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?iiiii mini un mimi M? tm PLANTER'S ? LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, X Augusta, GaL. PATSINTEEEST? * ON DEPOSITS I ACCOUNTS ? SOLICITED L.C.HAYNE, ? PRESIDENT. Chas. C. Howard, J CASHCEE. ?liiminiiiminiiimiK VOL. 70. i THE NATIONAL BANKT Sf AUGUSTA, GA. !L. O. HAYNE, President. ,M ? FRANK G. FORD, Cashier.! ! CAPITAL. .. ..$250,000 ? Surplus and Profits, ..$140,000 We shall be pleased to bare you opon an account with this Bank. Customers and correspond tn ts as ?aurtd of every courtesy and accommodation posit j ble under conservatlre. modern Banking methods. *iinmiiiiii nu i min II D, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1905. NO. ii. f ll I _ Last Act In The War I Curtain Go HISTORICAL PAPER'S CONTENTS | Mr. Witte Signed First and When All Had Done So Baron Bosen and Ba ron Komnra Exchanged Compli ments For the Two Misssions Kassian Mission Attends Thanks giving Service at Christ Episcopal Church-Rulers to Sign Copies Within 50 Days. Q^ Portsmouth, N. H., Special.-The treaty of Portsmouth was signed short . ly before 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the conference room of the navy general store at the navy yard. The -firing of a national salute of 19 guns was the signal which told the people, of Portsmouth, Kittery and Newcastle that the peace of Portsmouth was an accomplished fact, and the church bells in the three towns were soon pealing forth a joyful refrain. . For 47 minutes those outside the conference room anxiously awaited the signal. Suddenly an orderly dashed to the entrance of the peace building, and waved his hand to the gunner a few feet away and the opening shot of the salute rang out on the clear air of the soft September afternoon, pro claiming peace between Russia and Ja pan. , WITTE GRASPS KOMURA'S HAND. Up to the moment of signing the treaty, no word had broken the silence of the conference room. Throwing his pen aside, Mr. Witte, without a word, reached across the table and grapsecf Baron Komura's hand. His conferees followed and the Russian and Japanese delegates remained for a moment in silence, their right hands tightly clasp ed across the conference table. The war was over-Russia and Japan were once more friends. This simple ceremony rang through and deeply impressed the attaches and secretaries of the two missions, who, with the invited witnesses, had formed a large circle around the delegates sit ting at the table. Baron de Rosen was the first to break the; silence. Rising from his seat, the ?'. ambassador, looking at Baron Komura ami Mr. Takahira straight in the eye, - to hear to know that they came from his heart. He began by saying that he wished, on behalf of Mr. Witte, Rus sia's 'first plenipotentiary, and in his own-name, to say a few words. ROSEN'S EARNEST WORDS. "Wc have just signed," continued the ambassador, "an act which will have forever a place in the annals of his tory. As negotiators on behalf of tho empire of Russia, as well as the empire of Japan, we may with tranquil con science say that we have done all that was in our power in order to bring about the peace for which the whole civilized world was longing. We earn estly hope that friendly relations be tween the two empires will henceforth be firmly established and we trust that his excellency, Baron Komura, as Min ister of Foreign Affairs, and one "bf the leading statesmen of his country, will apply to the strengthening of these re lations, the wide experience and wise statesmanship he so conspicuously dis played during these negotiations, which have now been so auspiciously con cluded.'* BARON KOMURA'S RESPONSE. Baron Komura replied that he shared entirely the views of Baron de Rosen. The Treaty of Portsmouth which they had just signed, he said, was in the interest of humanity and civilization and he was happy to believe that it would bring about a firm, lasting peace between the two neighboring empires. He begged to assure the Russian pleni potentiaries that it would be his duty as well as his pleasure to do everything in his power to make the treaty in fact what it professes to be in words-a treaty of peace and amity. Portsmouth, N. H., Special.-The peace opens with a preamble reciting that his majesty, the Emperor and au tocrat of all the Russians, and his maj esty, the Emperor of Japan, desiring to close the war now subsisting be tween them and having appointed their respective plenipotentiaries and fur nished them with full powers, which were found to be in form, have come to an agreement on a treaty of peace and arranged as follows: Article 1 stipulates for the establish Cancasus in Wild Panic. Baku, By Cable.-Troops under the direction of the Governor are acting with the utmost vigor^ but they haye not succeeded in restoring order, al thought there is rather less firing. Armed rioters attacked the oil works in the suburb of Balakhan, and after a hot fi?ht set fire to them. Tartar bands are scouring the country, mur dering and pillaging. The country is in a state of wild panic, and houses and farms are being abandoned. Ute Inland Waterway. ^Washington, Special.-The engineer ing board, designated by the Secretary of War to make a new survey of the proposed inland waterway, will visit Norfolk and North Carolina points In October for the purpose of hold ing hearings, so that the best opinions of the people with reference to se lection of a route can bc secured. This information was obtained by Repre sentative Small, who called at the War Department and 'conferred with Cc:. Smita Leach, the president of this hc^rJ. ' " ?rama Closed And The es Down ment of peace and friendship between the sovereigns of the two empires and between the subjects of Russia and Ja pan, respectively. Article 2.-His majesty, the Emperor of Russia, recognizes the preponderant interest from political, military and economical points of view of Japan in the empire of Korea and stipulates that Russia will not oppose any meas ures for its government, protection or control that Japan will deem necessary to take In Korea in conjunction with the Korean government, but Russian subjects and Russian enterprises are to enjoy the same status as the sub jects and enterprises of other coun tries* Article 3-It Is mutually agreed that the territory of Manchuria be simul taneously evacuated by both Russian and Japanese trc2>ps\ Both countries are concern" J la this ?xacuation, their situations b?ifig absolutely identical. All rights acquired by private persons and companies shall remain intact. Article 4.-The rights possessed by i conformity with the lease by Russia of Port Author and Dalny, together with the lands and waters adjacent, shall ! pass over in their entirety to Japan, but the properties and the rights of Russians subjects are eo be safeguard ed and resnected. Article 5.-The governments of Rus sia and Japan engage themselves recip rocally not to put any obstacles to the general measures (Which shall be alike for all nations) that China may take for the development of the commerce and industry of Manchuria. Article 6.-The Manchurian Railway shall be operated jointly between Rus- I sia and Japan at Kouang-Tcheng-Tse. The two branch lines shall be operated J only for commercial and industrial pur-3 poses. In view of Russia keeping her j 1 branch line with all rights acquired by her convention with China for the con struction of that Railway, Japan ac? quires the mines In connection with such branch line which falls to her However, the rights cf private pparties or private enterprises are to be respec ted. Both parties to this treaty remain absolutely frree to ur iertake what they deem fit on ex-proprio ^.1 ?round. Article 7-Russia and Japan engage themselves to make a conjunction of the two branch lines whicb they own at Kouang-Tcheng-Tse. i Article 8.-It is agreed that the branch lines of the Manchuria Rail way shall be worked with a view' to assure commercial traffic between ihem^i&o.u.t:;,^ Article 9.-Russia cedes to .Japan the southern part of Sakhalin Island as far north as the fiftieth degree of north latitude, together with the is lands depending thereon. The right of free navigation is assured in the. bays of La Perouse and Tartare. Article 10.-This article recites the situation of the Russian subjects on the southern part of Sakhalin Island and stipulates that Russian colonists there shall be free and shall have the right to remain without changing their nationality. Per contra, the Japanese government shall have the right to force Russian convicts to leave the territory which is ceded to her. Article ll.-Russia engages herself to make an agreement with Japan giving to Japanese subjects the right to fish in Russian territorial waters of the Sea of Japan, the coast of Okhotsk and Behring Sea. Article 12.-The two high contract ing parties engage themselves to re new the commercial treaty existing between the two governments prior to the war, in all its vigor, with slight modifications in details and with a most favored nation clause. Article 13.-Russia and Japan recip rocally engage to restitute their pris oners of war on paying the real cost of keeping the same, such claim for cost to be supported by documents. Article 14.-This peace treaty shall be drawn up in two languages, French and English, the French text being ev idence for the Russians and the Eng lish text for the Japanese. In case of difficulty of interpretation, the French document to be final evidence. J Article 15.-The ratification of this treaty shall be countersigned by the sovereigns of the two States within J fifty days after its signature. The j French and American embassies shall be intermediaries between the Japan ese and Russian governments to an nounce by telegraph the ratification of the treaty. The additional articles are agreed to as follows: Article One.-The evacuation of Manchuria by both armies shall be completed within eighteen months from, the signing of the treaty, begin ning with the retirement of troops of the first line. At the expiration of the eighteen months the *two parties will only be able to leave as guards of the railway fifteen soldiers per kilo metre. Article Two.-The boundary which limits the parts owned respectively by Russia and Japan in the Sakhalin Is land shall be definitely marked off on the spot by a special limitographic C?rnrpjssiOO. Dr. Rice Named. Columbia, S. C., Special.-The exe cutive committee of the Columbia Theological seminary has been in ses sion here all day in an effort to elect a president of the institution. They did this indirectly only, having recom mended to the trustees that Dr. Ther on H. Rice, of Atlanta, be given a po sition. He was leader in the movement to have the seminary moved from Co lumbia and consolidated with the Clarksville university into a big Pres byterian university at Atlanta. Public Printer Ousted. Washington, Special-Public Printer F. W. Palmer practically has been ousted from office. It was learned au thoritatively that President Roosevelt has demanded Mr. Palmer's resigna tion to take effect on the 15th instant. The demand of the President for Mr. Palmer's resignation was due prima rily to the latter's action in trying to force Oscar J. Ricketts and L. C. Hay out of the Government Printing Office. ?Ir. Palmer asked for the resignation of Rockettg and Hay on the ground that they had been Insubordinate. SOUTH,CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN Weather Conditions Given Out by the Department Observer. The South Carolina section of the climate and crop service of the De partment of Agriculture issues the following official bulletin of weather and .crop conditions for the past week.' . The week ending Monday, Septem ber 4th began with very cool weather but the warmth increased to above normal by its close, making the av erage temperature for the week about normal. The extremes were a- max imum of 98 degrees at Blackville and Florence on September 1st and 2nd and a minimum of 50 degrees at Greenville on August 29th and 30th. The week was generally clear with increasing cloudiness during the last two days. The relative humidity was uniformly lew. Over the greater portion of the State there was no rain" during the week, and in places the ground is be coming dry and the need of moisture is indicated, esepcially in the coast truck districts; showers were general, though mostly light, over the western half of the State beginning on the night of the 1st and continuing to the close; there were also rains in the eastern tier of counties with oc cassional heavy showers. On the whole, the weather was favorable for general fe rm work, es pecially for haying and saving fodder and for picking cotton. In localities where the soil has been too wet here tofore it dried sufficiently to permit gardening, and plowing. Some oats have been sown in the central coun ties. ? Cotton continues to deteriorate on sandy lands owing to rust and ex cessive shedding, so that practically the plants have ceased to grow or fruit and nearly all the top crop has dropped off; on clay lands the condi tions are better, but rust has ap peared in places. On sandy lands cotton opened rapidly, and picking made rapid progress over the eastern and central counties and will be gen eral over the western ones during the coming week. On clay lands it is just beginning to open freely. Catter pil lars continue numerous on sea-island Tobacco curing is finished. Rice harvest is underway and some has been thrashed. Peas and sweet po tatoes are doing well. Pastures con tinue good. Strawberrie plants be ing set out. Fall truck being planted extensively in the coast districts but the soil is too dry for favorable ger mination.-J. W. Bauer, Section Di rector. Colleton Prisoners Try to Break Jail. Walterboro, Special. - Thursday night there came near being another successful jail delivery here. Some time ago six young white men from the vicinity of Green Pond and Young's Island were committed to jail for breaking into and "stealing, from some freight cars near Green Pond. A report of this has already been published, also the report of an attempt by these six young men to break out of jail. Their escape was prevented by the timely discovery of the sheriff. South Carolina Items. President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton Association will be in Bennettsville on September 12, and will address the cotton growers of Marlboro in the court house on that clay. President Smith and Treasurer Hyatt of the State associa tion will also be here at the same time. Jordan and Smith will address a big cotton growers' rally at Max ton, N. C., on the 9th. H. W. Holloway, a special agent employed by the comptroller general, went to Leesville recently to inves tigate the buming of the house of Henry Montz last March. As a re sult two white men were ar?sted their names being John and William Tay lor. The prospect for a large enroll ment at the fall session of Converse College, which begins September 20th are very bright, and President Pell, from the information in hand, is sure that the number oi new students will be unusually large. Fire broke out at an early hour Tuesday in an outbuilding on the Union county poor house farm. The barn and stables, three mules, a lot of corn and a quantity of provender were consumed. ? The origin of the fire is thought to have been acciden tal. The value o* the property des troyed is estimated at $850, with in surance of $350. Adam Wilkes, a negro man, was brought to Spartanburg charged with the serious crime of criminally As saulting a colored girl, Ivy Choice, aged eight years. His case was in vestigated in Magistrate Kirby's court and he was bound over to ses sions court. The evidence against Wilkes was very damaging. There is no longer any question of the Tenni~see Normal Colleg e, of i he Baptist denomination^ and ils fu ture. 370 REPORT Shock Before Have Comple iages and Wro of Life and Pro ern Extremity of Rome, By Cable.-& f?ring from terrible a c?use of the news froi where one of tho worst ever experienced occurred though the earthquake was er Calabria and to a certaj in Sicily, the worst news ca Pizzo ?nd Monteleone and f eighteen villages, which are s have been completely destroyed, cording to the latest news rece 370 persons have been tilled atiu great number injured. It is as y impossible to even estimate the pro erty losses. The shock was felt at 2.55 o'clock Friday morning. It lasted for tigh-^ teen seconds at Catanzaro and soon thereafter was felt at Messina, Rem gino, Monteleone, Martirano, Sl.efac-. oni, Picpio, Triparli, Zmararo, Cessan iti, Naida, Olivani and other points. Scenes of indescribable terror en sued. "Women, aroused from their sleep, rushed half clothed into :he streets, screaming with fear, carrying their babies and dragging aloag their other children, and calling for help on the madonna and the saints. The men escaped into the open with theil families, all caning on their iivorite saints for protection. The cafe-3 wore taken by assault by the strangely garbed crowd, but as daylight broke, without a repetition of the earthquake the crowd gradually melted away un til by 8 o'clock the streets had al most assumed their normal appear ance except in the ruined villages, where the inhabitants had no homes to. go to. The general confusion was added to by dreadful cries from the jails, where the prisoners were be side themselves with fright and in some cases mutinied, but fortunately all the prisoners were kept within; bounds. Troops, engineers and doctors have been hurried to the scenes of theic]!^ aster to assist in the work of rescue and salvage. The Ministry of the In terior sent ?4,000 for the relief; bf tho. destitute, and the Minister of Public. Works left for ?alabriajjfcthe evenuigi Public Printer Palmer Dismissed." Oyster Bay, N. Y., Special.-Presi dent Roosevelt took summary action in the case of Frank W. Palmer.Public Printer and head of the Government Printing 0..ce at Washington. Last Monday the President directed Mr. Palmer to send him his resignation to take effect on the 18th instant. At the same time he directed him not to take any further action in the case of Oscar J. Ricketts, foreman of printing, and L. C. Hay, a division forma.n, in the Government Printing Office, whose resignations Mr. Palmer had re quested. In direct disobedience .of the Presi dent's instructions. Mr. Palmer on the 5th instant, notified Ricketts and Hay that'the time which they might have in which lo answer his charges would be extended until Saturday, Hie 9th in stant. As this was a violation of the President's specific instructions, and as the case of Ricketts and Hay had been placed in the hands of the Keep com mission for investigation, the" Presi dent felt it was time to take positive action regarding Mr. Palmer. He there fore removed him from office by tele graph and directed him to turn over the Government Printing Office to Foreman Ricketts, whom he has desig nated as acting Public Printer. Stranded Vessel Sighted. Norfolk, Va., Special.-The steamer Aragon, lumber laden from George town, S. C., to New York via Norfolk, which stranded two miles south of False Cape, on the Virginia coast. The Aragon and the lumber-laden, barge Saxon, which went ashore with the steamer but was subsequently floated, arrived here this afternoon apparently uninjured. Asheville Slayer Arrested. Asheville, N. C., Special.-Floyd E. James .was arrested Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock by Patrolman James on a warrant charging him with the mur der of James Dougherty, last Sunday night, August 27. Mr. James was placed under arrest while at work, a short distance from his residence, and brought to the city hall. He was in conference with attorneys relating to the conduct of his case and at the con clusion of this conference a prelimi nary hearing will be had. When ar rested Mr. James declared that he was an innocent man and that he regretted the arrest more on his wife's account than on his own. Atlanta Patient Dead. Atlanta, Special. - Atlanta's only yellow fever case resulted fatally shortly after noon Tuesday. The pa tient, J. C. Caruthers, who arrived from Pensacola last Friday and whe was sent to the detention hospital several miles from the city, died after an attack of yellow fever cf a pro nounced type. No other cases have reached here and none is expected with the vigorous precautions that have been taken to exclude even sus picious cases from outside points. Shot by State Senator. Charleston, S. C., Special.-A special from Saluda, S. C., says that Joe Ben Coleman, a well-known citizen of that town, was shot and it is believed fa tally injured, by State Senator E. S. Biease. The encounter was on the main street and Coleman received four wounds. Biease surrendered- to- the Sheriff. No further particulars are known here. Mr. Biease is a brothel to Senator Cole L, Biease, who figures so prominently in the dispensary in veetigat'on. tie ia Senator of New 1 ?..ry ano the other Senator from. Sa lada, adjoining counties. . FMJfcliU AITAIKS Many Newsy ?tems Gathered From ali Sectionst. .? , General Gottori Market; Galveston, quiet .< ?4 i 1 .i * I?O 5-16 New Orleans, quiet;;;* .. ..10y8 Mobile, easy..; . 4 ;. <.10 Sajtt^ah, dull and easy ; ; .. ; 10 1-16 ChWepbn, quiet. 4 .. a a .10 Ncgfollc^ steady. ; 44 44 n 44..IO14 Baltimore; nominal. ; , ; .. 10% N?jv York, quiet.. 44 44/44 ..10.70 B?S?On, quiet_ ;; 4,4 10.70 Philadelphia, quiet.. .. ..10.95 Houston, steady. .. ..?O1/^ Augusta, steady...10 3-1G Meinphis, quiet.. .4.10y8 St.'LOUIS, quiet; ; ;i ;i ?, ti . . 10% Louisville, finn .,*.. .. .. .,..10% Charlotte Cotton Market. These figures represent prices paid tm wagons : Grood middling. ? .4 44 44 44 4.10% Strict middling. 4 4 4 44 44 ; .10% Middling.. .; 44 44 .; ;4 -..10% tinges.j; ..9 to 10 Brills. ..'.7 to 9 wk Dispensary Investigation, ^?jmter, Special;-Thc special com to investigate ihe dispensary l?up the work herc last week. The igBiser at this point was supposed model of accuracy and hones developed that his admin ;is(?MLhas been far from perfect. ThiSpHi1011^' went io s^ow tIiat ^e ta^9-/ ~*m- D?en carried out in many paxt?'i? That feature requiring the ?flHfl^ request blanks lias been enfirelwfflm0'^ and there seems to haye/bSlftp or less "graft" in the selling <yfflHLes an(l c:ises, amount ing.to sc?EH?:i|) 10 ?f?PO per yeal-. While theTslRittec failed to un earth , anytll^?l,ositivel.V startling, enough wasTBfct 01i1' to show that the institutioj^K ,JGCn conducted without properH?'il to the law, and this in the ?'aecw8w?e fact that both the county boar^Hftthc Si ale board have been notif??^V stlch was the case. On ThursdBwfternoon the committee tole a rls& 1 An AtrocioulHfflLm?; ^Johnston, Special.-5?padgett, a mulatto, was arrested wiP Chief of Ptjjice Derrick as the foimcVvas at tempting to leave the city on the ear strain. Padgett is charged w^h ai^asault on a young white ?$Y who ?es .-near here. The assault iceur redv,on..last Monday and Pad?L% has :hejjiin hiding since. After thewest Ji?^w?s, immediately carried to L;oe iM^?m?M is reported will be carried ^i^F^Pu^?iav'^The' crime is ^--ve'sj-J '?trici??'l 'oh?. The girl belongs to a highly/respected family. Expres sions of lynching are freely indulged in, and Padgett would suffer violence if oportunity offered. It is said he made a similar attempt on another victim a few years ago. Escaped From the Gang. Laurens, Special.-Joe Harris, a two-year convict, broke his chains wihle at the camp alone Tuesday af ternoon and, taking one ol.' the mules belonging to the county, made his es cape from the county cbningaiig. He was sick and had been left at the camp, which is located about five miles northeast of Hie city, securely chained, as the guard thought. He was captured six miles below (own by Messrs. Milam and Morris, of Lisbon. He had traveled about 12 or ll miles and when captured had divested him self of his shackles. He had also abandoned the mule and was evident ly making his way hack to Greenville .or Edgefield, whence he came a .little over a year ago. After escaping Tues day he broke into a negro woman's house and stole a quantity of meat and canned fruits, etc. Charged With Bigamy. Anderson, Special.-AVill Rowland, a mill operative, has been lodged in jail on a charge of bigamy. Both of his aleged wives are living in this county, and it was upon a warrant taken out by his second mother-in-law that he was arrested at Toccoa, Ga., and brought back to this city. He will probably be tried for his offense at the approaching tenn of thc sessions court. Chester To Vote On the Dispensary. Chester, Special.-This county is to be canvassed early and thoroughly for the purpose of securing signa tures to petitions asking for an elec tion at as early a day as may be deem ed best on the question of "dispen sary" or "no dispensary." A com mittee of one from each of thc eight townships has the matter in charge. That committee is composed as fol lows: L. D. Childs, Geo. W. Byers, H. T. Boyd, W. S. Durham, T. 13. McKeown, J. M. Hollis and J. M. JSoulwar?. Palmetto Items. Postmaster Wilson says Florence will soon have free delivery, in fact before she hardly knows it if receipts keep runing up. The receipts for July were $250 more this year than they were for the same month last, year. The Union county dispensary and. all the stock on hand in the same has been placed in the hands of thc sher iff of the county. *p.Tojpji mug puo uospjuqoi^i 'H "AV 'nuanna ? siflifo, 'ipOd*d? .ooo 'tpoajQ "H 3inu.T? :oxe S.TO;CIOCI -IOO oqj; 'C00'e$ Va pazrrc?iduo '?nuc? -U20?) QSnoipXC^ (SJ3UI.IT!J ][OAiU.H3g[ et? o^ ponsst SUAI. UOTSSTCDUIOD y .s.Totfto puu noxrtf i 'spnrjj 'pf 'uoipjnoopi nSivrj O.TB s.io)iuo<lioo atjx "OOO'Soi}; Vs 113 P07!l -ujicluD '?uuduioQ Jjooig OAiq S.itiq -gmuT][?^ aq; o; uoissuuraoo v pans -St J[dd??. }SB[ e^S jp 4?JB^9,IDas 91$ vmm wm uui Not a Case of Graft But One of Par tiality and Favoritism PARTISANSHIP, NOT CORRUPTION Reason For the Summary Dismissal of Public Printer Palmer is Given by President Roosevelt. Oyster Bay, L. I., Special-President Roosevelt has made public the report of the Keep Commission on its recent investigation of affair? in the Govern ment Printing Office at Washington. The inouiry -?vas made by special di rection of the President on account of a protest which he had received from a protest which he had received from of ficials of the Mergenthaler Typesetting Machine Company against the award of a contract by Public Printer Frank W. Palmer to the Lanston Monotype Com pany for 72 mfichl?i?s of its make. The President decided, after an ex amination of the Keep report, that the contract for the Lanston machines should stand. The Keep commission reported that if the coniract could be set aside, "such a course would be ad visable;" although the commission states expressly that "?? corrupt con sideration, payment or prom lsd passed from the Lanston Monotype Company to the public printer or to any person in the government service." It was developed by the investiga tion, however, that two important as sistants of the public printed were in directly interested in the Laston Com pany, "their wives being stockholders therein." The commission shows that a fair and impartial test of the Lanston and Mergenthaler machines was not made, and reports that the purchase of so-large a number of Lanston machines was "improvident" and indicated "great partiality and blas on the part of the public printer." The commission re gards the purchase as "maladministra tion." Thc text of the s President's mem orandum upon the - port follows: ."Oyster Bay, Sept. 9, 1905. "The conclusion of the committee are hereby approved, save the latter part i of- conclusion first, It does not appear that there ie.any question as to the validity of the contract in question. If it had not been for the conduct of the Mergenthaler Comp?riy in preferring the charge discussed by the committee in conclusion two, that of corruption, I should agree with the committee that it would he desirable to set aside the contract, if euch course were legal. But second only to corruption in a public office in point of inquiry, comos making a baseless charge of corrupt?d?, and this is what the committee finds the Marganthaler Company .has done in part: " fla the light df tile failure of the company to produce evidence bf suva corruption, it must be held thai ?:ie charge was made recklessly and -....e Mergenthaler Company should be > verely condemned for Including suri a charge in a formal Communication ".o the president of the United Starr-s made as a basis for official action on his part. It is fair also to the Lanston Monetype Company to say that no evi dence was produced by the Mergen thaler Company, nor was any obtained hy the committee in the course of its hearing, tendlug to show any promise, payment or consideration of any kind whatsoever made by the Lanston Com pany, or any of its officers or agents, to any person in the government ser vice.' "Had noi; this charge of corruption been made I should have er" ?ly agreed with the conclusion 6? the com mittee that if it were possible (which it is not) ic would be desirable to can cel the contract in question. "Public Printer Palmer has been re moved from office. The cases of the subordinates alluded to in the report must be taken up in connection with the discipline and re-organization of the bureau when Mr. Palmer's suc cess or assumes office. "THEODRORE ROOSEVELT. Referring to the allegation that Os car J. Ricketts was the candidate of the Merganthaler Company for Public Printer, the report says: "Questions were asked of the Public Printer, Mr. Dove and General Mich ner, as to what grounds they had for thinking that the Mergenthaler Company was be hind Mr. Ricketts. The reasons given were of an unsubstantial character and it is only just to Mr. Ricketts to say that there is not in the evidence taken before this committee anything to show an illegitimate connection between Mr. Rockets and the Mergenthaler Com pany." Gomez on Parade. Santiago de Cuba, By Cable.-General Joseph Miguel Gomez, Governor of Santa Clara province and National Lib eral candidate for Presidency, and an escort of a thousand horsemen-entered the city Saturday morning and par raded. The Governor of this province and the maynr of the city, anticipat ing disorder, made elaborate police ar rangements, but these were found to be unnecessary as there were no start ing incidents. Governor Gomez was given a bliiliant reception at the San Carlos Club this afternoon and address ed a meeting at a theatre at night. Suburbs Unsafe. Tangier, Special.-Samuel R .Gum mere, the American Minister and a number of European inhabitants, have abandoned their residences in the r.ub urbs and removed to the center of the town at the request of the Moroccan authorities, who said they were unable to guarantee their security owing to disturbed condition of thc surrounding districts. Severe fighting continues between Raisuli's tribe and others. Millions For Lanc'i Act. London, By Cable.-Walter Hume Long, Chief Secretary of Ireland, an nounces that the Treasury has agced to provide additional funds amount ing to $1,000,000 before the end of the year, together with such an amount of stock during the year 190G as will produce $50,000,000 cash to facilitate the operations of the Irish land acl and to remedy the recent stoppage of vjrn of land through the inability to un. - rice the purchase moinney owing \q jack of funds. ~f , KJSWS? GLISAIS'IA'US. A Yankee circus was reported strand ed in Grenoble, France. New York bas a tenement with 475 persons, 300 of whom are children. The State railroads of Belgium now have a system of railroad hospitals. Portsmouth. England, has passed an c ordinance for thc suppression of cock crowing. The debt of France, including lhe debts of communes, amounts to about ?G,000,000,000. The losers in thc Provo (Utah) land drawing seem to be the ones who are getting the land. Leeds, England, has established a municipal department for the mainten ance of automobiles. A vast bed of coal has been discov ered at Baron Kofi Bay, at the extreme north end of Kamchatka. A street sign that amazes American visitors in Paris reads: "Butchery of Horse, Ass and Mule a Specialty^" The town of Seward, Alaska, has just been connected with the outside world by telegraphic communication. The Japanese have bought thirty seven steam turbines with electric generators from works at Schenectady; N. Y. Reports from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Indicate that the bridge over the Hud son River is to be repaired at a cost of $1,300,000. Another attempt is to be made to. bore the Rocky Mountain range west of Denver, Col., for a mining and rail way tunnel. A second steamer is about to be placed upon Lake Titicaca, which is 12,000 feet above sea level in the Andes of Peru. The remains of a big sea reptile, said to be the first of its kind known to scientists, have been dug out of the limestone in Humboldt County, Ne vada, and shipped to the University 4-T.YlNG JNAKE IN VIRGINIA. Reptile With Wings, That Fed on Birds, Killed in King George. A most remarkable and uncommon "flying snake" that was captured and killed at "Berry Plain," , the home of John S. Dickinson, a few days ago, has attracted wide attention. The curious reptile was first noticed flying about in the air, presenting the appearance of an ordinary snake at tached to a strange looking bird. As far as is known, it never once de scended to the earth and crawled on the ground, after the manner of snakes, but it would occasionally alight in trees and catc?? such birds as best suited its fancy. lt was finally killed and proved to be five feet long and about one inch in diameter of body. It had wings of good size, covered with feathers. "Berry Plain," where the curious thing made its advent and met its un timely end, is one of the finest planta tions in King George, being situated on the banks of the Rappahannock. It is conjectured by some that the "flying ^nakfil!-jnay.uhaYe,,.come from an im-., penetrajWmarsh of the fiver or some neighbefflfg creek.-New York Herald, ?Sorrow of China." (ow river is styled the "SorJj dna." During the las*--?!?^ tuij ^ unhanged its cour?^'twenty two times, an?naw?fl?tf*'S into the sea through a mouth 300 miles distant from that of 100 years ago. Wagons Large Shipments of the beat r juBt received. Our stock of fu is complete. A Large stock. COFFINS an always on hand. All call ly responded to. All goo gin of profit. Call to sj rr.oney.' _ GEO.P Johnston, W. J. Ruth MANUFAC3 AND.DE^ Cement, Plaster, Hair, Ready Roofing ai Write Us ] Corner Reynolds &nc Augusta, THIS SPACE I The . Leading Groce ARRINGT* .Xi. Typ COMP 839 I gj&TW. F. SAMPL H.H.SCOTT,;JR., of gd; ggtcj wantto see yoi?. LABOE WOHLD Steps are being taken to organize (lie workers in Tasmania The settlement of the miners' strike in Morris Hun, Fa.? lins been ratified. The Sydney ('S. S. W.i T.n bor Council has a union label for the State of New South Wales. New South Wales trade unionists are dissatisfied with the present State Arbitration act i Women are rapidly supplanting men as station agents on the railroads ruhr ning out of Chicago. Five men were killed and one se- - riously injured at a mine explosion at Kesltnn (Pa.? shaft. The Ipswich (Queensland) Mitti ici pal". Council has fixed the bricklayers^ wages at eight shillings per day. In Finland the women of the lower classes perform labor that in other . countries is usually assigned to men. About c?xty men are at present em ployed on the railway deviation works a' Alpha, Central Queensland, Austra lia. Windows glass workers' organiza tions of Pittsburg, Pa., reached au . agreement that will insure the consoli dation of the two unions. Although women are entering into the industrial field in increasing num bers, iu many industries they ure nude ly taking the place of children. At the closing session of the,Execu tive Council of the American Federa tion of Labor, held at Scranton, Pa., recently, the anthracite miners were urged to organize. In pursuing its campaign for tho , union label, the San Francisco Labor Council will issue a circular letter to every householder urging tho patron age of union label goods. The National Train Dispatchers' As- . soelation, in ron ven llouzj at" "Benver, Col., adopted resolution demanding the establishment of tho block systeih on every railway in the United States.v<. 'Women and Debt. Some wives drift into debt with aa much indifference as if they would ? never be required to meet their ob- ? ligations. Women who are thus rash anti improvident are certainly. weak-minded, and are laying the foundation for domestic trouble. The tempter tempts; the tradesman or mHliner is quite willing to trust them to any extent, or, if they will not, the butcher or baker will, and the ready money is spent on frivo lous trifles. A woman assure? her self by the flattering assurance that "I shall be sure to make it up some how." Things go fronTbacT to worse, until at last the husband has to be ' imiormied ti)p.t impatient ? creditors will wait no 'longer for their money. Then the dainty new bonnets1 and - dresses, which formerly seemed to him so pretty, appear only as super fluo'us finery. A wife who has once allowed herself to give way.to debt must exercise great vigilance upon . her actions, so as to avoid a repeti tion. It ls- so easy to give way, and in. families of limited income-such i?xtr?v?gan ce "Tu?y - mean. "ag convenience. oakes of wagons and buggies irniture and house furnishing? d CASKETS. s for our Hearse prompt >ds sold on a small triar se me, I will save you . COBB South Carolina. erf ord & Co. 'URERS OF I LL2R IN Fire Brick, Fire Clay, id other Material. ?or Prices. 1 Washington Streets, Georgia, S TAKEN BY irs of Augusta Ga.f DN BROS. im ANY, Broad ,E of Saluda County and. jefield ?punty are "yylth us