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THE COUNTY RECORD, Published Erery Thursday ?AT? TINGBTREE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?BY? C. W. WOLFE . Kdltor and. Proprietor. The new civic law lx?ok of I'r.nMa Contains a paragraph under which inveterate drunkards may be placed ?'litter guardianship. ' London's county council has adopted by a by-law or ordinance prohibiting fonder a severe penalty the use of a calJcium flashlight for advertising purposes in the public streets or of searchlights of any kind over .">00 candle power. The use of such lights, it as charged, is injuriously confusing Jo the eyesipb*. The Philadelphia Inquirer remarks that the tender hearted American will hot hiss a performer and adds: "'Because he is so amiable he allows himself to be imposed upon in a manner jto which an Englishman or a Frenchman would not submit for a moment. End in this very matter of hissing, he bae. by his reluctance to assert himself in a way that others might regard ps disagreeable, sacrificed the most effective means of exerting a salutary censorship over stage performances. There would be less vulgarity and indecency aud incompetency on the ftage today if the American theatreI goer had more of the courage of his opinions. There are many times when a few well directed hisses would have a most salutary effect." The new public library at i'rovidence, R. I., contains a feature of suggestive value in any community where i a building to house a library is contemplated, states Harper's Bazar. The ! lecture-room 011 the second floor is j available for the use or ail merary clubs, the only question to l>e asked according to the librarian, is. "Has the use to be made of the room some relation to the subjects treated of in the library books?" If so, the room with whatever reference books are needed, is placed at the disposal of any club that makes the request and complies with these conditions. The room is in no sense a public hall, aud cannot be rented or used for any entertainment for which an admission fee is charged. Both the Republican and the Rocky Mountain News of Denver a few days ago published editorials ailing for the restoration or capital punishment in Colorado. I'lies^. two papers represent opposing political parties. The occasion for this expression of opinion was the lynching of Calvin Kimblern at Pueblo. The INews says: The people of Colorado and the next legislature might as well face the fact that in the absence or captial punishment under the law it is inflicted through the angry mob violence whenever an especially atrocious crime is committed, w lien a whole community, including the officers of the law, approves the illegal infliction of the death penalty it Is proof that that community approves the legal infliction of the death penalty." Germany has led and is still ioaq.j Ing. the world in commercial educa* tion," qays Gousular Agent Harris at Eibenstock in a recent dispatch to the state department. The various com. raercial schools, he says, annually send forth large numbers of qualitied young men to take up lucrative and important positions in the business world. They are selling in distant countries products of the German Empire ranging from a locomotive to a clothespin, invariably having the advantage over their American and English competitors of iK-ing able to speak fluently the language of the country in which they attempt to sell their goods. Consular Agent Harris attributes the efficiency of German commercial travellers dl reetly to the splendidly conducted commercial institutes in Germany, and strongly recommends the establishment of similar colleges in the I intcd States. The founding of a lage commercial university at Hamburg i>c jmijs?. is ill copteuiulutiou. " 1 WGOLEY AND METCALF. Standard Bearers of the Prohibitionists The Platform. The National Prohibition party in convention a.t Chicago noniinate'l John G. Woolev, of Illinois, for president and Henry B. Metcalf, of Rhode Island, for Vice President. The platform of the Prohibition party declares that the national inter est could be promoted in no other way so surely and wisely as by the ussertion, though a national policy and the co-operation therein of every State, forbidding the manufacture, sale, exportation, importion and transportation of intoxicating liquors for bevrage purposes, that the liquor power is the most dangerous trust of all; that the first step in solving the financial problem should be saviDg the billion dollars annually spent in drink. We charge upon President McKiney, who was elected to his high office by appeals to Christian sentiment and patriotism almost unprecedented, and by a combination of moral influence never before seen in this country, that, by his conspicuous example us a wine drinker at public banquets and as a wine serving host in the White House, he has done more to encourage the liquor business, to demoralize the temperance habits of young men and to bring Christian parents and requirements into disrepute than any other president this republic has had. We further charge upon President McKinley r^ponsitnllty ior me army canteen, with all its dire brood of disease, immorality, sin and death, in this country', in Cuba, in Puerto Rico and the Philippines; and we insist thaT by his attitude concerning the canteen and his apparent contempt for the vast number of petitions and petitioners protesting against it. he j has outraged and insulted the moral ! sentiment of this country in such a j manner, and to such a degree, as calls j for its righteous uprising and bis indignant and effective rebuke. We challenge denial of the fact that our executive, as commander-in-chief of the military forces of the United States army, at any time prior to or since March 2, 1S99, could have closed every army saloon, called a canteen, by executive order, as President i Hayes did before him, and should have I closed them for the same reason which j actuated President Hayes; we assert that the act of congress passed March 2, 1899, forbidding the sale of liquors "in any post, exchange or canteen," by | any "officer, or private soldier," or by "any other person, on any premises used for military purposes by the United States," was and is as explicit an act of prohibition as the language can frame; we declare our solemn belief that the attorney general of the United States in his interpretation of the law, and the secretary of war in his acceptance of that interpretation and his refusal to enforce the law, were and are guilty of treasonable nullification thereof, and that Presi-j dent McKinley, through his assent to and endorsement of such interpretation. and refusal on the part of the officials appointed by and responsible to him, shares responsibility in their guilt, and we record our conviction that a new and seriqus peril con- ! fronts our country. The War in South Africa. London, by Cable.?General Sir Leslie Rundle bad a sharp artillery and rifle sk rmish near Senehai. Friday, with a large force of entrenched Boers. He declined to attack them. This is the only fresh fighting reported. The Boer outposts northeast of Pretoria are busy. The telegraph wires between Standerton and Newcastle were cut Sunday, and Sir Redvers Buller had to resort to heliograph. Commandant Dewet, with 3.000 men and three guns, s moving northeast in the Orange River colony. * Injuring Ginseng Trade. Louisville, Spcial.?The troubles in China are beginning to affect the remote districts of the Kentucky mountains in the ginseng trade by which hundreds of people make a living. Ever since the Boxer trouble begain the price of ginseng has been dropping. A month ago it was quoted at $3.75, now it is down to $2.25 a pound, the lowest nrinp in tour years. Race Troubles in Mobile. Mobile, Ala., Special.?Gov. John? rrnf tho Cnmpnhn Guarda DIUU Ui U\.l vu vui. v?v to prevent trouble among the white people and negroes in this vicinity. Wednesday afternoon the son of a man said to be named Morer, living fcur miles from Evergreen, Ala., was beaten by a negro, whereupon Morer followed the r.egro and cut him with an axe. The negro went to Morer's house and fired into it. The whites rallied and it is supposed shot two negroes, one of whom died Friday morning. More troubJe.ffla.v rssijjt. FIRE AT HOBOKEN. ? Four Ocean Liners Burned to the Wa*, ter's Edge. THREE GREAT PIERS DESTROYED. A Fire Thit Starts ii Bjles of Cotton ! Results in Fearful Loss of Lif?* a no Property. New York. Special.?The four great piers of the North German Lloyd Line in Hoboken were totally destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon. The passenger steamship Saale. the freight and passenger steamship Maine and the frieight and passenger steamship Bremen of the North eGrman Lloyd Line, were burned to the water's edge. The Hamburg Line steamship Phoenicia, a passenger steamship, was also burned to the water's edge. Campbell's storage warehouses on the opposite side of the street, five big buildings in all and each five stories high were also burned. The loss at the present time is roughly estimated at $10,000,000. From what can be learned the flames started among a large pile of cotton bales on Pier No. 2. of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company and spread with such remarkable rapidity that in fifteen minutes the entire prop| erty of the company, taking in over a third of a mile of ware** front and consisting of three great piers, was completely enveloped in a huge blaze that sent great clouds of smoke high : up int? the air. The flames started so suddenly and gained such headway that the people ou the piers and on the numerous vessels docked were un- ! able to reach the street. There were j great gangs of workmen on the piers, j and these together with a number of j people who were at the docks on busi- j [ ness and visiting the ships scattered j in all directions. As all means of exit were cut off by the flanus they were forced to jump overboard and r.o doubt i great number of people were drowned. At the (locks for the North German Lloyd were the Saale. a single ] I screw passenger steamship of 4.1?65 gross tons; the Bremen a twin screw , passenger and freight steamer of 10,526 tons and the Main, a twin screw freight and passenger steamer of 12.200 gross cons. They all caught fi re and were burned to the water's edge. The Kaiser_\Vj!helm der Grosse. which had just come in. was the only one of j the four big vessels at the dock that j escaped. The fire was discovered by a watchman on the pier at four o'clock. ! He saw a small streak of flame shoot I from a bale of cotton on Pier No. 2, at which was docked the iteamer Saale. He immediately sent :n an alarm. In a few minutes the flames had extended to the steamship and were communicated to the adjoining pier on the north. Here were docked the Kaiser Wilhelm der Gro-se and the Main ; Tugs were immediately made fas: to the big Kaiser Wilhelm der Grcsse and she was gotten out into midstream with safety, although badly scorched at the bows. The steamship Min, however, was doomed, as the flames had already become so fierce on i the northside of the pier that no tug could approach the vessel. Then, by a shift in the wind, the flames were sent in the direction of Pier No. 1. which was ja ?mn:h end of Pier No. 2. To I the north of Pier No. 1 was the dock of the Hamburg-American Line, at which the steamship Phoenicia, a twin ?< rew passenger steamer of 7,761 gross tons was docked. The flames got a good hold on the Phoenicia, and she was towed out into midstream ablaze. The officials of the Hamburg-American Line then decided that the only way to prevent a total destruction of their great pier was to blow up the side of the dock at which the Phoenicia lay. and this was done. A number of barges docked at the pier also took fire, but in the effort to save the coher property, r.o attention was paid to them and they were allowed to burn. It is feared .hat the loss of life in the holds of the vessels was frightful, and it is said that many of the crews who were asleep a: the time were imprisoned there. The worst tale will come froiji the steamship Main, which was unable to be towed from the pier. The vessel had only arrived in the morning and some passengers were still on board, and when the cry of fire " 10 foioorl o niimhor nf th^ni Ul l'O CPCTl to run to the burning decks. Most of them jumped overboard, and. save for the few who were picked up by the tugs not one has been heard from, although every hotel and hospital in the city of Hoboken is crowded with injured. Some of the passengers of the Main tried to escape to the pier, and it was almost certain that they perished in the flames. There was panic on each of the ships. Many persons jumped over boa r<y and the water for some distance along the docks was lined with people. They were clinging to the piers and even to the rudders of the burning vessels. Some were picked up; many were drowned. Peter Quinn. a justice of the peace in Hoboken, tells a story cf having recn 2.: least 30 people r^"- 1 ish. He said: J was standing on the end of one of the Hamburg-American Line piers and saw about thirty people crowd under Pier No. 1 of the North German Lloyd. I They were calling to some of the passing tug-boats, but their appeals were in vain, and when the flames got near >to them they dived into the water. There was 110 assistance near them at | time and I br'iexe everyone was cither drowned or perished in the flames." About 200 people were rescued at the Hambt -g-American Line pier. They were much overcome from exhaustion, but scon revived with stimulants. By 7 o'clock the three piers of the North German Lloyd Steamship oCm- , pany had beer, burned to the ground. , The SoiiiVern end of the Campbell stor j age company building, consisting of < five structures caught fire and the j flames shot from every window from 1 the two floors in but a few minutes. ; The buildings, being filled mainly with j jute and whiskey, burned rapidly. I The firemen were unable to go within ; fighting distance and the fire had pret- i iy much its own way t^ere. < In these buildings great loss will be i ?rsta;ned. 1 1 1 ( 1 A MOUNTAIN MIRROR ; A Phenomenon That Surprised the Catholic < Fathers Who Discovered It i A few months ago some Catholic mis1 sionarles made a journey in Katanga. J a large district "which contains many of the upper waters of the Congo, one < clay they .approached a mountain which. I they later learned, was extremely rieli in iron ore. in fact, the travellers ' say the mountain is little else than a [ huge block of iron from summit to J base. The natives call the mountain , Kabwe-Marwi. The missionaries silent several clays 1 in th?? neighborhood. ;iin! eaeli evening, 1 they say. the in uniaiii was illumined [ 1 in a wonderful manner under the influence of the rays of the setting sun. , The upper part of if seemed to he an j immense reflector launching far out in- 1 to the plain the beams of light received ' from the "Star of Pay." One evening, after a day of rain that had washed all the dust from the mono- j tain side, the brilliancy of the reflee- j tion was greater than usual, and Kath- . er Tor Maat decided to seek the exact i cause of this phenmenon. So at sun- ' rise next morning he began the ditticuir \ task of scaling the steep slope of this ' mountain of iron. lie Anally reached ( the highest peak. O.NNS feet above the j eea level, and there lie found a great 1 rock whose side turned toward the i western sun. was as polished and 1 bright as a mirror and shone like burnislied steel. It seemed to be a block ^ of almost pure metal. This shining s surface contains several hundred ] stpiare feet and fully explains the remarkable refraction of the solar rays, i The only explanation of the increased ' brilliancy on that particular day is that j the rain washed away all particles that bedim mod the polished surface and left ] it a tine .natural mirror where the fall- ] ing beams of light were launched again s far out over the plain with dazzling 1 effect. Tiie Juvenile Court of Chicago, during its nine months of operation, has considered the eases of l.L'.;.*i delln- 1 quent children. of whom have been paroled and placed in charge of proba- j tlon officers. To give a 1h?v another j chance in his* own home, to Help him j iK'gin again a normal hoy's life is the j work of a probation officer. To this \ end'the officer seeks to establish cor- ' dial relations with the parents of the t onroled boy. to slip into the position of 1 a family friend, to cheek the reeur- ' reiice of lawlessness on the part of ilie * boy with as little exercise as possible | of the authority wb?cb the eourt on- . fers. 5 ~ ( i Glasgow. Scotland, has erected a i municipal day nursery of l<t?> nanus. a cost of SSo.(KM). for tlie aeceininodation of motherless tamilies or for small children whose mothers j;o out to daily ? labor and must leave their dependent j offspring at home. It is not an orphan- i ape. not a charity at all in the strict < sense of the word, since the working 1 people who avail thenix Ives of its pri- * vilexes pay a small sum for what they receive. s ? A Good All llonnd Man. rnrnoral Lome Stewart of *'G" Company, writing to his home in Prince Edward island, says: '"I spent f all morning in having a bath, washing my shirt, socks, towels, and darning my socks, 1 can make porridge. J tea, coffee, cocoa, pudding, soup, boil j vegetables, fry beefsteak, wash, darn, sew, clean cooking pets, wash dishes or do any sort of housework. Such is 1 the result of campaigning. I am go- g ing out to service when I go home, so s if you know uf any one wanting a cock, housemaid, or general servant, : just recommend me; I am equal to t anything from nursing a Kaffir baby ? y to washing the cider children." j v f WANT 100,000 MEN.' Demand For a Vast Foreign Army im China. BIG FORCE NFEDED TO TAKE PEKIM The Chinese Boast of an Army if 400000 flen?Seymorc Probably a Hostage For Good Terms. V^' Che Fu, by Cable.?The foreigners-, everywhere are urging the immediate ooncentrati-on of an army of 100.000 men, or at least 50.000 men, for the advance on Pekin. Many persons familiar with the Chinese character think Lbe foreign ministers and Vice Admiril Seymour are held as hostages for ;ood terms of settlement. They alsobelieve that the whole Chinese army is joining in the movement under the leadership of Tung Fub Siang. whocrushed the Mohammedan rebellion. Recently he was nominally degraded for the purpose of organizing an antiforeign uprising quietly. It is estlmat?d that 60.CG0 soldiers, well armed, but poorly disciplined, are south of Pekin ind Tien-Tsin. The Chinese officers boast that they have 400,000 soldiers. Admiral Seymour's force carried a week's rations and the men had an average of 150 rounds of ammunition. The Russian conduct at Taku. according to the other officers, inflamed the natives. The Russians are reported tohave been shooting the Chinese indiscriminately and driving away the peace lul Chinese who would have procured transportation and provisions, and cf' looting the town. A great naval demonstration at all the treaty ports is ilso said to be desirable in order to influence the wavering Chinese mer:hants who are friendly to foreigners. The masses are becoming excited affile reports of their countrymen's successes against the powers. Merchantman how rorv/m-f that thp R->\PrR ?rf> drilling in the streets of New Chwung, and that when the officials inspected the soldiers with the view cf -uppre?sng the Boxers, they found the soldiers had sold their rifles and equipments tothe Boxers. The military school at Moukden isreported to have been destroyed. The British consul at Koo Chow is asking tor warships. The arrival of the British fir.-t class cruiser Terrible and twoJapanese cruisers relieved the strained relations. An outbreak was reported last night, the sailors slept on their irms ar.d the foreigners prepared to lake refuge on the shipsCommander Taussig, of the Yorktown, requested the commander cf the tort to cease his diplomatic inanoeuv-es with cannon and notified him that f Chinese troops were sent to the city DStensiblv to repress the Boxers, Americans would be landed. inert: are auuui iov nmtiauii auw British missionaries at Che Fu. They ire short of money and clothes, having: eft their stations hastily. ^ United States Consul John Fowler's ship is expected to bring fifty missiontries and French priests from the mouth of the Yellow river, whither :hey are flocking from the interior., rhe commander of the Chinese cruiser tfei Hai, at Chen Chow, offered Mr, Fowler to go the relief of the missiontries at Yang Che Kiang. if assured of protection. It is reported that the Russians are moving 20,000 men to j- v-? tvarus 4>fw v.jjnaKfi. Gathering at Kansas City. Kansas City, Special.?The first arrivals for the Democratic national convention, came in Tuesday. They were? John J. Fitzgerald, a delegate trom Kings county. N. Y., and Jacob Rap3ert. Jr., of New York city, an alterlale at large. Both are quoted as sayrg they do not favor the free silver ?lank in the Democratic platform, rhere are so many issues more import :ant," said Mr. Ruppert, "that I think, free silver need not be mentioned at til. The party in the East will not itand for free silver.'' Sterling Price,, >f Paris, Texas, arrived here Tuesday ind began arrangements for opening, leadquarters for Congressman Win. sulzer, of New York, who is expected m Friday or Saturday. Incidentally,, dr. Price started a boom for the New* 1'orker for Vice President. Lee Not Afraid of Fever. Havana, by Cable?The yellow fever situation at Quemados shows much, approvement. There have only been our deaths, two of which were Ameri:ans, including Major Frank H. Ednunds, inspector on the staff of Gen-;ral Fitzhugn Lee. who died June 18. Jeneral Lee refuses to leave his beadluarters. though he has given permission to his staff, if they desire, to do o. Collision on the Seaboard. Elberton, Ga ..Special.?A head-ent> ollision on the Seaboard Air Line ccurred at Oglesby, six miles from here Tuesday afternoon. A work train ran nto a north-bound freight, on the r.ain line, at the station waiting for he work train to take the siding. En-/ ;ineer Xeal v.as badly injured by team. He remained wedged in btwcen the two engines twenty minutes efore he could be cut out. One engine n.s almost totally wrecked. Ali trains i-ere delayed two hour?