Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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OFFICIAI YEAR TOBE CHANGED. Cotton Crop is Put on Mar ket Earlier Each Year. Charlotte. July 2??.- The American Cotton Manufn -lurer will say ?ti ii i - sue t<?lay: Improved ruliuro method.-1 uv ouch Si-a son resp??! ...!>!?.. for mon- mot-. now crop eotii'ii hoing mariiolod in Au gu.-t. Tho c? nsus ! ur. au rhow: that up to the first of tu h.-..-. !'...?::. lhere wert- ginned 17.::<?'.? bales of new nop. Up to tho sanio <iaf<- in li'01 tho record stands ::-Y,-"" halos, windi was increased in tho season of I9U5 to 843 bales. A.s established by these figure:- tho crop is maturing earlier each your bringing into the statistics a hugo number of hales of new crop cot ton which are counted in tho old crop. To remedy this defect and adjust the record to altered conditions, it has been urged that the official year be changed to extend from August 1 to July 31. This plan was formally endorsed by the International Cotton Conference held in Washington on the second of May, and later by the American Cotton Manufac turers'! Association at its last conven tion. Secretary of Atfricultuae James Wilson and the active officials of the New York and New Orleans Cotton Exchanges have described the plan as a sensible one in communications ad dressed to C. P. Bryant, secretary of the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association. With practically every party at interest in favor of so desira ble a change it would seem that it ought to he made. Col. Henry G. Hester, secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, has s.gnificd an intention to issue his future reports as from August 1, as well as at present from September 1. He has figures for many years past, and will give these so that accurate compari sons can be made, thus obviating any posible confusion the trade might other wise labor under. The trade is also suffering from a flagrant evil which ought to be prompt ly remedied. A comparatively insigni ficantjstock of low grade cotton in New York warehouses amounting on Mon day last to only 93,520 bales is used to hammer futures and punish the mills. It must be clearly understood that while this cotton is deliverable on New York contracts it is mostly made up of grades so low as to be worthless to the average spinner. This has enabled the speculator to depress the price of fu tures until they commonly rule at a cent a pound below spots at interior the South. This is equivalent to one point in the South. This is equivalent to one and one-half cents a pound land ed in the mill warehouses. The manu facturer is then confronted with the necessity of selling his goods on the bar-is of "future" prices and on the pvher hand must perforce pay the 11-2 cents higher price for actual cotton when he enters the market. This is a condition which ought to have been altered long ago. A very simple remedy is advocated by the American Cotton Manufacturers' Asso ciation, it is proposed that instead of allowing almost any sort of trash to be delivered against a contract that the following rules shall govern: "Cotton to be of any grade from low middling to fair inclusive, and if tinged or Stained, not below low middling in value (fair color). "Price to be based on middling, with additions and deductions for other grades to be made according to rates of cotton exchange existing on the after noon of the day previous to the date of notice of delivery. "No certificates of classification to embrace qualities more than f our-quar ter grades above, or below, the mean grade of tho cotton covered in such, cer tificates. "No dusty or gin-cut cotton to be de liverable. Dusty cotton being defined as cotton being lessened in value more than one-eight cent by reason of dust. No.cotton containing more than one per cent of sand, or more than one per cent of burr, or more than one per cent of any other foreign substance, to be deliverable under this contract. "(No cotton to be deliverable under this contract unless 80 per cent of said cotton has a staple over 11-16 of an inch in length, as determined by the classi fication committee.") -ifNo linters shall deliverable under this contract." Such a contract would enable a spin ner to accept delivery of cotton on his purchases of futures and- ensure his getting spinable grades.* At the same time a most potent speculative weapon would be wrested from the hands of the professional market operator and the mills would haverth?ir positions mate rially strengthened. By pressing such I reforms the organization of manufac turers amply justifies its. existence. - Emperor Nicholas ia said to havo ?bown brighter spirits since tho dis solution of the psrlisment.. S We like best to ca? > > r> **aitfci/va > /< > * *oo4 because it stands no* ein* ! > i ? phat?oilly'?or perfect nutrition. \ > i >. And yet in the matter ol teste** -; j > < ? ing ?ppet?te, ol giving new i . .1 strength to the tissues, especially ? < K M > to th^ nerve^ its action is that < ? ? \ y oi a me4idn^^#^vp?^<p^ J ...J fe't?r^ i Dogs that Know French. "Oil, it's justa waste of breath to ] peak English to Bijou, for he doesn't , understand anything hut French," was j the statement made hy the owner of a beautiful Pomeranian to a guest who | ha<l been hying in vain to make friends j wkh the pet dog "I' her hostess. "In | lar!, we don't want him to hear Kng- ( li.<h spoken Tor fear he'll gel the two languages mixt -! and thal would ho a J pity, as hi understands French so per j fer'ly. "I suppose it /?ef?ii< ridiculous, hut I I kr ow at least a do/en pet dogs who . don't und<*r.stand a single word of Kng- ' lish, not a syllable. They know even thing that's said lo them in French, j lu '. the 'ninnie any one speaks'Ffiglish j t'iey assume the most bored expression j you ever saw on any dog's face. "You can order them all you like in English, all to no purpose. The poor little dears simply don't know what you're talking about, bm one command in French will reduce them to subjec tion in a second. " Just now in New York the French understanding dog is much sought after. Holding a beautiful spaniel on her lap, a pet dog enthusiast explained the other day why French was the accepted lan guage of the thoroughly smart dog world. "We have three dogs in our family, and not one of them understands a word of English, " she said. "This may seem strange, but when you consider how marjy New York families spend several months each year on the continent, traveling with French chauffeurs, French maids, French governesses for the children, you can readily understand how easily French becomes the adopted language of the household. In fact, if you listen to the groups of children on their way to school in the morning with their governesses, you'll find that twice as much french as English is spoken. I've noticed it myself many a morning on 5th avenue, when I've accompanied the dogs and the children to school. "Consequent, the dogs don't hear much else spoken but French and that's why when English is spoken in their presence it makes absolutely no impres sion upon them. Our dogs are with the children or myself constantly. They walk and drive with us. "In the- nursery the children include the dogs in all their little games. These are in French and the dogs un-1 derstand every word that's said. I've seen the tchildren play the same games in English, but the dogs absolutely re fuse to take part in the performance. It's funny, but it's true."-New York Sun. -? ? o Fought The Whole Glass. Many years' agc a. "plebe" at the naval academy astonished an upper I class man by going to him and an-, nouncing, "See here, I don't like the way my class is being treated,. " The upper claBS man was nearly surprised out of his wits, but, recovering from his Btupor (and only one who knows the full meaning of '-rate" among the midshipman can have a correct appre ciation of what ' that, announcement from a "plebe" to a upper class man carried,) the "rating" demanded, "Middleahipman, do you want to fight?" "That's what I am looking for." The fight WEB arranged and the "plebe" whipped the man, says the New York Herald. Then another youngster was supplied, and went the way of the first, and so on until a ! half dozen had been discomfited. Sometimes several fights would follow in succession, when the "plebe" would say: "Gentlemen, I am tired now. I'll see you again another day." The academy authorities found out -what was in progress and sent for the "plebe" and then before official au thority, he announced, "I can whip the whole class." It turned out that the "plebe" had been a prizefighter before entering the academy. Might Bo Too Late. This late Dr. Eordman used to relate thi'j on himself: " I preached a funeral sermon at one time, and spoke longer; than was my custom. "The undertaker was a man of nervous temperament., ?nd as the afternoon was going he began to be anxious to be on the way to the ceme tery. He finally whispered to one of my members: 'Does your minister al ways preach as long as that at fu nerals?' * " 'Well,' said the brother, 'that is a good sermon.' -, v " 'Yes,' said the undertaker^ 'the sermon is all right, and I helievenn the resurrection; but I'm afraid if he does not stop pretty soon ? wiii not get this man buried in time.* "-Chicago Inter Ocean. i- m mm i lt was not Crape After all. A New York man was talking about Opie Read, author and journalist. "Read, yo- know," he said, ''edited the Arkarra w Traveler for ten years or more. They say that in the. sj&hg .of 1885 a reporter for the Traveler died. He was a fine young chap. ? visitar to the office the day after1 tho ?tnenJ found the editor and his staff talking about their loss disconsolately. f "?It has 'hean a, ead lev friends,? the visitor saki; 'a sad loas indeed.' He atghed and looked about the roomu 'And I arr. pleased A see, ' he went on 'that you commemorate the melancholy even hy hanging 'up crape.* * 4 *Opie Read frowned. ^ 'V'?rupe?\he sakV 'W$e*? do you ase any crape?* T ?"Over there/-sat? the vfokor,^ point ing. . ' ,v .. ? ;:,;>.?- . !'. ^*CrapVibe ?'-^ Read. .That' isn't crape; it*? the office ibw cll'.V^wYork'Ttm^: -* Negro Brute Shot to Death. Atlanta. Aug. 1. - Floyd Carmichael, a negro 22 years of age, who was iden tified by Miss Annie Poole of Lake wood, a suburb of Atlanta, as the man who assaulted her early yesterday morning was shot in front of the Poole residence in sight of his victim yester day afternoon hy a posse which cap ture*] him. After Iho : hooting lhere was erie*? af "burn him," hut (he county police in terf- n <!. Mis Poole, when returning from a vi. i: til ::> ighhors was attacked hy the negro anti choked into unconsciousness. Winn thc alarm was given a posse quickly formed, hot til?1 negro was not ca j ?I1.ired until late this afternoon, when ho was hrought into her presence*. She cried, "That's him." A volley of shots quickly followed, killing the negro. - . - Squire Ila nett s Ancestry. Squire Barrett, was a number of years ago a well-known practitioner at the Hampden county har. He was eccen tric, especially about his dress, but un derneath a rough exterior he was known to he deeply read and a brilliant scholar. His wife was given more to the frivolities of life than to books, her fad at one time was the family genealogy. Then she 'Studied hard. One day a friend met Squire Barrett and said, "Well, how goes the wife's family tree?" "Oh, her tree is all right," said the squire, with a twinkle in his eye, "but when she began on mine she had trou ble." "What was the matter?" asked the friend. "Well, you see, about the first thing she struck in my genealogy was a Hud son river pirate, and she decided to let him rest for fear something worse might turn up. " - Boston Herald. An Opinion of Justice Marshall. Once as John Marshall, chief justice, was travelling toward Raleigh, N. C., in a stick gig his horse went off the road and ran over a sapling, so tilting the vehicle that it could move neither to the right nor to the left. As the judge sat thinking up a way out of the dilemma an old negro came along. "Old martter," said he, "what for you don't back your norse?" The jurist thanked him for the sug gestion, backed the horse and, promis ing to leave a dollar at the inn for the good advice, went on his way. The negro called at the inn and found the dollar awaiting him. He took it, look ed at it and said: j "He was a gemman for sho', but"- \ tapping his forehead significantly-"he didn't have much in here."-World's Work. - Pays to Advertise. When the teacher was absent from the school-room Billy, the mischievous I boy of the class, wrote on the black board, "Billy Jones can hug the giris better than any boy in school." Upon her return the teacher called him up to her desk. "William, did you write that?" Bhe asked, pointing to the blackboard. "Yes, mVaW' said Billy. "WelL you may stay af ter school," said she> "as punishment. " The other pupils waited for Billy to come out, and then tluiv began guying him. "Got a lickhY, didn't you?" "Nope," said Billy. "Got jawed?" ' "Nope." "What did she do?" they asked.. "Shan't tell," said Billy, "but it pays to advertise."-Ladies' Home Journal. '*v * . ' ^ Brief and to the Point A postmaster general or some one in his office at Washington once wrote to che postmaster of some little station on the Tombigbee river: "You wflf please inform this department how far the Tombigbee river runs up, " to which the postmaster answered:. "I have the honor to inform the department that the Tombigbee river don't run up at all; it runs down." In due course of mail came another communication: "On receipt of this letter your appt- nt rriont aa postmaster will cease, \ Mr. -has been appointed as your suc cessor," to which went the following reply: "The receipts.during the last year have been $4.37 and the office rent more than double that sum. Please so kindly instruct my succesaor to pay me th'j balance and oblige." . J: - ? ' ? ; ? j? ? -i ? ? ? ; A Gibraltar Legend. . Ono of tho stock of anoient legends relating to the reek Of Gibraltar rar lates' how a young Sootoh subaltern waa on guard duty with a brother of* fioer wheo the latter in visiting the sentries fell over a preoipiee' and waa killed. When the survivor was reliev ed from duty be mide the c&stomar.? Written report In tba usual' form, "Nothing extraordinary." Ami this brought the brigade major down upon* bim io a rtge. .'Whatl #^en you? brotherietoe?r^ en ?fttar with yott j&? fidleHp4V? preoipiee 400 feet high' std been killed you report notniag ea? tea?rdi?ary ? 1 ?> "Wee!, e?r,V ?epHe? the Scotch calmly, I diena think there's anything estraomery in it, ava. If he had fa'etf doon lour hundred foe* and ho**<? been killed-weel, I should ^hae' ?a'd that extraoraary?" . - .The Georgia' Su p tem o cc urt h as denied the motion ; for a new trial for Jesse and Milloo Rawlings. '; Could Tell it Another Way. Many years agc and old and well to do fanner in Western New York had eomethiug of a reputation as a litigant. Ho had a peculiar twist about his .jouth when he talked duo to some muscular affection, which ?ave a strik ing effect to his utterances. His old neighbors tell of a trip that he made lo sec his lawyer on a certain occasion when he made up his mind to have a lawsuit. He sat down with his law yer, ond laid out Ina caso before him at length. Hut the lawyer said, "Well on that Htatcment you haven't any case." The old mau hitched his trou sers nervously, twitched his face and hastily repliti: "Well I eau tell it another way."-Case and Comment. His Blooming Mistake. A countryman of Goethe recently gave sn instance of tho difficulty a for eigner baa with the English language He was invited to dinner soon after his arrival io England and was saying something in a very pleasant way and made usc of the following expression: "Will you have the blooming kind ness to," etc. He used-it ia the senuo that the word "blooming" is used in German, us being something very charming and beautiful, little knowing what havoc slang has played with the word in England. He was absolutely at a loss to understand why everybody was so utterly horrified at what be thought was an cntrcmely nice expr?s I sion.-London Express. A Substitute. Little Helen, aged 4, was io a frightful predicament. The , nurse, carrying the cherished 2-weeks-old baby up and down before the house, had paused to show the new infant to the Bishop, wbo had asked to look at it. And then the tall, grave Bishop of whom Helen stood greatly in awe, had unexpectedly asked the little girl to give him the baby. How ia the world to refuse a request made by such an awe-inspiring person as the Bishop the ohild did not know. Bat presently she wrinkled her small countenance shrewly, uiuyed cloner to the petitioner, and said, ingratiating ly, "I'll let you have the next.' He Was Real industrious. The Snooess Magazine relates a Btory of two Washington negroes, who meet |,ing io the street,fell into a discussion of the peculiarities of a mata! friend ?Said one: "What kind o' pusBon is dat man,* anyhow? Seems to me he never do no work." "Oh, he is industrious, all right/' promptly responded the seaond negro, "even ht be don't du* coibin' hi?se?f. Why, only las' week dat man spent two whole days tryin to get his wife a job. -. Hp ? + - n M A Saved Situation. Tho rising artist was painting in his studio when a visitor entered leading a dog. The animal at once co nmenc ed barking furiously at the picture on the easel. "Oh," said the oaller, 4*you follow nature closely. The' best ovid once of the faithfulness with whioh you have painted that dog in the background is the earnest way my dog barks at him. "But that isn't a dog," wag the re-, ply. "It's a cow.' . J : It waB a terrible situation, but the visitor did not lose, his head. Said he languidly: \ "Woll. the dog'? eyes are better than mine. He always did detest OOWB." . -: . --i---?ti? -, -7 Secretary Bonaparte ia meoh pleased with tho perform ance of the Dolphin's gunners. ?? A A A A A AA M - Tho Irish laborers' cottage bill assed the ootnmitte stage io the Brit sh house of lords after several amend ants against the government bad teen carried by largo majorities. - A speoial term of court bas been ailed in Barbourville, Ky., next Mon ay to try the negro acoused of inurder ng Mrs. Broughton. Troops will be n guard to prevent lynching. - William II. Belcher, fo;mcr inay r of Caterson, N. J., who has been a agi ti vc for the past year under charges f embezzlement, returned to Paterson ud surrendered. Ho declared he had io means -ind was forced to give him elf up. George L. Meyer, ambassador to Bas ia, it is said, will shortly .succeed Charles ?J. Bonaparte as secretary of he navy. Mr. Bonaparte will sue ieed Attorney General Moody, who is o retire from President Boosevelt's labiaec to resume his law practice. - A boiler at the plant of the Yin tonnes Paper mills Company, Vinoen- I ?es, Ind., exploded killing two men md injuring several other persons. - John Lawrence Toole, the Eng ?sh comedian who, when a clerk in a vine house, was advised by Charles Dickens to adopt the stage as a pro fession, is dead at Brighton, Eog. ?- Emperor William has ordered an investigation of Maj. Fischer, who is infused of getting graft on South Af rican army supply contracts._ The Dodging' Period of a woman's life ls the name often given to *4 change of life." Your menses come at long Intervals, and grow scantier until they slop. The change lasts three or four years, and causes much pain and suffering, which can, however, ba cured, by taking Woisan's Refuge In Distress It quickly relieves the pain, nerv? oucness, irritability ,\ miserableness, fainting, dizziness, hot and cold flashes, weakness, tired feeling, etc. Cardul will bring you safely through this "dodging pertoS," and build up your strength for the rest of your Ufe. Try it. You can get lt at. all druggists in $1.00 bottles. . "EVERYTHING BUT DEATH I suflcredA" Write? Virginia Robion.of Ea?f? i cn, md.. ' un?ii ? r?uW C?uu?, >.'..ic?~. cu. I we ?o quickly lt surprised my doctor, who ' dldn'tknow 1 vkauktngjt." . Collage of Charleston, Charleston, 8. C. v- J Entrance examinations will be held ii* the County Court House on Friday, July 6 at9 a.ro. One Free Tnltlon Scholar ?hip to each county bf South Carolina awarded bv the County Supt. of Educa tion and Judge of Probate Board aap furniahed room In . DrVrmitoxy, ' SH a month. All candidates for admission1 are permitted- to competo for ..vaoanfc Boyce . Scholarships, which pay 8100 U? year, for catalogue and information address HA. RBIS ON RANDOLPH, Pres. : sp<s WHISKEY HAfirra : cared at home wi th ou t pai& Bool: of Mj> ticuiara ?cut ?ittKK? mn, M. WOOLLEY, M. o. Office IMN. Pryor Street. J I.? SHERARD, ' AHDEBSO??, s. C. I Office over Post Office Building Money to lend on Real Estate tm *_B?55s553BS* THE DOOR IS OPEN At this Mill the year round for those *i who have Lumber business. ismess With us means selling Al Lumber at bed-rock prices. With you Lumber business means buy ing the best at the best prices. Hero is where that can be done. Our facilities enable us to fa vor all buyers. :::::::: CET YOUR LUMBER AT OUR YARDS 2 We have men on the yard who make it their bus iness to see that you get what you want. : : : Rush orders receive immediate attention. WME M WMMMMMA'ff?. FRUIT PRESERVING POWDER. ^ "EVANS." Nothing like it on the market. It preserves Vegetables, Fruits, Jellies, and is not ions; Evana'Liver and Kidney Fills are still 25c. We hain't idvanced the price. D. S. VANDrVKR, JB. P. VAirorVBB. Armour s Guano ?t?dt Acid the year roun?. ftaple ^ the qiMty to bring you hack A J????1M iiiHii Sm---; WE ARE KOWPR?t?lBt> TO; fe.: ' m Office over Atkinson'e Brng Store.; ? . ? 'ii' fag gift |E?'B2S ? #a 9 ' ? ' ?' ' 'i*' ? '1 ' ... . '. . df*' ^ffS CONFIDENCE" ?? the greatest ele TK ' S^w-Jk T ?k ?aent of ?uccessV ; The firs^ inoa^r