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' . :v '•ft r: .: • t ^ n ••> * iffli TBOJPH AT LAST. as a naawAT^ia. fht m WO Boodlt i frw * T \h» korot^Tw. ,. Hctions. (BEAT EXCITEMENT. R< P«I»N«M Party to Bay Up Last Blactlon. What th« Preto il ant Oaght to Do. tin aad Moderatca Cltth la a Bald la Which Six People Art Mki or Woaadtd. Troops Harried to the Setae by the QoveraaieaL •- ▲ dtapatoh from Hamia, Cuba, •ays offlolal dispatches base boon re ceive d from Cieofucgoa on Friday af ternoon announcing the killing of Oongrsosmsn Eirlque Yllluendas, leader of the Liberal party and the most able orator of the lower house, and the chief of police of Clenfuegoe, during a conflict between the two political parties, the Liberals and Moderatca, The government advloss say the police bad Information that within the hotel in which Villueodas resided a quanlty of arms had been deposited and they went to tbe hotel to Inveatlgate the matter. As the police amended the stairs they were mat by a party of Liberals who fired on them. kllllng Chief of Felloe Ilian- c». The police returned the fire kill log Vlllnendaa and wounding several otbera. Intense excitement prevailed at Clenfuegoe and Havana. ▲•the news spread throughru' Hav ana the Liberals and Moderate! are rapidly gathering in their respective clubs and It is feared that unless the leaders give wlsa counsel a clash may t» result. A dispatch to the Associated Press from Oienfuegos says that at* u ilx persons were killed and 25 wound ed during tbe conflict Dispatches to the government ray that besides Congressman YUluendeH and. Chief of Police Illaood two police aaen were killed and a number of polloamen and civilian* wounded. Su ral gnardi surround the entire block in which tbe Hotel Suizo, the &c»ne of the affray, is situated. One telegram lays that Yllluendas fired the shot which killed the chief of police, while according to another telegram the •hot was lired by Jose Fernand z a Liberal, who baa been arrested. A search of ttw^otel revealed two dynamite bombs in the room ore iplcr by Yllluendas. Tbe polloe In search ing the hotel were carrying out tbe * order of a Judge who was Informed that explosives ware hidden these. The government baa received a tele gram from Senator Frlae asking tor reinforcements at onoe. Tea tele gram says: “While in Cienfuego* at — preeent the forces are keeping order, every precaution Is netdtd as tbere la danger of aasault. 1 rroommend that the authorities prevent the eo trance Into Oienfurgoa_jof probable < trouble makers who are liable to In vade the city. There are fears of Qynamtte bon b throwing." ▲cling, on the advice of Senator Frias, the government Friday even- log sent a train of flro can loaded with rural guards, the largest number of whom are destined for Olenfuagoa, * while the others will be dlstribufc d Id Mantanzaa and Santa Clara, where ad rices Motived by U* gweemmeni rouble i any time. The t-tfu alto carries artillery and the trpep* are supplied with 13,000 rounds <•? ammunition. The feeling in Huts' a* Friday night Is most In tense. The L'berals are bitterly de nouncing the government, saving they have received no advices from Olen fuegos because the government wll not permit the use of either the gov eminent telegraph Unci or of the cable llnee. . us trouble may occur at 6X18 TXX Y1AA*. FVA For JPattiec Baakv's Heads and K* V mse la a Wall. A dispatch from Laurens to Tbe State says Wednesday in the court of general sessions John Miller, a young negro farm hand, was convicted of administering poison with intent to kill and was glvtn a sentence of tec years fh the State prison. Tbe Indict ment under which Millar was tried charged Wash Oarwile and Millar with attempting to poison an antlre family consisting of Mr. E. W. Fergugpn who resides near Clinton, his wife ▲nut and ■qwm> of the servants and hands employe oa the plaoe, by placing In the well from which every one on tbe premises used water, a bag containing a snake' head, a frog, a lizard end a quantity of stuff told to hava b?en a compos! Uoo of match heads and other things of a poisonous character. This fact that Mr. Ferguson and other members of the family became vary ill about the same time lad to an Investigation which revealed the pres ence of the horrible mixture In the drinking water. Oarwile and Milbr were suspected of the deed. Miller was promptly arrested but Oarwile et oaped and has not been apprehended yet. Both negroes and their families quit using the water on Sunday before the Vargnsons ware made sick on Tues ^t was brought out in the trial Wednesday that the negroes were dose friends nod during the year had given Mr. Ferguson oonqjderable trouble, that they were not being r|ght and that they would even things when their time was out. tbelSthof JuP their contract he ouklhey wr„. paid off. Three iter the o^c was found in the It was i bolloal deed and Judge Mem min s' said in passing Mills coat the tea year :too light. William B. noting solicitor, conduoted with signal tact and abll- The testimony of Mr. Parkins of tha New York Lift Insurance Com panythat 150,000 of the policyhold ers’ money was pledged and 148,702 60 paid into tha campaign fund of the Republican party last year, to ha em ployed in pro mo tl eg the election of Mr. Roosevelt, has stirred up many stories of campaign contributions by tha groat corporate Interests. A dis patch to Tbe Chicago Record-Herald from Washington says that it Is very freely stated at the capltkl now that tha meat packers of Chicago, mem bers of the beef trust, wblob Commis sioner Garfield has sices declared to be a poor, suffering organ zitlon^ un justly accused by tha public of ixtor- tlon, paid $100,000 to Mr R x»jevelt’s campaign purse. According to tbe correspondent’s statement the con tribution- of the packers was first put at $50,000, tbe same as tbe amount asked of the New York Life, but It was afterwards raised to $100,000. The correspondent continues with this Interesting Information: - r - After tbe packing companies had contributed,representat ons ware made to the brewers and whiskey Interests that It would be to their benefit to give large sums, and the money was forthcoming. During the campaign the agents of tha department of com merce and labor were at work Investi gating the affairs of the packers. The original sum oontritu.ed by the pack ers was about what they normally give to a campaign fund, and the later oon trlbutlon doubled it. It la stated |.bat Secretary Cortelyou knew nothing of tbe souroe of the campaln oontribu i ons. “Cornelias N. Bllai, tree: urer of the national committee, and his assistant, C. H. Daell, were the only men who knew absolutely where all campaign contribution! came from,” said a politician today. “In the West Charles G. Dawes collected tbe funds. 3e Introduced many men whose con tributions were wanted to Mr. Oortel- you at luncheons which were arranged Or the purpose. Mr. Cortelyou roll- oiled no contributions from these men, but merely talked over the campaign with them.” In commenting on the above tbe Charleston Evening Post says: “Presl ( ent Roosevelt denounced Judge Par ker most fiercely because be dared to condemn these collections of money :'iom tha corporations and to draw the Inevitable onnoiusloo that “ made with expeotatfyn of favors from ibe administration and therefore, with triplication of suoh by the agents d Mr. Roosevelt, who had not been re pudiated by tbat virtuous gentleman. Now wo know tbat the New York Life gave a largo sum of money and win that it was given In Just the way Judge Parker said last October tbat suoh contributions were made. Here are Judge Parker’* words: “Shall the o*eati»Ds of government—many or which pursue Illegal methods—contro our elections, control them by moneys belonging to their stockholders— moneys not given in the open sne charged upon toe books as money pair for pallttcai purposes, but hidden away by false bookkeeping?" The Item of the New York Life’s oontribu tlon was so entered on the books that even tbe treasurer of the company who drew tha check lor the amount did not know what was Its purpose an4 It became necessary to catt tbe highest executive officers of the com pany to explain It. “Bdt Isn’t Mr. Roosevelt to stir up bis apirit at this Juncture and de nounoe some bod) ? He can’t denounce Judge Parker again because the truth of his charges Is established. Bat be might denounce Mr. Bliss for not tall Ing him of the embarrassing oblige Uons he bad contracted. Except that he may never have consulted Mr Bliss about tbe matter d urlng the campaign, It being agreed Injadvanoe that all assurances of clean campaign log should come to the Preaidant from Mr. Cortelyou, who, himself, should have nothing to do with anything tbat was not clean. But one. thing Mr. Roosevelt might do, namely, to inatyuct Mr. Cortelyou to publish now tUI whole list of campaign oontribu tiaqi made to the Republican fund last year and speclfio&lly declare hlmE self free of any obligation "to those contributors, whatever eogageniritfe His agents may have made when they secured the money. Mr. Brae veil likes to do sensatioual things. Here aohanoefor him." A strange story comas from Denver, OoL Paying feller the and ory comes IsbrnTtr National Bank in the day time highwayman at night, is the existence laid by the Denver polios at tha door of Wm. Y, Wright. Tha story of the alleged doable Ufe of tbe young man, which his many friends have vainly attempted to sup press, came $• a thunderbolt, and tbe exclusive circles In which the young man moved are agog with excitement. Tbe young man,^eU dreeeed and of gentlemanly demeanor and not in the least having the hangdog appearance usually expected of a hold-up man, was brought into the polloe station at the city ball shortly after midnight Saturday morning in the patrol wagon in custody of Patrolman Jas. Cum mlngs, who had jreoelved him from a seventeen-year ol(J boy, Charlie Me Gills, one of tbe efflaera of Ckuaty Judge Lindsey’s Juvenile court. According to MoGillis and tha via tims of tbe alleged hold-up two men, Samuel Shirk, a shoemaker, and B Bushviosky, a oarpeptef, both men thlrifty .Hebrews, ,who-live in the West Side of Denver, had been down town lata attending a meeting and seeing their friends and were walking lome. They had oroseed tha bridge over the Platte river when they were selzsd and a demand node for their money. Instead of complying they called for help when tha hold up man whipped out a revolver and, cooking It, said ha wonld kill them if they ottered anotlmr sound. . McG tills, who lives near the sc sne, heard the ory for aid, rushed out with )(adad club in hand and found the robber still with tha gun ready for action. The hold up man attempted to turn the gun on the lad, who rapped him over the bead with hts billy and took tbe revolver away. Mo Glllis called for help and walked hla >rlsoner until ha roet Patrolman Cum minga. The Meet figaifieaat Gotten Situation mmmmammmmmmmm la the Remarkably Early Cfeaafa«r bi Pleked In a Short Time. The moot significant phase of tbe cotton situation Is the remarkably early opening - of the crop, says the Progressive Farmer and Cotton Plant, of Rilelgb, N. 0. Everybody knows that the yield la very mnob smaller than last./car, bat tbe goremment On the way toward polloe heaf qaar tens the young man admitted that be was paying teller of a bank with twelve millions in deposits and begged ils captors to lot him go, saying tbat ia would be rutnid if he were exposed. Ils name was entered on the pjlloe blotter aa W. E. Wright, but the po Ice captain recognized the Identity of He alleged hold up. He was thrown ; ato the bull p£n with other await aotion and no entry was ma< at the time on the charge of highway robbery, whtoh had been lodged by young MoGillis and the two victims. Etrlyln the morning before time for the polloe magistrate to dispose of ther were}«•*<* Wright was allowed to go aod the entry on the blotter was written Tt slck. n TBs police captain whan asked in regard to the so lion to the matter said that ha believad the ycuog man was only 111 or slightly in toxioated and that he was probably In no way responsible for tbe alleged oc currence. Mr. Wright, pa/lng teller of tbs Denver National Bank, was at his desk whan the bank opened Wednes day morning denied that he was im plicated to the matter In any way He ridiculed the idea that he..vaa a highwayman. Mr. Wright has always moved to the best circles of Denver society and Is a protege of J. D. That cher, pres d mt of the bank, to which he is employed. ■ LONG LOST COMMSfilOX heaylcr than they were to this date t season. Around Raleigh we nc- tioe that to Some-placet three fourths of tha crop is ready for picking At the Asheville meeting we heard simt- ar conditions reported from other Itatte, and to Riobmond last week President Jordan told the writer that the early opening la general through out the Cotton B-lt Now this condition, it seems to ns, car not fall to hava its effect upon the market. Early opening means early ginning—heavy receipts to all the gin neries to the early part of the season; and tba general fL^lIc is likely to have this Inorease In gitnlng receipts indicating a large crop of cotton. Last year’s crop proved to be so much heavier than anybody suspected prior to the Government's December report, ihat tbe cotton world will be ready to ump at the ooneluslon tbat this sea son's yield may also have been under estimated. With this unusual condition of the e:o? favoring the plans of tbe bean, therefore, It Is quite likely that they may be alls to keep down the price of cotton below Its tius value until the act ral siz) of tha crop becomes known —tbat is to say, until the Inevitable decline In ginning receipts proves that tbe crop is really a small one For ft la really a small crop—no doubt of tbat. The Government oon dltlon figures with the Government acreage estimate, is we said t*st week, indicate a crop of only 9,976^33 bales; with the 0<>tton Association's acreage estimate 9 562.514 bales. If the Cot ton Association bad based Its estimate ■ ilely on the condition of tbe crop re ported to it—seventy-three per cent of last year—it would have predicted only 11,500,000 hales instead of 9,400, 000. , Tha Nashville American says statin tics show that the average number of murdeis eosamlttf d ehimaHT ’ ln this country IS about 10,000. .▲ large par cent: of murderers are inad quately punished or essape punishment en tirely. Tba crime of murder is more common in tha United Statee than to any other country. Toat is because tie comparatively easy to escape punishment. Tbe need of reform of oar criminal court system Is apparent. Too mnob latitude is given criminal lawyer*. In no other country is then suoh unrestrained license to Insult on repurt shows that gtnntogreceiptoaMfivttnessee on the stand; to attack their characters before the Jurv; to I to the ps Returned to the Oallant Holder Who Loot It tn Battle. says a commission as captain of the Twenty-fifth New Jersey volunteers which was lost by Oapt. Archibald Graham on the battlefield of Freder tekaburg, Va., was returned to Cspt Graham’s widow Wednesday by Calef Justice Walter Clark of the supreme court of North Carolina. Judge Clark found tbe commlsaion after the battle was ovsr. Hs sent it to tbe State ad Jutaat general’s offloe In Trenton and asked tbat It be forwarded to the own er. He accompanied it with a letter saying that he bad Intended to return It many years ago but had mislaid and forgotten It. He wrote: __ “This commission was found where only a brave man oould have c r l id It—beneath the phoglng fire of tbe Washington ' artillery on ' Mare g “Wi Iniff tottjr 1 m and tbs oven appeal to the passions and prejudices of ignorant Jurors, to pick Juron; to secure oontinuauose with tbe view to wearing the case out, etc. Tbeee practices are tolerated through cut tom, but cis to in does not make them right. Discussing tbe appallng number of murders, tba number of murderers who escape punishment, and remedies for correct log the evil, the OlcoinaV ti Enquirer says: “There should ba no attempt to Influence Juriea, nor should they permit themselves to be swaytd by any consideration except the facts The trial should be a .perfectly calm and dignified profipdare to bring cut and establish facts, aid counsel on both sides should be restrained from such unworthy exhibition^ as are fre quently tr ade to trials. Would it not be fair to tba accused, and would It not contribute to tha dignity, tmpar tiality and even-headed Justice of trials, to provide for government de ftnre a« well as government prowou tlon? Existing conditions, as Is wall known, produce at nearly every bar s class of criminal lawyers who foster crime, and practically go shares with the criminalf*, In order to get their fees. Snould the government take entire charge of the administration of oriroinal Justice, they would, to every body’s advantage, be. driven tut of business.’* All persons charged wtth the com mission cf crime are entitled to a fair and Impartial trial. Z alous prosecu tion attorneys should not make an effort to convict when there is co proof of guilt. It la a crlma to con vict an Innocent man. It is also a crime to allow tbs ^u Ity to go un punished through methods designed and Intecded to defeat Justice. No To sum up; the crop Is small, but honorable lawyer would seek to do gtmrtcg Tecelptv early to either, an(Tno court should "permitr the seasDn may keep prices b?lu what they should ba. If so, they will advance to higher levels after the rea s xe of the orop become ■ known. And un em there la a phenomenally' favor ablr season from nowon, It looks to us as It farmers have everything to gain and nothing to lose by holding for higher prices. Tbs Progressive Farmers and Cot ton Plant Is right. Its estimate tal lies with our experience exactly. The crop U short, much shorter than many farmers themselves suspect, but the prices may hs kept down by tbe heavy receipts at the ginneries, bat the farmers should not be fooled by this condition and rush their cotton on the market. This .would, be dls- astric us toprtoss. It Is cur lief that If ootton Is marketed the prices will go to twelve cents. We expect a rapid rise In prices when the siz r of the orop Is revealed by the goxsrnment reports later on. Deserted Hie Wile, Tbe Augusta Chronlola says a young married lady, a former resident of that city, but now of Greenville, S Q, and who baa been in Augusta for on a visit, la ▲ dispatch from Fcttcnoh, ». m0n „ 0I p,,. sjqsI ’’belonging of any value. Her fin ffeajr a whits man, of tbe murder of in Horry County > second Frl- *99**"^ - - t Selling Wbtakey. “I cannot fill tbe orders that come In for whiskey from Union and New harry unless I am glvtn a shipping clerk,” aid «6ne of tbe Columbia dls pensers recently. “Yoa would be surprised at the number of sales made by me to Union and Newberry people and I am constantly receiving requests for supplies to be shipped. Of course, I cannot ship the stuff as I have not the time nor inclination to turn my dispensary Into a shipping depart meat, but the requests are coming in just the same. I think I can safely state that my sales last waak and the week before ware double that of any previous year at the present time and a large part of this is due to the de mand for whiskey in Newberry and Union." Tha Columbia Record says tha statement will not cause much surprise bare except as to the quan tity demanded by the above named OjunUe*. It was made by a dispenser in whom tba county board has perfect oonfldenoe and his report filed at the end of the month on sales, aa oom pared with a similar report of the last but, will bear out thesis tomcat. —i Mass Hcmaln Cloeed. Associate Justice Gary, to whom Lawyer Boyd Evans applied in the hope of keeping the Union dispensa ries open pending his appeal to the supreme court, has sustained Judge Townsend. Tbs case can still go be fore tbs fall sapremscoart; but mesn> white the dlspsnrsries must remain more wasting fire behind the stone wall at the foot of the heights. We broke seven succes sive lines of battle to pieces at that “jpolnc, for nature had made the pcs “rtlon Impregnable. I was then but 14 years of age, but I remember well tbat my astonishment at tba recklessness of sending brave men on suoh a hope leas mission was only exceeded by my admiration of the steadiness and gal lantry of the men who endeavored to execute lt. v “I do not know to what bridge the Twenty-fifth New Jersey belonged and hence do not know to which of these charges Capt Graham shared, but I was particularly struok with that made by Thomas Meagher’s Irish brigade, whose lint oame up almost to the muz zles of our guns. Wa reoogniz jd tbat line by the green flag with the sun burst on it as well as by ita reckteq daring. My most respectable cjmpli- ments to Mrs. Graham and to her son, who, aa I sea is a member of tbs pro fession to which I have tbs honor' to belong." husband has apparently- deserted her, departing with her jewels and their money to another elt>—Atlanta, It is thought. Tbls act was made known Thursday morning when the young lady created no little excitement at the uulon station by instituting search for her mlalng hatband, whom she was to have met at the depot and by proclaiming amldit tears ant sobs that her better half had deserted her, taking^ tha jewels and mono: with him. A kind hearted oolorei matron proffered her services, which were accepted, and the two visited the ticket offloe., the baggage and ex press c ffl xs, in search of some clue which would lead to the finding of the recreant husband. By this time quite a number ot peoplf bad become inter no effort to keep it from being known —and with their help a c!uj was found. He had expressed hla trunks to Atlanta, and the record of this act was on the axress company’s boots. Looking lor trade. The Spartanburg Journal says num bers of people come here every day now from Gaffney and Union to buy whiskey from our dispensaries, return lug to their homes to the evening with supplies for the thirsty. A mes seeger is commissioned to buy for several persons and ha taksa baokall that he can carry. Tbe sales of the Spartanburg dispensaries have been considerably Increased by purchases from Union and Cherokee Counties and if Greenville shal) vote out the dispensaries, that will bring still more trade to tha Spartanburg dis pensaries. All tbls would greatly in ereaaa tbe dispensary profits of Spar tanburg Oountv, probably as much as 60 per cant. A Very Had Case. Because her six year old son, from whose father she had been seperated a month, refused to allow, her to kiss him, Mrs. L W. Chemault, of Rich mond, Ky., ons of tbe most prominent society women of the State, commit ted suicide by swallowing carbolic add. When they sr pirated Mr. Obe mault, who is one of the richest men in Kentucky, took the boy, who is tbe only child. Wednesday afternoon Mrs Chemault telephoned that she would like to sea the boy. Mr. Che mault brought the little fallow to the house where his wife was stopping. As soon as he caught sight of bis mother wbo was standing at , a window, he positively refused to enter tha house No amount of persuasion could prevail upon him to do otherwise, ivhich so shocked the mother that she Immcdi ately retired to a bathroom, where she swollowed the poison. Will Push I.'. Gov. Heyward will push the inves tigation as to tba lynching of the ne gro at Honea Path, and every effort will be made to have the guilty par ties held accountable. Strange to say, there were stvsral members of the mob that were recognized by men on the coroocr’s Jury, yet a verdict was rendered that the negro corns to his death by “parties unknown to the Jury. | The Guinard Brick Works, * COLUMBIA.. ~ - f Manufa Z Flue Hi l or mill: MNMMMI#! 1 Manufacturers Brick, Fire Proof Terra Cotta Building Block of ~ ie linings and Drain Tile. Prepared to fill orders for thou ends millions. Cotton Ginners and Machinery Owiars.H| Write us for prices on the following; Babbitt, Belt. Gandy; Belt, Leather, Collars for Shafting, Couplings, Drills, Drill Press, Ejectors, Files, Fittingsi Guages, Guage Cocks, Hack Saws, Hammers, Injectors, Lace Leather, Lubri cators, Oil Cups, OH Cans, Packing, all kinds; Pipe, Pulleys, Shafting. And anything else In machinery supplies V COLUMBIl SUPPLY CO., Columbia, S. C. MANY LOAFERS, such practic:*. M0X8Y FOR SCHOOLS. (die Men Who Will Not Work Tor Love or Pay. The Vmgrant Law Should b; Enfrr oed Against I ilaNrgroea ard Idle White Men. an Expert Specialist At Yonr Own Home. Seek the Advice of the South’s Most Skillful Physician—He will Coun sel and Advise Any Sufferer on Any Disease Without .Charge > —25 Years of Experience. Valuable Books Free— Write for Them. A Qa*atton aa to the Dletrlbatlon of the Ditpcnaarj Snrptua. i : ^——— : r The Columbia Record says on ac count of the doubt as to the extol law on the subject, It will be necessary to make considerable inquiry into the methed of distributing the dispensary school money In counties voting out tbe dispensaries. The conditions, It is stated, are very peculiar. The school law, aa xm piled in 1903, made no prpvlaiou for __ counties that might be dry, and Marl slowly bQjg an( j Greenwood received their share of tbe profits as well as any de flolency tbat might exist according to the superintendents of educitioa. The law of 1904, approved February 25, however, provides that no county voting out the dispensary shall receive any part of the surplus after the de ficiency has been mads up. This evi dently means that the deficiency shall be made op in all counties, tut the question has ari-ien whether or not Marlboro and Greenwood, under this law, will receive a share of the surplus money or not It is believed, although there has been no test made of It, that the act of 19j4 applies to oouu ties that bad diopeosaries but after wards voted them out. Oi tbe other hand, It Is said that in Pickens and Union a test will be made of it and tbat these counties will claim their si are. The amount received by dry-coun ties voting out the dispensary in 1904 was as follows: Cherokee $4,439.38 Marlboro 6,012.20 Greenwpjd „ ............. 6,547.66 Waml]iwrry 6.376.14 Union..............-...... 5,461.16 P ckeos 4,414 66 In Marlboro there was a dsficleqpy The AugustaChronicl §ays:-“Wlth contractors and others employing la borers ocmplaintog tbat work Is being delayed owing to tbe scarcity of da> laborers, and the fsrmers clamorh g for field bands, to gather the fast ma turing crops, It Is a fact that Augusta is 'infested with the negro loa ers, able bodied men wbo do not work,* ho are not hunting for work, wbo do not- want work and wbo will net accept work, even at fancy prices. These negroes can be seen by tbe hundreds every day. They are loafers around certain bars and lucalitit s They can be seen in twos, fours and In groups of a dozen or m**. Bcw they Uveis well known—being sup ported by negro women who are at work, and requiring very little on which to tubslst. All they want is an occasional short fob, to secure Mm- pries of a drink. It Is beUeved that the stealing now going on, the night ly robbery of atores and dwellings, can be traced to this class. “There are laws on the statute books of G orgia, and the City Code, with which to handle these loafers,” <aid a well know contractor Thursday, “and what Is puzzling ms Is that the city polio* and the county authorities do not force them either to go to work or leave the city. If they will not work to the city, ran them into the rural districts; where they are ao htdlj needed «b)r the farmerr LH them understand tbat It is go to work or move on In Augusta. Toe new sollo ttor of the city court could begin his term of effixe w.th a popular nnvi- ment, a crusade against the loafers of the city.” “I sent out for several laborers a day or two ago, needing them badly.” •aid another oit am Taursdiy, who is at the head of a well known eo’pora tloo, “and while a number of loafing negroes were to be found, on all aides, not a one wanted any work to Ho They could not be hired. A iffer o' wages above what Is usually glvi o dav laborers In Augusta was turned down " of $155 80 In the school fund, whl< ested in the lady’s case—sbe had made was made up before the surplus wm. pr itey it Iwarnod that tha™ <■ a - 1 distributed. scarcity of reliable laboreia^and in Poisoned by Opinm. At Salt Lake City, Utah, a Chinese woman called tbe police to a building at 53 P.um alley, where, on the third fixer, tbe effisers found a dead Chinese sitting bxtb upright on a cot while In the same room another Chineae, who appeared to be Insane, had kind led a fire on the floor, apparently in an attempt to destroy the' building. On the floor below, the police found 1 “Eddie” Me rode, a white man, appar ently dying of opium poisoning. Me- rode Is an acrobat, who recently baa been giving exhibitions in Virginia vaudeville houses. He died later. Hla true name was E. J, Baer. An ac quaintance said tbat be was the son of a wealthy ootton manufacturer, now deceased, of* Wilmington, N. 0. Several years ago, saliL the friend, Baer received $30,000 from his father's estate which he spent before going Into the show business. A tigress in Burma that had a rec ord of having killed more than 800 persons, was killed lately by two Frost et the North. Reports from New England state that that section was visited by frost Wednesday night-. Much damage was done to crops. In New York state frost was reported in several sections. At Lane, Pa., and to northern Ver mont snow fell The freezing point was reached at Concord, N. H., and Augusta. Maine. the cranberry crop to the Cape Cod district. ■■■■■■■■■ Can’t He Done. Tbe legislature appointed tbe conrt of general sessions for Cherokee and Spartanburg counties on the seme day—the last Monday to October— apparently forgetting that Judge, so licitor and stenographer cannot be in two places at the auae time. The scarcity of laborers is act dp to say extraordinary building boom or to the fact that there la any largr public improvement in progress," said an architect wnen seen in reference to tbe matter. “It is true that there are a number of Improvement in pro gress, as weU as buildings in tbs coure of erection, but no more than L usual at tbls favorable time of the year. The trouble being experiencsd is due la a large measure to the (act tbat negroes do not want to work and the city a »d county authorities allow them to live idle and profligate lives. The continued enforcement of the vagrancy laws of the state and cly would In a large extent, In my opln ion, remely. the trouble.” Around on eoltoa bl clc, where the fleecy staple Is coming to at the rate of from 3,000 to 6,000 bales cf cotton of his sys cm of hom* treatment, he plsoMSt the disposal of every nfforer hia advanced methods of treatment, of which I • ia the orig inator, no matter where he r r ahe reeidea. JERKS MEDICAL ADVICE. If you suffer from any disease of a chronic nature, such ns Nervous Debility, Stricture, Vatic Kele, Blood Poiaou, Kidney or Bladder Trouble, Diseasrsof the Heart, Liver oralmw- sefa. Throat iukI Lima Tr- uble, Lost Manhood, Hydmcelc, Urina-y Disoideis, Skin Diaeasew Rheumatism, Catarrh or private diaaaaea of n en, su h as Gleet, eUt, and diseases peculiar to women, etc. etc, do not sake the mistake of consulting your home doctor, who will ’ charge yyu anywhere from 1 to $25 for con sultation klcne, but sit down and write to Dr. Hathaway. He will counsel end advise ytMl without one cent of charge. He is the recog nized authority on Ibrae d.araaea in this coun try, and you can, therefore, appreciate the vsdua his opinion of y ur case would be to you. lie ha* been established in Atlanta for ye rs and yesrs, and bis reputation ia not equal led-h/^any other pbyakisn. Have no heaituncy in writing him. lie wiii alao Bend y'U a valuah’e book on yonr diseaaa, all charges prepaid. - - . ——— Y->< are especially invited to wri'e for his book f r men, entitled, “Manliness Vigor and Health.” Be aure to write this great specialist about your diseases today. liis business is conduct-' ed in an honest, straightforward manner, and you can always feel assured of “a square deaL” The addreen is J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D, 88 Inman Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. •oroi const queue) considerable delar Is be ing experienced to handling the re oeipts. Good hands, who known hiw to truck and work about ootton are In demand and can find employment. A Chronicle reporter made a round of the sections in the business onter of the city, where It, Is complained that tbeee negro loafed can be found Idling away their „ time. The condi tions were found just as rep tried From Board street to the river on Mc- Klnne street Is a favorite plaoe, and just 38 were found to groups. In quiry developed the fact that few of these were ever seen to work more than a day or two at tbe time. Oa Center street, Bridge Rxw, about the many negro cook shops on side streets, and as hangers on near bars, they were found In Idleness. » - In the southern section of the city it la old that buodreds of loafing ne gross can hi seen daily. Gentlemen who have closely Investigated declare that they can be found doing noth’ng day after day, and are generally known to exist by their wits. Tbe demand for a crusade against the loaf ers of the city is general. Rico^n iid as a dead weight to any community, it Is argued that thejr should be forced to go to work dr move on. A Deadly Stroke' __ _ _ 1 Fwf men were kilkd, ato were [k 146, OOlT of govan seriously burned and a dezsn more were etunned by lightning which wrecked a crowded poultry exhibition tent at the county fair at Indlspola, Iowa on Thursday, The lightning •truck the tent pole, splitting to two and tearing the sides of the tent into shreds. Hundreds of the chickens on exhibition wws klllfd. * DR HATHAWAY, — tlaa Oldest Katabiun- #>d and W mi R’llablwWpvetaliat. Every afflicted reader of this paper la invit ed to mss It Dr. J Newt >n Hathaway of At lanta, Qa., the South's moa Reliable Special ist, on any diaease, absolutely without charsa. This crent specialist has had ovar twenty five years of expe ienee in the study and treat ment of diseases of a ebr ni~ or lingering na- t»re, and we unhesitatingly say tha thers is no case, no matter how severe, that be cannot thoroughly understand from ths very first, and prepare the correct trea'ment, which is bound to effect a permanent cure. By ths aid •■■■itiii——————t ■ • ORGANS ■. ~bf the best puality $45 up Upright Pianos Emm $225 up.- a Write Us 4er- eata’ogues and terms. Malone’s Music Hon& t 1432 Main Street Temple. Columbia, S. C. A t^neei Will. Miss Fannie Weeks, a treasury clerk, who was killed by falling Into a geyser In Yellowstone Park, hft a peculiar will which was filed for probate today. Directions for her funeral in the will follow: . ^ “The casket sMl not cost over $76. Interment shell be at Rock Greek Oemetery, oa high ground, In fuU sunshine.' My grave shall be lined, bottom and sides, with granite blcoks, not less tbamme foot thick." “A granite monument shall be plac ed at my grave. It shall not cost more than $80, and shall bear the fid* lowing Ics'.riptlon: “ ‘Miss Fannie A. Weeks, died such a date. He givsnthlibbeloved sleep.' “My funeral shall be held from the New York Avenue Presbyterian Chnroh. The Order of the Eastern Star shall c fficlate. Mr. Wright on O street, northwest, shall be the under taker.” Rubbed the Navy. A dispatch from Toklo says informa tion has been made pabllo that three naval paymasters have embezzled announcement has been calmly , oelvefi by the public, bat the knowl edge that the commission of tbe crime extended over the period at wltbdut discovery may, it cause a feeling of < ueei towards the naval i and furnish a weapon parties that axe <