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I. wr wumjL?.iiM ? nwwawBa?n??? THE OLD CLOCK AGAINST THE 1 WALL. Oh! the oh!, old clock cf the household stock. Was the brightest thing and neatest; Its hands, though old. had a touch cf gold, And its chime rang still the sweetest: Ttvns a monitor, too, though its words were 'few. Yet tbev lived through nations altered, And its voice, still st/oiig, warned old and young, When the voice of frienasmp faltered. "Tick! tick!" it said?"quick, quick to bed, For 10 I've given warning; Up! up! and go, or else you "know You'll never rise soon in the morning!" A friendly voice was that old. old clock, As it stood in the corner smiling. And it blessed the time with a merry chime, The wintry hours beguiling; But a cross old voice was that tiresome clock. Ac if rl hroo lr IWhen the dawn looked gray o'er the misty way, And the early air blew coldly. "Tick! tick!" it said, "quick out of bed, For o I've given warning; You'll never have health, you'll never have wealth, Unless you're up soon in the morning!" Still hourly the sound gees round and round, With a tone that never ceases; iWhile tears are shed for bright days fled, And the old friends lost forever; Its heart beats on?though hearts are gone, Yet love still lives the stronger; Its hands still move?though hands we love Are clasped on earth no longer! 'Tick! tick!" it said?"to the churchyard bed. The grave hath given warning; Up! up! and rise, and look at the skies. And prepare for cl heavenly morning!" ?New England Grocer. * ? MBS""" I HIS LITTLE JOKE j ?I9 W !J The girl with the hat that had a huge cabbage rose on it permitted a frown to gather on her brow. "Al wajs," she said, slowly and distinctly, "1 have thought that I disliked people who play practical jokes and now I know it is even worse. They arouse a deadly hatred in me!" ."You talk like a cheap melodrama," remarked the girl with the angelic eyes. "Melodrama nothing!" remarked the girl with the cabbage rose. "It's a tragedy, nothing less! I suppose Bert Randall thought he was justified because I had been boasting that I was too sharp to be taken in "by any ordinary sell?and then he never did like the minister anyway! If only I could lay my hands on him a minute to find cut " . * * i ve orten "wondered wmcn 01 tne i two you liked the better," interrupted the girl with the angelic eyes. "Did the joke help you to find out?" * "Don't be silly!" said the girl with s the cabbage rose. "I was called to the telephone yesterday," she went on, "and a curt voice announced that the speaker was a newspaper reporter who de3ired to verify a notice his paper had received to the effect that my engagement to the Rev. Mr. Fairman was just announced. I nearly choked in my hurry to assure him there must be a mistake, that it wasn't so at all, and for godness' sake not to print any such dreadful thing. He was very nice and said if the announcement .was premature the paper had no desire to print it. 4 I broke in to explain that it wasn't premature and then he broke in to inquire in an injured voice why if it was so I objected to the publicax. tion. Then I had to eiplain in detail that it wasn't premature because it wasn't so at all and wasn't going to be so. ?' "He said that sometimes one could not tell and that he really could not - understand why such a notice came in if there wasn't some truth in it. So there we stood and quarreled about it, I was getting madder and madder at the universe in general? at the reporter for his persistence, at the Rev. Mr. Fairman for ever existing on the same earth with me and, Host of all, at whoever had sent in such a dreadful announcement! "Just when I was almost crying there was a break in the even, polite tone at the other end of the wire and like a flash of lightning it burst upon me that no one but Bert Randall had that particular little quaver when he was trying not to laugh. "You think you're mighty clever, Bert Randall, don't you?" I asked, with hysterical calm. But he wouldn't give in. He said he really couldn't understand me. So I said neither could I understand him. Then I hung up the receiver. "I wanted to cry and I wanted to laugh?because it was so cleverly done. Don't you think Bert is dreadfully bright?" "Oh, horribly!" cheerfully agreed the girl with the angelic eyes. "Well, in a coup'e of. hours the phone rang again and this time the voire announced calmly that the speaker was the Rev. Mr. Fairman and he wished to inquire about something rather odd.. I just flared at out at that. I thought Bert was going rather too far. I knew it was Bert because Mr. Fairman never called me up on the phone but once in his life and thn time it was about the bazaar. "I determined to give Bert a little excitement, so I answered in a sweet, smooth voice and said I supposed it was in regard to our engagement. I asked if he knew the papers were to print the announcement the next day. Bert played his part 10 perfection. He seemed politely troubled and murmured that he had not been aware ?f the fact. I called bftn dearest and rallied him about his forgetfulness. That confused him so he couldn't say * word. Then 1 piled it on. ' 7~ <r--t y.~i 1 "I called him Chauncey?that's J Mr. Fairman's name, you know?and i said I had simply been counting the : minutes since I saw him last. I asked when he would be up again. 1 mourned over the publicity when the world found out about our engagement and asked if he thought we'd be just as much to each other as before. "Then I paused a moment to let it sink in, after which 1 asked Bert if he had enough and would call it quits. He said he thought it would be lots better to call it quits, but he really did not understand. I told him it was no wonder, because his brain was not constructed to stand so much strain in one day and that after all I thought the joke was on him. He said it certainly seemed to be. ^hen I got tired and hung up the receiver, for Bert's fun goes about so far and then he gets kind of stupid." ' * rPV? /mi/\ nro r-r\ 'f J. nci C v;Ci taiuij wa.au c tu; aiuvu | point to it," said the girl with the angelic eyes. ******* The girl with the cabbage rose regarded her mournfully. "I haven't told you the point yet," she said in a stifled voice. "You see it really was the minister who called me up the second time. At last when I got Bert on the phone to-day to tell him again what I thought of him, he vowed and protested that he had called me up only once yesterday and if the other man said he was Mr. Fairman he was Mr. Fairman, for all he knew to the contrary. And the wretched part of it is that I don't know whether or not to Relieve him! He may be still joking, you know." "And then again he may not!" said the girl with the angelic eyes. "I think I'd run whenever I saw the minister coming, if I were you!"? Chicago News. SUBSTITUTES FOR ArR TIRES. I Efforts to Replace the Fncumatic Tube. "Inventors may come and inventors may go," says the Motor World, "but the penumatic tire goes on forovov sopmc tr? rprtrpsfvnt in a nutshell the status of the present universally used type of tire^and of the horde of inventors who are vainly trying to displace it with something that shall possess all of its advantages, but lack its defects. While the history of great inventions clearly shows that it is never safe to deride a device or its inventor regardless of how bizarre or far-fetched his idea may appear at first sight, there would seem to be little of permanent value in the mass of spring devices that are now appearing so constantly as to run a close second to the non-refillable bottle and the rotary engine in the patent records. "People, great and small, learned and otherwise, ridiculed the telegraph and the telephone to a far greater extent than is the lot of the airship of to-day, and not alone the average tire user, but the tire maker without exception, regards with amused contempt the thousand and one attempts to utilize wierd and freakish combinations of springs and rubber to obtain the degree of resiliency that experience thus far has J 4-J i ueiuuusuciieu is uiiijr jjuaaiuic mui rubber and canvas-confined air. There are two fundamental principles upon. which rest the value of the pneumatic tire?the extreme elasticity of compressed air, in which respect it is equalled by no other known substance, and the fact that this indispensable quality is applied directly at the place where it is most required?the point of shock. "Many of the devices that have come and gone in the past year or two have had incorporated in their make-up one or the ether of these principles. Many hare placed the springs about the rim in the attempt to concentrate the desired effect where most wanted; others have 'employed rubber confined air about the hub and yet others have virtually placed a pneumatic tube beneath * solid rubber tire, only altering the construction of the wheel itself to the extent necessitated by the changed form of rim. With the exception of the last, which it realy a form of pneumatic tire, neither of the most numerous classes have embodied both of these sine qua non, without which the results now af; forded by the pneumatic tire are impossible. ; "Whether a device that will do so effectively will ever materialize, or whether one of the army of geniuses that is laboring to this end will succeed in discovering some totally new method of achieving this much desired result is a subject upon which it i is not easy to predict. One thing is j certain, and that is that no great j amount of progress has been forthi coming as yet, and that little or none ! is to be expected from further adherence to the ideas that bare bfeen proven to be fallacies time and again. It would doubtless be better for those most interested If the slate could be wiped clean and a new start made." Real Estate in Korea. One of the most astonishing regulations has been made regarding the transfer of real estate in Korea. No one is to be allowed to sell or buy vr?ai pypf?nt bv exDress ner mission of the Governor. This is apparently a move on the part of the Japanese to prevent the selling of any land in Korea except -to people that they approve, for the Governors are, of course, under the Japanese advisers. It makes no difference that foreigners have as good a right to buy land as the Japanese. The matter will have to be tested in the court before the Powers will allowv their citizens to be curtailed in their privileges in the peninsula.?Korea News. j GREAT FUEL FAMINE I Prevailing in Northwest Because of the Railroads. MANY TOWNS SUFFERING Insufficiency cf Coal Being Hauled Into That Region by the Roads Cause Appeal to the Legislatures. Investigation4 of t.he present fuel famine crisis in the northwest may not step with the investigation of the interstate commerce commission, now on in Minneapolis, Minn. It is probable new that in every affected state, but notably in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Montana, the subject will make a matter for legislative investigation. Northwestern, coal dealers have indicated to the j large local shippers that they pltn to stir up an official investigation in their states. Towns that are suffering now, or have been held in the grip of winter and the famine, are laying their cases before their legislators, and are asking that the subject be brought up at the coming sessions of the state legislatures, and action taken to prevent a repetition. The race is on between the railroads and the cold. If the weather wins, cutting down the efficiency of motive power, and bringing on heavy blizzards, there will be suffering and loss of life. But reports indicate that the railroads are rushing fuel into the districts where there is either an actual want cr stocks are low. F. K. Lane and Jame3 S. Marian of the interstate commerce ccmmis sion, opened the investigation -Men- | day of railroads in the northwest for inability in handling the crop, r.nd general business along their lines, and t,he existing car shorten. Commissioner Lane states that ihe present inquiry would be further prosecuted in other parts of the country. L. T. Jamme, /hcretary of the Minneapolis chamber of commerce, submitted a lengthy statement of shipments by all railroads operating in the northwest from 1903 to date. The comparison by years showed that for some reason that has not yet developed. the movement of the crop this year had fallen off many millions of bushels, compared with these of previous years. O. J. Major cf Hope, N. D., secretary of the Minnesota Farmers' Exchange. which owns half a .dozen houses in Minnesota and . stock in 27 elevators in North Dakota, told of inability to get cars. He thought the railroads, when they did bring cars, gave preference to "Line" elevators. It puzzled the attorneys and judges of the commission just a little why it was that it took a freight car on the average about thirteen days to make a trip which could be made at a ten mile rate in twenty-five hours. The first railroad representative to be put on the witness stand was E. C. Blanchard, division superintendent of the Northern Pacific at Duluth. Mr. Blanchard declared that freights moved on the average of ten miles an hour, and then testified that he thought from tea to fifteen days was not too great a time to allow lor a car to make a distance of 250 miles. He explained this by stating that hot boxes frequently delayed the progress of a car, and that various other causes contributed to the delay of the car in transit. According to his testimony, it would not be, un- J common for a freight car to move j from point to point at the rate of I little less than a mile per hour. Te Revise Southern's Schedules. A number of prominent railroad men gathered in Washington Monday to attend a time-table meeting called for the purpose of revising the schedules on the Southern railway and its connections. OPERATOR MATTOX TO BLAME. For Wreck in Which Spencer Was Killed, Verdict of Investigators. The official investigation of the Southern railroad into the rear-end collsion which occurred at Lawyers, j Va., on Thanksgiving Hay, and ill j vnhicli President Spencer, president of the Southern, and six others, ini eluding a number of prominent people, lost their lives, has been concluded and the responsibility for the wreck placed on <G. D. Mattcx, block operator at Rangoon Station, Va. MRS. CHADWICK COMING SOUTH? Old Lady May Be Guest of Federal Prison in Atlanta. United States inspectors at Cleveland, Ohio, have recommended to the proper ?.i\hcrities that Mrs. Cassie Cfcadwick be sent to the federal prison in Atlanta. This change of prisons is partly the ,-esuIt of a complaint of ill-treatment lodged by Mrs. Ohadwick with the United States authorities. C - : -'5? " V ^ v- .UKryi.- -. . ;y.r, j;v. . * f.? '* - . * V i A A -* **- y i Palmetto State Hews ; ^^wUUIUU 1 Railroad Accidents *or eYar. According to reports of the railroads made to the railroad commission for the last year, there were during that time 19S persons killed and 3,148 persons injured by the railroads in South Carolina. This includes passengers, employes and trespassers. * ? * Baby Drowns in Wash Tub. 'evi a llf f 1 a 4l t?a ?taat* a1 /] Ja.. .~~T_ i a# l iac iimc jtivc-.icfti-uju u<iuguicr ui Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Ellis, who lived in Greenwood county, was drowned a few days ago in a wash tub. The child climbed up in a wheelbarrow, standing by the tub and fell over into the water. She was there twenty minutes before being discovered dead. * Costly Fire in Timmonsville. The town of-Timmonsville. in Florence county, suffered heavily from fire a few days ago. The fire originated in the second story of the Trailer's furniture store, and spread to surrounding buildings. nTe heaviest losers were D. H. Traxler, William Copeland Co., Jacob building, Henry Hill and others. The total loss is about $36,COO. * * e Negro Preacher Suicides. Rev. C. P. Nelson, a negro Methodist preacher, committed suiced at his nome in Orangeburg by cutting his threat with a razor, because his church trustees w<*e threatening to arrest him for misappropriation of money belonging to the church by raising the amount of a mortgage. Ke had also gotten into' debt around town and a committee of whites waited upon him for- preaching inflammatory sermons on the race issue, though the reports about the latter are said to have been circulated by negroes desiring to get rid of him. * * * To Wage Vaccination Campaign. The state board ol' health adjourned at Columbia after deciding to wage a systematic campaign for compulsory vaccination. Under the state law the board has ample powers to compel vaccination and the work has been placed in charge of Dr. George R. Dean, of Spartanburg, chairman of the committee on epidemic and endemic diseases. Pupils in all schools abd colleges, workmen congregated in factories or other places, will be vaccinated wholesale. Agents have been appointed in twenty-two counties in t ie state and Br. Dean will visit the other nineteen counties ithin the next few weeks. ? * Merchants Kick on Banks. The jobbers and wholesale merchants cf Columbia have held a meeting to protest against the rule of the newly organized clearing house association to make a charge for collection of out of town checks and drafts. Heretfore the banks of Columbia have cashed checks for customers without charge, but one of the first actions of the clearing house association was to announce that a graduated charge would be made on all checks and drafts except items payable in New oWrk, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago*,. Washington, Richmond. Charleston, "Wilmington and Augusta. * ? First Crop of South Carolina Tea. The shipment of the first crop of tea ever produced in the United States by a commercial organization is about to be shipped by the American Tea Growing company at Charleston, consisting cf about 12,000 pounds. The lea was raised on the farm of the company at Rantowles, Colleton county, the industry having been started in 1901. The farm comprises 130 acres. 60' cf which are tea bearing. The plan is to extend the cultivation to 500 acres, producing within ten a OAA AAA ycAity mure m<iu <sw,uuu yuuuus. The tea culture lias been proven a success in South Carolina, both in the ease and readiness of the cultivation of the plant and the choice quality of the product. Dr. Charles U. Shepard of Charleston demonstrated at Summerville a pineland region about twenty miles from the city, that tea could be successfully raised and tlie corporation bas emulated his example on a larger scale and been even more successful in the size of the crop gathered in the period of cultivation. * * * Masons Name Officers: The Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Masons, of South Carolina completed its work and adjourned at Charleston. A committee was appointed to take the matter 01 the erection of an orphan home In charge, and it Is expected that. $T0,000 will be In hand this year for the^Sppciai. fund for the purpose. The Masons^hops to buiW the home in five or si:K years. The graiid lodge decided to make no change in the strict requirement of no physical defect for admission into the order. The following is the result of the election, al the officers being instalVd: Grand master, F. E. Harrison, Abbe . . * .* ", \ 'v3* " r vllle: deputy grand master, J. L. Michie, Darlington; senior grand warden. *J. R. Johnson, Charleston; junior grand warden, G. S. Mower, Newberry; grand treasurer, Zimmerman Davis, Charleston; grand secretary, J. T. Barron, Columbia; grand chaplain, W. P. Smith, Spartanburg. All of these were elected unanimously by acclamation, the rule being suspended for that purpose in each instance. All of them were re-elections except that cf grand secretary, Past Grand Master J. T. Barren being elected to that office, which he has been filling by appointment for the past few months, to succeed the late Charles Inglesby, of Charleston, who had died during the past year, after a quarter of a century's service as grand secretary. * * * Young Man Arrested *or Forgery. R. J. Coney and James Clark, two young men of Columbia, have been arrested by Southern railway detectives for forgery. Coney is the assistant transfer clerk at the Columbia freight depot of the Sotuhern, and Clr.rk had a position as manager or a pool room in the city. Coney 'manipulated a shipment of ten bales of cotton from Pelion to Columbia in such a way that it went to Augusta and Clark was to meet it at Augusta and sell the cotton. The car was delayed and the plan was discovered before the plan was put into ecect. * * "Scalawag" Governor Dead. Former Governor Franklin J. Moses was found dead in his lodging house at Winthrop Beach, Mass., a few days ago, death being caused by asphyxiation. Moses was sixty years of age. He was governor of South Carolina in 1870. The death of Moses ends a conspicuous and checkered career. He was bom in this state sixiy-two years ago, the only sen of CirYf Justice Moses. After a brilliant career at college he joined the Confederate army at the breaking out of the 'civil war. At the close of the war he entered the political field and after serving as speaker of the house was elected governor. He was dubhed "scalawag governor." It was then his downfall commenced. Having forsaken the democratic party and become a republican, he suffered social "stracism. He vacated his office as governor and became a victim of the drug habit. Then, he left the south and settled in New York. lie made r. living by writing political speeches for candidates for office. He frequented the lowest dens in Chinatown. He said so in one of * the most remarkable confessions ever made by a man. Then he was convict-, ed of theft and went to Blackwell's Island. . He went to Boston and fell into the hands of the law again. Three years were given him and he came out of prison to make an. endeavor to lead an honest life. He established a paper at Winthrop. a small .weekly, that passed out of existence. He had been doiug newspaper work for some time since. He died in poverty. / ' GOV. TERRELL VISITS WILSON. Secretary of Agriculture Highly Commends Georgia Agricultural Schools. "A people who have already done < -? ivmrh fVw tfcpmselves tn a nractl cal way should have every support and encouragement in their efforts the government can extend," declared Secretary of Agriculture Wilson to a party ot Georgians who called on him in Washington Monday mcming relative to the agricultural schools 01 Ccorgia. Governor Terrell visited the secretary, accompanied by Representatives Livingston and Adamson, to enlist his interest in behalf of Georgia's eleven district agricultural sctf.olc. The secretary declared that he was heartily in favor of congress providing for the-establishment of sub-statiens for agricultural experiment* In connection with each of the schools. Mr. Wilson was shown a note from the president by the -Georgia delegation, in which President Roosevelt declared that the scheme was in perfect accord wJLh -the recommendations on this subject contained with his recent message to congress, and expressed the hope that the secretary would leave nothing undone that was within the power of the department to further the success of the movement. - ~ 1--L _ .. ii. t. -1! J a-Uw * Immediately r.uer me uunu<t>s mc agricultural department will submit a plan to the agricultural committee of the house, which it is expected that Representatives Livingston and Adamson will vigorously push to a favorable vote. Senator Bacon, who is a member cf the beard of trustees, of the University of Georgia, will advocate the measure in the senate. Even if congress should vote adversely on the plan, the agricultural department will lend aid to the Georgia schools by detailing a sufficient number of men new in the department's pay to visit each one of the schools for the purpose of lecturing and giving special instructions to the students on the subjects of plant life a,nd animal industry. The Georgians were highly pleased with the success of their visit. Governor Terrell left Washington Monday night with Xew York. -vy v'o/. ... - "'iv V..\ ;:.-Vv * . V,'.' ' * BEN TILLMAN IS OPPOSED J To President Roosevelt's Jap Position Anent 'Frisco Schools?Danger of Policy is eSt Forth. ' . ^ , A Washington special says: Sena- j, for Tillman, like other southern statesmen and politicians, joins with. ;J the western senators and representalives in disagreeing with President, v i Roosevelt relative to the education of ]*i the Japanese in the schools of Caii- v fornia. He says the federal govern-. ^ i ment has no power, by treaty or otherwise, to interfere with the question . - -f involved. - . jg The senator thinks the question one of vital importance to the south. He says the state of California has a perfect right to segregate the races in her schools, and any interference on the part of the national govern* raent would be contrary to the constl - ^ lution of the United States. Bound up in the guestion of jJ5apaneeb education in California is the* right of the southern states to segregate the races n their schools,"and on this account the views of the . ;g statesmen in Washington are .aterest-: $ ing. In this connection Senator Till- "The south is and should be vitally i interested in the question of Japanese education in the schools of California, which was dwelt upon by/ > the president in his annual message. ; z: Without any preliminary discussion of the question. I have no hesitancy - % in saying Mr. Roosevelt is all wrong. "The United States government ha"V no right, by treaty or otherwise, to; interfere with the internal affairs any of the several str.tes. The school^. / ^ of California are nr>* :tained:; by state government and the state gov-:: : .; erament has the right to say wirt^. ' ?,? shall attend them. They have a jjef-; feet right to segregate the races? quire the Japs to attend one'scfao^ ; and the Caucassians another. H ""And if the federal government en- '/j . tered into any treaty affecting. the_ % : / right of California o\ any other,sta|e^: to regulate her schools the-tr^fe. would be unconstitutional. w "If California has not the xight to , regulate her schools and segregate'tfieraces, then South Carolina, , / | and other southern states - have P ' nglit iu scgicgau; mc iabc? u* vucu - ; LUMBERMEN WIN THEIR CA8E. &' H Judge Speeds Decision Upheld;-.by;tHe;|^ | United States Appellate Court. A decision of the United' court of appeals at New Qrleaas^w^^^J tains the opinion of Judge SpeerM. half of lumbermen . of Georgia way hi advancing the price ping lumber 2 cents per 100 poub^?/ig t|S The amount involved In'the MHg&;' 'M ticn is large and this last means much to the welfare lumber interests of Georgia and ida, the territory affected by cision. While the amount is cents per 100 pounds, wheJ it into consideration that the iut^bar ' ' | shipments amount to some eight lions of dollars a year it will . that this advance of 2 cents anwuntetiv ' -V, to $135,000 annually. # "I In the decision of the court of ap-, 7 5 peals, just, handed down, the iai)s*}kc&X>, ^ are ordered not only to withdraw* - v; the advance of 2 cento,-but to moriiu^ r to the shippers the advance of 2,cents . I Der hundred pounds of lumber wfck&" . they have paid the railroads sinee' ihfc.. advance was declared. As this fkdv-.: V\ ranee was ordered by the railroads itt: ' June, 1903, under the decisions of Judge Speer and the court of-app^ta^: this excess now amounting to"'jfeto3':?;? v| ?500.0<K) must be returned to tne ? This decision affects a great riusi; ? ber of lumber dealers and manuftdr turers, and so far-reaching is its a!? . f feet that It is considered as one <Jf ^ ^ the most important decisions in yeara - | concerning ercessive freight rates and v v^_ ^ the rights of shippers. The iecori|9^'_; % .in the case were the largest ever car-1' (p:i ried to the court of appeals in territory excepting alone the Greene ''' }% and Gaynor case. The effect of the case is also farreaching In that it establishes a neir ' ^ precedent for the correction .of ufcjust '-V1, freight rates. PRESIDENT'S CANAL MESSAGE J | An Elaborate and Entertaining Story ' g of His Visit to Isthmus. S Three messages from the presid were received by congress Monday. .. ^ and their reading tock practically; cf the time of the senate. The- reading ^ was delayed in the house by the fact .v that it was suspension day. The messages were in relation to the public land laws, and the naval personnel bill, and a recounting of the X ; president's visit to the Panama canal. The latter message attracted great in- \pj: terest because it was eianorat?>^?^^H| lust rated, showing the wort great waterway in its various stages. ; TO FIGHT COTTON PESTS. Texas Representative Asks Congress to Give $10,000 a Month. Representative Sheppard cf Texas > ; introduce!] a bill in the house appropritting $10,000 a month for ex- *V periraentaticn in reference to the.cotcotton boll worm, and for devising ; \ suitable methods of counteracting tho' ? cotton wilt or root rot disease. V