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WMV AND WHERBFORB. I know not whence I came, I know not whither I go, But the facbetjtnds clear * That I am hmIn thla world of pleasure and woe. And out of the mist and murk < Another truth shines out plain? It is in my power Kach day and hour To add to its joy or pain. I know that the earth exists, It is none of my business why. I cannot find out What it's all about? I would but waste time to trv. My life Is n brief, brief thing, I am here for a little space, And while I stay 1 would like, if I may. To brighten and better the place. The trouble, I think, with us all Is the lack of a high conceit; If each man thought He was sent to the spot To make it a bit more sweet, How soon we could gladden this world, How easily right all wrong, If nobody shirked And each one worked To help his fellows along. Cease wondering why you came; Stop looking for faults and flaws! Kise up today I n your pride and say: 441 am part of the first great cause, However full the world. There is room for an earnest man ; It had need for me Or I would not be? I am here to strengthen the plan." ?Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Forum. ??? - - ? WASHINGTON LETTER. (From our regular Correspondent.) Washington, D. C., Dec. 31, 1897. ?Some of the ablest men in Congress are carefully watching the development of the European grab in China. They have no particular interest in whether China is controlled bv Chinese or by Europeans, but they have a deep interest in the maintenance of the rights of the United States in China, which are now guaranteed by treaty, and they believe that this government shculd notify the powers interested that it will insist upon the mainteinance of those treaty rights by any power or powers that may acquire Chinese territory. So far nobody has been able to ascertain whether this government has taken any steps looking towards the preservation of our treaty rights, commercial and otherwise, in China, but unless satisfactory information on - the subject shall be obtained before Congress reassembles, it is probable that the information will be promptly called for by a resolution of the Senate. Although President McKinley failed to endorse all of Secretary Gage's tinnnoiul rprnmmpndiitions. in his an nual message to Congress, tlie developments of the week have made it apparent that he has no objection to the active and aggressive fight that Secretary Gage is making in behalf of those recommendations. While it is itot true, as was reported several days ago, that Secretary Gage tendered his resignation and that it was declined, it is known that he told the President he was willing to resign it his attitude on the financial question was embarrassing the administration, end that the President told him in effect to go ahead that he had no complaint to make. This is not likely to have any effect upon legislation, but it may have some effect upon the attitude of the silver republican Senators towards the administration. The most sensational occurance of the holiday week in official circles was Commissioner Evans' wholesale denunciation of pension attorneys, of whom lie said: "The most demoralizing feature of the pension system is the existence of 50,000 pension attorneys. Theordinnrv pension attorney is worst than the most pestiferous varment' that ever invaded a hen roost, I f there are frauds on the pension rolls they have been placed there l?y the pension uttorney, There are good men engaged in the pension attorney business, but the majority of tiiem remind 111c of that beautiful bird that sails through the air so gracefully, but which the laws prohibit killing. The government has continued to pay pension attorneys for soliciting business for thirty years. Enough of this has been done. A law should be enacted that in the future no fee should be paid any attorney or claim agent for any claim filed for pensions. That would put i ? i> %r I an co<l to ttie pension scandals air. Kvans added to his attack on the pension attorneys by stating that seveial of his predecessors in the ofliee of ('ommissioner of Pensions had entertained the same feelings towards them. The pension attorneys will tight back, but it will not be done as openly as this attack upon them. Representative Ringley says the Ways and Means committee may report n bill at this session to refund the bonded debt of the United States with two and one half per cent gold bonds. He says that tne enactment of such a bill into law would save i $12,000,000 to internet each year, " * bat admits that the chance of such a measure to get through would be very slim, owing to the number of men in Congress who prefer to have the government lose that $12,000,000 a year rather than authorize the issue of gold bonds. It is not probable that the government of the tfnited States will make any speedy reply, if it replies at all, to the last refusal of Lord Sal i* bury to join iu stopping open sea sailing. It is the general belief in Washington that the matter will be allowed to stand just where it is. Canada can catch the seals, but it cannot legally ??n A! A. 3UII IUO 9*1119 III IIIU \J II It*U UtlftlCPi and by its attitude in this matter it has destroyed the little chance there was of its getting anything in the line of commercial reciprocity from the United States. The British Ambassador has opened negotiations for a reciprocity *reaty for the interchange of products of the United States with those of the British West Indies. President McKinley this week signed the Dill prohibiting open sea sealing by citizens of the United States, and the importation of seal skins. The President is displaying much interest in the response to his appeal to the people of the United States for donation of clothing, food, medicine and money for the poor of Cuba, and is so far well pleased. Many believe that the acceptance of this aid by Spain will prove the entering wedge to peaceful intervention by the United States in Cuba, although the Spanish minister in Washington insists that such an idea is ridiculous. Representatives of the Canadian government have been in Washington this week making arrangements to render all possible aid to this gov ernment in its efforts to send food into the Klondike gold region. What Great Men Have Said of Christ. At the celebration of the birth of Christ men do reverence to that name which is above every name. For nineteen centuries and for more than fifty generations of men that inline lias come uown the centuries and has been the mightiest among all ihe mighty names. We give some of the tributes paid that name by the master minds of the ages. He was the '"Absolute Reason" clothed in immediate self-consciousness?Fitch. Through the fair gloss of his man hood wo perceive the rich bloom ol bis divinity?William E. Gladstone. Christ put himself at the head of the mystic march of the generations, and, like the mysterious angel that Joshua saw in the plain by Jericho, makes the lofty claim, "^ay, but as captain of the Louis host am I tome up"?Maclaren. We have no higher idea of man than Christ is, and no higher idea of G??d than Christ has revealed?Robert Laird Collier. I think his system cf morals and religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see.?Benjamin Franklin. lie remains the highest model of religion within the reach of our thought, and no perfect piety is possible without his presence in the heait.?David Friedrich Strauss. I, having examined him before you, found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him ; no noi yet Herod ; for he sent mm djick to us.? rontius 1'iiate. The holiest among the mighty, the mightiest among the hoi}', he lifted with his pierced hand empires off their hinges, turned the stream of centuries out of its channel, and still governs the ages.?Jean Paul Iiichter. Whatever else may he taken away from us by rational criticism, Chri-t is still left?a unique figure, not more unlike all his precursors than all his followers, even those who had the direct benefit of his personal teaching.?John Stuart Mill. Higher has the human thought not yet roachcd; this Christianity and Christondom?a symbol quite perennial, infinite character, whose significence will ever demand to ho anew inquired into, and anew made manifest.?Thomas Carlylc. GIRLS AND THEIR USE OF SLANG. r. . ..i.i ic is unioriunatc tnatsiang pnrases arc so easily slipp:ng into our evory day conversation and taking appar ontly so fixed a place in our talk. And the worst of it is that so many people are using slang entirely unconscious of the fact that they arc doing so. Some of our slang phrases are scarcely recognized as such, so familiar has common usage made them. Where a dozen years ago a refined girl would hesitate to use the most moderate slang phrase, today she employs the most expressive slang terms without thinking. A few years ago her most pronounced expression of surprise was 4Oh, gracious!' After a while this was not Btrong enough, and we heard 'Gee whiz F' while now it is not at all nn common to hoar a girl make use of 'Good Lord!' A girl speaks of a friend who is tired as being 'knocked out/ entirely unconscious that she is using a vulgarism of the most pronounced sort. 'Nit* is used for 'no'; the sense of being bored is expressed in 'You m?ikc me tired.' A young man impresses a girl and he is spoken of as being 'iuimensed,' or 'uwav up,' or he is 'smooth.' A girl of stylish carriage finds herself placed as being 'swagger.' A girl of nerve 'has sand.' For a girl to be told bv her companion that she is -not in it' js a common thing. Things suit girls 'down to tho ground;'. what they do not understand they do not tumble to.' And thus the vocabu lary of slang grows.?Ex. ? COUNTRY LIFE AND CHARACTER. It cannot be denied that country life lends to strengthen character and to make men. It is not education, it is not knowledge, it is not brilliancy of intellect that makes the man of mark and influence, but it is solidity of character, strength of pur pose, courage of conviction, resolution to do what is right and to shun what is evil. The voting man who has been trained properlv in hi? country home, and whose character has been shaped by the practice ol industry, frugality and morality, and whose notions of right have been uninfluenced by policy, is better prepared for life's duties than he possibly could be if raised up surrounded by every pleasure and gratified in every desire. Self-denial is a power till factor in the battle of life; and, like all other qualities, it must be cultivated. The less the temptation iti early life the more surely will tlu average man be able to steer fret from groveling vices that first weak en and then debase the moral sensi bilitics.?Dr. J. 1>. Ivillebrew in the ' Southern States Farm Magazine" of Baltimore. THE STATE MANURE PILE. The only department of state government organized specially and solely for the benefit of the farmers it the agricultural department. It? mission is to protect the farmers from worthless fertilizers, to furnish them information relating to the crop pests, to conduct institutes, to collect statistics of crops, to furnish advance weather report and to do any and till . things possible to promote the prog re*s ?ii agriculture in i>o:tii Carolina * * The new gang in power seem tc have the notion that as the ngricul tural <lcpartment has to do with fertilizers, it is the state's manure pile, on which is to be thrown all the ror'cnness of the party. from tin . ' haracter of the man given a place there, it is c/ident that the most odoriferous members ??f the pie eating brigade have been provided w ith i place on this manure pile.?News j and Observer. THE NEWS OF THE DAY. liislmp Henry 0. Potter, of New York, is convinced, along with a g->oi; many oilier pe"ple. that we have seer the last of boom times in this country "We are steadily settling down to the level of older countries than ours w here profits are not made so rapidly as we make them, and where the mushroom grow th of some of our in stitutlons is unknown." The recent famine in India co-l the government $<1,000,000, about $2,000,000 of which was in the shape of loans arid deferred taxes, w hich may he recovered. It cost private <T<?litrihiifiori4 In ( hnt'irstblf 1'iiiiib nearly $0,000,000, no part of which is recoverable. lint even this great sum of nearly $1/),000,000 was in cllicicnt to prevent millions ef people from <lving of starvation and the I V diseases caused by ir. It is estimated that the amount ol gold taken from the earth and put into circulation in the I oited Stares in 1807 was. in round figures, 000,000. This is far below the output of grain or of the base metals; but it shows a very substantial addition to the money wealth of the country. If the Alaska mines fulfil ha't what is claimed f<>r them these figures will he largely exceeded in 1808, and may reach $70,000,000. Tooth Brush s. ? Quarter Assortment. Guaranteed. DUKE'S DRUG STORE, Opprrslto Union Ilotol* \M?M Ladies Who Suffer From ony con) plaint peculiar to their sex?such as Profuse, Palo* ful. Suppressed or Irregular Menstruation. are soon restored to health by BradfielcPs Pemale Regulator. . It is a combination, of remedial agents which have been used with the greatest success for n>ore than 1 25 years, aod known to act specifically with and on the organs of Menstruation, and recomn>ended for such complaints only. It never falls d IFvSL. i to give relief and 1 restore the health nm JJiik fl *^e suffering I "Y i woman. It should WmL. j \VLy[ be taken by the irf/r I I \\Vt Just budding ffjf' I 11Y-3L Into womanhood wben MeostruaW tlon is Scant. Sup! pressed. Irregular ur r u 11; i u i, u iju all delicate wonjc:) should use It. as its toijic properties bove a woo* dcrful influence io toijlng up and strcogtljening the systeri) by drlv Ing through tbe proper channels > ail impurities. "A daughter of ono of my cnitomon missed I menstruation from expoeuro and cold, and on arriving at puberty her health was completely wrecked, until she was twenty-four years of age. when upon my reoommendatton, she used one bottle of Bradfleld'a Female Regulator, completely restoring hor to health." J. W. Hzllqhs, Water Valley, Miss. The BnAbntio Regulator Co., Atlanta, qa. solo st all druooist8 at si ncr bottle. ? i anything you Invent or improve; also get'! !tCAVEAT.Tft AUE-MARK.COPYRIGHT or DESIGN!! i' PROTECTION, t-cral model, sketch or photo.< > . <' for free examination and advice. (J i BOOK ON PATENTS^ro?i: i w;r C. A. SNOW &. CO.:! |! Patent Lawyers. Washington, d.c-;! ^WVV\%V?WtWVWWWWW-'-yyA%%e : STOP AND THINK ' Deforo Vou Spend Your Money that : T. A. M U R R A H will sell you not the ' cheapest Stoves on the market, but by all means the best. It is the iIRON - KING ^ / i. irmfiBflL ;m. W Spy-^S D* I AND * ELMO ; It's superior does not exist. It is needless to waste words in praise ot these well known stoves. t ? i_> i ?u??. r ..,>11 ilCIUCIIlUd U1SU LIltlL i SVJII 1 everything in the Stove Line. < ' Grates, Heaters, Etc. Also every description of Tinware, Glassware , Sc Crockeryware. GUTTERING AND ROOFING A SPECIALTY. rlpliuppprl nti/l t-nif- nn free of charge. T. A. MURRAH Dissolution Notice. The (inn of Scott Bros. Inis this day i U*eii dissolved by mutual consent. The business of their successors, the Union 1 laid ware Co., will be run in the same old building under the management of (. IS. Scott, who solicits a eonlinuanee of your patronage, and will also collect all accounts due the old linn of Scott IJros. i (.Signed) .T. 1J. T SCOTT, J. J5. SCOTT. Dec. 1st) 1907. v.> ' 4 I MISSM.E.TINSLEY' & COriPANY. 1 I IF IT IS A CLOCK YOU WANT WE HAVE IT. J We lmvo just received a nice ! line of Clocks of different styles . and prices. You ought to see i those exquisite Fancy Mantel Clocks of ours in gold, ebony, mahogany and marble finish. j The very thing for a Wedding or Christmas present. < l I Our Line of Silverware < Is large, and we still have more ( coming, so we are selling it close, < as wo do not want to carry it over. Now is the chance to fix up your table with the best silver at a very moderate cost. Give us a call, wo will be pleased to I show our goods. Miss n. E.Tinsley & Co. I Am Running A First Class Market. I have also a nice line of Groceries. ?I also have a? FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT. Ruben Jones' Plant Fender Fresh Fish twice a week. Polite attention to all. I am paying the highest price for good beef cattle and all other country produce. All persons indebted to the hrin of BAILEY & SEXTON will please settle the same with me at once. H. G. BAILEY. NOTICE ! MOVED! 1 have moved mv place of business to the Dunn Building, opposite the Ubele liakery, where I am running the wonderful "Wonder" store?1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent, 23cent, 30 cent, SI and $3 counters ; from these counters you can get many things for less than half the regular price. Here I am continuing my MUSIC and MACHINE business also, with a big i supply of small and large musical iustru- ments and sewing machines at from $3 (for a good second hand sewing machine) up. | S. M. RICH Jr., E. U. A Great Doctor In the American Journal of Health savs : "That the subject of ilour is one of prime importance will scarcely be denied, for ! there is no meal but what this'staple enters into the menu in one or more forms, hence the selection of this food product cannot fail to interest every reader of this article who regains his own health i .i.?. _ c u:_ r :i.. unci mat ui ins lumiiy as the most important con- , sideration." "Poor flour is dear at any price, for not only does the unpalatableness of the family loaf and domestic pastry reflect its inferiority, but many stomach troubles may be traced directly to this source. The residence of any city or town may, with a little care, always secure the highest grade of flour and no other should be allowed to entrance into the hosehold." We sell ? only the pure and undulterated flours, and are sold at $5, $5.50 and #6 n bnrrfl. J. Q. Wray, M'g'r. SANTA CLAUS Finds the biggest variety and so Muoh Cheaper AT TIIE "WONDER" STORE. S. M RICE, Jr., E. U. . INoIIcm* '*'?> TnxpnyorH. After the 8th day of Decemlicr 1897, I will collect comnmnution road tax during the month of February 1898 for tho year 1898. J as. D. Going, 62-31. County Treasurer. I . ' ,t~.: . Consumption Can be Cured. Nothing conld be fairer, move philan Jiropic or carry more joy to the aflhctod than the offer of T. A. Slocum, M. C. ?f New York city. Confident that be~has diwwwd a reliable cure for consumption and ill bronchial, throat and lung diseases, renenil decline and weakness, lorn of lesh and all conditions of wasting, and to nmke its great merits known, he will 4end free, three bottles to any meter of Die Times who may be suffering. Already this "new scientific course of medicine" has permanently cvml thousands of apparently hopeless cases. The Doctor considers it Ids religious luty?a duty which lie owes to humanity to donate his infallible cure. He has proved the dreaded consumption to be a curable disease beyond any iloubt. and lias on file in his American and Euroi>ean latonitoriee testimonials of t>x|ierience from tliose benefitted and cured, in all parts of the world. Don't delay until it is too late. Consumption uninterrupted, means speedy i?m<I /?ori nin Honth AililrAKfl T A Slocum, if. C.. 97 line street. New York, and when writing the Doctor. zivH express and postoiftce address. ana please mention reading this article in Th" Times. 3-tf. I am the Housekeep's Friend. If you want to know where to get what you need let me tell you. li. D. SMITH lias moved to the Old Dispensary where you can get everything you want in the line of Vegetables and Fruits. Canned Goods of all descriptions. Sixteen to 18 pounds of Sugar for a dollar. Bacon 7 cents per pound. Hams 11 to 12?c. per yound. Bice and Hominy. Arbuckle's Coffee, 7 I tack ages to the dollar. Good Green Coffee, 7 to 10 pounds to the dollar. Give me a call and see what I have. L. D. SMITH, Lender of Low Prieea. GEORGE BOLICK, BRICK AND STONE MASON. WORK ON ORATES A SPECIALTY. Orders left at Times Office or Factory House No. 97 will receive prompt attention. 48-Sm. GROCERIES! uexi^uxjCfcooa I have just received a full line of fancy groceries for the HOLIDAY TRADE. Leggett's celebrate i clean Currants and Seedless Raisins. A FULL LINE OF Fresh Canned Goods, Cheese, Nuts, etc., with quality and price3 to suit. CALL AND SEE THEM And get Prices before buying. P. C. Whisenant. HERE ... YOU ARE . UUfegjiU- JJIXlI* J. T. SEXTON Is Headquarters for Heavy and Fancy Groceries Fruits and Vegetables FRESH BREAD Always on hand. Also big assortment of FIREWORKS FOR THE HOLID AYS * j 1 Notleu. All persons are warned not to trespass ni our farms or ulso their stock to do so. Ika Tinslev Rout Foster .1. II. TnOMAH Daniel Barnett 50-8t. ROBT. W. BA.RTQSL SOUTHERH RAILWAY. ** ******* *********** <| 9 P JO y TrS^MiiiiiittmissMSsoMS* JUI - * -""'""4Iff1 t ffl!?!!'! """'',l"l>""auil'l { 8't | * >iii?# . I 3_*J Aft A>frAS--- -.:nmninniinn - | '"JLi STATJOWO. I y gSK?.:::::::::::::::::::::::i S3 iS _ WWtoowt? gg>* ti ' ?! "S! 3 : firSSSS^::::::::::::::::::::::: Hi5 Ar.OolnaW {"? > Jlr. CUrlMM i*m iam tatioW Bsasi "|?KinS " .. .MnmU* " TVr TK io7?i*ta? - im?. - ftfp ip |Si3:EriiS&^: il IS otS *mp ~ ....^rmooi* - Bm? irt Trataa Imt* IftHukuf, A.AO. TtSmU* OfMavUto. A. Mid ^am\NsBaftsa* rvtlau lil?lii> jmsrtt?sxifszz.TMmmt ??qsk F. M. FARR, GEO. MUNRO President. Cashier. Merchants' & Planters' National ^ BAKK,V OF UNION, 8. C. -t 4 ii I l? Capital Stock $00,000 Surplus 60,000 Stockholders'Liabilities? -? - 00,000 Total $170,000 Officers?F. M. Parr, President; A. H Foster, Vice President; George Munro Cashier; J. I>. Arthur, Assistant Cashier Directors?W. H. Wallace, A. G. Rice, Wm. Jefferies, T. C. Duncan, J. A. Fant, J. T. Douglas, E. P. McKissick, A, H. Foster. WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. BETTER YOUR CONOlflON BY TAKINO A COURSE IN TIIE Campobello Commercial School. LOCATED AT CAMPOBELLO, S. C. Hates?Business course consisting of bookkeeping, both double and single entry, railroading, steamboating, banking, business correspondence, commercial law and business arithmetic 920, stenography, (time unlimited, $201 typewriting full course $5. Board aua rooms $G.50 per month. For liealtli Campobello is unsurpassed and lias a One mineral spring Address J. M. Ballknger. 40-3m. jrkT^YOUNG, AGENT FOR BLUTHENTBAL k B1CKART, ATLANTA, CGA.. Liquors, Etc., in Orifg-innl Packages. No Liquors sold to Minors nor Habitual Drunkards. Coal, More Coal, Better Coal, All Kinds of Coal And Full Weight at vCheap Prices. j Desiring to minimize the cost of living during the hard winter season, we have formed the Union Coal Co., and will furnish coal at the lowest living prices, and all orders left with A. W. Green, J. Q. Wray, C. H. uurKeit or vv. ?. McLure will have prompt and careful attention. Please let us have your order. A. W. GREEN, Manager. J. FRED McLURE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Will practice in all courts. Office corner Main and .Judgment streets. STORE HOUSE TO RENT." The Rawls Store House is now for * 1 rent. Terms reasonable. Apply to S. . JL M. Krc?, Jr., EU. W-tt m v JL ? J