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OOO LAW.
Measure That Has Just
Gone Into Effect
iSED LAST WINTER.
t
Is Iidw Makes It Illegal For Any j,
Ono to Sell in Noni li Onrollua Any
Adulterated Food or Drug or,JB?\\
Jip Sumo Ujuler^iHi^HO liWbol nnd
Prescribes Heavy penalties lor Vio
lating lt.
The pure food law passed at the
last session of the Legislature went
nto effect last Tuesday. The law
ivas made to supplement the food
End drug law passed by Congress,
nd is quite sweeping in its provis
ions. Tho full text of tho law is pub=
lished below:
Be it enacted by the General As
sembly of the State of South Caro
lina:
Section 1. That it shall bc unlaw
ful for any person to manufacture
or sell, or offer for sale, any article
of food or "drugs which is adultera
ted or misbranded within the mean
ing oi>?Riis Act, and anyperson who
shall violate any of the provisions of
this section shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon convic
tion thereof shall be punished by fine
not exceeding fifty dollars or by im
prisonment not exceeding fifteen
days for the first offence, and one
hundred dollars or thirty days' im
prisonment for each subsequent of
fence.
Section 2. That the terms "drug,"
as used in this Act, shall include all
medicines and preparations recogniz
ed in the United States Pharmacop
oeia or National Formulary or U. S.;
Dispensatory for internal or external
use, and any substance or mixture
v i-of substances intended to be used for
cure, mitigation or prevention of
disease of either man or other ani
mals.^vThe term "food," as used
herein,*shall include all articles used
for fooH, drink, confectionary, or
condiment by man or other animals,
whether dimple, mixed or compound.
Section 3. That for the purpose of
this Act an article shall be deemed to
bc adulterated: In case of drugs and
flavoring extracts: First. If. when
a drug or flavoring extract is sold
under or by a name recognized in
the United States Pharmacopoeia or
National Formulary or U.S. Dispen
satory, it differs from or does not
conform to the standard of strength,
quality or purity, as determined by
the test laid down in the United
Slates Pharmacopoeia, National For
mulary, or II. S. Dispensatory, otll
cud at the time of investigation.
In the case of confectionery:
If it contains terra alba, barytas,
talc, chrome yellow, or other miner
al substance or poisonous color ila
vor, or oilier ingredient deleterious
or detcrimcntal to health, or any
vinous, malt, or spirituous liquor or
compound, or narcotic drug
In t.ho nu ?ni nf ^'><^.l .
.... ^..^ ^i?._i>_ v.^. muu.
First. If any substance has been
mixed and packed with it so as to re
duce or lower or injuriously affect
its quality or strength.
Second. If any substance has been
substituted wholly or in part for the
, article.
Third. If any valuable constituent
of the article has been wholly or in
part abstracted.
Fourth, If it be mixed, colored,
powdered, coated or stained in a
mander whereby damage or inferi
ority is concealed.
Fifth. If it contain any added pois
onous or other added deleterious in
gredient which may render such ar
ticle injurious to health: Provided,
that when in the preparation of food
products for shipment they are pre
served by any external application,
applied in such manner that Hie pre
servative is necessarily removed ma
chanically, or by macerat ion in water,
or otherwise, and directions for tho
removal of said preservative shall be
printed on the covering or the pack
age, the provisions of this Act shall
he construed as applying only when
said products are ready for consump
tion.
Sixth, if it consists in whole or in
part of a filthy, decomposed or put
rid animal or vegetable substance or
any portion of an animal unfit for
food, whether manufactured or not,,
or if it is the product of a diseased
animal, or one that has died other
wise than by slaughter.
Section 4. That thc term "mis
branded," as used herein, shall ap
ply to all drugs or articles of food,
or articles which enter into the com
position of food, the package or label
of which shall bear any statement,
design or device regarding such ar
ticle, or the ingredients or substanc
es contained therein which shall be
false or misleading in any particular,
and to any food or drug product
which is falsely branded as to the
State, territory or country in which
il is manufactured or produced. That
for the purposes of thia Act. an arti
cle shall be also deemed to bc mis
branded:
In ease of drugs:
First. If it be an imitation of of
i offered for sale under the name of
t another article.
i Second. If the contents of the
j package as originally put up shall
have been removed, in whole or in
i( part, and oilier contents shall have
ii been placed in such package, or if
v tie package fail to bear a statement
>r on the label of the quantity or pro
v portion of any alcohol, morphine,
opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta
1 cocaine, chloroform, cannabis indica,
tbo chloral hydrate, or acetanilide, or
iton any den va1 ive or preparation of any
MI f such substances contained therein:
l j, Provided, that the package contains
more than two grains of opium, or
. Inore than one-quarter grains of
. morphine, or more than ten grains
roi <(f chloral hydrate in one fluid ounce,
or, if a solid preparation, in one avo
!|,io> h'duoois ounce: Provided, further,
' that nothing in this paragraph shall
be construed to apply to the filling of
H.ir written prescriptions, furnished by
ii regular licensed practicing physi
10 clans, and kept on file by druggists
>r,>.",K'is required by law, or as to such pre
?r lor l' ,irations as are specified and reeog
uilt from ?? by the United States Pharma
need th is >qia, National Formulary or U.
ar;: luinibomensatory, which are in accord
i niling, n'cwith.
.ase of food:
f it be an imitation of or
HOM!] Tl I INO TO IK).
?rsl roy I Ju si irs and lll'loi'H, omi Shel*
toi* Youl* Farm Implements.
Woods around tho yard and lot eau I
:e eut and get out o?, tho way. Thia
viii holn tho npponranco of thine,:,
md koop tho pince from looking BO
maky and besides will destrow thous
mds of weed seods. , 1
Bushes and briars should'bo shrub
bed In tho pastures to lot tu? gm??
?iow. Many pastures aro almost
?rorthloss for stock on account of tho
growth of othor things than grass,
llomombor that grnss doos not grow
where?. briars, bimbos and troos are
fillowod to take charge of *~.o pas
turo.
It is an acknowledged fact that
ovory farmer should raleo all tho lot
and Btable manuro possiblo and now
1H tho timo to haul a largo lot of
leavos and Btraw. If lt ls not desira
ble to straw'tho lot all over lt can bo
hauled and placod in front of tho
Btablo doors and In the lowest plncos.
AU toola and farm lmplomonts and
machinory should bo placed carefully
away under a sholtor. Tho ou can
and paint brush can bo used on aomo
of lt to a good advantage. Do not
leave any farm implements in tho
Hold or out In tho weather. It is
poor poliey, after furnishing tho farm
with such things, to lot thom bo ruin
ed by carelessness. ?
Now that farmers aro nearly
through working thoir crops thom
aro some things needing attention
which have heretofore boon put ott.
All terraces should bo ploughed to
strengthen thom and to destroy tho
weeds and grass on them. All breaks
in thom should bo repaired and tho
low or wonk places should be bulli
up. _
"WlIKN Roosevelt gets through
with it" says the Florida Times
Union, "our constitution will be fit
for the remnant counter." It was
pretty well used up when Roosevelt
took charge of it.
HAVING gobbled Korea Japan has
been too honest to talk about "mani
fest-destiny" or "thrown into our
laps by providence." That sort of
stuff is left for civilized Christian na
tions to indulge in.
L'-rr the farmers resolve, each for
himself, not to employ under any
circumstance his neighbor's hands,
contract or no contract. This is the
only way that thc best interests of
al can be protected.
offered for sale under the distinctive
name of another article.
Second. If it be labelled or brand
ed so as to deceive or mislead the
purchaser, or purport to bc a foreign
product when not so, or if the con
tents of the package as originally put
up shall have been removed, in whole
or in part, and other contents shall
have.been p.laced in such package, or
if it fail to bear a statement op the
label of the quality or proportion of
any morphine, opium, cocaine, hero
in, alpha or betti ccaine, chloroform,
cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, aeo
tanilidc, or any derivative or prep
aration of any such substances con
tained therein.
Third. If in package form, and
the contents are stated in terms of
weight or measure, they are not
plainly and correctly stated on thc
outside of the package.
Fourth. If tho package containing
it or its label shall bear my state
ment, design or device regarding the
ingredients or the substances con
tained therein, which statement, de? I
design or device shall be false or
misleading in any particular: Provid
ed, that an article of food which does
not contain any added poisonous or
deleterious ingredients shall not be
deemed to be adulterated or mis
branded in the following cases:
First. In the case of mixtures or
compounds, which may bc now or
from time to time hereafter known
as articles of food, under their own
distinctive names, and not an imita
tion of or offered for sale under the
distinctive name of another article,
if the name be accompanied on the
same label or brand with a statement
of the place where said article has
been manufactured or produced.
Second. In the case of articles la
belled, branded or tagged so as to
plainly indicate that they are com
pounds, imitations or blends, and the
word "compound," "imitation" or
"blend," as the case may oe, is
plainly stated on the package in
which it is offered for sale: Provid
ed, that the term blend, as used here
in, shall be construed to mean a mix
ture of like substances not. excluding
harmless coloring or flavoring Ingre
dients used for the purpose of color
ing and flavoring only: And provid
ed, further, that nothing in this Act
shall be construed as requiring or
compelling proprietors or manufac
turers of proprietory foods which con
tain no unwholesome added ingredi
ent to disclose their trade formulas,
except ih so far as the provisions of
this Act may require to sccuro free
dom from adulteration or misbrand
ing.
Section 5. That no dealer shall be
prosecuted under the provisions of
this Act when he can establish a
guaranty, signed by tho wholesaler,
jobber, manufacturer or other party
residing in the United States, from
whom he purchases such articles, to
the effect that tho same is not adul
terated or misbranded or within the
meaning of this Act, designating lt.
Section (>. For the purpose of car
rying out the provisions of this Act
the State board of health, with one
licensed druggist, appointed by the
Governor, upon tho recommendation
of the South Carolina Pharmaceuti
cal Asssociation, shall take cogniz
ance of tho interests of the public
health, as it relates to the sale of
food, drugs, spirituous, fermented
and malt liquors, and tho adultera
tion thereof, and make all necessary
inquiries and investigations relating
thereto, and for such purposes may
appoint inspectors analysts and chem
ists, who shall be subject to its su
pervision and removal. Within sixty
[lays after this Act goes into effect
the said State board of health shall
adopt such measures as it may deem
necessary to facilitate the enforce
ment thereof, It shall prepare rules
?ind regulations with regard to the
proper method of collecting and ex
amining drugs, articles of food.
Section 7. The sum of one thous
and dollars is hereby appropriated
tor the purpose of defraying the ex
>ensCS, if any, of analysis or cxami
nition of any article of food or drug
ts provided for in this Act: .said
Hims to be expended under the su
)ervision and direction of the State
)oard of health.
Section 8. This Act shall go into
(fleet six months after its approval
>y the (Jovcrnor.
Section D'. All Acts and parts of
^.cts inconsistent with this Act be,
md they aro hereby, repealed.
DEAD WHITE MAN
Honored by Negroes by ihe Eroc-1
tlon of a Monument.
. -
To lils Memory HCCUUHO HO Present
ed Them With tho Uround Now
Used as Cometary.
The monument erected in L?nens J
ter county by colored people to a
white man as heretofore published
in The News and Courier, was form
ally unveiled Thursday with impres
sive ceremony and in the presence of
an immense crowd of both whites
and blacks.
This is probably the first recorded
instance where negroes have thus
paid tribute to the memory of one of
the white race. The nearest approach
to it in Lancaster county occurred
some years ago, when Bishop Isom
C. Clinton, now dead, erected a hand
some monument at the grave of his
former master, Mr. Irvin Clinton,
who, in his day and time, was a lead
ing member of the Lancaster Bar.
The mounument unveiled Thurs
day was erected by the members of
Mount Moriah Church, a colored
Methodist church four miles west of
Lancaster, in honor of the memory
of the late James W. Williams, a
prominent white farmer, who donat
ed the land now used by them as a
cemetery, which is located at or near
the church building. The idea of thus
honoring their white benefactor or
iginated with one of their own num
ber, Jarvis Cunningham, a respected
colored citizen of that county, who
has. by farming, accumulated con
siderable property. The suggestion
took well with Cunningham's fellow
church members and all of them con
tributed liberally to thc fund which
was raised to carry out the plan.
The monument, which stands on
the cemetery lot, was made by Mr.
A. 1*. McNich, proprietor of the Lan
caster Marble Yard, and is what is
known as Vermont blue marble.
Though not as tall as such monu
ments usually are. being only (> feet
and eight inches in height, it is a
highly creditable, handsome piece of
work, and presents an imposing ap
pearance.
Thc principal inscription is on thc
side facing the east and is as follows:
"On motion of Jarvis Cunningham
this momnnt was erected by the
members of Mount Moriah Church
in 1907 to the memory of Mr. Jas.
W. Williams in appreciation of the
gift to tho church hy him and his
family of this plat of land for a cem
etery."
"G. W. Mackey, C. T. B."
The letters "C. T. B." stands for
chairman trustee board.
The inscription on the north side
is. Born December 27, 18:17. Died
February 10, 1903. Peace to his ash
es."
On the south side: "Trustees; M. M.
Young, .lim Brown, D. Johnson, J.
T. Thomas, 1). McKinney, Adam
Watts, deceased, John Wren, secre
tary; Joe Brown, treasurer. God love
th a cheerful giver."
On the west side: "Rev. Z. Belton,
pastor."
The unveiling exercises consisted
principally by an address appropriate
to the occassion by Principal M. D.
Lee, ot the Lancaster Normal and
Industrial Institute, Bible read and
prayer. Music was furnished by a
brass band. Dr. A. J. Warner of
Charlotte, was to have delivered an
address, but was prevented from
coming by a call in Boston, Mass.
The veil that covered the monument
was drawn aside by two small color
ed girls.
Mr. Williams, the man whose mem
ory the colored people have signally
honored, was one of Lancaster Coun
ty's most prominent and influential
citizens. He was a large and success!
ful farmer and lived in the neighbor
hood of Mount Moriah Church. He
was a gallant Confederate soldier.
At the outbreak of the civil war, in
the summer of 1861, he enlisted with
the Lancaster Grays and served with
that company until December, when
he was honorably discharged on ac
count of bad health. Recuperating-,
in April, 18(>2. he (Mitered the ser
vice, joining the cavalry, Capt. J. C.
Foster's company. Butler's brigade.
He was on duty as a scout during
much of the war and was delegated
to pilot Butler's forces through this
country about the time of Sherman's
raid. As a slave owner Mr. Williams
was kind and humane, and after em
ancipation bis treatment of the ne
gro was ever characterized by fair
ness and justice. He is kindly remem
bered by all the colored people who
knew him.
A ( hal Willi Our Young Men,
Boys, let us bo men. Ix>t us bo
honest, earnest, young men and we
shall then be noble men. Nobleness
and gentleness are not one and rare
ly do we find them living in peace
with each other. We may never be
what the world calls great, but we
can all be noble men, and our noble
ness can commence this very hour
and just where we are.
A young man's first and truest act
of nobility is to love, honor and pro
tect his parents. When ho becomes
too proud to be seen walking as a
stair" to a tottering, helpless father,
or to stand by the bedside of her who
is waiting a moment this side of the
river to catch one more gaze, through
the fading shadow of the past, of her
little boylosl in manhood, he is sure
ly fast going down the eminence of
manliness.
When we launch our ships on the
morning waves of thc great sea of
life, let us guide them hythe light
of home, with thc helm of the cradle
words of our mother. Not until we
have left borne and are wanderers in
the curious strangeness of a strange
land, unnoticed, unheeded, lonely
and weary, will we know of a truth
what a mother is. Then we feel tint
she is good and we bless her.
Never can we repay our mother's
kindness. Her withered form and
her silvering braids shall be defend
ed till that day cometh when He shall
make up His jewels-and then, we
ween, Heaven will know no kinder,
no brighter, no purer angel than she.
When the ever shining stars shah
wane in the fading of our vision, and
tho noisy world will grow still in our
sleep of death, will wc forget her;
not till then.
IT is rather bold in a man who
has succeeded in making the- Repub
lican elephant do so rr any unheard
of things, to denounce anybody for
nature-faking.
To-morrow is the ntono over which
nany n hublhosb man ha? stumblod.
/
Eastern Plant That Has wonder
ful Healing PowerJ\
CURES CONSUMPTION.
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Agricultural Dcpnrtmont (<> llegln
System of Pjxpcrlnicnts Wi(h Fenu
greek, un K?stern Plaut, Which IN
Sold to bo n Curo und Provontii
tivo of AH Forms of Tu be ic il
ion i.s. v
A special to Tho Nows and Cour
ier from Washington says Secretary
WIIHOU, of tho department of agri
culture will soon bogia experiment
ing in tho arid hinds of Texas on the
famous food called fenugreek, which
scientists tho world over are hailing
as possibly an agency of nature which
will combat the ravages of consump
tion.
Tho virturo ascribed to fenugreek
Ia Its ability to build up tho very tis
sue? that tho germs of consumption
tear down. Experiments with won
derfully satisfactory results in tho
growth of (his plant havo been1 made
lu California, Nebraska ami New |
Mexico, and the announcement will i
soon be mad? of Its Introduction into I
tho arid west section of Texas undor
Irrigation by tho department of ag
riculture.
But a short timo ugo fenugreek
was almost unknown in America ex
cept as a constituent of condition
powders for grain and vogetablo con
suming animals. For perhaps hun
dreds of years, ho wovor, lt has been
known in the Bast, where lt has a
widespread nse as a food and medi
cino for both man and beast*. Its
main use lu that section of the globe
was what suggested Its introduction
lu this country as a euro for consum
ption.
Since time Immemorial tho Jewish
maldon of Tunis has hoon ono who
desires much fat. and such a dainty
weight as 2T>0 or 300 pounds ls a
thing to be desired. With her fat
ls welcomed and she never complains
if she tips tho seale at 36"0 or 400.
Tho time-honored traditions ol' their
lot have handed down Ibo uso of fen
ugreek as a fat forming substance,
and even to-day it. is still used.
Physicians recognizing tho fact
that if they can, in treating a con
sumptive case, koop flesh on their
pullout tin; chances for recovery wore
greater, cann; to the conclusion that
fenugreek would Ito of great uso to
them. Accordingly it was Introduc
ed and many report that they have
used lt with very satisfactory re
sults.
Tho fenugreek plant Itself ls not
unlike common clover, and. indeed
ls easily mistaken for that plant un
less tho two aro closely coin pa rod.
Tho seed of the plant ls (ho pail used
in tho consumption euro, (here hoing
sev al ways by which lt can ho pro
p; Perhaps (ho easiest, way ls to
put .i tablespoonful in u fumbler ol'
water and let lt stand over night,
drinking tho water lu tho morning.
Another method is to ai tx a poffec
spoonful of thc seed In strained hon
ey to kill the bitter taste, und then
oat tho mixturo. Tho women of Tun
i ls, in their quest for fat, eat thc seed
lu the form of a confection and mix
ed" with olivo oil and in many othei
ways.
Prominent among the fow physi
cians who have tried (ho plant in oho
treatment of consumption ls Dr. A. S.
Mansfelde, treasurer ol' the Nebras
ka Stato Medical Association, who
bas probably carried the experiment
further than any other American
practitioner. Ho was (he hist to re
port to the department ot' agricul
ture the uso of the plant as a cure In
this country.
Although Dr. Mansfelde has re
ported concerning one case 1( was of
a nature to show tho great possibili
! Hos of thc plant. The patient, in
question was a young Irishman, who
was inihe last stages of (he disease,
and although In the end ho eventual
ly died, his lungs being so tar gone
that they could not sustain any bodi
ly vigor, ho ls reported to have taken
on flesh and continued to do io for
several weeks until tho end came.
David Fairchild, agricultural ex
plorer, tn charge of the seed and
plant distribution of tho bureau of
plant Industry, ls responsible for
bringing fenugreek to tho not ?co of
tho American people. While travel
ing in the Fast he was struck with
the prevalence of fal women and on
enquiring into tho cause got on (ho
(rack of (ho plant. Ile did not think
a groat deal of tho plant undi later
when ho learned that it was OOO of
the principal ingredients of condition
powders for stock. Putting tho two
together he thought that results well
worth tho trouble could bo received
from (ho plant and accordingly In
troduced lt into the UnltOd Stales.
lt is claimed by some that tho
plant can be traced back as far ns
tho time of Nobuchudnezzer II, when
lt. was in common use as a relish foi
meats and as fl medicine. Many leg
ends have boen founded on the plant's
groat medicinal value. lt is even
staled that Mohamel himself once
said that if the people knew the val
ue ol' fenugreek they would obtain il
even al Hie price of gold. Another
legend claims thal il' a bag ol the
seed was lied to a camel's lundi ll
would cure lt of Its Ills.
Fenugreek is planted lu tho fall
Ibo same as winter wheal and como?
up early in the spring, lt attains a
height ol' about that of tho ordinary
clover and. ns stated before when full
grown looks about tho same. The
odor ol' tho plant ls familiar lo any
ono who has over handled condition
powders, such as aro given to stock.
At present thOI'O is bul aeompura
lively small quantity of tho seed In
I lu; United Slates. The department
of agi icu 11 u re, however, is able to
distribute quantities of some size on
applications made to tho bureau of
seed and plant industry.
Speaking of the medicinal value
ol' the plant Dr. MansTelde says:
"There can ho no doubt that beyond
the carbohyhralOS and tho bitter con
tents increasing the appel ito, some
ting else must be contained in the
seeds that Cd U SOS the asslmulalion of
fat and the deposition in tho tissues.
Possibly that something aids holli
In tho digestion and tho assimilation
of fat and the conversion into fat of
tho carbohydrates one of all these
processes." A QovOrnmonl has un
dertaken ti) make as analysis of tho
fenugreek seed with (lils poi II I In
view. Much will depend on the re
sells which in obtains by tho exam
ination.
Tino general disposition to look on
the Cortolyou boom as a joke may
be due to the hot weather, and then
again, if may he due to Republican
leaders' cold feet.
THU farmers of South Carolina
face a crisis, and they will have to
stick together, or they may be finan
cially ruined. Judge Brawley's de
cision has done incalucable harm to
the whole State.
BULLET IN ?KAIN ?OKJHT YEAHS.
Now Fools Bff?cfi A?? Surgeons Try J
To J lemo ve lt.
(For eight years John Vandyno of
Wheeling, <W, Va,, has carried a bul
let ii round inside his skull. Wednes
day ho felt tho first bad offects of it.
He became suddenly ill, lapsod into
unconsciousness, and paroxysms fol
lowed.
Sin-goons hurried him to a hospi
tal and porformed an operation,
which afforded temporary relief, and
will ondoavor I ? ter to locate and ro
movo tho bullet.
Eight years ago ho WUUB handl
ing a rovolvor, which WOB accidental
ly discharged, tho bullet penetrating
his uk ii 11 and lodging in tho bruin.
Tho Labor Question.
It has been frequently asserted
that the two great issues now before
the people of South Carolina are the
tax and the labor questions. Each of
these questions deserves most seri
ous ano careful consideration on the
part of the leadors of the people.
Heretofore too much attention lias
been given by the politicians to ques
tions that arc purely political and
I frequently to questions that were al
together the outgrowth of factional
differences. The time for a change
bas come and the very first thing
that should be arranged is an equit
able labor law. that will protect the
employer and the employee.
The most careful and conservative
business men of thc state should be
called on at this juncture to suggest
reforms which should be made in the
tax laws and in the labor laws of the
commonwealth. The opportunity is
presented, since the whiskey question
is not now an issue, for the present
legislature to place upon the statute
books the legislation which is need
ed, and if it is not done within thc
next year Uti?matter should be and
doubtless will be made the paramount
issue in the next election or the next
two elections. The chance is going
to be presented to some man to blaze
the way in this trail. It will be a
great pity if these questions are not
considered purely from a business
standpoint.
The only remedy for the present
condition is the enforcement of the
statute prohibiting the enticing of
labor under contract. If this can't
be done by law, it must be donn by
moral suasion. The difficulty in the
present labor situation is chiefly thc
tendency of the negroes to move
from one farm to another and this
disposition is fostered and encourag
ed by the less scrupulous employers
who do not regard the golden rule in
business. They pick up and go on
the least pretext. This must be stop
ped by all farmers meeting on a com
mon ground and resolving not to
employ one another's hands. This is
the only way to meet the present
emergency until thc Legislature can
meet and enact a new labor law.
A Hint to Husbands.
Isn't it strange that some men,
who will be kind and obliging to their
neighbors, gentlemanly and polite to
other ladies, will be so rude and cold
and harsh at home, and perfect bears
to their wives-crabbed, snappish,
ungenerous and altogether unsocial
and uateful? Does anvbody know
of any such men? Not that we wish
to lay all the wrong doing and blame
on mankind, or condemn them en
masse, not at all. There are plenty
of good, noble men, but not quite
enough. When they are so strong,
and have so much power to do good,
and win love, and bless their homes,
why won't they all do it.
"Circumstances alter cases." Some
men's wives are trying enough to
wear out the patience of Job; but
then, in the perversity of things, you
will generally find a real bear of a
man united with a frail, patient,
forbearing and forgiving wife. She
is your wife, Mr. Bear, and the moth
er of your children, and probably de
pendent on you for home and means,
and can't get away from you; so, of
course, she is in your power and you
can treat her just as you choose.
But if you expect her heart to
bound with pleasure when she hears
your footsteps, or to proffer you
caresses, or to rejoice in your pres
ence, you are much mistaken. She is
human-neither more nor less. Please
reverse your situations and condi
tions. How much, and how long
would you bear such treatment as
you give her? You will inevitably
be weighed for just what you are
and there is no help for it.
Through tho Vent's.
As we go forward and meet the
years, each is a messenger that tells
us a pleasant story of the land to
which we have taken up our pilgrim
age, and though we may not lay
hands on them and detain them, yet
they imbue us with happy thoughts
and pleasant memories, that clothe
each coming messenger in halo-like
garments of smiles and beauty.
The journey of life is but short,
but it is long enough to teach us the
idleness and littleness of things earth
ly, and that our earthly tabernacle
is far too narrow to behold the invis
ible fire of immortality that pulses
through our being, or even to permit,
it to shine forth in that brilliancy
that it so much longs for.
Life is as beautiful as a panorama
that moves on to the great and final
climax, when the curtains are drawn,
and the marvelous beauty of the un
iverse opens with endless vistas of
glory upon our enlarged sights, and
the dreams of the past are paled
from view in the light of the never
ending present.
The toy, the sword and the toy
make iq) the sum of our existence,
for the old and young are nearest
heaven. Prattling childhood ami old
age walk hand in hand, and laugh
and gamble and make pretty speech
es to the bright birds and butter
flies, for the veil of time if but a
mist to the right and left of them,
and love and innocence stand like
cherubs by the cradle and the grave.
Hi: I J'HUH HAT H S AT HOM IO.
They Heal tho Hkin ami Take Away
Its Impurities.
Sulphur baths heal Skin Diseases,
and give tho body a wholesome glow.
Now you don't havo to go off to a
high-priced resort to get thom. Put
a fow spoonfuls of Hancock's Liquid
Sulphur in (be bot water, and you
got n perfect Sulphur bath right in
your own homo,
Apply Hancock's Liquid Sulphur
to tho affected parts, and F.c/onm and
other stubborn skin troubles aro
quickly cured. Dr. H. ll. Thomas,
of Vahlosta, tia., was cured of a pain*
ful skin trouble, and bo praises lt In
tho hlRhest terms. Your druggist
solis lt.
Hancock's Liquid Sulphur Oint
ment ls tb. best euro for Sores, Pim
plos, Blackheads and all Inflamatlon.
Gives a soft, volvoty skin.
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CAUSES TROUBLE.
-,
The Farmers Need and Must Have (
Some Relief.
Sonto Effective LAW Must no Passed ]
by tho ijogl?l?tui'? te Enforce La
bor Conducts,
Tho labor question ls hoing dis
cussed from one end of tho Stato to
tho other, and the recont occurroncos
over in the Fork near Norway are 1
figuring extensively in tho discussion. *
Tho following lotter from Columbia ]
to tho Augusta Chronicle will give !
sonio idoa of how tho question ls re
?arded in all parts of tho Stato:
Fedoral Judge Br&wtey's decision 1
knocking out tho South Carolina la
bor contract law continues to cause 1
trouble In tho rural districts with
that largo class of negroes with whom '
tho big stick of a juli sentence has to
bo used to Inspire proper regard for '.
contractual obligations. And though
it is eonndently hoped that tho far
mers will pull through tho prosont
soason without violence botwoon the
rucos, and that loglBlaturo will next
spring onact some effectlvo l'eliof
measure, there is coitstant dangor in
various parts of tho stato of Vory
serious clashes over conditions that
tho decision has brought about. Tho
killing of Constable Valentino in Or
angeburg county a few weoks ago,
followed by the narrow escape from
lynching tho negro had with nil but
a rlor occurring among sovoral far
mers gathered at tho inquest in a
general quarrel about farmors en
couraging negroes to jump their con
tracts since tho decision; and half
a dozen other killings of negroes by
while men In widely separated sec
tions of tho state, aro but manifes
tations of how tho danger spots are
showing up.
Tho effect of the decision has
spread with amazing rapidity even
among the most ignorant nogroos.
Tho scram bio of unprincipled farmers
for he?p h?? perhaps played a more
important, part in getting tho negroes
Informed than the publication in the
newspapers. The result ls that the
mean negroe has become Infinitely
more insolent, and slnco he has got
ten it. Into his head that Uncle Sam
has espoused his cause his proneness
to violence has become moro marked.
There ls no dangor for the present
of calling into service tho dreaded
Ku-Klux-Klan, but. farmers aro free
ly talking of taking matters into their
own hands by means of community
bands, to stop negroes whom they
have kept, from want for food and
clothing through thc winter from In
solently refusing to carry out their
contracts to work out. their debts and
and spending the time getting drunk
and raising rows. Of course there
has been abuse of the law on the part
of some farmers, who have cheated
tho negro and kept, him in long ser
vitude after he had fairly discharged
bis debt; but these are rare instances.
The great mass of South Carolina
farmers have no disposition to Op
press the negro, but they aro Insist
ent, some of them to the extent of
laking tho law in their own hands,
that he shall have tho same respect
for his written contract as others are
required to have. When tho Orango
burg farmers chose a spokesman to
tell the crowd In very emphatic lan
guage that they did not propose to
stand for the acts of cortaln white
mon In encouraging negroes to jump
their contracts or tolerate such con
duct on the part of thc blacks, law or
no law, thoy gave expression to a
feeling prevailing in many counties
In tho State. Your correspondent
gathered his impressions not only
from visitors to Columbia, but from
personal Interviews with farmers lu
liai I a do/en counties recently.
"We've got to have relief, and
promptly, or we nre coming before
the next legislature In mass and de
mand lt," said Penitentiary Director
J. O. Wlngo, an extensivo farmer and
former member of the houso from
Greenville county. "There ls going
to be serious trouble If wo don't get
lt."
.lust, what sort of law should be
enacted that will stand the test bas
not so far been definitely outlined.
The question will be treated nt
length In Governor Ansel's message
next spring, though just what ho will
recommend, he himself does not seem
to have determined as yet. One oig
gestion is that a thorough and effec
tive rural police system bo estab
lished for the purpose not only of
ridding the rural districts ot tho ne
gro criminal but of driving the Idle
to the chain gangs as well. Some far
mers advocate hiring theso convicts
to farmers and others, as was form
erly done with penitentiary convicts;
but these sort of contracts were much
abused, and lt ls not likely that the
legislature will ever again go back to
this system.
One very hopeful sign in tho pre
sent situation is the healthy growth
of public sentiment against abuse of
tho negro. Thosuporstitlon that lt
is dangerous to punish a white man
for brutal disregard of a negro's
rights ls rapidly passing.
Caused Him to Faint.
It is getting tillite common to con
vict white men of murder in South
Carolina these days. Last week Jas.
W. (hillman was convicted of mur
dering Sims Gilmore at Union and
sentenced to fifteen years in the pen
itentiary. The result of the trial was
a great surprise to the lawyers of
Gallman as well as to himself.
His attorneys requested that the
sentence be made as light as possible.
Judge Prince ordered Mr. Gallman to
stand up and receive sentence. Be
fore naming what the punishment
should be, lie gave him quite a talk
in which he recounted the principal
facts of the case, and said that he
would not have been surprised if the
verdict had been murder, or mur
der with recommendation to mercy,
and that he did not feel that he
would be doing his duty to impose
as light a sentence as Gallnian's at
torneys evidently wished, but that
he must give him the maximum of
thirty years.
On hearing these words cold per
spiration broke out on Gallman's
brow, and as he wiped it off he grew
faint, tottered, and fell and was
thought to be dying. This caused
considerable excitement among the
female members of the family. He
was then taken to the judge's room
and given medical attention. After
he revived he was sentenced.
Where might is justice, justico ls
SOI ? an!.- (Sol man.
Aspiring minds must sometime sus
tain loss. -Plato.
Method will teach you lo win time.
Goo the,
A man seldom does much good in
HU? world until he stops trying to do
barny
IT* costs more to avenge a wrong
than lt doos to le? lt go by default.
riie slow-gotng dray here Innds
moro coln than thc average raco
horse.
NEARING THE END.
Sreat QU Trust .Menaced by in
ternal Dissensions.
[tidiest Man In (hu World, Scents 1
Trouble and Only ?ogc?s' rm ?man
si?n Koopa Him In tho Une.
Is the Standard Oil company, the
peek of all monopolistic corporations,
md the world's greatest example of
jonsentrated wealth, threatened
Arith internal disruption? Rumors
that will not down have been sneak
ing around New York city's financial
senter, whispering that as far back
EIS six monts ago,v John D. Rockefel
ler, the head of the great combine,
the man whose keen intuition has
made him the greatest man in the
world in point of wealth, saw signs
of the impending storm, and wanted"
to sell his Standard Oil holdings, and
retire bag and baggage. A few
weeks later, these same rumors have
it, James Stillman, the president of
the National City bank, of New
York, the bank of the Standard Oil
company, therefore the richest in
the world, also desired to quit the
company. With the decisions of these
two men threatening the great trust
with disrupt ion, nothing but the iron
will and personal pleadings of Henry
H. Rogers, vice president, and the
actual head of the company, kept
the two dissatisfied men in line.
Rockefeller, who possesses the gift
of foresight to a degree almost uncan
ny, saw last winter that the day of
the downfall of Standard Oil was at
hand. The law, which for 05 years
had lain dormant while the Oil trust
made ridiculous the Federal and
State statutes enacted to control the
giant concern, had at last turned on
the corporation, and with all the
more vigor because of its long rest
The man who did the main part of
the planning which resulted in the
perfection of this money making ma
chine, which for years piled up in
comprehensible fortunes, had a vis
ion of the strenous times ahead for
his great industrial pet and wanted
to quit cold, and, but for the plead
ings of Rogers, he would have done
so.
Meanwhile Rogers, who has active
charge of the defense being made
against the attack of the Federal gov
ernment, having succeeded in getting
the ruling of Judge Landis in regard
to thc $29,000,000 fine carried to the
Supreme court of the United States,
is busy repairing the damage done
by the latest shafts of Herbert Knox
Smith, commissioner of corporations.
Smith, after showing how the prices
of oil vary in different parts of this
country, purely at the will of thc
men wno control the necessary com
modity, and without reference to
cost of production, freight charges,
etc., makes the astounding assertion
that tiie Oil trust can convey crude
oil and its products to Europe in their
own steamships and still sell it cheap
er than it is sold in America.
"Instead of making its price list
lower than that of independent com
panies as its monopoly enabled it to
do," declares Smith, "thus retaining
a great proportion of the business
by fair and legitimate means, the
Standard is an example of precisely
the opposite. It is a combination
which maintains a substantial mono
poly, not by superiority of service
and by charging reasonable prices,
but by manifestly unfair methods of
destroying competition; a combina
tion which then uses the power un
fairly trained to oppress the public
and enrich itself by wholly extortion
ate prices.
"lt has raised prices instead of
lowering them at the very time when
the trust, by reason of its position
and advantages, could produce a
great deal cheaper than independent
concerns. Rut instead of this it charg
es more than smaller concerns would
have done if the Standard would
have allowed them the chance."
Make Home Happy.
We often read how the wife is to
make home the brightest spot on
earth. She is always to wear a cheer,
ful countenance, as well as the clean
est of dresses and collars; to have
becomingly arranged hair, and ever
to meet her other half at the door
with a kiss. The house must he al
ways smiling in its orderly way;
children ditto; baby no exception to
the general rule.
Now thc great wonder is, has the
husband nothing to do in this mat
ter, of making home happy? To bc
sure he may do a great deal towards
making a home. He may build the
house and furnish it in princely style.
He may furnish an abundance of food
for the table-buy any amount of
fine clothing for the family need. Yet
he is cross and surly as a snapping
turtle, or unsocial, or careless in his
habits, or unsympathizing with his
wife and little ones.
All that the wife c.. ? do will not
moke the home an agreeable one.
Neither can a wife be happy with a
husband who is addicted to rinding
fault with his bread-and-butter. She
may try ever so hard to please him,
yet when he sits down to meals, she
lives in constant fear that some por
tion of the food will not suit his fas
tidious taste.
JOHN Armstrong ('handler, once
thc husband of Amelia Rives, is a lu
natic in New York and a sane man
in Virginia, according to the courts
of thc two states, and he has impor
tant business interests in both,
Could any thing be more ridiculous;
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By tho Cannibals of th? Congo
and the Islands,
PREFER HUMAN MEAT.
Tho Darwinian Theory of tho Sur
vival of tho Fittest Seen hi Its
Most. Pitiable Application Among
the African Mitn-Kuting Tribes-.
Some Facts That Will Surprise
Many People.
(Man is still much eaton by his
fellow mon. Cannibalism iii all Its
horror still persists In the upper Con
go region and other portions of Afri
ca. Tho taste for human meat por
8lst8 in New Guinea and among' cor
I tain groups of tho South Sea Islands,
j notably tho Solomons, the New Ho
brldes and Now Ireland. David Liv
ingstone, tho first whito mau who
crossed the Manyemaa country of
Africa, was reluctant to believe that
cannibalism was not In some way as
sociated with superstitious ritos. Dut
when ho saw the eagerness with
which ibo natives devoured their
favorite food he changed his mind
and wrote that "the Cougo man sim
ply prefers human flesh to any other
kind or meat." Another tribe is said
to have stated, "It ls good to oat
moat that talked." Africa shows the
Darwinian theory of survival of tho
litest in Its most pitlablo application.
The sick, crippled, ogod, men and
women aliko, are killed und eaton in
tho cannibalistic tribes. Tho flesh of
prisoners of war or mon killed in bat
tle lc? proferred above all others.
Strangely enough all explorers report
that the man-eating tribes are supor
lor, mentally and physically, to tho
non cannibals.
In the nangula country not only
ure the bodies of those slain in battle
oaten,, but tho nativos ha.bitally kill
men for food. And about this there
is much curious system, such ns In
clines students of anthropology to
suspect some hidden origin. Thus
the prisoner is not killed outright,
but ls placed chin deep in a pool of
water with his head made fast to a
log lest he drown. The victim's
limbs, by the way, have been broken
three days previously. On tho third
day the poor creature ls taken out
and killed. This procedure, the floreo
Mangala says, makes the flesh moro
tender.
Capt. S. D. I Ilude, returning homo
from Stanley Falls on the Congo, had
personal experience of theso people.
On tho down river trip to Boma six
of the Uungula crew were put In Irons
charged with having eaten two of
their compunions. The nccuscd wero
inugniilclent suvages, ovor six feet
high and superbly proportioned. Two
of tho crow, it scorned, hud fnllon ill
on the voyuge up and were allowed
by the captain to take a few day? >v,
rest. Hut when next rations were
served they were missing. Tho mas
ter of the steamer was told tney had
died during the night and been bur
ied ashore. And this seemed likely
enough. Hut the captain of tho ship
bud his doubts. Ho mude u sudden
mid on tho quarters of his Danguln
hands, and discovered parts of the
missing men, smoko dried and cut up
conveniently in tho lockors of tho
?Ix suspects, now going' Rs (Mat
Leopoldvllle.
Commandant Guy Burrows, lntoly
In the service of tho Congo adminis
tration, tolls a curious story, of .tho
Bntake people, a body of whom ho
led in a punitive expedition against
the Mnbode tribes.
"I saw a boy hit In the shoulder
by a ball from an old m tl ?al o loador,"
ho said, "and yet, although seriously
hurt, he looked entirely unconcerned;
they are titter fatalists, these follows.
His comrades carried him to ono side,
away from the rest of the wounded,
and when I saw this I remarked:
"Take thut boy up or he'll get hit
again."
"At this half u dozen grave loaders
came to mo expostulating. 'Ho ls only
a young Ind,' they grumbled. You
might lust ns well let us havo him
for killing when the light is ovor.' I
drove the monsters from mo with my
chlcotte or hippo hide whip. Tho
boy recovered und served me for
yours. But those Butake cannibals
never forgave me."
He who relies on another's table ls
apt to dine late.-Italian.
The time ls never lost that ls do
votsd to work.-Emerson.
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