ 1.00. holding 2Ys. times the trial size, which sells for 50 cents. Prepared by E. C. DeWITT & CC, Chicago, KL For Sale by all Druggists. ? I 1 Geo. S. Hacker & Son. -MANUFACTURERS OF DQ8RS3 SASH, BONOS, Moulding & Building Material. office and Wareroorns, King, opposite Cas non Street, CHARLESTON, d. C. Pnrcbas? our make, whicr vre guaran?* superior to any sold Soi'th, and thereby .?ave mer.ey. Window and Fancj S'a is a Specialty October 16c- ^ *