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cIKA~n1tT.A1V FtvRArq ATT7 And Rebukes a Preacher for Sayi Hanna Was a Saint. Ex-Gov. D. H. Chamberlain wri1 as follows to the Springfield Reput can: Will you give me space to test publicly my grateful appreciation Mr. Garrison's courage and fidelity rebuking In the Republican of t 26th inst- Dr. Edward Everett Hal gross offence to good morals, not say religion, in his eulogy in the S( ate chamber of the late Senal Hanna? Thecolumn of newspapercommer on Hanna's death wiich you rep: duced in the Republican of the 1' inst. was surely melancholy enou reading; for out of the whole numl only two spoke the truth-the Bost Herald and the New York Eveni Post. But none of these struck low a note as 11r. Hale, the dean, some-sense, of our Unitarian cler the man who, by age, position and 4 perience, ought to have spoken a hi and resounding word for public mi ality and civic conscience. . I, for o am inexpressibly shocked to find possible that an eminent clergyman the liberal faith can be so ignorant so misguided as to call Hanna whole-souled child of God." I say onorant. for does not Dr. Hale know what all the rest of the world knowE that this man was simply the m< accomplished political trader our c( zury and more of partisan politics I produce4? Did he not know that I advent in our national politics was the unblushing purchaser, for ca and for offices, of the greater part the Southern delegates at the Louis Convention which nominat McKinley in 1896.? Bribery and c ruption are' always vile. but their lest aspect is seen in the buying of norant colored delegates, who, of men, most need the protection a guidance of men who engage as leE era in our politics. Was ever cri1 deeper or hypocrisy more glaring tb when this man went with bribes debauch the representatives of a r and people whom he was loudly pi claiming were the victims of Soul em white prejudice and injusti< Hanna's one only conception of polit was business, the business of maki money by politics, of carrying convi tions and elections by money. A yet Dr. Hale, representative, to a i gree, of Boston culture, of Bost morality and religion, holds this m before the nation, and especially 1 fore the youth of this country, as whole-souled child of God!" If more shocking or debasing word I ever been uttered by a profes& teacher of morality I cannot recall D. H. Chamberlain Columbia, S. C.\ February 28, 19 War Time Prayers. Thbe last time I interviewed Gene 0. 0.*'Howard, says a writer in -exchange, it was on the suibj Stonewall Jackson the Union fort were defeated, so I Inquired of Ge eral Howard: "You prayed before that battle?' "Yes," he answered. "And Jackson was a praying ma He prayed also?" "Yes," he assented. "Then how was It he gained t victory? Did that mean that t Union cause was wrong?" Very gently the good old Genei replied: Moth our prayers were a swered. Jackson prayed for Imme' ate victory and I for the ultimate t umph of our cause. We both g what we prayed for." 4Complete Mastodon Found. The complete form of a mastod has been discovered at Hillside, Quartz Creek, according to a dispat from Dawson, Y. T. It was imbedd 38 feet in the earth when found al the use of a steam thawing plant a necessary to unearth the immer animal. The hair and the skin of t beast are said tobe ina perfect sta of preservation, although the flesh somewhat -decomposed, and the 1 tusks which remain fastened to t skull are in good condition. It estimated that the skeleton is wor about 850,000, as there are but one two in existence in as good conditis as is this. .The mastodon was d covered buried in an old channel, w' within the zone o^ aljnost perpett: frost, whick accounts-for Its excelle preservationa. A Family Tragedy. Another family tragedy, similar the Beseke case, occurred Wednesd; at Pankow, a suburb of Berlin, Gi many. Theodore Brambachi, a coi mercial traveler, took his wife al son to the circus on Tuesday evenin and after returning home, the fai sat down to a supper. Atfter his wi and son had gone to bed, Brambal turned on the gas, but the rooms we too well ventilated andi is pladu deatL railed. Wednesday mornii Brambach shot hiis son and his w: and then himself, having previous sent a servant to a friend with a lett explaining his act. Brambach, li Lieutenant Beseke, had lived far I yond his means and had become I volved in financial difficulties. aMany People Drowned. * A special dispatch from Paris a * nounces that the French steamr Cambodge (of 2,355 tons,) which le Eangoon February 17 for Cochi China, and European ports, has be wrecked in a storm off the coast Cochin-China. The Cambodge carri one hundred passengers, most Annamnese. About fifty of them we drnwned. WHATr CIGARS DID. Jokes As He Goes to Have His Tongue Taken Out. The New York Ameriean says three r hundred thousand black cigars have t bitten into Maguire's tongue until cancer hag claimed it for its own and the doctors will have to take it out. The tongue must come out, and "Tom" awaits the operation with philosophy, declaring that he has heard his own voice long enough. t The veteran of the Rialto smiles I bravely as he talks of the knife and blames not Fate, but himself. "It is my fault,'' declared Maguire. "I learned to smoke at fifteen-I will be fifty in September-and for twenty t years I have smoked twenty of th* r blackest cigars I could get every day. It seemed impossible to get cigars black enough. I was a fool. I see that now, but I did not know it-then." Two years ago Maguire discovered that he had cancer of the tongue. Radium was tried, and he has just finished a nine weeks treatment with the X-rays. The doctors of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, in order to save his life, decided on an operation. r "It may be for a few hours or for a few weeks,'' said Maguire, "according to the success of the operation. For a day I will be in preparation. After that the surgeons will do what they want with me. What. will my last words be? Nothing particular. I will not preserve my voice in a phonograph. T have heard it enough Liquid food and no speech will be my fate, if I survive the operation." Professor William Seaman Bain bridge, who will perform the delicate operation, admitted that the patient might acquire a moderate degree of speech in time. The lingual arteries, which supply the blood to the tongue, will be severed and carefully tied, and the glands under the tongue re moved. In about five days the wound will heal and then the tongue will be removed from its very roots. e Despite the common belief which Maguire shares; experience shows that speech is not necessarily deprived to t the tongueless. A proper control of e the muscles of the back of the throat t ill enlarge the scope'of the guttural [ utterances so as to make the patient t understood. The absence of the e tongue means, of course, a liquid diet hereafter. Maguire is a son of the late Tom e Maguire, the famous Californian the atrical manager. He managed sev eral theatres in San Francisco, and came to New York in 1882. The doc o tors say Maguire's malady was caused e by holding his cigar always on the e same side of the mouth. s Russia and the Turks. a In connection with reports of the s Russia-Japanese war ore hears muct of what is called "The Balkan Situa. - tion." In all of these foreign affairi - ?here is consfderable that perplexes -the average American reader, and yet, -In order to be accurately informed as 1 to the old world situation one shiould teresting article on this point is pre sented by a writer in the Chicago - Tribune. This writer explains: "The SBalkans are known variously as the icockpit, the powder magazine, and the dirty risings of Europe. They seem once again about to justify these epithets. Politically, 'the Balkans' comprise the fotr nominally indepen dent kingdoms and princedoms of Servia, Bulgaria, Roumania, and Mon tenegro; the northern part of Euro pean Turkey (Macedonia and Albania), and the Austrian provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ethnically there is no Balkan people. The inhabitants of these territories are the ,beteroge neous remnants of many races who at different times have dwelt In or passed over the scutheastern corner of Eu rope. There are Slaves, Greeks, Gyp sles, Serbs, Bulgars, Jews, Turks, Al banians. These various races do not occcupy different, well defined sections of the Balkans, but are scattered -broadcast over the whole region. Next to a Bulgarian village will lie a Greek one, on the other side a town of Mus selmans, while the Roumanian gypsy ' begs and steals indiscriminately from all." According to this authority t the Turks have been misrulinig Mace i donia most shockingly. The misrule caused a rebellion of the Bulgars in -Macedonia, who constipute a large i and perhaps predommnant element of I the population. The rebellion was al :most openfly fostered by Bulgaria. - The Turk would have liked to reply t by making war on that kingdom, -which is nominally a vassal state, but I the European powers, and especially ' Russia, told him to do no such thing. i The powers were afraid to trust any -one of their number to quiet Mace i donia, so the task was intrusted to -Russia and Austria jointly. T[hey were to reorganize the police In the disturbed Turkish provinces and thus remove the cause of the rebellion. : This was last summer. At this point -the Sultan managed to prevent Rus sian an4 Austrian commissioners from accomplishing material results and as ,a consequence reform in Macedonia ' did not make great progress, but the , Tribune writer says: "Now come - tbe Japanese war and Russia's preoc cupation in Manchuria. The sultan becomes defiant, practically announces he will chastise Bulgaria for its inso lence and treachery, and mobilizes his troops on its frontiers. Bulgaria re sponds by a counter mobilization on the other side of the frontier. Such Sis the present situation. If the pow Sers kept their hands off Turkey would undoubtedly, after a war of atrocities unparalleled in Europe for centuries, defeat BulgarIa and occupy that country. But the only certain thing in the whole chaotic situation Is that the powers won't keep their hands off. The wil not permit the Turk to ex PINEAPPLE GROWING. The Industry and Its Profts In Flor. og ida-Cuban Competition. The Indian river region has alway! been noted for its lack of horses. Tb ;es people were semiamphibious. The li- visited and carried on business in thel: sailboats along the river. And whei the railroad came and supplanted th4 steamboats the managers seemed t think It their duty to replace the boats he both steam and sail, in every respec e's In the main pineapple belt during har to vest time the "pick up" train is th . most accommodating in the world. I or stops at every planter's wharf to loa< his stack of crates, often moving u] i only fifty or a hundred feet to take oi board a neighbor's offerings. And thi tb is no toy shipping either. From th gh window of the office where I now si oer writing, says S. Powers in the Countr. on Gentleman. I have seen a solid pineap ng ple train, numbering thirty-seven cars so roll slowly over the long St. Johni in river bridge into Jacksonville. With the exception of the hard frost ,X. six or seven years ago, the Florid h pineapple industry has this year en )r- countered the first obstruction that ha e, threatened to be permanent and heav it ily damaging in the shape of Cubai of competition. To a strong and resource or ful man I do not account the frosts an, "a obstacle worth serious considerador 1g. but these Cuban millions, grown in i - fertile soil and a frostless air, may wel give the Florida planter pause. Ther St happened this year what may not oc n- cur again in a generation-namely, al ,as almost simultaneous ripening of th lis pineapple crops of Cuba, the Bahama as and extreme south Florida, a phenom sh enon which was probably due to th of lack of the usual full effect of th it. North American winds, which alon ed differentiate lower Florida, in a me )r- teorological view, from the two islan< vi- regions mentioned. ig- Naturalists consider that the flor all and fauna of south Florida are esser nd tially Antillean in their relationships d- and the almost simultaneous ripenin ne of the pines this year goes to prov an their view, showing that the usual it to terval of a fortnight or a month is du ,ce to the cold continental winds holdin o- back our crop. And it is these ver; b- continental winds which threaten fro e? and sometimes bring it that constitut ic a strong element in our security again. ng Cuban competition. Usually Cuba wi mn- ship her South American pines and g( nd out of the way before we come to tb le- market bringing our North America: Ln fruit. an Then there is another point Ther )e- is no question that the Cuban pine 1 "a distinctly inferior to the Floridiai a though I would not be positive ths ias this is to any controlling extent due t ;ed climatic influences. I believe that th it. superiority of our fruit is largely du to' that fine art of growing which 1 M. better understood in Florida than I any other horticultural section of thi country. Does pineapple culture pay in Floj ra -Ida? Does corn growing pay in Ill an nois? In the old flush times the gros et ers on Indian river often sold to tou1 1 .Ists their entire crop at 50 cents to j s and glut of the Cubans, at one tim :-eight decent pines could be bought to a cent in West Palm Beach. In Illi nois corn has been burned for fuel. N Ameriean of fair average informatio Sentertains any doubts about the profit of growing corn In Illinois; neither d< I entertain any as to the remunerativ he character of pine growing In Florida be A string of beautiful homes stretchini 100 mIles along Indian river attests th al success of their owners. Ii- Cotton Seed. - After you have bought a lot of thb otImproved northern grown cotton see that Is early and yields well you d< not need to continue buying these seedi every year. Instead of this select you own seed from the best stalks of tha 30 Improved cotton. Send trained picker on over the field in time to get the bes ch boils from the best stalks at the secout ad picking. Take stalks that bear well aid have boils of large or medium size an< as don't forget earliness.-Professor Beu se nett La Safety With the Lantern. is It is not safe to hang a lantern on , ig common nail, as many people do. Al be American Agriculturist corresponden 18 suggests havin; Lb some hook or made and pui 3ting them up 11 -the barn and Ill stable to hani tal the lantern ox Then it will no get knocked off The lantern wil .not unhook b; t0 being hit witi yA LANTERN HOOK- anything. Three r- eighths inch round iron, sharpened o1 cj- one end and bent as shown in the illus 2d tration, answers the purpose. Ely Brief Mention. fe At present the demand is for porl ::h and grease and not for bacon with al re ternate layers of fat and lean, remark i Farm and Ranch. >g Tcxas has a great corn crop, whici fe with judicious handling and in vie, ly of the shortage in the other corn states er should mean good returns to the grows keers. ie~j "We may as well give up any hop n- o kIlling out the weevil, but we cai get around him and continue to mnak< cotton." said Professor Bennett at: meeting of Texas farmers and mer n. chants. er It is best to use potash and acid 11 aft the fall and nitrates in the spring o1 n- oats, says very good authority. eni The cotton boll weevil Is reported ti of have spread more rapidly during th< ed month of October than at any othe tend his system in Europe. It may be that all four of the little Balkan independencies will be drawn into the struggle. In that case they are likely to wind up as dependencies or prov inces of some bigger nation, which would not be a world calamity, since Servia, Bulgaria, Roumania, and Mon tenegro.are no better than they ought to be. Austria is now administering two former Turkish provinces-Bosnia and Herzegovinia-and administering them well. They were formerly given over to slaughter, pillage and perse cution, but they are now lands of plenty and peace. If Austria Is as signed the task of deodorizing and disinfecting another slice of the Bal kan territory her past performances warrant the hope that she will do it well. Broadly speaking. any settle ment that leaves the Turk in Europe will be but temporary, for as long as he remains west of the Bosphorus the Balkan question will live." Nothing But Politics. The Spartanburg Herald says "it is not just to censure a commission for things outside of its responsibility, nor by insinuation to reflect upon its competency or its faithfulness. As we have before said, the tone of the report of the Investigating committee was far from admirable and suggests to discerning minds that personal an imus might have played part with ev idence in formulating the report. It has been heralded over the state that the legislature had appropriated $50, 000 "to complete the completion of the State House"-as some have ex pressed it. The work was of such a character, it has been said, that $50, 000 had to be appropriated to repair it. The following is an itemized list of the work providod for by the act of the legislature referred to: Painting walls and woodwork etc., senate chamber, house of representatives, committee rooms and main lobby...... 7,161 20 Painting arches in corridors 743 76 Pepairing ceilings in library and house of representatives 1,506 00 INew celling in main lobby.. 1,814 00 Structural steel for support ing cellings........... .. 2,880 00 New roof...............2,68200 Structural steel for support ing cellings.... .. .....1,622 00 Doors for arches on front and rear porticos. ...........450 00 Heating and ventilating plantl7,749 85 Total............... 36,608 81 Contractor's prolit,10 per cent.3,660 88 $40,269 69 Let it be noted now that the first two items, $7,161.20 and $743.76, and the last two, $450 and $17,749.85 were in no way, directly or indirectly a part of the contract made by the commission with the contracting com pany. Take off, therefore, $26,104.81 from the $40,269.69. An appropria tion of $2,682 has been made for a new roof. A new roof may be neces sary, but the old commission, whose word there is no reason' to doubt, says that there is on fie in the ofice of th tary of State a guarantee given not by Mclilvain, Unkefer Company, but by the roofing concern that put It up. Deduct this amourt also from tbe forty thousand dollar negligence. Other items seem ques tionable. Qn the whole, itr looks as if there were a dseire to magnify the negligence of the commission and to blame them for what they are in no way responsible. This being the case although tbe work still appears to be shoddy, we are not willing to join in the condemnation of anybody with those who, as it seems to us, employ unfair methods. We are sorry the leg islature did na~i alow the old commis sion a full and free hearing. Possibly there's some politics in this business." The R~ace Problem is Not New. Joel Chandler Harris, than whom the south has produced no keener ob server or more forceful writer, has contributed to the Philadelphia Satur day Evening Pust three interesting articles on the "negro problem." Those wno talk about the "negro prciem" for the sole purpose of mak ing political carital out of the ques tion would do well to read, digtsu and act upon Mr. Harris" review of the subject. He clearly shows that the so-called "negro problem" is merels the problem which "all individualy and all races have had to contend with at one time or another, and there Is no solution save hard work and right living." Mr. Harris points out-and proves-that the negro's situation in the south is nothing like so bad as in the north, for while southern negroes are earning a living by pursuing vari ous trades and callings in which the whites are also engaged, northern ne groes are n it allowed to compete with the whiter, in any but the most menial and unprofitable callings. Mr. Har ris sums up the question briefly when he declares: "The trouble heretofore with educated negroes Is that they have insisted on swarming into poli tics or into the pulpit. Up to date they have made the poorest kind of politicians and, with a few notable ex ceptions, very inferior preachers." Easter and Flowers. The use of flowers in Easter deco rations was derived, according to anti quarians, from the Druids. While palms and lillies are the close asso cates of Easter in the south lands, in English villages the young willow boughs bursting into bloom are usu ally substituted. In Roumania and Asia Minor all the houses are wreath ed with budding branches of weeping willow. While the stately Easter lily, with all its beautiful associations, seems the fitting symbol for sacred uses In the sanctity of the church, for house and table decorations nothing can compare with daffodils, jonquils or the deliate natrcissi A GREAT CORN SHOW. Yellow Varieties In the Lead-A Question of the Score Card. The greatest corn show in the history of the state is the record the Peoria people made this year with their corn show. There were over 7-0 individual exhibitors, who showed something like 4,200 samples of high grade corn. Not only was the magnitude of the display surprising, but the quality as well. In spite of the very unfavorable season the corn shown exceeded in uniformity and trueness to type anything ever ex ,hibited before. This speaks well for the work of Illinois corn breeders. The yellow varieties undoubtedly lead when it comes to a matter of showing corn. While this is not always the case, as a rule yellow corn scores high er than white when the two kinds come in competition in the same class. The exhibitors were, of course, more nu merous in the yellow class and the corn possibly of a little higher quality than the white, although some exceedingly fine white corn was exhibited. The showing of corn on the stalk was an interesting one, as were also the or namental exhibits made from the corn plant. This year's show again demon strated the necessity of a revision of the score card and of the classification. For Reid's Yellow Dent, for example, the standard for circumference is seven inches and the length ten. Now, any one knows that an ear seven inches in circumference is too small for a large yield and ten inches Is not long enough. It is making a small variety of the Reid corn, which ought to be a large one. Then in the classification this year there was no prize at all for sweet corn. The results of the corn show at Peoria prove that with the present score card yellow varieties, when brought In competition with white, score highest. . Now, one of two things is certain, concludes Orange Judd Farmer in com menting as above-either the yellow "orn is best or the score card is more favorable to the yellow than the white. The first supposition the grower of white corn will be loath to admit. If the second is correct it is high time that the Illinois corn growers get to work to produce a score card that will be fair to both classes of corn. To Facilitate Pont Pulling. The difficulty In removing fence posts from position In the ground is largely overcome by using the arrange ment shown In the accompanying 11 lustration from Orange Judd Farmer. A POST LIFTEB. It consists simply of two mower wheels, an iron axle, a long beam of almost any size and a chain. Raise the out, 'nd, of thils beam to a perpent up st a post. Place the .chain about 'the post and fasten It. By de pressing the upright- beam the post is lifted out of the ground. This device is especially advantageous when the posts are large at the lower end. Two persons can remove posts very rapidly. One should manipulate the apparatus, pshing It up against the post, the oth er placing the chain about and remov ing the post when it Is out of the ground. ____ Well Known, if Not Well Denined. I have been interested and somewhat perturbed (mildly) as to the definition of a "weed," and I have struck upon three definitions. The botanist's: A weed is a plant out of place. Accord ing to this a rose plant would be a weed in a cornfield. The gardener's: A weed ts a plant which grows unbidden and Insists on surviving under no mat ter what adverse conditior.. You may expose the roots or give other unfavor able conditions and it insists in living and doing what it can to make It un pleasant for the plants you wish to raise. The popular: A weed is a plant f spontaneous growth. In some cases the three are in accord; In others they are at variance.-Cor. American Bota nist. Large Attendance at State Fairs. The extraordinary attendance at the Illinois state fair only adds to the evi dence of increased interest in these farm exhibitions as shown by the great success of every other state fair held In the middle west this year. Illi nois has been favored with ideal fair weather, but the tremendous attend ance at the Indiana, Minnesota, Wis cnsin and other great fairs during ex tremely bad weather shows that rain no longer holds terrors for the farmer who wants to learn all he can and knows that his state fair Is about the best place he can go for knowledge. Chicago Record-Herald. Items For the Buttermnakers. Salt butter by weight ori measure, not by ;ruess. Wash the buttermnlk out. Don't overwork the butter. It in jures the texture. Have a butter worker. It saves la bor and helps quality. Put butter in rectangular prints. They are more attractive and pack better. Use parchment paper, not wax pa Use dairy salt, not table or cheap bar r~el salt. Don't mix sweet and sour cream less than twelve hours before churning. Don't allow the milk to stand In the barn. Two Contest Uase Mr. Shafroth's refusal to hold a con gressional seat tainted with fraud serves to recall another contest case recently decided in gongress. The Shafroth case remi us of the other one because it was different. Mr. Howell was elected to congress on an independent ticket in a Pennsylvania district, defeating Mr. Connell, the machine republican candidate. Con nell began contest proceedings and was seated by a vote that was almost partisan-one Republican from Pennsylvania and two Republicans from New York having the honesty to vote to retain Howell. The Phila delphia North American thus speaks of the case: "Howell's election was not only a fact, but it was a distinct triumph for independence against machine trickery. Connell, a Re publican, was able to prevent Howell's receiving the straight Democratic nomination, yet was fairly beaten at the polls. And though his methods are well known, and though Howell is a poor man, he goes before congress and accuses the successful candidate of corruption. The testimony did not in the least justify a change in the result. But 'party loyalty' triumphed over decency, and the will of the vot ers was defeated by a dishonest judg ment in the house of representatives." Modern School Fads. The Raleigh TImes says "once in a while we see in the north, as well as the south, some allusion to the modem "fads" in use in the graded schools of the country. A school teacher can be the most exclusive, undisturbed humbug on the face of the earth. This is so, for the reason that 99 peo ple out 100 pay no attention to the education of their children. They buy the books, pencils and tablets, which they are directed to get, and having done this, they consider their duty performed-the balance is done by the teacher and pupil. We shall not be surprised to see a return to Webster's old spelling book and reading and writ ing and arithmetic, done as it was half a century ago. It is surprising to see how many college students bad grammer and cannlt eve words of ordinary use. Chi en used to learn the alphabet before spelling, and spelling before reading, but now they read before they know the alpha bet, or can spell the simplest words. The test of these new methods are passing% through the crucible, and' If they do not prove betterthan the old plan they will be apt to return to the methods of the fathers. Labor Contract Law. Following is the law in relation to laborers contracts, as amended at the recent session of the general asiembly: Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of South Carolina. That the Criminal Code (Vol. 2, Code of Laws, 1902), be ammended by adding ,after Section 358 a Section, to be known as Section 357a, to read as follows: Section 357a.. That a convictio4 of either party mentioned In Section' J 355 and Section 357 of the fpa Code Vol2Code oLa for.-~ 1 ri tion o such contract as. tivied in said sections shall ,~not perate as arlief ordischarge o* such persns from the performanaCof any part of said cont~act which is to be performed subsequent to the date of the breach for which such conviction was had: Provided, however, That such persons shall not be criminally iable for the ndn-performance of any bligation due to be performed during, bh a period of time such person may he undergoing prisonment.. Lost BEl Fingers. The Augusta'Chronlicle says Willie, the fve-year-oldI son of Mr. and Mrs. K. F. Butler, residing at 519 Broad treet, had the thumb of one hand nd two fingers of the other hand cut of Wednesday morning by a lawn mower. The little fellow was in the back yard of the home, with the other hildren of the household. Willie'sI arger brother had the lawn mower playing with it. Willie had a wagon. n some way the wagon became fas ened in the lawn mower and Willie was endeavoring to extricate It. He moved the machine without thinking f his great danger, and the heavy blades of the machine caught both bands, doing the above damage. The ittle fellow was quickly extricated from the machine by those who heard tis cries and rushed to the scene, and arried into the house. Physicians were hastily summoned and the am putated fingers given surgical atten-~ The Colleton Szory False. The Charleston Post says Mr. W. W. Jones called at the office of The Evening Post to- make emphatic de mal of a story published last Thurs :lay to the effect that Section Master Jones, of the Atlantic Coast Line, had recently made confession, on his death bed in Colleton county, to the murder of his wife at Ravenel station In 1902, for which crime three negroes were Lynched. Mr. Jones stated that he was section master at Ravenellu May, 1902, and that the story was utterly without foundation and did him a se sious injury. The Evening Post's re port was to the effect that the story. was being told In Colleton county, whence it had been brought to Char Leston. The report made no assertion of the truth of the story, but merely stated that It was current in Colleton sounty. There Is a gold mine in Australia which is 3,000 feet deep, and the va rious tunnels are so hot thar, cold water has to be continually sprayed over the miners working the lode. Tue temperature Is usually about 108 de grees, and the men have to work al ms maedjn order to stand the