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i * THE COUNTY RECORD, Published Every Thursday ?AT? UNGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, ?B T? LOUIS J. BRISTOW, Editor and Proprietor. e- 1 Agricultural note oy p>paiu: \t>aru wire will not keep out Yankee pigs." Now that the Congo railroad is completed, it is interesting to recall the words of Stanley that "the whole ot the Congo is not worth two shillings without a railway." In view of the assertion recently made by the Spanish newspapers to the effect that "there are no colleges in America" it is interesting to know that we have 430 universities and colleges, 8472 professors and teachers therein, and 124.GS4 students. It was significant of the trend of English feeling that at the Fourth of ' July celebration at Constantinople the Americans resident along the Bosporus were takeu to the Princes Islands, where Minister Angell was residing, in the British Embassy dispatchboat. There were present, also, a large number of English officials (all wearing Americas? colors), and even Admiral Wbods Pasha, of the Turkish navy. It was a graceful courtesy, which we may be sure the Americans appreciated. The Frankfurter Zeitung, a leading German paper, reviewing the war and the role Germany has played, regrets the attacks of the German press on the United States, and arrives at the conclusion that Germany ha3 behaved in a "thoroughly injudicious manner." f It savs: "Two German vessels at Manila would have sufficed amply, and in the future we hop* the foreign office will take into its own hauds the set^ tling of all incidents in connection with Germany's foreign policy,including those relating to the navy," A Pennsylvania commission, charged with the difficult task of devising some means wherel^r convict labor can be utilized without interfering with uuion labor, has found, after two years <Jf inquiry, nothing better, under existing statute restrictions, than the New York plan of utilizing such labor in the making of supplies for state institutions. The members of the commission approve of the European plan of making army stores and ennioments in the orisons. That plan, "1 x x of course, is not applicable iu this country, where ordinarily there is no such demand for war material, but Pennsylvania is supporting 30,000 insane in its various hospitals, and it is believed that the furnishing of supplies for that indigent army would keep ail the prison inmates in the state busy. The authorities of Portland, Ore., believe that they have solved the problem of economical street sprinkling, and the explanation of the way they do it is a revelation of how that far Western city is gridironed with street railways. There are at least thirty miles of track within the city, as the contract for sprinkling covers that amount of highway on which rails are laid. Each mile of the thirty is to be sprinkled once daily, Sundays excepted, the work to be done by the street railroad company with a motor sprinkling cart. The city fur nishes the wategand the railroad coin' paDy distributes it for $400 a month. Not counting the cost of the water,the expense is aoout 510 per mne per month. That is certainly less than it would cost the city to do the work through its street department. The cost per city lot of fifty feet frontage is about seveu cents a month. The New York Tribune says:? Amid all the talk about German interests at Manila, it is well to bear in mind that there are only four German trading-houses in that city, that there is -no direct line of vessels between Germany and the Philippines, and that no cargoes are ever sent from either country to the other. The amount of German trade must therefore be small. It could not well be large. The chief products of the islands are sugar, hemp and copra. Evidently no sugar could be sent to Germany, which is a sugar-exporting country. The hemp goes to all parts of the world, but chiefly by way of Great Britain. The copra is practically all taken by Great Britain and France. The tobacco, now a minor product, goes chiefly to Spain, or did. before Admiral Dewey interfered with the trade. It is oue thing to protect existing interests. It is another and very different thing to try to establish new interests. % \ Illll I 111 nuuLU IfLLliUI A Deputation of Rich P on Consul William SB POSSIBLE mm Of the Whole of the Philippine Is! Wikoff. Reported Capture Sacrificed. Resign; 4 nA?n ?1A Tlnnrr < -.1 .uitLinu sj'cuitti sat o. A UVUJ, Kong deputation representing the southern Philippines, and consisting of the best and richest natives in Panay, Mindoro, Cebu and Miudano, visited United States Consul Williams rocentlv and urged that every possible effort be made for annexation of the whole of the Philippine Islands. The deputation declared that all classes, the warlike mountaineers, as well as those engaged in mercantile pursuits, would welcome the Stars aud Stripes, and had resolved never to submit to Spanish or Tagal rule. They also said there was 4,000 men, many of them armed with rifles, near Iloilo, ready to support the Americans. They refuse to join in the clamor for independence, which they consider a mistake and impracticable. They only wish for annexation to the United States. Aguinaldo remains at Bakoor. He recently wrote an impertinent letter to General Otis, which resulted in his receiving a sharp snub. The insurgents' leader will probably render himself amenable to the American authority. Resignation of Cavaignac. M. Cavaignac seat the following letter of resignation to M. I3risson, Premier and President of the Council: "I have the honor to send you and beg you to transmit to the President of the republic, my resignation as Minister of War. There exists a disagreement between us, which, being prolonged, would paralyze the government at a time when it most needs full unity of J decision. I remain convinced of the ' guilt of Dreyfus and as determined as I heretofore to combat a revision of the case. I do not intend to shirk the rosponsibilties of the present situation, but I cannot assume them without be- ! ing in accord with the chief of the gov- 1 ernment to whom I have the honor to belong." In Fine Condition. The fourth annual report of the Southern Railway Company for the year ending June 30, 1898, has just | been issued. It is a complete and comprehensive statement of the great t railway's business affairs, and shows a most encouraging increase in receipts and profits over the preceding year iu all branches. The report shows the gross earnings of the road from operations to have been $21,095,838.75; the operating expenses and taxes $14,501,804.24, a gross iucrease of $2,010,338.91 over 1897, which makes the net earnings from operation SG,593,974.31, a net increase of $747,030.49. The statement then shows the net income from other sources, and other expenditures, as interest, rentals, and others, which leaves a balance carried to the profit and loss of $1,007,014.09, or an increase pf $501,093.44. Reported Capture of Khartoum. A report, which lacks confirmation, was current in London Sept. 3 that the Anglo-Egyptian lorces had capturea Khartoum. It was reported that the loss of the Anglo-Egyptian arm}' was 2,001) men. wnile that of the Dervishes was placed at y,000. Alger and Sternberg Much Relieved. The report of Gen. Soynton as to the condition of Chickamauga military hospitals has greatly reassured the officials of the army and administration. Secretary Alger, is delighted with the refutation of the sensational charges. Surgeon General Sternberg, who has been decidly worried, is much relieved by the report. General Marias' Clever Action. A special from Guayamo, 1'orto Rico, says: Captain I'alma, of the Spanish civil guard, brought General Brooke under a flag of truce, a dispatch, from General Macias, extending to the American general, the use of his pri vate residence at liio Piedras, near San Juan, during General Brooke's stay there. Gen. Pando in New York. (Jen. and Mrs. Pando arrived in NewYork recently from Havana. It is understood that General Pando has come to New York toconciude arrangements that have been making for transports to convey thcSpauish troops from Havana to Spain. Destroyed by a Torpedo. The government steamship John R. Meie-s. was totally destroyed by an ex plosion at Fort St. Philip, La., recently. She had aboard Lieutonant Jervey and a party engaged in removing the torpedos laid in tho Mississippi river during the beginning of the war. Lieutenant Jervej-had a narrow escape. The killed were: Captain Starr, commander of the boat; Sergeant John Newman, of the engineers; Pat Carlos and Ralph H. Rogers. Those wounded were Fritz Kock aud D. R. Reddy. Pi!. Philippine Natives Called is and Urged That I UK ? Hi lands. The President Visits Camp of Kliartoum-10,000 Lives ition of Cavaignac. i TUP: PRESIDENT AT CAMP WIKOFF. He Reviewed the Calvary and Made a Speech. A Pathetic Incident. President McKinley spent, five hours at Camp Wikoff recently, bareheaded most of the time, visiting the sick in the hospitals and inspecting the well in their cantonment. He made a speech to the assembled infantrymen, and reviewed the cavalrymen. General Wheeler, his staff, and nearly every officer of prominence in the camp, met the President at the station, except General Shatter, who was still in the detention hospital. After greetings and introductions on the railway platform, the President took General Wheeler'6 arm and went to a carriage. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, of the Rough Riders, was among a group 01 norsomen near by. .ur. McKinley Baw him and got out of the carriage to speak to him. Colonel Boosovelt hastily dismounted and tussled with a gauntlet for fifteoD seconds so thut ungloved he might shako hands. The column of carriages wound up a hill, escorted by the Third Cavalry Begiment and tho mounted band of the Sixth Cavalry. The party paused a moment on the hill and the President looked out on the wide, undulating cape, water-bound on either side, and whitened on the levels and hilltops by the tents of 18,000 men, laid out in geometric lines. Mr. McKinley drove to General Shatter's tent in the detention camp. The ornnoral wKa wao ?? la\j nu3 uusucu nuu ncau from a mild case cf malarial fever, was in full uniform, sitting in a cbair at the door of the tent. He tried to rise, but Mr. McKinley said: "Stay where you are, general. You are entitled to rest" The President congratulated General Shafter on the Santiago campaign and after a few minutes' rest proceeded to the general hospital. When seemingly all the wards of the general hospital had been gone through and the President was about to get in a carriage, Attorney General Griggs detained him. "Miss Wheeler has told me," said he, "of a Lieut. Prado, who is in a tent back here by himself, and he is in a dying condition. He has asked about your coming and Mis3 Wheeler has promifid that you shall see him." "Certainly, let us go to him," Mr. McKinleysaid. The others of the party discreetly remained outside the tent. Tho President reappeared with the nurse a minute or two later, his eyes moist anil downcast, The Populace Inflamed by Posters. A Paris special of Sept 3d says: The Dreyfus agitation is not abatiug. The populace was again inflamed today by posters, printed by The Siecle, with which the town has been plastered. They reproduce two letters which Dreyfus wroto to the Minister for War, in 1894, and one which he wrote to his counsel, M. Demange, in 1894, protesting Lis innocence and denying that he had ever even been guilty of indiscretion. The posters also call attention to the fact that Col. Picquart wrote on July 9, affirming the falsity of Lieut.Col. Henry's documents aud they denounce the arrest and imprisonment of Col. Picquart. On the recommendation of the Swedish-Norwegian council. King Oscar has notified tho Czar of his acceptance of the invitation to send delegates to a peace conference. Great Fire in a .Michigan Town. Owosso, Mich., was visited by a destructive fire recently. The following firms were burned out: Woodward's Furniture Factory, consisting of a three story warehouse, kilns anil lumber yards, totally destroyed, loss ?1U0. 000; the Otvosso Brewing Company, loss, $35,000; Crowe k Payne's implement store, loss S10,000; Win. Jopling's livery establishment and several smaller buildings, aggregating about ?25,000. All the Forts Destroyed. The British War Office lias received a dispatch from Nasri, on the Nile, saying that a gun-boat had returned there and had reported that there were no casualties among Anglo-Egyptian forces in the battlo of Omdurman, and that the right bank of the river had been completely cleared of forts; that the forts on Tuti Island, opposite Omdurman bad been demolished and that the puns had been captured. The dispatch also said that the howitzers pi active of Sirdar'B force was excellent^ The officials of the German Foreign Ollicc assert that the London reports of an offensive and defensive alliance having been concluded between Great Britain and Germany are entirelj" without foundation. No More Black Powder. ll. - .'i> I L i. ruuauiy iuu iiu>a liuaiuu^iii ua last war with black powder. Bids were opened recently at the Navy Department for supplying the new warships with 1,000,000* pounds of smokeless powder, a quantity sufficient to supply at least the secondary batteries of all the ships in the service and this supply will be augmented from time to time until within the course of a year or two, all the black powder will have been retired, except possibly some that will be retained for saluting purposes NEW INDUSTRY FOR GREENVILLE. A Roller Mill for Cotton and Corn Bein? Erected. Work was begun recently on another important enterprise which ia indicative of prosperity and success, and adds another to Greenville's factories. The concern is the Eagle Holler Mill, and the officers are R. E. Allen, president; D. D. Davenport, vice president, and W. L. Gassaway, secretory and treasurer. The mill will be situated at the l'endletou street crossing of the Columbia and Greenville railroad. The main building will be GO feet long and four stories high, with all the latest improved Hour and grist mill machinery. The ongine and boiler room of one story will make the entire building 00 feet long. The capacity of the mill will be 1,"?00 bushels of grain a day, and as machinery will be put in for ootn wiieat ana corn, xne uuij ui ?i?i be about (J"> barrels of flour per clay, the rest in meal and grits. Accused of Theft. Jocob S. Wilson, colored, who was appointed undor civil service rules as janitor at the United States custom house at Charleston, has been suspended by order of collector Tolbert, who is also custodian of the building. The young negro lad had not been in the employ of the government very long, but since his arrival at the custom house small articles of personal value began to disappar. Such things as 6tanips, bicycle lanterns, glasses, etc., were seen in their proper plaoes in the morning and in the evening they had gone. No one knew what caused the trouble until collector Tolbert and deputy collector Ostendorf caught janitor Wilson quietly helping himself to a demijohn of liquor that had been placed in the collector's private office for safe keeping. #>? To Reclaim Fallen Women. A commission for a charter has been issued to the Christian Mission of Charleston, which is a new kind of charitable organization for this state. As stated in their declaration of purposes the object of the organization is to "develop Christian life and stimulate Christian activity, and its special aim will be the establishment of a refuge for erring women and girls, with a view of reclaiming them to a respectable Christian life.The projectors of this noble movement are^Elizabeth Walton Mullins, Kosalio S. Brandt and Claudie Tliarin, all of Charleston. t ?" Clarendon Cow Thieves. Two negroes, Frank Holmes and Warren Campbell, who havo made a regular business of stealing cattle in Clarendon and Williamsburg counties for some time past and selling them in i Sumter and other towns, have been arrested and lodge in jail. Two cows were taken from them, and will be held uni til claimed by their owners. There are other members of the gang who are wanted by the officers. Will Subscribe $1,000. At a largely attended meeting of the ladies' auxiliary of the V. M. C. A. held atColumbia, it was enthusiastically resolved that the auxiliary would pledge itself to raise 81,000 by subscription among the ladies of Columbia, for the building fuud, providing the directors would start the building by October. Columbia jail remodeled. The repairs at the old jail in Columbia have heen comnleted. and the ad | dition of new cells Las not only been an improvement, in that the prisoners will hereafter bo securely confined, but also in the threat protection afforded the jailer whilo in the discharge of his duty. Another Local Telephone Company. A charter was recently granted by the secretary of state to the Home Telephone compauy of Woodruff. The officers are: President, E. F. Pearson; secretary, L. H. Irby; treasurer, S. J. Workman. Palmetto Notes. Abbeville's first new bale of cotton was sold on the 24th by John Ferguson to W. D. Earksdale at five cents per pound. It graded rather low. In a former year a bale was sold there on the 11th of August, the earliest on record there. T ""VfovcViall TJfMi 1 q 'a n I VWl. w. v<. . ! senator, was given an ovation by his i friends at his resideuce recently, and they celebrated his victory with a serenade by the regimental band, which furnished sorno excellent music. The French steamship Olinde-Rodrigues, which was sent to the Charleston port as a prize of war, has not been released on boud and the chances are that she will remain there until the case is settled for good. The Standard Cotton mill of Rock Hill was sold at auction recently and was bought by Mr. Johnston of the Highland l'ark Manufacturing comnauv. of Charlotte, X. C., the figures being $50,000. The Marlboro Mill company, at Bennettsville, will not this season rebuild the oil mill, which was destroyed b3'fire recent!}'. They will operate the ginnery and buy cotton Beed. Mr. \Y. R. Gruber, who was nominated in the primary election for the State Senate from Colleton, will easily become one of the leading spirits of that august body. The secretary of State has granted the directors of the Granby cotton mills, Columbia, an increase in their cupital stock from $250,000 to $300,000. The State Lutheran sj-uod will meet in Columbia iu the Ebenezer Lutheran church on Friday before the fourth j Sunday in September, 1898. Ur. (jr. i.. ->esom, 01 r.niavnie, .uisa., has been chosen professor of veteriparv science at Clemsou College. Jim Munnerlin. colored, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, recently broke jail at Bennettsville. About sevonty-five thousands dollars has already been subscribed towards the erection of the Bennettsville cotton factory. The First South Carolina regiment ? -a J A. L. L. _ J L has Deen oruereu iu ue iuuuierou oui of service. Herman King shot and instantly killed W. T. Mabrey at Hodges. Anderson now has a Young Men's Business League i m inn i mw-ls Ghastly Discovery of a Decomposed f| And Crab-eaten Skeleton. % qiip.-mariwp minf pypinnFn c U V-/ VJ- lllftlll II k. lb ?-v - - | g At Sullivan's Island Probable Fatal Shoot- ?| in? at Lexington Outlook for Clemson College Very Bright. The oldest son of C'apt. Whiteley made a ghastly find in the marsh m around Castle Pickney Island recently. 0I It was the discovery of the head of a man, from which all the llesh had been jtorn by crabs and fish. Pursuing his in- B vestigation, young Whitoley found other jQ bones, which evidently belonged to the . body, and gradually, as these were col- 13 lected, it became evident that there was er before him the skeleton of a soldier. ? The flesh had been torn from all of the g( bones, and most of the clothing was sc missing, but that the unfortunate man tad been in the service of his country was proven by the finding of the coat be- ^ longing to a regulation army uniform. The collar of the court was missing and consequently it was impossible to tell to what command the soldier had belonged. __ 86 Submarine Mine Exploded. Sullivan's Island beach presented a a gay picture recently. The inhabit- C< ants of the popular summer resort, reinforced by a thousand or more of men women and children from the city, were strolling upon the sands frdm 5 fa o'clock until dark, and the occasion for di the gathering was the announcement m from the United State3 engineer's of- . i.i_ _ ?i ^ ^ ^El nee mat tue ouumuuuu uiiiaco iu iuo i harbor would be exploded. Promptly i w at 5:30 o'clock the first mine was exploded. A distinct jar was felt all over hi the Island and then a ragged column of ly water about fifty feet high rose about a st quarter of a mile east of Fort Sumter, to It stood apparently still for a second or at two and then sank into a bed of foam, ca A dull report was heard as the water S< went down. Then the people waited in for the next one. It was known that there were a scoro or more mines still tb lying under the water, and every one of expected that quite a number, if not all, w would be touched off, but there was a cl hitch somewhere, and although the ni crowd watched the waves for more than tl an hour nothing further happened. ri ti: Probably Fatal Shooting at Lexington. w Immediately following the campaign " meeting at Lexington, Mr. Mc. John ~-1 ^ ? > in HULl, U jJUllLClUUU, Wtto oiuuucu vuw breast, penetrating the left Inng, and Mr. Quitman Roberts, an inoffensive U bystander, was accidentally shot in the thigh, and Mr. Tom Seay was shot through the bowels. Young Roberts is ar only slightly wounded, while both cc Johnson and Seay are in a very critical condition. Mr. Seay is hardly expected to live. Policeman Johnson, it is t0 said was endeavoring to arrest Seay 01 fer disturbing the peace, when the lat- In ter overpowered Johnson and, after of beating him, stabbed him with a knife, ci The policeman used his weapon in the jn melee with the above results. Outlook Very Bright. Tho outlook for the approaching session of Clemson is very bright, many inquiries are being received, andPresi- ar dent Hartzog expects to have about as of many students as can well be aecom- I w modated. The building for the new ' gc textile school is completed aud much of jn the machinery will soon be in place. i>;, The school will be put in operation without a dollar of expense to the State I for equipment. All of the machinery lia needed has been or will be contributed ^ by machinery manufacturers. Already about 310,000 worth of machinery has of been presented to the school. er *** w She Was Born in Charleston. th In a brief dispatch recently was an- n, nounced the attempted suicide, in ^ Paris, of the Vicomtesse de Henriot. , She was visiting friends in the Hue Blanche, and threw herself from a *>? second-story window. This was not, 's as might be inferred, the romantic end gi of a member of the European nobility, fir but the act of an American woman, who da was born in Charleston, and whose a notoriety a few years ago filled New t, York and San Francisco. The \^pman used to go by the name of Yosta Dore Hustings. Ia A Prosperous York Farmers. w There are farmers in York county pn who could hold their cotton four years co ff they eo desired, but there are not , enough of them to dictate prices. They 1 are, however, prosperous notwithstand- co iug the prevailing low prices, and it is possilde for their number to be in- l>r creased a thousand fold by the others m; who have the same facilities imitating er their business methods and not buying m; anything that their farms will pro- s'j] duce. _ so Shot by an Unknown Negro. Wl Line street added another murder to J"1 the police record at Charleston recent- "a ly. The victim was Joseph Pryor, a (*1< negro from the Ten-mile Hill neigh- or borhood. He was shot by an unknown ta negro with whom ho had had trouble. stj After tho shooting the murderer es- j,j caped and has not yet been located by . the detectives. gr ** Flourishing Flour .Mills. or The patent process flour mill, at '' Yorkville, has ground over 10,000 bushels of wheat since January 1, and he that of Mr. ti. L. Kiddle, at Zeno, til York county, has ground over 7,000 gr bushels. Air. Kiddle s null is only about one-lialf the capacity of the York- a* ville rnilL p A Monstrous Rattler. A rattlesnake measuring seven and a hrflf inches in circumference and seven : feet in length was killed in the public do road at Mr. S. 1). Rogers' plantation Innear Florence. The big snake had U1 fourteen rattles and a button. t:, Out on Bail. Jim Turner, Jr., the 14-year-old boy who killed his father in the Hopewell section, haB been bailed at 8500 by Ia! Judge Watts on motion of his attorney, pr Col. J. L. M. Irby. The case against go the boy iB not considered serious. of 9 iiiiTimi llerbe and Featherstone Will Make the Race. ILENT VOTE IN EVIDENCE. # ection Was One of the Quietest E\er Held in the State The Congressional Can- ^ dictates. In the primary the '"silent vote" was uch in evidence. The election was le of the cjuietest from all accounts ;er held in the State. A total of (50,'3 votes was east, which go to the iveral candidates for Governor as folws, indicating that Mr. Featherstone to make tho second raco with Govnor Ellerber in the second primary: llerbe, 24, Tl.'i; Featherstone, 14,i>14: ihumpert, 2,901; Tillman, 10,321; Watin, 3,472; Wh'iman, 105. Congressmen Elliott andTalbert had > onnosition. Congressman Latimer 3ads all competitors, and is safe. Con-essmaa Strait s race is close. In Con'essman Wilson's district it is also 08e. Stokes is *e-elected. Norton also ems safe. SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN. Jtton Opening Freely Old Corn Fully Made. Considerable fodder was saved in irly good condition, bat much was imaged by rain. Old corn is fully - J - i 1 - 4 - - ? ? onrl uue, UUl 11 IS IUU net IV gatugi lose it. Stubblo-land corn not doing ell generally. Cotton is opening freely, and picking is commenced over the State general. Rust is widely prevalent, while ledding and rotting of bolls continue i reduce the yield prospects. It is ated that the large "weed" has lused the crop to be overestimated. ;a Island cotton looks yellow, isshedg, and blooming to the top. Some pea-vines have been cut, but ley do not cure well. A heavy crop grass for hay awaits favorable eather for cutting. Sweet potatoes, tufas, pinders, and cane are doing celv. Rice harvest has begun, but ie weather was unfavorable, and much /.? ....... J f o lomvnKlo traa?hor far ailt jr. The rice crop Las been somehat damaged recently. Pastures connue excellent. NATIVE COREAN COSTUMES. icy Wear Thickly Padded Stockings All bummer. Corea Is the land of white garments id black hats. All the men In this I >uutry, except coolies, wear either ^ bite or blue long floylt^ji |mwbs; n and silk goods arb worn in winter"' J id linen and herap'n summer. Durg the last several .rears n great deal silk has been Imported, both from aina and Japan, the native article beg of little value. The ordinary street gown generally is three broad tlaps, one of which tngs down the back and the other ;o in front overlap each other, then e tied with a pair of king ribbons the same material. The flaps reach ithin a few inches of the ground. The iwn has very wide and long sleeves, each of which one might carry a iby without its being noticed, and ey are long enough to conceal the ind eomnletelv. while an extension of e sleeve reaches almost as low as the ips above mentioned. Another gown the same pattern, except with shortand narrower sleeves, Is always orn under the first. Iiut persons In e Government service, including all embers of the nobility, wear a gown iving from one to three large flaps, hich are broad toward the ends. This iwn, with the exception of its sleeves, more like the dress of'an American rl of l'J or 14. It is always made of le goods, well starched, and on windy lys its flaps and sleeves create quite fluttering and rustling noise in the reets. The winter coats and trours the latter always white are very rge and heavily padded with cotton, most singular thing is that the hose orn by Coreans are always thickly in o,nj m-.iII nc In winter UUVU ill DUI1J1I1V1 uo n Vii uo iu Hii.vvt, usequently, everj* one seems to have ick and large feet, although quite the ntrary is true. The ordinary street hats have broad inis and high crowns. They are rule of tine bamboo splits and are coved with tine linen cloth and then laclerod with black. Ilats covered with k are worn by people of rank. Terns in mourning for their parents *ar hats as large as umbrellas and of nilar shape. They are made of coarse mboo splits without any covering of Jtli. It is customary for every mournto carry a little hempen screen atched to the ends of two bamboo icks held up conveniently In front of s face. These uncomfortable traptigs are intended to indicate his reet that he did not make his parent parents happier while they were liver. So it is that for a period of one or o years he is ashamed of seeing the avens and of looking upon the beau- < 'ul objects of nature. There are a eat many other varieties of head wear which one can toll conditions and to great extent positions in society. >nnoke Collegian. Suicides iri Italy. caused niainiy by stitmion. increased last yer.r in minir fifty per cent. The numlter of "volitary" deaths enumerated by the staiticians does not include thousands frantic women and men who rushed spairingly on the bayonets of the Idlers in the great bread riots of st spring the awful but ineffectual otest of a starved people against a vernnient responsible for the cause their starvation.