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How to Catcl By Dr. Lazarus Pr HEN our bodies are in a W ture cause us to have w body is so clogged with not use, that its action i the action is feeble we c water freezes the quicl; bodies by choking all is: or the kind of food it capnot use, or It inflaming substances like spices, m it weak by over-action, exhausting it shall take cold easily, and suffer mor or great. Disease cannot enter our there it has an affinity for. A perf( disease, for it is a non-conductor of All over this earth it is the same; created thing: magnetic attraction di comes to another. It is in this way that all disease that exists. A person does not catcl but because his condition favors it: roundings or someone brings conditi would be a poor plan to take a dangei or counteract another posion, and the such methods, as barbarous. Nature against ourselves and nature, the diffi us, and the more disorder we create -t ]nature is working for us, trying to rep but when nature is vanquished, and but death, the dissolution of the bod3 keeps the body In form, and when it in form and it faTis to pieges. Let us live so that we shall cate ourselves good conductors of life: if selves good conductors as quickly as 1 that we cannut -make the effort alonE netic currents o some other who uni .nd such a one will not only strengt one, but teach them how to help then The Blessing By the Rev. T. B. I ABOR makes all that we L 'gives the sound, refres Labor insures the good 'prescription of the apotl More than this, labc -respect. The worker is -puppets in an idle 'pay. Those who do their part of the wo: progress, have the proud consciousne: 1Wfh 'no alien feeling do they w, fadustries whose united effort is pus can 'look with the consciousness that ti To the -grandeur,materlal and n lugly about them, they feel that the musc'le and brain, by their labor of h And -is -it not a most exh1laactil darling, 'lolling in his luxurious idle bought 'for 'him with all his money'? Let no man bemoan the fact, fher a -piece -of supererogation to say 'fh Frendh 'Revolution has the 'world thou But 'labor is more than honorablE tinge to the cheek and a glow to.the respecting. It confers the 'proud 'co -advancing world. Find something to do, then, and tas'k to which you may seriously -and glad and proud of the opportunity 'of Be-a man, not a manikin. Be -a v the only real pleasure-that of 'know making'the race of mankind wiser, h Honor or k oi By Professor Th-io'm HE historical survey -;hov ~Thte forms ~in --or 'hav About two dozen -words extent the revolution 'w are now regarded 'by s others the very 'genuit are exceptions to a general rule and< existing perplexities of English orthoi 8Dalogy, which all can understand, be knsow, or at least think they know, fh 1y 'pelt to indicate a sort of social and employment is regarded as being of m'ents than those which owe their or The reference to derivation lead of the 'word which has been given d tterly 'baseless assertions that -the f and that it had its origin in Amerlica circulated and generally accepted wh the Ignorance displayed in -It, is som stantly told that this word should be French honneur. Were we to conc drawn from It wculd seem hardly '3 It is -in 'the French word, would 'not the e also? Why, indeed, should we In the sixteenth century, when. 4Aerivi slane-Harper's Magazine. Be Careful of By 0. S. Marden. EVER allow your physical N . walk as If you wee so Sworth while in the 'worl bearing and mark your habit of walking in a lie at once and make a chai 'failures we often see loll in their 'pockets or haunting irteflliger so hard with -them. You don't want tc discouraged, eor that you are already1 Stand erect-! -Be a man! . You have' by your bea'rng. A man who is consi power, a-nd 'who believes thoroughly rn with his head erect, his chin in, his s chest well projected in order to i man who does things. You cannot aspire, or accomplish you assume the attitude and bearing be noble and do noble things, you mius1 to walk upright, -not to look down or ti tion. Put character, dignity, nobility 1 No Need to 'Watch America. Orders were issued yesterday to close the Halifax dockyard, and its 300 employees were given one week's notice of dismissa'l. This is said to be in line with the new plans for reorganizing the British Navy, which change the syste'm under which a fleet has had Its headquarters at Hali fax or Bermuda, substituting for this fleet a large flying squadron in touch -with other waters, and leaving only two or three British ships on this station. It is said that the Ariadne will be withdrawn not to be re placed. The dockyard is one of the most extensive properties held by the Im Twice a year 80,000 meon and boy: scattered from one end of England t< the other mnust be fitteJ out w,ith nev clotnes. Tihese are th 'mp0oyee 0 the postoffice deparYItment, and' it is nl smaOll task to p:' -ovie the garn:ents to say no.thng of~ mnking sure t- ha' Qa&h is well :itted. The- apar-:en ume be-sides 3.00or 0' bfl i b-i11 Oom anud the otiie'- thins which 5) inlto thr mnaking of a. garment. To sanrpiify this work the (>wihe of "fittini: sizes" h:m been resorted to and as a result th< men are clothed with automatic re cision and with only 2 per cent of mris h Health. eston, isordered conditon, changes of temperft hat we call colds. This means that the waste material, that is, material it can s enfeebled; action is warmth, and when annot endure cold; the stillest stream of est. If we enfeeble the action of our avenues with more food than it can use. if we enfeeble the body by putting into eat and liquid stimulants, or if we make as we do in excessive work or play, we e or less severely as the abuse is small bodies except there is something of kin ctly healthy body will never catch any lisease; It is a conductor of health only. the law of magnetism prevails in every termines the quality of everything that s are caught: this is the only contagion smallpox because someone else has it, his condition has an affinity to his sur ons that harmonize with his own. It -ous posion into the system to neutralize intelligent minds of today are dicarding always works for us, and if we work culty nature has to save us is painful to be greater the difficulty. So long as air'our injury to ourselves, there is pain, can do no more, there is no more pain. for action, which is vibration, is what ceases the body has nothing to hold it i health instead of disease; let us make we are now diseased, let us make our oss1ble. If we are so weak and enslaved .we can get help from the strong mag terstands the law of magnetic attraction. hen the magnetic currents of the feeble iselves and be their own conductor. of Work. regory. eat and drink taste good to us. Labor hing sleep that no opiate can supply. digestion and rich red bloood that no recary is able to give. rr confers the priceless boon of self a man-the rest are mere manikins -ld's work, thereby advancing the world's 's of being useful. Lk through the world. 'Upon the varied iing out the frontier of civilization they ilev are a part of 'it all, a living, vital part. ral, -which rises more and more impos s are contributors, since it is by their end and head, that it has all come about. ig thought! 'Can the petted, pampered ness, have the glory of such thought ,that it is his lot to labor. It would be at labor 'is "honorable." Not since the ght otherwise. -it is glorious and 'blessed. It gives a heart. It makes a man manly and self nsciousness of -co-partnership with the do it. Look about you for some useful lovingly dedicate your energies; and be finding one. rorker, not a drone. Thus shall you find ing that you are doing something toward appier and better.-New York American. iour-~Which? as R. Lounsbury. s that in the 'vast 'majority of instances supplanted everywhere those in -our. in common use have outlived to some iih -has 'brought the others to this one survivors from the general wreck, they >me with tender interest. They have to e attraction of 'being anomalous. They ontribute an additional perplexity to the raphy. As -their form is not based upon t upon derivation, which only a few can 3 'mystery of -their -peculiarities is secret literary superiority. Furthermore, their the nature of an appeal to nobler senti igin to considerations of mere utility. s to another consideration. The history isposes effectiually 'of the common but :>rm hor.or came 'late 'Into the language. .But 'there Is another assertion widely 'ch, -on account -of the pretentiousness of ewhat more exasperating. We are con splled honour 'because it came from the de the fact to be true, the inference arranted. Tf we keep to the n because our happiness be increased by retaining not spell It 'with two n's instead of one? ttign was 'rampant, 'this was occasionally Your Carriage standard -to drop. Keep 'up your energy; nebody and were -going to do something I, so that even -a stranger wIll note your superiority. 'If you have fallen Into a tess, Indolent swaiv turn right about face ge You donit -want to sauidfie along like ering about thre -streets, -with their hands ue offices, 'wondering 'why fate has been give people the impression that you are alling to the rear Straighten up, then! -oal blood in your veins. Emphasize it nious of his kinship -with God and of His hiself, walks 'with a firm, vigorous step, oulders thrown back and down, and his ive a large lung capacity:; he is the a gieat thing or noble thing so long as of a coward or weakling. If you would :look up. You were made to look upward, shamble along in a semi-horizontal posi ato your walk.-Success.. peial Government In Halifax. Large workshops have been erected and many ships of the British Navy have been repaired there. Year after year improvements have been made, and almost any kind of work can be done there upon short notice. It is stated that the Admiralty House will be disused or sold for pri vate purposes and that perhaps the Naval Hospital will no longer be re quired. It is probable that the ground vacated by the closing of the works will pass to the control of the Intercolonial Railway, which is han dicapped for room.-Consular Re ports: From Consul-General Hollo way, Halifax. I Admiral Togo Is a small man, turn ing gray, with a short-cropped naval -beard and a face that shows little emno tion, says Frederick V'illiers. in his book, "Port Arthur." Most polite i'n manner. he paidl us cvery attention. The great man had a peculiar way of standing with both hands spreod out on his hips and his arms akimbo. I took a sketch of him in this position. and then I found a most amausing co incidence. His officers, from the cheif of his staff down to the middies, all aped their beloved chief and stood with their arms and hands in the same 'attitude. MANY DIE IN FIRE Nineteen Charred Bodies Tell Grim Story of Death ROASTED IN A TENEMENT HOUSE More Than 40 Others Were injured, and Only a Few of the Sleeping In mates of the Building, Which is on the New York East Side, Escaped Unhurt. New York, Special.-Nineteen per sons were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the five-story house, 1,005 Allen street, early Friday. More than 40 were injured and only a few of the sleeping inmates escaped un hurt. Several of those who perished were roasted to death in plain view of thousands in the streets. Coroner Goldenkrane declarec after an inves tigation that he had reason to believe the blaze was the work of an incen diary. He issued subpoenas for the fire marshal, tenement house and building inspector and health and police officials to appear before him at the inquest Thursday. The fire started in the basement and spread with frightful rapidity to the roof. The victims were caught in traps of flames, the halls and exits being rendered impassable in a few minutes after the blaze started. The building was one of the usual tenement and the disaster was the worst in the his tory of the East Side. The district attorney's office has begun an investi gation to place the blame for the great loss of life. Chief Croker, of the fire department, asserts that the police and the tenement house departments are to blame for the violations of the fire escape law. The tenement house de partment officials, however, say that the blame is on the shoulders of the fire commissioner. Of the nineteen dead, three bodies, those of a boy and two girls remain unidentified. Crowded fire escapes in the rear of the tenement house were largely re sponsible for so many deaths and in juries among its population, which ap proached 200 souls. The scenes were heartrending. The fire started In the basement, occupied by Isaac Davis; his wife and three children. When Davis reached his home early t Ns morning and went into his store on the same floor he saw a kerosene lamp in the rear explode. He awoke his wife and both tried to put out the flaming lamp but without success. A policeman who heard the cry of alarm rushed to the scene and every effort was made to arouse the sleeping people. Meantime the flames had spread with startling rapid ity and the occupants of the upper floors awoke to find themselves con fronted by a wall of flames on nearly every side. Panic-stricken people rushed to the fire 'escapes only to find them literred with rubbish. On some of the escapee the iubibsh was so closely packed that it became impos sible to pass certain points and men, women and children stood literally roasting to death as the flames reared through windows around them. One of the escapes was manned by Police man John 3. Down, who had run a plank across to the window of an ad joining building. He rescued nearly a dozen persons, but finally fell 20 feet to the paved yard and shattered his shoulder. Dozens of people were taken from the crowded fire escapes and up per windows. By this time the building was a furnace and the rescues were effected in many cases only through heroic efforts of the firemen. Lieu tenant Bonner, son of the former chief, descended the now red hot fire escapes fve times. Four times he brought down a woman or a child in his arms. The fifth time he was descending with an unconscious woman but staggared and was barely saved from death. Once Bonner rescued a little girl from a window where she stood surrounded by flames. She pleaded with him to leave her on the escape and go in after her little brother whom she said had fallen unconscious. Bonner jumped into what looked like a furnace, found the boy and saved lm. Rojestvensky Recalled. Washi'ngton, Specal.-There is high authority for the statement that the Russian Second Pacific squadron has been recalled by the Russian govern ment. While not regarded as a sure sign of peace, the recall of Admiral Rojestvensky's squadron, in the opin ion of European chancellors, is regard. ed as a hopeful sign that peace is at hand. Treaty Likely to Fall. Washington, Special.-The discussion of the Dominican treaty, In the legis lative session of the Senate Tuesday, resulted in the drawing of party lines. The Democrats who have been reported as likely to support the treaty will re turn to the fold, it is said, and on both sides of the chamber it is admitted there is little prospect that the conven tion will be ratified. The Republicans have been depending on some Demo cratic support and have counted as certain the votes of Senators McEnery and Foster. of Louisiana, and Clarke, of Arkansas. Swarming With Hungry Russians. General Kuroki's Headquarters in the Field. via Fusan.-The country is swarming with hungry, disheartened Russians, who are surrendering squads to any passing pursuing Japanese they meet. Leading Japenese officers have refused to criticise the lack of mobility displayed while driving the Russians beyond Tit Pass. Most of the foreign atthes with the Russian army, in el',' two American and English offi cers. were captured at Mukden. Total Dead 111. Birmingham. Ala., Special.-With the removal of the last four bodies from the Virginia mine, the total fatalities from the awful explosion of February '-0 was swel!ed to 1ll. The recovry of the biodics he.s Leen a slow and dffiult task. The furl which was raisd for the relief of the widloVs anid orphans left by the disaster reached nearly $30.000. and this is being 'lis tributed among them in the form of semi-monthly allowance by a commit tee of prominent ministers in the Bir minghm district. DECISION IN LIBEL CASE State Supreme Court Hands Down Im portant Opinion. f Columbia, Special.-An important de cision was handed down in the Super ior Court involving libel suits of $10, 000 each against The Charleston News and Courier and The Charleston Post by Augustus M. Flood, who was re ferred to in both publications as a "colored man," in their mention of his suit against the Charleston Street C Railway. The decision is against the newspapers and the cases go back to Charleston for the assessment of ' uch damages as a jury may see fit. The reference to Flood as a colored man was an error which the one paper fell into by reason of the other's lack of diligence, and both papers promptly apologized when the mistake was called to their attention. In the coin plaint Mr. Flood alleges that the refer ence to him as a colored man damaged his social and business position to the extent of $10,000 in each case. The defendants demurred on the ground that under the fourteenth and fiftee:.th imendments to the Federal constitution to refer to a man as a negro is nor t libelous per se and that to refer to a S white man as a negro when he is not a negro is an apparent mistake which can do him no harm. The Supreme court reserves this position and holds s that in spite of the Federal constitu- c tion it is libelous per se to refer to a V white man as a negro, inasmuch as the laws of this State forbid social equality by its jim crow car laws, its laws a against miscegenation and otherwise. t The decision in the newspaper case t is written by Chief Justice Pope and it is very exhaustive. Among the par allel cases referred to is one in which n a reporter referred to a white man as 3 a "cultured gentleman," the "intelligert I, compositor "set it up" "colored gentle- a man," and the proofreader changed it to "negro." The Supreme Court says: e "The only question presented by this t appeal is, 'Is it libelous per se to pub- a lish a white man as a negro?' To call a white man a negro affects the social status of any white man so re ferred to." Authorities are quoted on f this point and the court continues: t: "When we stop to think of the racial I, distinction subsisting. between the white man and the black man, it must be apparent that to impute the con- e dition of a negro to a white man a would affect his, the white man's, so cial status, and in case any one pub lished a white man to be a negro, it would not only be galling to his pi ide. but would tend to interfere seriously with the social relation of the white man with his fellow white men; and to protect the white man from such 8 publication it is necessary to bring p such a charge to an issue quickly." t In Strauder vs. West Virginia, the court held that these amendments. twelfth, fourteenth and fifteenth, were F designed to accord members of the ne- j gro race the same protection in life. e liberty and property which was already enjoyed by the whitb race, and no- c where does the court in that state re- 6 fer to the social relations of each race. s The statute law of this State forbids the association of the two races, in such a way It excludes the negro from C white society and vice versa. By the i1 miscegenation statutes, the inter- t marriage of the two races Is forbidden and made a crime. Railroads are re quired to furnish separate coaches for the two races. White ehildren and colored children are forbidden to at tend the same school. Various opin ions are quoted to show that publish- ~ ing a white man as a negro has been o held to be libelous py various courtL-. ~ The court then quotes the language Of the three amendments to the con- C stituton of the United States referred I to and argues that it must be appor- s ent from consulting the texts thatt there is not the slightest reference to the social condition of the two races. "All take pleasure," it is stated in the d opinion, "in bowing to the authority y of the United States in regard to these amendments, but we would be very far from admitting that the so- f cial distinction subsisting oetween the two races has been in any wise affect etd." In concluding the court holds' "We, therefore, hold that these three amendments to the Federal con- la stitution have not destroyed the la' v of this State, which makes the pub licaton of a white man as a negro anything but libel.. The judgment of C this court is that hte judgment of the C Circuit Court be reversed when It sus tained the demurrer in this case and the action is remanded to the CircuIt 5 Court for such other proceedings as i may be in accordance with law." ti Street Railway in Operation. Anderson, Special.-The street rail way system has been completed and t cars are now running on all the lines. 8 The work began several months ago I and has been pushed forward steadily t since then as well as conditions would ~ permit. The system Is an excellent I one, and the traffic has been exceeding- t ly encouraging to the company. The lines reach all the cotton mills with 1 one exception. It Is probable that new t lines will be built during thie summer.C Chester's Monument. Chester, Special-The Chester Chap ter, United Daughters of the Confed eracy, at their meeting last week, ar- s ranged the programme for the exer- I cises of laying the corner stone of the I Confederate mor.ument here on the a 11th of April. Judge William H. Briwley, of Charleston, a native of Ch~ster, will deliver the principal ad drcss. Rev. Dr. J. S. Clifton. of 8 Orangeburg. also a Chester county i mni, has been invited to attend and a mr':e an address in the afternoon. e Judge Brawley .was a member of the e Sixth Regiment, South Carolina Infan- L try; Dr. Clifton of the First Regiment of cavalry. Burned on Wagon. Greenville, Special.--Five bales of ctton belonging to J. C. Roe, of Tray c'eor's Rest, were burned on a wagon c i the country road a few miles from a e city. The staple was almost a emplete loss. The theory is advanced R:at the cotton was set on fire from a cigar which was being smoked -by t one of the parties who helped load v the cotton, or by matches being drop- h ped in the wagen, which might have ignited by friction caused by the jolt ng f the,wagon. Passed Forged Check. c Newport News. Va., Special.-John R{odgers, alias John Roddey, who has een acting as stewart at the Newp>rt Naval Hos2ital. was arrested on the harge of passing a forged] chek on the Grman Savings Bank, of MWmphis. 'en. The man was arremi~ o:t a m info' warran.t. and the .ri2e recs- o aized him- fr'om a dlescrrption seton :om im hi')s.n The Copeland1( Lumiber and Ginning r Company,' of Carter's Crossing. Dar lington county. was given a c'2m:ms ion. CaiaiztiOn, $,000.'1 VILL SUCCEED BATE razier Selected in Place of Deceased Statesman AUCUS ACTION IN TENNESSEE ontest Expected to be Three-Corner ed, For the Late Senior Senator's Seat, Resolves Itself Into the Choice by Acclamation of the Present Gov ernor, No Other Name Being Pre sented-Names of McMillin and Taylor Withdrawn, After Test Vote -Nominee 49 Years Old and New to Public Life. Nashville, Tenn., Special.-Governor ames B. Frazier was Wednesday af 3rnoon nominated for United States enator by the Democratic caucus of tie State Legislature. The vote was by cclamation, no other name being pre ented to the caucus. When that body Dnvened, it was supposed the contest ras to be a three-cornered one, friends f former Governors Benton McMillin nd Robert L. Taylor having been ac ively at work in their Interests. A ?st vote came, however, in an effort adjourn the caucus until Monday ext. The motion was defeated, 36 to 4, and it was apparent that the Fraz ,r men were in the majority. Friends nnounced the withdrawal of ex-Gov rnor Taylor and of Mr. McMillen from Lie race. The effort to postpone action rae productive of some talk fraught rith feelings, the phrases "snap judg sent" and "conspiracy" being rather reely used. After the defeat of the mo on, however, Governor Frazier's nom iation followed amidst much enthusi sm, which ccntinued through the Gov rnor's graceful speech of accept ace. New Trial in Chadwick Case. Cleveland, 0., Special.-The attor eys for Mrs. Chadwick filed a mo lon for a new trial on the round of error in admititng incom etent testimony, excluding competent estimony and errors of law in the rial. The motion raises technicc.l oints as to the composition of the iy and alleges that newly discovered vidence is at hand which the defense ould not with due prudence and diii ence have discovered in time to pre ent at the trial. Judge Taylor will robably set the time for the hearing f argument of the motion today, and is expected that the arguments will e me.de Thursday. Two Men In Fatpl Fight. Gastonia, N. C., Special.-One of the lost shocking, and deplorable trage e ever enacted in Gaston county ecurred at 12.30 o'clock Wednesday fternoon at Harden, ten miles north f Gastonia, when Mr. Earle G. Car enter shot and killed Mr. A. M. Kale, uperintendent of the Nims Manufac uring Company, of Mount Holly, and 'as himself mortally wounded. Kale ied Instantly. Carpenter is In a recarous condition, and It is hardly robable that he can live through thes ight. The Murder of a Negro. Charlotte, N. C., Special.-With a .rge lump of coal as a weapon, Andy [all, 'negro laborer of this city, Wed esday committed an assault upon reorge Gaffney, an employee of Mr. .B. Flournoy, and inflicted an in ry from which death followed in a hort while, at the Good Samarita.z [ospital, where he received, every at mtion untIl the end tame. Forged Name to Application. Valdosta, Ga.. Specal.-Justice of te Peace N. Chism, -of Cutler, was iven a commitment hearing before inted States Commissioner Powell als evening on the charge of forging ames to an application for a pension. le admitted his guilt, but says that e did not know it was wrong. His ond was fixed at $500, and he will e confined In jail at Savannah until te bond is made. Deputy Marshal ~oodwin left with him for Savannah Eonday night. :ourth Assistant Postmaster General. Washington, Special.-The President ent to the Senate the nomination of 'eter V. DeGraw, as Fourth Assistant ~ostmaster General. Mr. McGraw is native of New Jersey, but has spent 1st of his life in New York, Phila elphia and Washington. He has had reat experience In newspaper work, a the telegraph business as manager f large corporate interests, and re ently as the eastern representative i the publicity department of the ,ousiana Purchase Exposition. Ex-Confederate to Escort President Louisville, Ky., Special.-The Geo. .Eastin C amp, United Confederate 'eterans, has accepted the invitation f the committee on arrangements to ct as an escort to President Roose elt upon the occasion of his visit to ouisville, April 4. Thirty years ago ie camp acted in a similar capacity rhen President Hayes was entertained Third Patterson Trial. New York, Spccial.-The district at rney's office has announced the trial f Nan Patterson, who is charged with e murder of Caesar Young, will be oved to April 10th next. This is ec tird trial. The first resulted in a ~istrial and the second ended in a sagremntI. Philippinc Bonds Delivered. Waingon. Special.-The delivery Plippine bonds issued under the ew act of Congress for $2.500.000O wes Lade Wednesday. These securities will ear interest at the rate of 4 per cent, 'deemable in 10 years and payable i :0 years.- Bids for the issue were ,~eae . the War nanartment March AN IMPORTANT MOVE Large Milling Intrests To Try R. duction of Hours of Labor. Pr Union, Special.-A very important move that may have far reaching ef fects on cotton manufacturing inter ests throughout the South will be in augurated on Thursday, March 16th, when the three big cotton mills, of which Col. T. C. Duncan is president- In and Mr. W. E. Ttouchstone superin tendent, and the Excelsior Knitting Mills, Mr. Emslie Nicholson president, will voluntarily reduce the 66 hours per week schedule and adopt the 10 hour a day system. The Duncan Mills, in which this will be done, are the two Union cot ton mills and Buffalo cotton mills, in Union's suburbs., and the Excelsior P mills, which operate a total of 162,000 spindles and 4,400 looms, employ 2,- r ?00 operatives and directly affect 7, 000 people. Though the work hours me each day have been shortened, the for wages paid spinners and piece work- Mr ers will remain the same, and it is believed that the product will be his equally as large and of better quality. The matter of adopting a 10-hour a ph day system has been under consider- fol stion for some time, and was today officially decided upon by the board of directors and made known to the Ol public. It is understood that the oper- tri atives in all the mills, having an inti- cit mation that the mill management was favorably disposed to the plan, peti- lit tioned unanimously, agreeing to ac- lar cept the same wages for their work the th4 as on the longer day system, and the in disposition to curtail hours does not be signify that the mills are short on th cotton, as it is stated on highest au thority that there is a supply on hand to run all of them many months. qu These adoption of this plan makes Zey these mills the only cotton mills in 11f, the South operating under the 10-hour OC4 a day system, except in Virginia, reu where it is law, and a few in North ms Carolina. Whether not the plan an, will go into effect it Col. Duncan's Stj other mills, Seneca Cotton Mills and wt Pine Creek Manufacturing CompaDy. co, at Camden, which together operate thi 36,000 spindles and 900 looms, has not of yet been announced. Neither can it be learne today exactly what the cther four large mills in Union county is will do about reducing hours. no Is Pardon's Asked and Refused. we Gov. Heyward last week pardoned sh three convicts whose terms had ex- sh pired or are about to expire and re- all fused pardon to seven others. Some OP of the cases have already attracted o attention. sa Wm. S. Shipes, of Edgefleld, after having served two years of a sen tence of three years for housebreak ing and larceny, was given a pardGn. th He was sentenced In March, 1903, the wi jury having been out two days and av two nights. All of the jurors asked dr for the pardon and the jddge and sol- sh icitor recommended it. There is said na to have been grave doubt as to the th prisoner's guilt. all Claude Dorn, also of Edgereld coun- ti( ty, was convicted of having falsely packed cotton. He had nearly finish- mi ed his term of servitude and his citi- tic renship was restored on petition of an a number of people. he Tom Lambert, of Beaufort, received sel a commutation of sentence from $75 ax to $50 on the charge of riot, is The most notable case, on' account un of the prominence of the relatives of wi the convict, was that of Sam Staggs, to of Spartarnburg county. Staggs was of convicted of having killed John Chap- be man three years ago. It is now al. be leged that he was convicted on per- in jured testimony. Solicitor Sease and -n Judge Ernest Gary declined to recomn mend Staggs' pardon. The witness alleged to be guilty of perjury has rot been arrested and convicted of that crime. Those presenting the 'e- W tition in favor of Staggs make affidavit de that Eugene Norman, who was one of re the State's chief Witnesses, stated a that he swore falsely at the trial, and hi it was upon Norman's evidence that br conviction was secured.a Bill McClintock, of Laurens, is under a ten years sentence on the charge ha of manslaughter. No good reason was bi given for interfering with the sen- in tence. Bill killed Lee Phillips on the ~ 30th of August, 1903. The deceased ne had come to McClintock's house as a p boarder and had run off with McClin- n( tock's wife. Like George Haynes, MClintock waited a day or two before bi going after his wife, and this operated m against him at the trial-t John Wax was convicted in New- ~ *erry county of burglary and larceny, di ad sentenced to serve fifteen months ti on the chaingang. He has served all r of this time with the exception of two months, but Governor Heyward saw no reason why this should be taken is frm his sentence.w A refusal was recorded in the appli- fa cation of John Johnson, who was sen tenced to pay a fine of $100 or serve Z0 days on the chaingang for assault m and battery in Greenwood county. to A refusal was given in the applica tion in behalf of Austin White, of fa Greenville, who is under sentenice for ly ranslaughter. sh The case of Glenn Rodgers is one of Ti particular interest. He ~was convict- de d in Union county on the charge of s rape. The papers asking for the par- Al don are numerous. Solicitor Sease p1 asks that the pardon be granted. The fa mother of the girl in the case seeks a le pardon, and Judge Gage states he does s not remember the case, and does not express any opinion. Ten of ;he jurors oD ask for tle pardon, but Governor Hev- be ward was not of the opinion that hie tb should interfere in such a case, t where a conviction has been had. h Killed on Reedy River Trestle. gc Greenville. Special.-James Burgess, an watchman at the Carolina Mills, was ar run over and instantly killed on th Reedy river trestle by Southern rail- fa way train No. 36. arriving from At- wt lanta. Mr. Burgess lives at the Amor- m1 ican Spinning Cormpany's village and at was on his way home from his work. Sit The road from the Columbia and s Greenille Junction makes a sharpI curve between the junction and the's southern end of the trestle and it was jsp impossible for the engineer to see tha Iav trstle un til he ws on it. ... POKE TO MOTR1 esident Roosevelt Made a Vigorous and Wholesome Address [E GLORY OF TRUE MOTHEROOD an Address Before a National Gath ,ring the President Emphasizes the 'rime/mportance of a Wholesome qo7 Life to the Perpetuity of the 4tion and the Happiness of the In li.dual. Na4hington, Special.-An address by siigent Roosevelt was the feature of ev ning session of the National ngrens of Mothers, now holding Its -ennid; convention at the Metropoli I M. church. There was an im nse ttendance. The President was mally troduced to the audience by s. Frede ck Schoff, of Philadelphia, presid t of the congress. He read speech, ut occasionally interjected ne extem raneous remarks to em asize a pol t. The President spoke as lows: 'In our mode industrial civilization re are man and grave dangers to interbalance he splendors and the umph8. It is n a good thing to see les grow at d proportionate speed atively to the untry; for the small id owners, the en who own their le homes, and erefore to a very ge extent the m who till farms, men of the soil, h ve hitherto made 3 foundation of 1 ng national life every State; and I the foundation :omes either too w or too narrow, 3 superstructure, no atter how at ztive, is in imminent nger of fall 'But far more impo t than the estion of the occupati of our citi is is the question of how eir a is conducted. No matte what upation may be, as 1ong there il home and as long, as . oee . ke up that home do their Dther, to their neighbors an * tte, it is of minor co tether the man's trade is plied intry or the city, whether it calls a work of the hands or for the the head.% 'But the nation is in a bad way are is no real home, if the not of the right kind; if the man t a good husband and father, if brutal or cowardly or 'selfish, 'if the man has lost' her, sense of duty, if e Is sunk in vapid self-indulgence or 3 let her nature be twisted so that a prefers a sterile pseudo-intellectu ty to that great and beautiful devel ment of character which comes only those whose lives know the fullness duty done, of effort made and self :rifice undergone. HOME LIFE ALL-IMPORTANT. 'In the last analysis the welfare oe a State depends absolutely upon Lther or not the average family, the eage man and woman and their chil mn, represent the kind of citizen Lp fit for the foundation of a great tion; and If we fail to appreciate is we fail to appreciate the root mor ty upon which all healt6y civiliza in Is based. 'No piled-up wealth, no splendor of iterial growth, no brilliance of'artis development, will permanently avail y people unless Its home life Is althy, unless the average ian pos ses honesty, courage, common sense, d decency, unless he works hard and willing at need to ,fight hard; 42nd less the average woman is a good - fe, a good mother, able and willing' perform the first and .greatest duty womanhood, able: and willing -ter ar, and to bring up as they should brought up, healthy children, sound body, mind and character, and nu arous enough so that the race will rease and not decrease. )IVISION OF LABOR BY whEc. "Thre are certain Qld truthswhc 11 be true as long as the world en res, and which no amount of prog s5 canl alter. One .of these is the uth that the primary duty of the isband Is to -be the home maker, the ead-winner for his wife and children, td that the primary duty of the wo an is to be the helpmaeet, the hoes.' fe and mother. The woman should ve ample educational advantages; it save In exceptional cases the man ust be, and she need not be, and gen ally ought not to be.trained for a life ng career as the family brjead-win r; and, therefore, after a certain dt the training of the two masi >rmally be different because the dutMe 'the..two are normally diEsent. This les not- m r ineudtf5ntten, It t does mana that aa there et be at.naiyofunaon e whole, I think the duty of the wo an the more Important, the more. ificult, and the more honorable of the ro; on the whole I respect the woman 50 does her duty even more than I spect the man who does his. WOMAN'S WORK THE NOBLER. "No ordinary work done by a man either as hard or responsible as the 3rk of a woman who Is bringing up a mily of small children; for upon he, no and strength demands are made it only every hour of the day 'but ten every hour of the night. She. sy have to get up night after night take care of a sick child, and ye 4 ust by day continue to do all he, iusehold duties as well; and if the mily nieans are scant she must usua enjoy even her rare holidays taking r whole brood of children with her 1 birth pangs make all men the tors of all women. Above all oum mpathy and regard are due to'h -uggling wives among those whom araham Lincoln called the plain peo e, and whom he so loved and trusted; r the lives of those women are oftew I on the lonely heights of quiet, self. crificing heroism. "Just as the happiest and most hon. able and most useful task that cat set any man is to earn enough foi e support af his wife and family, fo) e bringing up and starting in life oi a children so the most important, the st honoraNle and desirab?.a tC.3 1eh can be set any woman is to be a d wise mother in a home market self respect and mutual forbear ce, by willingness to perform duty d by refusal to sink into self-indul. nce or avoid that which entails of rt and self-sacrafice. Of course there e exceptional men and exceptiona >mn who can do and ought to d( .ch more than this, who can leac d aught to lead great careers of out, le usefulness in addition to-not at bstitutes for-their home work; bau am not speaking of exceptions; I gre eaking of the primary duties, I an caking of the -primary citizen, -the erage men and women who make ,the ,ttion.