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TILE PRIVELEGE TAX Reduced from Twenty-iive to Fifteen Cents. AN INTERESTING DEBATE. Charges cf Extravacelnce Against Ciemrn Colege see.med to H.,ve infiuenced the Result a, td th.' fertilizer ax cIAme' Houre Tuendy. Ile ued was untust and u: K c to suppot Cle u. C ( - the argument vw would not 1e to thie ,ne r wastakel - I the tax to ten redtion. . e ben~.d frier . wou l not ch Ti farmer e h pay the porio t are gcrAiy oO peor to snd. i eso' T.) -ot - l.r. TIUis w ve rI tjIst burdn an lhould te reC. M1r. Bly t-he aI d M11r. A-hley L eg ging the question. This p.rivilege tax was imposed and collecied long before Clembon Colkge was thoivzht of. The tax was put on h-rtilizers because3 the farmers thought it neetsary to protect themselvesajnst iraud atid deception. The tax was fo-r the protectiou of toe farmers and no one clsc. The present law may be amended to advantagce. Tle tax was first imposed by a Legislature of farmers, and siuce then there have been farmers here in the majority and no change has been made. The arga ment used to bring about Clemson Col lege was that if the State built the Col lege the farmers would support and sus tain it. There was a compact made be tween the people, so to sieak, that the farmers would for all time support Clemson through the privilege tax. H1e artued to show that the tax, if repealed would do the farmers no good. Ile I.a.V1 .rd ao compiaint from the farm er atout the tax and thought they wanted it retairen. Mr. McCullough sail that heretofore he had opposed the bili, but after goieg thoroughly over the situation he thought it best to favor the present bill. -Clemson colhgc is no-w thorough ly equipped and Las all the buildings it needs. He was not opposed to a privilere tax, but he thought such a tax should on!y be suffieient to do the actual analyzing of fertilizers. The amount proposed by the bill ib ample for analysis. Tae real issue is: Shal you impose more than is necessary for the examinatioa? Then the idea is that money should be raised from some one to support Clemneon college. Now is it right to run the hands of the State into the pockets of the farmers or the fertilizer men to get this bonns for Clemson college? Then the Supreme Court has held that such an Act as is on the statute books is unconstitutional The committee tried to patch up a bill that would pass muster. We are play ing the hypocrite in trying to patch up a bill that is wrong in principle and Mr. Stevenson, cof CJhesterfield, said he was opposed to reducing the tax to ten cents, but favored a 15 cents tax. Clemson college last year got $102. 613.08 from various sources: Privilege tax, $60,000; 31orillfund, $12 000; Act 1887, Federal, $15,000; landseript,' $5,000; tuition, $2,400; Clemson be quest, $3,51::2. Total, $102, 613.08S. There was no account o-f the expendii ture. He said the only institution that *ould bend was attacked last year in his camp:.ign was Clemson, because of this apparent extravagance. If the authorities of Clemson do not practice economy there will be a whirlwind and a revoluiorn that will tear a hole into Clemson sand possibly destroy it. Mr. E. D. Smith, of Sumter, said this redu'tion of the tax has been one of his platforms fc.:ears. The people who pay the privi'ege tax are scarcely ever practically represented here. The privilege tax is extracted from the buyer and no one else. 1'The Ias- ' . who hand'h' th' no must pay fo~r it. It isentirely wrung to taX t:mese poor farmers. The t ax la.n ye - he held brought in $90,000. If 11. doors of Clemson are to be open to tile State at large let her draw her support as to her State colleges do. If Clemson is wor' hy of support she will get the money, and if not worthy the members will know it. Mr. Robinson, of Oconee, thought the farmers had but little to say on the measure. He maintained that it was wrong to legislate for one class against another. it would be just as fair to tax every lawyer's law book as to tax every bag of fertilizer. He asked what would Clemson do if it should be decided by the farmers not to buy fertilizers for a certain year? If Clenson has to be supported by this sort of legislation let her go. Mr. Wingo, of Greenville, as a farm er, said he had heard more against Clemson college on the floor of the House than elsewheie. lie yet had to hear the first farmer, not a politician wiho was oppossed to Clenisom or the tax. All the talk against the privilegc tax was here in the ilouse and upon the floor. Mr. Jeemniah Smith said he had heard there were 3 per cent of the* sons of farmers at Clemson. Mr. Wingo thought 93 per cent of the students were the sons of farmers. The liouse had hetter go slow in making radical changes. -The farmers want no changes; if they do they will be heard from. Mr. N. Geo. Evans said there was too much money sijent at Clemson. The farmers in his section were opposed to the system. The farmers do not pay all the taxes. The trustees report a balance of $10, 000 -actually more than is wanted. A tax of it0 cents, based on the figures of last year, and the bal ase unexpended, and there will be an abundance of money on hand. Ie, fcr one, was heartily in favor of the State* colleges. The only institution that has saffered has been the South Carolina College. It has lived, and will always do so, but do not make one college stif fer and the other a coupon clipper. Mr. H. H. Crum, as a farmer said: his hople were perfectly willing to pay the tax for their protection. To day the farmers are all at the mercy of a soullest trust. To reduce the tax would be merely to help the trust and will do no good to the farmers. A considera ble part of tbe Clemson fund has gone to the support and building of the tex tile school Clemson college is dis tinctly the farmers' college and the people throughout the State .want the .ollege ,most liberally sust aint d. Ie had confidence in the board of trustees. The farmers are not comsplaining, so he did mat se why the lawyers should coUJ. L ILWLZ ABL tv Pa3 the tax they should be left alone; and the farmers want to be left alone. Mr. P. H. Gadsden said this bill has come up year by year and every session farmers here and their representatives have killed such a bill. The farmers knew their rights and if they d-> not want this tax they have not said so. Charleston has always stood by .Clem son college, to any reasonable limit, since its establishment. This State is a manufacturing centre. It seems to be forootn that the buyers in North Carolina and G.-orgia and othner Sta s pay a large rr ic-11 this tX.. fle kLew, of no L-.her mzheme of 1tv.Fyi tribute by thc SLat' frion olher States. II- asked for a d-il of t(of 1pop aa s3 ut b.teixrv- tw brs "or1t -7 tro~.uble to Cile T e frie's of CUemisn had bot:r eware oi i. will fare far worse thau is inow threntened. If you do n:ot dc, .,'methiing tjo the, foodgatcs fplosition will be opene'i. lie urged that 15 eenrs a ton woui give emni -MS,000. Mr. Ashh-y accepted the 15-ccnt amendment. H-: urged that the larger partions of the Hatch and Morrila fuvdb we:a to th- support of the col lege proper. The expefnditures went dircetly to the'. spport of the collhge. As a friend of Clumson he pleaded to hold the appropriatious below the $100,000 maik. To save Clemson the best thing will be to plaee the institn tion on an Cconomic basis. Mr. E-uidge, ->f Lancaster, said his people were expecting him to protect their intere-,t:, and he wanted the tax reduced because too mach uoncy was being raised to dtfray the expenses of examitation. It was unfair to tax one class of people to support the college. Mr. Cosrrove, of Charlestor, knew that Charlston shipped largequantities of fcrtilizers outside of the State. Poor teachers, he urged, are verr much like roor doctors, and he was opp l to pay for teachers. While it may look a little extravagant the results at Clew son are well worth the money spent. Mr. W. H. Thomas warned the House that the moment Clemson's income is lessened it will come here for appro priations and when Clemson comes here every State college will suffer. Pass this measure and Winthrop, and Clem son, and the South Carolina College, and the Colored College will all suffer. Leave the colleges alone for at lea-t a few years. If the farmers are com plaining let the complaint come irom them. Mr. Stevenson then moves to fix the royalty at 15 cents per ton and offered a substitute bill for the whole measure. This was adopted. The bill was then given it; third reading, it simply amends the Act of 1S99 by changing the inspec ion tax from 25 cents to 15 cents per ton. The fund continues to go to Clemson College. BLOODY ST&EEC T.RAGBDY Two Men Killed and Two Wounded la Nacon, Ga. Two negrecs shot to death and two white desperatcly wounded, were the causa:ies in ani attempt to arrest a negro murderer at N1acon, Ga., Wed nebday. J. M. Butler, colored, is the man who did the most of the shooting and who wias himself shot to death. His v .;is were Armstead Bryant, eo'-d, shot through the heart, and iistantly killed; B. Seltman, white, shot through the stomach and will probably die, and John Reed, white, shot in the neck. in a precarnous con dition. Butler threatened to kill a negro woman and when Patrulman Pearce attcempted to arrest him, began to shoot. The negro ran up Fourth street, one of the busiest streets in Macon, pistol in hand, shooting at everybody in sight. His first victim was Seltman, then Bryant, and last Reed fell beneath his deadly aim. In the meantime the sound of the shooting attracted a numrber of polcem'en and citizens. When Butl-r feli mortally wounded five policemen and fifteen ciii zens were shooting at him Whan e: amined it was found that three heavy pitol bullets had gone completely through his body and there were other wounds. Au ambulance was summoned and. the woij.ded mien were taken to the city hospital, while the bodies of the dead umen were taken to an unde: -aking e-stablishment where the coroner held :., inquest. Butler came to Georgia form North Carelina eight years ago, and was employed ou a South Georgia tupentine farm. It is said that about a year ago he killed two negroes at Pinehurst, Ga. ~ In Delaware, where teyflopetty criminals as the whipping psa woman has been denied the right to practice law in the state courts. A well knowsi woman attorney of Phila delphia applied for the privilege of practicing i 1 the courts of Delawar e. The chancellor of the supreme court replied that while it ns~ desired to showv every courtesy to nuenibers of the bars of sister states, the constitution of Delaware did not permit a woman to exercise the funcuion-s of an attorney, since it was provided in that instrument that all officers of the courts must be males. Lynehed in Colorado. News reached Denver. Col., on Fri day of the capture of Reynolds and Wagnar, the escaped convicts, and the subsequent escape of Wagner. Rleyn olds is charged with killing Night Cap tain Rooney of the Colorado peniten tiary, at Canon City, Wagner with holding R'oney. A special train with several &uards and a blood hound were dispatehed to the aeene from Canon City, while officers started ovenaand with Reynolds. At Canon City fire bells began to ring and the town is out en masse. Reynolds was taken from the officers when they resched Can-r City and hanged to a telegraph pole just outside the penitentiary wails. Killed by a Bicycle. Henry A. Hazen, one of the chief forecasters of the weather bureau and well known as a seentiest, died at Washingiton Wednesday night as the result of injuries received by a bicycle collision with a negro pedestrian. His skull was badly fractured and he con tinued unconscious up to the time of STAIL DI1S'ENSARY. The Prof its of Cities, Towns, Counties and Schools. STATEMENT OF PURCHASES. The Finanial Statement of the State's B :g Uquor Busirss. Large P.;yrnent to the School Fut.d. The a:us iitarneird sta tmen~ &' tL ra repr; il ,:n tnt r - ye~ir t h(. -r--tfits-r. ot "!ge!,e i seb ! ud, are $13 9411 thei~i tot a r . 1 . , .f . 8 T $45,8184..-M '- '* aue u143.210 na ueteuyo Deembe 3.- 1. T . e o-regge pr rhwes ,ast'e r r re~1'~~ made during ih.: 'er wer- . 081.39. At the first of the year the State t erintcndent of educaion iqforiud the board of control that ihe sohool fund would need $100,000 as soon a-i pssi bls. About two vweek ago$30.000 as raidi over to the credit of the sebool fund and Wednes day anmht-r payun of $70,000 wa made. Here are t '--. ures of the annul report: Tht- comparative siatemerit 01 :.t s and liabilities for the fised year endit'g Decetber 31st, 1899, reads thur ASSETS. Cash in State treasury Dec. 31. 1899 .. .. ..... .. . -.140-121 00 Merlhandise in hands of dis pensers Dec 31, 1899. .. 255,025 74 Merchandise (Inventory of Ftock at State dispensary Dec. 31, 1899).......... 175,927 26 Supplies (Inventory Dec. 31, 1899)........... If, Teams and wagons. (Inven tory Dec. -31, 1899) . 64 00 Machinery and vffi,:e fx tures. (Inventory Dec. 31. 1899).. ... ......... .578 64 Contrzb n'I, (Inventory Dec 31, 1899) .............. 136 98 Real estate.......... .. .. i .319 64 Supendcd aceounts.. .. ... 399 26 Personal accounts due State for tax advanced on bond cd spirits, empty barrels and kcs, alcoho:, et . '. 127 56 Total assets..... .....63558 13 LIABILITIES School fund............514,379 95 Personal accounts due by State for supplies, whis kies, wines, beer, alcohol, ee.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... 121208 18 Total liabilities .. .. .. . 635,588 1.3 The statement of profit and loss ae~ count for the fleeal year ending Dec. 31, 1899, is as follow's: Gross pronts on nmerchan dise sold during ycar.. .. $452,074 49 Discounts on purchas 11.064 93 Contraband seizures ...... 5 395 83 Permit fees................25 50 State's onee-half share of p.rents from beer disper: ries from Jan 1, 1899), t o June 12. 1899. (A ar June 12, 1899, profi't i. t..... in grost profi'ts o0 ni4rchanise, except the profits on beer sold by the Germania Brewing Co., Charleston, S. C.. 14.177 75 State's onehalf share of pro fits on beer sold by the Germania Brewinr Co., from June 30, 1899, to Dec. 31, 1899.. ... .. .. ..2.27 71 Shortage of ex-Dispenser G. W. Busbee, Wagener, S. C.,which had been pared to profit and los~s account collected by solicitor of the Second Circuit withi interest .... .... ....... 25 63 0.3 balance due 8:ate b'x (.orgia B'rewing Asso ciationz, whic.h hol been: passed to profirtj d i.; acconat, collectedi Aug ust.31, 1899....... .... 248 95 Total gross p'rofits. .. 8485.520 79 LOSsEs. Supplies, botties, e- rb., Ia seais, boxes, nails, aen ing wax. etc., etc., used during year.. .. ...... $ A, ;:3 a Depreciated value of teams and wagons.......... 9d 00 Depreciated value of u'a chinery aed office fixtures 417 85 Constabnlary .. .. .. .. ... 42,892 76 Brage andt leakage... 898 41 Freight and express chargesi 69,588 22 Labor .... ....... .. .... 16.585 03 Inurance.. ...........2,036 59 License........... ...... 125 00 Expense seount-salaries, expenses of inspector-i, per diem and mileage of members of legislative exam'fning comuimtee, office supplies, lights. te~ramis, postage, htocC fr ed, ice. rirrit.g. reve rent, etc.. etc,.. .. 237 61 Per diemu and nileas.. e memnbers of State board of control. ... .. .......4,12 UO Litigation..... .... ... . 503 65 Loss by robbery at Salke hatchie dispecsary Dee. 30, 1898........ .... - 1 72 Loss by lire at Jacksonbr, dispensary .Jn. 6, 1899, $426 86, les s inrsurance on samie, $200.00... 22,5 86 Worthless wines at W .A Mott's dispense' . r county board el -M 5 10 Under credit in r.54 Manning dij'. *5ary Aug 15, 1899 . .... 0o (t IUnpaid licence by Dispens Ier at Ulmers, the profits f that dispensary uot being sufficient to bear expenses ................50 00 Amount of liquors taken from the Blacksburg dis pensary on April 4, 1S99, by soldiers .............30 50 Amount of whiskey taken from the Varnville dis pensary on April 11. 1899, by soldiers..... 8 3' Wotheslae la nd prer at Von Santen's dispensary, Charleston. destroyed by county board of control 23 65 Loss by robbery at the Bishopville dispensary April 28, 1899.. ....... 143 84 Loss by robbery at the Winnsboro di-pcnsary Lay 15. 1899.. ..1...9... S 98 Amount of cmpty bo:ties shipped to ) E1 Traxler. cOml1issioner, in 1894 ard 1895, by T 13 Earie, d;.ers r at Andersor. ar'd LOt cred !d Ln is setat until . jai ,'99 10i: 72 shippedQ tri Cormid-sioner lixon ir &F'bruary, 1896. e V2.:al .y 11'.. o o0 Lo I r o I-rI, t t s Sep It. Y. 1 9 . Balance <iiie s-4re b,:PS r er, beer di.,r--n !A( br y -r r:- . 2!1e. 1ar)"?a e - L.,a roW-r--- at M W Chaleson D Ie 11-199 211 12 Toa zpne. .. .. ..$29 A831! 30 Net rofits for year, pass, to the credit of the, school furd.......... . 193.689 49 T..t.!... .. .. ....$485.52) 79 !terc i; the csh statment for Oie fca a encdiug Decembe r 3st, 18t"99: RECEIPTS l!iace ir Slate treasury P . 31. 189S.. .... 46 073 24 January rec-ipti ........ 1'9 740 76 February receipts....... 117 747 19 .Mreh receip:..... ... .120,116 29 April receipts.... ... ...98 945 52 May receipts........... 108.114 71 June receipts... ......87 311 54 July receipts .. ..11....9 ),100 72 August reccipts... 124.492 08 September receipts....... 31 360 60 October rece-ip!s....... .382 198 55 November receipts.. .. . . 169,511 86 Decembtr receipts.. . . 215,226 23 Total receipts for year. . .S1,592.66 02 Tta....... .....$1,638,939 26 DISBURSE1ENTS. January ... .. .. . . .. . . .$ 151.596 14 February... ..........133 568 95 March ..... .......... 106.073 48 April...... .......... 958G8 72 May....... ...........112 4t12 43 June................. 55489 36 July .................. 1 3,981 7 August.... ......... 78 426 74 S.-ptember............. 147927 13 October .... ......... 326,221 74 Noveu~ber .. .. ....... ..214 973 US Decemb-er... .... ...... 169.287 85 Total disbursements for Sear........ ........$1495,818 26 Balance in State treasury D~ec. 31, 1899.. .. .. . .143,121 00l Tota........ .......$1.638,9:39 26 PURCUASES FOR YEAR. 'January.... . ...$ 71,784 (14 February . 1,509 13 Mlarchm.... ......... ...75,141 66 April .. .. .. .. .. ... . . . 9 79 Mey .. .. ..... .......52,044 24 June.............. ...72:305 60 July .... .... .... ....62,685 58 August.. .... . ... . . ....9,550 29 September.... .... .....85.253 56 Oto~rber ............ ..84273 15 November ....... ......1373;5 43 .Decmber .... .. ... ....34,118 92 Trotal.. . . .... .. ...$1158,081 33 Killed and Eaten. Details lhave been received of the killing of the crew of the schooner Nikamuarra on one of the islands of the Admiralty group by the natives. It is said all the victims were eatec. The Nikamarra was owned by E E. Per sythe and had left New Britain early in Octoktr on her trading cruis: to the Admiralties. On arrival there she was boarded by numbter of the natives, with ~whom Capt Bahthe was unsuspectingly doing business. when he was set upon by his treacherous customt ra and ki!!edi, his fate being shared by the meiae and six New ikitain natives, all ojf whoxt were cut aned hacked vith thctu plunde the u. Nothicng was known of the kfl.e ;. ,ii s'ome time afterward, when N r. Fe'r the ar rived on the scene with hai ether schooner, thec Nagara. Hie wa accm panied by Messrs. Bcilock and4 Douo roey, anjd they, too, were set ui on by the nasires trout ambush asc the wbire men rowed shorewards, usirg the rifles taken from the Nikamaarrn. Unlleek was badly wounded with i 4bot .ir.:gh In t high, but the boat partly regi:dd *. N<:-a, which, with1 her *e enl gite, reat.<--.! cpen waters. Garden Work for February. S.w in Lo b 2.c oir e'.!d frames early plaut, toamlato and p.-:. T::e last cof he month sow in eyen yromid early pei rincg kale, beets, 8. h. e r - , id bets, horse radish row ad of potaines can be made. lliudy flower seeds can be forwarded eith~er bysw ir i ht-es or in pots and bo~x s in he hou:e-for later tra'zsplanting. Sow Wood's Evergrcen Lawa Gir:- the earier in thev spiig this is sown the Fo rthe farm.--Prepare plant beds and put in Tobacco seed. Sow Canada Feld. Pe.s an-i Ojate, and towards the end of the month, Grass and Clover Seds can eafeiy be put in. Saw dwarf~ Esex R::ype for sheep grazing. Buy your seeds fronm T. W. '''' . Son, Richmond, Va., whl.,- ad-;W 1 A A L EAPs --To fill a burn.og wkuf idi'.ea. inost as mue sc isa it to L.ave a burnuing 1lamp with. the ilaie low diowu. Explosions have often followed suceh carelessness. Beide-s that, if left that way in a sleep ing roomf, the burns of the lamp are most ir ritating and unbesithy. Night tapers have been introduced for this purpose. The wick, after it once burns evenly, should not be trimmed with the sissors. Turn it up even with the top of the tube, and rub it lightly with soft cloth or paper or an old tooth brush. Then see that no bits of charred wick or matches have fallen into the cavities of a Roohester lamp, as they muay flame up and dtangerously heat the oil. When the lamp' is first lighted, the wick, par tiuaryi cold weather, maust be turned up slowly, ot it will smoke or break the tiN AR Y W . H! Would Wed the Mature Lady Rndolph Churchill. SHE IS TWICE HIS AGE. Prefers Not to Marry Him in the Face of the Opposition of His Irate Son and Young West's Family-Now All Are Interested in the Boer War. The infatuation of young CornwalUS West for Lady Randolph Churchill, as one of the most extraordinary of recent episodes in English society. Although she is almost old enough to be his mother. her youthfulness and physica atractions are universally acknowl edged. Lie:'utenant Cornwallis West is twen ty-five years old and an officer in the Scots Guards. He is a good looking. well built young fellow, and has alwa% s been credited with an ordinary amour..t of intelligence. in spite of all the pro tests of his family, he has persisted ir. his devotion to the mature Lady Ran dolrh. His social position is high. He is the odest son of Colonel Cornwallis West, a great land owner, whose wealth h Is destined to inherit, unless his fathc' follows the example of the late Corm; (Cornwallis West.) lius Vanderbilt. Lieutenant West's mother was the most famous beauty of her day in England and is still a hand some woman, of about the same age a.; Lady Randolph. His sister is the Prin cess Henry of Pless, who is as famous for her beauty now as her mother was in her youth. For the past six months young West's attachment to Lady Randolrb has been known in society. On several occasions their engagement was re ported, but it was averted by the ef forts of the young man's family. Lady Randolph herself is said to be in love with young West, but does n-t wish to enter into a hasty marriage with him. She wor.ld prefer not to mar ry him in face of the violent opposition of his and her own family. He has urged her to elope with him, but she has steadily refused to do this. In con sequence, the youth has had fits of melancholy and grief. These gave rise a few weeks ago to the report that the two had quarreled and that Lady Randolph had cast off her young adorer. The report was soon afterward clearly proved to be untrue, for they were seen everywhere enjoyin: one another's society. Lady Randolph accepted an invitation to a great party at Iwerne Minster, the house of Lord Wolverton, where the Prince of Walec was to be present. At the last moment he sent a telegram of excuse, and on the cday she should have been at the party she was observed shopping in comanv vwith Lieutenant *West. One night they witnessed a comedy called "The Elixir of Youth." They dined to gether at the Hotel Cecil and were seen at all sorts of public places of amusement. The proposed marriage was opposed with especial violence, by Mrs. Corn wallis West. the young man's mother. She and L~ady Randolph were at one time rival court beauties, and she was horrified at the Idea that her old rival should captivate her son. Hardly less opposed to the marriage was Lady Rlando!ph's older son, Lieu tenant Winston Churchill. She is ex tremely proud of him, and her ambi tion is to see him hold as great a. po sition in English politics as his father, whose success was largely due to his efforts.-Youn-. Churchill began his ca reer as a soldier, but she was anxious to see him out of that dangerous pro fession. and as a great inducement to tht end she founded the sumptuous Anglo-Saxon Review, of which she made him editor. When Lieutenant Churchill observed the growing attachment of his mother and young West he protested warmly and insisted that she should promise not to make a ridiculous marriage. Sh'e said that she did not contemplate such a thing. Her friendship with West re mained as warm as ever. Then her son demanded that she should drop her ad mirer altogether. This she refused to Winston Churchill was irritated and disgusted. The war in South Africai broke out and he hastened to drop the Anglo-Saxon Review and go out with th army. While her son left, her lover, Lieuten ant Cornwallis West. was preparing to go. His regiment, the Scots Guards. was part of the army corps forwarded after the outbreak of war and was one of the first to sail. The departure of the Scots Guards was a great event In society. Every body of importance, from the Prince of Wales downward, was interested. Lady lThndoiph ossiste-l Lieutenam' West to pu.rchase his kit and supplied him with no end of luauries, so that as long as he is not shot by the Boers he will haive a pleasant time. Baron Alfred de Rothschild sent an unlimitedl supply of champagne and cigars to the officers. Lady Randoiph Churchill. nee Jer ome, is the most brilliant American woman in English society. A rumter of Welsh tinworkers who were inducerd to immigrate to this coutry a few years ago and who nowv find themselves out of employment by reason of the tin rrills being closed by the trust are returning to Wales. Re ports state tl'.at the tin industry is booming in Wates, and that skilled workmen are in detrnand. Sueing Uncle Sam. A stait for $10. 00"' against the United States government-'was begun in the United States circuit court at Charles ton Thursday by Arthur Lynah, and mer. Itis alleged by the plaintiffs uat the improvements made in the banah river in deep'-ning its chan nel and otherwise, resulted in flooding a rice plantation belonging to them Mr. Lynah is president of the Mer chants and Miners bank of Charleston. Local Option Bill The Appelt local option bill was eported unfavorably in the senate last night, The unfavorable report looked as if it would be adopted at once. Senator Appelt was otherwise engaged when the report was made and didn't hear it, but just as the vote was about to be taken the senator asked that the bill go on the calendar, and this was done. Do you subsoribe to this paper, or are you reading some one else? If you are beating your reading out 'of some one else turn over a new leaf, andi ALEXANDER JESTER'S CAREER. Facts That Would Delight a Poe or a Gaboriau. The trial of Alexander Jestor in Paris, Mo., for the murder of Gilbert W. Gates has brought some remarkable vidence. The great age of Jester-he s eighty: the time that has elapsed ;inee the disappearance of Gates. Lwenty-eight years ago; the fact that Tester was denount ed and arie.-ted on rhe information of his own sistt-r: the reinarkable story of this womau's mearch for her brother. in order to ob tain revenge for his having years be fore. thwarted her in a love affair: the osition of Jester when arrested. a well-to-do resident of Shawnee. Okia hona. where he bore an assumed namie and enjoyed the confidence and respect (if the entire community; the great work of the prosecution In ob taining and preparing evidence; all these make the case one of unparal leled interest and importance. Gilbert W. Gates left his home in Do Kilb county. Il1., in August, 170. for Kansas. lie was then eighteen years old. He drove a pair of ba:; horses to a wagon, was accompanied by a shepherd dog, had several suits of clothes and underelothes, a breechloa'l ing rifle, an open faced silver watch and a peculiar gold chain. He reached Kansas safely, and remained there un til about the holiday time, when he started for home with the outfit. At Fort Scott, Kan., he fell in with Al exander Jester, who was bound for Indiana, and who drove a team of --ray horses, and had a buffalo calf in his wagon. The night of January 24. (Firing the fiatal shot.) 1S71, the two outfits camped near Mid dIe Grove, twelve miles from Paris, Mo. The next day Jester was seen driving one team and leading the oth Pr. The body of a man, who was at the time supposed to be intoxicated. was lying in one of the wagons, and, later in the day witnesses who were over the route of the wagons saw a trail of blood back to the camping zround. where the dead shepherd dog was found, lie having been shot. The parents of young Gntes at last became alarmed at not hearing froim him, and began on Investigation. His morements were traced accurately nutil January 25, and then the cir cunstance of JTesteir having possession of his outtit, led Mir. Gates, Sr.. to trail the latter. MIr. Gates got a wair rant for the arrest of Alexander Jes ter for the murder of Gilbert Gates. With the warrant atnd a deputy sheriff he visited the ranch of Alexander Jles ter .atnd found only his wife at hcome. His wife said she expected ,her hus: and home in a (lay or two, as lie htad been off to Inidianai. Mir. Gates talked about buying the farm and said he would call again. Next day he rode up with Sheriff Walker, of Sedgwick county and the deputy sheriff, and as he got In sight of the house he saw his son's two horses just being turned out. Arriving at the house, the Sher iff arrested Alexander Jester, andJ as soon as he put the handenffs on him the first remark Jester made was, "-Oh, yes. I bought Gilber-t all out." MJr. Gates found either on the per son of Alexander JTester or in his pos session his son's silver open faced wtc-h and gold chain and the ride above described, two shirts and otne pair of trousers made by the boy's mother. and a hat, which latter he recognized on the head of one of Jes ter's nephews, who had returned with him fronm Indiana. Jester was Irtdicted in the October or November (1871) term of the Mon roe County Court. at Paris, for mur der in the first degree. Jester asked for a change of venue, which was granted, and he was removed to Mfex eo, where he broke jail January is, 1872. with several othier prisoners. Hie had not been heard of since until his sister, Mrrs. Corneliau Street, last June, wrote a letter to the Sheriff of Wichi ta, K~an., telling of his- wvhereabouts, andl his ari-est followed. And Jester, the little dried up o'.d man, does not ask pity. He has a wor ried look, but it Is .not the worry of yielding. Ils face Is unyielding, un relenting. His jaw is screened by his beard, but it is a bull-dog's jaw, and without a tremor. His nerve is somec thing phenomenal, especially so in view of his age. He has even been ale to extract soune enjoyment from Ihis trial, antd once, when one of the witnesses against him told the erurt of a series of exhihitions Jester- had given of his ventr:oqtuial power-s in 1871, the entire ecurt room was cm v-ulsed with laughter. the gray haired prisoner laughing as vielently - and ~loudly as any one there. Jester is a man of deep religious convictions, his beilief, however, h' in:. somewhat like that of the fanatical Roundheatds who I otught withi Cr-om well. The ter-rors of~ religion seemn to have more attracti-m for him than its beauties. Owen .1. Riley was sentenced in Boston recently to from eight to ten years In prison for robbery. FREE BLOOD CURE. An Offer Providing Faith to Sufferers Eating Sores, Tumors, Ulcers, are all curable by B. B. B. 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Makes the food more deli ROVDL flA'CT POWOF Despotina n Idaho The New York World has been printing a series of letters from the Coeur d'Alene mining dis trict in Idaho, which, although obviously retained and con ,ervative in tone, tell a story of offieial despotisin worthy of Franco in the midle of the Dreyfus agitation. This is the story told without color and without enthusiasm-L: The Coeur d'Alene is one of the richest mniing regions in the world. Its mines, discovered by strug gling prospectors, have, after the usual course. passed into the hands of millionaire cor porations, of which the Stand ard Oil crowd form a do ininant part. Profits are huge, and out of the rugged hills men who never go into the gloomy confines of the canyons at Burke or Wardner draw enormous profits. The miners have for years been organized into the Western Federation of Miners. The men who work above ground-in concentrators, mills and the like-affiliate with the Knights of Labor. Union rates of wages were for underground men, $3.50 and for surface men, $3 a day. Perhaps the rate seems high to workers in other sections, but conditions of work in the Coeur d'Alene are diffi cult and dangerous, and the cost of living high. One mine only in the district has long re sisted the union influence and refused to pay the union scale. The Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine, owned by the Standard Oil Company, stood for years as a nienace to all other corpora tions that paid union wages. The story of the difficulties which grew out of this situation is a long one and need not be retold here. They culminated in an outbreak of miners, who blew up with dynamite the con centrator of the Bunker Hill mine. In the turmoil two men were shot and-killed. The cor respondent whom the World sent to the scene reports that in this opinion the outrage on the company's property was per petrated by union mines princi pally, but not by the union as an organization. Be that as it may--and the facts are much disputed-there can be nothing but reprobation for the .act, which was lawless and mur derous. But the state of idaho aided and abetted by the federal authorities and the war department, has since that outbreak adopted measures of representation se much more lawless, so much subversive of the principles of American constitutional liberty, than anything the miners ii their most lawless moments did, that the crime of eight monthm ago is forgotten in contermpla tion of the crime which is in progress today. On appeal of the owners of the mine, the state- declared martial law. Federal troops-negro soldiers, as it happened-were rushed into the district, and arrested men by the wholesale. In the little town of Burke two com panies of dismounted cavalry swept up and down the single street that ran between the beetling hills either side and caught all the inhabitants as in a drag-net. Scrne three hun dred men were thus caught, among them the commercial travelers who had just arrived in town, and all were put ii box cars and thus imprisoned for periods ranging from twc to three weeks. In time, as the number of prisoners increased, a stockade like that at Ander sonville was built for their in carceration. Mark you, noi one of these men was indicted not one arrested by the regularly constituted county authorities. All were taken in charge by federal soldiers, and some o: them staved in the stockade, o: bull pen, as it was called, fo: seven months, without trial, anc were discharged without vindi cation. Today in Soshonm county, Idaho, no man can seel for employment without a per mit issued by a state deputy whose authority is backed by federal bayonets. If his late: actions offend the deputy wic gave him permission to look fo: a job, he will be turned cut however satisfactory his work be to his employers. Thc authorities say that martial law~ will be maintained for a year ai lest. This is the situation in sovereign] ?ate of this Amnerican union-not in Russia. It is th( outcome of the militarism whici has seized upon the ruling classes in the country. It is as the Mlassachusetts Democratic platform well said, a fitting corollary to the effort to shool freedom into the Filipinos. A Horrible Place. Thomas J. Hunter, the former audi to a the Atianta aod West Point rail ru:6 rought Laek here fromu Morocco, :ee he had fled, passed througi Wisingtun .with his guards Friday et rue to Atlanta. Hunter says the rrion where he was cintied in Moroeet is ti:c m .st horrile place imaginable, :i he was glad to get away from it a~ive at any cost. Lewis PBuehanan, aged 20 years, wihite, working in a mic~a niine near E>k lhrk, Md., Thursday afternoon, afar loading a hole and waiting the time~ usually allowed for it to fire, went bak and waeleaning over the charge, cening it out, when it exploded and lew him to piecs, half of his head I beingbon from his bhoniders. cious and wholesome R CO.. NEW YOM'C. A Senatorial Sc (:L The case of m' Ciark, of Montana, wli i ela r with buying his.t ia ihe United States Senate. is no L g con sidered by the Sewe commit tee on elections. I se-ems that a lawyer of Bat'. Iontana, named Velleoimewa the man ager of Clark's e::poign in the Montana Legislturi. State Senator Whiteside, of Montana, convinced that Wellnome was a Clark lobbyist, and present for the purpose of improperly ob taining votes, set about ingrati ating himself in his confidence. He succeeded, and ere long had promised his vote to Clark and agreed for $10,0)0 to aid Well come in securing. certain other votes. Whiteside thereupon took into his confidence two other members of the Senate, informing them of the game he was playing against Wellcome. He got these two Senators to agree also to give their votes to Clark for $10,000 each. Well come to deposit the $20,000 for the two votes in the hands of Whiteside as stakeholder, the money not to be paid over until the voies were delivered. A member of the house was also found who gareed to vote for Clark for $5,000, and this sum was also placed in Whiteside's hands as stakeholder. When Whiteside had first agreed to co-operate with Wellcome for $10,000 he had received $5,000 on account. This, with the other sums which he held as stakeholder, aggregated $30,000. It was at this stage of the game that Whiteside thought every thing was ready for his coup before the Legislature, and so he arose in his place, recited the facts which have already been given, denounced Wellcome as the financial agent of Clark, and as evidence of the truth of his story, sent up z30,000 in cash to the president of the Senate. A tremendous sensation followed. But if Whiteside's story is true Clark's agent had already fixed a majority of the body and they were obliged to stand together. As soon as the first -shock of Whiteside's disclosure was ral lied from, the Clark contingent in the Senate turned the attack upon Whiteside, declaring that this $30,000 had not been re ceived from the agent of Clark, but it hmd been furnished by Marcus Daly, the copper king who was a bitter opponent of Clark-for the purpose of mak- - ing this grandstand play before the Senate in the hope of eli minating Clark fromi the sena torial race.. They then proceeded to convict Whiteside of false hood and expelled him from the body, leaving Clark master of the situation and proceed ing with his election to the United States Senate. The Augusta Chronicle in commentiing 'n the case says "it is one of the most remarkable cases which have ever come before the public, and if the facts charged by White side and sustained by the supreme court of Montana are satisfactorily proven before the United States Senate, they should not hesitate to expel Senator Clark from that body., South Carolina Weather. The following data, covering a period of4 29 years, have been comptlkd from the weather bureau recor ds at Charles ton covering the month of Febru~ary: Temiperature-.Mcan or n'rmzal temn perar r, 53 degrees. 'The warmiest- - motwas that of 1884, vi ha n aver age of 61 deares. The celaat month as that of 1895, with an average of 41 degrees. The hic best t emierature ws 80 degrees, on February 18, 189L The lowest temnperature wa, 7 devgr ees, on February 14. 1899. A ver.ge datO On vhich first "hillit.g" front occuJrred in autumrn, Novembter 30. A'verage date on which les "killing' frojst occurred in syna~g, March 20. i':eeipitation (rain ori sched~ arow) As age for the n:ointh, 3 4i5 inches. Avrage number of es ith .0in ofn inch or more, 10. The greatest iontli lpree~lpn~ eon was 10) do iicheu, inl .,051 inehcm: I 1)9. Th~e greatest at.t Vu rcii1t :tie ree de in any 24 e. 'neeutive hours w:?, :: 79 in;ches, on~ h-bruary 16 and 17, 1884. The : eat amount tfsro-.v-ibn crded in G~ 24 consecutive hours (r:cord ex t--niung to winter of 1hS8185 enb) was 32 inches. on February 13, IS839. C *uds and Weathr-Axcrae num er 'eear d kys. 10; partly e:oudy days, 10, ' oudy days 8. Wi nd-The prevailiit- winds have bee" fromn the sout-.re, 21 per cen tur The higthest veneu o: the wind va 56 niles.~ from the s utheast, on February 65, 1897. P'ROFITABLE E.MPLO~M T FOfl EoG3. Select any grape vi:a or mi)t tree tL; t w-e cz ultivatica. LLC.e-. ap:oe nJuI.-e of holes besC a fl \ eL or tre with a sharp* stieK, .l it dwn a suitable deyih an tho witheraw. il the holes wi h grai1 *i any kind and turn in the hogs. T v a ojf course pulver.ze the y.1 u r.rugl to the depth the graini h cu dps complete the job by ien wa~kh a hoe. The pAn~ cau be exp"'d to grat advantage wi ilev nd trees are so eituated as to be iaconvenl iet to plow themi. People Panic Stricken. --The steamer Yiiowera as just ar rived with new~s of 38 d. ~~ at .lon" lul from the plaue, o:se a v;~tte wo man of good class. The ei~y is panic stricken. Au armed um' p:-events the landiig of steamers at Ilio. Cooper, of the board of health &: fl~olulu, had 10 blocks burned. 1)c. Carmiiegael has been ordered to MKnila. ihirty-lour hundred Japanese at Lioiuiu are in quanne.