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*1 BOMB CffiCLE COLUMN On* Ttafhta m Th*y Fall From tho Iditoriol fn. bed Doctor BHm, Hamilton, and ARnew wont through anxlotiea and toils such as («w of us can realise. But they did not please the rest of the medical world. The doctors in charge oould do nothing right or pleas ing to the other doctor*. Jealousy When you hear a man or woman abused, dries 4n on the defendant's Dedleated to Tired Moshers as They Join the Home Circle »t Even- taut Tide. i • ' - '*T0IU might hav* thaid, 01” I me herd et work in my study tfMefB 11 henrd e gentle tap, ■ _j Ini" end in oeme my Joeie, Taerful from eome mishap. And 1 knew that she was longing To he cuddled in my lap. •I bruithed my finger orful, Am pepe, it dow e«he so!” “Well, well, nm emy to mannne, For 1 can’t help it, Jo," he reieed her teer-wet Inshea— “Pipe, you might have thaid *01 The study-door closed softly And 1 was left alone With nothing to hinder ray writing Rut the thought "f » tender tone, So loving end so reproachful Twould have, touched a heart of stone. . . '"HZ Tnr t™** In St. Louie, Sept. 28,1804, " hm “™ r * 1 buo4Md 11 ant and looked at my paper, Bntaome how I could ’t write, < And there broke on me in silence The dawn of a clearer light; * The touch of that aching finger Had given me my sight. Have e tender word, my brothers, ■ For the little troubles and pains, It was not beneath our Master, It is far above our gains; It will beaten the heavenly kingdom, Where only love remains. t» s * The thief who steals your peace of ■aind jg mealier than the one who ■teals your property: ♦ * # Teach your girl how to cook, and If gtMdoes not thank you somebody’s ■on will thank you for her. # • # Ho one can so ln«pire a man to no- bte purposes as a noble woman, and no “one, so thoroughly dPRrade a man ■ wife of unworthy tendencies. * « * BECHET SOCIETIES. What is the moral effect of Free Masonry. Odd Fellowship, Knights of fAhrtr and the numerous secret socle Um upon the home? Solomon, the win mao, said: “Disoover notas cret to another,” and he bad good reasons for laying such an injunction, for in his time, es at the present, there were people too much disposed to tell .all they knew. One half the trouble In story community, comes from the fact that eo many people have not the ci- paotty to keep their mouths shut. We hate two ears but only one tojgu^ which, is suggestive of the fact that we should hear more than we till. By the power of e sicret divulged, fami lias, chu ehes, n Ighborh K>ds and eve i nations fly apart. B th? p wer of a ■nret kept, great charities, reform v tory movements aid Christian enter prteei may b) advaioed. It Is an often discussed question whether associa tions that id n >t have their work with Mooel do s, aid admit t ieir m mhers with paw wjrdi, and greet eiono.her with a secret grip are right or wrong. Our aaiwer is that it depend entirely upon toe object for which they m ret. If It Is to pees the hours in revelry and obscene talk, or to plot trouble to the state, then we say with an em phasis that it Is wrong But where the object is the improvement of the ■kind, the enlargement of the heart, the defense of the government, then we say With just as much emphasis they are a blessing. There is no •••d that those who plan for right oser wrong should publish to the world their intsntio s Secretary of plot and execution are wrong only when the object and ends are nefar- lous. Every family Is a secret society, every business firm and every bank ing institution. The men who have no capacity to keep a secret are unfit for positions of trusts anywhere. Se cret societies have done incalculable good. One society gave for the relief of their sick in 1873, in this country $1,490,274. Some of tbs secret soci eties have poared a very hqaven of ■anehlne and benediction Into the borne of suffering. Some of them are founded in fidelity to god citizenship and the btble. Christ has given us a rule by which we may judge, cot only all individuals, but all secret societies. "By their fruits ye shall know them.” Bad societies make bad men. Good ■ooletlas make good men. bad man will not stay In a good society and a good man will not stay in a bad soci ety: Test these societies by two or three rules. Their Influence on borne. That^rifeeoon loses her Influence over bar husband who looks upon all even ing absence as an assault on domestic ity. That wife who becomes jealous of her husband's attention to art, or literature, or religion, or charity is breaking her own sceptre of conjugal power. But let do man sacri flee home life to secret society life, as some do Boom men are as genial as angels at the society room and as ugly as sin at rise Instead of night-shade. If some one is more beautiful than you, thank God that you bate not*so many perils of vanity to contend with. If some one has more wealth than you, thank God that you have not so great e stewerdebip to answer for. If some one gets a higher office in church or state you can thank God there are not eo many to wish for the batten ing of your obsequies. If you are as Ailed by Jealousy take it as a com pliment, for people are never Jealous of a failure. Substitute for Jealousy an elevating emulation. Seeing others good, let us try to do better. Seeing others industrious let us work more hours. Life is abort at the longest; let it all be tilled up with helpfulness for others, work and sympathy for each other's misfortunes, and our arms full of white mantles to cover up the mistakes 'and faifures of oth ers. Surely this world is large etfougb for you end all your rivals. God taao given you a work to do. Go ahead and do it. Mind your own business In all circles, in all kinds of business, in all professions there is room for straightforward successes. , ADDU8S 10 COTTOH G&0WXX&8. An Appeal for Co-operation in an Effort to Control Prices. At a meeting of the cotton growers held in the city of Columbia on the 26’h day of October, 1904, we, the undersigned, were appointed a com mittee to prepare an address to the cotton growers of South Carolina. We desire to state most emphatically that this Isa business organization pure and simple,~tTf&t there Is nothing a secret or hidden in reference to its business; its sole and single object is to secure for botton growers such uni form prices as will properly com pen sate them for the labor and capital invested. ‘Realizing that cotton is the currency of the southland that her industrial welfare is dependent upon the price of it, we therefore InvtW the aid of every cotton pro ducer, and all business and profession at men In the State; Wf further re cognize the fact that the cotton manufacturers are tleslrous of main taining a stable price for cotton, and *e believe that this organization will promote tbe Interests of the cotton manufacturers of the south. Tbls is an age of combination and organiza tion; other agricultural organizations have been able to fix and maintain a stable price for the commodities to the mutual benefit of pmdooer and consumer and have sucoes fully elimi nated the demoralizi'g iufluecca of the violent fluctuations constouent upon reckless spec ilation, which has proved as disastrous to the manufac turers as It is to the producer. We d idare It to be a nec Aiity for tbe welfare of tbe cotton growers of the South to organize for the purpose of protecting the raw material. We wish to impress .upon the cotton growers the fact that they put upon tbe mar ket within 90 days the bulk of their crop and desire the commercial world to ta're it at Its full value; to take tbe risk of storing, tbe expense of lasur- ing, tbe loss of Interest for nine months without compensation to the pureba-er, whereas common sens’ would teach them that in order to realize tbe highest price they must carry these risks themselves and place upon the market their cotton as the trade requires it; in other words, in stead of selling their cotton from Scp- t raber to December, we protest that it is common sense and business to perfect a plan by which we may sell it from September to September. To this unfortunate custom of dumping our cotton on the market in so short a time regardless of demand or price Is largely due the unremunerative prices to the producer. What Is tbe repaedy ? Millions of dollars are wait- log profitable i n vestment Id good se curities. Tbe world knows and con ceives that there is no better security than cotton. Hence a plan by whldh the cotton can be retained in the bands qf tbe producer and used as a collateral upon whtctrjie ran secure money at a reasonable rate of interest to meet pressing debts, enabling him MARX IT oorrox CROP AppMi rvom sowtfeeni era Protective At the snoosl session of the South ern Cotton Growers’ Protective ueo elation, held U the world’• fair where several hundred progressive cotton planters were present, repre senting every cotton growtna State In tbe south, the following resolution wee introduced and unanimously passed: “Resolved by tbe Southern Cotton Growers’ association in convention at St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 26, 1904, Thst we urge as fully as it Is in our power to do so that every cotton producer in tbe south piece a iqlnimum price Of 10 cents per pound on all cotton to be hereafter marketed this season; thst no ootton of middling grade be offered for sale if the market at any time, due to the fluctuating influences of speculation, fall below the price of 10 cents per pound; that each and every producer is urged to market his crop as slowly as possible, believing that if the crop is marketed slowly through the months of Qatober and November the price of ootton can be maintained at 12 cents per pound, its true value at tbe present time, during tbe bal ance of the season. “Your committee further recoin mends that tbls association insist upon tbe better handling of ootton to tbe end that our cotton when prepared for market may be placed in more ac ceptable, merchantable condition, thereby eliminating as far as possible many of the abuses to which the sta pie Is now subjected. ” Up to the present time the ootton producers from North Carolina to tbe Braz s river, Tex., have generally stood firm by holding a part of their cotton and refusing to throw it upon tbe market at prices under 10 cents per pound. With tbe meet deter mined efforts on the part of tbe bear speculators and other combinations formed to depress prices the market has only been forced down 50 points minimum prlnfl. during tha but toe sDeculatoie e^d to break their nerve efal rush on future. Let us prove to tbe world that southern farmeip can eaeert aud .maintain the strongest oomhi nations ever or gsn I zed to depress the price of ootton. Pay no attention to the bumper crop estimates and let the buyers of our staple understand that the balance of this crop can only be purchased at prices between 10 and 12 cents per pound. Store your ootton at home under good cover and keep it safe from tbe weather. If money Is needed store a part of your cotton in local warehouses and use tbe receipts es collateral to borrow money frem your local banks. Don’t sell an? ootton at present prices mere ly to follow tbe old plan of selling. By holding your cotton the advance in prices later will pay a heavy Interes* on the investment, when no interest will be secured if you sell now and ce posit tbe money in hank. Insure your cotton, whether stored at home or ir a warehouse, and take no risks, where risks are likely to be Incurred. Let us self this crop for at least f 700,009,- 000, and put general prosperity am- ny the fanners of the south. 'V&rj respec*fully, Harvie Jordan, President Southern Ootton Growers’ Protective Association. THE R. F. D. CARRIERS. month In which most of the farmer obligations fall due, and an urrprece dented season for gathering and ginn ing the crop. The glnners’ report is sued Oct. 25th indicated that a little more than 5 000,000 bales of the pres ent crop had been ginned, while Sec retary Hester’s report for the same time Indicated that only about 2,000,- 000 bales had been marketed, showing that Hhre than 60 per cent, of the crop .was being held in the bands of the pr diners. If only 5,000,000 and a quarter bales had been ginned up to Oct. 15, It must be clear to every farmer that tbe high estimates placed upon tbls crop by tbe bear element of speculators will' never materialize They are using tbe same devices adopted last year to break the nerve of tbe producers. Note their figures -f last year compared with the facts Mr. Theodore Prloe, on Sept. 28, 1903, Issued a circular estimating the crop 'or 1903 to be 11,144,855 bales. A. J Huston, tbe palace car atatlctan of Liverpool, Eng., on Oct 28, 1903, tig ured tbe crop at 11,250,000 bales Neil Bros, of England estlmited tho crop on Nov. 24, 1903 at 11,000,000 biles, and H. 0. Gorst of Liverpool on the same date Issued an estimate fixing the yield at 11,430,000 bales. Now let ui look at the estimates of disinterested parties: Tbe United States department of agriculture, on Dec 3, 1903, Issued Us estimate fix ing the yield at 9,962,039 bales. Tbe southern States’ commissioner of agri culture in convention at Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 9, 1903, estimated tbe crop at 10,471,000 bales. Now let us what was tbe actual crop. We fihetasrhear from you now. * * * \ JEALOUSLY. How fortunate it is that there Is no! a jealous person among oar large family of readers. We do not know of one; do you? Such being the case toy Jealous people that are to be found in most all other communities. Tbe first boy over born wee jealous. If you remem bar Osin took a rough stick and killed Ilk brother Abel because be was jeal The sacrifice of Abel had been aeeepted while (Jain’s was rejected. Jealousy is simply a grief we experl MMp on aeoount of the superiority of Others. Their superiority intalent, .wealth,beauty,virtue,or social or poll- recognition. It Is the shade w ot r people’s success which clouds Uvea It is the thunder of our i popularity which sours the kindness in us. It is tod mother of half the toe human rac?. that keeps all Europe Rattans Jeal' us of Ger- ,ef England, of Russia. Jeal- b other and all jealous of What a scene of jealousy rben Pral- flying. Faithful their thereby to place his cotton upon tbe market at such time and In such quantity as the price justifies Is most desirable. To this end we ask the cotton pro ducers in every county in South Caro lina to meet at once and organize for tbe purpose of sending delegates ttfa meeting in Columbia for the purp<se of formulating a specific plan to carry out the Ideas above suggested and to perfect an organization which will maintain ootton at such price as will properly compensate the grower. We congratulate tbe cotton growers of this State that other ootton produc ing States are organizing for this pur pose and the future Is bright with promise for a national organization to maintain a stable and remunerative price fQj^potton. With this end in view we suggest that In each county tbe oott >n growers assemble and send two delegates to Columbia on Thurs day, Hovember loth, 1904. We re quest all county papers to copy this address. B. O. Herds, Anderson county. H. A. Richardson, Barnwell county. W. D. Evans, Chesterfield county. P. L. Hardin, Chester county. R. A. Sublett, Clarendon county. W. C Brand, Colleton county. Tr H. Rains ford, Edgefield county. J. W. S. King, Florence county. John Cantey, Kershaw county. J. H. Wharton, Laurens county. E. D. Smith, Lee county. J. W. Wylie, Lancaster county. H. R. Galloway, Marlon county. B. M. Peigues, Marlboro county. B. F. Kellar, Orangeburg county. J. H StartbblIng, Plckem oounty. Francis H. W.eton, Richland Co. B. W. Dabbs, Sumter county. ^ W. H Stewart, lAgfciJbuntjr. J. M- Edwards, Spartanburg ooc: ty. W. B. Irwin, GvstnvlUs county. .V /-..■fe-jTV. ..... ,, , _ . • ' y ... 1 .*■' ••■V • C! - *•... -■ ^ that the actual commercial crop of 1993 04 amounted to 10,011,374 biles. Note the comparison of bear estimate* and government estimates. Tbe United States department of agricul tore was under the actual figures only 49,000 bales. The commissioners of agriculture overestimated the crop 460,000 bales, while Mr. Theodore Price missed it 1,734,000 bales, and tbe rest of tbe bear element ail tbe way from a million to a million and a half bales. Mr. Prloe is pursuing tbe same course this season and calling 4y of tbe murder of fiv£ tolar ts and a Ipng series of other ({Ale crimes. In accordance with German law she has been sentenced five times to death, once for each murder. For perjury and forgery she was sentenced to six years’ penal servitude. Anoti er cu rious pendant to ber sentence was the loss of honor for the remainder o' her natural life. Tbe details of tb< trial were revolting In tbe extr« mr proving tbe woman to be a monster of Iniquity. ^ The story of ber career is one of tbs mort revolting in the criminal amah of the empire. It appeared from toe evidence given at tbe trial that she was born in Hanover, in^J859, hei maiden name being Berkefieid. After a somewhat checkered career in ber native province, wtnre several prose- 'Utiqns and imprisonments for illegal rippratinna and iiwpmtiirft had render President Hayden of the State Amo- elation Insuea an Address. President Hayden of the South Carolina State Association of Rural Carriers has issued the following ad dress to the rural free delivery car rlers of the State; Attention, Rural Carriers: -’^’be S tuth Carolina State Associa tion of Rural Carriers was organized about six months ago and is receiving applications for membership ever) week. It has been accepted as a aemhqy of the national association. This association is expressly for the carriers of this State and we need you for a member, and you cannot af ford to be on tbe ouuide, as youhnust receleve benefits from being a mem ber. If possible organize your county and become a member of thb State asao elation. Tne officers will give you tbelr best help to do this, and if you wish will s :nd an organizer to yon for that purpose. 1 t . We want to make tbe Palmetto State, one of toe strongest In the south, and we cannot do this without you as one of the members. Tne national and State associate ns are do Ing great things toward getting an Increase In pay for all carriers at tbe next session of congress. Whatever amount is given us will be the direct resu t of tbe efforts of the asst ciail n. You do not want somebody else to piy your sbare in this work and you reap tbe benefit and pay nothing towards it. This being the c..se, we are making you tbe foil'wing offac ln counties where there is no association, carriers may become individual members of the State association by pxying tbe regu lar dues in advance. S> nd 91 to tb< State 8( cretary and this wilt be cred ited to your county when .It-JncjOies organized. - Send $i to State S errtary H. E Bolen, Neeses, S. C., who will send you a m-mb rshfp card and a receipt We, tbe carriers of South Carolina, must have a p.ide In keeping our State in the front rank. This can not be d me unless >ou come in, sc Jet upon tbe farmers everywhere to dump tbelr cotton > on toe market so as to depress prices and let Mr. “Bear” Prloe ooln his millions at the expense of hundreds of thousands of producers in tbe south. Tbe recent estimate of tbe south ern commissioners of. agriculture in croventtou at Baton R gue, Lar 1 , Or tober 22nd, figured the crop for this season at 10 HI,000 bales. Mr. Theo dore Price and other bear speculators figure tbe ‘crop et 12,000,000 bales. The commissioners of agriculture overestimated tbe crop 460,000 bales last year, and tbe indicatioosare that their present estimate is not so far wrong. Even if toe crop should reach 11,000,000 bales the world- wants every bale’if ft and the spibners are better able to pay high prices tbls season than last,, because yarns have advanced 3 cents per pound this sea son and a heavy demand for cotton goods < x sta. < I therefore oall upon the producers throughout tbe south to stand firm and refuse to sell their ootton at pres ent prices.^ Heavy receipts depress tbe market. The speculators have sold millions of bales for a future de livery and they want to buy that cot- tohTrft rarmwy-mrtiiB staple is actually worth. The producers should demand from 11 to 12 cents for the balance of tbe crop. Tbey are In position to force prices up by selling tbe staple slowly. Debts have been paid as a rule, and tnere is no longer absolute necessity of rushing our oot ton on the market. The merchants and bankers of toe south should encourage slow selling because the prosperity of toe produc ere. makes prosperity certain in all other avenues of trade In tbe south. We will not make a bumper crop; must of toe staple has been gathered and ginned. Let ou determine to stand firmly together the balance of this season and tone toe bear specula tors to cover. The present prloe of ootton k too low, and I urge every producer to refuse to sell until the market properly read-juste Itself. Have no fear that ootton will be worth le» in the future than bow. Th ao who hold will get better prices when the HMculatOie are forced to The next State meetirg will be held in Columbia on lhe 24 h of Novem ber. -Oome to our meeting and learn something of our orgauizit O'*. Let all organlz d counties send their repre senta'ives with their State and na tional dues. • ‘ „ >. * From tbe present oatlo k we are going t» have a splendid meeting. Can’t you help us to mike It a ,rous jog o^e? Very respectfully yours, Donald (3. Hayden, *= ^ -State President. Orangeburg, Nos* 2 FLAYED HAVOC WIl’HIOWF. City of Mont Vernon Shocked and One Man Killed. « At Mount Vernon, N. Y., the ex- under the Bond street bridge at 1 o’clock Wednesday shook the city and the surrounding country 'withib a ra dlus of five miles, probably killed at least one person and Injured nearly forty others, two of whom may die. Tbe man supposed to bare been killed was an Italian in charge of tbe dyna mite. He was seen at bi* post of duty just before tbe explosion, aed no trace of him has since been found. There were 2,300 pounds of dyna- mite st ired at tbe side'of a deep rock cut, which was used for blasting a path for additioi al tracks. The ex plosion tore a hole in tbe ground eighty feet deep that is now full of water from a hidden spring, wrecked ihe pond street bridge over tbe rail way tracks and broke a l the windows within a quarter of a mile. Tbe force of the explosion,, as is usual, w<<s down ward, but the uptrearat atong the aides operations, and many witnesses are now held while an investigation iebe ing made Into toe cause of toe explo sion. pejlt. Horrible AccWtont. ~ ~ At Lcesville recently While butchre- ing was going on' Mr. L. P. Stead man’s little 3 year-old ohild feu into a tub of toiling water and died from the eff ete of the scald Thursday morning. ^ . r : ttlltIP* ed It impo sible for her to carry on her calling of mid wife, she moved to Hamburg, reoting an expensivejvsi dence in one of the fashionable thor oughfares. Here she established her self as a-proffsah nal foster-mother. Her method of procedure was to In ert In both German and foreign pa pera prom 1 neat adverrisemet ts, Ir which the aioptlon of children born jut of wedlock was premised In return for a single monetary payment. Thfcse notices brought her many til ente from toe fashionable, as well at from toe humble ranks of society For Instance, It is stated that foi caking over a' child whose parent* oelongtd to the highest circlet if the town of Hanover she received a f e of 11,009 la addithn-to 8250 as bush money. At the sami cime she inserted in the pipers otRei advertisements .to tbe effect that a Mjeoog and bekutiful Kiri” appealed towhle-SBiiHU d gentkBLqfor.tempc r ary-assistance, and (o ced tier own iliegitlmite daughter, P^ula, into im proper relationships with tbe men who replkd to those thinly-veiled en tic ments. She vii-t d Lo.idon, and toe names of persons said to be rest dent in the E iglrih me rupolis wen mentioned in tbe course of the tria ju-it closed. ; * . It was fur her alleged against her, though on thu cum she has been ac quitted, that shf* attempted to poison ber husband, who fiund her proceed ings not to bis liking. Ore of the chil dren adt pted by her is said to have b en the child of an E igli h woman of title. Of the chi dren whqm she wns paid to take those whose., age unde tbe preceding profitable were corrupted. Others she poisoned with qqi ipbine, throwing their bodies into the Eloe. or burning them in ber kitchen fireplace. The crime of in fanticide was brought home to her in n > fewer than five speefic cases, and ui>w far that number was. from oom pkting the gruesome tale of ber Ini quities there Is no means of knowing. A dramatic feature of toe trial was the appearance of the woman's bus band and daugh er aa witnesses against her.. THE TRUfH Af LAST. KILFYRE! KHFYHEI1 KILFYBE11I That ie exactly what It is, a Fire Killer. Demonstration every day at the State ialr showing its fire fighting qualities. Every Farmer, Oil Mill, Saw Mill. Ginnery and any one owning property should have them. For sale by OOLOMBIA supply CO.. Columbia., 8 C The machinery Supply house of the State \VE ARE L00KINQ FOR YOUR ORDERS COLUMBIA LUMBER & MfC CO COLUMBIA S C The Guinard Brick Works, cv———-— Building and Re-Preyed Brick: Special Shapes to order. Fire Proof Terra Cotta Flue Linings. Prepared to fill orders for thousands or " for millions. _■ _ _ : Jj A’: Vj". Southeastern Lime 4 Cement to. CHARLESTON, 8. C. Bollding Material of all kinds. High Grade Hoofing “RUBKHpIl).” Write for prices. Whmkey~i Morphlnr^r^CiJaret I All Drutaod fobaoTo^ Habit, Hibit | „ Habit; | ^ ^ ^ Cured by JKeeley Institute, of CX ’ 1329 Lady St (or P. O. Box 76) Columbia, 8. O. Confidential oorreipood- pd-w* JLvime Cement, blaster. Terra Cotta Pipe, Roofing Paper, Oar lots, email lots, wi Carolina. Portland Cement Go. r ~CharIeaton» & The Japanese Admit the Lose of their Beat Battleship. A dispatch from Paris says the As st claCed Press was put in la position Tturhdjy to state p sitlvely that its dt>patches from Oheeftto, Port Arthur and Tok o last J un i ; to the t fleet that the Japamse battleship Y suima had be n sunk by a mine off Dalny, which dispatebs were denied by the Japan ese authorities at tbe tim •, have b eo c infirm 4. Tbs Japan S3 govern ment has notified foreign govern ments (f the loss of tbe ship. Tbe numberof men who went down with the vessel Is not known, but Is lx bev el to have been rmall. The official details show that the Yasbima struck a Russian mine and later attempted to make Dalny harbor, but this prov ed impossible and she sank in deep water. Tbe lots of the YdShima has been concealed by the Japanese, though tbe Rusdan author!ti i have bellevid-fior some t me that ti e rep rtA that top battleship bad been destroyed were current It Is import int. sin e it 18 now Cotton Ginned. The last of the census bulletins glv- irg tbe returns of ifs sginTs on tot ton ginned for the present year up to October 18to last, was issued at noon Thursday. It shows tbe total num- bur of running bales to be 6,590,137 as against 3,839,728 running bales for last year. Counting tbe found bales included in these to.als as half bale* toe balance for 1904 Is ledbced to 6,417,884. Ther t< tal number if run oing bales ginned to October . 18 in 1902 was 5,925,872. The reports from toe various cotton producing States for "the present year follow Alabama 694,780 bales; A k&nsas237,- 776; Florida 40,642; Geoigia 1,056, 679; Indian Territory 181 316; Ken-, lucky 284; Louisiana 392 758; Missis sippi 561,704; Missouri 10,621; North Carolina 399,097; Oklahoma 106,237. South Carolina 629,857; Tennessee 79,688; Texas 2,201.663; VtrglnU 5,145. The total number ofginnerie* in operation wss 28,110. Up to Oc tober 18 in 1903, 37.6 per cent, of tbe total crop had been ginned as com pared with 53.5 per cent, in 1902 This report will be f jllowedTby four other-, showing the quantity of cot ton ginned from the groat i of 1994 to November 14, to D.c;oiber H>, l< January 16, and to the end of-tot heason. Giri’d Body Mutilated. Tbe dead body of Miss Kora Butts, aged 23 years, a white servant glrl oi the city, was found Friday in ihe su burbs of South Marshall, Mo, in b pasture. The girl nad evidently been murdered; Her throat bad been cu with a sharp stick, a piece of which still remained in tbe fiesb; her iefl ear had been cut off and there was s bullet hole in I er bead. Tnere wa evidence that tbe g ri bad made a struggle for life. A cigarette, near toe body and bloody tracks leading away from tbe spot are tbe only tan gible cluss. Miss Butts was Isst seei late Wednesday night last, with two young men, one of whim her sbtei oen ncogn ze. Neither of the mai have, been located. A man living near where toe body was found re ports having heard screams on Wed nesday night, but no search for tbe girl, was started until.Friday. We Qell PIANOS AND ORGANS, —And Lots of Them— WE SEL THE BEST MAKES. Our prices are about ten per cent under Northern prices. E ery Plano or Organ we Mil ts fully warranted by tbe makers, and becked .up by us. Write us st ones, for catalogue, prices and terms. # MALONFS MUSIC HOUSE, COLUMBIA. S. C. Mullet! Mullet! Mullet! <» ' As a result of a wreck on a branch line of tbe Atlanta, Knixrilie an N irtoern railroad rear Ball Grooi d pTosHifor over a tto' dr aynamTU' fa , 0»-reh rcguuij, Ga. ■ > »o - . - . . modern batt isaips remilu ni. of the cut hurled large stones for blocks. Many houses were shifted from tbelr foundations, walls were stripped of plaster yrod furniture waxsp'lntered Most of the injured were caught by falling ceilings and walls-In the hous es nearby. Stoves, in st tree and dwel lings were overturned and many fires were started, but in each case the William F, Ryan, fqrem in of the gang 8treet ’ aft3r havlag Ulked for 40 of workmen, employed on the blaetlng mode£Q. bait tsuips remain n< The: Yagbima was one of t|ie fin st battleships of toe Japanese navy. Her displacement was 12,390 - tons, ab >ut tbe size of the American battleship Maine, -anff she bad a speed of 19 knots. Tbe Russian squadron at Fort Arthur includes five modern battle ships, more or less damaged, and Vice Admiral Rojetrensky’s command, which Is now enroute from the .Baltic to the Far Eist, also numbers five battleships. In view of tbe inferiority of tbe Japanese In battleships, tbelr armored cruiser strength Is important, they being greatly superior to the Russian in this respect. .. About Board Bill. / . At St. Louis, Mo., u quatxel over a receipt for the payment of a board bllj resulted in the killing Wednes day of Hayden Y. Lorldg, manager of toa Loxlng JbflUL near, toe expuaitioi grounds by Nqunan M. Vaughan, manager of the Elks Publishing com pany. Vaughan fired several shots at Lorlng, all of which took effect, and be dropped dead. Tbe shooting was witnessed by Vaughan's thirteen year- old sister, Oma, who stead near Lor- log, It is said, beseeching her brother not to fire. Vaughan quickly left the hotel, boarded a street car, and went Vaughan refused to make a state ment other tbao to say that he had fired In aelf-defensf. eu*M» ■Y A AAA BANK DEPOSIT MFvJaMMA/ RaliroaS Mr* 1*14. 500 PUB Counu OffarW. Board at Com. WjtaTOuick meu are dead and several others s r!» ocsly Inj iredi The dead: James P. Harrison of Ball Ground; A. C. Gad dis of Ball Ground. Tbe kn^wn in jured are: Y. T. Thomas, H. T. In- I igram and Peter Jordan, colored) Mr. Harrison was well known in At lanta, where for many JiUB he was head of the James P. Harr.son Print ing company. Details of the accident are meagre, but It seems that a mar ble train ran.off a trestle Into a pond. Whether the men were killed by drowning or otherwise Is not known Killed by Italian*. One American, named Dean, 1 of Masi-atousetts, arm d with a seven shooter, fought a bloody battle on Friday against a score of frenzied Italian laborers In a swamp one east of tbe village of Egypt, near Rochester, N. Y. Dean was foreman toe tracks of tbe electric railway, sod the Italians having a grievance against him at tacked him with stilletoe. He killed one Italian, mortilly wounded an other/ wounded several others and then fell fatally wounded himself from a hundred stllletto cute. Horeee Drowned. At New York the ferry boat Colum bia of tbe Wall street line was run into and sunk Friday by the Norwich and all kinds of Fresh and Salt Water fish and oysters. If you are dealing in Fresh Fish or intend to deal In them write for prices Xbd send your ordrs to TERRY FISH (X)., Charleston, S. C. or COLUMBIA FISH & ICE GO Columbia S. C. We ship only fresh caught fish and our prices are aa low they can be sold at. Write us- Try us and be convinced. „ CHARLES C. LESLIE ■ :— WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FISH AND OYSTERS, § ami 20 Market (Stiwvt, Charleatoa, 8. CL >nai^nin.<ntk of C ountry 1’roduca ara Ra- sp •cUuily Solicited. Poultry, Eggs, Bo. _ Kiab packt>d iu barrels aud boxes for country tr, la a specialty. Women’s Diseases,' ' How 1 Cure Them. BOOK 8KNT KIIKK ON RKQUK8T, SPE CIAL MEDICAL LETTER ALSO FREE. Every sii-k Woman who earnestly desires to recover her health nhoul i write me, describing how she suffers, ami I will ptint out to her a simple means of permanent cure. At any rata T'i Recognized as' the oldest established and Most Reliable Special. it will not cost anything to And out how I pro pose to cure your disease, to 1 urge that yoa write me without deity. Thousands of sick women have cured themselves up in this Out of the ripeness of twenty-five years ex perience as a specialist, I have developed an ‘ entirely n- w system of curing chronic diseases and >t adapts itself especially well to thsecure inT# of d’seases of women, to which 1 haw# given special study all my life, 1 will understand S our case, aud understanding it, I will readily nd the means of cure. If the general run of doctors.hare fatted, if patent mWHcll— Uie 1 .- seem cheap; but are really costly in the end have done you no good, then I am more certain that 1 will cure you, for stubborn are the ones I want to hear from, I will cure you fifty per cent quicker than by (he old method, and give you such a treatment aa will not only cure your disease, but build yon up thoroughly and make you feel better in every way. • 1 want especially to hear from women who have trouble with the womb, ovaries or ner vous system, who suffer from leuoorrhea and menstrual difficulties, disorders of the blood, weak heart, headache, neuralgia vertigo, stomach trouble, rheumatism, akin UT Wito several friend* to whom he liner Citv Of Liweli There were shout affections, kidney troubles, any disease of the £ did not mention the .hooting. ^ ' board the Columbia et the time of the accident. All tbe pe^aerg n were taken off safely, but eight or ten bones were drowned. There wee e heavy fog on tbe river et tbe time of the collision. Burned to Death. Two negro children were burned to death Tbundey afternoon In e Ore which destroyed e house end ootton gin near Tarboro, M. Q. 1 will guarantee speedy ami complete recovery by my ne^ original method. At any rate, you should investigate this matter fur ther, and if ye« will write me regarding your self, 1 will study your am aud report to you fully how to be cured. All this will oost you nothing. I will also inclose a booklet of my own writing going into all the special dlaeeM of woman with symptomveansgs and effects. You are at no expense wlmt- be cured and Hfh, 1 expect to 1 W «. — ---private addreae in J. Newton Hathaway, M. D„ 88 Broad St^ Adapt*, Oh. to VrriU aw l \ i free of toarge.' -.2. J ever, sd if you really w nt to got be a weakling ail your li hear from you soon. My prir J. Now* *’ “ , 224.8..1 1^*1 ’MW