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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-03

STATE COAT OF ARMS Historical
facts are wanted concerning tho origin
and meaning Of the coat of arms of the
state of South Carolina. Governor
I1llman has looked up the matter u
little and he confesses that he cannot
find out anything accurate about it.
NO one about the State capitol knows
anything definite on the subject either.
There are several designs of what is
alleged to be the real coat of arms. but
the Governor does not know which is
the correct one. He has been think
ing for some time Of gutting some one
to look up the history of the coat Of
arms, and his desire to obtain it was
stimulated by the receipt Of a letter
from Mrs. Mary Cecil Cantwill, chair
man of the board of lady managers Of
the Worlds Fair, asking for such a
history, and sketch Of the State flag.
She wants the information for use in
getting up a book which will contain
histories OF the coat Of arms of each
State in the Union. Governor rTillman
has written to the professors Of history
In the leading colleges of the State ask
ing them to collect such historical data
as they can and forward it to him. The
State.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-03

THE SHIPMENTS ALL RIGHT.-Some
question has been raised about the
manner in which the liquors for the
county dispensaries are being shipped
out from the State dispensary, and
Deputy Collector Ensor having ex-
pressed an opinion that as the pack
ages sent out contained more than five
gallons they would be subjected to an
extra stamp inasmuch as the law was
being violated, State Commissioner
Traxler had q conference with Mr.. E..
a. Webster, Internal Revenue Col,ec-
tor for South Carolina, and as q result
received the following official letter
from Mr.. Webster which sets the mat
ter at rest:
COLUMBIA s. G. Sept. 25, 1893.
DEAR SIR: Referring to our con-
versation In regard to the manner in
which you ship distilled spirits or
fermented liquors to County Dispen-
saries, the same being shipped in pack
ages of less than five gallons packed
in barrel or case holding In the ag-
gregate more than five gallons, / have
to inform you that I hold that such
shipment is not in violation of any in
ternal revenue law, and, as far as am
informed, Is not at variance with any
rules or regulations of the department
applicable to the case. I have 80 In.
structed the Deputy Collectors. Re-
spectfully,
e. a. WEBSTER, Collector.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-03

AT Jagersfontcn, in South Africa,
diamond weighing $40 carats has
recently been found. This, says The
London Standard, is the largest dia-
mond of which there is an indisputable
record. There is tradition, going
back to about 1900 b. c., that the
kohinoor weighed when found 1888
carats, but it takes faith to accept
the story. 1t weighed but 1876 carsts
when the queen got it. The bother
about the new diamond monster is that
there is but slack demand for dia-
monds as big as duck eggs. 1t isn't
everybody that can afford to wear
them,
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-03

During the performance of trained
bears and leopards at Hagcnbeck's
circus, in the Midway Plaisance, the
animals became unmanageabc and
began desperate fight in the arena.
Fritz Maasf Il lion tanner, attempted to
seperate them and was attacked by the
bears. Before the attendants could
drive the maddened beasts from him
he was severely clawed and bittcn. A
physician was called in to attend his
injuries. The building was crowded
at the time, and the audience became
greatly excited,
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-03
ELECTRICITY and steam had thei

Electricity and steam had their
first tug OF war at Chicago last week.
An old Baltimore and Ohio engine,
Weighing thirty-one and half tons,
was pitted against an electric engine
Weighing twenty-five tons. They were
coupled with a cable twenty feet long.
AT a signal both were pulled wide
OPEN" The electric engine buzzed
and scattered lightning over the sur.
rounding country, but was unable to
bulge the ancient switch engine. The
latter simply gave couple of puffs
and walked away with the lightning
bug.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-03

much in the newspapers, had the
power to find him a good position.
He resolved to apply to Mr.. Cleveland
for help and he did so. Mr.. Cleveland
granted him an interview, but very
plainly told him he could do nothing
for him. The young man went away,
brooded over his rebuff and came to the
conclusion that Mr.. Cleveland should
he removed. Then he made his second
cay, with the results already re-
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-03

.s-Apraea men will in the future
accompany evapv train hanling ex-
press or mail cars from Chicago TO any
point East or South. Two roads have
already determined to arm their em-
ployes and In o few days orders will be
Issued to the other roads running into
Chicago to supply Winchesters to all
ths train men connected with trains
hauling eSpress cars,
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-03
-Colored politicians of both parti

--Colored politicians of both parties
are greatly "eMcited by rumor
that Hon. John Mercer Langston, a
Virginia leader, has gone over to the
Democracy. The report is not verif-
ed, but reliable colored Democrats
believe 1t, and say the negroes are
leaving the Republican party very
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-06-22
of no positive and settled convic ton
against capital punishment.

of no positive and settled conviction
against capital punishment.
The vote on Monday and the very in
telligent discussion of the measure
which preceded it prove that there is
such conviction in the minds OF the
great majority of the assembly. The
vote was IS to 30, and the arguments in
favor of the bill were all practical, rea-
SOnable and not in any measure senti-
mental. They were based on the easily
demonstrate fact that murder, the
highest crime of all, is more likely to 90
unpublished than any minor form of
crime, and that consequently the penal
ty of death does not justify it's savage
severity by acting as deterrent from
murder. Last year, said Mr.. Malby
during the debate, only about IL per
cent. of the murdererS were executed.
The penalty that should be administer
ed with the most certainty and with alb
solute equality is actually administered
with the least certainty and the most
inequality. n rickpocket gets his just
deserts from a jury. A murderer stands
a good chance of escaping from them,
SO hard is it to get jury who will send
a man to death.
| Putting aside all other considerations,
this is an argument from experience,
which has prevailing influence with the
assembly. In voting for the abolition
of capital punishment that body voted
for penalty whose intiiction would be
surer and more conducive to the ends
of justice and be more effectual deter
rent from murder. AS it is, the death
penalty remains. but experience indi-
Gates that the average sentiment of
juries is so far opposed to it that practi-
cally it gives encouragement to the
murderer rather than strikes terror to
his heart. The larger consideration is
whether the brutaliZing example and
effect of killing men by law do not
stimulate in the community the savage
thirst for blood more than they brighten
men from murder.
In the senate the bill was defeated by
an even more decisive vote than that by
which it was passed in the assembly, or
by "a to 6. The very .prepOnderance of
this present opposition to the abolition
of capital punishment suggests, how
ever, that a disagreement between the
two houses SO total cannot continue in
definitely. The increasing favor shown
by the assembly to the proposition is
likely to extend to the senate.
In all the civilized states of the world
capital punishment is either abolished
outright, or is so rarely administered
for the crime of murder, that it's entire
diSuSe seems to be near at hand. Cold
blOOded killing as public penalty is
repugnant to modern civilization
Ne1C York Satn.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-06-22
Capital Punishment.

Again bill for the abolition of
capital punishment in this state has
been passed by the assembly, and again
it has been defeated in the senate.
When measure to the same effect
was passed by the lower house a few
years ago, Kemmler was awaiting exc
cution by electricity as the the first vic
tim OF the new method of judicial kill
ing, and in some quarters its passage
was absurdly attributed to sinister in
fiuences exercised by the electric COM
panies. In others it was treated as a
mere freak Of the assembly, indicative
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-06-22
It Might Have Been.
An illustrations poet has said.

OF all sad words of tongue or pen
The sadest are these-it might have BEEN
1t seems to me that we have no more
occasion for being defeated at "what
might have been" than we have for
being elated at escaping it. In the
case of Maud Muller, to which the poet
has reference, she was engaged in rak-
ing hay out in the beautiful sunshine,
and, in the interim, indulging her
womanish prOpensities in a mild fiirta-
ton with the judge; whereas she might
have been married to the solemn state
ly representative Of Justice: in which
case she probably would have been out
in the kitchen washing the Judges soiled
linen, or cleaning house, or any or all
of the daily drudgeries of a faithful
house wife. | repeat and think the
chances are about even that we should
congratulate ourselves or bemoan the
fact that what might have been" did
not occur-for instance, the writer
might have got ten "stretches but he
didn't, for which fact he is very glad:
on the other hand, the court might have
taken into consideration his Youthful
appearance and the fact that it was his
first OtfenSe, and, with kind but firm
ly worded reprimand hidden him "go
and sin no mOre;;" but the court did not
see fit to do this, which causes sadness
in the first degree to Iinger in the heart
of the undersigned. The Constitution
Of the United States makes it posi-
bility for any native born citizen to be-
come chief magistrate; but the chances
are that about Twenty-Five million pos
sibilitieS will not realize, and will natu-
rally feel defeated. But the successful
one also has cause for deep and per-
picking sadness. At times anxiety and
solicitude leave their imprint upon his
brow, caused by the many harassing and
cursory details of office. There is no
station in life in which one will not en-
counter adversely as we'll as felicity.
and it would appear that the more
philosophical plan would be to make
good use OF the prosperous portion of
life, and make mental memoranda of
lost opportunities which may enable us
to avoid similar misfortunes in the flu
ture. If we have passed the period in
life in which possibilities of great wealth
or exalted position have ceased to exist.
then may we expand the position in
which we find ourselves and make it
post of honor however lowly,
Men whose hands are brown with toll
VINO backed by no ancestral graves
HeW down the wood and till the soil
AND thereby win a prOuder fame
imam follows a kings warriors name."
S. MILE.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-06-22

Sundays and bask in the sunlight of his "best
girls smile, or. mounted on the piebald steed of
the merry-gO-rOund, forget. in the poetry of mo-
ton and the inspiring strains of brass band,
the cares, trials and disappOintments of this pro-
sale, wOrk-a-day world. All! yes, 1.-THE man is
a fool who will work., but the shallow pated
fool of all fools, is the fool who thinks he can
live without work.
Prisoners, of all men in the world, appreciate
to the full kind look or word. When our efforts
to bear patiently and submissively the penalties
of outraged laws are noticed and favOrs.bly COM
mented on, it makes the burdens of prison life
less oppressive and strengthens us in our re-
| solves to win by manly conduct the good opinion
of those in power over us. But do we always
think OF this in intercourse with one another?
Do we try, by kind words and pleasant looks to
cheer and help weak brother who is falling by
the wayside ready to give up the battle of life in
despair? We know how harsh word rankes
| in our own heart but do we not thOughtlesSly
perhaps, often inf1ict the same pain upon an
other? Very few of us can look upon our past
lives without the bitterest remorse at the recOl-
lection of unkind words spoken to some dear
friend, perhaps, sad thought, to loving sister
| or brother who has been called from this world,
and we can never tell them how sorry we are for
what we have done. What little thing it is to
| speak kind word or do little act of kindness
which requires no self-sacrifce, and yet it is by
| these simple acts in our daily lives that we can
give happiness to others and win happiness in
| return.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-06-22
Illiteracy and Crime.

Does education help morals? is
question that has frequently been dis
cussed. 1t is somewhat astonishing, in
this age, to find persons replying in the
negative to this proposition, and hold
ing that their schools are having very
little effect in reducing the amount of
crime and vice in this country, and they
even point to the criminal records in
support of their view, and to the large
number of crimes committed in Boston
and other cities where the school sys-
TENS are practically perfect, and where
everyone can get good education.
Ii we examine the criminal and pO-
lice statistics, however, as the United
States commissioner of education, w.
L. Harris, has just done, we will find
that they make no such showing as is
pretended, but quite the contrary.
There are, OF course, some educated, as
well as llllterate persons arrested, but
the difference in the number of arrests
OF these two classes shows how great is
the effect OF the schools in the elimina-
ton of crime.
The number of prisoners confined in
seventeen states which have completed
statistics on this point-fourteen of
them Western or Middle states-is no.
518, and among these the illiterates, in
proportion to numbers, contribute six
times their quota. The records in the
towns show an even greater proportion
of crime among the ignorant and the
illiterate, for the whole country fur
nishes to each thousand of persons
eight times as many illiterate prisoners
as those who can read and write
1t is plain from these facts that our
schools have already greatly reduced
the amount of crime, and that when we
shall have succeeded in getting rid of
all illiteracy we will still further re-
duce the number of criminals.-Nezc
Orleans Times Democrat.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-06-22
Not Lost.

Visitor: All, Johnny, see you have
lost one of your first teeth.
Johnny: No. sir; l haven't lost it. It's
upstairs on the window sill.-Puck.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-13

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec S.-Further
advices from Honolulu supplementary to
the Associated Press copyright letter
by the schooner Indicate that Minister
Willis has gotten into trouble with the
newspapers.
The Honolulu Star i'm publishing the
interview with Willis secured a scoop"
over its rivals and they criticised the
minister for talking so freely. These
criticisms drew forth the following letter
from Minister Willis. published in the
Honolulu Bulletin Nov. II, the day after
the interview had appeared in the Star:
ITO the Editor of the Bulletin have
hastily glanced at the manuscript which
you have left. The interview in the
Star was submitted TO ME. but l did not
scrutinize the expressions, which are
misleading, due, l am sure, not to any
intention on the part of the writer.
The short conversation had with him
had no political significance whatever.
When my government is ready to make
any official or political statement 1t Will
be elsewhere. regret that a casual re-
mark in regard to the attitude of the
press has been misconstrued. When I
spoke TO the reporter of the Star it was
as a representative of the entire press.
1 am not its censor and my remark was
not intended to be construed to the dis
advantage of any. 1t was intended as
an appeal to all TO unite in preserving
peace and good order, which is, / know,
the wish of all good citizens. Further
than this I do not desire to be quoted.
Yours respectfully,
ALBERT S. WILLIS"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-13
SENATE EXECUTIVE SESSION.
Discussion of the Hawaiian Question
No Response to the Inquiry.

Hawaii and the relations Of this coun-
try TO that occupied the attention of the
senate for about an hour in executive
session today. The subject came up in
formally. There is really nothing be-
fore the senate except. the PRESIDENT
message on the Hawaiian question, ana
the adoption Of Senator Hoars resolu-
ton Of inquiry was supposed to have
taken the matter entirely out Of the
senate for the present. The president
had not replied to the resolution of in
quiry and there was some interest ex-
pressed to know what course he would
take, or whether he would decline on
account of the general welfare for the
present to make public the instruc-
tons to Mr.. Wilbur.
The senate evidently does not expect
to receive a great deal more Information
upon the subject than the president has
already transmitted. Senators are anx-
ious to have the matter cleared up. 1t
is understood that this was the tone of
the discussion in the executive session
and there was more of a spirit of fault
finding because of the failure of the
president to make plain his course than
of criticism of what had been done. In
deed it was admitted that so long as
there was no information as to what had
actually occurred, there was no other
course for criticism to take.
During the session Senator Palmer
took exception to remarks made by
some of the republican senators and re-
sponded in a speech of some feeling.
No conclusion was, of course, arrived at,
for there was nothing TO come TO a con-
clusion on. and the session was con-
cluded after Mr.. Palmer had finished
his remarks
Some Of the members of the senate
have been asking themselves what the
senate will do in case Mr.. Cleveland
should fail to take any notice of their
request for Information. but most OF
those spoken to upon this subject say
this is not a probable contingency. They
admit, however, that Ii would not sur
prise them II Mr.. Cleveland declined TO
/ transmit further information until after
the next steamer shall arrive from
Honolulu
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-13

throne would not stand an hour after
the withdrawal of American troops. The
theory of restoration. however, will not
be believed here until the last moment.
Should it then prove true serious trouble
will likely follow. This much is adj
mitted by the clearest heads on both
sides.
Later-From a source almost in touch
with the American legation it is learned
that the contingency which has caused
delay in Hawaiian affairs until Washing
ton is heard from is the fact that the
provisional government and resident
Americans would openly resist either
compromise or restoration.
In conversation with the Associated
Press reporter yesterday Minister Willis
said he was confident that legislation
favorable TO the Hawaiian islands would
shortly take place in the United States.
He thought the duty on sugar would be
placed at I cent per pound and the
bounty would be repealed. This would
make a net difference of about fifteen
dollars a ton TO Hawaiian planters I'M
der their contracts which allow the sugar
trust a heavy rebate.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-13

dynamite gun. Mr.. Conway has the
forward and Mr.. Sparkling the after gun
deck battery. Mr.. Lowe commands the
powder division. Mr.. Iderstein, chief en-
gineer assisted by Assistant Engineers
Steenston. Allen and Crowley, control
the engines and the valves Of the dyna-
mite guns. Officer Marriott and Fon-
tame, the Associated Press and World
correspondent respectively, manage the
rangefinder. The big 407 inch rife at
the stern is captained by Junior Boat
swain Gilroy. The other gun captains
are all old men-of-warsmen. Saturday
night the sailors held an impromptu jol-
LITIGATION on the gun deck. One man
who sang in praise OF the British flag
was hooted down, nobody said anything
about Brazil, in fact. there is probably
not one man on board who knows the
language spoken in Brazil. and not
twenty who are not American born.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-13
CROWDED COURT DOCKETS.
Mr.. Bryan Not in Favor Of the
Sugar Tax
AS Advocated by Representa-
tive Harter.
Collector Bracken Appoints William
III. Harkins as n Deputy-Mr. Bynum
Secures "a Place for an Indianapolis
CoIOred Man-The Bill to Repeal the
Tax on State Bank Circulation.
BUREAU OF THE SENTINEL,

w WASHINGTON, II. u, IleG..- O.
The first opposition to the Martin
Voorhees, pension reform bill develops
in this city in the legal profession The
lawyers are beginning to protest, saying
that its passage would be certain to
crowd the court dockets. The measure
proposes that an appeal shall be from
any decision of the secretary Of the in
terror to the supreme court of the Dis
trict Of Columbia; that the court shall
entertain the appeal at the earliest pos
sible moment and render its decision.
1t Is now learned that by a recent
law the supreme court is not the high
est body, for the court of appeals ia
above it. Therefore there must be this
change at least in the bill. and as sew
eral hundred appeal cases dating back
many years crowd the dockets of the
court of appeals, beside numerous pat
ent appeal cases, the reason is obvious
that the attorneys should enter a pro-
test. 1t is further considered that
through the technical disputes that will
come up in these pension cases there
will be enough work piled up to keep
three judges busy. This is the only rea-
son why the attorneys of the district
Mr.. Bryan, who is prominent on the
ways and means committee, says that
the Harter idea, that of substituting a
cent a pound on raw sugar and remOY-
ing the bounty. will find no favor in the
eyes Of the committee having the tariff
bill under consideration. Mr.. Harter,
however, is persistent in his interviews
TO learn the general sentiment on the
question.
Collector Bracken of the Sixth IN
diana revenue district, upon the recon-
mendation of Congressman Martin, has
appointed the Hon. William II. Harkins
of Portland a deputy collector.
The committee on invalid pensions
met this morning and considered Mr.
Martins bill, which declares a pension
a vested right and gives the right Of
appeal to the supreme court Of the
district. 1t waA referred to a sub-con1-
mittee consisting of Judge Hare of Ohio,
MAJ Baldwin of Minnesota and Gen.
Lacey of iowa with instructions to re-
port to the committee next Tuesday.
Upon the recommendation of Congress-
man Bynum, William Warmack, colored,
of Indianapolis, has been appointed
porter on a mail car in the railway mail
service.
Harry Rodenberger has been appoint
ed to fill the vacancy in the pOstoffice
at Bowling Green, Clay county, vice
w. B. Folsom, deceased. Milton Wheeler
succeeds J. L. Smith, removed, in the
Judson, Parke county, Office.