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Going Guni By Kate Thorn. HEN a young man d( W he goes gunning. He says it is rare zest with which he get ready, with all h! - t He has to clea: always needs a littf has to load it, and fire it off sem Vicmen in the house, who have re they are almost afraid to look a Then he changes his boots, and ti his shooting jacket tight, and sett and whistles to his dog. and tells coming, and off he tramps, with t elephant, at least, as a trophy of See how strongly and bravely bearing. So smart: so well able wild hyena. And yet, if his moth< the kindling wood this morning. have been so tired that after sh ashamed that she had asked him. The young man who goes g deal of ground to go over to get have emigrated. Foxes are busy themselves time to let our inn1 Our young man tramp- thin and tears his trousers, and sca.2 over a root put there on purpose nose as he comes down, and bres mud, and says a few large words such glorious fun. How he does By and by he spies a squir: him. Pocr little squirrel: Enjoyi pie he will help make: or a soup. Up goes the gun' bang goes t tree, chattering over our gunner squirrels that that fellow with a practice with a pop-gun. At last. 'hungry and tired. the bad job. and says it is not a good i body's crehard. and gets his pock goes along, and thinks he will go to sport. And he shoulders his gun an sumptive squirrel on his way. wi, ar, which proclaims him to have When he gets in sight of ho carries the squirrel so as to makT he tells his friends what a splendi the most of the game. and the Og expected to eat another, and our a dog ravenous. It will take most of the next wM' tell you that he has leZers to stiff and sore from yesterday's tra and the smefl of liniment and arn in the country to disguise.-New Massage Yo P Drison Swett ON'T let go of love, o wrinkles." If the mi helpful, charitable se and vigorous miy : up and emptied of hui heart that is kept wz by prejudice, fear or A French beauty used to have right, in order to keep her muscle ,of preserving youthful elasticity is love thoughts, beauty thoughts, ch If you do not want ze years put as much variety and as many 1 and lack of mental occupation ar cities, in the midst of many inter and good looks, as a rule, much 101 places who get no variety into thi their narrow daily round of monlotc mind. Insanity is an alarmingly i !ives on the farm. Ellen Terry a ageless brightness of the stars," a of thought and scene, and menta farmers who live so much outdoors than the average brain-worker, do Beware the By Hugh De Seli ~ EARS are but a fool' Y bring caution more a unreality of joy. A i means that he has si W'/ by the side of what -.2 He then commits the to life. He clambers line the way. curls up within and; pressing on to some end, no matt the clouds and the birds and the 1 one another, breathing deeply of beloved, until at last they are mai liver, growvs torpid without exerci shelter, a decay from which he is There are too many shelters.--] Cost of the War. It is obvious that a war condu( on a system of such magnitude that in the East must be terribly c ly. From the latest official figi oiven out in Russia it appears 1 the Czar's Government has spent, to the end of 1904, over $300,000, This is. of course, exclusive of loss represented by her fleet whicl out of action and by the artilli which has been captured by the Je nese. These two items have b estimated in round figures at$ 000,000, s-o that the cost of the to Russia has been practically $7,0 000 per week since the war begat As regards the expenditure of Japanese. the Mikado's financ have calculate'd that to March 31 this year the war will have cost, Mluding initial outlays, $288,00,000, $5,000,000 a week. On this basis will be seen that the war has< in twelve months over $625,000. The total cost to this country of South African war, it will be rem bered, was estimated at $1,140,0 000. It is fairly safe to assume t for so long as the present strug lasts the expenditure will conti on something like the same gigar scale, draining the resources of b countries to the utmost. Fable of the Hen. Once upon a time (very recent a hen went upon a strike, and refu to lay. Other hens followed her ample, and the scarcity of hen fr which resulted caused eggs to re for something like fity cents -lozen. In other words, strictly fr .ggs laid by scab hens were tno lye cents each in the shell. Ea Some men never wander from1 own firesidecs because the'y dwe! steam-heated flats. IHe who boasts that he ntever hi nobody vies him. all men ar'eany ord::i:ar :uman: .ings with a good appetite and an 11ng. >es not kcow what dse to do with himse, sport, and we suppose it must be, from the prepares for it. It takes him half a day to s womenkind to wait on him. a his gun first. A gun is like a fiddle-it tinkering every time you use it. Then he eral times. to the infinite terror of all the ad of such terrible accidents from guns that r the picture of one, lest it should explode. icks his pantaloons inside them, and buttons les his hat. and buckles on his cartridge belt all the lookers-on that he wishes they were he air of one who expects to bring home an the fray. he steps, and how upright and gallant is his to conquer anything. from a chipaunk to a r had asked this same young -man to split )r help Biddy with the washboiler, he would beard him explain it she would have been mning. in these Eastern States, has a good a little game. Tigers are not plenty. Lions hunting tame turkeys, and cannot afford r practice on them. gh swamp, and over hill: he wets his feet, es his face with the brambles, and stumbles to upset the unwary traveler, and barks his .k his watch chain, and gets plastered with and picks himself up, and says gunning is enjoy it! .el. He squats behind a tree and watches ng the last nut he is ever to crack! What a 0r a fricassee! he shot: The squirrel is twenty feet up in a 's crack shooting, and telling all the other green jacket on had better go home and young man who gunning ces gives it up as a lay for game. and he makes his way to some ets full of amrles, and munches them as he ) the Adirondacks next summer for a month's 1 starts for home, and captures a very .:on h most of his tail gone, and a discot.raged been the escaped prey of some foraging cat. ne he braces up. and whistles cheerily, and the most rhow of what tail it has left, and d time he has had. and how he gave the dog devours his supper that night as if he never gunner says that wild meat always makes day for our friend to rest and recruit. He write: but the initiated know that he is too mp to be able to sit down without groaning. ca about him is tdo strong for all the musk ork Weekly. ur Mind. Marden. r love of romance: they are amulets Igainst id is constantly bathed in love, and filled with ntiments toward all, the body will keep fresh ers longer than it will if the heart is dried man sympathy by a selfish, greedy life. The rm by love is never frozen by age or chilled anxious thought. herself massaged with mutton tallow, every s elastic and her body supple. A better way coming into vogue-massaging the mind with eerful thoughts and young ideals. :o count, look forward instead of backward; nterests into your life as possible. Monotony e great age-producers. Women who live in ests and great variety, preserve their youth iger than women who live in remote country dr lives and who have no interests outside nous duties, which require no exercise of tie creasing result of the monotony of women's ad Sarah Bernhardt "w'ho seem to have the ttribute their youthfulness to action, change 1 occupation. It is -worth noting, too, that and in an environment much more healthful not live so long as the latter.-Success, Easy Shelter. .ncou rt. 3 measure for youth, which is divine: they ften than wisdom. and a certain belief in the an is quickly disillusioned, which commonly t up his own idea of what things should be things are, and sulks forever at the result. folly of becoming old, and prefers existence into one or other of the many shelters that miles pityingly at the yoang of all ages er what, alive to the beauty of the sky and ree s, alive even to the beauty to be seen in .the air of strength, living and loving and le one with nature. But the heart, like the le; a gradual decay ecomes to the man ia the released, much against his will, by death. 3y Hugh De Silincourt. cold storage eggs, which were deadly texplosive and had to be handled with :dcat-e, brought thirty cents. s The people got together and remon Ost- tratedj with .the hens, but it did no .res good. Finally an arbiration commit hat tee waited on the hens and tried to up persuade them to go back to work. )00 The arbitration committee pointed out the that only the rict could afford to eat 15 eggs, but the hens refused to return ry, to work. The arbitration commitee .pa- then told the hens that if they per sen sisted in the strik' .:hey would bring 60-race suicide on t'henmelves. var Then a wise old hen arose and 00,- spoke as follows: 1 "In the spring when us hens wish the to sit the people give us porcelain ers Idoorknobs to sit on. If porcelain of doorknobs are as good a-s eggs to in- sit on, they ought to be as good to or sat as eggs. Tell the people to eat it porcelain door-knobs: ~st The arbitration committee could not )0. answer this argument, and departed the in tears. am- Moral-Deceit will come tome to 00- roost.-Boston Post. gle Birds Are Good Fathers. aue Bad fathers are rare among birds. ttic sually the' male rivals his mate in oth love for their children. The carrier pigeou-in fact, so do nearly all birds-feeds his mate while she is on the nest. More than that, the crow, y) Ithe most dismal of all birds, often sits led on the eggs in the nest in order that ex- Mrs. Crow may have an hour or so uit of relaxation and gossip among the ai other Mi-s. Crows of her acquaintance. per The blue marten, the black-coated sh'gull. the great blue heron and the rth black vulture all do the same.-Louis en ville Post ________ heir Some men were born about a hu'n in1 ered years too soon to suit their ,-ed 1v Tenty.-fouir men werre killed in the bu Iin explosion at Frede)xrk. W. 'a. 1t' ';'. anr much d .a:ag has alread b- *teen done. Towns a Iong- the Susque-C esy hanrna aie threa ened by a disastrous GOVERNOR GRANTS RESPITE Governor Gives Ned Mack Time Fol Further Investigation. Columbia. Splial.-Upon advice of Solivitor Wilson. Gov. Heyward granted the Manning negro. Ned Mack, who was to hang this week, a respite to April 28 in order to have a commission pass upon the question of the negro's sanity about which there is grave doubt among many good people at Manning. Grvernor Hayward has appointed Su per'itendent Babvock. of the State Hos pital for the Insane. as one member of the commissicn and has asked Solici tor Wilson to a;;)point the other two members. Judge Klugh telegraphed that he had no recommendation to make. but Solicitor Wilson wired to recommend a respite and in a letter which followed the telegram he says there is a strong impression at Man ning that the negro is insane and he thinks that justice demands that this impression be respected to the extent of appointing a commission to investi gate. Greenwood Farmers Meet. Creenwood. Special.-Messrs. Wes ton. Hyatt and Smith addressed a large and enthusiastic meeting here at the court house Monday. The meeting was composed of farmers and business men of Greenwood. and they gave each speaker the closest of attention and frequently applauded them. The meet ing was called to order by County Chairman J. M. Gaines. 'Mr. Weston spoke first. As the secretary of the State organization he showedl some of the things that had been done and of fered much encouragement. He was fol lowed by Mr. F. H. Hyatt. 'r. Hyatt is the treasurer and also president of the State Good Roads association. He spoke very earnestly of the need of good Io' is. Mr. E. D. Smith. the president of the State Cotton Growers' associa tion, made a most interesting and forceful speech. He made a splendid i-r-pression. Much applause was given him and at the close o' his spec:-h many were heard to say that it was one of the best things heard in Greenwood n a long time. The farmers have been ge'tly encouraged in thenr work of holding their cotton as a result of the meeting. Death of Mr. A. Cole Leyles. Union. Special.-Hon. A. Cole Lyles died Monday at his home near Carlisle, of pneumonia, which succeeded an at tack of grip. At the time of his death he was nresident of the County Cot ton Growers' association, to which of fiee be was elected February. 14. 1905, andi until last fall he had served for six years as Union county's member of the House of Representatives. Mr. Lyles was born in Decemter. 1849. at Buckhead in Fairfield county. When. a boy he attended the common schools and iings Mountain Military academy. but had to leave the latter before grad uation to go home to work on the farm, an industry in which he was cac tively engaged from that time until his death, owning a good plantation near Carlisle. He was in 1877 married to Miss Josephine Willey. and she and two children, Mrs. R. G. Hill and a son about 10 years ol, survive him, Though not a member, M'. Lyles at tended the Presbyterian church. Mr. Lylea was for many years actively as sociated with the agricultural and po litical interests of the county, and was a prominent member of the farmers al liance movement. Dispensary Affairs. The allotment of the dispensary school money was made by the Comp troller General. The fund was dividedi out among the counties of the State. according to enrollment of pupils, after what is known as the deficiency fund was distributed. In any ecunty where the regular school funds do not amount to $75 for each school, the poorer' schools are given enough out of the dis pensary money to make up ti~is $~5. To~ make up these deficiencics this year has reuired $9,552.33. In addition to this, 810.023.08 was apportio?d among the s:ools according to enrollment. The total enrollment is 288.353. the schools receiving slightly over 43%/ cents per scholar. Chief Constable Hammett made his renort to the Governor 'Wednesday for the quarter of the 1st of March. H{e reports expenses of $15,909.11. paid mostly in salaries to a force of 60 men. Seizures were made as follows: Whiskey-December. $1,824: numberI of gallons, 1,216: January, $1,363.50; gallons, 909: February. $358.12: gallons, 22. Beer-December. value. $44.66: dozen. 89 l-3: January. $32.91: dozen. 95 5-'d: February. $29.08: dozen. 58 1-6. In addition to the above, there w.ere seized 31 stills. 3 teams, 756 galions of beer in kegs, which are of no value. The convictions for December were 24: fines. $560; paid. $280: chainga-ig. 5. January convictions. 28; fines. $1,175: paid. $530; chaingang. 9; February convictions. 27: fines. $1,282.50: pail. $442.50: chaingang. 7. There are sev eral appeals pending. Died Under Peculiar Circumstances. A white man, whose name appears to be D. Pesatta, died in a mysterious sort of way at Spartanburg Wednes day, and the coroner's inquest has been unable to throw any light on the matter. Pesatta was in the picture enlarging business. but dressed well and seemed to be a quiet young man. He came to Spartanburg March 4. and has been drunk almost continuously since. He was found in an unconscious condition in his room. with a black Eye, and died as a result of this wound. He said that he had been in a fight with an unktnowni man, who struck him, after a quarrel about a picture he had sold him. Palmetto Items. Two pardon petitions were refused by the Governor-that of Pink Tolli son. sentenced at Greenvil.e to seven years for burglary, and that of Ste phen H-ough. given six months at Lan caster for grand larceny. A number of petitious ;for commutations will be pre sented in the next few days. it is thought. This will inelude one in be half of R. A. Adams. who wvas sen tenced at Walterboro to hang. The selection of a clerk to the is torical c'ommission. about which there has been so much talk. becauise of so much p)olitie's being injected into the mater, was made' day, after a comn mtitive exanuaa(en. The su-cessful ' . : iyples. otf~i Moim. ille: . Sai. Ir i, of Lesville: J. C. Gariiton of ' Spar taburg L. C. Sylv-eter. o' Columb ia. andi Miss Adalize Th'orn, of Black PALMETTO AFFAIRS Many Newsy items Gatr-.ered Frcm all Sections. General Cotton Market. These figures represent prices pait. to -vagons: Strict good 4middling ............ 3ood middling ................ Strict middling ........ ....... Middling ................... ringes ........... ....6 to 749 Stains .................. ....5% to Q-% Charlotte Cotton Market. Middling 3alveston. firm .............7 11-16 New Orleans, quiet .............7% Mobile, firm ...............7 11-16 Savannah, quiet ............... --- -7 Charleston. steady ............. - 7 Norfolk, steady ................ 7I Baltimore. normal .................8 New York, quiet .................8.15 Boston. quiet ........ .....---.-..-8.15 Philadelphia. quiet ........... .8.40 Houston, steady ...... ...... 7 11-16 Augusta, quiet ........ ........7 13-16 A MOST HORRIBLE AFFAIR Young Man Kills Woman and Ends His Own Life. A Conway special to Friday's Colum bia State gives an account of a most horrible occurrence, as follows: One of thc' most awful and sicken aning tragedies which has ever occr red within the borders of the county took place Thursday morning about 7 o'clock a' Homewood station on lhe Coast line Railway. As soon as de news reached this place your cor7'es pondent secured a horse and bug;::y and went out to the scene-a peaceful looking, one-room board cabin. sur rounded by a small clearing. planted in English peas and strawberries. in the midst of the pine w)ods. In tih yald. almost in the spot where he fei. lay F. 0. S-zessions, ecmmonly known as "Buddie" Sessions. dead. with a bui let through his brain by his own hand, and on a table within the cabin was stretched the prostrate form of Bcel Sessions. a young girl IS or 20 years i. age. woundedl in five places by the hail of the dead man lying outsidc. She and her mother Betsy Sessions live'l together alone in the cabin. which w.s n the land of Mr. George Bray. fr whom they workEd as day laborers. From all that can be gathered, Ses sions had been persecuting this woman with his attcntions for some time past. having on several occasions threaten ed to 'ill her if she would not marry him, although she was the mother of two illegtimate children, the youngest of whom is said to be his child. It seems that there was another man in the case, now living in Florida or Gecr gia. who was the f3vored lover, and who had sent on tickets for her and her mother to come and join him: they were to have gone Wednesday, and nad their trunks hauled into this place. but were unable to leave oil account of some mistake or irregularity of the tickets. The testinony of the mother at the coroner's inquest; was that she did not know where they were going, nor who was furnishing the transpor tation. but that her only idea was to get away somewhere in order that the ife of her child might be spared. The knowledge of the threats made by the deceased were, more or less, a matter of common information, and there are some rumors to the effect that they had even been called to the attention of the officials. who, however, had not taken arny action. thinking that the women were un.Cteessarily alarmed o er mere idle wcords. As neither mother nor daughter have ever been lawfu'.ly married, their hose bore a very unsavory reputation in the community and no one would have regretted their departure had theY gotten awvay. Just before the hour of the tragedy, th mother wvent to the home of Mr. ray to borrow a nitchfork for her da's wor'k. and after she left tne house Sessions, who must have be'?n conceacci in the woods. waiting .just such an opuortimity. went.p up to the ecahin. entered. caught the Eirl with hia left hand while he pulled his revolver ?.S calibre, and emptied every chamber into her body at arm's length. After releasing her she staggered a. few steps and fell in the yard where she wvas found, with her two small children cry weg over her, by those who first ar ri-Zed upon the scene. He then delib erately unbreached his pistol, reloaded all the chambers. and. placing the mu"z zie just behind his right temple. fired the shot which penetrated the brain. coming out on the other side of the head' just above the left ear. The wo iran v~as wounded in both arms. they being broken between the Elbow and shoulder, once just below the lfet breast, and twice just below the right blest. She was attended by Dr. Hohe Fe;rroughs, the coroner, and Dr. J10 s ph S. Duisenbury. both of Conway, and was still alive at 1 o'clock, thoush there is no chance whatever of her re covery. Palmetto Items. Mr. S. A. Salley. Jr., of Charleston. has been1 elected secretary of the State histori-al commission. The selection was ma de after a kind of civil cervice examiation. Of the 29 who applied for the position over a month ago ut ei: at were present for examina The Commercial Savings bank of Forenec has increased its capitaliza S.1 fromI $25.000 to $50,000. The dI' rectors are: John Kuker, president; J. F. Muldrow, E. F. Douglas. vie presidet; J. P. McNeill and A. M. Kit trell, cashier. A commission was issued the cor poratrs of the Charleston Poultry as sciao which proposes to hold an nual 'xhibitions of poultry. The capi tliztion is $2,000. T. J. McCarty. B. V. -nter. J. E. Crass, A. H. Lucas 1. . Connelly and W. K. McDowell are . corporator's. A commission was issued the An drew Hanley Manufacturing company of Charleston-doors. sashes and blinds. Capitalization $S.000. Corpora trs. Jane Hanley. Andrew Hanley, .J. F. Brooks and Huger Sinkle-r. Commissions were issued the l.ands End Social club of Beaufort and the anaser No'mal and Industial in lhcoh corporalone; havxe unttil April let to "ay the fran"ie or Ii *es tax,'C theV compt) -e r to- na Lo.oJins in payiut of tMr~l as ''titni Whti th ic at lrge had~ been estimated nya~t may" tall short bcause the railroad companies wvii get out at one-third what was expected B. Y P. U, STATE CONVENTION innual Convention of Young Baptists to be Heid Next Week in Charleston. The annual convention of the Baptist Coung People's Union of South Caro ina will be held in Charleston. Alril .-7. the meeting to be held in the Cita lel Square Baptist church. The B. Y. P. U. is a strong factor in .he work of the Baptist denomination. i "union" being an organization of the roung people in any particular church or the furtherence of the work of the -hurch. The programme for the convention text week is as follows: Convention key-word, "Develop nent," Ephesians 4:7-16. KEY-THEMES. "Spiritual Life Prerequisite to Spirit ial Growth." "Christlikeness the Aim of the Chris :ian's Growth." "God's Provision for Attainment of :his Development." FIRST SESSION, APRIL 4. 8:00 p. m.-Devitional service, Rev. 4. T. Jamison, Greenwood. 8:30 p. m.-Convention sermon by Dr. Kerr Boyce Trupper. Philadelphia. Penn.; subject, "Christian Expan -ion." SECOND SESSION. APRIL 5. 9:45 a. m.-Praise service, Rev. F. M. Satterwhite. Sumter. 10:15 a. m.-Organization of conven :ion. 10:45 a. m.-Reports of officers and Departments. 11:00 a. ni.-"Spiritual Life the Pre requisite to Spiritual Growth." Rev. I W. M. Jones. Williston. Intermission, 10 minutes. 11:45 a. m.-"Christlikeness the Priv ilege and Duty of Every Christian," Rev. J. 0. Gough. Manning. 12:00 m.-"Our Undeveloped Forces." Dr. D. M. Ramsey. Charleston. 12:30 p. m.-"Overcoming Hindran Ses to Christian Growth," (open). le! Supt. 0. B. Martin. THIRD SESSION. 8:00 p. m.-Song and prayer service, Dr. J. D. Chapman. Anderson. 8:30 p. m.-"The Holy Spirit's Pre eminence in the Christian's Develop ruent." 1cv. J. C. Massee, Raleigh, N. C. 9:15 p. mt.-"Some Things We Stand For," Dr. K. B. Tupper. FOURTH SESSION. 9:45 a. m.-Praycr service. Dr. D. W. Ken. Greenville. 10:15 a. m.-"The Teacher's Obliga tion in Developing Christlikeness," J. W. Gaines. Hartsville. 10:30 a. n.-"The Reilex Influence of Soul Winning," Rev. E. M. Lightfoot. raneburg. 10:45 a. m.-"My Indebtedness to the Union for Spiritual Growth." led by Will Evans, Columbia, Intermission 10 minutes. 11:30 a. m.-Plans for convention's New Year's work. 12:00 m.-"Influence of Worship on Character," Rev. W. B. Oliver, Flor ence. 12:15 p. m.-"Growtsh by Study of the Bible," Rev. H. M. Fallow, Cameron. FIFTH SESSION. 8:00 p. m.-Expressions of Thanks giving by delegates. 8:30 p. m.-"Development Through Obedience to the Missionary Com mands." Dr. T. M. Bailey. 9:15 p. m.--"The Strengthening Pow er of Fellowship," Rev. J. McLean, Aiken. Capt. T. T. Hyde of Charleston is the president of the B. Y. P. U. in this State, Rev. J. R. Moore is the secretary. A. C. Jones of Batesburg is treasurer and Rev. Walter Wilkins of this city is editor of the B. Y. P. U. department in The Baptist Courier. An Important Opinion. Attorney General Gunter rendered an opiniont of much interest to the school people. He decides that the State board of education has authori ty to say what codnstitutes a college within the meaning of section 1200 of the State school law exempting candidates for certificates to teach in the public schools of the State from the examination by the county boards. This section exempts those who pro duce a full diploma from any chartered college or university of the State. The State board has decided upon the list of colleges it will recognize South Carolina College, Wofford, Fur man, Newberry College, Chicora Col lege, Converse. Winthrop, Clemson, Charleston College, Presbyterian Col lege for Women, Lander Female Col lege, Presbyterian College of South Carolina. Due West Female College, Limestone Female College,'Greenville Female College. Erskine College. South Carolina Military Academy. Col umbia Female College-and these col ored colleges: Claflin College. the State Colored College at Orangeburg. Benedict Institute, Avery Normal Col lege and Allen University. The good sense of the opinion is manifest when it is remembered that any school may be chartered as a college if it is will ing to pay a few dollars for the char ter fee. To Run for Governor. Newberry, Special.-Mr. A. C. Jones has returned from New York and re signed his position as traveling sales ma nfor Arnold, Constable & Co., to enter the race for governor. In a fewv days he will make a formal announce ment of his canidacy. During the next 12 months he will devote his time to his business interests here and will make the necessary steps toward his cam paIgn. He has mriy friends through out South Carolina and has decided to enter the race at the solicitation of those in Newberry. With his announce ment he will state his views on cer tain issues likely tO come up in the campaign. Terms Accepted. Washington, Special. - President Roosevelt has accepted the proposition of the Dominican government, made through Minister Dawson, for the con trol of the finances of that republic, with a view to setting aside a portion of the revenues of the republic for the payment of its dlebts. The officers who will collect the money and hold it will be appointed by the Domini an govelrnent, but they will be nom inated by this government. State Pension Board. The State pension board met Tuesdlay in the office of the c.omptroller gene-al nd passedl upon the various~ atppha ti ons which havr' been senlt in by)'n ccinty bcoards. Therie is a slight de (ras in the num ber- of applican t th el-asses- hae ee advan. The board cons ist; of the folloI - Conptroler~ GenierailT~ Joes.car Dr B . Levy. Chrarleto: Cp H. h Hadin. Chest'r: Dr. William cr''\' ton Colmnbia. Thei-e is a vaceancyn the boar!d caused by the resign~fat'in 0 Capt. W. D. Starling, the superv:mo: ofrRehinmd county. EBRUARY WEATHER CONDITIONS VonthlyReport of the Bureau Con cerning Progress of Farm Work. The weather bureau has issued the 'ollowing report on the progreSS oE arm work and the weather for Feb -Lary: The month was unusually and per istently cold until about the 20th, ifter which mild and pleasant and Iry weather prevailed to its close. rhe mean temperature compares close y with that for the same month in LS95, and. theso two are the coldest Pebruarzes in the last 18 years. The precipitation was copious over 'he whole State, and locally excessive, ilthough the State avearge was but lightly in excess of the normal. Dur .ng the first half much of the precipi -ation was in the form of snow, sleet ind rain mixed, the rain generally reezing as it fell, and from this ice oating, melting as it did slowly, the arger portion soaked into the ground, thoroughly saturating it. The soil was thus unusually well supplied with moisture. The persistent cold, and the wet soil prevented the prosbcution of farm work and little plowing was practi cable except during the last week when rapid progressi was made over :he entire State. The delay in farm ,ork was most serious over the oast trucking regioins. Reports on the damage to small grain, particularly to oats. agree n this, that some -damage was done. 3ut they varv as to the extent of the njiury. It will not be possible to es imate it until after active growth ets in. Some oats were killed out ight and the fields have been re sown. Wheat suffered scarcely any lamage. The good effect of the steady :old weather was to retard the swell ing of fruit buds, thus saving them from injury by probable frosts in March. The wet soil delayed the pro paration of seed beds for tobacco. al thugh some were burnt and seeded. The month as a whole was unfav orable for the progress of farm work. Climatology From the North. The mean temperature for Febru ary, 1905, was 38.9 degrees, which is 7.7 degrees below normal. The high est local mean was 46.5 degrees at Beaufort; the lowest was 33.5 de grees at Greenville. The monthly ex tremes were a maximum of 72 de grees at Yemassee on t.he 20th, and a minimum of 0 degrees at Walhalla :n the 14th, making the State range -2 degrees. The greatest local range was 70 degrees at Bennettsville. The mean of the daily maximum tempera ture was 48.0 degrees and of the daily minimum temperature was 29.8 de grees. making the average daily range 18.2 degrees. The precipitation averaged 5.21 inches, which is 0.87 above normal. The greatest local amount was 8.20 at Blackville, the least was 2.87 at Barksdale. The greatest 24 hours fall was 3.26 at Blackville on the 12th 13th. The average number of days with 0.01 inch, or more, of precipita tion was 9, ranging from4 at Allendale Clemson College and Trial to 13 at Columbia. Excessive Precipitation-Allendale, 12th, 3.20 in 24 hours; Blackville, 12th 13th, 3.26 in 24 hours; Clemson Col lege, 20th, 2.60 in 24 hours; Ediso, 12th, 2.60 in 24 hours; Florence, 12th, 3.00 in 24 hours; Liberty, 20th, 2.50 in 24 hours; St. Matthews, 12th-13th, 3 00 in 24 hours; S mter. 11th, 3.00 in 24 hours; Trial, fth-13th, 3.05 in 24 hours. Snows-Allea~daie, Trenton, 4th; An derson. 2nd; Barksdale, 3, 4, 5, 13, 19; Bennettsville, 3; Cheraw, 4, 14; Co lumbia, Lugoff, Santuc, 13: Dillon, 3, 4, 5, 13; Gaffney, 3. 5, 7, 12; Liberty, 3, 5, 8, 19; Newberry, 13, 19; Saluda, , 4, 5, 6, 8, 9; Seivern, 6, 14, 20; So ciety Hill, 3, 19; Spartanburg, 3, 13; Wahalla, 5, 19, 20; Winthrop Col lege, 3, 4, 12. Sleet-Aiken, Bennettsville, 3, 4, 5, 6; Allendale, Clarks. Hill. Stateburg, Trial, Summerville, 3. 4, 5; Anderson, 2; Barksdale. 4. 5, 8, 12, 19; Bates burg, 4, 5, 6, 20; Beaufort, 12; Black ville, 3, 4. 5. 13, 19; Bowman, Walter borr, 4, 5; Cheraw, 5, 6, 8, 18; Co lubia, 4, 5, 6; Dillon, Winthrop Col lege, 8; Due West. 3. 6, 8, 9, 19; Flor ence, Sumter, 3; Gaffney, 3, 5, 7, 12; Heath Springs, 5, 7, 8, 13; Liberty, 5, 8, 12; Little Mountain, 3, 4; Lugoff, 3, 4, 5, 13; Newberry, 3, 4. 5, 7, 8, 19; Saluda, 4, 5, 13, 19; Santuc. 4, 5, 6, 8, 20; Seivern, 3, 4, 5, 6, 14, 20; Society Hill, 5, 7, 8; Spartanburg 5, S 11, 20; Trenton, 4, 5, 8, 9; Wal hlla, 5. 9. 11, 12, 20: Yorkville, 5, 6, S, 9, 12, 20. Weather-The average number of clear days was 10. of partly cloudly ones. 4, and of cloudly ones 14. Winds-The prevaling direction of the wind was from the northeast at 23 stations, from the west at 15, from the nortwest at 7; from the north at 6, and from the east and southeast at 1 station each. $200,000 Fire From Spark. Memphis, Tenn., Special.-A special from Corinth, Miss., says that a spark from switch engine set fire to the Taylor Compress Company, late Sat urday. destroyed the building and 1,504 bales of cotton and, spreading to the north of the compress, consumed two cotton seed oil mills and fifteen dwei ing houses. The total loss will prob ably aggregate .$200,000 with insurance of about half that amount. A high wind prevailed, and all efforts to pre vent the spread of the fiames was un availing. No loss of life occurred. An Important Ruling. Columbia. Special.-In an opinion just filed the Supreme Court affirms the finding of the lower court which gave Mrs. John B. Badger of Charleston.S1, 276.60 damages against the Blue Ridge railroad for losing her trunk checked from WValhalla to Charleston in Sep tember. 1903. The opinion is interest ing andI of more or less general import ance as establishing the liability of r.ll roads for baggage. Talk by Booker Washington. New York. Special-Booker T. Wash ington spoke to John D. Rockefeller, Jr's. Bible elass Sunday. "'The longer I live." he said. "the more I am 7-envineC 1 that, after al!. the one thing worch living for and dying for is the privi'ege of maki;g some being mo:'e happy andl mure useful. I hope you wI l ays re memer that by a thoughtful and kind act you~ can lift the bunrden from the shoues of a memnber- of my race. In proportion as you help us. so in the Iaepoton on willn help yv-wrselem" WAR EMBLEMS BACK 1OIOE Governor Heyward Thinks the Flags Should be Kept in the Relic Rvom irn Columbia. Governor Heyward is in re-,eipt of ~ the flags which were captured from Confederate regiments from this State and have been in Washtmgton since the close of hostilities between the sec tions. The captured banners which have been returned are the Eighth, Eleventh. Sixteenth and Twenty-sev enth regiments infantry. Sumter Fly ing artillery. Sumter Heavy artillery, garrison flag. Castle Pinckney; garri son flag, Fort Moultrie; garrison flag, Citadel; garrison flag. James Island:. garrison flag. Fort Ripley; Third South Carolina regiment. Hon. Wm. H. Taft. secretary of war, in forwarding the flags. said in a let ter to Governor Heyward: "Sir: I have the honor to advise you that, under the authority con ferred upon the secretary of war by the joint resolution of Congress, approvcd February 28, 1905, entitled a joint res olution to return to the proper au thorities certain Union and Confeder ate battle flags,' I have caused to be forwarded to you today by express the Confederate battle flags that were in the custody of the war department at the time of the approval of said joint resolution and that could be identified as belonging to your State or as hav ing been borne by military organiza tions thereof. "Herewith are enclosed a list of the flags transmiftted to you today. and a copy of executive document No. 163. House of Representatives. Fiftieth Con gress, which sets forth all the informa tion that the war department is able to furnish on February 16th. 1888. with , regard to the Union and Confederate flags then in its custody. A few of the flags that are described in that docu ment cannot be identified at the pres ent time, their numbers or- distinguish ing mar';s having been lost. and as few of the flags that could be identified in 1SSS have since been identified and are now returned to the States from which the organizations which bore them belonged." Governor Heyward has not decided what to do with the flags, but is in clined to think that they should be kept i4 the relic room here. He will confer with the official organization of the United Confederate veterans. Several Large Corporations. The secretary of state Monday char tered the Carolina Building and Loan company of this city with $200.000 capi tal. The purposes of the company are those usually appertaining to a building ind loan associatio and William Barnwell is president, W. K. Duffie, vice president and Jno. T. Melton see retary and treasurer. Among those on the board of directors are: Geo. W. Warning, Geo. L. Baker, H. E. Wells, E. W. Parker, J. T. Fisher and W. D. Melton, in addition to the exofficio, members. A charter was issued the Je 'itage cotton mills. of Camden, ih$225,000 capital, I. G. Garrison is president and treasurer; C. H. Yates vice president and secretary; W. M. Shannon. attor ney. These genetlemen and D. R. Wil liams, Jr., constitute the board of di rectors. Another big concern seeking for a charter is the Salkeatchie Lumber com pany of Bai'nwell county, capital stock $100000. Corporators, Jno. P. Schofields of Philadelphia, Ralph P. Brush of Royersford, Pa., and Conrad B. High, of Reading. The Smith-Pruitt company of Mul lins has applied for a commission of $5,000 to manufacture brick, lumber and shingles. The Myrtle Beach Development com pany was chartered, capitalization $75, 000. F. A. Burroughs is president; B. G. Collins, vice, president; G. R. Ses sions, secretary, and J. E. Bryan,. gen eral manager. The purpose of this com pany will be to "purchase, improve and sell real estate, clear up land and swamp land, drain and cultivate same.. Also to sell or manufacture the tim ber removed from the land under its control. Also to possess, have and ex ercise the necessary power for acquir ing rights of way for drainage purpos es and be vested with the powers of a drainage corporation. A foreign corporation which filed its'* annual return is the Union Bleaching and Finishing company of New Jersey, which has offices in Greenville. The y directors are: J. B. Duggan, president; . B. Duke, B. N .Duke, W. W. Fuller,. Thos. F. Ryan, S. A. Beardley, R. B.. Arringon, secretary; M. S. Watts, and W. A. Erwin. Privilege for Receipts The amount of privilege tax paid into the State treasury since the 1st of January is $102,426.75, ggainst $98,471 for the same time last year. a differ e~ce of $4,000. These figures are as tounding when it is considered that at the 1st of March the receipts for this year had fallen behind last. year by nearly $24,000. This means that the ex cess for March of this year is at the rate of $1.000 a day, and the amount received for the year 1905 is nearly as much as for the 12 months of 1904. As has been published before, the receipt of these payments does not mean that the use of fertilizers has incrased, for it is quite probable that a great quantity of guano is being stored in warehouses. Captured in Arkansas. Newberry, Special.-Sheriff M. M. Buford arrived here Monday night with two negroes he had brought from Conway county, Arkansas. These two men fled from .Newberry some time ago, their names being Manuel Burd, wanted for assault and battery with intent to kill; and Wash Ham. want ed for burglary. Sheriff Buford had to exercise considerable strategy in get ting the men out of Conway county and deserves much credit for his work. Fights Merger.A Houston, Tex., Special.-The Mary land Trust Company has filed in the3 Federal Court here an amended bill in the receivership of the Houston Oil Company, in which its ask-s that the court prevent the turning over to the Houston, Beaumont & New Orleans. Road, or other corporations, the tram roads belonging to the Houston Oil ICompany, under the terms of an agreement entered into between John IH. Kilby and B. F. Yokaum, which is fully set forth. IMurderer Escaped Jail. Greenville, Special.-While Jailer Ne and a trusty were carrying coal Monday night they were overpowered by a negro murderer, Dennis Wood, and other prisoners, who made their escape. All were captured except Wood. In the struggle for freedom, the trusty, a negro named Goldsmith, was injured, being struck in the head Iwith a lock. Sheriff's posse is hunting or wood.