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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.i *KU'8a LETTERS FROM OUR SPE? CIAL COKUKSlM)M)I\T8. ass of Interest From all Parts of Stumer and Adjoining Counties. NOTICE To COHR88PONDSNTS. Mail your letters so that ttuy will reach this office not later than Mon? day when Intended for Wednesday's paper and not la t engst ha n Thursday for Saturday's Issu-j. This, of course, applies only to regular correspond? ence. In case of Items of unusual news value, ser.d In immediately by aaatl. telephone or telegraph. Such avows stories are acceptable up to the hour of going to press. Wednesday's paper is printed Tuesday afternoon aad Saturday's psper Frldsy after arson. DARK CORNER. Dark Corner. April 12.?Some little cotton was planted here last week and putting down fertiliser Is the order this week But from the large frost aad cold wind yesterday and the day Before the most of us are In no hurry to plant. There was a lart-e frost here Saturday morning and I have heard that Ice was seen by some. Did not see any myself. Though I am glad to say It did not ?eem to effect ^vegetation but little. It wss my pleasure to attend Mr. L. Newton Harwick'? birthday dinner on last Friday. He was seventy-three rears old that day. Has been married three times and has IS living children said seven dead; eight grand children aad two great-grand children. Those who partook of the birthday feast ex? cept his home folk were his daughtera Mrs. M. E. Bar wick and three chil? dren and Mrs. K. A. Gi Iffln and two children of Plnewood. W. D. Osteen at Privateer, and W. J. Ardls of this Corner. After dinner the time was very fdeasently spent In games, such as: drop the handkerchief. baseball, ate. 1 know It would have brought Wars to your syes (by laughing), Mr. Bailor to tee such boys as old Uncle Newton, Dave and Sldra playing with the kids, lads, lassies und matrons. Hat while In Rome Its right to roam. All left Mr. and Mrs. Harwick that evening wishing them many more returns of the same, hoping their path* may grow brighter day by day until It leads unto that everlasting dar Just beyond the river. W. J. Ardls and wife have both been sack but sre getting better again. Mrs. Joe M. Ardls is Improving at aase accounts. Dr. T. M. Bailey. Baptist State mis? sion agent. Is expected to be with Rev. J. N. Tolar at Calvary next Sun? day 11 a. m.. and that night at Plne? wood at which time the Baptist church st Plnewood will be organised. 1 I was so sick last week that I could not write. I had some news for last week but that Is stab now. Want? ed to spend the week In Humter but I am not able to leave home this week. I feel too feeble. SMITH VI LI JE. Smithvllle, April 14.?The celebra? tion of Easter at Ptsgah was most Interesting. The children acquitted themselves most creditably. They seemingly vied with each other In making the occasion one of the most tntertalnlng and enjoyable of the leer Easter-tJde. But the most beau? tiful part of the programme was Tommy's Prayer by Mlsa Elmer f.vans Her acting was simply per lect. It would have done credit to imy one of msturer years. She 'had <iulte a number of the audience In tears st the conclusion of the pathetic little story. She Is Indeed a child of ?aarked Intelligence and bids fair to isake a fine elocutionist. The Easter programme at St John's wsa opened by a short, but ? ppropiiate address by ltev. T. L? Cole of the Baptist church. Here, as st Ptsgah, the recitations were most teeutlful. The children were seem? ingly st their beat. To me the most Interesting part of the programme ves ths recitations by the smaller children. Tiny little things, who told S'lth perfect confidence what little hands and feet could do for Jesus. Ihr ?ue.iMinn was Indeed one of In a?lratlon. Here sgsln Miss Elmer Ihrans came forth and charmed the audience with her touching recita? tion. Tommy's Prayer. Her acting waa superb . Rev T. L. Cole of the Baptist cliurch. M?*. J W. W. I.h o. Mim. T. V. Foxworth and Mrs. j. E. Strlck Und. of the Methodist church, are due thanks and appreciation for their faithful an,I untiring efforts hi fSt? ting up an oecaslon that was so In? spiring and uplifting. 1 feel sure It wss done through a spirit of love Pet their Master. Miss Eva Oardnei extended an In? vitation to the Plsga h Sunday SOhOOl fgad especially to tie- < bolr to attend the i a \\\\\\ union meeting at Swift Creek church May 2?th and as ale: her with th? mtHlc. Her Invita? tion was accepted with pleasure. Mr. and Mrs. Churlie lb llomnn. of Ionia, spent Saturday and Sunday wtth rslattves at this plsce. Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Cole visited Mr. and Mrs. J. YV. Roheilson la^t Tin. da \ . Dr, Foxworth and family spent last Tuesday with friends at thia place. Mr. J. W. Robertson spent Wednes? day in Camden. Messrs. C. M. Dunlap and I. L. Shirer spent Friday in Camden. Miss Letha McLeod and brother, Mr. Bennie McLeod, of Mizpah. at? tended the Easter services at Plagah. Miss Laura MeLeod. Of Camden, spent Easter witft Miss 11a Evans. Messrs. D. J. and D. D. Robertson was in Camden Saturday. Mr. L. S. Vinson spent Thursday in Camden. Mr. John Foxworth. of Sumter. Is visiting his son Dr. T. D. Foxworth of this place. HAGOOD. Hagood, S. C. April 13.?In a Rood K?me of baseball Saturday evening the Hagood team defeated the Gener? al Sumter Memorial Academy team by the score of 5 to 1. The game was played on the G. 8. M. A. grounds, and was fast and Interesting all the way through. Freddie Clarke, for Hagood, pitch? ed a superb game, striking out twen? ty men, allowing only four scattered hits and walking three men. Oliver Plowden for G. 8. M. A. pitched a good game, but was touched up for eleven safe hits, one being a home run, and several two baggers. Da? vid Lenolr for Hagood plays a good game on shortstop,. taking in everything that came his way. For G. S. M. A., Maxwell Jenkins caught a good game. Hammen made a good catch In centre field. There was a large crowd of girls out to root for G. 8. M. A. Mr. Dick Cantey umpired the game and' gave entire satisfaction. The Hagood team would like to get a game with the Sumter High School team before long, if the S. H. S. will come to Ha? good. The box score follows: HAGOOD. AB. R. H. PO. A. E. Lenolr, D. ss.5 0 0 0 2 0 Clark. D. If.5 0 0 0 0 0 Sanders, H. cf. .. .5 0 1 0 0 0 Clark. F. M. p.5 2 4 1 2 1 Lenolr, S. 3rd b_4 0 0 5 0 0 Sanders. I. lb.. . .4 0 0 5 0 0 Lenolr, W. M. C. . .4 3 4 21 1 0 Corbett. rf. .2b . . .4 0 0 0 0 0 JacksOn, 2b .4 0 1 0 0 1 Totals.40 5 11 27 S 2 AB. R. H. PO. A. E G. 8. M. A. Jenkins, c.4 0 2 15 0 0 Plowden. p.4 0 2 1 1 1 Stuckey, L 2b _4 0 0 2 2 0 Brown, ss.4 1 0 1 3 2 Sanders, p. 3b.. ..4 0 0 0 0 Hnmmett. cf . . ..3 0 0 1 0 Stuckey, A. rf.3 0 0 0 0 Bull, K. If.3 0 0 ? 0 0 Totals. 33 1 4 27 6 7 Score by innings: R. H E Hagood, .10002001 1?5 11 2 G. 8. M. A.O 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 ??1 4 7 Batteries: Clark and Lenolr; Plowden and Jenkins. Struck out by Clark, 20; by Plow? den, 15; oa~es on balls. Clark 3; by Plowden 2. Umpire, Bob Moore. Time of game, 1 hour 40 minutes. STATEBURG. Stateburg, April 13.?MIbs A?He M. Barnwell. who has been on a vielt to her parents. Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Harnwell, has returned to Wilming? ton. N. C. Miss Lessle Mcllvnllle Is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. 8. H. Ramsey, at "Xeedwood." Mr. W. D. Frlerson spent Sunday in our midst. Miss .'ulla A. Holmes, who has been in Macon, Ga. for some months, is on a visit to relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. M. DeVeaux Moore, with their guests, Mrs. and Miss O'Drlscoll, of Charleston, spent Tues? day among friends in the neighbor? hood. Mr. Hall Ramsey was at home for Saturday and Sunday. Mr. H. M. Anderson, who has been vIsltlnK his parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Anderson, has returned to his home in Richmond, Va. Mr. James Pagan, has been ?Baad? lng a few days with friends at "Cher? ry Vale". Mrs. S. R. Find and her daughter. Miss Tlllle, are ut home agalBi aft. r a very pleasant visit to relatival ii Summe; \ llle. Miss Johanne Frlerson speut Ea im Of at Fort Lawn. Mrs. S. H. Ramsey was the fti *1 <?f he; brother, Mr. waiter Lynam, at Privat? er. ia t a. This is a very husy etagon with the fanaoro, tot those who are not ai reaiiy planting cotton aie preparing tO do s<?, at an .a i 1y day. LY?CHBUHG. Lynehburg, April i?. ?The munici? pal ideation fov eusutni term paaaed off quietly and pleasantly yesterday, and fi Suited a< follows. fat Inten lent -Col, J. A. Rhame. For Warden??D, C. Truett, T. Q, Orlmn, W. E. Mclntosh and S. L. Tallon. There was no opposing ticket, as no one of this little town of Lynch* bttVg expected. The majority of the citizens here pull one way?the right way. Of course In nil places ther j are some people who are obstinate and Contend for their own way, but in this town, this class IS in such a pitiful minority that they make no effort to oppose the wish* I of the ma? jority; ^n this they display -ome real good judgment. MAX. Max. April 15.?Mr. Uds Truluck, Of Montgcmcry, Ala., visited his fath? er last week. Mrs. Sutcliff, of Lake City was the guest of Mrs. B. C. Truluck Monday and Tuesday of last week. Mrs J. C. Truluck continues to catch fine fish In nets in Lynches river. Mr. Belton Dickson has pneumonia Prof. Peels' lecture on the Apostle Paul's life mission last Sunday after? noon at Bethel was eloquent and In? teresting. Some of our peach trees are dead and others blighted. Peaches, plums and even some figs escaped being killed by cold. Misses Ellen Carraway and Lily B. Truluck had the pleasure of visits from the Misses Brockinton and Miss Leila Burgess. Mrs Lacoste, of St. Charles, is spending some time with her daugh? ter, Mrs. B. M. Truluck. Rev. B. F. Truluck will lecture "I the close of Bayroad school tomor? row night. A free box supper will be given. Several have set tobacco and some had planted cotton , others had com? menced when the rain came. EGYPT. Antloch, S. C. April 14.?Cotton planting is the order of the day, oats are looking fine. Most of \he corn is up. Mrs J. W. Weldon spent last Tues? day In Camden. Messrs Arrie Davis and Olln White spent Sunday at Lug off. Several from this place attended the exercises at Pisgah Sunday eve? ning. The Easter programme was car? ried out by the St. John's Juvenile Missionary Society in due order Sun? day. Mrs J. W. Weldon deserves much credit in preparing thit programme and having It carried out. Miss Irene Weldon ha* returned home after sev? eral weeks stay with relatives In Bish opvllle. Messrs J. K. Richburg and J. R. McLeod were In Camden Saturday. Mr. W. T. McLeod spent Saturday in Bl8hopvllle. Mr. L. H. White, spent Saturday at this place. Mrs L. A. White spent last Friday In Bishopville. We have no sick to report this week Manning News Item. (From Manning Times.) ^here seems to be much opposition *? the sewerage question In this town, based principally on the unfairness of taxing the whole town for a conven? ience of a few, and we doubt if the authorities will have easy sailing, should they attempt to act on the proposition of borrowing $4,000 in the name of the town for such a purpose. To our mind, sewerage Is necessary for the court house and the school house, and this can be had without further burdening the taxpayers, ar to the private residences on Brooke street, the fifth avenue of Manning. 1st those tenderlings pay for the con? veniences they seek, without calling on those who are not to use It, to con? tribute. The proposition to run about a mile rtf sewerage pipe through Brooks Street nt the expense of the entire town is gathering more and more op? position, even If the town treasury was full to bursting, there are" many citi? zens who feel there are uses for the money which would be more bene? ficial. We need decent sidewalks, they would be used generally, but the sewerage as proposed would only be used on one street, and not by all who live on that street either. Hence the opposition. So far as we are concerned, it mat? ters not one way or another, and If it did, our views would have no weight with the present council; we exist only at taxpaylng time, this, they have demonstrated, the signs of Which may be seen on a street post or two but there will come a time when per? haps a taxpayer who pays more town taxes than any member of council will have his vISWS weighed the same as any other citizen who has Interests to guaid. The town has entered upon its ?t C Ond Wash of trial of parties charged with the violation of the liquor ordi? nance, Yesterday morning Chamber? lain Miller, a Colored merchant, was tried and found guilty in a few min? utes after the Jury was given the case. Captain w c, Davis represented the accused, and endeavored to QjUaStl the indictment on the ground that coun? cil had no legal ordinance, inasmuch as It had not complied with the law regarding the enactment of a law. The jury, however, did not lay any stress by this objection. There may be an appeal on the ground Indicated py c uinsel's objection. In the after noon, John Oil] was tried on the same charge, with similar evidence, and he too was convicted. Jim Pack, a for? mer offender was als.? convicted. ? ? mmn In January 190 > there was In the county treasury about $6,000 surplus, j b< longing to the public school fund, Inquiring a few dayi ago, ellcted tha information that this fund is exhaust- ! j ed. having been pa fcd out to the school j districts. The larger part of it went J to Pinewooti, from where it came. It reminds us of old days to tea people hawking county papers on the streets trying to get them cashed at a discount. There must some way to get the financial a/fairs of the county in better shape. A POOR DEPENDENCE. "The man who votes for prohibi? tion will be morally bound to make good his profession of faith by per? sonally prosecuting any and every person whom he knows, of his own knowledge to be engaged in the il? legal sale of liquor. Mr. Liquor Drinking Prohibitionist do you ex? pect to swear out warrants against the men who sell you liquor?" The above Is an observation of the Sumter Item of the 26th, instant, and knowing the editor as we do, we can? not see how he arrives at such a con? clusion. When "Mr. Liquor Drinking Prohibitionist," enlists in the cause of prohibtion, he does not take an obligation to taste not, touch not, handle not that which "biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder," he is only to wage war on the legal sale of that article. "Mr. Liquor Drinking Prohibitionist," joins the forces of total abstainers to square himself with a popular idea, with th.? hope of driving away suspicion, on the principai of taking a clove "to kill the scent." Whan the fight was on in Claren? don we were foolish enough to think as the Item thinks now. "The man who votes for prohibition will be morally bound to make good his pro? fession of faith by personally prose? cuting any and every person whom he knows, of his own knowledge, to be engaged in the illegal sale of liquor," but we have long since found that idea a dream. Those who vote for prohibition are fighting for a principle, and it is the principle alone they seem to be con? cerned In. The enforcement of the law is left to the officers almost en? tirely, because a man who is so moral that he wishes to force morality on others, is usually a man who regards "spying" and detective work beneath his dignity, and will not engage in it. Then too, if he is a liquor drinking prohib, he may also be a liquor sell? ing prohib, and in either case they are a breed who do not want the law ngainst selling liquor forced. Fut notwithstanding the Item's observations and we presume its op? position, the prohibition wave will overwhelm Sumter county in August; we hope so at least, not because we are convinced that prohibition will be successfully enforced, but because this great political question has been endorsed by the churches and the various organizations of women?a force when combined, its Invincible, especially is it so, when those who differ from them, for fear of losing personal popularity, political, com? mercial and professional, will offer no pp< sition, and permit the wave to engulf them. We hope Sumter and Williamsburg both will get into the dry column, and we are candid enough to admit our interest to be selfish. If Sumter goes dry, thousand of dollars now go? ing from this county to trade will re? main in this county where it natural? ly belongs, and for the same reason we are anxious for Williamsburg to close up its dispensary that a large portion of Clarendon now going to Klngstree and Lake City to buy liquor, and trade, will do their busi? ness in this county, the better to en? able our own people to pay the in? creased taxation resulting from the loss of revenue and business. Sumter and Williamsburg as a matter of courtesy should vote dry since Clarendon has made herself a desert, the Sahara should surely ex? tend to our sister counties that all may, from actual experience, have a practical knowledge of the efficacy of prohibition. Hut if the grand re? sults of prohibition, so tearfully and eloquently pictured by the prohlhi tionists, depend! upon "Mr. Liquor Drinking Prohibitionist," or upon the good women who give up home and children, for the privilege of raising their voices to stop the drink evil, we are afraid there will be disappoint? ment, because these forces will not bt a force to make prophibition laws affective.?Manning Times. Any excuse is good?if you cm make people helleve it. Even tha girl with a rat In her hair Ii afraid of a mouse, The right kind of a man doesn't have to spend half of his time look for a job. Adam had cause to remember his first New Year's Eve for many a day. LET LIBERIA ALONE A Good Country to *> mputiuzc With, But Not to Take Charge Of. (From the Richmond News Leader.) With the kindest purposes. The News and Courier, Charleston, S. C, editorially urges that the editor-in chief of the News Leader be appoint* ? 'I <>ne of the commissioners to be sent by our government to investigate and report upon conditions in Liberia, The Individual referred to is grate? ful for the compliment, and would enjoy a return to the scene of one of his early adventures as a newspaper reporter. A journey In the luxuries of a United States ship, and with the authority of a United States commis? sioner to the country formerly visited in a forlorn old sailing vessel, drift? ing drearily in equatorial heat, and with her packed passengers dying daily of fever and starvation, would have its pleasures. The editor-in chief of the News Leader would not, however, apply for nor accept such an appointment, m the first place, he doesn't care to be too close to this adm:n8tration until it shows what it intends to do. In the second place, in his view, a newspaper man should not seek or hold public or political office of any kind, especially from a party which he opposes in politics. He has no right to impair his own value as a guide or a mouthpiece for public sentiment, and when his in? dependence of thought is surrendered or hampered, his value disappears. In the third place, he has affairs of his own, which demand more time than he can find and more work than he can accomplish. The United States government had better leave Liberia alone. We have on our hands now more problems of new people, more tasks of civilizing and regeneration than we can attend to, enough to keep us busy and strap? ped the next twenty years. Great Britain Is in that line of business. She is hungry for more territory and spheres of influence, and we do not need either. If we assumed charge of Liberia, tna* squalid little force of a negro Republic would be demand? ing admission as a State and sending two black United States Senators to complicate conditions and aggravate the color lir.e. It would involve us in all kinds of rows and squabbles, and the first we knew we would be sending troops, and having three or four hundred of our good white sol? diers killed or burned to death with fever and malaria, chasing savages through putrid tropical swamps. We have had enough o'. that. Let Great Britain take the job. She seems to like that kind of thing. She is used to it. After the usual preliminaries she could make Liberia decent and decently prosperous and a market fot English products, like the neighbor colony of Sierra Leone. The preliminaries are familiar from experience. An advance line of young Englishmen with pulls at home would be sent out by the government and would promptly commit suicide by the time honored method of experi? menting with brand and Scotch whis? key under the equator and trying to wrestle with coast fever by the help of those stimulants. Then presently a few traders, cool headed and with business training and purposes and sense enough to respect the climate and condtlons go in and establish commerce and order and begin devel? opment, and by a judicious combina? tion of kindness and force, law and lawlessness, bribery and blldozlng. the natives are brought into clothes and schools and things are established. Liebria ne^er will amount to any? thing without the white man's control and guidance. Her laws forbid her citizens from leaving without pass? ports, showing they have paid all their debts and have the govern? ment's permission to go?and, how? ever it may be now such passports used meant a substantial bribe to the attorney general, who had charge of such matters. That guards the coast: but no passports are required for the man tired of work and civilization who wishes to slip off into the "bush" that lines the interior boundary line and join one of the savage tribes. That is just what a good many of the Liberian brethren have done and probably yet do. The "call of the wild" from the woods is trengthened by the pushing of debts and families and other responsibilities, and the citi? zen sent to civilize Africa quietly be? comes part of Africa and as naked and wild and faithful a wo.shipper of voodoo and sticks and witches and as free from all the trammels of civili? zation as his remote ancestors were when captured and shipped to Amer? ica. Kl is a good country for us to sym? pathise With and let somebody else take. The sh eplng beauty avldently didn't sa< rlflce her beauty asleep. It requires as much courage to spend the last dollar as it does the first one. ThS man who is without an idea has generally the greatest idea of himself. WHAT MAKES A I'lUMA DOXJfj OaCWF Haiiimei^tein tlio I can (.irl ?M the Three iire* qalaftea. The ideal prima donna must pass the requisites to deserve name: head, heart and vocal corl And no two are worth much withol the third. It is strange that no woman reach? es her full meaning In the world, es? pecially if she expres?e? the measure musically, without passing through a sorrowing, struggling past: It is that which molds her. says Oscar Ham? merstein in the April Delineator. It is the speech of the soul In the child song, the mother song, the hero-song, that shuts out the world and helps us to breast the tides which bear us to some new and truer sense of life's vast possibilities. The soul-speech is never learned save thrcugh one teach? er?experience; and, alas, by the time the pupil is perfect in the lessons and knows what it is all good for, she is no longer young. All the possibilities are embodied in the American girl, never heard of in grand opera fifty years ago, but with a record during the latter half of the nineteenth century which fore? shadows the future. A few more years will see her a radiant combin? ation of character, beauty, dramatic ability and voice?the ideal queen of song. A generation ago, when an impres? ario ventured to present an Ameri? can singer to her countrymen, Jie did so on the strength of a European re? putation, and gave a foreign twist to her name. When Lillian Norton made her first appearance with Patti, in the old Academy of Music, she at? tracted very little notice; but the Italianized Nordica and a halo of European glory won long and loud applause. Twenty years have radi? cally changed that situation, and Ger aldine Farrar's own honest name does not imperil her supremacy. When the great people of America no. a few capitalists and devotees of fashion?demanded grand opera and make its support the same seri? ous business which continental Eu? rope has done for three centuries, we shall not send abroad for our drama? tic singers. It was in A. D. 1691 that Tuscan Margar:*" ,*K*?li*? inaugu? rated the fashion in England so in? dustriously copied by Patti in Ameri? ca?an annual "positively last ap? pearance." In A. D. 1991 Mary Smith may just as reasonably be expected to hold the Italian populace in thrall by the magic of her American voice. Speculation and the Farmer. "The time is now at hand when throughout the south general atten? tion is being turned to the prepara? tion for and the planting of the year's cotton crop." says the New Or? leans Picayune. "Last year's crop sold at lower figures than have been experienced in some seasons, and a* a result farmers have not made any? thing like the profits they realized from the two preceding crops. On the other hand, however, it can scarcely be true, as some claim, that the crop has been sold very close to the cost of production. It is true that provisions, flour and grain were high, adding something to the cost of the crop, but, on the other hand, la? bor was comparatively plentiful, and the weather was ideal, greatly reduc? ing the cost of gathering and mar? keting the crop. Then, again, the yield was a record-breaker, so that taken altogether the crop must have neUed a fair profit. That the last crop sold as low as it did was not altogether due to the size of the yie'd, because the figures show that it has been absorbed by consumers at t*n unprecedented rate. The main trouble has been that there has pre? vailed an almost complete absence of speculation, which in all former years has helped the farmer to carry the crop and has competed actively with the consumer and spinner, thus; creating a higher range of value:? during the period of active marketing than could be possible with consum? ers and spinners having the market all to themselves. Despite their boasts of being able to hold their crops until they secure the prices de? sired, the farmers are always com? pelled by their necessities to seir more rapidly than spinners can nor? mally buy. With no speculation to compete with the spinner, farmers must either cany their own bur? dens or sacrifice their crops as they have dona during the past year." Fibre and Fahrie points out that during the post fourteen years the mills of Fall River have paid on an fcV*r*gt more than 7 per cent, per annum in dividends to their stock? holder, and. including extras, several of them paying considerably over 10 per cent. In five of the fourteen y. ars 1Si>. ls96. 1S97. 1898 and 1 tit?the cotton manufacturing in? dustry was greatly depressed. The wise merchant reads much, re tleets on what he reads, rejects the impartial, adopts the useful, and adds it to his business.