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Don't Worr By Beatrice Fairf --aON'T fuss. It's just so much time a remedy, but don't w( ing yourself and every, Did you ever hear t] "The worry cow W( , If she had not lost But she feared her So she worried her. There are hundreds of us behav ish cow. We are worrying over what we what we are afraid we vill do. Now, the one thing we might v we#re doing at present. But we are so occupied with wl is to come and cannot be forseen. t ours to make or mar. Worrying produces a state of m Don't worry over tomorrow: yc take care of itself. No person is more depressing th ting and can't enjoy life for fear sor Try to make the most of every j See the bright side of things ra Oh, the comfort of meeting a pe of fuss and worry: Serenity is a beautiful thing. C minds are at peace. and peace canni ,an do much toward achieving it by The fretful face can never be I ing and features may be. But there are some faces plain sheds a positive benediction abroad. Sometime when you are walkii expressions on the faces you pass. Nine out of ten will wear a wo Relaxation seems unknown to t Men. women. and even chlidre pitch. They begin to worry before until sleep closes their eyes at nigi Don't spoil today by yesterday what you have. and above all things nothing good or bright or beautiful c Your troubles are not any worse But if you fret and worry ove: imaginary troabies to spoil your lif 'The Later D; By William Cong HE chemist examines T factory puts out, in s( use. Three-fourths of owe their existence w / petroleum industry. I fronm the glycerine re candle-manufacturer a myriads of buttons used speak of ti slaughter house floor. The by-products, having been th grown to such proportions as to 'out was formerly waste is today the st tured product having become the by the old method of "burning charcoa covered with turf. and then set on week, wvhile the pile was watched d, and consume as well as char. Fina obtained. By this method three-qu peared. An investigation proved tb to the charcoal produced was lost, 1 and acetic cold. One per cent see these products are of prime imp, -changed. The wood Is piled on ste bers heated by furnaces. Here a fe number of weeks in the older proce the volatile portions pass off. Linm .alcohol condenes, and the gas is Should this gas furnish insufficient one cord of wood furnishes the mex The process then becomes. not for the manufacture of wood-alcoh' wood alcohol made in the 'United St the acetic acid another million. whi would 'sell for less than this last fig Athletics in P1 By General~ W. H SOLDIER who i's not in Arice-paddies and moun this 'fact . :duced the lands to introduce a r 9 optional work and plac pany duties. The inst a period quite equal to during which athletics were the ma dental It was even provided that; incurred in line of duty. The companies were given sev of training. A list of military and anununced and the four companies winning company designated to comn panics representing the three hatta competition to determine which con: successful companies were f. en brc partment athletic meet. wh teh took aros Island. opposite the city of Iloil The individual events were qui team events excited admiration an< and low wall scaling 'were marvelic The delivery of ammunition to t mile course, including the saddling seven minutes estabishes records w Weekly No More FX By George Harve SHERE are the forbidden WArmniflus Vambery co~ of his life, has becom the whilomI inviolate, , get his passport vised - I Turkestani. Merv. the cessible, is now a Russ veiled by the Younghusband expedit to Jerusalem. and the day is not f snorting past the tomb of Mohamm< eyeshot of the Black Stone of Mecca. mander of the Faithful by virtue 01 Abbassids Caliph, has authorized an railway from Damascus to the holy pushed from the oldest continuous through Syria to a point near Petra the Roman Empire. which command: is less than a hundred miles dist'' erly of the two bays which pro. ad Sea.-Harper's Weekly. An average of thirty-five prisone annually are lashed at the whippi: post in Delaware. A chief source of wealth of Japan Pittsburgh. The Pennsylvania Railroad I: learned that the legal name Cf one its chief tribumry e:ic'es is "P burgh." and has given orders to a the "h" v the name' whe-n the to has occasion to prini it. On hote! ' iste-rs the name is u~Si8ally wii t "Pts.' or 'Ptrg." There set mns to an opening here for a poet .to poi out that the drummer writes no fir 'h." but he gets there all the san which 3, after all, the chief funce:i of the enraod.-Harner's Weeekl'. N wasted. If things go wrong, try to find ar yourself out, soul and body, by worry me else. ie rhyme about the "worry cow?" It runs: uld have lived till now, her breath: iay would not last all day, elf to death."* ing in exactly the same way as that 'oo1 have done. what we have not done. and orry over with some reason is the thing mit is past and can't be helped, and what hat we neglect the golden present that is ind that unfits one for clear judgment. u take care of today and tomorrow will an the one who is always fussing and fret iething will go wrong. :v or pleasure that comes your way. tier than tho da-k. son whose brow is not snarled up by lines f course it can only come to those whose )t come to all of us. But un-doubtedly we controlling our inclinatio: to fret. >eautiful, no matter how perfect its color of feature whose serenity of expression iz on a crowded thoroug'afare, watch the rried look. e average American. r. are continually strung to the highest they are out of bed, and they don't stop and tomorrow: make the very most of don't look and talk as though there were in earth. than other people's. every trifle you will accumulate enough .-New York American. y Qf Alchemy er Morgan. nd scrutinizes every kind of waste the rch for something that can be made of -:he prepared paints on the market today holly or in part to the by-products of the 'arload after carload of dynamite comes covered from the "sweet waters" of the nd the waste of the soap-maker. The eir rise from the hoofs and horns of the us called tc the aid of the industries, have -ank some of the oldnr interests, and what ple article produced. the former manufac product. Some are doubtless familiar with ," in which the wood was piled in heaps, fire. The smoke rose lazily wek after t and night lest the fire should break out v the mound was torn apart and the coal arters of the weight of the wood disap at an amount of fuel-gas equal in weight )esides about one per cent of wood alcohol ms a small fraction, but in this instance rtance. Today the process is entirely el cars and run into huge masonry cham w hours accomplish the work of the same ss. The charcoal stays on the cars while e takes the acid out of the mixture. the iped around to the furnaces and burned. uel, the charcoal is burned also. and thus uns of heating the next. one for the production of charcoal, but I and acetic acid. This one per cent of ates alone in one year is worth $4,000,000. l the whole amount of charcoal produced ure.-Harper's Magazine the milippine Army .Carter. U. S. A. fine condition is not of much v'alue in the :ain jungles of Filipinia. A recognition of general in command in the Visayan Is .ew system which remov* ' athletics from es it as one of the most important of coin ruction was turned over to captains, and that alotted to rifle practice was set aside in features and other military duties inci iy injury received should be reported as eral months in which to pursue a course thletic events for a department meet was of each battlion were tried out, and the pete in a regimental meet. The three com lions -of each regiment then engaged in a pany should represent the regiment. The ught together in a battle royal at the de place at the new "shelter" post on Guim te rp to the standard, while the military 'won the highest encomiums. The high us performances. he firing line with packmules, over a half and packing of the mules. in less than hich it 'will be difficult :o beat.-Harper's >rbidden Cities cities of our youth? Samarcand, which Id only penetrate in disguise at the risk a familiar as a household word. Khiva, :an be visited by any traveller who can by the Governor General of Russian historic entrepot of an oasis once iniac ian railway station. Lhassa has been un in. Anybody can go by rail from .Joppa r distant when the iron horse will run d at Medina. and landi passengers within The Sultan Obdul-Hanrid, acting as Coin the title transmitted to him by the last d helped to finance the construction of a city of Islam. Already the line has been ly inhabited city on earth southward which was so long a frontier fortress of Sthe road from Asia to Egy'pt, and which from the Gulf of Akatah, -:he most east e like prongs from the head of the Red r her coal. of which ,000,000 tons were ~mined in 1901. The average of birtbQ in London is is 11,000 a month. Kansas as Center of Universe. as Thomas A. McNeal. Kansas state of printer, believes the state to be "the centeCr of the univer-se." and he justi fib Iis b elief in this convincing way: - scetists have noted that if a mar starts fromr Kansas arnd travels east ward and keeps going until Kansas i "aai reachedi andl then takes thi tsame .iourne'y. but starring to the west n ward., theC distanice traveled is precise 1y the same." min is His name on our work that make 9 worthy. PALMETTO CROP CONDITIONS Weather and Crop Conditions as Vies ed by the Department. Columbia, S. C., Special.-The weu ending 8 a. m. April 17th, averagt slightly cooler thaa usual but the d partures from normal were small unt the 16th when the temperature fe rapidly and to the morning of the 171 when it was below freezing over tl central and western parts of ti State, with killing frosts as far eas ward as Williamsburg county at heavy frosts along the coast. Thei are as yet no reports available as I the extent and severity of the damas caused by the frost except in the % cinity of Columbia where practicE ly all garden truck, corn and oth, young crops were killed. The dama, was likely more serious to the wes ward where the temperature was lo er. There are no reports availab as to the effects of the frost on fru" which up to this time was in a vei promising condition, except in parts the extreme northwestern countii where some was killed by the frost i the 7th. The precipitation was gene il during the week, and was exce sive in portions of the central, westei and extreme northwestern countiE Scattered localities had hail on tl 9th and 13th. The rainfall rang from less than one to over four inchc greatly delaying operations in t] western half of the State and par of the eastern. A a rule the rainfe was needed and proved beneficial grain crops, garden and truck. Corn planting was continu over the western counties, bl made slow progress. In the eastei counties replanting is under way. ar most of the early corn is up to fa to good stands, and some has receiv its first cultivation. Cut worms d much damage in places. Preparation of lands for cotton nearly finished over the eastern cou ties, and made some progress ov the western ones. Planting is nea ing completion in a few localities, b1 generally is less than half finished ax was delayed by the wet soil in t1 central and western counties. Son cotton is up to stands. In the great portion of the State it is probable th I practically all cotton and corn that up will need be replanted owing the frost. The wheat and oats crops ma( marked improvement in appearan and growth during the week, especi ly spring oats, that were greatly ben fitted by the rains. Some tobacco h. been transplanted in Marion count The acreage to be planted to tobac4 will be somewhat larger than last yes Rice planting is nearly finished in t) Collecton district, and the conditio: for planting are favorable in tC Georgetown district. Truck was doli well, with heavy shipments of bear peas, radishes and strawberries und way. It is believed that truck was mi teria~y damaged in districts somewh remote from the coast, but the amou: Iof injury cannot be stated in th week's bulletin, and may prove to ha Ibeen slight. J. W. Bauer, Section I rector. CORNERSTONE LAYING. Crittenton Home Exercises to Tal Place Easter Monday. The exercises of laying the corne stone of the Charlotte Crittenton Hom which is located at the corner of M Dowell and Ninth streets, will tal place Easter Monday. April 24th, at o'clock. Mr. Charles N. Crittenton, wi be present and participate in the exe cises. This will be an occasion of little interest, and will furnish an tractive opportunity to the people the city to see the beautiful and col modious building now nearing compl tion. Peaches Killed in Georgia. Gainesville, Ga., 'Special.-Almo the entire peach crop in northea Georgia was killed by Sunday night freeze. Growers state that there wi not be enough peaches grown for single shipment. Vegetables of kinds were hurt. The thermomet, registered 29 degrees and ice was ha an inch thick. Joseph Jefferson Very Low. West Palm Beach. Fla.. Special.-TI condition of Joseph Jefferson, the veti i-an actor. has undergone a change f< the worse, and the outook for his reco er- is not so hopeful. Physi-ians hai been in constant attendance at his bei side and report him as very weak Mo: In response to an inquiry as to M Jefferson's condition. Dr. Potter sal Mr. Jefferson is very low." It is r< ported that the members of his famil who are not a'.ready with him hal been telegraphed to come Telegraiphic Briefs. The corpora~ion of Hastings. En: land, decided the othe' day that couldn't afford to invite the Prince Wales to open its new waterworks th summer. It would have cost $10,00 and Hastings is a well-to-do seaside r sort of 60.000 population. The Prini of Wales is not popular. Mr. J. Sumter Moore has been a. pointed general manager of the Oly. pia, Granby, Richland and Capital C The confraternity of bell ringersi known in Britain as '-the exercise," the dramatic' professionl is knowna -the professionl." A bell ringer is -member of the exercise." The mascot of a British infantr reiment. a monkey, has been dishono: hv discharged from the service fC absence withoeut leave a-nd larceny cor' mttedl in neighboring poultry yard Hei is new serrinlg a life term in th It is noticed in England as a serion fat that most of the Jewish soldier who died in the Boer war, and in whios memory a tablet was rec-ently erects in a Lndon syagogtne. belonged to th GREAT PLAYER DEAD Joseph Jefferson, Pri'!ce of Americav Actors, Passes Away TilE END CAME SUNDAY EVENIM h Le Di.tinguished Actor's Condition Grc., e Steadily Worse Saturday Night When It Became Apparent That th< id Heroic Struggle of Days Had Ex o hausted His Vitality-Illness Origi e nally Contracted by Discretion ir Eating While cn Fishing Trip Wit Mr. Cleveland. r West Palm Bearh, Fla.. Special. Joseph Jefferson died at his home, "Th( Reen, ' at ialeni 1,ach. at 6:15 o'clcelb Sunday evening. The end came after - t, day of unconsioUSneSS and after a he y roic struggle of Cays, which had ex hausted his vitality. At his death be& were his wife, his sons, Charles B. an s Frank Jefferson; his nurse. Miss Mabel > Bingham: Dr. R. B. Putter. and hi faithful old servant, Carl Kottler. The end was not a surprise to hi: ramily. Eve,' since his last sinkin. spell, which came after a rally o. s. Thursday morning. and which was fol lowed by an improvement until Friday d the family has been waiting for th end. Mr. Jefferson's condition Satur s- day night grew steadily worse. and ie the family, who'had retired. were sum ts moned from their beds and Dr. Potter was called-. The patienCs condition con tinued to grow weak all through to t day, and the brief bulletins from th( beside contained no wo:ds of encour d agement. it The sickness of Mr. Jefferson, whici ended in his death, was contracted. it n is believed, while on a recent visit tc Ld his son, Charles B. Jefferson, at Hob( ir Sound, a few miles above Palm Beach where he went to meet his friend former President Cleveland. It is be d lieved that from a slight indiseretior in his eating there, he suffered an at is tack of indigestion. Since his return tc his home, this condition grew steadily worse, with slight rallies, until the r end. r. The body of Mr. Jefferson will bE it taken to Buzzard's Bay on a specia train, accompanied by all the member d :f his family who are here. It will e reach New York Wednesday morning e and the family hope to reach Buzzard' er Bay the evening of that day. r It was on April 1st that Mr. Jeffersor .t went to Hobe Sound to meet Mr. Cleve is land and other friends at the home ol o his son, Charles B. Jefferson. The party spent about a week there, and during that time there were frequent fishing le expeditions. e When Jefferson became ill he return L- ed at once to The Reefs and was taker to his room on the second floor of thi :ottage, which Is only 100 feet from thE s cean, and where he could watch thE y. sea. The weather was favorable o throughout his illness. Dr. Potter, thE family physician at the Florida home ' lived three miles from The Reefs, and e went only occasionally to the bedsid s of his patient, feeling that Mr. Jeffer Sson might survive. On Thursday he was well enough tc Stake nourishment ar~d to retain it. Ai s,:ne time he called for chicken broth r and then thought he was well enough -to eat the meat. But this was denied ahim. Dr. Potter was so confident Thurs ii day at 4 o'clock that he told a reportet 1s at the time that he believed Mr. Jeff Serson would recover. JEFFERSON'S CAREER. New York, Special.-Mr. Jeff':rsoI was president of the Players' Club, it this city, end the news of his deati was received with many expression.s ce of regret. The Playe'rs' Club has had no member more in-.erested in its wel .fare than Mr. Jefferson, and none that worked more untiringly. With Edwir Booth,. Lawrence Barrett, Augustir ~Daly. A. HE. Palmer. Brander Matthews e John Drew. S. L. Clemens and several - ethers ,Mr. Jefferson signed articles oi Iincorporation for the club in 1888, ani he was elected to the board of direc -tors. In 1893, his portrait by Sargen1 c Iwas hung on the wall of the club. t gift from Booth and Barrett. Afte: the death of Mr. Booth, in 1893. Mr Jeff erson was elected president of the nclub, and has been re-elected to tha1 e. office at every annual meeting since. He presided. at the memorial meet ing, November 13, 1895, at the Madi son Square Concert Hall. in this city ini commemoration of Edwin Booth': t present 60th birthday, upon which oc Icasion he delivered an address, intro t ducing as the speakers of that occas ssion Parke Godwin. Tommasc'o Salvin ill Henry Irving and the poet, George E IWoodbury. On the founders' night aDecember 31, 1893, he delivered an elo Iquent address as president, recallinl rthe memory of Mr. Booth in simpli and tauching words. Mr. Jefferson was at every Founders Night annually until 1S90. when he Iwas rabsent on account of illness: no' was i.e permitted to be present on thc recurrence of th-at occasion, which 31b esences were sometimes caused by ill .health, but principally on account os activity in his calling. rIn 2ompensation for his absence foi -the Founders' Night. and in honor o! e womca friends af "the players," h<. [. was present and contributed to the pleasure of Ladies' Day whenever po. sible. The nec.essity of spending the winter in a Southern climate had pre . IVEnited hinm from being present in t h :club :.louse, except for occasional briel visit:', in late years. Joseph Jefferson was born in Phila delphia, Februa~ry 20, '1829. and wa: e looked upon as the dcan of the dra Imatic profeossion in this country. Want Ur.,on With Greece. . ranea. Island of Crete, By Cable. i The Cretan Chamber of Deputies was ope -aed by Prince George, of Greece ~Ithr high commissioner of the powers w! -. in his speech. 'blamed the revo Ir''>nists and declared his readiness t< " t every reasonable reform proper ly proposed. On the withdrawal of thC prince, the Chamber of Deputies unan imously declaredl irT favor of the unior of Crete and GreeCe. and the deputies Sproceeded to the palace, to so infornr the prince. .Tomn Watson's Daughter Weds. Augusta, Ga.. Special.-A special tc The Chronicle fro C Thomson, Ga. says: "Miss Agrnes Watson. the only daughter of Hen. Thomas E. Watson r was married at the home of her' par ents in Thomason. Ga.. to Mr. Osca: S. Lee, a me:'chant. Owing to the ef fcts of a recent il ncss. due to the ae cidental taking of an overdose of mcdi eine, the young lady is still under the care of a nurse, an:l the marriage ce:-e mony was madle as simple and brief as possible. The hone:'moon will be spent A HOUSE WARMING The Opening of the Thornwell Orphan age After the Fire Disaster. When the fire occurred at the Thorn well Orphanage on the 4th of Novem ber last, there were hard times for a while for two hundred orphan children. i They had neither pantry nor store house, and had "old mother Hubbard gone to the supboard." she would have [ound that the cupboard was not bare; it was gone: All the pickles and pre serves and dried fruit and other little 3supplies fixed up for the winter use were gone up in smoke. And in addi tion. all the flour and meal and bacon and rice and molasses and vinega: and sugar and tea a:d coffee had been food for the devouring flames, There was not even a kitchen left, much less a ;torehouse: but the people (God bless the people, their hearts are all right:) the people came to our rescue and now we have completed and are ready to >pen a handsome new building 100 feet one way by 65 th.e other. It is cover td with tin and it took fifty-five squares to cover it. The floors are of brick laid in cement. It has been furnished with ranges and stoves. The Majestic Range Company of St. Louis. gave us a splen did new range and two portable bakers. But it woefully lacks something. There 'is not a dust of meal nor a grain of rice. nor'a cruise of oil, nor a pound of sugar.-there is nothing in the store house. Why, not even a mouse has gone there to hunt his dinner; not a fly is tooking out for the pickings! And yet on that storehouse 250 children and their teachers are ueendent for their daily bread. It i's time for a house-warming: Let is have it. What have you at hand that you can send? Do not wait for a com mittee to call on you or a preacher to get after you. The third week of April is our reception week. Everybody will be at home. If you get your gifts sent in that week it will not be too late. Somebody asks. "What are the children I going to do for something to eat till then?" If you are the one who asks, we will just say that there are fifty two reception weeks at the Thornwell ?rphanag-e, but the third week of April is reception week in particular. It is to commemorate the fire and to make us feel good that once more we have a kitchen and dairy and storehouse and the trimmings that go along with them. Do not forget. Send something every body! Fill that storehouse for once. It is a right good sized room and there is no danger of overcrowding. God bless you, dear friends, and may He put it into your hearts to make glad the fatherless. Send provisions in barrels and boxes to Thornwell Orphanage, Clinton. S. C.. and cash to Rev. Wm. P. Jacobs, Clin ton, S. C. Arrested For Arson. An arson warrant has been placed in the hands of Comptroller General Jones' special deputy for J. Ed. Boyer, in whose store the big fire which de stroyed fifty houses and places of busi ness at Brookland, across the Con garee, started from the explosion of uis kerosene engine. The evidence which the Comptroller General has gathered indicates that he had made prepara tions for the fire by moving out his goods. The warrant was issued under the special act of the Legislature re' quiring the Comptroller General to in vestigate all suspicious fires. Mr. Boyer 's more or less prominent in the town and his arrest has created a sensa tion. although it was not altogether unexpected in certain well-informed quarters. The evidence is circumnstan til so far, but-it is strong; on its ?ace the solicitor had advised the arrest u once, as it was reported that Boyer was making preparations to leave the country. Boyer took his ari'est calmly,. being allowed to come to Columbia Iander guard to consult an attorney. The preliminary examination has been set for Friday morning at 10 o'clock before Magistrate J. P. Merchant, at Brook land. A peculiarity of the arson law in this State is that a man cannot be punished for setting fire to his own place, but if. as a result of that fire, other houses are fired or are within the legal danger limit he is liable for in ditment for arson. To Celebr'ate Return of Flags. Tailahasse. Fla.. Special.-The spe' cial committee in charge of the cele bration arranged for the official re ception of the Confederate battle flags of the Florida troops has issued invitations to the several chapters of the D. A. R. and camps of Confederate veterans, to attend the celebration, which will be held in the hall of the House of Representatives at Talla hassee, on May 2, at 10..30 a. m. W/ill Get Some Money. President Sloan, of the South Caro lina College. has received a letter from William Jennings Brya'n notifying him that the Soiuth Carolni College has beEn rncrd as one of the 25 State Univrsiies he is dlirectcd to name in article 17 of the Philo Sherman Ben nett will, setting aside $10,000 to be divided equally among such universi ties. The amount each University will gt after inheritance taxcs are paid will be S.GS. the interest on which is to e used to purchase an annual prize for the best essay discussing the prig cipes of free government. The gift was accepted with thanks by the ex ecutive committee of the trustees. Mr. Bryan says he has so far established Isuch prizes in nineteen States. 75 Per Cent. of Peaches Killed. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-After a trip~ through Georgia, State Entomologist R. I. Smith, said: "There is no doubt about the fact that 75 per cent. of thc peach crop north of Atlanta is a to. Ital loss as the result of the recent cold weather. All the orchards throughout that section have suffered, some more than others, but from per. anal examination and results from various sources, I feel safe in saying that there will not be more than one fcurth of the crop in this seation."' Shot For Bank Robber. Richmond. Va.. Special.-Thinking an Iattempt to rob the bank was being made. Dr. Lawrence Anderson Bragg, a dentist. who has rooms in the Citi ens' National Bank building, at Cov ngton, Va., early Wednesday morning hot in the direction of the noise, kill. in Dr. Alex. Nelson. of the staff of the Western State hospital. who had arrived on a late train to visit his brother. Attorney George E. Nelson. n endeavoring to reach his brothre's room near the bank, Dr. Nelson lost his way and was at the entrance of he ank building when killed. WIDER USE OF SOUTiERN COTTON South Carolina Division of the South ern Cotton Association Takes Up Mr. Wagener's Suggestion. Columbia State. The officers of the South Carolinai division of the Southern Cotton asso ciation have taken up the movement started by the Southern Wholesale gro cers, to push the use of cotton bags or sacks made of cotton. The matte: was presented in detail in The State of Thursday and has attracted attention all over the South. The idea is to carry out in a practical way one of the propositions on which the Southern Cotton association was founded-to increase the market for cotton goods, as well as to reduce the acreage used in the production of cotton. While some want to create a great er demand for cotton goods in the Ori ent to supplant the costly silks, the' practical business men of the whole sale grocers' association have seen an opportunity to declare that the mar ket can be expanded right here at home by demanding that manufacturers use cotton instead of burlap and jute for bagging. Indeed there has been some talk of the people of the South resorting to the use of white duck. cottonades and other cotton fabrics for clothing in the summer and thus show to the world that we prefer wearing apparel made of our own home staple. This was done per force during the war be tween the sections, when necessity re quired the Southern people to live very, very economically. To some this: might appea= to be carrying the move ment to an extreme approaching fa natisIsn. but the earnest leaders in the effort to get cotton into the con trol of the producers think that by next summer they will have the peo ple of the South willing to use cotton goods to an extent unprecedented. While this wearing apparel proposi tion may appear to be somewhat chim erical, yet there is much force and log ic in the movement to demand the use of cotton instead of burlap In mar keting grain, in shipping fertilizers, and in other commercial uses. This would increase the consumption of cot ton by hundreds of thousands of bales. Mr. F. H. Weston. secretary of the South Carolina division, has sent to every county organization an earnest appkal to stand by the movement for the increased use of cotton in the man ufacture of bags and bagging. He has also written to Mr. Geo. A. Wagener, )f Charleston commending the move ment of which Mr. Wagener is the leading spirit. Following is Mr. Wes ton's letter to the county organiza tions: 'I am sending you under separate cover by today's mail an article In reference to the use of cotton bags. I considei .his one of the most impor tant matters that our association can undertake. You will recall that at the time the association was formed, it was not only to meet the present em argency, but to endeavor to enlarge the fi'eld for cotton goods. There is no reason in the world why we should buy articles for our consumption-especial ly fertilizers-sacked in anything but cotton bags. I wish you would read 'arefully this marked article, and also theedioril;and if possible get your county papers to publish it. Later we will ask the county organizations of the association throughout the State to adopt resolutions requesting the fer :ilizer companies and others who use sack-s to use anly cotton sacks; and we should give the preference to those iertilizer conipanies and merchants who use cotton sacks. "A representative of the State asso dation will shortly go to Charleston for the purpose of conferring with the fertilizer people and will ask them to use cotton sacks.'' Following is a list of- counties in which there are organizations. with the names and postoffices of the presidents ~and secretaries: Aiken-W. W. Woolsey. Aiken; B. F. Holley. Aiken. Anderson-W. H. Glen, Liberty; J. W. Rothrock. Anderson. Barnwell-F. H. Creech, Barnwel!; H. L. O'Bar.non, Barnwell. Bamberg-John W. Crum, Denmark; J. D. Felder. Denmark. Cherokee-R. C. Sarratt. Gaffney; S. D. Parrott, Gaffney. Colleton-W. C. Brant, Getsinger; 3. B. Dodd. Round. Chester-P. L. Hardin. Bascomville; John S. Nunnery. Wylie's Mill. Clarendon-E. D. Hodge, Alcolu; A. H. Richtburg. Summerton. Chesterfield-John T. Hurst: Ches terfield; D. M. Barrentine, Chester field. 3. S. Minus, Edgefield. Fairfield-S. C. Cathcart, Winnsboro; I. F. Fooshe, Winnsboro. Florence-J. B. McBride, Florence; H. M. Ayer. Florence. Greenville-H. B. Tindal. Greenville; G. M. Wilkins, Greenville. Greenwood-J. M. Gaines. Gaines; W. L. Anderson. Ninety-Six. Georgetown-W. K. C~urry, Rhem's postoffice; W. E. Snowden, Choppee postoffice. Kershaw-W. K. Thompson. Liberty Hill: C. V. Birchmore. Camden. Lancaster-T. J. Strait. Lancaster; George W. Jones, Lancaster. Laurens-A. C. Fuller, Laurens; B. Y Culbertson, Madden. Lee-Samuel Bradley. Bishopville: R. Wv. McCutcheon, Bishopville. Lexington-E. J. Etheredge, Lees ville. Marion-Dr. W. Stack-house, Dillon; Mark Stackhouse. Marion. Marlboro-R. M. Pegues. Kollock; . L. Freeman, Bennettsville. Newberry-R. T. C. Hunter. Pros perity: W. K. Sligh. Newberry. Oconee-Paul Stribling, Richland; A. H. Ellison. Senecca. Orangeburg-J. E. Wannamaker, St. Matthews; G. L. Salley. Orangeburg. Pickens - J. T. Lewis. Anderson Mills: J. L. Morgan. Pickens. Richland--W. W. Ray. Congaree. Saluda-J. H. Watson, Johnson; H. G. Crouch. Saluda. Sumter-A. B. Stuckey, Sumter; P. M. Pitts, Sumter. 'Spartanburg-E. L. Archer. Spartan burg; H. S. Llpscomb. Trough. Union-John D. Farr. Union. Williamsburg-J. Davis Carter. Leo; R. H. Footman, Greenville.* York-C. E. Spencer, Yorkville; 3. IM. Starr, Yorkville. Three Children Burned to Death. Greensburg. Pa.. Special.-A distress ing accident resulted Friday from the explosion of a bottle of gasoline in the home of John E. Kunkle. in Maple ye home of Jchn E. Kunkle, in Maple Aye ;)urned to death and a fourth so fear -ully in.iured that rec'overv is a matter af doubt. Three memnbers of the fire de oartment were also badly injured. At: torney A. M. Wyant and John S. Mur phy. who at'tempted to rescue the chil 3ren from the burning home, were se verely burned and cut about the hands PALMETTO AFFAIRS Dccurrencea of interest in . Various * Parts of the State. Charlotte Cotton Market. These prices represent prices paid to wagons: Strict good middling ........... 7% aood middling .................--. Strict middling ..................7 %y Nliddling .........................7% yinges ...................6% to 7.00 Stains ....................5%4 to 6/4 Geneal Cotton Market. Middling. Galveston, quiet ............... 7i New Orleans, steady..............7% 1.1obile, easy ..................7 5-16 Savannah, easy ...................7% -Charleston, quiet ................7% Wilmington, dull ................714 Korfolk, quiet ....................7% Baltimore, nominal ..............7% New York, quiet .................4.80 Boston, quiet ...................8 Philadelphia, quiet ..............8.05 Houston, quiet ................... Augusta, steady ................7 1-16 Memphis, steady .................7%' St. Louis, steady ...............7 9-1 Louisville, firm ..................7% Palmetto Items. It is probable that Isadore Thompson )f Greenville, will have a hard time to get a pardon. In 1903 he hiiled Arch Sullivan in Greenville and was sen enced to serve the rest of his life in :Ison. A peiition stating th:e case as been received. Acting upon his asual custom, Gov. Heyward sent the peition to the prosecuting attorney. T'ho in this case was Senator Dean of .reenville. The latter declares, in an mdorsement received Tuesday, that :he prisoner should be made to serve it least a sentence for manslaughter, is there was little in the case to rec )mmend a pardon. It is declared in :he petition that Isadore Thompson -illed the man who seduced his daugh :er, refused to marry her and then ~ent about bragging of what he had Icne. However, the jury seems to have thought that there was enough in the case to have the accused sent to the penitentiary for life. Bib Smalls, the North Carolina white man who was convicted of murdering a negro, will not be hanged at Dar !ington on the 5th of May, as has been generally expected throughout the ' tate. and has been strongly hoped by many people in Darlington county. His attorneys have perfected the appeal to he Supreme Court just in time to save is neck, and he thereby getting a year's respite, if not a reversal and !,ew trial. Notice of the perfection of the appeal was given Governor Hey ward by Smalls' attorneys, and the Governor has notified the Darlington sheriff to hold up on the hanging. The appeal also includes some faint hope for the life and liberty of John Nal, also white , convicted along with Smalls, but given only a life sentence. inasm-4ch as the jury recommended him to mercy. James Moore, a negro laborer at work on the excavations for the new bank building on Main street in Co lumbia. lost his life there in such a strange and unusual manner that his felloy workmen's sunerstitions have been aroused and it has been difficult to get them to work arain. Moore was standing beside a six-fcot embank ment, when part of it containing bricks gave way and fc1l against him, and althcugh the imnpact of hardly more I than a cubic v;ard of the st-iff. he re ceived injude's which resulted in his ieath three hcurs later. H~e was trip ped by the cave-in against a wheel barrcw board walk. the brick mashing his head and neck against the boari. Comptroller Generrl.T ore; is doing a hit of "truest-bustir-g" on the side by riing the tax of the returns of big I corporations. The raising of the Vir ginia-Carolina Chemical Comnany's return from $700.000 to $3,C00.000 has been followed by raising the re.. turn of the Standard Cil Co-mpany to $200.000 frcm $65.000. The par value of stock is put down in the retul-n at $100 a share, and the capital is placed at $100.000.000. with over $9S,000.000 of that paid in. The stock is being quoted in the market at $670 a share, it is demonstrated that a gigantic cor poration with its various properties has a market value of over a billion riollars. The people of Rock Mills township in Andersen county have voted an ad ditional tax of four mills for school purposes. .The vote for the speciat levy was unanimous, not a single vote having oposed it. Many of the dis trcts in the county have voted spec ial levies to support their schools. nd the movement for better 'educa tional facilities is steadily progressing. In one instance, at least, in addition to the voting of a special levy. the principle of consolidation has been successfully carried out. The rails in the new raircad .con necting Union with the Seaboard Air Line are now being laid rapidly. A large force is already at work without the corporate limits of Union. and the rails would be run right into where the new station will be located vwcre it not neessary to build a trestle in the :ear of L. G. Young's residernce. This tiestle will be an especially heavy cnc. about 45 feet long, and will require about two or three weehs to he com peted. For several days Capt. D. J. Griffith, a railroad conductor. who has been grading out for the new railroad ards. has been working aheadi of the track gang in order that the roadbed w culd be in first class condition. Gov. Heyward Wednesday offered a wa d of $150 for the arrest of the - pet son who burned the barn of L.. F. Stanford in Union county on the niht of April 2nd. The offer of re t~ard was made at the iequ~est of So licitor Sease. The Spartanburg Herald Company, with $10,000 capital,, and with A. E. Conzales, W. W. Holland, H. L. Wat son and F .H. McMasters as corpora tors, was commissioned. Mr. D. M. Dedenbaugh, of Anderson, the young railroad man who was ar ested a few days ago on a charge of embezzlement, has been released on a bond of $1,000, given by J. W. Ashley, of Honea Path. He has employed counsel and the case will come up for ti al at the next term of the sessions court in May. In the warrant on which his arrest was made it is alleged that he misappropriated funds to the amount of $2.OSG. Major 3. F. Hart. commander of the famous Hart's battery in the Civil War, died at Yorkville, where he had lived many years.