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Wt -4: Young Kenneth Keane, Member ‘ s fr- * . ' of the Bamberg Company SHOT IN THE BREAST The Shooriof is Somewhat of a Mysteri ous Affair. Kearso Says He Was Walking Aloof oa Lower Main Street When He Was Shot Unawares. ^ Kenneth Koaiae, a young soldier who is la.camp at Columbia with the Bamberg Guards, last week, waaserl oualy shot in the iett side by an un known negro about 11 o’clock Thurs day night. The affair occurred at the corner of lower Main and Divine streets. The bullet penetrated the “chest cavity hut the physicians state that there is nothing to Indicate that it entered the lungs. The wounded man was taken to the Columbia boa TOO KANT SICK. The Penitentiary Authorities lay lew Law Paters the Counties. 'tj Oonvlete Worked by Oomntlee Until . 7 T They Break Down and Are Then pita! soon after the shooting. The _ "-'■■following account of - the somewhat gang authorities are not (quipped to dent to State Penitentiary. The harden of the new law giving county supervisors the use of oonvlots sentenced to terms of ten years or less, with the option of turning them over to the penitentiary authorities whenever they dear out or break down from ill-health, is falling with increas ing weight on the penitentiary au thorities, who complain that practi cally all of the prisoners they get now, except those sriht in for long terms, ate either diseased or are otherwise incapacitated for work; that short term prisoners kept on the average chain £a D B In this state are soon broken in health from lack of care and by reason of Improper treatment and are sent into thfc penitentiary physical wrecks. The new law Is working a terrible cruelty, ” said Superintendent Griffith, to the Augusta Chronicle correspon dent recently. "I do not believe there is a man In this state physically strong enough to stand ten years’ service on a chain gang In this state. The chain *4*- mysterious affair, is taken from the Columbia State of last Friday: Kearse and Charlie Marshall, a member of the Richland Volunteers, were coming up Main street from the gqjpn station and when they reached ' Jths corner of Main and Divine a ne gro', who it is said was being chased by persons In civilian clothes, ran past them and bad not gone far When he tumid and fired. The nevro waa not known to the soldiers, and after the abnntirg disappeared mysteriously. K* arse’s friend, Marshall, took him 1mm dlately to the office of Dr. Rtoe, which la only a few blocks away from the scene of the shooting. When they reached the office of the physician the wounded man was suf feting considersbly and an anodlne waa administered to alleviate his pain. Both Keane and Marshall were un armed when they reached Dr. Rloe’s office. At the hospital the physician probed for the bullet but could not find It. Later the patient was said to be reetlng very well, although auf faring from shook. No definite opin ion as to the result of the wound cap ’ be given at this time. Tbs ball en tered the cavity but there la no trace , of bfmorrbage nor do the lungs ap pear to be affected. i Patrolman Ford waa on that beat at the time the ahtotlog occurred. He elated that he heard one shot and after an Interval of about a minute time others. He was then near the otrner of Main and College streets and hurried on down In the direction from which the shots were dbmlng. At the corner of Main and Green streets he passed a street oar conductor named Martin who told the to his era shooting at a negro. The policeman ran on to the corner of Main and Divine one block further down. Here be met several negroes who told him that some soldiers bad been shooting at a negro and that they had gone down Divine street. FOrd then ran down Divine for three blocks to Lincoln sod did not see any _ body but one man who waa coming to ward Main street. He was dressed in civilian clothe* and said he had not •con any aoldlra or anybody on that street. - * When Officer Ford returned to the corner of Main and Divine the t agroes wera still there and told him that the soldiers ware oomlng. along Main atreet and met a negro wbo war on the Inside of the pavunent next to the fence and that they began to abase him and be ran out In the mid dle of the street and opened fire -on the militiamen. These two accounts are totally different and neither of them explains the seriee of Shota heard by the pollof man. Kenneth Keane la a son of Mr. An drew Keane, a respected farmer who lives on the Atlant ic Coast Line about £ seven miles from Denmark. A tele * phone ite-sage from Denmark state* that Kenneth Kearse has always been regarded as a quiet and orderly young “ Ban In that oommunlty. During a i put of the last three yean he has : lived in Columbia, being employed at . Qnt one thing and then another. For i awhile be worked at the glass factory ap«t subsequently in a drug store. Keane has an uncle at Denmark who was-apprised of the shooting so that he (bold Inform the parents at once. A Hen •tor Hentened. United States Senator Mithell.con rioted of using hla office of United States senator to further the law pratlce of the firm o{ Mitobel & Tan ner of Portland, Ore., waa aentened to pay a fine of 11,000 and to six months penal servitude. Pending a review of the case by the supreme c&urt of the United States executton of the sentence will be deferred. Meantime Mitchell will he placed un hail tetbe amount of tR.OOO. Many Arrested. The London Daily Mail’s Vienna correspondent says the aultan has of fared a reward of Aip.000 Turkish for the dlspoTpry of the (fonsptrators who arranged for the throwing of the bomb at hla majesty last Friday. Nearly a tbrhsaiid persons hava been „ , arrested on suspicion. An early repe- oare for the prisoners as they should be cared for. When the average chain gang prisoner gets wet working in the rain he is allowed to sleep through the night in his wet dothea, which la barbarous. We never allow a prisoner toilsep in wet clothes down here.” A m* jirity of the deaths that occur at crop.of 1904. yet It bro iSLff ^ more money by 113.143,619 31 cu osis, and many of these cases are w ]]i thus be seen that It pays b life la feared and extensive preoau hit bean taken to pravent it. contracted after tbe prisoner reaches Columbia, though some are sent in each year from tbe chain ganga dying from consumption. A victim of this disease recently was A. S. Simpson, a life termer, sent tere four years ago from Abbeville for murder Simpson was only 31 yean old and contracted tbirdisease .8 months ago. He waa abridge buil der and killed his man in a dispute over the construction of a bwuge. He was a well behaved prisoner and waa apparently a naan of some culture. Hla remains were shipped to bis widow and two children, at Calhoun. Two of hla brothers were frequent vislton to the penitentiary. Simpson waa at fint worked in the hosiery' mill, where practically all of the tuberou- losla oaaea originate, but recently he had been working in the csrpenter shop. Two negro convicts, who died within the past thirty days, were brought in from the county gangs; each died wlthtn two days after his admission to tbe penitentiary. In this connection, a paragraph from Dr. S. £ Harmon’s last annual re port, will be of much Interest: There were 392 patients in tbe hoe- pital. 'Ten times that number were treated for minor troubles that did i who told the offioeTTh answer, it quiry that 1twai\acme soldi- hospttxrr Ireport thirty-one de this year, all c being of a chronic nature, with the exception of two or three, Including one suicide. Nine teen died of tuberculosis. The death rate from this disease can hr reduced by isolation, but when we consider that a large per cent of those that die from tuberculosis are admitted to the Institution already infected you oan readily tee that the death rate from this disease will always be large. You will see that seven of the number that died were received from the various chain gangs, in a hopeless condition; one of whom died two days after be ing admitted.” \ \ THE COTTON CROP. The Outlook for Oeod Prices Is Most Vxealleut. The Fi Have Only to Marke Lightning Set One on Fire Others Quickly Ignited. the Crop Oarefklly and Prop erly to Reap Profit. MEN AND MULES BURN The farmers of the Sooth have things in their own hand! now, and if they will act with each other they will reap a rich reward, not only this year, but for all yean. The ootton situation at this time is mpre favors hie for high price ootton this fall than we have had in yean. At the close of the year 1904 then was no surplus ootton, and by September 1st 12 500,000 bales of the 13,584,457 hales made in 1904 will have been con sumed. This will leave about 1,000,-. 000 bales to stirt business on Septem her 1, 1906. Tbe present year’s crop will hardly exceed 9,000 000 bales. To that you add the 1,000,000 bales brought over, and you have only 10,- 000 000 bales, about 2 500 000 bales short of the consumption of 1906. To make more ootton than indicat ed above we would have to make mote per acre than we have made for tbe past five yean, which hardly aeemi> possible if tbe crop reports an to be relied hpon. According to the nports we hate the shortest acreage this year and the lowest nport. except one, in tbe five years. In 1903 our acreage Seat to Stay Progress of Plsaws, They Wen HesMKd la After Explosioa. Two Sqaare Miles of Heavy* Sanke aad Lurid, laex- a tiagaishable Fire. At Humble, Texas, covering an area three-quarten of a mile square with a great canopy of smoke hovering •wo square miles, the oil tanka of the Texas Company continue to boll and bubble under the great heat of the burning oil, the fire having burned all . ... . . . . ^ . night. *—Yr 4jtr0og.hr illegal, and feels no regret When It oan he extinguished is prob- ematioal, certainly not until it has burned all of the oil In eleven big tanks which held two and a half million bar rels when lightning struck them on Sunday afternoon. It la now known that five negro workmen perished. There are hun dreds of homeless people. They were ivlng 1 in tents and in the oil WM 28,014,860, and we 1 made 9 851," g e ld lad fled for th«ir Uvea to the & RaUlMnake* In tbe 8tr«et. Ten days ago a Dr Arnold went to BaMh; Wy0..selling eye medicine.TO attract attention to his warea-the do^ llectlon of tor brought with him a collection freaks, among them being a snake charmer with several boxes of rattle snakes. Having no state license, tbe doctor waa arretted, lined 860 and sent to jail for a week. Upon being liber atod he found that hla freaks had dis appeared, the snake charmer leaving behind his collection of full grown rattlers. About dusk Arnold went into the center of the town and open ed the doors of the snake cages, per- mlttlng-thv'tweniy five big rattlers to escape. Arnold then got out of town on horseback. The alarm waa spread and a nlgnt of terror was spent by the citizens, wbo were afraid to leave their residences because of the rattlers. Arnold will be lynched If he is caught. Htove Exploded. Two dead, two fatally burned and three others seriously injured la the result of an explosion of a gasoline stove early Weanesdzy at the borne of Levy Titus, a Kosher butcher, Brad- dock, Pa. The explosion was caused by tbe overturning of a gasoline stove on which Mrs. Titos was preparing breakfast. The burning fluid waa scattered over the room, enveloping Mrs. Titus and igniting a five gallon can of oll l 'HandlDg on the rear porch near tbe door.. Tne dead are Harry Titus and Meyer Titus, twins, aged 7 years. _ Mrs, Sarah Titus, the mother, and Elate Titus, aged 3 years, were fatally burned. price,as that would do more harm than good. Do not think that beoanse we havtrwon one great victory you oan push ootton tea very high prioe. You must remember that there are other places that can raise ootton besides tbe States of tbe South. But you need not fear competition as long as ootton stays below 12i cents. There is nothing under the sun you oan man jglth_aa cheap aa you cotton at 12}< Properly hand king again, and will make the South In time the richest country in tbe world. So, let us all take courage and stick together. This can only oe done by a thorough organization of all the business Interests of the South. We are all in the same boat with tbe man that makes the cotton. What hurts him hurts us all. So then let us get our forces in good shape and victory is ours. - Farmers, market your ootton as long as it stays from ten to twelve and a half cents, but Just as soon as it gets below ten cants stop right off and positively refuss to sell until some on will see fit to give you ten cents, which will always come if it ean^h* bought for lass. If you are not already a member go at onoe and join the Southern Ootton Ateooia tlon, which has certainly done a grand work for the Sooth tbli year. Three Mlnen Killed. While a number of miners were at work in the Bulkhead mine in New Mexico an explosition of dyamlte oc curred which wrought awful havoc in already,! tbe mine and killed three men. jMap bodies of tbe men were blown to - AUtpb-of’lhe attemut oft the tultan’iInot enough being left by which they ocnid be recognised, were injured. Several others Bought Hie lAfe. Bound, gagged and at the meroy of Mexican bandits, B. S. Loomis a San 1* ranclscoan, was held a prisoner in the mountains of Cerro de San Juan, near San Blast, Mexico. A promise (f the payment of a ransom saved his life, for it waa the Intention of the robbers to kill hini after they had stripped him of aU his effects. L^mls is the superintendent of fiutt company at San Bias and is wel known in San Francisco. In telling of bis experience Lcom'a writes “While returning from Tepio I was held up by bandits and robbed of my effect# . I was bound and gagged and tben taken to a narrow canyon to he killed. I bought tbe bandits off with a promise to pay them 1200, the moa ey to be taken to a certain point on a certain day. They threatened to kil me at night if I did not keep my promise. I did not keep my promise and Instead of sending the money purchased a rifle for my protection.’’ and PAID THE MONK?. Iditor WUliama, of tbe Fews-Leader, Vakas-Public Statement. Have $25 to Elect Andereoi*. Makes Announcement In Hla Paper Ad mitting Rumor* to Be True. The following dispatch to the Washington Poet from Richmond, Va., concerns an act of Mr. A. B. Williams in connection with ao elec tion, in which he defends himself for using money in election: In a letter to the public Alfred B. Williams, president and editor of the News Leader, admits that rumors connecting him with the expenditure of money in the ^recent municipal primary are true. He frankly ex plains the whole matter, says he is not conscious of having done anything SENATOR TILLMAN Is Willing toltfAfe ik a Joint Vis- eposarr Debate. for his action. For a week the grand jury has been engaged in probing charges of fraud in the late "election, and during tbe past few days rumor baa been busy with the name of Mr. Williams, alleg- ng that he paid 125 to a party worker to aid Col. George Wayne Anderson, candidate for commonwealth’s at torney, in the First precinct of Jeffer- 129, which brought 6660.549,230 82, in the crop of 1804 we bad 30,453,600 acres, and made 13 584,467 bales, that brought .1647 405,534.51. These fig ures are Interesting, and we shall pursue them further. The crop of 1908 was~», 491,386 bales yet It brought It pays better to raise a moderate crop than a very large one. The acreage for 1906 is about 26 179,038, the smallest -that ws have had in tbe last five yeara, ar d with tbe average for five rears multi plied with tbe acreage of 1905, it makes a erop of about nine million bales. Figure from any standpoint you ple*ae and you cant figursa over a ten million bale crop, and it can be figured as low as eight million for 1905 with plausible figures. “ In ths faoi of the above figures, it is very plain that if tbe farmers mar ket tbe orop Intelligently good prioee are bound to prevail. The present crop la worth ten cents and not a pound of it should be sold below that figure. The thing for the farmer to do when cotton goes below ten cents la to put it in a warehouse and wait for a rise, but do not Inslat on too high a Atb are all that are known to have town. All their belongings were de stroyed by the fire. During the night there waa a beayy downpour of rain, and this oovared the ground with a sheet of water coated with a thick film of oil. Shortly after a big tank began to blaze two hundred workmen with sev enty-five mules were hurried to the place to throw up earthen embank- nents. Suddenly the oil gave an up heaval, bubbled and lifted a great mass of the burning fluid bodily from tbe tank and the fire waa oommunioated to three other tanka. . At 4 o’clock Monday morning firs broke out in the steal tanks of the Texas Company attha pumping sta tion, a mile from the original fire. What damage waa dona cannot be as certained beoanse it la impossible to reach that part of the field. The burning oil caught men and mules and hemmed them in. Some of the mot mounted ths mules and got out hut at least forty mules balk ed and were cremated. Five negroes were seen to go down and It is not be lieved to be possible that they oould not escaped. While all the men have not been accounted for, tin son ward. Mr. Williams lays In HA card, pub- tha fattgus of making any speeches,” perished. , — At 10 o’clock the fire was still raging with no prospects for Immediate con trol. It Is believed, however, that the flames will eventually be confined to the tankage district. There were 000,000 barrels of oil ln the storage tanks, all of which will be destroyed. Lomeeare estimated at 1750,000 or more with practically no insuranoe. its of fatalities art not verified, ibugh a number of men are report ed missing. The conflagration wft visible in Houston, seventeen miles away and in Galveston, sixty five mile distant. * The OH Fire la Over. After burning for three days and nights the Texas oil fire is over. Work ing under the greatest difficulty and at the imminent peril of their lives hundreds of workmen threw up em bank meats between the burning oil and those not yet on fixe, and this In a large measure, contributed toward stopping the flames. It was impossible to do anything with those burning, but since It la now believed the further spread of the fire is pre vented, ths oil in the burning district ■ted (be Monament. The Augusts Chronicle says negro soldiers of Savannah and Augusta, while parading on Broad street Tues day afternoon, attracted considerable attention and .won the applause of Bn hundreds of whlte people, who wit- ^ nessed the incident, respectfully sa luting tbe Confederate monument, in passing the beautiful abaft. It was a graceful act, and one that was widely commented upon on fell aides. The military saints, by presenting arms, aa the marble shaft, commemorating tjte Confederate dead, was passed, cuneaa a surprise to the spectators along the street. Almost Instantly tfcfe Applause began and was oontinusd gntu after flht oompaiilsKjiad pcMtd. ed, twelve lives lost and property wip ed away to the value of 31,500,000. Of the twelve dead all were negroes. Only six of the bodies have been re covered, all of them being charred be- yound recognition. Took Her Own Life. At New York, within five minutes from the time that Charles Marshall, a Wall street broker left his wife ap parently sleeping soundly in bed, the woman wrote her husband a note, tell ing him not to let ths world blame him (or what was going to happen,, aoc shot herself, dying before her hushfenc eouid reach the bedside, Mrs. Marshal was formerly Miss Grace Starr and waa highly connected in New York social circles No cause for the suicide wss discovered. The tragedy occurred in the Raleigh, a fashionable family apartment hotel, overlooking Central park at Ninety-second street. —1 1 ■ 1.1111. n lit. ■■■■ Foucht It Out. James B. Gray, editor of the At lanta Journal, and H. H. Revil, a rep- reeentive in the Georgia legislature from Merriwether County, had a fight at a prominent place on Peachtree street Vn Atlanta. They were sepa rated before damage was done. Thd fight arose over an editorial article in the Journal dealing with Mr. Revl and a spec oh in reply. Mr. Revil drew a pistol, bat Mr. Gray was un 'Hlfd, r» — j— ishsd in the News-Leader recently, that the election transaction on which these rumors are based waa no secret and was not intended to be. He says that be waa informed tbe night before he election that active work at tbe First precinct, Jefferson ward, would carry it for Col. Andepon, and that there was a man woo would do the work, but he would expect to be paid. I. immediately said," continued fir. Williams, “that I would see that be waa paid if he did the work, but that Col. Anderson would not be told about It, and would know nothing of it.’’ Mr. Williams further explains that was kept from Col. Anderson be cause, under the Barksdale law, it would be heoeesary for him to take a rigid oath that he had not used money in the election, or allowed it to be used except for certain specified pur poses. It la his understanding of the aw, he says, that a candidate's friends may do things that the candidates cannot legally do. Ha says further that after tbe elec tion he sent his personal check to the worker in question, wbo is under stood to be Samuel Goldstelu, a power among a certain class. Mr. WUliama aayi he sent a check ao that the trans action should be open and there should be no appearance of trying to hide anything. There waa no talk or suggestion pf bribery or corruptly in tluenclng anybody, says Mr. Williams, and he does not believe a dollar was spent for such a purpose. The writer says the differehoe be tween buying votes and ssoarlng per soosl influence in a legitimate way is clear to him; that he would not have given a dollar oould it have purchased votes enough to elect Col. Anderson. He concludes: “If the grand Jury, in Its wisdom , aaff consoience, sees fit to indict me, shall meet the issue without any quibbling or dodging play for delay, or resort to legal technicalities." The mater has created unbounded Interest because of the prominence of Mr. Williams, who has for jteMa taken a leading part in city affairs, and who has always been foremost in all movements looking to the upbuild ing of the city and the purifying of the ballot. The Barksdale law, which bean on elections, is is follows: No person shall expend, pay, prom-. continued the senator, I think I la nearly exhausted. Three million barrels of crude oil have been destroy- ]q^q or become pecuniarily liable Nexkliergeet In Bontb. According to reports brought back from Oteaaoo college by Sunerintend- ent Martin, the summer scnool which has Just dosed was tbe largest in the South, with the exception of the one held at Sewaoee. The total enroll ment will go, over 700 and Mr. Mar tin and other educators who took, part feelmooh encouraged at this.lntereat In education by Mia in any way for any money or other valuable tbipg in behalf of any can didate for office at any election, prl msry, or nominating convention held in this commonwealth. Any person or candidate violating any of the pro visions of this act shall be subject to a fine of not less than 3100 or more than 31,000, or confined in not less than one nor morfi than twelve months. VIOLATED THE LAW. At Richmond, Va., Wednesday the grapd jury brought in indictments against five men, Including Alfred B Williams, editor, for alleged violation of election laws in the recent Demo cratic primary there. The. indict ment alleges Mr. Williams agreed to pay 326 to one of the others indicted for influencing votes in behalf of candidate for oommd&wealth attor oey. All except one, wbo is out of town, gave 3500 bond each. The oases will be tried Id September. Laid to Heat. The Newberry Observer says "Rev P. H. E. Derrick and wife were called to the bedside of Mrs. A. E. Geiger last Thursday. Mrs. Geiger waa the mother of Mrs. Derrick and wife of Dr Frank Geiger. She waa the mother of 12 children. Mrs. Geiger was of tha family of Geigers that gave to alatory the Emily Geiger who made the darjog ride from a point in Newberry county to the continental commander at Orangeburg. Mra. Geiger waa laid to reat in the Sandy Run cemetery on Friday.” Dteatisaed. Prof. Andrew Noah Fox of the Chicago theological seminary has been flsmiieed from the institution be cause of a telegram to Jno. D. Rocke feller asking tar some of hla “tainted .... _ money” to endow two professorships, the happtsst Mm*.—X. The Leader o< Dispensary ForeeaHot Averse to Meeting on Mtump * Champion of Opponents. The Augusta Chronicle aaya United States Senator Benjamin Ryan Till man, although not having a great deal to say nowadays is ne taking a great Interest in political at fain. Senator Tillman waa aeen at his home in Trenton several days ago by a representative of The Chronicle, and readily answered the questions impounded by the newspaper man. Vhen questioned on the movement to vote out tbe dispensary in hli own county the Senator said: “I have been about very little and have had no opportunity other than attending .one picnic in Edgefield, to meet the people. I, therefore, am not posted , aa to tbe present trend of thought and feeling, but those who and are well in formed, tell me that in thia bounty the sentiment is charging very rapid- The people are constantly asking what they are to have after the dis pensary la abolished, while the effect the school fund of withdrawing from the county the money hitherto received from the state dispensary ia causing a great many people to change ront. “While I am not eager to undergo WAS WRONG. would really enloy having a J fint dia cusslon with spy champion the anti- dispensary piople might decide upon, or, for that matter, any half dosen of them. The people are disgusted with the management of the state dlapen sary, and there ia widespread belief that -there ia corruption somewhere. This will cause many to vote against the system, who have hitherto been ta strong friends. “In my recent letter, I mentioned some figures aa to tbe effectiveness of prohibition, or, rather, its failure in fialne and Kansas. I have received from Washington tbe last annual re port of commission of Internal revenue Or the flaeal year e ding June 30, 1905. In it 1 find the following fig ures: ‘ “Retail dealers in Kansas, 2,862; wholesale liquor dealers, 23; brewers, retail deafen in malt liquors, 335; wholesale dealers in malt liquors, 108 “In Maine the figures an: Retail quor dealers, 430; wholesale liquor dealers, 5; bnwen, 3; retail dealers in malt liquors, 558; wholesale dealen In malt liquors, 22. ‘ ‘Now, in neither of theee states oan iquor be sold as a beverage under the aw. In South Carolina the figures an: ‘Rstail liquor dealen, 612; wholesale iquor dealen, 7; brewen, 1; ntall dealers in malt liquon, 66; wholesale dealers in malt liquors, 9.” Senator Tillman ben gave the figur es in tabular form, in order to show ths oomparison men clearly: Continuing, he said: “The figures •peak for themselves, and when any one nmembers that no man will pay the 326 to ths United States govern ment for ths permlaskm to ntall for fun, it may ha assn how prohibition prohibits. Of oouras, in South Garo- ina, then an a number of beer prl vl eghs, and all dlspenaarisa take out a United States llosnae, and these will have to be deducted from the fi nurse above given in order to show bow many blind tigers we have in this state. “Kaasaa has pnaalhUy 2QQ.0QQ mon population than South Carolina, while Maine has about half our population. Any one who la interested can out the percentages. The figures show that then an about twice aa many liquor dealen per capita in Maine as n South Carolina, even Including the dispensaries, while in Kansas there an more than five times aa many. - “I am mon than ever convinced that there is political signlfloanoe, as well as a desire to further the cause of temperance in the move to destroy the dispensary. I shall be glad if at least dozen counties vote out the dispen saries tills summer, because it will give the people of thoee counties a good chance to find out bow far pro hibition (will prohibit before the real fight a year henos. ’’ Olrl Lost In Coal Mine. Miss Florence Evetett, of Soothe Amboy, had an experience In a coal mine at Freeland, which nearly ended in her death. With Mias Mabel Road, of Perth Amboy, and a party of Freeland friends, she. was seeing the mine, when their lights wen ex tinglushed by a sudden draft. In the confusion Mias Eventt became aep •rated from her companions, and got into a blind head, ending into 70 foot shaft. When she waa groping her benighted way along the head ing, and was within a couple of feet of the shaft,) The party, upeet by tbe incident, got ont of the mine quickly. A Second Estimate of theCotMs Y Acre*|tby the SOME REPORTS Crt# Eaffmsrtfeg Beard Mi ^ a anv iw*a__ m. • m accreitry witsofl* rot Ktptrt stjt that Hyde, With Hetass DrAssssadtssM Hten Dm. felHBf ^Wp®t •Jt® 'Y ..«»! thute Tee Low. JY. Assistant Secretary Hays Wednes day made the following report to 8eo- retary Wilson on-tbs acreage of cot ton In ths southern States in 1905; as compared with that planted ia 1904: “Ths orop estimating board of tbs department of agriculture baa consid ered tbe report issued by tbs bureau of atatiatioa on June 2, relative to tbs aorefegs planted In ootton in tbs southern States In 1906, as compared with that planted in 1904, and has concluded: “First. That a new estimate should be made on acreage planted, and that tbe figures In Mr. Hyde’s hands when making his estimate should be uasd as the hula ''Second. That Mr. Hyde with Mr. Holmes at bis elbow, prompting him mads the estimate lower than tbs facta at bis band from tbs reports from tbe seven aliases of reporters employed by the bureau warranted. “Third. The board finds, upon oars- ful consideration of the reports of all classes of correspondents sod agents, that the acreage planted in ootton this year, including the entire season, should have been estimated at 861 per cent, of that planted last year, equivalent to a reduction In planted acreage as compared with last year of 14 9 per oent. (instead of 11.4) or 4,731,000 acres, the estimate of tbs total acreage planted this year being 26,999,000 acres. ‘The estimated percentage Of tbs taf* each of tits ootton grow- States is as followa: Virginia, 18; North Carolina, 16; South Carolina, 14; Georgia, 14; Florida, It; AMmmbs, 11; Miasiatippl, 13; Louisiana, 17; Texas, 10; Arkansas, 19; Tinna—, 13; Mteourl, 16; Oklahoma, 16; In* dian Territory, II. “Tbs averages wars sands for < ■>.;> State by snob of ths four memben of tbs board, and tbs comparatively small disagreements wore harmonised almost wholly by averaging, and Mis above results are fully agreed to by each and every member of tbs board. “RsepeetfuUy submitted: 0 ' ^Victor Olmsted, “Stephen D. Fessenden, “George K Holmes, V “W. W. Lomo, “Orop Ettimattng Board." “Tbs above findings and report made under my supervision have my entire approval. “W. M.Hau, “Assistant Secretary in Charge Bureau of Statiattoa” 0 - "Approved: ' “James Wilson, * Secretary of Agriculture." * ■i r nixty five Tears Ago, A boy and a girl wore together six ty five years ago, near Cross Hill, when they cams across a terrapin, of the highland kind. While the young people sat talking together the hoy, with bit hen knife, sot his Initials on- Jestea Hood. “There is nothing in life so sweet as love’s young dream,’* sang the poet. 1 know that there la piquancy in ths oourahip aad engagement that has for tbe youth and tbs maid charm a charm all Its own, name one period that seems to me to compare favorably even with that When tha days of doubt am past and the magic words bays been a pokes that binds them for age, either for weal or woe. Then when hand and hand they enter their owr home to raise for themselves a family altar and plant their vine and fig tree shelter them in old age. I think % the underneath front aide of the ter rapin’a shell, and the date. The ter- *s tamed loom. Only a fair weeks ago this terrapin waa found not mom than a hundred yards from the same spot, with tbe initials and date aa plain as the day they were eat on tbe shell, tbe terrapin having grown . very little in the 62 years that had intervened. The boy of 66 yearn ago, now a man of mom than eaxenty remsmdered the incident and at onoe moonised tbe letters and figures as his own. He la now a widower. The girl of that dav la still alive, and is n widow. He is still a citizen of the same neighborhood. She moved away many years ago. Tbe above story is vouched for by the Newberry Observer. Jadge aad Jary. In 1883 a man was charge* in Vic toria with having killed toother sun with a sandbag, and In tbe faoedf the Judge’s summing up, the jury brought lu a verdict of not guilty. This an noyed the chief justice, Sir Matthew Begbie, wbo at onoe said: "Gentle men of tbe jury, mind, that ia your verdict, not mine. Oa your eoueot- enoe will rest tbe stigma of returning such a disgraceful verdlat. Many repetitions of such conduct si yours will make trial by Jury a horrible farce and the City of Victoria a otty of immorality and crime. Go, 1 hava nothing mom to lay to you." And then turning to tbe priaooor, the chief justice added: ,T You am die- oharged. Go end sandbag sons at thorn jurymen. They deserve ttr Anoounoement was made at artmint Of Sgrtoottum Bertha Burch, private 'Former stetMticisu signed ind that 1 " Sir Italia* and three