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CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1904 A, Bluestocking; ROMANCE REALITY. By Miss Annie Edwards.! CHAPTER XII. -?stent Jealousies. /??L ?re! Well, on that point the less ? said the better, perhaps," remarks ' Auut Hosle. dryly. "Jealousy. 'tis evl <leut is a sentiment out of date. A pair .of old-fashioned sweethearts will soon, .1 take It, be objects for a museum, and 'What was courtship?' a question Tor a competitive examination In archaeol ogy/' , .Three days have elapsed since the dinuer party on board the Liberia and. through the lozenged windows of the Misses Vunsittarts' parlor the western ?un shines upon the unwonted night of a company-expectant household; chines upon Daphne, her fair arms feared to the elbow as she piles up dish after dish of strawberries aud flowers; upon Aunt Hosle, somewhat flushed in the face, and holding little paper parcels of the best, seldom-used ?liver in her bands. "The queer thing Is." she proceeds, pausing of a sudden In her work, and looking significantly across at her nlece'H face? "the queer thing Is. that, having abandoned the old-fashioned illusion of love, young women should retain ao firm aud eager a faith In the old-fashioned institution of marriage! Hut theae contradictions are the mark of the age. People snetr at their 'Bibles aud are firm believers In Plan chette. Oblige me. Daphne, by ar ranging your flowers so as to bring ?ir. Felix Broughton as little before any sight as possible. At flfty-six years old"? whenever Aunt Hosle Is ?t all out of temper wlut the v.orld or Its goings on. she makes these kinds of raids upon her own age? "at flfty ?ix years old one ought to kuow, to ihave grown callous to every new de velopment of human folly. Unfortu nately, I have not done so. Au eye glassed dandy, monosyllabicaliy toler ant of the universe, myself iucluded, is what I cannot abide." '?'or the >ast time tin principal actors In this smalt drama have agreed to meet together. Sir John Severne, called away on settlement. business by Als lawyers, will quit the island to nfcfrrow morning. Felix Broughtou Is to. start for Paris a few hours later. The Liberta, wind anc'. wave permit ting, will leave for conger fishing off diaupie's toward noon. In another four-and-twenty hours Daphne Chester nlone will be left-left to live out the old. blank, self-colored life of Flef-de la- Heine, to hear the motiveless fall of the waves, watch the rose leaves flutter and die n round the suu dial; left to stagnate, as she used to do be fore Severne' s coming had brought back human warmth and vitality into the sluggish currents of her existence. "An old woman's opinions signify / fiothing," pursues Aunt Hosie, as she distributes round the forks and spoons. "'An old woman's opinions signify Jiothing? happily for Mr. Broughton? ?o long as young and pretty girls are content to listen to the words of wis dom that fall from his lips. Although, liow a person as cultivated as Miss Hardcastle, not to speak of yourself? you are listening to me. Daphne?? how young women,' destitut ? neither of parts nor education, can hold out the encouragement they do to an empty licaded creature like 'Cousin Felix* pusses my comprehension." I should premise that during the past three days Felix Broughton aud Miss Hardcastle have, through one seeming Accident or another, lingered awny the greater portion of their time at Flef de la-Relne. Aunt Hosle has, In con sequence, had ample opportunity for verifying her Judgments In the Matter of modern love-making and modern lovers. The drift of her remarks will *ufllee to show in what direction these judgments tend. "Felix Broughton may not be a Sol omon." says Mrs. Chester, "if he were. I don't suppose he would care to talk to me. As for his eye-glass, I cannot see that short sight is a proof of shal low brains. Besides, how good he Is to Paul! Always something in his porkets for the child? always." "Don't take the unnecessary trouble of accusing yourself by these excuses," Interrupts Aunt Hosle. coolly. "Daphne rhestcr Is no more In love with Mr. Felix Broughton than Clementina Hardcastle is in love with Sir John Weverne. It would be quite impossible for me to find stronger language in which to express myself." Daphne hides her face away behind the shelter of a bowl she hns i>een lav. Ishly filling with roses, pinks and hon eysuckles. ? "Mlsa Hardeastle I* to become Blr John Severne's wife some lime In Au gust?oh, there I* no doubt about It. A line liosle! The drosses nre ordered, the color of the bridesmaid*' bonnets decided 011. For aught we can tell. It may not be the fashion for engaged people to pay open attention to each other." "Human nature In the fashion ai rway*," cries Aunt Hosle, suddenly Abandoning her tone of banter. "Do you think, If Mi*.? Hardeastle loved Sir John Heverue, ahe would tolerate his lukewarm attentions for a day? I>o you tbltik she would not show jeal ousy?yea, 1 dare use the word- hon est, natural, commendable Jealousy, of walk* by aunrlse, walk* between .t and 4 o'clock on a June morning, with a woman as young and well looking as yourself?" At this sharp home thrust the color (lies ou Daphne's checks. "That walk was an accident." she answers, very low. "Could I help Jean Marie forgetting at which pier he was to meet me? Could I help Sir John Severne's happening to leave the yacht when I did? Surely, you would uot l:ave had me walk tiom , past the fort and harbor works, at such an hour unescorted?" "I would have had you do what your conscience told you was right." nays Anne Hosle. Ilrmly. "To walk alone past the fort at 3 o'clock in the morn ing might be unconventional " "Aunt Hosle! When I have heard you say a hundred times that the only tbing you dread on earth is a tipsy soldier!" "To trifle, or seem to trifle, with af fections of an engaged man is n crime." "A crime!" echoes Daphne Chester, her lips a-quiver. "It is not like 3-ou. Aunt Hosie, to he so wanting iu char ity." "It would be less like me. I hope. -Daphue, to be wanting in a sense of common honesty. 'The Loan, of a Lover' mny be a pretty subject for comedy on the stage. Iu real life, such manners, such levity, are tolerably sure to have a tragic ending. Have the kindness to t?t the dishes straight, child, if you please. Your drawing les sons"? this with emphasis? "do not seem to have improved ybur eye for symmetry." The members of the yachting party have received an invitation, collec tively, to partake of high tea at Fief de-la-Relne; a moonlight sand-eellug expedition to constitute the amuse ment of the evening. When the ap pointed time comes, however, only three of the expected guests put in sn appearance? 81r John 8everne. Felix Broughton and Miss Hardcastle. ~ Lady" Lydia, It Is vaguely believed, may be somewhere on the Channel be tween this aud Normandy. Races arc gding on at St. Malo; and Lady Lydia. with Mrs. de Mauley and Max. was last seen on the pier near upon the hour when an excursion steamer was advertised to depart for France. Miss Rivers, knapsack on shoulder, is tak ing a solitary walk round the island. The Arab has beeu lost since yester day. Of Mr. Jornlngham I need scarcely add, no one for a moment Hpeaks or thinks. "And so. unless any of my Inwful guardians conic to life. I must osk tlic Misses Yansittart to be iny elinperons." nays Clementina, as she is taking off her hat in Daphne's little white, coun try-looking bedroom. "That is. if chaperons, the crowning mistakes of civilization, could by any possibility be needed at Flef-de-la-Keine! Oh. Mrs. Chester, how good it must be to in habit a house like this,"' she continues. "Not an inkstand, not a book to be seen? our bedrooms at home are lined with hooks. 'In case any of us should feel sleepless in the night.* Mrs. Hard castle says. A sea of whose chemical constituents you know nothing, around a sky you have never been forced to sarvey through telescopes overhead all. and whnt delicious real roses!" And balancing herself on the broad granite casement ledge. Miss Hard castle leans forth her town-complex ioned face amidst the labyrinth of odorods. bloom-laden branches that droop around. "The roses one buys In London never seem quite real, against country ones." I she goes on, presently. "Besides, when I was young. I was so tortured with Iwitany, classifying, after Linnaeus or Jusslcu, every flower that blows, that I almost grew to hate the smell of them. And to think you have never had a governess. Mrs. Chester, never been to a lecture, or assisted at a con versazione! What have I done to de serve such cruel reverses at the hands of fate?" "Reverses!" echoes Daphne Chester, somewhat hastily. "Yes, it comes lightly enough to you, no doubt, to use that word. You, Miss Ilnrdcastie, who cannot yet have tasted one aetual trou ble, who have everything to make the present sweet " "Oh. I know, I know." Interrupts Clementina, with a jarring little laugh. "When people are engaged It is thought the correct thing always to address them In that kind of Jubilant strain. As if marriage was such a panacea for human ills that the mere road thereto were a matter for insane rejoicing! But perhaps you are not aware"? she says all this iu a short, decided manner, as she speaks tearing cruel wounds In the petals of what ever rose has the nick to co:nc be neath her lingers?' "Perhaps Hir John Heverne has not told you It is n set tled thing that I am to be his wife?" "I knew of your engagement before I llrst saw you at Quernec," answers Daphne, with as steady a voice as she can command. "And you think, of <?our?(e, that both of us are to be congratulated?" "I think your prospects of happiness are bettor than most people's; Kir John Severn* I* hrave, high principled " "Young, clever, rich: everything a man should be." e.fclali! ? Sir John's boUolUeil, quickly. "And the meur 6f mj Pawl's Uf<? adds Daphne Chester. Miss Hard castle looked at her critt* cally for a few seconds. "I am not Insensible to anj one of Sir John's virtues." she remarks, in a graver tone, "and I hope In time to come up to the like standard of perfec tion. Meanwhile, not even my un exampled good fortune prevents the taste of life being occasionally sour to me. I may hsve a couple of your roses for my hstr? Ah. not the da mask ones ? thsnks. Only people of your complexion can afford to wear s pink like that!" Does the tone in which this last re nts rk Is spokeu savor of bitterness? "Human nature is the fadhlou al ways." said .Aunt Hosle. with her blunt, straightforward integrity. Have learning, philosophy, science, left so much of common human nature In Clementina Hardcastle that she is jealous? wounded a* any simple, uned ucated girl might be by her sweet heart's friendship, no matter how pin tonic, for another woman? The suspicion (and perhaps a con science not altogether void of offense) causes Dupliue to shriuk. as she has never shrank yet. from Sir John Sev erne. She feels that her eyes sink be neath his glance; that her cheeks red den guiltily at his voice: and with forced spirits, with "levity" of man ner. once more to quote Aunt Hosie, very unlike her ordinary self, she takes refuge in the pointed, the growing in tentions of Mr. Felix Brougliton. Even Miss Theodora, brimming oyer with aristocratic reiniuiscences for Clementina's benefit, as she presides in a girlish muslin nnd modish mob cap over the tea table? even Theodora, I say, is sensible of the change that has come over Daphne, and rejoices. In spite of poor Henrietta's prejudices on the score of brains, who shall deny that Felix Brougliton is an elegant, highly-conceited creature? Who shall tell that orange blossoms, silks, satins. Honlton (every higher aspiration of Theodora's soul finds its culminating point in Honlton), may not be immi nent? CHAPTER XIII. Sand Eellng? Part I. The tide is In a fitting condition for the fishing expedition to start Boon after 0 o'clock; and, by some kind of process of natural selection, tbe lit tle party from Flef-de-la-Relr.e at once breaks up Into pairs. Jean Marie and Margot, barefoot and armed with a short kind of reaping book, the regu lation sand-eellng weapon, start ou ahead. Aunt Hosle. similarly equipped, follows next, with Pere Andre. Then come the legitimate lovers, experiene- . lug. If the depression of their manner speak truth, more difficulty thau com mon in finding pegs whereon to hang the sweet banalatles of sentiment. Daphne and Mr. Brougbtoh. slowly sauntering, gayly chatting, secure in the knowledge that they at least are not legitimate lovers, follow last. It is one of the lowest tides of the year, and scattered all across the broad, white sands of Quernec Bay are groups of sand-eelcm; the women pro vided with lanterns, and keeping, while yet they may. to terra ttrma, the men iind lads waist deep across the cur rents. in their eagerness to reach the sand-eel banks of best renown before their fellows. The night is perfect, balmy as noon, a faint breeze stirring from the east, and illumined by tbe most glorious Milky Way. a road of very silver, spanning the whole arch of purple heaven. By and by rises the moon. Just behind the Isolated tower of f!a brlelles. and then? who shall say how these things happen? Daphne discov ers that Sir John Severne has become her companion, while the figures of Cousin Felix and Miss Hardcastle be come at each moment more indistinct In the far distance. Severne for her companion, and for the last time? to-night, for very certain, the ending of their friendship! Well, for a space they keep to commonplace small talk, like two Indifferent ac quaintances looking forward to se? each other to-morrow, and every sue* cecdlng morrow throughout the year. Daphne Chester knows, as well as though the experience of a dozen Lon don seasons had taught her, that for people placed as they are placed, si lence must be fraught with danger. She knows this; she foresees, fills In every pause dexteiiously. Sir ,iobn shall make no avowal, shall utter no re grets to which Clementina Ilardcastle might not listen unpained. So far her resolutions are of adamant. Unfortu nately. Severne has formed resolutions also of adamant, and tending in a somewhat opposite direction to her own. "You will be quite sure to write to me, Mrs. Chester?" Severne waits for no opportune break, chooses no safely negative phrase with which to lead up to the question. He puts It abruptly; just after Daphne has remarked that the cousins are wandering from the way wherein they should go. and as a mat ter of duty must be followed and set straight. "Broughton and Miss Hardcastle on a wrong track? Oh. they will find their way back to a right one. depend upon It. without our assistance. Yes, you will write to roe. I know. You have given me your word already that you will do so. Still, it is pleasant, to hear good promises repeated twice over." "Yon would not want the letter re peated twice over! Why. Aunt Theo dora sa.vs I don't tnlk lOnglish by gram mar rules, and as to writing " "And yon ihlnk I would ; arce your letters, sentence by sentence, a dic tionary utnl Llndley Murray at my. side?" "? To be continued. 12,1(2,000- IALE CROP A SENSATIONAL (gpr IN PIKES Greatest SurpHu cf-Miy Oovimnwiit Estimate of L?U Vein, Few Bears Having Even Tallied as Much ae 12,000,000 Bales. Washington. 1. ? Preliminary returns to the chief of the Bureau of Statictics, DepartMljH 7Of Agriculture, ihow a total product&B of cotton In the United States in thryetr 1904-1906. of 12,162.000 bales. Ro?'ll bales have been Included in this estfoMte, and reduced to their equivalent ll square bales. The estimate does Mftt Include 1 Inters. The estimated prod action by States will' be made public Dec. 1 at 11 a. m. In the preparation and ^sauance of the cotton report. Secretary Wilson gave a demonstration of the precau tions taken to avoid ad ranee lnfocma tion leaking 'out. Raftresentatlves Bur gess. of Texas, and Ransdell, of Louisi ana. were invited 4y;the Secretary to witness the preparation of the esti mate. The party was locked in the. private office of tha statlatlcan, and the reports from all tha Totton dis tricts wore taken Into the room. The doors were locked from the outside, and the Seeretary then save orders for the opening of tha report. The esti mate. of the crop for the year 1904-19051 was then prepared and sent out. before iny person in the room was p remitted to leave or eommunloate with any per son from the outside. "In this manner the eotton estimates are invariably made." said Secretary Wilson, "and all liiiman injciiuity Is used to prevent leakage of information." New York. Special. ? The govern ment estimate of the cotton crop, plac ing the yield at 12.16S.000 bales. Issued Saturday, was a surprise to more peo ple. perhaps, than any government re port of rccent years. While a few of the more extreme bears had been talk ing 12,000.000 balea pr over, the aver age opinion even In bearish circles lo cally. was that the fcovfenUBspt esti mate woujdbe under that ffure. The announcement "waif followed by another sensational break in prices. The declinc that has been in progress now for over a month and carried the market down from 11 rents to 8V4 cents, proved Insufficient in the estimation of the trade to fully reflect the new con dition of affairs, anil a crop of the size reported. There was undoubtedly a big short interest in tlic market, but lu jpite of covering, prices declined near ly half a cent in less than an hour of trading. January, which was sold around 8.50 during the forenoon, was depressed to about S.10 and other months suffered in like measure. The market was very excited, with trading exceedingly active. The official close was barely steady at a net decline ot 52 to 57 points, with January, which had closed on yesterday at 8.5fi, quoted at. 8 cents, and March at X.20. The businer.s was enormous, and. in spite of additional wires secur ed for the day by some of the houses, there were many orders remaining un executed after the cloee of the mar ket, when sales put It up about 600.000 bales. This, it was said, led to a con siderable volume of trading in an un official way after the noon hour. Quo latious on these transactions, so far is could be lea rend, ranged within i bout :: points of the closing figures. March, it was reported, sold around i.17. $100,000 Cotton 8eed Fire. Seima, Ala., 8pecial. ? The Interna tional Cotton Seed Oil Company's plant, was partially destroyed by Are Sunday afternoon, and the seed, hull and meal warehouse are a total loss. Between three and four thousand tons of seed were lost. The total Is esti mated at SI 00,000, practically covered by insurance. Spontaneous combus tion in the warehouse Is the sup posed origin of the fire. Fatal Gasoline Explosion. Pittsburg, Special. ? In a Are which was remarkable for Its rapidity and awful havoc, Mrs. Rock Berry and two of tier children were burned to death Sunday evening. Rock Berry, the husband, and his son, llenry, and daughter, Annie Perry, were forced to stand In .the street and witness the tragedy. The forceful though kindly efforts of the police kept them fr'm rushing Into the flames for their loved ones. The lire is thought to have been caused by a spark from a coal stove setting lire to the carpet, which Mrs. Perry was cleaning with gasoline The bouse was destroyed inside of ton minutes after the explosion Killed By Neighbor. Memphis, Tenn., Special.? A dispatch from Stimnter, Miss., says that Smith Murphy, ono of the richest planters in the Mississippi delta, was killed there by Jerry Robinson, also a wealthy planter. The killing It Is said, Is the result of au old Mud. originating sev eral years ago In tire Shooting of a negro whose service-; were claimed by both men. Robinson surrendered Im mediately to the sheriff, lie Is 21 years old; his vtctim was 35. END OF GREAT FAIR Wertt's Exposition Goes Oat la Blaze tf Qhry MANAGEMENT IIGILY GRATIFIED Closing Exercless Hald in the Plaza . of It Louis, Exposition President Francis and Gov. Dockory Deitver ing the Principal Addresses ? Mr. Francis Saya the Fair Haa Conaumed Mi? Entirs Tims For Four Years and is ths Work if His Llfo? Final Day Doslgnatod "Francis Day" in Hla Honor ? Closing Scenes Impressive. St Louis, Special.? The Louisiana Purchase Exposition has ended. The stupendous and magnificent exposition, whose tendrils of Interest have extend ed Into every portion of the civilised world, and even into aboriginal re cesses, bringing within the gates of St. Louis millions of visitors from throughout the entire world, has run Its course, and now passes Into history as probably having comprised the most representative collection of the re sources. Industries, art, people and cus toms of the world ever assembled. The beat order has been maintained throughout; there have been a few fires, but all were of small moment, with the exception of the destruction of the House of Hoo Hoo. and the par tial destruction of the Missouri Build ing, recently. The former was Imme diateiy rebuilt. No loaa of life has oc curred during the exposition from acci dents. St. Louis bis proffered most gracious hospitality to the world, and it has been accepted. Throngs of visitors have poured in to attend the exposition with the expecta tion of being pleased and satisfied. They have departed amaxed and grati fied. The opinion has been expressed at all times, on all aides and without reserve, that the Loulslsna Purchase Bzpotltlon has been a success. The msn probably most prominently lthowa In cdnnectlon with the World's Fair is the president, David R. Francis, and it was deemed fitting that the final dsv should be designated as "Francis Day," in his honor. "This exposition has been the work of my life," said President Francis. "It haa conaumed my entire time for the The closing exercises were held at the base of the Louisiana Purchase monument. In the plasa of St. Louis, where were held seven months ago the exercises that formally opened the gates to the world. The principal speeches delivered were by Governor Ix>ckery. of Missouri, and President Francis. President Francis, In his address, spoke of tho lasting influence of the fair, "which marks a new epoch in the intellectual and indnstrial advance ment of the world and the dawn of a new era in the industrial relations of governments and people." In conclu sion he said: "May the enterprise with which we have been connected for nearly seven years past bring into still closer brotherhood all tho nations and all the peoples who huve participated In it. May It deepen our patriotism. May It strengthen our for a benign Providence that smiles upon lis." Promptly at 4 o'clock all the great exhibit places were closed and visitors were excluded. In the Palace of Agri culture onslaughts were made on some of the exhibits, where the settings were composed of straw and fragile mate rial, and for a time general demolition was threatened, but prompt action in affecting a general ejectment put a stop to the threatened turmoil. Steadily the white bul1>s silhouetted the exhibit palaces against the night, periodically the illumination of tho Terrace of States surmounting Festival Hill changed from white to red, then to green, and then black and white. Over on Agricultural Knoll the great floral clock clicked off the minutes of tiio de parting pageant. And In tho night rang out the tones of the massive bell, as the midnight hour was tolled by the great clock. Instantly a hush seomed to pervade tho entire grounds. The glowing electric bulbs slowly begah dimming, the pulsations of the great engines that drove the cascades gradu ally died downL The light faded stead ily. diminishing until hut a faint glow was perceptible. Suddenly there was darkneps. nnd the I?tilsiuua Purchase Exposition had passed Into the chron icles of history. Gift to Methodist Churoh. Nashville. Special. ? The late million* aire philanthropist and dry goods mer chant of St. l^ouls, Richard M.' Scruggs ir, his will Just filed, makes specific bequests of $481,000. I^arge amounts are left to the Methodist Church, South foi the foreign missions. To W. It. I^ambuth, Secretary of the Board pf Misslones of Nashville $5,000 are left for a girl's school at Hiroshima, Ja pan: Bishop E. R. Hcndricks will get $".,000 for missions and tho. ' same-' sums are left to Bishop E. E. Hons, Bishop Chandler, of Atlanta. Bishops Calloway and Wilson for tho same purposes. *?*' . . Live Items of News. Some striking figures are contained in the annual report of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. The President and Mrs. and Miss Roosevelt returned safely to Washing ton from St. Louis. Kansas contributed a figure of John J. Ingails for Statuary Hall, In the Capitol. The New York State Court of Ap peals declared the Eight-Hour law'un* constltutlooil. \t I The Weather Bureau, a department of the National Government whose ser vices are for all, bases Its forecasts upon actual instrumental observation of weather conditions throughout the United States, and is scientifically In vestigating the laws controlling at mospheric phenomena. ltn forecasts are for a definite -time and place, and- are Issued for only two pr three days In ad* vpinc?, Mfrfllywtote. tyvaiise^the expert tifrsMsters' of the bureau understand the futility of attempting long range forecasts in the present status of tbo science. Though occasionally missing a forecast, the Weather Bureau rarely (ails to give timely warning of radical weather changes which are of practical Importance to the interests of the country. It speaking well for the people of North Carolina that the press in this State so generally refrains from dis seminating harmful long range weather forecasts. Misstatements by privato weather forecasters should be entirely suppressed; weather forecasts in alma nacs. etc., are worthless. As a true knowledge of meteorological phenom ena is of great importance to man in all the activities or life, people should rather place their faith in the Weather Bureau, the operation of which can not fail to be of greater and greater benefits to the people as the science of meteorology advances. ? C. K. Von Her mann, Weather Bureau. News of the Day. Thirty thousand Socialists demon strated against Herr Luoger. mayor of Vienna, on the eve of his sixtieth birthday. The burgomaster recently de scribed the Socialists as a lot or raga muffins. October 23 they gathered in the Rlngstrasse opposite the Itathaus, shaking their fists and waving sticks and red handkerchiefs. A charge by 1. 000 police finally dispersed them. Archbishop S. (?. Measmer. of Mil waukee, did not attend the funeral of Archbishop Elder in Cincinnati on elec tion day beeatrse he said his duties as a citizen prevented his going. Mme. Francesca .Tanauschek. famous a? an actress, died at Amity vllle, l<. I. , Rev. Dr. William T. Manning, vicar of St. Agnes' Chapel, Trinity Parish New York, was elected at Lacaster, Pa., as Protestant Episcopal Bishop of . the now Diocese of Harrisburg, Pa. Rev. I)r. Charles E. Woodcock, of Detroit, MJch., accepted the offer to bo tome Protestant* Episcopal Bishop of Kentucky. Father VandeVon was consecrated at New Orleans and Father .lames I*. Davis was. consecrated at Davenport, Iowa, as Coadjutor Bishop of Daven port. Organizers of the Women's Christ Ian Temperance Union made their re ports to the national convention hi Philadelphia Tho World's Fair at St. IxjmIs. which eloscd Wednesday, !.-> pronounced a financial success. The strike of . the miners in tho Tel lurite district of - Colorado has boon declared off. Joseph Loiter, the wealthy ownoi rrl coal minys at Zolgler. 111., and his attorney havo Ijeen .Indicted for bring Ing armed men Into (he State In de flflnce of a'neW Illinois statute. Tho creditors of D. J. Sully, the for mer "cotton king," enme to an agree ment, and a settlement now seems probable. Mrs. Casslo L. Chadwlok agreed In New York to pay In cash the claim for $190,000 held against her by Her bert. D. Newton. Thomas E. WatFoti, lately Populist candidate for President, made a r, ad dress at Crawfordvllle. (la.. In whir l: he bitterly aarollod the Deniocr&tk party and tho "Solid South." LOW MNGE WEATIEt FQHCASIS. An Interesting Document latutd by the Department. The observation of tbe phenomena of nature has engaged man's attention from remote antiquity. Hie early efforts to Interpret tbe wonders of th<r heav ens. and especially tbe intricate and apparently arbitrary change* In tbe at mosphere, resulted in the acceptance of the supernatural rather than tbe tiue explanation of things. Thus arose the first crude sciences, the eldest of which ? Astrology? assumed a causinU connection between the stars ami con Junctions of the planets and man e notions, both individual and collective*. Although these first efforts to under stand nature wore bonest. tbe appar ently natural love of man for the* mys terious, and tbe mental slavery result ing therefrom, ultimately farmed a se rious hlndrauce to tbe growth of real knowledge concerning the phenomena of nature, the baneful effect* of which have hardly yet bceu overcome io some lines of thought. One science. Meteorology, the science of the weather, which has made Its chief advancement ouly during the laat fifty years, is still retarded in its prog ress by the trammels of superstition. We still have groundhog experts, weather sharps, and long range fore casts. people who pretend to believe that they have an Infallible system of predicting the weather, slorms. floods or droughts for months or even years ahead, and who foist their predictions upon the public for the benefit of their own pockets. Like the charlatans who not long ago swindled some people with a process of obtaining gold from sea- water, these weather fakes also keep their methods secret, and strange to say they find some people witllug to believe their preposterous claims, the publication of which is calculated to be positively injurious to agricultural, commercial and other industrial inter ests. m me OPEN SHOP HoKBCflt Aaoif Eaptojrerf Apiist Labor Orgaaiatim A NUMBER Or TALKS Alt MADE Citizen*' Industrial Aoaocfxtlon Takes Stepe to Fight the Boycott, Limita tion of Apprantlaea and Other Labor Union Maaaurao ? WHI Dtoarlminato Against Naithar Union Mar lnd4 pendant Labor ? Stepa Looking to Organized Effort ? Praaidont Rooaa volt Allegod to Have AaaentoO to a Romark That Rcaponaibility Muat Be Put on Unions. New York, Special? Plan* tor or ganizing the employers of labor in this country to combat the labor unions were considered at Thursday*.* session of the Gttlsens' Industrial Association convention. Amaog the several ad dresses delivered was <sie by Dfenlel Davenport, of Brld>eeport,. C6nn? exec utive a great of the American Anti Boycott Aaaociation.. Mr. Davenport's topic was cfte purpose and work of the American Anti-Boycott Association. He told of the suits against the United Hatters, wftfeb, he said. h;id been of great morel effect in ttrlngir^ home to workers responsibility for tfte boycott. John Beattfe. a representative of the Master Painters and Decorates* Asso ciation. speaking of the labor situation In New York, .sahl: -Recently 1 asked President Roosevelt, ate an American citizen, to use his influence to put the responsibility on labor nations, and he said: . ? ? <. , ?? "That's the thing that is needed.* The report of the committee en reso lutions as adopted re-affirms the ob jects as adopted by the Chicago and Indianapolis conventions of the Cit izens' Industrial Association, and again declares for "$he open shop." De manding only good faith and fair deal ing. it discriminates against neither Union nor independent labor. "The freedom of the apprentice and the right of the individual to- Have a trade and follow It. "The rfgbt of private roirOract, with equal obligation upon employer an<T employes. "The right to work, limiting the hours of labor whether of brain or of the hand as & matter of mutual agree ment. not a subject for arbftrarjaleg-. lslatlve enactment."' The resolutions direct the executive committee to take the necessary steps to secure a proper channel of activity for the correction of interested organ izations with the Citizens' Industrial Association of America. The resolu tions oppose the limitation which the trade union sets upon the number or apprentices in any shop and favors the establishment of public artisan schools giving a diploma which shall be the evidence of the right to begin to prac tice a trade. The resolutions flnnlly condemn the policy of trade unions in prohibiting memliershlp In the State militia, as dis loyal and dangerous. H. P. Thompson, of Birmingham. Ala., snld In part: ?'Politically you speak of the solid South, but there Is something solid In the South besides that. It is the 'open shop.' That Is fair to labor, because it asks nothing but merit and skill. There are cities In the South that have not a single union shop In them. Chattanooga is one of them. We are prepared in the South to protect the 'open shop' with the same strength as we protect the sanctity of the home, and we beg or you to do your duty ns patriotic citi zens and make the North and the West, and the Rast. just as solid against trades unionism as we have made the South." David M. Parry, of Indianapolis, was re-elected president of the association. President Did Not Say It. Washington, Special. ? rt was au+hor ntatlvely stated at the White House that the President did not make the remark attributed to him by Mr. Beat tie. of the Master Painters' Asso ciation. Colored Industrial Schools . Lynchburg, Special. ? Tho hotter ele ment of the negroes In Lynchburg be gan a movement for the establishment of an Industrial home and orphans' school of domestic science fn this city. They have secured a building in which to begin operations and the school will be opened ax noon as pos sible. It Is the intention of the pro moters of the project to add a reform atory to the home. Telegraphic Briefs. John W. Yerkes, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, reports estimated receipts for the present ftscsl year as $230,000,000. It is believed either Rear Admiral Davis, Chadwlck or Sands will be tho Ameriran representative on the An glo-Rnnsian commission to InvoaUgalo the North sea affair. Attorney-Ocneral Moody declares guessing controls conducted by publi cations are forbidden by tho Anti-Lot tery law. Private John Smith, of tho Army Hospital Corps, who married a negress was dismissed from the servico by tho war department on the ground that sho has another husband living Favors Hague Proposition. Washington, Specinl? Mr. Mloki. th? I Japanese rhnrgc d'affaires, called at ; tho State Department and Informed I Assistant Secretary Loomh that tho ! Japanese government had received I yesterday the Invitation of the Am"rl I ? an government, for a second confer 1 ence nt The llamie, and that the in ' vital i?>n would he promptly presented 1 to the Diet. Tlw? intimation la t tint j the proposition meets with Japanese } favor.