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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-29
Take Trust.
Take Love.
IukU Love,
ALI other friends ahnye
Storms Are Healthy.

The sweetest summers breed the severesT
storms. The conditions that ripen the har-
vests create the tempest. The shock and
jar of the thunder, the blaze and sweep OF
the. lightning are the sUrest sanitation.
Midsummer storms purify the air oceans for
all the seasons. We found u farmer singing
on the roof where the lightning had plowed
a furrow from ridge to caves. ''Oh, this Is
nothing" said he. ''it's worth few
shingles to have such pure air to live in.'
His philosophy was as fine as his temper.
ride with Roosevelt shakes out every trace
OF effeminacy and reveals our truest heroes;
Hobson's passage through New York to
Washington is tonic for cur manhood
breath of health and heroic spirit that is sent
from heaven. The best ages Of the world,
the best hours of history. are in touch with
the periods OF stru2 gle. The fever OF the
child that is cutting its teeth and the surgi-
cal disruption that takes out bad one be-
long to life that is sound at the core, Sum-
mer arbitrates long to keep the balance, and
then breaks out with thunder and lightning
to restore a perfect equilibrium That is
history. Men and brethren. let us sing in
the furrows of the storm. Let US breathe
easier and better for the battle.-R. A. s., in
n. Y. Evangelist.
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Foreign.

Theodore Fontane, the German poet and
author, is dead, in his seventy-ninth year.
King Leopold, OF Belgium, has sent an
autograph letter TO the Car urging the
designation of Brussels as the meeting
place of the peace congress.
Colonel Picquart caused sensation at
his trial before the Paris Correctional Irl-
bunal by declaring, ir effect, that II he
should be found dead in prison his life
would not have been taken by his own
hand.
The Ro.hschids will loan Spain, it is re-
ported, about So, GOO 000 on the security OF
the Almaden quicksilver mines when tue
treaty of peace shall have been signed.
1t is now estimated that eighty persons
we're drowned by the recent storms IN
Southern Spain.
Full reports OF the damage wrought by
the recent hurricane at Barbados, west
Indies. show 1G0 fatalities. Fifty thousand
persons were made homeless and the dam
age is estimated at more than million dol
lars.
The Japanese Government has replied to
the Cars circular proposing universal
disarmament, expressing approval OF the
plan and promising to support it.
Anumber Of fishing boats were wrecked
In the Baltic Sea during stormy weather
few days ago and twenty Of the fishermen
we're crowned.
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The trustees of several villages IN
New York state-Warsaw being the
latest example ! have passed ordl-
nances forbidding children under tif-
teen years of age from being on the
streets, alleys OF public places, after
the hour OF nine o'clock p. m. from
April to October, or after eight O'Clock
for the other half of the year. 1t is
made unlawful for parents or guardl-
ans to allow or permit children under
their care to be on the streets during
the prescribed hours, ''unless there
exists q reasonable necessity there
for" A fine mot exceeding S25' Is
provided for parents who violate this
section. The police are authorized to
arrest and detain children found on
the streets at night, but not to I'M
prison them. Their parents are to be
notified, and are liable to a fine fol
not thereafter keeping their children
within bounds.
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FATAL GRAIN DUST FLASH.
One Man Killed and Three Injured by n
Sudden Explosion.

New YORK CRY (SpeciaD D.-One man was
killed and three injured Friday afternoon
by an explosion OF grain dust in the works
Of the Eastern Distilling Company, in the
BlissvilIe section Of Long Island City.
The explosion shattered one OF the big
buildings, and the man killed was buried
under it. The man killed was Patrick Nc
Cafferty, sixty years of age. The injured
are james Moran, thirty-fve years old, u
miller OF Blissville; r. Cobb, weigher, Of
Bllssville, aud John Granbar, miller OF
Greenpoint.
The explosion was one OF those common
in grain elevators. The accumulated
dust, more explosive than gunpowder,
took fire from some unexplained cause.
Three sides OF the building were blown
out and the Jurth so badly damaged that
before the work OF looking for the body
could be taken up it had to be pulled
down.
Moran and Granbar were standing near
the building, and were burned by the flash
OF flame and struck by debris. Their in
juries are not fatal.
The loss is in the nelghborhood OF $50 900.
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Shoes made in the United States
and imported into Germany have
gained so much in favor in certain
parts of Germany that official attempts
have been made to create prejudice
against their purchase by German cit
izens. Consul General Mason, at
Frankfort, in recent communication
to the state department, sheds some
light on the character OF this opposi-
ton. He furnishes a translation Of
an article published in Leipsic pa
per, which reads in part as follows !:
.'The Prussian minister of commerce
and industry has addressed to the
central committee of the Union of
German Shoemakers' G4lds a sum-
mons to a systematic resistance to
American competition in shoe prod
ucts. 1t is known, and the fact is here
emphasized by the minister, that re-
Gently American shoes of the So
called job-lot or inferior grades
.schleudersorten' which are quite in
ferior to the solid German-made shoes,
which possess a certain attractive ele-
gance of form and fnish-have been
imported with growing success into
Germany. In order to effectually op-
pose this import the minister recon-
mends to manufacturers, shoemakers'
unions and shareholders interested in
the shoe industry to obtain samples
of such goods, and by cutting and
separating the soles and uppers,
which are made of paper and joined
by long stitches of thread, expose and
show the base quality of workman
ship, and to bring these facts to the
notice of the press and the knowledge
of their customers. The consul,
however, advises that there is an op-
portunity to develop and carry on q
legitimate shoe export trade with Ger
many provided that it is conducted on
a straightforward, intelligent, com.
mercial basis,
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GOV. VOORHEES,. tfon to order With
out a speech. He placed in nomination as
Temporary Chairman Attorney-General
John w Griggs. He made speech to the
convention in defense of the dministra-
tion at Washington.
At the conclusion of Attorney-General
Griggs's speech the Committee on Resolu-
tions, through its chairman, Senator
Stokes, reported the platform, which con-
tanned this sentence:
And if, by the misconduct or incom-
potency OF any officials. their health or
their lives have been unnecessarily sacri-
feed or endangered, we feel assured that
the President and his constitutional ad-
visers will make such Investigations as will
bring the offenders to justice regardless OF
past or present political affiliations"
Upon motion OF Chairman Murphy the
sentence was stricken out
Governor Voorhees, was nominated by
Congressman Fowler, Of the Eighth Dis
trict There was no opposition. Governor
Voorhees, made q short speech OF accept
ance in which he confined himself to State
issues.
The platform declared for sound money
and in opposition to any proposition to de-
base the National currency; endorsed the
st. Louis platform and the general policy
OF President Mckinley and his administra-
tion
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Bind All Days Together.

Yesterday is no mausoleum Of dead deeds,
no storehoise of mummies. Memory IS
sranary holding seed for tomorrows SOW
ing memory is an armory holding weapons
for tomorrow's battles memory is a medi-
cine-chest with ba.ms for tomorrow's hurts;
memory is library with wisdom for tomor,
rows emergency. Yesterday holds the full
store OF today's civilization; contains
our tools. conveniences, knowledge
contains our batileflelds and victories; !;
above all gives US Bethlehem and Calvary.
But alone mans Yesterday is impotent; his
tomorrow insufficient. The true man binds
all his days together with an earnest, in
tense passionate purpose. His yesterdays,
todays and tomorrows march together, one
solid column. animated by one thought, con-
strained by one conspiracy OF desire. ener-
cizing toward one holy and helpful purpose
TO serve man and love God.-Newell
Dwight Hills, in "The Investment OF In
huence."
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cHINA'S POLITICAL SEE.SAW.
Opponents of the New Policy of Progress
in the Ascendant.

PEK1x, China (By Cable).-An imperial
edict Just issued definitely announces that
the Emperor of China has resigned his
power to the Empress, OowaGer En-
press), who has ordered the Ministers to
deliver to her in future their official re-
ports. The recent reformatory edicts prob
ably caused the change.
While the Emperor was subservient and
a mere flgurehead, the Dowager Empress
permitted him to remain in peace. But so
soon as he attempted to act on his own in
itiative, his practical deposition was the re-
suit. His principal adviser, Kwang-Yumei,
the Cantonese reformer, fed in spite OF the
vigorous attempts made to arrest him, and
is said to have gone to Shanghai.
The suddenness Of the coup Is said to be
due to the desire of the Dowager Empress
to prevent the mission of the Marquis Ito
from being successful. The Japanese
statesman recently came to Pekin with the
object Of trying to bring about an alliance,
offensive and defensive, between Japan and
China. The new order OF things undoubt-
edly will prejudice British interests in
China
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Tndreampd of GlOries.

The sun shines. and we see the things that
are near usall the little things that ilit in the
air or creep beside our feet. The sun sets, and
then first we see the unnumbered stars OF
heaven, repaying to the sun its sunlight or
burning with independent glory through
all the unfathomable space. May it not be
so with life and death? Life sets; its insect
greatnesses cease to buzz about us; its
insect littlenesses cease to sting. We
lose sight even OF this vault OF light and
blue which is above our heads but, 10!
from under the shadow OF death the heavens
above Us seem to burst open to their depths
and We see not one sun, but systems, and
consultations, and galiaxies, white
with the confuent lustre OF suns
numberless in multitude and indis-
tinguishable from their distance. May
not death first reveal to US, a. night first re-
veals to us. the undreamed OF glories, the
possibilities hitherto inconceivable, which
crowd the universe Of God? And through
all that universe our Father reiGns-God,
who is in Christ reconciing the world unto
Himself.-Canon Farrar.
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THE NEWS EPIToMlZsD.
Washington Items.

General Miller, now in command at Sen
Francisco, will command the reinforce
ments ordered to Manila. Batteries A and
B of the California artillery will go with
the expedition. General Miller has made
application TO have the troops which ac-
company him armed with the krag-J or
gensen rifle.
The Navy Department has ordered 400
sailors to be sent to Admiral Dewey s
squadron at Manila. The men will be sent
from San Francisco on merchant steamer.
The body OF Captain Allyn Capron, Of
the First United States Artillery and iather
OF the late Captain Allyn X. Capron, OF the
rough riders, was buried in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery. General Miles and otner
high officers Of the army were present.
The Wyandotte, at League Island, and
the Dorothea, at Norfolk, have been placed
oGt OF commission.
In consequence of the eXtortions prac-
ticed by merchants of st. Thomas, Danish
West Indies, the Navy Department VIII
keep our warships away from that port.
John T. Williams, United States Consul
at Sierra Leone. reports to the state De-
partment that the Governor OF the colony
has offered reward OF $50 for information
that will lead to the apprehension and con-
victiou of the persons who murdered the
American missionaries in the Ronietta dis
trict Of Sierra Leone, on May 3 and s, 1898.
The State Department has been notified
that Mr.. Arthur Owen Humphreys Owen
has been made an honorary attache OF the
British Embassy ir Washington.
1t IS now expected that Mr.. Hay will be
installed as Secretary Of State before the
Presidents departure for the West in Octo-
ber.
Surceon-General Sternberg issued a
statement on the responsibility in the med
zeal department OF the army, in which he
explained that he was not to blame for the
troubles in the field and in camp.
The Haytian Government has notified
our Government that it has decided to
permit the establishment OF weather sig
nal station at Mole st. Nicolas and perhaps
elsewhere in Hayti.
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A PRAYER and Confession.

Behold we confess, o Lord! in thee We
live. in thee We move ard have our being;
all our su1iciency proceeds from thee and
cir success depends upon thy favor.
Others may tell US the way we should go,
but thou alone canst enable US to walk in
it. Others may instruct US in the paths OF
virtue. but even they must be taught by
thee; and go all at last Is resolved into
thee. o. may all self-presumption die
In us and our whole confidence
live only in thee, and may even
our fraities make US more strong
and our being nothing teach US to be hum.
BILE; so shall thy power. o God. be magnifed
in our weakness and thy mercy triumph in
the relief OF our miseries. Thou art my
saviour; whom then shall fear? Thou art
my protector; Of whom shall be afraid9
Let thy mercy guide me iE paths OF right
eousness and knit my heart unto thee, that
neither life nor death municipalities nor pow
ers may ever be able to separate me from
thee. Amen.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-29

In her desire to bother American
exporters Germany has outdone her
self. 1t was all right for her to C n
denim the American cattle and Amerl-
can canned goods, because the spite
of such condemnation was expended
upon herself. Nobody believed her
to be self-supplying in these COM
modities. But trichine have been
discovered once too often. The
result is no less a startling revela-
ton to the world than it must
be a blow to innate Teutonic
pride. Trichin9, Berlin officials
say, have been discovered in an
American sausage. This is impor-
tant if true. for it shows that Germany
is not self-supplying even in sau-
sages. The report of the British Off
cials will probably be refuted from
high authority. They will be told
that there are no American sausages
in Germany; hence trichina could not
have been found in them.
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MISS WINNIE DAVIS BURIED.
Her Body Laid Beside That OF Her Father
In the Cemetery at Richmond.

RICHMOND, Va. (SpeciaD Tho funeral
train bearing the body of Miss Winnie
Davis arrived here Friday and was met at
the station by Lee Camp, Confederate Vet
erans, OF which she was member, and
delegates from Picket Camp. Colonel
Archer Anderson, j. Taylor Ellison, Col
onel Z. L. Hobson and Dr.. George Ross
and their wives received Mrs. Davis and
those OF her immediate party who were on
the train.
The body was escorted to st. Pauls
Church, where it lay In state under the
care OF the guard Of honor. The church
was not open to the public, but delegations
from many organizations were admitted.
The funeral services were conducted by
the Rev. Dr. Hartley Carmichael and the
Rev. DR.. Moses D. Hoge. The public was
not admitted to the church, but the big
building was more than filed by repre-
sentatives OF organizations from all over
the South and great crowd filed the
streets. The procession which accom-
panied the body to the cemetery was two
hours in forming and extended practically
from the church to Hollywood, more than
two miles away. -, -$s 2s1[%'f
The flags of the city were at halt-mast
and during the procession every church
DCli IL lliC CILJ was lOlSu. 1AO PlOSSooLSh
was led by the Second Virginia Volunteers,
Just home from Jacksonville. Then came
long line Of Confederate camps and Sons
OF Veterans, the bands playing funeral
dirges. The hear5e was drawn by four
snow-white ponies, with bride attendants,
and In the rear, following as special guard
OF honor, marched 100 veterans from the
Confederate Soldiers Home. The process
sion closed with double line OF carriages.
Among the honorary pallbearers were Gov
ernor J. Hoge Tyler, Ex-Governor C. T.
O'Farrell, General John B. Gordon, Gen.
eral Fitzhugh Lee and General G. ". Gus
tis Lee.
The crowd ofspectators filled the amphi-
theatre formed by the hills surrounding
the burial plot The grave Is near that OF
Jefferson Davis. 1t was lined with Con-
federate flags and the head floral piece was
q Confederate flag OF large size Eade Of
red, white and blue immortelles.
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Terrible Storms In Formos

Information has just reached Tacoma,
Wash, that floods and typhoons wrought
great devastation along the eastern and
northern shores Of Formosa a few weeks
ago. Five thousand buildings were de-
stroyed and 400 persons were killed or tn
jured around Taipeh, Formosa's capital.
In Taipeh prefecture alone 20I3 houses
were destroyed and 995 badly damaged,
while 40 bodies and 160 injured persons
were recovered among ruined buildings
Japanese officials have undertaken exteu-
sive relief work, though hampered by at
tacks OF Formosan rebels. In some val
leys buildings and crops were entirely
swept away.
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Confessing to the Lord.

Some few half hours we spend in prayer,
and many whole days in idleness and
vanity. Sometimes we bestow little on
the poor and often throw more away on
our passions. Thus We confess to thee,
o Lord our God. who perfectly seest
every corner Of our hearts, not that thou
mayest know us, but that we may know
ourselves and thou mayest cure US. Cure
us. o thou great physician of our souls, Of
all our sinful distempers; cure US OF this
anguish of intermitting piety and fix it in An
even and constant holiness. o, make US
use religion as our regular diet, and not
only as single medicine in pressing ne
cessty. SO shall our souls be endued with
a perfect health.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-29

Spaish statesmen now have an op'
portunity to study the art OF ruling
such colonies as are left to them.
Their method for four centuries has
been described as ignorant incapacity,
tempered by cruelty. They may at
last understand the wisdom OF recoS'
nizing that subject races have some
claims to consideration aud. q few
rights to be remembered.
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New YORK CRY (SpeciaD .-GeneralS Stew
art L. Woodford said in replyto an inquiry
"The statement printed that 1 have re-
signed as Minister to Spain is correct.
With peace once made and the treaty
signed, the work for which the Presi-
dent drafted me into the diplomatic SER
vice In June, 1897, will !have been fin
ished. have held this place at pecuniary
loss and to the neglect Of my business. l
was glad to do so as long as it seemed that
/ could render any public service which
should overbalance my personal loss. But
with the return Of peace, which is now as.
sured, have fer free to resign"
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MANY MINERS ENTOMBED
Fatal Explosions Of Coal Gas and Fire
Damp Near Brownsville, Penn.
EIGHT MEET SUDDEN DEATH.

Six Scores In Peril-They Escaped, injured
and Nearly Choked by the Fire Damp
Walked Four Miles Underground to
Safety-Wild Scenes at the Mouth of
the Shaft-Loose Coal Causes Accident.
BROWNSVILLE, Penn. (SpeciaD D.-Seventy
men were entombed Friday in the Empire
Mine of Snowden, Gould & Co., one sourth
OF q r.ile below town, as the result OF an
explosion OF gas, followed by another ex-
ploson of fire damp. OF the number en-
tombed, all escaped or were taken out by
rescuins parties, except eight, who were
killed outright, and three who were more
or less hurt.
The list of the dead includes John Hais-
ton, Salem Haiston, Robert Davidson, John
John Cartwright and James Hall. The
following we're injured: George Baker,
John Baker and Samuel Mcintyre
The explosion is said to have been caused
bv the loOsening of large block Of coal
which opened a pocket OF gas. Immediate
ly following the explosion of gas there was
second explosion OF fire damp. There
were seventy men at work in the mine at
the time OF the disaster.
When the mine was reached willing
hands at once went to work. Everybody
seemed to want to 30 into the mine. It
was by sheer force that those in charge at
the entry kept the crowd out. 1t was an
nounced that there was n sufficient force
of men inside to do rescue work but q
weary and painful wait OF hours took
place.
Just above the entrance to the mine there
Is an artificial plateau. From the edge OF
the plateau good view OF the track lead
ing TO She mine could be had. Here women
stood wringing their hands in anguish and
weeping The hundreds OF people realized
that they stood at the entrance OF living
tombs.
1t was several hours later that the tingle
OF the electric bell in the engine house an
nounced that train Of coal cars was COM
ing from within. the scene Of the disaster
is more than mile from the entry. 1t
took about ten minutes for the first load to
reach the outside world.
When the little train OF cars emerged, a
shudder was visible in the crowd. First
there came two cars loaded with coal.
Then three cars in each OF which there
wee two bodies. In one there were two
brothers, side by side, John and Salem
Haiston. In the others were Robert David
son and John Bennett. William Pritchard
and John Cartwright. James Hall was in
the last car.
Wagons were in waiting. and the bodies
were taken to undertaking Establishments.
When the bodies were brou It up from the
mines they presented Il CHA jyappearance.
After the first lot Of bodies Ia been brought
out the excitement and anxiety grew more
intense.
1t was announced that many men had
come out o. the mine through an aban-
doned entry nearly three miles distant.
This allayed the fears OF many, and as fast
as the men were accounted for to their
friends and families rejoicings and con-
gratulations followed
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Train Wreck in Wisconsin,.

A train wreck occurred Friday night near
White River, Wis. Harrison Fiflel was In
stantly killed, Walter Sharple fatally in
iured, and Tomas Jefferson and two tramps
miraculously escaped injury. All five were
riding in q box car from Mellen to Ashland.
The train broke in two, and in going down
grade the two ends came together. The
box car in which the men were riding was
in front Of the back part OF the train, and
1t was entirely demolished. Johnson,
Fiaeld and Sharple were all laborinS Aen
residing at Eau Claire. Fiileld had II vile
and three children. The other two men
are single.
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A Bomb Kills Two Men.

P1rrsBURG, Penn. (SpeciaD.-Captain
George J. Adams and Captain Charles
Miller, his assistant, were instantly killed
while conducting fireworks display and
reproduction OF the Manila battle on Ale
gheny River In front Of the Exposition
building Thursday night. The bomb ex-
ploded almost directly under the SKIN IN
which the men were working. Captain
Adams was a native OF New Orleans, and
had been engaged all summer at Atlantic
City giving fireworks displays and exhibi-
tions of deep sea diving,