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^mm. . wffl jHyouijf^H Published EverjH?l?;:'-- -;'^^E^ ?at~ 's^BBf UNQ8TREE. SOUTH cSB|^S| ?Br? C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. If the youtn wno starts in business nt seventeen or eighteen gets so fur ahead that the college boy can never catch up with him. the collegian, on the other hand, receives an equipment \ which has no possible equivalent in dollars and cents, and which is more enduring than any form of material gain, reflects the Kansas City Star. Tlic battle between the advccalcs of the two styles of handwriting in the public schools?the vertical and the deferential?is still raging it. mnt.y American cities, towns and villacrts. Champions of the perpendicular [ throw out .?Ir hints to the effect ?ha: , fi? upright hand indicates u: ririi;;: -s 9 of character, and that a slant in penmanship mr.y be the outward ::i: ] \i-ible sign of :t slant in consei'.-see. I'.r.t this really seems to be going a little too far in the heat of controv. vst ' Everybody has wen," said :Lo Dado solemnly, "anil everybody tuns' have n prize." This, it may be remembv red, was the way the caucus race ended in "Alice in Wonderland." It appears to Le the way that General Gaselce. commanding the Iiritish forces in China, has awarded his prizes. His dispatch of January 17. 1001, recently published In the London Times, "mentions" no fewer than lit; officers for good service rendered. Only three receive special commendation. One cf these gave "most valuable support and assistance;" another performed his duties "thoroughly and satisfactorily;" the third "displayed much tact and Judgment" All that is needed now is for the commanding officer to reach over and pat his own back; then everybody will indeed have received a prize, It is no longer necessary for every housewife to be her own baker or to spin and weave with her own hands the clothing for her husband and children, yet it is at least reasonable to suppose that the extra time thus placed at her disposal is employed in a manner which is quite as conducive j r, ].? bfimiTios* .'itnl com *nrf of h. i* ! I household as though sue spent a large ( portion or her existence over the kitchen stove or at the loo:n aud spinning wheel. The statement that ccl1 ego-bred girls do not make good wives rests oa Insufilcieut evidence. The womanly young woman of domestic tastes and capabilities does not usnally find that these are destroyed by a 'course of collegiate instruction. No i ground exists for supposing that edu- , cation in either sex is a bar to marital t happiness, opines the Philadelphia ! Evening Bulletin. i At various times the public has been warned of the dangers that lurk in the . I kiss and even in the handshake as agencies by which microbes may be distributed, but the remarks of a speaker at a medical association meet- ( Ing in Chicago hint that even the per sou who renounces these practices is ; not ?afe. All the distributing agencies by means of which men come in contact with other men should be subject to sterilization and even "the long iiair and full beard ought to be dis couraged by general disapprobation." It Is not depreciating the wisdom of the advice to point out that apparently it is becoming a dangerous matter simply to remaiu alive. Even the man who defies germs by keeping himself close '-horn and putting in his waking Lours in the use of antiseptics can never feel wholly safe. He may have no hair wherein the malign microbe i can hnd lodgment, but ho will still j t " Lave his throat, lungs and other organs to which the bacilli are wont to ' repair. Simply by remaining alive he ! :Is exposing a field of operation to the j ?ver-ready microbe. Apparently the i enly perfect safeguard would lie in I .shearing off not only hair and beard, i but everything above the neck, at : I which point the health seeker might be dead, but would certainly be immune ticm miciobes. f-. rv 1 1 ' Pana 1 o this v made. President Ainff^^EnyiYce v.ns reports from members who arc going aud ho believes that the party will consist of at k-a3t 50 ladies and gentlemen. Thay are all to assemble in Columbia on? week from Monday next, don their palmetto badges, and leave here for Norfolk the next aftornoon. Mr. Aull has endeavored to make every necessary arrangement In advance and has prepared the following setting forth all the latest changes in the itinerary, the items of expense, the hotel rates secured, etc.: ITINERARY. . Leave Columbia. Blinding street sta- j tiori 5:53 p. n.. July 23, via Southern | railway. Special Pullman sleeper Columbia to ' Norfolk. Ya. Arrive Norfolk S:30 a. m.. July 24. A special programme arrange:! for the clay in Norfolk. Parties may be formed to visit O'd Point. Fortress j Monroe, Virginia Beach. O oan View. j or the Navy Yard, as may s ;it the taste j of the idividual. P. m ruber to be at the Old Domimoa wharf by G o'c.ock p. m. - Leave Norfolk 7:(P p. n.. July 21, via Old Dominion Steamship line. Arrive New York afternoon o" July 25. Dooms engage! at the Colonnaie hotel. 72G Broadway, for the n:ght. Leave New York. Drsbrosses street, ' via Hudson Day Lino steamer, S:30 a. | m.. July 26. Arrive Albany. X. Y.. 0:10 p. nr.. July ' 26. Rooms engaged at Stanwix Hall ! hotel. Leave Albany 11:13 a. m.. July 27. ; va New York Central anl Hudson! River railroad. { Arrive Buffalo, X. Y.. 4:45 p. nr.. July t 27. Saturday. On the return trip parties come at , their pleasure. Transportation tor trie return trip will be turned over to each member cn arrival at Buffalo. ESTIMATED COST OF TRIP. Pullman. Columbia to Norfolk..$ 1.21 ! Meals in Norfolk 1.00 I State room and meals, Norfolk to New York 3.(0 Room and meals in New York.. 1.7.1 ; Dinner on Day line steamer .... 1.00 1 Supper, lodging and breakfast at Albany 2.00 j Railroad fare. Albany to Buffalo ' and return to New York 5.(0 Rooms in Buffalo at Fame's hotel for five d3.vs 5.00 Meals for the five days in Bufalo. $1.50 per day 7.50 Incidental expenses, transfer baggage, street car fares, etc., to arrive at hotel in Buffalo .. 2.00 ; Total expenses going and lodging and board Buffalo five days ...$23.50 Estimated cosi of actual expenses of return trip, including Pullman sleeper, Norfolk to Columbia. S. C 7.50 ; Tata. $.17.00 j Art/1 fnr Incidentals 13.(0 I Total actual expanses $50.03 ! OTHER ARRANGEMENTS. Arrangements will to made in Buf- . falo for tickets to the grounds and it j is hoped for a trip to Niagara and also a sail on the lakes. The party will travel together going and all transporation w'ill be retained by the president until arrival in Buffalo. On the return trip parties may leave Buffalo at 11:20 p. m., on any day an 1 arrive in New York at 10 a. m.. n?xt i . and leave at 3 p. m., on the boat. ! h.riving in Buffalo the following day to ! catch the train coming to Columbia, leaving Norfolk at 7:40 p. m.. and arriving in Columbia at 11:35 a. m. the next day. Tickets will be secured only for members of the associatlcn and one member of their respective families. Forner's hotel has been se'ected for the stay in Buffalo because cf the rate it has been able to secure and the accommodation promised. It is "located within one block and oae-half from all the theatres in the city, within one block of the Lafayette square, which Is the hub of the city, so to speak. All cars going to the exposition grounds pass within 100 feet of the hotel, as do all cars In Niagara Falis. The streets on which It faces are twice the width of the ordinary streets and all the rooms are large outside rooms." The proprietors promise to "room either two. three or four In each room according to the size of same, and for your information would say the rooms to which we assign two or more people contain two or three full sized be:1s." Militia Supplies. Ad.it. Gen. Floyd has sent on to the war department at Washington the annual requisition for military supplies under the appropritaicn made by ***- miiitnrv forces of the l*UII?4tr?a iUt 1UW .. several States. It takes some little time | for the requisition to be filed, hence it was sent in promptly. As soon as the uniforms and equipments arrived they will be promptly issued to the several companies of State militia until each command has uniforms and equipments for 50 men. When this has been accomplished the milk.a of the S;uie will be better equipped in every respect than at any other time in the par: 25 years, so military men sjy. i There will be no delay here in the is- I suing of supplies as soon as received. K OHiO DEMOCRATS I' - i l"ll 1- r* rorcinais iviiDournc i or governor and fiowells For Lieut. Governor. . BRYAN'S NAME NOT POPULAR. The Two Last National Platform* Ignored By the Convention?.icket I Nominated. Columbus, 0., Special.?The Democrats of Ohio named the following ticket: Governor. James Kilbourne; Lieutenant Governor, Anthony Howella; Judge of Supreme Court, Jo3?ph Hidy; clerk of Supreme Court, Harry 13. Young; Attorney General, M. E. McCarthy; Sta'e Treasurer, E. P. Alshire; meaner of board of public works, James B. Holmes. The convention today nere had more prominent men as delegates than any convention of Democrats Oi Ohio In many veais. me nomtna.ton o. uo? lvi.courno was app:opriute:y cuhel one of ' sp ;ntaneous combusttca." Howell, Hidy, Alshire ai: 1 Holnan were favorites fro::: the start. Young was sprung as a surprise and num.uated over Sarcots, who had been such a favorite that others had not previously entered ir.e rate for clerk of th e Supremo Court. None of the delegates, outside of C.eveland, knew Young and lie WuS named because Cuyahoga wanted hint. Cuyahoga could ger anything it wanted, except the head of the State ticket. After the Jonhson amendments were engrafted Into the McLean platform that document as amended was adopted. The most striking turn of the ?onventicn was oa Bryan. The most b.tter things were said of his leadership in the committee cn resolutions, where it was insisted his name should not be mentioned and that there should ba no reference to either of the national platforms on which he made his cam paigns. After the plan had been agreed upon, one of the 21 members of the committee offered a minority report, re-affirming the Kansas City plat orm and expressing confidence in Bryan. He received only six votes from the yf>0 delegates on his substitute for the preamble. A few moments after the platform was adopted, one of these six delegates called attention to the fact that pictures of other Democrats wire displayed in the hali and none of Bryan. as heretofore. He started to carry a small banner with Bryan's picture on it to the platform. The aisle> were ordered cleared, but the picture d:a not reach its destination. It was trampled under foot and spoiled during the w.id demonstration when Kilbourne was escorted into tire hall. It is generally 1>:*lieved, however, that the marching ing club did not know they were walking ever Bryan's picture. The ir.emucrs of the committee on resolutions said over one hour was spent after last midnight in efforts to strike the word "salable" out of the plan:: cn railway taxation ana several hours in denouncing the Chicago an ! Kansas City platforms and the leader who stood on them. The platform caused much comment itn'.gh: over what it does not say as weil as ever what it does say. Big War Taxes. Washington. D. C.. Special.?A state ment at the Internal Revenue Bureau shows that the total receipts from the war revenue act from July 13, 1S93, the date the act vent into effect, to May 31. 1901, amounted to $310,003,3C3. as follows: Schedule A (documentary stamps); $108,722,074; schedule B (proprietary stamps). $13,922,12S; beer. $97,717,971; special taxes. $1-1.095. C3G; tobacco, $47,274,780; snuff. $2.C07.?1S; cigars. S9.1S0.027; cigarettes. $3,818,991; legacies. $S,9G8.420: excise tax. $2,652,982; mixed flour. $21,330; additional taxes on beer and tobacco, $982,385. Sixteen Killed In a Collision. Kansas City, Special?Sixteen persons are dead, two others probably fatally injured and more than a score of others less seriously hurt as the result of a head-end collision between a passenger and fast live stock train on the Chicago & Alton, near Norton, Mo.. Wednesday morning. Six were killed outright, four died on a tra n cony. ying them to Kansas City and Tour died at a hospital in this city. Visit Jackson's Tomb. Lexington, Va., Special.?At the second day's session of the Sunday School Convention, Baltimore Conference, M. Church, South, the principal speaker was Rev. Dr. H. M. Hamill, the international field secretary, who made addresses at the morning and afternoon sessions. He had for his subjects, "How to Teach," and "Sunday School Milligement." The convention visited tlie ionb of General Robert K. Lee, t'..e r ,e of General Thomas J. Jackson ("Stonewall"), the Washington and Lee University and the Virsnia -U:.itat y Institute. | SJLiU IAKULIAA IKUfS. I Duttome of All Crops During tha Past Week. The week ending Monday, July 8th, averaged sl^Lily wanner than usual over the western. northcvn and cen* t;al portions and slightly cooler over the southeastern. .1^:1 1 ? . . i no ucwi.c uicijiaium rangeu Deiwesu ?6 and 93 degrees. while a minimum of UG was noted at Greenville on the 1st. There was more than the usual amount of brlgL' sunshine. Parly in the Meek and again near its close, there were scattered showers. heaviest in the central and southeastern counties, with a maximum j rainiall of 1.99 Inches at St. George, while over the northern and western I counties the week was generaib | rainless. These conditions of high i temperature, abundant sunshine, and ' absence of rain wore conditions thac ! male this the most favorable week o: I the season for cultivation, nevcrthe: less, many fields remain grassy an I i it v lit H'iUite at least another \v?. * ! of dry weather to clean them. Rain Is I needed generally for the crops. a:i 1 j to soften the soil which on ciavev land that dried out hard, and breaks cloddy under cultivation. Rain is also : needed to prevent further injury to crops that were dura aged in ridding ; tkf m of grass arid weeds. | Co ton made a slight and general improvement, except sea island that , improved decidedly. The plants are | unusually smail for the season and ! arc growing slowly, especially on j sandy soils wheie their condition is | j exceptionally poor, blooms are noted ' i over the whole atate. but cotton is ; not blooming as profusely as It should i do at this season. !t is roportei ; that the crop as a whole car.not possibly attain a normal condition. ho?j ever favorable the weather during the reniaiuder of the season may be. The corn crop can now safely bo ' characterized as the poorest in many j | years, and over considerable areas \ j will approximate a failure. Corn, with : I some exceptions, has slender stalks, | ; i.3 tasselling low an l not earing well. < i Planting bottom and stubble lands 1 ! continues. Tobacco shared in the general im- j I provenient duriag the week, but is | i still very poor. Cutting and curing j I is well underway in all districts. Rice ! j made marker! Improvement, but has 1 ! not fully recovered from the ill efi fects of the excessive June rainfall. Peas are being extensively planted in : uith corn and on stubble fields. Some ! have come up to good stands. Apples. ! peaches and pears continue to drop I extensively, while peaches and grapes j rot as they ripen. The iahor situation i has not improved, and continues to be j a serious factor in this year's farm I economics. Curiosities Qf the Census. The census report now enables us tc j see just how much eibow-room we have, says the New York World. If the ; ! inhabitants of Wyoming wanted tc | spread themselves out each of them ! could have a little were than a square j mile all to himself. Ir. Nevada ever* ! four people could have ten square j I miles .Arizona, New Mexico. Montana : | and Idaho can offord almost a square ! ! mile each to their men, -om-.n an! 1 ! children, while up in frozen Alaska ! j there are ten goo:! square miles for i i every soul of population. Rhode Island is the fullest State in the Union?with 407 people to the square mile. But even that leaves a good deal of extra room. Massachusetts, 319 people to the s<iua;e mile, follows Rhode Island. Then come New Jersey, 230; Connecticut, 187; New ; York, 152.6; Pennsylvania. 140.1; Mary- | i land. 120.5; Ohio. 1C2. It Is not yet time I for Uncle Sam to cry: "Move up in j front!"' but the country can s.and an immense amount of industrious pushing to the West. Wounded at a Frolic. Neeses. Special.?At a prolic at ' Aaron Chavi?' house on the night of j the 4th, near N'eeses, there was a sa ft- I ing affray in which ceven were wound- I ed Pope Chavis and Kuowlton W.lliams wore shot through the lungs; loth their cases are serious. Aa:on Chavis shot in the knee; Mrs. To.u Chavis, shot through both legs; Tobe Hoover, head split open-. Dan Cnavis i was badly bruised, and AnseM W.liianii was shot through the hand. Liquor fiowed freely and no one knows how the trouble commenced. Brief rientlon. Crazed by heat, # F. A. Brackett killed his wife and himself at Des Moines. Ia. Corwin H. Spencer will probably be made director general of the World's Fair at St. !>ouis. Mo. Several persons were Injured in a ' rnlliclnn 1 nrunon n Inrnmntivp n trolley car at Buffalo, N. Y. Senator Mark Hanna is on his way from Cleveland, O., to New York, wtiere It is said he will visit J. P. Morgan. Former Lieutenant Governor of Indiana Mortimer Nye was stricken with paralysis while speaking at Union Mills. Ind. Guy 3Ionnett, an employe of tlie Adams Express Company, killed him self at Bucyrus, O., rather than face a shortage of $500. By the overturning of a boat. James Reagan and William Waller were drowned in the Harlem River at New York. Temporary insanity, induced by heut. led F. A. Conkey to kill John Bryant and his son at Albany, Mo., and to then attempt suicide. A GENERAL STRIKE. * Pittsburg Steel Workers Co Cut 1.7 Large Numbers. PRES. SHAFFER'S GRDER IS OBEYED . The Unionizing of the Painter .Mill is Said to Be One of the Objects of the Strike. Pittsburg, Special.?From present indications it looks p-cbab'.e that Presi- \ dent Shatter's strike order, issued Sit- ^ urday night the the Amalgamated Association members in the employ of the American Steel Hoop Compiny, tne American Sheet S.e:l Company and the f American Tin Piate Company, will be obeyed, and the great struggle between the Amalgamated Association ani the steel companies will b? cn in earnest. In the union milts o: the t'ar ? ? companies a strike has been dec.ar u. and it is predicted that no: a wli?e! will turn. An effort will be made a so to close down some cf the non-union mills oi the companies and to cripple the rest. The Amalgamated people a.o very sanguine of success. "The strike was not o' our seeking." said Presid.n: Shatter. *lt w.a forced upon us. We were not contending for wages, but for pr.n :p!e. for self-preservation. The tin and sheet people will not be able to turn a single wheel. We have our torees thoroughly organized and there will be som: surprises in store. I have not heirl frorfi a single lodge in answer to my strike order, but an answer is not necessary. The order will be promptly obeyed by all our men. But there w.l be no trouble. Labor organizations have changed. The Amalgamated Association is net the association it was 20 years ago. not even five years ago. The men arc more readily controlled; in fact, we have our men under control." Developments indicate that Pittsburg is going to be a pretty lively strike centre. The most interested attaches to the Painter's Mill, on th? southside, and to that of Lindsay & McCutoheon. in Allegheny. Both miili are controlled by the American Shcei Hoop Company, and have hithertc been aggressively non-union and much depends upon the men in these plants. The employes of both mills held open meetings Sunday and both deeided.tc strike Monday. The Painter Miii employes about 400 men and the Lindsay & MeCutcheon Mill about 1100. I. W. Jenks, manager of the American Steel Hoop Company, said that he had heard of the attempt to be mad: to tie r,p the two mills, but he had heard such strike talk for severa months past. Mr. Jenks said both mills would resume as usual. The fight at the Painter Mill is to be made the fight of the strike. Both sides V will make stubborn resistance. If the Amalgamated people can close this mil) they believe they will have wen the greater part of the strike. The mill is not only an important one. but ih = Steel Hoop Company has for years succeeded in thwarting the efforts made to unionize it. ? It may he said, however, on the strength cf reliable information that the strike within its present limits is Intended merely as a show of strength. At the conference, last week, the representatives of the steel c orporation were.repeatedly warned that the association was much stronger than they knew. They were even told of the organization of mills of which they had no knowledge. But the steel men would not believe that the association was as strong as it* was claimed to he. Thus it is believed to bo the first put pose of the association to show its strength by confining the srike to the three companies. When that show oi strength has been made what it may prove to be. the assoclatic* expects the companies to ask for another conference. If the compan e3 show no inclination to make a settlement the strike will be extended to three mo*ccompanies. If the trust will not yield then, the strike will be extended to such independent companies as sell their finished produces cr taw materials to companies aga:n3' which a strike has been declared. Should the strike attain such proportions it waul i be likely to go still further. The Amalgamated Association and the Federation of Labor two years ago formed a secret alliance, it is claimed, \vhen it was agreed that the association when on strike could call out the steel men of the Federation. The latter has it- , organizations in many mills whes workmen are not eligible to tnexb.-rship in the association. v rT!-~ lOrrmo-ht-Stricken Town. I lit III LTI _ Enid. 0. T., Special.?Four blocks of business houses on tho public square were destroyed in les3 than three hours by a fire thac started after midnight Monday morning. The water supply was inadequate and it was necessary to blow up buildings with dynamite to check the flames. Owing to the continued ought everything burned !' -:c mat h -cod. A light wind blowing iron the southeast saved the eastern part of the town. The total loss is estimated at more than $100,000; insurance light. The pcstoCIce and the land ofF.ce were saved cu!y af.cr a hard light.