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The South Must Erect a Lastirg Mcrument in HONCR OF PRES'DENT DAVIS. T e Daughters of ihe Confederacy Have Asurned the Lcving Task o' Ra:sing he Funds. Mrs. Augustine T. Smy the. of Char If son, has i.ued the tlnAis ige i lar to the Dau:hters of the CtA den tY iu South Carlcija. a-;d I as alu r* cuested its puilica'iou in our u : Chare 'ton, S. C., N a M tN To the (Aters ad Yetitr- zt C'Iaptr, Zout I a r ia Da uhters of the Conedeey Ltd ie,: At the late enrvention of the D.g ters of the Cofeordey blhd in R:ch MUond, it was determudii-u to acece to the r. qu< st ti e Vetera s ati a-suuw the re0pouibily of emet it the ln dela ed tuumeuwnt io . Erreon Da'i Prtsident of the (onf deraie S a e-. This d. cision was rnot r ac e i .1:1 'U careiul thouibt ad ai,en 11 al e delgats res z-d tt;e ul i-et thus laid upoin t e is- e:ano:. su: ttt a realiz d that u tin the cn PClace i this burdten of responsibmit i!sed th hope of an early accoujiLment of th work proposed. The Hou. J Taylo- E. lson, niyor of Richlm.o, V., a d reident ..f the J tff, rsvn DavisM,r u.ient Asoeatn, came before the coznvetatiu and by 1;s *xjlanation r mouved any impressin that izdfference or intrtuess on the part of the men had ocea.iuned ti e roposal to tr :zfer this work to other hatds. D.fficulties arisne frorn earlir and very expensive p!ats wi re such that this chauge had become urgently Ld visable. The following letter from 31r. E ly son gives a ulh report of the pretiUt condition of the Jffcrson Ddvi. )M1UU ment A-sociatior: Ritebuond, Va., Nor. 13, 1899 Mrs. S. T. McCullough, Chairuani Jef ferson Davis Monument Comtittee, U. D. C -Dear Madam: The Jeffer-on Davi- Monument Ai sociation was organized in 1S90 and chartered by the Genatral Asemby of Virginia. At the Meeting tf the U4i ted Confederate Veterazs in Charles ton, S. C., in May, 1699, a risilution was adopted requestiug the Uoited Daughters of the Confederacy to assuue the responsibility of the completiou ot this wonument and authorizing the Jef ferson Davis lanuuweut Associat'on to turn over any funds in thr ir pesou to the United )augbter, whenever the-y should comply with the rtquest of the Uuited Confederate Vet, raus. I had the honor on Fiday of subtiauing the question for the consideration of the convention of the United Daugbt r, Li the Confderacy, then in sessiou iII this city, and they adopted a r so'lu tion by which they consented to cotn ply withi the request of the Veterans and endeavor to raise a sum 3u:licient to erect a suitable moument to the President of the Confederate States it is my pleasure to be able to report to you that we have in our trea-ury the sumU of twenty thousand, four hund.~rec and sixty -five d allars and 31 100, ($20, 46531) which we will turn o'er to your treaury whenev~er requested by you to do so. Our asciauou has Ito debts of any sort and you will take up the work without any emibarrds~menitb on aceount of any act:on previously taken by us. The ides of the United Confedsrate Veterans -ras that we should turn over to y ou the funds we have a'ed that you woull take up the work as though it had never been be gun. You were at liberty to seleet such design as yan might think proper, eboose such a site in or near the city of IRichimond as y ou tuight prefer and erect a monument at such time and at such coat as the tUnited Daughters mighit deem best. I beg leave to renew the assurance heretef ore extended that any assistance that the members of the Jfferson Davis alonument Association imay be able to render to the ladies will be most cheerfully given. We teiieve that under your energetic and luving direction the tank oft building a inonu ment to Jefferson Davis will soou- be completed. Lua respeec:eiy, J. Taylor Eil. ssn, P'resiuent. W. D. Chiesterman, Secretary. By vote of the convention as execu tive comtuittee was formed, called the Jefferaon Davis monument cotatuittee of the U. 1). C., consiang of a memi ber irom each State. Thbis cinmiitee organized itmmediately by the election of Mrs. S. TI. McCulhough, president oft the (Grand Division -f Vireinia, U. D. C., as its chairmuan, and Mr. J. S El lett, of Richmond, the biunded treas urer of the Jefferson Dei Monument Aasociation, aa treasurer. With this committee is associated an advisory board of tiVe eentlemene, members of the lkferwn Dasia Monu ment Association, the Hu. J. Tay lor Ellyson, chairman. The Soutn. Car, hina delesatuen selectd me to repie sent the 6tate on the eXeeutive com mittee, aubject to the approval o: t'.e State Division, which was given at its convention in Greenville. As y our repreaentative on that comn mittee it is my cuty to beg that y our chapter will, as soon as possiuie, take steps towardis the accomphi.-hiaent of the object set before us by our ascia tion-t~at of erecting a luonument to J. ffarson Davi., President of the Con fedet ate States. All other appeals seem weak when cormpared to this, and I entreat that all other plans for work may be temn porarily set aside until this duty bc faltilled. la honoring the memocry of Presi dent Davis we build a mnnament to the principles of the government he represented-princples, which are Low being acknowledged as right 'een by many who fought against them. 'The task before us is not unduly heavy. Authorities say that a suit able monument can be put up for S$50, O000. '#4ith strong, conctrted activon on the part of Southern w.oren suceas will be aure, and the Daughtcrs of ~ih Confederacy may well feel that their organization has not been in vain if it can be made the X.eans of luiingl about a consumtion to heanuli wished for by aU who revere the m m ory of the -Lost Cnu-e." The committee will be very dlad to hear ot any efirt en the part of cour chapter to xaise funus for this trotnu ment and if any further inftrmiton or suggestion in iny power is de::c'l phase call upon :ne. Mrs.. Augustinie T. Sm: tho. Me mber for so.uth Cat olha 4fJfr son Davis Monument Comrnnmtee, L. DnC. Souih Caroulna mIust Heip. T iMl. id;:s t> the Daugh ters of h1- C federacy in South Caro lina has jus.t bi-n i:,sued by the presi sh1-Int i I.-- South ('rolina divisioa. It a doubtless r,uIt iul accomph11:hing_ iutr the caiu-e so eatirutly 'advo cated: I o it. S,.uth -.:A D*iision, U litt d D i . iht , f the- ('oifedeiae. : .r L.dies- F a t im'.: With the top ,.t i:, e ie true ani of ii Oxg r- i t ie Ctf Id raev, and m L i i s Ce fr m Ilit d d f u I a-k Ia Vt c , fr t, e ir,t %4rds d tr 1t , w t e i - f 1. u ir if . l ie 1, l f v i ple: dor f tI l''3 e' ; : I C r ent 4 WI for !'a t his h-lttr, i m t s''T to ak N 0 e v 1 n:- ':s t t o. t I ba't' r the .'.i sn i ccv by your tOou 1 a t '0.- 1 Ai aiOA a y-edf to myX ti ; t ai. * n UO:.e remired to . !a a ut l r iis erta-er op p r .i f r re t orouglh b ervlio 1 t'*' I shaiill h d)ob:g ths in e r rt 'tt e'durng ana far TeZIC.L \l wb the uh1 ers e, 0 C rac au eugage until it i h J t- Iu D.ivis mmv .umne-t has v e .e ei. d as our W' k 1. would : i d thIt ut n:ak iI T! C "ork I t), lU.Iu ters < f ime ''o drauy T e ti '., wte tv t o!.!ot Up .Cn C.! . S I; d..t-. wt beu-tiw io eto I.-- ti e cree we. t tc ut >uer the l ii., rU:s are our 1a6si' e m: met. Int se ervt ri .tx the ica!, et gige Sv'4t at lie'. l uat. wiktr. The) eratifi all, ad re right claims u pi uS Eve-ry, sno'.e of thr artist a bush It.l, in hi. picturt-iot't oLe, light or Cavy, bu-t Iwouui iiipair pe ion if Ion d. Our wt. (t u baritie-s, our 1 c Id t rts. our e 0 ie otUmnti, our 'tear littie care of graves are the deli ete .aCine-. which eitricl at d cw p~ete our dtit'1ertul p-cture-The on 'derrey. S ii we mieiit have in it the b!3, stronz tone which is idealiz d by thtee tendeur touches. That is the foun da iou of ih.:ir l e Seatch ill all diIee:ilrts, anione the graces of feeilin. or inlto the -dea'pest e, p-h" of thoiigait, atid we find boo'V the zea of geteral eudeavor. the cable, upau which we rely to seid U. m, s -age into the lives of fu ure meu auti women. \ hat is the mCsag ? _St to t-Hi them th t men died aid wiin s3ff r, d. hut to tell them what they died and %iffcred for, and that we ps' Sates. Rights on to tniti for them to live for. II..w fhAl we ensure the enduran. e of our i s-a ? How s. cure it a'amt tne hiz.rds ot tim - and d.:fe.it of ob iivion? You _hall nout aa a be heie to demoate gr4\e, of heroes, but we au heave behind u a witne-s in stonU -reared to face the w& hole world which would testify our rverrrnce for ur stat-sman and our confijence in their creed ie J,.ffersnn Divis monument i not the t w.;ial of wai, but it i-- le concrt'e rec id of the politteal fai h of the Southern people exemapliacc in that oue may. You see by the miinutes of the con ventionl tf the Daughiters of' the Con f d. ra y r.ece.tly held at Gre'enmillb-, that tu~s woik hats beco recommended b, e'vention to) the chapters. 1 attd to this imy periotial recomm uencauon, leaving it in y our cousiberationl. Siieervi 1I a .yours, M1s. T'homna' Taylor, Pr-s. S C. Div . D. C. SILVER REPUBLICANS Wish to Get Anti-Imperialist Repub Ilicar; Into Their Camp. The Silver Repablicains in e )nference at Chicago TundaLy and We';nesday planned, it is announced, to ally thetm seves with and to make use of the "ant-imprialsm"agitation especially n castern S-ates where the silver issue does not af'e~t. Cooperation with Edward Atrainson's Lfllowing will be sought, Th' e purr e:e of the silver Re publicans is to gain, if poSSible with this new issue, a foothold in eastern States so that their party can more truy claim to be a national ornaniza tion and thus become a mn re effective whip for holding the Democrats to t1e Bry an and 16$ to 1 line. TIhis is one rea-on why the Silver Republicans want to hold a big natial convention o 2 000) or tuore delegates next ye-ar Courtatiotn of this plan was rceived Tursdvy from Fred J. Dub'ois, former sinaor fr' m Idaho aid chairman of the Silmer Republican ext.eutive comi atee. "rhere is no place for the R.>publi cat anti-imperialtas of New Eagland id the coast to go except itnto our piry," said 31r. Duibois. "T'ne as aiuced 'omiposiione of the Utnited States senate fur severai years couvinces them that 'iler It gislatiou cannot be p'.s'. d for may s' 'ars yet On anti imperial i'. and kindred questi .ts they are as on wtith us. I am sotied they wtill coe t o u<. I ex pcet to see former Gov.r Bout.'eti of .\assacbu-etts, Ei wad kirison aid men lie them ait tu s a, delegat, in outr c -nvntioa. IW h' ' e planted for a bia conyv n tio of 2 000l or more. Our coinvention, if eld at the same timne and place as the Demeeeratic coivetion wil be a p).wertul stiwulus against any conces itn by that part' to the forces of un riiton~ess. \\e have not niuch to tear on this score l-osever. We are ptetty iv-:lI att'fid that the D-mto rat-' will reaffiem the platf,rm of 1896 and Lomiunate Mlr. Bryan. That will b eough If, Iowever, they should sek to evade or sibordinate the sily r isue, we Il tot ba their allies I, such ea-e we willh do wrat many silver Republieans watited to do in 16963 -es tauith a separate orgaititou and tomiuate a separate ticket." Will Run Into Savannah. It is antiouniced that, ctomm'enctng Deceber 10, 18Y9. the Southern Rail way Company will opperate through tain service over its own line via Co lubia, IPerry, B ackviile and' Allen d'le . ., into and out of Savannah, C rmmencing that date its through car service will be opp1erated iu cinnec ii n with theC Plant System souith of Santah, Ga., aid the Florida Eist Coa'. t RiiiseaV, toanfo-pi-sn the eaat cost of Firida, with direct connecttt.s to a'.d from K-y Wec-t, Fia.. ltina . tuba aid Naissau, N. P, ia \lian . Fla. ini't tcnet ion wAith atid in ciloetz i th the Pin Sys tm suthiI' of catnaih to and fromt other tot-,t 10 Fierida, iticluding nitn, i the west coast. with direct Citectitns to atnd f. ''m Key Wesat anid la.'ana, via Tampa. l a , iin connection w :th tlhe Planot St'amip; Litne. \\masigtn P.a Nov. 10., 1S99. WILL FRE EZ3 THE OUT. The Black Delegates Too Expensive a Luxury. Mr. Henry Payne, of Wisconsin a men.ber of the Republican National Coma,ittee, it is announced will offer to the committee at its next meeting, two weeks distant, a resolution recom mntding a change in the basis of repre se'ntat ion in future Republican Nali-nal Cortventions, on the ground that the prs-rt basis is unjust and un(qual, and that this itjustice should be reme died. The resr-lution proposec, as stated that the new basis of re-re.entption Olal be 'our d, lezites at large for each S'c. at.d or.e additional delegate fr ..!ch ten thousand votes, or majority irction thereof cast at. the prec-ding Presidential election for R.-publican elecOtOrs. and four delegates from each orgainid Territory and the District of Co-lumi ia. If the plan is adopted by the t'odvention, it. is explained, the toal numher (f delegates would remair S94. as at present, but the nrumter from Atkn-as, Alabaia, Florida. Georgia, L-luisiata, 31is-issippi ard Sou'h Caro h..a would be reduxtd from 129 under the pe',vt appirtiioncnt to 49-a . f O to thE States naned. while other Sjuthera States would lose hxavily. What is the "injustice" and "ine qu-.lir" in the pre-ent arrangement. - hih :t io pr-post-d to correct, is not i.diat d or sugeested in tht dispatch. and must. therefor,, be inf.-rred. We are not in the confidence of Hr Payne and other Repu'Alican leaderi and pro tuoto rs of the proposed change, and cannot, ther, f..e, speak with authority for them, but it will be noted that the ehang nainly affects the representa tion of the Southeru Stat, s in the R, tpublican Convention, which it reduces by over a hundred delelates, and that he re duction is ml st sweeping in the ranks of those from the Cotton States, and the Blaek Belt of those S ates, and of tios-fro.m the State of A katnsa-, which has the largest olack population of any State outside the South. In view of these facts, the most natural, a. it isindabitably the co-rrect. inferen'ce, is that the change is designed to have the i, E.c it will have, and that the condition it is meant to reform ; ,hat. of the presence of so large a nut' her of no gro. s and color d ien in the National Conventions of theit party Why they are urnwelcome. it i, not f. uts to gay. of cour-e, but possibly the white le-rs of the part regird it a an "itjt-istice" to ad:nit so many to tit: part% c,.nventions io he-lp.to choose Re publicati Presidents when so few of t hem are allosed to share in the spoils which the Pre-idents disp'-nse, and d i that the best Aay to correct the -in qiality" in the rat-ks of nevro delegates and of negro officeholders iu high pliees is to cut doa the number of the f.,rtner. Aid then, again, it may be consid ered i at it is an "ijistice" to the Republican candidates for national hoors to be compt-lkd to bid agair-s' each other in buying up. say, 150 Sout herun deleates, white and coIore, in every Co.uve-ntion, when they umisht easily be rid o'f two-tnirds of C' at num br by the proposed plan, and so be spared a pr..porriontare wear ar~d tear o.f toid and the expeniditure of uruch ash. There is something in that. Te comte-mplated change will not only reliiver the h'aders of embarras-ing ori any in the conventione-, but will be tof an economical charaiter buides. It wiII doubtles, be adopted with .sin ere if secret enthusiam. News and Courier. R AKED IN T HOUSANDS. Another New York "Get Rich Quick" Concern Goes Up the Flue. The New York Herald says White's Ibureau, sometimes known as "Charles H. White's bureau" and a "'get rich quick" concern, located in the cotton exchange building, vanished with its managers on Sunday, and it is estimat ed that eredulous depositors are out of pocket more than $200.000. White's bureau was in many respects similar to the Franklyn eyndicate, operated by William F. Miller. Like the Franklin syndicate, it offcred tremendous divi dends to depositors, professed to be legiimae arid to be an old established concern, profrssed to have the strotng e-t kind ol recommendatiotn from banks' and baukers. Liae the Franklin sy0 dicae, it managed its business without ay inquiries being made by the police. It had accounts in several dowvn town banks, and drafts from its customers taed through the banks without any questions being asked, except in the istance of one bank. Like the Franklin syndicate, it paid out *dividends," to depositors presum ably from the money placed on depio-it in order to lure largter gudgeins. Fin ally. like the Fr anklin syndicate, its bakrrs teok alarm and disappeared with a large quantity of other peoples Imoney. White's bureau Was operated by t wo young men who went under the ae of H, man. 0.. of them gave the name ot C. H. H3 man, and he i,. uidertood to have been the "C. H. W hite" whose bureau the concern pur ported to be. 'The "bureau" be-gan buiiess in the latter part of Sep;tember. it ub-le-t two roams fcom another ten ant on he fir-t floor. The offices are :ery hand-,omely turnishe'd, and are Ipartitioned off into smaller rooms. .lany typewrirrrs were employed, and when the business was first established an enormou.s quaatity of letters and eir'u'ars at re sent forth. The firm in sertd advertisements in newspap'-rs all ovr t he country, promising that White's bureau would make m 'ney for ai bmdv w ho would sernd his cash on to New Y'.rk. Tse advertisements were as a uring as green goods circulars. The circulars and advertisewenta soon began to have the usual effect. Letters'began to come in from all ovr the country. The mail to the bureau grew to such proportions that the sus picions of tihe superintendent of the ottn ex.hange building became aroused, and he made an investigation. He could not find out any thing about tie busy young metn, except that thry ~rofeed to be doing a general invest ment businers, so they were permitted to remain. It is imposs'ib'e to make any estimate, based on reliahle figures, as to the~ am'ount of business that Whi's bureau did. It was unques ttonaby very large. Takingr inro con sderation all the banks in the city, the bu-iness represented oy drafts alone wou:d be somew here between $S0 0t00 ad $1011,000. The bulk of the busi ness done by White's bureau, ho wever, as done through registered letters, sci..e orders and express packages. The buiness by mail reached all over he oantry from Maine to Florida, nd rom ihe A tlantic to the great west. A GAMBLER'S RUSE. Efforts Made in New York to Break the Market. WORK OF BUCKET SHOPS. Anonymous Advertisements Ap pear in the Nswspapers Pre dicting Slump in Cotton On Account Big Crop. Wednesday the New York papers publi.hcd an advertisement readiLg as follows: "Cotton-1aimmeiiate and. sensationa' brenk certain: exports sure of crop (f 11.000,000 b le!; tremendous slump in evitable. Crisis las been reachec !o.nh, carrying enormious qu ntities or a;in margins. braing py raan ded from 6 Ce.ts up; shirt inte e-t entirely clinii nat.d. To whom are bulls to stli? Market in i dly and unafe. Sell cot uon for 100 !1Ti rts pur profit. Fartht r particutlars, addr s ruth-cker." Thiis was foo.ied Thursay b arotheradverti-cmet readiLg: "Cotoun-.ly pr ie co-1 of a slum; was immediat.I ftoio xed bya 16 p :i. break, shoving pre.arious cmditio-i oJ pret-ent nharket. LUerpool aul Iem phis were hehavy eelrs. Nill, th. ablest cottIn exptirt in the world, is wire ositive I han evir that 3 ield will not exceed Iltt.0.00 bale. M arket i hone3comebed wit stop orders. It i but a question (if hours when they wil be reauhed. Itf.rnuation soon to b. wade public as to citton h-ld by in t.-'ior will ser.d Jacu-ry below 6 50 Fall ifi-meiou and faLts giveb Addre-s 'fr ohseeker.'" We do t.,t kuow who the athor of these adver.i-eliocrsi<, but it is ru m-ied thar thry have b,-en inserted ii the iaersts if a 4o ipo' bucket ship whoee cu.torers ate hteav, long of ti e ,i.arket, arid -hose only pes:-ihie salv tion i6 to brii g about a break that wi' Wipe out margcie.,. We think the pub lie oelit to be brouglt to an unded sta.-diag of the siu-tio, P.iear. cables to us from Liverp..olThursday ad vise an adva ce thre ol' 2 61 as a re:-u' 4if the goid trade, de-nad and th. htalty cotediti in in Mareehester. whie, it is stated. promiaes to continu r-,r is, teref. ro, no reason wh% ->. nt rs of co te should expect at-% lw.r trites ihan ge-nune trade C01 i jitition, j estit , or be terroriz-d irt seliig by anny mo4n adverii:- merits Pr-ee, NlcCormiek & Co. A Railroad Massacre. The eetb und But do express on ihe Delaware, L icka-aona and Westert Iilitay, while standing outside the station at the Van WinAle street cross irng. at Pa:<rson, N. J., at 7 54 Wed nesday tight, was run int.) by a swiftl3 wovine acommoda'ion tram, bound triui Po.idip~ou g. N J.. to Jerse) City. At least six Ieople were killeo anrd th-re are noiw r weatry ij ire iat the hospital in Pateismn. of whom some will probably die. while somte of thos not Seriousl3 i .jured were able to go to their d. stinatiori,. The de-ad arc: M1rs Mary Roe, wife of David Rle, of Ithaca. N. Y , arid t oe edaughte-rs; Walter We hro ck. Cornell Coll.-ge, lihaca, N. Y; Mliller Crsis. New York city; unknowe woman. Trhe body that was thousht to be that of a hoy proved to be the y oung~ daughrer of Mirs. Roe. All the bodi's have been reoved to the morgue. The Buffalo eXpress was waiting for a local traiu to miive thatt had been delayed at the sta-ion, and the P'hillipsburg ac comrmodation wam fullosing the ex press, but a shert distance behind The two rear cars of the express were broken to pieces. me-st of the passengers on them being either kied or irnjured. The engine of the Plillipsburg train was ciompletely wrecked, the engtneer and firemran escaping by juamping Those killed were: Alexander Craig of Scranton, Pa., btsineas manager of the Scranton Tri bune. Ester Crait. his wife. E -ther S. Craig, their 15 year old daughter. Jessie Craig, their 11 year old daugh ter. Mrs. Mary Bart Roe, wife of David Roe of Ithaca. N. Y. Walter Jacb Walbrook, 19 years old, of New York city. M1r. Walbrook was a student at Cornell. The a-sident wiped out the Craig fanmily. They were on their way to spend Thankagiving with relatives im Brooklyn. December Weathe~r. The f ualliwirng da:a. covering a period of twenty-eight 3 ears; have been com piled from the weather bureau records at Charleston for the nwonth of Dey. Mean or normal temperatulr3, 52 de grees The warmest month was that of 1889, with an average of 60) degr-es. The coldest mrorith was that of 18763, with an a- erage of 41 degrees. The higest temj r-rn-e was 78 degrees on Decemober 1, la~J Thle lowest te mper ature was 13 degrees on Dee. 30, 1880). Av'eraze precipiitation for month, 3 26 inches. A ver a.e numiber of d tvs wtu.01 of an inch ur mere, 9. The greate-st tmonthly precei1 i zion was 7.91 inches in 18S7. The last mont hey preciitationl was e.(3 inches in 1889. TI'he greatest amount of precipitation recorded in any twent3-foutr consecu tive hours was 3.46 inches on Decemeber 9 and 10, 1885. The greatest amount of snowfall re corded in any twenty-four consecutive hours (record extending to winter of 1884 85 only) was 0.01 iuch on Decem ber 6, 18S6. Average number of clear days, 13; partly cloudy days, 10; eloudy days. S. The prevailing winds have been from the northeast, 15 per centum. The highest velcity of the wind was 50 miles from the southeast on December 17, 1888. Sampson Praises Hobson. In a speech at Brockton, Mlass ,re cently Admiral Sanmpson said: "When the North Atiele equadron was or dered fr. me K-'y West, Hobson was seer :board the New York to inspect the ships and find their weak places. He found a number that would have been fatal had they remained and had the Spaniards been good shots. When we had been off Santiago some time I de-ided that we should blockade the harbor by sinking a large ship in it. He worked three days and three nights before it was d >ne. Hobaon always had my unbounded trust. He w as al ways brave and did his duty, as he is doing it today. I do not believe a word of the stories circulated about him. If I had another such taak to perform, such as closing up the harbor of Santiago, I wouAd detail Hobson to CUTS LIKE CHEESE. Berr-zda Stone Which Can Be Quarried With a Hand Saw. Nature has made It easy to build houses in Bermuda. The entire group of islands is made up of coral rock, so that every man can have a quarry in his back yard if he cares to dig deep enough. This stone, when first cut, is soft and white, so that it "cuts like cheese;" like the wood of the famous "one-Ioss shay." and can be got out In square blocks with an ordinary handsaw. On exposure to the air, however, it soon becomes dark and hard enough to break the teeth out of the saw that cut it so easily from its bed. As there is no lumber in Bermuda except that which is brought from Canada at considerable expense, stone is used for nearly the entire house. The walls are laid of blocks about eight inches by six. and two feet in length. Window sills and door jams are also sawed out of stone in the pro per shape. and even the roof is covered with stone shingles, which are made by simply setting a block of soft. fresh stone on edge and sawing It into thin slabs. Both roof and wajls have to be kept whitewashed, or the stone would crunile away. hard as it finally be conis: hut with this precaution It lasts a long time. There is an old coral stone-bouse on Ilarrington Sound which is considerably over 200 years old. Coral islands are formed by the cornl polyps, or insects, which build up reefs to about the level of the sea and then die. On the rough surface of these retr senweed clings. The wind and the waves work together to grind up their substance and pile it in heaps of sand, which finally solidifies into the rock which can be cut so easily. The freshly broken stone makes ad mirahle road material. Even the rub ber tire of a bicyle will crush a piece of it fint, and the rain soon solidifies it in that shape. so that the whole roadbed, new stone and old together, becomes like a smooth track cut in solid rock. Lnckv Dredguet for a mammn1. Dredging has been successfully re sorted to in recovering a valuable dia mond ring that was lost in Petaluma creek. Itecently the owner of th" ring was standing on a bridge just below Petaluma. across an arm of the creek, when his diamond --ing slipped from his finger and fell through a crack in the bridge and into about eight feet of water. The stone in the ring cost, without the mounting, $800. 'he owner tated to give It up. yet be did not knov how to go to work to get it out. In his perplexity he applied to Capt. John Hackett, a man of experi ence in dredging though on a some what hirger scale than hunting for so small a thing as a ring. The loser of the ring had been thoughtful enough to mark the place in the bridge where the ring fell through. Hackett rigged a small clamshell bucket, to be oper ated by hand. with a rope this was dropped through the bridge at the plae marked, and a bucket of iumd was brought from the bottom of :he creek. It was taken to the bank nd washed out. A second and then a t'ird was tried, and in the third was found the ring. -Stockton Independent. Making Cninred Soldiers. In the early days of colored troops in the regular army It was essential, to get the best results. that they should serve with white troops, so that disci pline could be enforced when neces sary. It was a decidedly risky experi ment to attempt making soldiers of such people. They needed the object lesson of contact with white troops. Naturally of an imitative disposition, the colored man took the white soldier as his pattern. enrefully watching every gesture and movement with In quisitive concern. Riecruited from the most dangerous and shiftless of the freed negroes. they were naturally lazy, and disinclined to do. the work required of them. They spent all their leisure time in gambling, drinking and quarrelling. Every possible punish ment employed In the discipline of frontier posts was inficted upon them. They were stood on barrels, they were "bucked" and gagged, they were marched about the garrison with heavy planks tied to their backs, bear ing the word "gambler" In chalk. Everything was done to discipline them, every means taken to make soldiers of them. 5imokeiu'o Powder. The first smokeless powder that I made in England was made in exactly the same manner as the French. I had obtained a quantity of true gun eotton, that is, trI-nitro-cellulose, (known sometimes as insoluble gun gtten. because it cannot be dissolved in alcohol and ether like collodion cot ton di-nltro-cellulose.) Some of this powder, when freshly made produced fairly good results, quite as good as those produced by the French powder, but upon keeping it a few months the grins lost their transpare acy, became quite opaque and fibrous. and it then burned with great violence. Investi gation showed that about 1 to 2 per cent. of the solvent was still in the powder when the first tests were made, whereas the drying out of this last trace of solvent bad completely chan ged the character of the powder. I then added to this powder about 2 per cent. of castor oil, with the result that the castor oil remained after the solv ent had been completely removed, so that the powder would keep any length of time: indeed, powder made at time (1880) is good to-day.-Hlram Maxim. Th" "Terrier," Tn ecclesiastical law a terrier Is a book which is supposed to be kept In every parish and in which there Is a record of the sources of its revenue, and particularly of its lands (terrae In Latin. terres In French. whence the word terrier). Of course It is the duty as well as the interest of every per son to see that the terrier of his par ish is well kept. but the duty Is often eglected During the ear-ly days of he incumnbency of a parson who was *ther fond of sport he received from s bishop a formal letter of inquiry Sseveral matters. to which he was -quested to give answer. When he ame to the question: "Do you keep a terrier?' the good-natured parson re plied: No; but I have tw well-bred poInters, and your iordnip is welcome to one of them if y ou ear. t& have it." WExEDS.-lIere is a hint fro-u Vick's Magazine that is worth remembering: Doi't pull up weeds and then leave them on the flower bed or throw them down in the path, for the next rain will make many of them grow again. Al ways take a basket with you and go "marketing" in the garden every day for weeds, ie:d when you have found one (you may possibly fled two or three more). accunt that you have found a trasure and consign it to the compost heap. You will soon have no need ot investing a fortane in "Bue' Chemical Fertilizer," because you will carry on lire and enterprising chemical works of your owa. Ny l:azy neighbhors marvel at the fineness of my potting soil, after I have sifted it, but it is mostly weeds, I make the raising of weeds a business. I like weeds. They make grand flowers. Go-d weeds, like good Indians, arc the d. ad ones. Law Examinations. Itis ordered that the examination of applicants for adminion to practice law in the several courts of this State be held in the supremec court room at Columbia, S. C.. Wednesday, the 13th day of Dec. 1899, commencing at 5 'clock n. m. A CURIOUS CUSTOM PUNISHMENT OF ANIMALS THAT WAS FORMERLY IN VOGUE IN EUROPE. They Were Sometimes Put to the Eack in Order to Extort Confe4sion--In Other In stances They Were Burled AUve-Figs Banged or 1Burned for Murder. Beasts were often condemned to be burned alive, and, strangely enough, It was in the latter half of the seven teenth century, an age of 'omparative enlightenment, that this cruel penalty was most frequently inflicted. Occasi onally a merciful judge adhered to the letter of the law by sentencing the cul prit to be slightly singed, and then to be strangled before being burned. Sometimes they were condemned to be buried alive. Such was the fate suf fered by two pigs In 1456, "on the vigil of the holy virgin," at Oppenheim-on the-Rhine, for killing a child. Animals were even put to the rack In order to extort confession. It is not to be sup posed that the judge had the slightest expectation that any con fession would be made; he wished simply to observe all forms pre scribed by the law, and to set in motion the whole machinery of justice before pronouncing judgment. "The question," which in such cses would seem to be only a wanton and grper fluous act of cruelty, was nevertbeless an important element in determiiiing the final decision, since the death sen tence could be commuted into banish ment provided the criminal had not confessed under torture. The use of the rack was therefore a means of es caping the gallows. Appeals were sometimes made to higher tribunals, and the judinents of the lower courts annulled or modified. In one instance a sow and a she-ass were condemned to be hanged; on appeal and after a new trial they were sentenced to be simply knocked on the head. In an other instance an appeal led to the ac quittal of the accused. In 1206, at Fontenay-aux-Roses,near Paris. a pig, convicted of having eaten a child, was publicly burned by order of the monks of Sainte-Genevieve. In 1386 the tribunal of Falaise sentenced a sow to be mangled and maimed in the head and leg, and then to be hang ea, for having torn the face and arm of a child and caused its death. Here we have a strict application of the lex tallonis. The sow was dressed In man's clothes and executed in the public square, near the city hall, at the ex pense to the state of ten sous and ten deniers, besides a pair of gloves to the hangman. The executioner was provided with new gloves in order that he might come from the discharge of his duty with clean hands, thus Indicating that as a minister of justice he incurred no guilt in shedding blood. He was not a common butcher of swine, but a pub lic functionary, a "master of high works" (maitre des hautes oeuvres)' as he was officially styled. In 1394 a pig was found guilty of "having killed and murdered a child In the parish of Roumaygne. In the county of Mortaing, for which deed said pig was condem ned to be drawn and hanged by Jehan Pettit, lieutenant of the bailiff." There Is also extant an order Issued by the magistracy of Gisors in 1405, commanding payment to be made to the carpenter who had erected the scaffold on which an ox had been exe cuted "for Its demerits." On the 9th of June, 157G, at Schwein furt, In Franconia, a sow which had bitten off the ear and torn the hand of a child was given In custody to the hangman. who, without furtherauthor ity, took It to the gallows green and there "hanged It publicly, to the dis grace and detriment of the cIty." On the 10th of January, 1457, a sow was convicted of murder, committed on the person of an infant name Jehan Martin of Savigny, and sentenced to be hanged. Her six sucklings were also Included in the indictment as accompli ees, "but in default of positive j'mrof that they had assisted in manglIng the deceased, th-ey were restored to their owner, on condition that he should give ball for their appearance should further evidence be forthcoming to prove their complicity in their mother's crime." The Knowina shark. A painful moment on board ship at ea is that when some poor mortal, who has died on the voyage, has to be laid away in the bosom of the deep with the simple ceremonies of an ocean burial. A vessel carrying a dead body and passing through waters freqiuented by sharks is almost sure to be followed by one or more of those fishes if it does not out-speed them. Rather than bury a corpse while sharks are following the vessel the captain will sometimes have a body placed In the Ice chamber and full steam put on the engines until the hungry fishes have dropped astern completely In one case at least a body was actu ally cremated on board by the cap tan's orders because of the sharks. But sharks are not often obstacles to prompt burial, and, generally speaking, when death occurs at sea the body Is slipped into the water at night with none to witness the proceedling but a couple of the crew and the captain, who reads an abridgment of the serv ice from the Prayer Book. The Oldest C10cks. The oldest clocks of American man ufacture were made by Gideon Rob erts, of Bristol. Conn. According to the best authorities, no clocks were manufactured In what are now the United States prior to 1800. at which time Mr. Roberts first placed his time pieces on the market. His clocks were made with the greatest care, and much time was spent in perfecting them. They were all of the style com monly known as "hall" clocks, about ix feet in height, handsomely fin ished and a recognized separate piece of furniture in which the owner al ways took great pride. A Real Bleasing. A novel sort of window glass has been invented. Persons on the lnside of the house can see through it. but it is opaque to those on the outside.. But a Rafluay W111l. The Kurds and Cossacks believe that Mount Ararat is guarded by an un earthly being, and that no man can ascend the peak and live. FREE BLOOD CURE AaOfr ?:#.1;~ h'i;1 1 ti in-as E~ting Sores, Tumors, Ulcers, are all curable by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) which is made especially to cure all terrible Blood Diaeases. Persistent Sores, Blood and Skin B!emnishes, Scrofia, that rcsisit other trcatmlents. ar quickly cured by B. B. B. (Botanic Bood Balm). Skih Eruptions,Pim m.itarrn, Uthjaxuai:,m, etc . are, all due to bad blood, and henee easily cured bv B. B. 13. Bloo1 Pois -u produicin? 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The victims of this mysterious stream are known as "Hassayamps," and there Z are a good many of them in this part of the country. Some have mines to sell.-Flagstaff (Ariz.) correspondence of The Chicago Record. Life Worti Living, In Carlsruhe, the c.?pital of Baden, a - - lawv is In force fining. any person. who -- plays the p'anc with: open wiedows. -_____ 70 00nsumrs, Sash, e Ima G'mi~ U rE'wir.g Com par~y, of Carleston. S. C., have mnae arrangm-ra nSish eitsadC dsai wih ~eS~ih arlnl ~~t ntori o uldn ' adwBuidin hv which they are enabled to till orer frorn c"::snme-rs for shipmennnts of bee~r in Window Sad FaliCy Glass a S$9i0IvR an' qnmtty ait the fIdlowin:g prices: Ftur 1.zaer p.in't, in er;ate, $2 80 percrate. E tdit-ke.:. Sl 2~>.THE l-bIe're. s4.50. Export's, pilts, ta ni d'/zen in banre. 53J. 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