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9 DREAM CHILDREN. I know tliem just as well as well can be. They're quite as real as either you or me. There's Little orphan Annie?such a scare ? As she can give you would just raise your hair! There s Iamy Grey was losted in the snow In winter time. When summer comes, you know. Babes in the wood are covered up with leaves. Ton needn't tell me they are make-believes: There's pictures of these chil'ren, so you see They're every bit as real as you and me. Why, Little Paul can sometimes make you cry, And then you run off quickly, on the sly. And hunt for Alice. Holding to her hand. You can go through the glass, to Wonder* land. "Dream chil'ren" uncle calls 'em. 'Tisn't true: They're every bit as real as me or you. /" I.-? l\n-.i.,rvtinhl in Thf. CfiLCfiOll. iftep 0 VERTHERE^ f By Elizabeth Ayres. Mollie Brown, nine years old was very angry. Her brother Fred, who was three years older than Mollie, had gone into the country with two other k: "boys on a fishing excursion. His sister wanted to go with him, but her mother said no, and her father said no, and worst of all, Fred told her he "couldn't be bothered with girls," so Mollie was left behind a very angry child who felt that she had been terribly abused. She refused to speak to any one at breakfast, and would not look at Fred when he started off with his fishing rod across his shoulder. "Good-by, Mollie," he said when he went away. "I'll find something nice to bring you." But Mollie would not speak, and made a face at him, so he called teas* ingly,? KSX-^.v. " 'Mollie's mad and I'm glad And I know what will please her?'" but he did not tell what would please 1 *? +V>o nth or hnvs ramp UfSlf 1U1 JUOC Ul^u VUV ~ ? mf ? &L' - around the corner, and away they ' started down the street, forgetting all C about Mollie. She stood looking after them, redfaced and scowling and trying to keep the tears back. ' "I just hate boys," she thought. "I ?* . hate everybody! I wish everybody was dead and buried and?and?Qverything!" She stamped her foot and i: * scowled harder. Her mother called her to come into *v the house. She was planning something pleasant. for Mollie to do, but . Mollie would not answer her. She ran down to the end of the garden, where _ she hid behind a row of currant bushes and sat there sulking. It was very p- pleasant in the garden.' There was &? a narrow space between the currant bushes ai^d the fence, and against the fence there were nasturtiums growls; ing, covered with blossoms, and behind the nasturtium vines were tall llpy sunflowers, lifting their round, flat }} faces far above Mollie's head. Mollie sat on the ground thinking CT how unkindly she was treated. She watched the bees sipping honey from the nasturtiums, and the little wild canaries fluttering in the faces of the sunflowers, hunting for ripened seeds. Mollie was so still that the bees and jg? birds forgot she was mere, ana went Ir on getting their breakfasts as if no human being was in sight. Pretty soon Mollie grew tired of do, ing nothing, so she decided to dig a well. She got her spade?Mollie had a nice little set of garden tools and ?;. , went to work. She was not yet very :0 good natured. so she dug as hard v";.-* and fast as she could. It was easy to ?, "' ' make a hole in the soft, moist clay, .v and before long Mollyie had a deep fe:.. - place hollowed out ready to be filled with water. She felt tired and warm after digging so hard, and thought she would rest awhile. She sat down again on the ground, near the pile of clay she . had spaded up, and leaned over to | ; look into the well. The longer she looked the deeper the hole seemed to grow. The bottom was sinking farther down, when a strange, thing hapIfe; pened. ! There was a star shining deep down in the earth, twinkling up at Mollie. v She thought she heard a voice saying, j ' Evmnw mp Mollie. follow me," and almost without knowing how she got there, Mollie was down in the well, following the star through an underground passage. The star floated ahead of her, shedding a soft light so Bhe could see where she was going, and -' presently she came out of the dark passage into a wide, sunny place filled ! with beautiful trees and plants. The # sky above was the bluest that Mollie had ever seen, and the flowers on the plants the strangest and loveliest. They seemed to be alive and fluttered on their stems like butterflies. The star that had led Mollie had disappeared, but after she looked around to find it she knew where it had gone for the trees were spangled with stars that danced and quivered on the green leaves. Mollie had never imagined there could be such a beautiful place, and the longer she looked the more beautiful it grew. She wished there was some one she might ask about it, and like a flash her wish was granted. A fairy queen stood by her side, dressed in filmy, floating robes of green, and ? v-? o etor was erlis;f'p'nin?r and Uil ilCl uivn u. her wand was tipped with a twinkling star. , "Good morning, Mollie," she said. "Dear child you want to know where you are and I will tell you. This is Over There, the place of beautiful thoughts, and I am the queen who guards them. The stars and the butterfly flowers are all good thoughts that.fly to people who want thorn. I keep millions of them ready so there may be more good thoughts in the \ world than bad ones. But you must give them welcome and watch thern well or the black, evil thoughts will creep in and drive them away or else destroy them entirely.'' While she was talking the butterfly flowers left their stems and fluttered around her, and the stars floated in the air and settled over the fairy queen, sparkling like diamonds. Some of them, fell on Mollie's hair and she cculd feel the soft, cool petals of the butterfly flowers brushing her cheeks and hands. "How lovely the good thoughts are!*' Mcilie exclaimed. "Why can't we seo them in the world?" "Dear child," the fairy queen whispered, "they are always there and everywhere, but they dare not let themselves be seen because theyaresofragile and the bad thoughts are always lying in wait to drive them away. Here in the place we call Over There, is the only spot where they can show their beauty, and even here sometimes the evil thoughts creep in and cause great sorrow. Take some of our beautiful thoughts back to the world when you go, Mollie, they will stay with you if you treat them kindly." Then Mollie heard the sweetest musicfilling the air, and the good queen singing: "Beautiful thoughts are flowers, dear, To be tenderly nursed into bloom. They are stars descended from Heav en, To lighten the world of its gloom. Cherish the flowers and the stars, dear, Nor let anger nor pride come between. Let your kingdom be true thoughts and kindly, And you their good fairy queen." Suddenly the music ceased. "Fly, my children, fly," the fairy queen cried, 'the evil thoughts are coming!" Mollie looked around, but she could see nothing except the stars floating away to heaven, where they were lost in the blue, and the butterfly flowers fluttering about the queen and hovering close to her shimmering robes as she led them away from Over There into the nowhere. Some of the butterfly flowers were bewildered and fluttered back to their stems where they j shivered and trembled in fear. The light began to fade as if to hide aryrl Mnllio ctorinf wMp-f?Ved lUCiii (UiU AfJLV11AV, ...... and trembling, saw what had happened. | Out from the ground were crawling a horde of black worms that ate the roots of the plants until they fell to the ground and the butterfly flowers that had stayed, were crushed and broken. Mollie saw the evil thoughts crawling over the good ones, marring their beauty forever. She saw them | going toward the trees in search of the stars, then it grew so dark that Mollie could see nothing more and she screamed and ran away. When Mollie found herself again she was sittii^g beside the well she had dug behind the currant bushes, with her back leaning against the pile of clay. She looked in the bottom of the well to find the star, but nothing was there except the hole. She heard her mother calling? "Mollie, child, where are you?" This time she ran to meet her and flung herself in her arms. "Oh, mother dear," she cried, so excited she could hardly speak. Tve been Over There where the Good Fairy and I the beautiful thoughts stay. Mother, they are so lovely, but the bad thoughts"?Mollie stopped and shivered. "Mother," she went on very soberly, "the bad ones are ugly, crawling, black worms that eat up the butterfly flowers and stars?and?all, ch, mother, I'll never have a wormy thought again!"?Toledo Blade. Not in the Banking Business. The man from the east, who was in Nebraska to look up some land he had bought on speculation, appealed to a native to give him certain information, and alter looking him over the man gently questioned: ' "Can I take it that you are a friend of the deceased?" "What deceased?" "The late deceased." "But who was the late deceased?" "Why, the feller who run the bank at Brampton." '"I didn't know him. So he's dead, eh? Is his business going on as usual?" "Not skassly as usual, stranger, because when a man's been hung and his estate settled up and his bank rented out for a grocery you can't really put it that his business is goin* on as usual. That is, I take it that you can't." "So he was hung, eh?" "I take it that he was, and that all his troubles are over. Yes, we had to hang him." "But what for?" "Wal, he was packed up and ready to skip out with cur deposits, and it was the third time we had had the same game played on us. He was the third one we've had to hang, and I've got what they calls a pinter for you. if you was thinkin' of goin' into the bankiu' business and makin' a skip when the time got ripe, don't do it. We have got so suspicious around here that we might decide to turn out and ! hang ye on your look and divide up your cash."?Minneapolis Tribune. An Eveless Eden. On the borders between China and Russia in Asia, almost due south of Lake Baikal, is a good-sized town known as Maimatehin, which is exclusively inhabited by men. The place has a considerable trade and is also a military post. An old law forbids women to live in this territory, and they cannot pass the great wall of Kaikan nor enter Mongolia at all. i \ SOUTH CAROLINA i | i i U CTiTP NPWS ITPIfS. S i ; A Significant Vote. The vote in me state senate where- | by tne Briee uiii allowing comniun- j lues to vote out their dispensaries ! is regarded as an indication mat the j I legislature will not materially change j i tne liquer law in spite of the great i number of these bills on the caien> I I . ! ear. ; h ** License for Veterans. ! Confederate veterans throughout the state are interested in the outcome , i of a bill that will soon be introduced 1 in the legislature exempting them from paying licenses for conducting j any line cf business in which they j are engaged, regardless cf city ordi- j nances provld.ng for the same. ! ! Veteran Bank Cashier Remembered. J ! The directors cf the Newberry Ka- j | tional Bank at a recent meeting pre- | j sented the retiring cashier. T. C. Duncan, with a beautiful gold-headed cane as a token of esteem. Mr. Duncan j has served the institution for a peI riod of thirty-four years, having begun his duties in 1871. * - " * Boyman Confesses to Crime. Raymond Boyman. arrested in ; ; Charleston for arson, was arraigned j before a magistrate and admitted set; ting fire to several hay and grain i warehouses. As the second story of j one place set -*as used as a dwelling, ; his offense is a capital crime, and not bailable, and the 16-year-old prisoner must await trial in jail. Eight i hay and grain store rooms were set j on fire within a week and losses ag| gregated $25,000. j * * Railroad to Union to Be Extended. The new railroad to Union, which is nearing completion, will be extended on to other points in the very near future, one of them being Spartanburg, it is thought. This cannot i now be confirmed, though from anothi er reliable source it is known that ! the railroad from Glenn Springs to Roebuck dan be bought at the price I it cost to build. * i Proposed New bounty Barred. A Columbia dispatch says: The j proposed new county of Calhoun may , j be looked upon as a dead cock in i the pity. The senate committee has | reported against it unanimously and { the house committee also reported it j unfavorably with a minority favorable i report signed by five members, Mlessrs. McCloy and Toole of Aiken, | ; Irby of Laurens, Otts of Cherokee j ; and Harley cf Barnwell. The Ander-1 j son county matter was included in I the reports. / * * Was Afraid of Smallpox. j Representative Etheridge introduced j ; a resolution in the house a few days j ago to exclude all visitors from the j floor of the house on account of aij ! epidemic of smallpox in Columbia. I The resolution failed as it was thought to have been inspired less by fear | of smallpox than a desire to get rid I of visitors on account of the noise . ! of conversation. Local members of the house protested that the smallpox situation was not worse in Co; lumbia than elsewhere in the state. * Successor to Senator in Order. j D. E. Hydrich, who was recently | elected judge of the seventh circuit, ; is also senator from Spartanburg I county to the general assembly and < on accocunt of his election to the | bench a vacancy in the latter position I will be occasioned by his resignation. |' Friends are already mentioning the names and claims of several prominent j Spartanburg men as candidates for the senatorship and an exciting con| test is anticipated wl^n the election i is heldj I * An Incipient Race War. i In an encounter at the Haragon j kaolin mines near Langley the past ! week between whites and blacks, one j negro was killed and' three white ' men dangerously wounded. All the parties to the shooting work in the mines. The day before the : tragedy they were paid off. A white < man and negro became involved in a difficulty. The other white men j took part and the shooting resulted. What the row was about could not be learned. The entire force of laborers employed in the mines wereI finally involved. ? * * I Firebugs in Charleston. The police authorities of Charles, ton are trying to find the party or ; i parties who are responsible for the ( I many fires which have been occurring ! in Charleston, and which are supposed to be of incendiary origin. The month of January witnessed more than fifty i alarms, a considerably larger number j than has ever heen recorded in the j history of the Charleston department, j and during the past ten days the | alarms have been turned in at the ! rate of three to four a day, being j largely in hay, straw and other in [ flammable materials. * * * Notable Trial Soon Cue. Boiling water and fence rails were the weapons of three women arrayed against, five men in an encounter at Zoan postoffice. Horrv countv in Yovember last, in wnich Mime C. Bell, the wife of George C. Bell, was killed with a hoe by William T. Bell, a nephew of George. At the next term of the court of general sessions, which convenes at Conway February 20, William T. Bell will be tr^ed for the muTder of the woman and George C. Bell, James M.. Bell. Julius Waterman Bell and B. Van Bullock will be tried at the same time at> accessories to the crime. William T. and George C. Bell are in the county ja?I. William is held without bail and George's hail was riAC-u at and no was unable to got bondsmen. juiius Waterman and i jarnes Ai. Bc-il are oat on ban m the sum of $i,uuo each. C. B. Van Bullock is aiso out on $300 bond. u ** Killed Father to Save Mother. At Goidv.lie, Newberry county, las; Saturday night. John Atkinson, 50 years old, was shot and killed by "his son, John Atkinson, Jr., aged about 20. The elder Atkinson, it is said, was drinking and threatened the life of his wife. He chased her from one room to another, breaking down three doors. Finally the woman ran to the room occupied by her son and his wife. The son locked the door and waived his father not to enter. Paying no heed to the warning, Atkinson knocked the door down. As he rushed at his wife the son raised a shotgun and killed his fatner instantly. * * Wish Resident for Judge. A Washington dispatch says: Representatives Finley and Aiken of South Carolina nave discussed with the president tae preposition to create a new judicial c^striet in South Carolina. The house committee on the judiciary has reported a bill providing for the new district. The congressional delegation from the state is anxious, in the-event of the enactment of the law, that the judge appointed should be a resident of the district. * It is thought probable that the president, if the bill is passed, will accede to the wishes of the people in that respect. He told his callers he would be glad to consider recommendations for the appointment from South Carolina congressmen, members of the bar and residents of the district.* CIVORCE LAWS TOO LAX. ^resident Suggests Remedial Legisla. tion jn Message to Congress. President Roosevelt sent a message to congress Monday calling attention co the fact that no statistics on marriage and divorce had been collected since 18S6 and recommended legisla .on. , In part, the president, in his message, says: "The institution of marriage is, of course, at the very foundation of our social organization and all influences that affect that institution are of vitaJ concern to the people of the whole country. There is a widespread conviction that the divorce laws are dangerously lax and indifferently administered in some of the states, result ing in a diminishing regard for the sanctity of the marriage relation. "The hope is entertained that co- j operation among the several states J can be secured to the end that there may be enacted, upon tie subject of marriage and divorce uniform laws, containing all" possible safeguards Tor the security of the family. Intelligent and prudent action in that direction will be greatly promoted by securing reliable and trustworthy statistics up- j on marriage and divorce." [ WOMAN GRANTED REPRIEVE. Mrs. Rogers Gets Another Four Months' Lease on Life. At Windsor, Vermont, a few hours after receiving the last rites of the church, Mrs. Mary Mibel Rogers, who was sentenced to die upon the gallows i for the murder of her husband, listened with amazement to the announcement of High Sheriff Henry H. Peel: that Governor Charles F. Bell had granted her a reprieve of four months. PERUVIAN GUANO AGAIN. Cargo of Six Thousand Tons of Bird Fertilizer Arrives in Savannah. t.-i?Uanro-in are to he given r ai iiitio \jm. viw?c? ? ? .v __ w a chance to use Peruvian guano again. Wednesday the British steamer Cuzco arrived at Savannah with tj.OOO tons of the bird guano from the cliffs and rocks of Peru. This is the first cargo that has been received for thirty-five years. Formerly the guano was extensively used. i kSSmsi@8Ka&3?BnBEafi&9EK9BHnBBBff? TEN WOMEN KILLED]E 0 Sleigh Party is Run Into By Swift Moving Train. 0 ALL HORRIBLY MANGLED c< b q Seven Killed Instantly and Three Died Later in Hosoita!? Victims Had Just Left Church Entertain- o: ment to Enjoy Ride. s< a: A. special from Hornellsville, N. Y., 11 c; says: A passenger train on the Pitts- Q. burg, Shawmut and Northern railroad, i? Wednesday night, crashed into a ! t: sleigh containing thirteen women, all ri r .married, killing seven outright and so seriously injuring the remaining ^ six that three of them died after being a removed to the hospital. Of the oth- a er three, one is in a serious condi- c tion. The accident occurred near , d Arkport, N. Y. The sleigh was one Q of three carrying a church party. p . The occupants of the leading sleigh ii saw the train approaching as they 0 neared the Shawmut crossing and ' c passed over the tracks in safety. The c; women in the first sleigh then at- e tempted to warn those in the one fol- ri lowing of the danger, and they did succeed in directing their attention to ^ the rapidly approaching train. The t] driver pulled up his horses, but he tl could not check the heavy bobsled si quickly enough, and when it came to n a standstill the box of the sleigh was i< directly across the railroad track. c The pilot of the engine knocked the ri sleigh to splinters, mangling and scattering the occupants in all direc- p tions. o CZAR RECEIVES WORKERS o S Nicholas Tells Them to Return to Their Work and Promisee an Amelioration of Affairs* ^ ~ \ A St. Petersburg special says: Elmperor Nicholas Wednesday afternoon received at Tsarskoe-Selo a deputation of thirty-four workingmen repre- ^ senting the employees of the factories ..( and work shops of St. Petersburg. ' The emperor entered the hall ac- ^ companied by Grand Duke George h MchaeTovitch, General Hesse, the min- j ister of the imperial court, and the commandant of the palace. The j g workmen bowed deeply to the emper- i or, who said: 8 'Good day, my children." ^ The workmen replied: "We wish j. your majesty good health." E The emperor then said: "I have summoned you in order that you may hear my words yourself ^ and communicate them to ydur companions. The recent lamentable a events with such sad but inevitable results have occurred because you allowed yourselves to be led by traitors and enemies to our country. When ! they induced you to address a peti- j tion to me on your needs they desired you to to revolt against me and ^ my government. They forced you to c leave your honest work at "a period when all Russian workmen should be ^ laboring unceasingly in order that c' we might vanquish our obstinate enemy. ^ ' Strikes and disgraceful demon- d strations led the crowds to disorders, ! Y which obliged and always will oblige j n the authorities to call out troops. As , p a result innocent people were vie-; ^ tims. j e "I know that the lot of the work- ! men is not easy. Many things require improvement, but have patience. You will understand that it is necessary ? to be just toward your employers and consider the* condition of our industries. But to come to me as a rebel ^ lious mob in order to declare your ** wants is a crime. In my solicitude for c the working classes I will take meas- j ures which will assure that everything | p possible will be done to improve their { r< lot and secure an investigation of E: their demands through legal chan: i r< nei3. ' i "I am convinced of the honesty of ! the workmen and their devotion to r myself, and I pardon their transgres- c sion. Return to your work with your comrades and carry out the task allotted to you. t( "May God assist you." 9 At the conclusion of his speech the a emperor told the members of the dep- j " utation to communicate his words to their comrades and said he would sup- ; *'] - - ui- ! 11 ply them with printed copies ci ma . address. | h At 4:30 the delegates drove to the r< imperial palace station, where they i v took a train for St, Petersburg. b o BIG SUM GIVEN TO CHURCH. Presbyterians Get $130,000 Under t' Will of Charles Lockhart. I F The will of Charles Lockhart, whose ' estate Is estimated ai between $75.000,000 and $100,000,000 was probated it at Pittsburg. Pa.. Wednesday. b< After providing for members of his tt family and friends, Mr. Lockhart be- tt queathes $260,000 for public benefits ni Of this sum the United Presbyterian tc church is given $130,000. m \ ': \ "; :'v SARD RAISES A RACKET. -?isclocures of California Senator Procipitate Storm of Frotest and Information of Recublicans. ? o g The Atlanta Constitution's special : orrespondent at Washington wires is paper as follows: * The wrath of the whole republican " ^ mtingent at the national capitci ia > eing leveled at the head of United tates Senator Bard of California, a * fe-long republican. .'% His sensational. charge of diversion f certain Indian funds to mission * 2hools of the Roman Catholic church, t the instance of the president durig the progress of tne presidential ampaign, and of that of Dr. Schart, f the Catholic University., had prom- Z >ed to deliver to the republican par- J j twenty congressional districts In sturn for consideration shown the atholic schools in masing the apropriation for Indian schools, has rought out a storm of criticism, un- ! erlying which is the charge .that Sentor Rard is sore because of bis reent defeat. An act of congress, passed In 1897, eclared it to be the settled policy f the government to make no apropriation whatsoever for education ^ 1 any sectarian school. The essence f the Bard charge is that In* order d secure the co-operation of certain ji hurch authorities in promoting, his :i andidacy, President Roosevelt adoptd a policy at variance with this decla- J ation of congress. Senator Bard further said he hade een informed that a very small perentage of the Indians interested gave heir consent to sijch application of M ieir trust funds to the support of tVi?f o 1oi*<ra -'^9 Ct'lttAlflJi St'ilUUiaf auu buuc ?* iM?ev "r-"BEH lajority of the Indians were common- :'M iants in the various Protestant ' hurches located within the various v? eservations. This open charge from a leading reublican that'the influence of church -'A fficials was sought and secured by!, ^$3 aese methods may, It is said, bring on ^ n investigation. During the course ' ^ f the California's senator's statement | enator Teller declared that if these ^J-8 barges had substance, there wan 'a lore cause to complain of the inter- > |j 2rence of the Catholic than of the -x Dormon church in the political affairs Z^ f the country. Coming as all this does on the heels ^ \-vj f the campaign in which a notable gh&j mature was the support given Presi- ;'J% lent Roosevelt by a number of leadig papers of the church and of the ^ isinuation freely made that certain CjJ igh church officials were using their v& lfluence in his behalf, the matter has roused deep political interest lbpired statements coming from the ~7?|j fhite house seek to place the respon- ^ ibility for the deal by which the jnds were turned over to the Cathov c schools upon Senator Aldrich of ihode Island, whose activity in the.;. Jig onduct of the campaign is well nown in inside circles and William '-A a? Tn/lisn .;+? i. Jones, juie uuiuuiiasiuu^ v? umum. ffairs. ^'PITTSBURG PHIL" DEAD. lost Famous Turf Plunger Yields to . ' ?a Ravages of Consumption. y George E. Smith, better fcnown to ae racing world and throughout the ' ountry generally as "Pittsburg Phil," ae turf plunger, died at Asheville, . f. C., at the Winyah sanitarium, of onsumption, aged 43. His mother, a brother and a nephew fM rere with him at the time of his eath. "Pittsburg Phil" reached Asheille some four months ago in an' allost hopeless condition mentally and hysically. For a time he rallied, but r ^ le end was sure. His death, though xpected, came suddenly. FOR PHILIPPINE EXHIBIT. ecretary Taft Asks Congress to Pay Sum of $100,000. Secretary of W&r Taft has sent to % le senate a communication request- ' ig the payment to the Louisiana Purhasd Exposition Company of $100,- |g 00 advanced to the government to v| repare the Philippine exhibit. The ' % ^commendation is in accordance with ' J greement entered into by former Sec- ^ >tary Root. GINNER5 REFUSE TO REPORT. onsus Office Gives Number of Bales ? Ginned to January 16. The census report for cotton ginned ^ 3 January 16. in C95 counties, shows *. wMinil htlo? *vS8 ,717,t>33 uaitib, CUUUUUg xv/uuu W?uv? ,. s half bales, compared with 7,168^81 "'-i ales in the same counties last year. . \l. The quantity ginned in these connes between December 13 and Janary 16 is 494,955 running bales. Four undred and seventy-seven ginneries ;.cll gfused to report. The quantity pre- 1 iously returned by these has been rought forward in this report with* i ut addition. treaties will be changed. i eatures Menacing Interests of the South to be Eliminated. It is now practically certain that 'i ic pending arbitration treaties will 3 changed by the senate in a way f* tat will safeguard the interests of '*|| ic southern states. While this may ^ ot be by means of specific reference ' J > interests of the states the amend* ij Lent will reach the same end. ?