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M VwidV^ :>? j^VIH IKI H^P XWmW ?!? , ?? WF ! y '? .-', j = VOL. I. NO. 39. . CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, OCOBER 27, 1904. Sl.SO Per Year. PROGRESS OF EASTERN WAR After Heavy Slaughter and Hard Fighting On Both Sides There is a Loll tUMPAflM BfUMIIM A BltW A Itopm of the CMCMtratiM tf 20r ? 000 duaiaiM Ntrttaaat ?f Lie Yanfl Qivtt RIm to the MM That Ml* Attack May Take That Olfaction? Part Arthur Flaat laU to ha Owt * aid* tha Harbor?Cold Causing Suf fering Among tha Treopa.* So far as the dispatches from the hr East show, there has been no change In relative positions of the hostile arm tea confronting each other on the line of the 8hakhe river. There Is an unconfirmed report that a Russian force of 20,000 men have been concentrated at Keuta Pass, 20 miles northeast of Ltao Yang, which may be Indicative of the direction in which Kuropatkin Is to strike his next blow. * Upwards of 20,000 of the Russian soldiers wounded In the bat tle of Shakhe have reached Harbin. Cold weather Is causing suffering to the armies in the field, although It has wrought an improvement In the renditions fcr the movements of troops. A report has reached St. Pe tersburg, but lacks confirmation, that the Port Arthur fleet has left Its an chorage in the harbor and has tsken up a opaliion in the roadstead. - Kuropatkin Will Try Again. St. Petersburg. By Cable.?There Is no chance in the relative position of the armies on the Shakhe river. General Sakharofl telegraphs' that' the Russians have been bombarding Ioimutlng and the Buddhist torn pie at Linshinpu, while the Japanese have fceen shelling the Russian position at *8hakhe and near Lindhlnpu. An As sociated Press dispatch from Mukden reports that the Japanese arc forti fying an important height south of Shakhe, and that neither side shows a disposition either to advanbe nor re tire. Another Associated Press dis patch from the Russian front says the situation Is not yet ripe for the re sumption of the offensive. This mca Kre but significant admission, all that the censor allows to pass over the wires, doubtless indicates that Gener al Kuropatkin is maturing important plans and distributing his forces in readiness for another attempt to break the Japanese resistance. The winds are now dried by the winds and frost; the cold is (intense and flooded .fields have been frozen. Thus mili tary movements are facilitated though at the same time it will be more dif ficult to carry on intrenching work. An Associated Press ? dispatch from the Russian front gives a rumor that the Russian forces made a detour to the west, arriving abreast of Liao Yang, but there is no confirmation of this report. Great impoitance is at tached to a report from Tokio that 200 Russians have crossed the Taitse riv er east of Bwislhu and that 20,000 are concentrated at Kauta Pass, 20 miles northeaftt: This may indlcato the direction of Kfciropatktin's next blow, or possibly it is Intended to dis concert the Japanese and compel them to weaken their force on the railroad. Whatever Kuropatkln's ul timate object may be, there Is no doubt that he is desirous of obtaining the most relisble Information as to the number and disposition of the force opposing kia loft dank. The Cossacks may bo relied upon to har rass the Japanese lino of oommnni* cnttoa. besides reconnoitering.. Gen eral Kuropatldn is with the centre of his army. On October 21st he per sonally conveyed the congratulations of Emperor Nicholas to Ooont Pou loff and the Nineteenth Rifles for the capture of bono Tree Hill. The Japanese estimnte that the Russlah loss In the battle will reach 60,000 is not conflrmod here. A telegram from Hsrbln reports the pssssgc north of 26,000 wounded. The lemainder, who are quartered in hos pitals at Mukden, cannot exceed a few thousands. . ?0,000 Russians Dsad. ? Tokio, By Gable?Msnchurlan head quarters, reporting by telegraph yes terday, ssys the number of Russian dead found on the battlefield and in terred up to October 22, makes a to tal of 10,565. Upon this total, Rus sian casualties are estimated to ex ceed 60,000. The Jspsnese captured a total of 45 guns during the 8hskhe operations. The report of the Msn churisn headquarters follows: "The enumerated spoils, etc., of the battle of Shskhe follow: "Prisoners, about 500; enemy's dead left on the field, 10,500; guns, 35; 27 ammunition wagons; 5,547 rifles; 78,000 small arms ammunition; num ber swords. shovels, axes snd tents. Besides the enumerated property, the uncounted property, extending over a territory of 25 miles, will reach an enormous quantity. "The enemy's dead is being inter red with military honors. "According to the number of dead, tho Russian casuslties sre estimsted at over 60,000." Captured 14 Japaness Quna. St. Petersburg, By Cable.?General Kuropatkin, in a dispatch to Emperor Nicholas, under Ate of October 21, says: "The Japanese retired from the vil lage of Shakhe at nightfall. October 29. Thursday night passed quietly along the front." Lieutenant General Sakharoff. in a dispatch to General Samsonoff, says: "The retreat of the enemy was precipi tate. We found in the village arms, munitions and provisions which had l-ren abandoned by the Japanese, who also left behind in our old artillery po rtion one cannon, four limbers and a wagon full of instruments they had previously captured from us. Since the battle of October 16 we have captured altogether 14 Japanese guns, including t.ine field pieces and Ave mountain guns and have retaken one of our lost guns. There was no fighting October 21 on the front of the Manchurian army." Japs Cspturs Guns. . Tokio, By Csble.?A telegram re ceived from Manchurian headquarters says: , "On October 21 there was no change reported in the front of all our armies. "Further investigation shows the number of guns captured by our left army to have been 43, the left column taking 27 and the right column 16. The wagons, munitions, etc., which have been captured have not yet been counted. "Scouts dispstched from the left army on the night of October 20 dis covered the corpses of 200 Russians west of Chaung Ling Pan." Killing In Barber Shop. Atlanta. Ga., Special.?In a fight In the barber shop of the well-known hotel in this city, W. R. Hopen was killed by Sam F. Ring, by being stab bed through the heart with a pair of scissors today. Both men were barbers. Ring asserts the killing was done in selfdefense. He has surrendered to the sheriff. Fire in Stat* Office. Columbia. 8. C.. 8peclal.-?-Flre In the reller or The 8tate building Saturday night destroyed $8,000 worth of paper fctock, on which there waa practically HO Insurance. The cause of the Are was a defective furnace pipe. The Are was discovered nt 11:30 o'clock. The fire men. about finished their Job at 1 o'clock, most of the damage having been wrought by water and smoke. Shot and Killed by Mayor. Savannah, da.. Special?L. O. Barron, white, wan shot and killed Saturday tiilornoon nt Ix>vett, Laurens county. Oa., by N. A. Thompson, mayor of the town. It is said that Barron had been threatening all the year to kill Thomp son, and attempted to draw a pistol uhen he was shot by Thompson. Yes terday. It is said. Barron was at Lovett. \ery disorderly, the killing today grow ing out of that affair. Thompson was formerly connected with the Central A Wrlghtsvlile and the Tennllle Hall roads. and stands well with those who know him. Lottery Tickets Confiscated. New York. 8pecla1.?In a aeries of talds, representatives of District At torney Jerome's office seised $100,000 worth of lottery ticket* here aro arrest ed six men and one woman, all resi dents of the lower East Side, charged with selling lottery tickets. Most of them ostensibly sold "steamship tlck eta," though one advertised his place of business as a real estate office, and } another was proprietor of a dry goods Telegraphic Briefs. John T. Smith, a hospital orderly at Rort Molt, married a Maryland ne gress, and whon asked to resign ap pealed to President Roosevelt. An article of Jflmos 0. Blaine pub lished in 1892 in quoted to show that the expression of views of candidates differing from those given *11 party platforms is not new. President Roosevelt dismissed Rob ert 8. Rodie, supervising steamboat Inspector at New York. Chairman nabcock, of the Republi can Congressional Commit toe. says the Republicans will nave a majority In the next House. An attorney for Belgium declares an attempt Is being made to make Un united States a cat'# paw In the Con go affair. The Wooilworth Orphan Asylum was destroyed by Are Wednesday. Two chil dren aro known to have perished and others Injured by jumping from win dows. The Episcopal House of Deputies, at Boston, passed the proposed comprom ise canon on divorce. Senator Culberson attacked President Roosevelt's Panama policy In a speech in New York. Prof. J. H. Hollander, of Baltimore, spoke before the Indian Conference at Lake Mohawk, N. Y. The American Tobacco Company ab sorbed the Continental and Consolidat ed Tobacco Companies at Trenton, N. forming a company with $180,000, 000. It is said Secretary Taft will go to Panama as a sort of deputy president, the situation demanding the moat deli cate treatment. A m?Y IN CSiDABIA ef tk? AwM DM# Wm the OM ?f the L?What will result h ? terrible tup <y occured Frtday. night about 7 o'clock la the old Rich ??M building Just la tho mr ot the pollco statlon. Mario Watklns. color ed, threw a lighted leap at ThomasK sa Broom, colored. The latter was ao badly beraed that she will probably die. Ftom the story of Florence Gulg* oard, a small, mulatto girt of some 11 years aad considerable Intelligence. i* seems that these two half grown ae* gro girls were In a room In the old building, which was by common con sent of the maay colored families liv ing there used as a parlor.' There was a bed la this room aad the two were lying on It. The lamp nearby on a table had little oil In It and an alter cation aroee as to who should All it. A friendly tusael began which merged Itself Into a sharper attack. The Watklns woman seised the lamp and threw It at the other woman as she lay on the bed. * Her light cotton gar ments flared up and the room was Ail ed with smoke and Are. 80 large a blase it Was that the whole yard was lighted up although It was bright moon light outside. The Watklns woman, terrified, ran from the room down the hall, down the stepe and hid herself. 8he was found about SO minutes later by Officer James Dunning who pulled her out from under a house and locked ber up. The unfortunate Broom girl leaped from the bed and ran out of the room down the long hall screaming in pain and fright. As she neared the stair esse some one threw a blanket over ber but she did not stop, and it fell away and the flames leaped higher and higher above her head. By this time some one was on hand with buckets of water and as the girl fell exhausted at the stair case the water was thrown upon her. The spot where she fell was marked by the scorched and burnt rags of her clothing. Almost all of it was burned off. She wss frightfully burned about the hips, back and shoulders. Dr. D. 8. Pope, the city physician, was called in and attended the woman. He said last' night that while she might live the night through it was hsrdly probable that she could recover. About midnight the woman's 'Condi tion was about the same. She wss still slive but was in a critical condi tion. It is hardly probable that she will recover. The case against Marie WatkJns will be brought up this morn ins in the recorder's court snd will probsbly be carried up to the circuit court. Successful Experiment. Beaufort. Special.?On a farm a few miles from Beaufort, under the man agement of Mr. Spelmer, a very suc cessful experiment has been made in corn planting. A patch containing ono 38-100 acres has produced 121 bushels, or about 85 bushels to the acre. The very large yield is attributed to close planting. * A bed five feet wide was thrown up and the seed planted In two rows 22 inches apart. The stalks stood 20 inches apart in the rows. "Al len's prolific" is the name of the seed used, which was planted during the first week in May. Two tons of cotton oil sweepings, costing about $2. was the only fertilizer used. The land planted was low, hesvy and new. It is a part of Capt. Peter Lea's farm at Burton. The wonderful growth has been watch ed with much interest by the fsrmers of thst vicinity. New Enterprises. The Darlington Steam Laundry has applied for a commission, capitalisa tion to be $3,000. Corporators, R. E. Deans. J. L. Nettles, E. R. Co*. R. J. Rlvenbark. The Osteen Publishing Company of Sumter was chartered, captlsallsatlon $15,000. Directors, C. P. Osteen. presi dent; N. O. Osteen. vice president; N. O. Osteen, Jr., secretary and treasurer; H. P. Osteen. J. H. Levy, Abraham Ryttenburg and I. C. Strauss. The Ocean View Social Club of Char leston was chartered. 8. J. Pregnall. president; J; O. Molssln, vice presi dent; John Conway, secretary and treasurer. By Wire and Csble. At an Informal luncheon to Rear-Ad tniral Jewell and other American naval officers King Edward drank a toast to the American navy. The Cuban Congress closed, after a fruitless session. The Ameer of Afghanistan has decid ed to send his son to meet U>rd Curzon, Viceroy of India, on the tatter's return. Senator Knox before the Union Lea gue Club of New York explained Presi dent Roosevelt's attitude toward com binations. General Mills, superintendent of the West Point Academy, urges tho^erec tlon of a building for the treatment of infections diseases. The Democratic Congressional Com mittee has Issued a statement advising that a close watch l>e kept upon the pending negotiations for a new Chinese treaty. The Rusaian and Japanese armies were fogbound, preventing hostilities. Tho fighting was reported to be still going on at Port Arthur. A breach has been made In the Man chester ship canal at Runcorn, and when the tide Is out water pours Into the bed of the river Mersey at the rate of 70,000 to lOO.OOO gallons per hour. As, hewover, the tide sweens Into the canal twlco In every twenty-four- hours no appreciable difference appears to be made In the level of the waterway. Tho danger lies In the possible undermining of the wall at this point. The "burst" has occurred at a point where there wss experienced great difficulty in building the w?11. TIE TWO NOMINEES Gnpfcic Pm Stefctos if PrcsMettfef CLEVELAI9I km UNI WtllE the Br#tmMmI Paint ?f Nhnr m . WnpmNily Neultof QMlHlBgHww'<f J?h tir the Prssl dene y Urged ? Parker's OuMing .Trait His Constant and Unswerving Devotion ts Duty WssssveK'a Vlf Nsw York, Special.?Former Presi dent Grover Cleveland 4ft McClure's for November sires Us persb&al estimate of Judge Parksr as *' csadidate for President. He says of kirn in part: "We sometimes lad features of char acter so prominently visible in a man's mental organisation that, like the fea tures of his countenance, they need no proof of their existence. This is pre eminently true of Judge Psrker's In tent deliberation in reaching conclu sions and his Inherent Judicial conser vatism. These Qualities of bis mind are so dlstlncly apparently that they are at once seen and known by nil who gain tne slightest knowledge of the msn. This should make it thoroughly understood that those who love presi dents! pyrotechnics must look else where. ? "I hsve known Alton B. Parker for more than twenty years. He impressed me on our first acquaintance aa a sin cere,, honest and able man, and this im pression has, with time and observa tion. grown to clear and' undoubtlng conviction. I am sure that I venture nothing in making the positive asser tion that the guiding trtlt of his char acter is his constant and unyielding de votion to duty. ? "Judge Parker's experience in ju dicial Investigation, added to his nat ural aptitude in the same direction, ought to sstlsfy the most cautious snd exacting of his abundant ability to dis cover in the light of constitutional, re quirements, and in the atmosphere of enlightened but conservative Ameri canism, the manner in which a Presi dent should best serve hit country men. "I am persuaded that th% American people will make 'no misbfcs If they place Implicit reliance in Alton B. Parker's devotion to duty. In his clear perception of the path of duty. In his steadfast persistency against all temp tation to leave the way where duty leads, and in his safe and conservative conceptions of presidential responsl liiitles." In McClure's for November, Sena tor Henry Cabot Ix>dge gives a glimpse of President Roosevelt as he seas him. He says of him: "No man has lived the life of his time so amply as he; no one has shown humanity la so many phases, no one has wider sympathies or so many interests. It would be worse than idle for anyone, no matter how Intimate his knowledge, to fancy that he could depict a character so many sided, so tried and tested In such multiform experiences, within the space allowed me here. His dally Hfe does not differ in any respect from that of any other Very busy man of great energy, who finds rest and relief not only in activo out-of-door life, but in a wide and constant read ing of books?a habit, by the way, quite as characteristic as *n yother, but of which the newspaper critics and humorists tell us little. "Theodore Roosevelt apprehends very quickly. When he has thought a subject out thoroughly and knows what he means to do, he acts "prompt ly. When, after full consideration, n# has made up his mind as to what is right he is unbending; bat no man has been in the White House for many years who is so ready to take advice, who has made up his mind more slowly, more deliberately, and after more consultation than Theo dore Roosevelt. "Every nation, or rather every his toric race, has certain attributes in addition to tho great and more ob vious virtues which it believes to be peculiarly its own, and in which it takes an especial Dride. We of the United States like to think of the typ ical Amcirlcan as a brave man and an honest man, very human, with no vain pretenso to infallibility. We would nave him slmplo in his homo life, democratic In his ways, with the highest education that the world can give, kind to the weak, tendor and loyal and true, never quarrelsome, but never afratd to fight, with a strong, sane sense of humor, and with a strain of adventure In the blood which we shall nveer cease to love until those ancestors of ours who conquered a continent linve drifted a good deal further Into tho past than Is tho case today. Those are the qualities which all man admire aurt respect, and which, thus combined, we like to think poculiarly American. As I on urn era to . them I describe Theodore Roosevelt" Telegraphic Briefs. General Kuropatkln has made good bis stand at the Shakho rlvor and Is protecting his line of retreat. The infanta Mercedcs, sister of King Alfonso of Spain, died the day after the birth of a daughter. There Is a reaction against mob rule In Itlay and calm prevails In an ticipation of tho general election. Republican national campaign man agers gavo out a table, claiming 200 electoral votes as certain for Roosoi velt. PALMETTO MATTERS OccurrMNj of lulwl In Various of Mm Stat*. \ The Qwwral CattM MarkA MldOlav. Galveston. ? SS~i* Baltimore, nominal ,,....10 Beaton, quiet ....M.S Philadelphia, quiet 10.? i Savannah, quiet )% Nov OHoano 1% MoWU, quiet 9 7-1K Memphis. our ? 7-JS Augusta. quiet 9% Charlaaton, quiet 9ft Louisville. firm .1 10 St. Louis, steady .>94 Houston, quiet OS New York, quiet 10.05 Charlotte Cotton Market. These figures represent prices paid tifons: Good middling 0% 8trtct middling 9% Middling 3% ? South Carolina Itsms. L A. Martin, the sixth man alleged to have been Implicated in the Eutaw. ?llle lynching, but who was not dis covered by the detectives and apeclal deputies at the time the other five men were taken to Columbia. Lawyer* B. J. Dennle and R. W. Haynea were there to confer with the men under arrest. The lawyers will not discuss their plans, but It Is thought thst they will apply for ball. Application for habeaa corpus or a demand for a preliminary hearing are also open to them. This was a brutal murder of Kit Bookard, without even a semblance of sentimen tal justification and Governor Heyward has been working several months on the caae with Plnkerton men. There haa been heavy expense during the sev eral months the Plnkerton men have been working, but the Governor met thla out of bis own funds, the contin gent fund havtpg been exhauated. Thla la the first time a Governor of this State haa employed Plnkerton men to run down lynchers, and It la expected to have a salutary erect. Governor Heyward Is determined that lynchlngs In this State ahall cease, snd this will tot be the last esse in which he will employ detectives to ferret out evi dence. At a meeting of the State board of health It was decided to take up the matter of recommending to the legis lature the turning over to the Federal Government of the coast quarantine service of the State.' Yhe president of the board. Dr. T. Grange Simons, will confer with Surgeon General Wanan of the marine hospital service, and af ter consulting those in charge of tho stations at Georgetown. Charleston, Beaufort and Port Royal, will report back to the meeting of the board to bo held on the 8th of December, when the board's annual report to the legisla ture will be formulated. The Decem ber meeting will also hear from Secre tary Evans as to the report of vital statistics from Columbia, which thq city board has for many months been endeavoring to get from the city physi cians. The Governor last week issued a re ward of |200 for the capture of Sam Brown, the negro who killed Mr. Allen P. Hettlngton. at Meggets. in August. This was a particularly brutal murder and it aroused much feeling in that section of the State at the time. For a time It waa thought Brown had been lynched, but he seems to have escaped the mob that was after him. A reward of $150 was also offered for Jim Thomp son. who killed Isaiah Jeter In York county a few days ago. The Governor has appointed two spe cial judges In the persons of J. Y. Culbreath and J. P. Carvey, the former to preside over a two weeks' special term, beginning In Pickens on the 24th of October, and the other to hold a special two weeks' term, beginning in Abbeville on the 7th of next month. The Secretary of State Issued two elymosenary charters Friday?one to the Morris Industrial (colored) School of Buffalo, and the other to the Mt. Lebanon View Presbyterian Church at Campbollo. Homicide in Marlboro. Clio, Special.?The coroner's jury Is Investigating a homicide which occur red near here on Sunday. Frank Seat struck Wm. 8weat with a piece of an ax handle while Sweat was advancing on him with a drawn knife. Sweat's skull was fractured and he died Tues day evening Seat made no effort to escape and is now in tbe guard house lie re. Gilbreath Case Dlsrpissed. Spartanburg. Special.?The case against Mayor Jas. (Wreath of Greern. charged with assault and battery wtlh intent to kill, was scheduled for in vestigation in Magistrate Klrby's court It was discovered, however, that the ullegcd assault occurred in Greenville county, the boundary line running near Greers. Magistrate Klrby had no Juris diction in the matter. The case was dismissed. In all probability n warrant will be secured from a Greenville coun ty magistrate, and tho case will come up for investigation in that county If It is pushed. Shot His Wife and Himself. Mobile. Ala., Special?Wednesday afternoon as a result of a quarrel Charles Harding shot his wife three times and then turned the pistol on himself, the bullet penetrating the base of the brain. In conveying Hard ing to the city hospital the ambulance \*as struck by a trolley car and wreck ed, the driver being thrown out and leverely bruised. Harding and his wife ?re fatally wounded. KillOWg A MYTK at ? Boutli Africans, mm m nftr. trouble tbenaclTM bit littler a boot snakes, al tbaogbt it i? wall known that a few va rletieo are particularly dead^. Among the native* Mi* properties of the "?ufcMtone'r hare -for a*auy xtnera tk>n* formed a eentre of half super stltiow credulity, and. even by people who ni|ht be expected to know better, hare been auppoeed to effect the most surprising cure* of snake bltr. An laTMtiptiou of it* properties ip the government bacteriologist * of ItataJ, who submitted au Indian- snakestane to the teat of applying it to' animals infected with snake venom. has shown conclusive!? that ita properties am luite mythical aud that It does notbtor that is clisfmed for' ft. According to tradition tte snakes tone, which two absorbent qualities, and which there la some reason to believe is frequency artificially prepared, fa placed on the wound inflicted by a snake bite. Tlier* It Is believed to suck out the poison, and it has been ssid tlmt if afterward placed In a bowl of inilk tike venom will exude and the nrfik tura blue, in certain experiments narrated iu the British Medical Journal' all these di rections were followed. To tlm two rabbits injected respectively with the venom of a black uiamba, a very dead ly South African colubrine, and with putt adder venom, the snakes tone was at once applied. The stone, by virtue of its absorbent nature, adhered to the wound, but here its adherence to tra dition ended. Both rabbits died, and what was more disappointing, two other rabbits, used as a "control" ex periment." which were injected with the same amount of venonr, recovered. Nor when tlie stone was placed in- milk did the milk change color, though a small quantity of it was absorbed. The amount of absorption that the stone could possibly effect would be no more in hours than ordinary suction by the lips could achieve In a few min utes; and its only possible usefulness might be that of Improving the phys ical ^condition of the patient by im pressing bim with the belief that a valuable remedy was belug applied. South Africa. WORDS OF WISDOM; The way to be nothing is to do noth ing.?Howe. Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.?Bacon. It is always the biggest craven who gives the dead dog the heartiest kick. When a man gives to lie seen of men he generally lias u good deal to hide from the Ixird. For people who live happily together the real see-ret is that they shall not live too much together. ?English Pro verb. The darkest hour in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to got money without honestly earning it.?Horace CSrecley. Never compare thy condition with those above thee; but to secure thy content, look upon those thousands with whom thou wouldst not. for any interest, change thy fortune and con dition.?Jeremy Taylor. Let us rightly search our lives that. If there be any evil in Hie day gone, before the angel closes his book we may repent, nml the fair white page of holy deeds and genuine repentances be our only record.?John E. W. Ware. Life our battleground, death our re lease; cares and sorrows upon earth, repose in heaven?of these we all havo heard. But do we really grasp the thought that in our death and judg ment we are confronted with new op* portunity??Isaac Ogdcn Itankiu. Awed by Right of A Southern planter employed a man to work some of his land during the past year on shares. On account of the high price of cotton the employe's half of the proceeds amounted to The planter knew that it would ruin any such man to get such a sum of money, and decided that half of It would be enough. Upon further reflec tion the conviction grew upon him that $800 would ruin any such man in the world, so he cut the sum in half again, and, piling up 400 shining silver dollars on his desk, sent for the negro and brother, and said that he was ready to settle. The man came in and fairly gasped at the amount of wealth in sight. "Land, boss," he said, "Is that money nil ours?" *? ->'li "Yes." "* "?"?rli "Well, then, divide it In two piles and you take your linlf and I'll taku mine."?Minneapolis Tribune. Our Willow War*. In ten years Maryland has jumped from llfth to third place In the willow ware industry in the United States, now ranking next to New York and Pcnnsylv. nla. Baltimore Is one of the three willow-ware centres which only have shown any actual growth In the business. In Maryland ihe centre of the willow district lie*-, in Howard County. In the nelghbo. hood of Klk rldge alone the output of willow ex ceeds $5000 per annum, while Anne Arundel County contributes $2500, ?lap Art voril?ln j. The Japanese advance hi advertising as in nil else. Here Is au illustration: "Our wrapping paper Is as strong as the hide of an elephant. Cloods for warded with the speed of a cannon ball. Our silks ami sntins are as soft as the cheeks of a pretty woman, ns beautiful ns the rainbow. Our parcels are packed with as much care as a young married woman takes of her itisbund." The Hospital states that 2.2S0.578 pa. f?nts ar.j treated aununlly In London > 'spltnts aud liieptusnvlt's. (HE M'CUE THAI ?mm Cue Brttftt It TfW as# Vcairc ILLEtti WIFE sunt coirt? duly NNm Jure** OMitaN (M ' ths BO YtnlrMMn Fnmm and an OOTlm Imt ts SO Prom That City?A* ?tate'e WKmm Abamt QrMtm By Mia Cliil<nw an |! Imral1 Tim? By HI* Braiwra j Chariottearffib; Va, Special.?Tla ?case o( former Mayor MeCae.accaesioy wife ni order waa called for trial Tues day. Hon after the epsalag of tla court fir waa anmmnMi that W. Or Da rette, mm- important ?ta?a for tto Commonwealth, waa ttant from tka city. OpUin IBcab Woods, who ip | assisting- the prossentioai said that M& Durrette was an waantlM witness. It was stated* thst MX Duriette, when lasT heard from waa in- Bbaofata, W. Va* Mi*. Lee. of counsel for the defenas. stated that* they were an lions to go oa> with the case aad tUat If Captats Woods oarod to dLictoss what he ex pected to prove by Mr. Darrette ha* thought It very probalfle tfta denfease would agree to admit! Captain Woods did not maKa this dtecloaare. but said that he had sent several tslegrams af ter the witness and would Bhe a little time to ascertain the- r as sit of theaa messsgesjMWithout disposing of the question oourt. took, a recess until irttoa JL sfternooi ? Isrge crowd'^^la-te attendance 1st the court room when the ease was call ed. The special venire treos Petersburg, from which a jury will be drawn ts try the case; was present. Mr. McCns. when he came into court, was affection ately greeted by hla children, all of whom were present except Samuel. Hla youngest daughter cried bitterly while seated In her father's lap. Comment was made mi the fact that Mr. Durette, the chief witness, should hsve gone to Ronceverte, where the children of the accused were taken sev eral weeks age and flrom which city * they returned. The afternoon session of the oourt was consumed in the ex amination of the fifty veniremen from Petersburg, and out of the fifty only nine jurors were obtained. A number of the Petersburgers declared that they would not convict on circumstantial evidence. At the conclusion of the ses sion the city sergeant of Charlottes ville left hurriedly for Richmond, where he will summon fifty more veniremen to serve In these cases. The striking feature of the trial waa the fact that several of McCue's broth ers, who were in the court room with him, kissed him a number of times. The prisoner is sold to have gone to jsil this evening whistling a tune. Reeigne Mlesleasry Presidency. Des Moines, Iowa, Special.?Her* Washington Gladden, of Columbus, O., resigned the presidency of the Ameri can Mission Society, perhaps the great sit home missionary organization. In the country. The new duties of moder ator of the Congregational National Council forced Mr. Gladden to give up the less important office. Prof. W. E. DuBols, of Atlanta Uni versity, (colored), created a sensstlon by a statement in his address that the rise and education of the ambition* young negro student Is a menace-to the security and clsss superiority of the rich, the well-born and white. Ho salifc the negro problem Is only a phase of* the greater problem of class distinctioa. The greatest crime of the United Stataa? he ssid, is steeling, which is manifest-* ed la the arrogatlon of special privt legee by the well-to-do and the white ever the poor and the black man. Served With Summons. Huntsville, Ala., Special.?Sheriff A. D. Rogers, against whom impeachment proceedings have been Instituted in> the Supreme Court for alleged neglect of duty in allowing a mob to lynch Horace Maples, was served with a formal sum mons today to appear before the Su preme Court November 24. Tho sum mons was served by Coroner E. B? Stewart Tobacco Factory Burned. Richmond, Va., Special.?The R. A. Patterson Tobacco Factory No. 2, waa practically destroyed by fire Tuesday night. Loss, about $100,000, which Is ceveml by insurance. The Are la thought to hine been due to spontane ous combustion. It originated In the granulating ('epartmont. About 2M> persons were employed In the plant. Attack British Oteamerx Shanghai, By Cable.?The British steamers l'ah Knng and Hoi Ho, were attacked by piratos in Ihc west river near Canton Tuesday night. A British gunboat has been dispatched to the scene. Accepted Invitation. Washington, Special.?Senor Don Kmlllo de OJcda, the Spanish minister, has received authorlzat'on from hla government to accept the invitation of the governor of Florida and tho mayor of Jacksonville to attend the celebra tion of the reconstruction of Jackson ville after tho disastrous Are. Tho mln ibter has advised the Florida officials of bl? sccoptanco.