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THE COUNTY RECORD, Published Every Thursday ? AT? WN08TBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?BT? 0. W. WOLFE . Kditor and Proprietor. , Count lioni's experience is said to have discouraged several foreign noblemen who were coming here for wives. It is too much to hope that Anna Gould's experience will discour? age Amerl.can heiresses. In the judgment of Sir Thomas Lipton it is not the conservation of w iter but the conservation of wind that is Kq far thp TIPTt iritor lUUOt IV VV. \?V17?*V? ?-v national yacht race for the America cup. If he could only put up a corner on wind as he did on pork Sir Thomas would be hnnpy. State boards of arbitration appear to have failed signally in the purpose of their creation. Twenty-three States have laws providing for arbitration, and these laws are dead letters in all but Ave or six of the States. In the States where public boards of arbitration survive, labor interests at odds prefer fighting?a resort to strikes and Innlr.nnfc?rothnr fhon on unnoul tfk 4UVUUI IA4UAA Uii ?v these supposed beneficent institutions of a progressive State. This is because State arbitrators have not suffii cient experience iu the affairs from which labor troubles spring, to inspire confidence in either capital or labor when necessity of adjusting differences arises. In that turbulent land, South America, the birth of a new republic is scarcely more of an incident than a revolution. Some fifteen months ago a great banker and rubber dealer set up as President of the forest republic of Acre. His constituents were some 50,000 white people, drawn thither by the rubber industry. His republic lay along a trioutary of the Rio Grande, partly in Brazil and partly in Bolivia. It Is conveniently inaccessible from either, and in spite of a half-hearted .visit from a Brazilian gunboat and a reverse on the Bolivian border. President Aries's republic thrives, and his operatives combine the peaceful pursuit of the rubber industry with the sterner duties of war. Some acquaintance with the expectations and the despair of science is necessary in order to appreciate the full beneficence of the Zeppelin air ship. Whatever may happen hereafter it is a fact that in the present century of science and invention Uount Zeppelin ascended in his machine a thousand feet from the earth's surface, traveled a distance ofsirty-elglit miles, made a dbtour and came down at the starting point, and that he subsequently ascended five-eighths of a mile and executed various manoeuvres. The airship may get beyond control and sail away, as so many lost balloons -have done, but no twentieth century boaster can deny that the dirigible airship is the invention of our own time. The New York Tribune comments upon the census for l'JOO as follows: "The United States, at something more than seventy-six millions, is the greatest nation in the world. The direct reference is. of course, to numbers of civilized inhabitants. Onlv three others outnumber it, and in no one of them is the standard of civilization or of individual intelligence for a moment comparable with our own. Russia proper outnumbers us by less than twenty per cent. But a nation in which probably not five per cent, of the people can read and write, ancl which has only 20,000 miles of rail roads to our 190,000 or more is scarcely to be compared with this. India is larger in numbers than Russia, if we regard it as a whole, and more highly civilized; yet its intellectual and industrial potentiality Is far below that of the United States. China is probably the most populous of all, but intellectually is scarcely superior to Russia, and industrially is probably inferior. Certaintly its preponderance of population cannot avail to place It i>y the side of the United States." ^ DEMURRAGE RULES State Railroad Commission Estab* Hshes Them. The State railroad c mission has jiromulgated its own demurrage rules. This means that the State commission Ti-iii jinnofi'npth Haal nnlv with the rail roads themselves in maiters of demurrage and does not in any way recognize the Car Service association and its rules and regulations. Below is the circular promulgated yesterday and forwards I to the several railroad lines: The railroads are hereby authorised to operate the following demurrage rules within this State: Rule 2.?The railroad companies vice charges.?All freight in cars, whether full car-load or not. shipped to one consignee and taking track delivery is subject to car service regulations. Rue 2.?The railroad companies shall give prompt notice by mail or otherwise to consignee of the arrival of goods, together with the weight and amount of freight charges due thereon; and when the goods or freight of any kind in oar-load pantfties arrive, said notice must contain letters or Initials of the car, number of the car. net weight and the amount of freight charges due on the same. Storage and demurrage charges may be assessed if goods are not removed in conformity with the following rules and regulations. No storage or demurrage charges, however, shall, in any case, be allowed unless legal notice of the arrival of goods has been given to the ovrner or consignee thereof by the railroad company. Rule 3.?Legal notice referred to in these ruled mf.y be either actual or constructive. Where the consignee is personally eerved with notice of the arrival of freight, free time begins at 10 o'clock a. m. on the day after such notice has been given. Constructive notice referred to consists of posting notice by mail to the consignee. Where this mode of giving notice is adopted, there shall be 24 hours additional free time to be added to the 72 hours, to be t?? lmfloA was compuxea hvui uaj <*l ^ mailed; provided, however, that if, in any ease, where notice of arrival is given by mail, the consignee will make oath that neither he. his agent nor employees have received such notice, then no demurrage charges shall be made unt*. after legal notice, as above specified, is given. Rule 4.?1. A charge of $1 per car per day shall be made for detention of cars and use of tracks when cars are not loaded or unloaded within 72 hours, except when loaded with grain, flour, meal, bran, mill feed, cotton seed, cotton seed meal, cotton seed hulls, fertilizer material, hay, coal, pyrites, bulk apples, bulk potatoes, bulk cabbage, dressed lumber (in box cars), brick and crushed stone, 96 hours will be allowed for unloading. It being understood that said car or cars are to be placed ana remain accessible to the consignee for the purpose of unloading during the period in which held free of demurrage; that when the period of such demurrage charges commences, they are to be placed accessible to the consignee for unloading purposes on demand of the consignee; provided, however, that If the railroad company shall remove such car or cars after being so placed, or in any way obstruct the unloading of the same, the consignee shall not be chargeable with the delay caused thereby; provided, further, that when any consignee shall receive four or more cars during any one day taking track delivery, the said cars in excess of three shall not be liable to demurrage by any railroad company until niter the expiration of 96 hours. Any fraction of a day shall be considered a day. N ? * ?? Rule 5.?wnen ctMsiguuia cmt.. goods consigned to themselves. It shall he the duty of the railroad companies to give legal notice to such consignees or persons to whom shipping directions order delivery. This notice may be addressed by mail to the consignee at point of delivery, and demurrage will begin as in other cases of notice mail; and the mailing of such notice shall be sufficient legal notice in such cases, whether the consignee actually receive the same or not. Rule 6.?Where the 'fmsignee shall refuse to accept freight tendered in pursuance of the bill of lading, the carrier charged with ? e duty of delivery may give to the consignor legal notice of such refusal; and If he shall not, within five days thereafter, give direction for the shipment or unload* *- Vio shall thence ing or sucii gj, uv, ?? forth become liable to such carrier foi demurrage upon the car or cars in which they are stored to the same extent and at the same rate as such charges are now, under like circumstances by the rules of this commission, imposed upon consignees who neglect or refuse, after notice of arrival, to remove freight of like char- j acter from the cars of a carrier. A consignee who has once refused j to accept a consignment of goods shall not thereafter be 'entitled to receive | the same, except upon payment of all i charges for demurrage which would otherwise have accured. Rule 7.?A consignee living more than four miles from the depot, and whose freight io destined to his residence or place of business so located, shall not be subject to storage or demurrage charges allowed In the abovo rules until a sufficient time has elaps ed after notice for said consignee tc remove said goods by the exercise ot ordinary diligence. Rule 8.?Railroad companies are authorized to store such property in public warehouses at the expense of own er, if same is not removed before do 1 murrage charges attach. Rule 9.?When any railroad company fails to deliver freights at the depot or to place loaded cars at an ac cesslble place for unloading within 72 I hours (not including Sundays or legal holidays), computed from 10 o'clock a. m. the day after the arrival of the same, the shipper or consignee shall ho naid SI Der day for each day said f delivery is eo delayed. Rule 10.?1. Cars containing freight to be delivered upon carload delivery < treks or private sidings are to be delivered upon the tracks designated by consignee upon arrival. 2. Cars containing property, the billing of which does not specify any particular delivery and for which standing or special order has been filed ? with agent, within twenty-four (21) r hours, will be considered as requiring a general track delivery, and shall be t so placed after twenty-four hour*. I 3. Cars for unloading shall be con- s sidered placed when such cars are \ held in receiving yards awaiting or- t ders from shippers or consignees. ;?r r when held for payment of freight r charges, provided the railroad com- t pany could otherwise have placed t such, cars on delivery tracks, except ^ that on cars consigned to private sid- t toga already fully occupied and de- f livery therefore impracticable, deteu- t tion Is to be computed from time of t notification. I '? f Whenever tne weune: uum^ i period of free time is so severe, in- r dement or rainy that It is impracti- ? cable to secure means of removal, or where, from the na:uro of the goode, I removal wouli cause .njury or dam age, such time shall he adde-t to the t free period and no demurrage charge* J tthall be allows fur such ariditu-~ul f time. t This rule applies to the state rf the i weather during business hoars. i Rule 11.? Railroads shall not dis- ( criminate between persons or places m ( storage or demurrage charges. If t a railroad company collects storage or demurrage of one person, under ihe i demurrage rule3, it must collect of all ? who are liable. Wo rebate, drawback t - of other similar device will he allowed. If demurrage is collected by a railroad company at one point on its line, it must collect at all places on its line of those liable under the rules of thl* commission; Provided. That this rule shall not apply to package freight received in less than carload lots and unloaded at depots and warehouses. Provided, further. That the commission shall hear and grant applications to suspend the operation of this rule whenever justice shall demand this course. Rule 12.?Cars detained or held for want of proper shipping instructions or by reason of improper or excessive loading (where loading is done by shipper) shall be subject to a> demurrage charge of $1 per car for each day noUnn r\t a H?v sniri OAT Or cars are so detained or held. Likewise, 1 when cars are properly loaded and shipping instructions are given, the railroad agent must immediately issue bills of lading therefor; and if Raid car or cars are detained or held, and not carried forward within fortyeight (48) hours thereafter, said railroad company shall be liable to said shipper for the payment of $1 per car for each day or fraction of a day that said car or cars are thus detained or held. VT-*. AV.oi.frac c Via 11 hfi IVUie UU1U vuatbsu made for storage or demurrage exeept as provided in the foregoing rules. And these rules shall become effective February 1, 1901. W. D. EVANS, Chairman, J. C. WILSON. C. W. GARRIS. Commissioners. D. P. DUNCAN, Secretary. A Work of Art. The Youth's Companion Calendar for 1901 is a beautiful work of art, in the form of a panel, intended to hang upon the wall. It is a most perfect specimen of the lithographing art, the conception of the designer being reproduced in all its original beauty by twelve colors?printings finished i bright embossed borders of gold. The antral flerure. an exauisite portrait. head. "The Piirltsn Maid." a fair-hair- 1 ed, blue-eyed beauty of the olden time, is set in an illuminated oval border, surrounded by clusters of rosea, which from a back ground for the month? arranged below. The calendar is given to each newsubscriber to Youth's Comoaniou, or sold to non-subscribers for 50c. s ? \ Open to Foreign Trade. a London, By Cable.?The Dally New* r publishes the following firom its f \ Shanghai correspondent, dat<.*d Friday. r "Chang Chih Hung announces the recent issuing of an edict for the open* <! ing of Wu Chang, opposite Hankow, to g foreign trade. Wu Chang is the centre e of an imported trade and the site of t the terminus of the Canton Railway." 1 Dan Keegan, said to be a resident of c Cincinnati, O., while attempting to r ? ? \t xr r board a freight tram at aeu>h, n. i? was struck by a west-bound Delaware c &Hudson train and killed. s A handsome young man stole kisses ^ from three women in Harlem, N. Y., an Tuesday evening. { Thomas Parker, a British gold-hunt- t er, was found frozen to death near the c mouth of the White 'River, in the Klon- j, kike. ?. Most of the Berlin papers will raise z their prices in January, owing to the t 1 high price o( paper v rREATV IS RATIFIED. he Ray-Pauncefote Treaty on the r an*! VOUCH 'ASSES SENATE BY VOTE 55 TO 18, >Ix Roll-Calls and Several Viva Voce Votes, and a Number of Amendments Voted Down. Washington, D. C., Special.?The Senate consumed an hour and ten cinutes in amending and ratifying as .mendment the Hay-Pauncefote treay for the modification of the ClaytonJulwer convention of 1860. There were ix rollcalls and eeveral viva voce *otas. All the amendments, except hose offered by 9enMor Foraketr and e ported by the committee on foreign elations, were voted down by majorizes averaging about 19. The rstlflcaixm resolution was adopted by a TCTLe or 00 to IS. 1<W ocuaio wkb IU Oi curtlve session for about an hour beore the (time for rating arrived, 11benlng to speeches by Senator TIiutson, Gallinger, Woloott and Bard, ex>lanatory of their attitude. The two oreign relations committee amendnents were rqad first and were acceptsd without division. The first roll-call was upon Senator 21 kins' amendment, - declaring that 'nothing contained in this treaty shall >e construed to prevent the United states from, acqiuring at any time sufkient territory and sovereignty over .he same, upon wbdch to build, manige, operate, defend, fortify, protect ind contra' said canal, or for any oth.t purpose as the United States may lee in beet In its own Interests. "It jvas loot by a vote otf 25 to 45. Senator Foraker withdrew his tmendment, because tney were me tame as those reported by the comm.ltee on foreign relations; Senator Penise Ms, because It wea practically Senator Beveridge his which was dentical with Senator Elkins,' and ?vere?d by the second of toe commit ;ee amendments. The other amendments were voted down by decisive majorities. The vote on Senator Tillman's amendment, authorizing the de'ence at the canal and the maintanamoe >f public order by the United States vas 27 yeas to 43 nays. The treaty was ;hen read. The vote upon the treaty tself, as amended, resulted as foloto: * Yeas?Aldrich, Allison, Bason, Beve Idge, Burrows, Carter, Clay, Cullom, Seboe, Dillingham, Elldna, Fairbanks. Poreaker, Foster, Frye, Gal linger, iale, Henna, Hansbrough, Harris, tfawley, How, Jobs*, of Nevada; K.ean, Kenney, ijinasay, m\r Bride, McComas, McCumber, McEnery, tfcLanrln, McMilHan, Mallory, Morfan, Nelson, Penrose, Perkins, Pettus, Piatt, of New York; Prttchard, Proc;or, Quarlw, Scott, Shoup, Spooner, Stewart, Sullivan. Talaferro, Tnursx>n. Turner, Warren, Wetmore, Wol;ott?55. Nays?Allen. Bard, Ba(e, Berry, Butler, Oockrell, Culberson. Daniel, rleltteld, Martin, Mason, Mooney, Petti rrew, Teller. Tillman. Turley, Vest tVellington?18. The pair* on the treaty vote were as 'ollowa, two Senators for the treaty >eirg ipaired with one against fit in iccordance with custom: Depew and :ewell for, with Rawlins against: ~!lark and Simon for, with Chilton iig-ainst; Doliver and Baker for, with rowne against; Caffery and Piatt, of ronnecticut, for, with Jone3, of Arkan5as, against, Kyle was absent and udttirsd. The text of the treaty as amended >tatC3 l.t3 objects as: "To facilitate the . otli-truction of a 6hlp canal to connect he Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and to hat end to remove any objections vhich may arise out of the convention >f April 19, 1850, commonly called the ?layton-ttulwer treaty to the construc:iOn of suoh canal under the auspices 3f the government of the United States without Impairing the general princi)le of neutralization In article 8 of >f that convention." Its provisions folows: Article I.?It is agreed that the canal nay be constructed under the auspices >f the government of the United states, either directly at its own co3t, it by gift or loan of money by indiIduals or corporations or through nibsoription to or purchase of stock or (hares, and that, subject to the pro-ieionS of the present convention, the aid government shall have all the igbte incident to suoh construction, is well as the exclusive right of prodding for the regulation and manage nent of the canal. Article II.?The contracting parties lesiring to preserve and maintain the :eneral principle of neutralization otablished in article VIII of the Cla.yon-Bulwer-convention .which convenion is hereby superseded, as the basis >f such neutralization, the following ules, substantially as embodied in the cmverition between Great Britain and terfcain other powers, signed at Contantdncple 1n 1S88, for the free navi^.tion of the Suez Maritime Canal, are adopted, that is to say: 1. The canal shall be free and open, n dme of war as in time of peace, to he veseels of commerce and of war >f all nations, on terms of entire equally. so that there shall be no discrimand on against any nation or its dtiens or subjects in respects of condiiona or cnargeB of traffic or other- I rise. <, X 2. Tire oanal shall never be blockaded, nor shall any right of war be exercised nor any act of hostility be committed within it. 3. Vessels of war of a bellgerant shall not revictual nor take any stores in the canal except so far as may be strictly necessary; and the transit of such vessels through the canal shall be effected with the least possible aelay. In accordance wiith the regulations in force, and with only such intermission as may result from the necessities of the service. Prizes shall be In all respects subject to the same rules as vee- Jm seLs of war of the belligerents. 4. No bellgerant shall embark or disembark troops, munitions of war or warlike materials in the canal, except in case of accidental hindeTance of the transet, and in such case the transit shall be resumed with all possible dispatch. 5. The provisions of this article shall appl yto waters adjacent to the canal, % within three marine miles of either end. Vessels of war of a belHgerant shall not remain in such waters longer thin 34 hours at any time except In case of distress and In such case shall depart as soon as possible, but a vessel of war of one belligerent shall not depart within 24 hours from the departure of a vessel of war of the other beHgsrent. It Is agreed, however, that none of the immediately foregoing conditions and stipulations in sections numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 sad 5, of thte article, shall apply to measures which: the United States may Una It necessary to take for securing by its own forcas the defence of the United States and the maintenance of public order. 6. The plant, establish meats build* inga and all works necessary to the construction, maintenance and operation of tha canal, shall be deemed to be part thereof, for the purposes of convention, and in the time of war as In time of peace, shall enjoy complete Immunity from attack or lnju-.-7 by beligerents and from acts calculated to impair their usefulness as part of the canal. 7. No fortifications shall be erected commanding the canal or the waters adjacent The United States, however, snail be at liberty to maintain such military police along the canal as may be necessary to protect It against lawlessen eea and disorder. Article III.?The convention shall be re tilled by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by Her Britannic Ma^eBty; and the ratification shall be exohanged at Wash<np-f/vn nr at T wrvrfnm wifhln rIt month-* from the date hereof, or earlier if possible "JOHN HAY. "PAUNCEFOTE." The Holiday Season. As the 1900th celebration of Christmas is so near at hand most everybody Is consulting railroad guides .and steamboat paanphlMs with a view to finding out the easiest and quickest foute from the South to the North. ^ East and West. The "Bay Line" has recently issued an illustrated booklet, describing the ease and comfort with which its passengers are enabled to make a very delightful trip up the Chesapeake Bay, its steamers leaving Portsmouth, Norfolk and Old Point Comfort every evening (except Sun day) for Baltimore, arriving tnere in time to make connections with the early railroad trains for Philadelphia, New York and Boston, and all the points reached by the different railroads running out of the "Monumental City." For Instance, travelers reaching Portsmouth in time to take the steamer "Georgia" on Monday, 24, instant, or from Norfolk or Did Point Comfort, will be able to reach Philadelphia by 10 o'clock Christmas morning, New York by dinner time, and Boston in time to Join in the revelry of "Kris Kingle." Most of the railroads running direct to the Bay Line steamers have put In a rate of one and one-third first class limited fares for the round trip, full particulars of which can be ascertained at all local railroad stations. The well-equipped steamers of the "Bay Line" need no comment from us, as travelers who make the long-distance trips from the South to the North and have tried this popular route, go again. It being enjoyable as well as profitable; as one of the pleaaantest parts of the Journey, via Baltimore, in addition to the trip to one of the magnificent steamers of this Company, is the unequalled opportunity it affords of a good night's rest in the commodious staterooms of the "Alabama" and "Georgia," which invite the occupants to peaceful repose, so essential to the full enjoyment of the holiday at this festival season of the yeai^ Wholesale Proclamation Wanted. Ix>ndon, By Cable.?From its Cape Town corespondent. The Daily News has received the following. '"The second invading force was designed to oc eupy Bristown. Being cnec&ea Dy cow DeAar troops, it has disappeared into the Ceaderberg mountains. An enrommous concentration of troops is being nade upon the veldt country occupied by the invaders, but it is not likely that the Boers will offer battle in large numbers. There is a renewed demand j foi the wholesale proclamation of mar* f tiai law." y Brief Hention. Germany has 33 cities with popula<tions exceeding 100,000. Considering the fact that we have grown to a nation of over 75.000,(^50 it is about time for the cartoonists to give Uncle Sam a trifle more substance to his attenuated frame. \ \