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BEAUTIFU] r spacious skies, ves ot grain. ntain majestles ited plain! America! grace on thee. ood with brotherhoo< aifning sea! r pilgrim feet. upassioned stress r freedom beat erness. America! ne everv flaw. ul in seli control, in law! -Katharl BRIARLE By WINIFR1 S N Shackleford Hanna Overton at forty was coi sidered a fortunate womatI She had her health. the Br arley farm and the secrE V * V of the Briarley preserve! Despite Hannah's genuine grief, J could not but be a relief to her that he avnt. old Ennice Briarley, was dea< and her bitter heart at rest. She ha brought up Hannah from a child, and 1 had been no light-hearted girlhood. Hannah Overton had done her duti but Shackleford had watched the yout fade out of her face. and it was g!a that at last she was to have a chancq a chance of what, perhaps Shacklefor hardly knew. To be sure. Briarle farm was mortgaged, but there was sale at a good profit in Boston for th Briarley jams and jellies. Shacklefor had refused to be anxious over th mortgage. It was more apprehensiv that the coming of the stranger. Len Pierce. might in some way bring trol ble to Hannah. But Lena Pierce brought no troubl She was the orphan child of Eunic Briarley's favorite nephew, and joi heir with Hannah Overton to the Briai ley farm. Lena was a brisk, rosy, c pable little person of twenty. For thre years she had sfipported herself as stenographer. Once, when a little gir she had visited Briarley farm, and evc afterward the visit had remained sunny memory, as she walked the cit streets where her lot was cast. A course of ' varied fortunes ha taught Lena adaptability. With a ease that was amazing she took to h( new inheritance and her new cousii to the cultivation of small fruits an the manufacture of preserves. From the first Hannah and Len were companionable. For Hannah was a story that never grew stale 1 hear Lena tell of the experiences of hi checkered childhood, a story that Len told with a quaint, detached amusi ment, as if it had not been Frself t all, and always with a protecTing te: derness for the pair of unpractical pa: ents who had been so hefpless and loving. Hannah's life seemed strangel meager beside that of the girlC -twenty. "I'm afraid ::ou'll be lonely here. Hannah said, as they sat together o the front porch in the summer twiligh "No," answered Lena, with decisiol "'Ever since I can remember I've a ways been moving, but this is home.'' As the weeks went on they gre more than companionable. It seeme to each that she had wanted the oth' for a long time. Then came on the part of each a 1tfort to Ii' e up to the other's opinion < her. Hannah had seen how Lena keen young eyes looked through peopl< -she had heard her forming judginen1 that showed a relentless common sens Would those keen eyes see throug Hannah herself one day? "She thinks I'm a Briarley:" groane Hannah. 'She's all Briarley hersel I did think this summer I nright gi erest, but I shouldn't dare. wit her'n the house. That's the Briarle of it. Sad)A enough Hannah remember( how ofign her old Aunt Eunice hI said thatl-if Hanrnah's hands had bee more cap'able and her feet swifte there need gever have been a mortgas on Briarley ,farm. 0 that mxortgag How Hannahkh'ated it: Yet that suremer she toiled as si had never toiled before; and all b cau~se there had \come into her lire young person, eneigetic, fiercely hatir sloth, a young perskn merry and full good cheer and goo to have abou Swho looked at Hannlih with eyes fu >of admiration and of 'love. On her first arrival *Nena had give the accounts of the farin a sharp I: spection. She bad fount out the ai sets of the Briarley prese .ves, and tI amount of the mortgage. The idea< the mortgage was hideous tg her. Si and her cousin would work \until the got rid of it and the Briarley 'farm w: theirs. Therefore Lena learned th(e secre of strawberry runners, and iof tI thinning of blackberry bushs, ari clad in a blue pinafore, toiled oyer ti steaming sirups until. in one short Surl mner, her currant jelly equated Ha: nah's, and her black raspherr5 .jam w just a shade better. - But it was really all vt6ry new to be and her efficiency was at the cost of strict self-discipling.' She was here: last on the Briarle-v farm, that fair; land of her childhobod, and, since I~er was but twenty, and had never hI me to be young. the farm itself a: aled to her with An intoxicating d hit. W~hat a place the: apple orchard wt for dreaming: Bu apples. Lena ha to remember, meaP t beautiful amub elly. and jelly meagnt dollars. and dc Ears meant mortga ' payments. Lena admonished erself to take pa en by her cousin yannah, for who: is toilsome sunmmer was no first e: ience. and who stepped so unwea ly about the old kitchen. To Ler the farm-the clean. shadowy bar orchard ia which the indole2 usts droned. ti-e nestling cornfielt alled, "Come out of that kitchen am oy mner' I wonder." Lkna asked herself. ? ousin Hannah lever wanted to phi suppose not. tThat's the Briarley t: Well, I'm gl~d I've got Cousin Ha nah, if I do hav-4 to be a Briarley now~ It seemed to ~annah that the far drove them likg a taskmaster with lash. In June~ close together. carl the straw berrie~ and the cherries; 1 fore they are ppst the red raspherri nd -he cnrrantis: then black raspbt L, MY COUNTRY.. Oh. beautiful for glory ta:e Of liberating strife, When valiantly, for man's avail, M1en lavished precious life. America: America! May God thy -od reine . 1, Till all successes be nobleness, And eve-y gain divine! Oh. beautiful for patriot dream 'That sees byonl the years Thine alabaster cities gleani Undimmed by human tears! America: America. God shed His -race on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood, From sea to shining sea! ne Lee Dates, in The Congrega :ionalist. Y HOLIDAY. * ED KIRKLAND. U ries and blackberries: and while your - hands are still stained from these, ap . pIes and apples and apples! Right in - the midst of these. come the cucumber t pickles, and these you must keep close picked for your life, or else the proper t finger length will be grown a hand's r span in a night! i. The pile of dollars in the savings d bank grew larger and larger. A few t more busy summers and there wouid be ho mortgage, and Briarley farm , would would be theirs indeed. But. 0 t dear, to stand in mid-August and look d back over a summer, and see no vacait , slot into which you could possibly have d packed a holiday! To look ahead and F see nothing but pickles-green toma a toes, red tomatoes, cauliflower, cab e bage-pickles lasting on and on into d October! e Hannah Overton loooked at her sum e mer and made a resolution. To herself a she said: - "She's young, and she'll still have time." -. To Lena she said, as they sat at the e tea table: t "I'm going to borrow Hiram Hand's team, and drive over to Caleb Miller's - to see about those quinces. You can e manage the apples without me, can't a you? I'll weigh the sugar to-night. 1, After I've seen Caleb, I'll maybe go on r to Davidstown. I can't tell. I'll be a gone all day, perhaps. I'll take a lunch y with me in case I don't get home for dinner. You won't mind being left d alone, since you'll be busy ?" n "Oh, no! I'll have a chance to show r- you how much I can do in a day all by , myself." d "I know that well enough already." answered Hannah. with forced anima a tion. She always did feel like a sneak it in the presence of the fierce Briarley 0o energy. r The next morning early Hannah a drove away. She was composed enough until she was out of sight of the -house, t then the gipsy lights woke in her eyes. For a short distance the road skirted Lher property. Hannah looked at her o tidy fields with some resentment. y"It's a pity a woman can't have time I to enjoy her own farm:-' she muttered. "I drelare I'm going to have some time "off, if I do have to steal it froir her:" n with a glance back in the directionl t. of the house. 1. At that little word came a sudden 1- revulsion of feeling, for Hannah knew that at that moment her one wish was ;to have that same person sitting beside d her in the buggy, jogging along behind er the old ambling, amiable horse, with a holiday before them. n Hannah did go to Caleb MIiller's. but >f no farther. She was honest in telllng 's Lena that she did not know wiat she a; should do afterward. What shie did do : was to turn round. e. Left alone. Lena washed the break 'h fast things with hands that trembled. She swept the speckless kitchen floor .d in nervous haste. For just a moment f. she stood surveying the shining plates at of sugar on the table, the empty jelly h tumblers gleaming in the sun, the y bushel basket heaped with apples un der the table. Then she turned to the d range, where burned a clear, steady d fire, an excellent fire for .jelly; and n after a moment's hesitation she turned r, off the drafts. e She ran into the pantry and <quickly e put up a lunch for herself. She drew the shades of the kitchen windows, e took down her sunbonnertrfom its peg e- and closed the door behind her. Out a side, she turned and addressed it: g '"Kitchen, I'm not coming back all >f day. I'm going to play wvith my farm!' 't It was a lovely, lazy August morning; I1 bdby clouds were floating in the blue overhead, there was a droning of bees nf in the air, and warm summer odors a- were breathing from the mignonette s- bed and the orchard. ie If you had been a well-behaved and >f prosaic hen on that farm, you would me have thought that Lena had gone mad. y but she was only playing. When she i was a little girl she had climbed thc orchard trees, and swung on the forked ts branches; she had jumped from the me barn rafters downi into the fragrant d hay; she had wand~eredI, singing, up2 e and down the avenues of cornstalks. 2- She did all of these things again. She a- lay on her back under the orchard s trees, and again listened to find how noisy the grass ca:.i be with all the r, busy life that goes on down~ there. a So the morning went on, and pres it ontly, incredibly soon it seemed to - Lena. a distant whistle in the villagc a of Shackleford booomed out the noon .d hour. p- "Time for me to have my picnic:! e- ried Lena, jumping up. She would have it-just where she used sometimes S to carry her suppers on that visit long d ago. She had quite forgotten that or 'r the first occasion it had been her cousir I- Hannah who hat1 showed her the spot. You follow the stone wall. overgrownr t- with wild rose vines. You dip downr m the hill out of sight of the house, of C- the barn, and on you go until you reach r- the clearest of little broo)ks running ia through thme greenest of meadows. n, The stream turns and twists in tor it tuous fashion, and all its turns are is outlined through the meadow by the id low willows that skirt the barks. In one spot an old willow, half-uprooted, if nas fallen across the broo~k, forming y. a live and growing bridge. Blackbirds, of back-winged and red-winged, are noisy n- in the willows all day long, and little ."minnows flash through the brown, peb m bly depths of the stream. You may a hang over the willow bridge and- watch :ie them. *e- Lena climbed out on the old tre4 es trunk, and sat there, swinging her fee1 - oer te war while se ate, Ee had lost her sunbcnnet somewhere on the way, and her hair was loose. She knocked her heels against the tree trunk in time with a little song she hummed. Ie:- luncheon over, she rested her chin on her hands. her hair tumbling abou: her rosy face, andl she became gradually pensive. "It's a perkvfect holidaly." she said. "except for one thing, and that is-I wish I herd some Ont. I to play with." She started suddenly. Who could poss:ly con.e visiting this far corner of the farm at this hour of the day? Yet some one was surely moving along on the other side of the brook. Lena did not stir. She peered vainly through the screening willow branches. Some one was coming aeross by the willow bridge. The branches parted a face appeared! The old-maidenly bonnet was hanging by the strings, the neat-brushed hair had come loose Into naughty little girl ish curls, the eyes were shinffing, the cheeks were as red as Leva's; at that instant, framed in the green willows, she looked almost as young. "*Cousin Hannah:" cried Lena. "Lena!" gasped Hannah. Then they broke into a laughter so merry. so prolonged, that the black birds' flew off in a protesting flock. The girls had not known that they could laugh like that. They laughed until it seemed that they could never speak again; but laughing did more than words could have done, and ex plalned much they had never under stood before. At last Lena spoke: "Cousin Hannah, the next time we take a holiday, let's take It together, and-and-let's not be Briarley's aur more."-Youth's Companion. London fogs are of locai origin, al though their cause seems to be not fully understood. Kew loses only ten per cent. of the annual sunshine through fog, while Westminster loses thirty-six per cent. Two London investigators are seek ing persons, who in the dark, can see colored rays from the human body and flashes from a magnet. Professor Reic:aenbach is said to have proven that thirty persons in every one hun dred can see the latter. The trustees of the Percy Sladen Fund for the atsistance of scientific research, the est:bli:hment of which with an endowme::t of $100.000 was recently noted in science journals, will hold a second meeting In November to consider applications for grants. The ingenious adulteration intely de tected by a Frenich chemist, consists in the addition to poor or skimmed milk of cheap fats--such as cocoanut butter or pork dripping-and thus bringing the proportion of faty mat ter up to the standard required by the inspectors. The foreign fat, which may be dissolved out by benzinie with out affecting the natural fat, is appar ent when a clean glass rod is dipped into the milk, imperfect emulsifica tion producing small granules that ad here to the rod. A new adhesive that has gaIned pop ularity in France is a mixture of ca seine and tannate of lime. In prepar ing it, a solution of tannin is precip itated with milk of lime, the liquid is poured off and the precipitate is slow ly dried. This dry calcium tannate is then ground in a mill with dry caseine in the proportion of one to ten times its weight, according to the use to be made of the adhesive. The compound dissolves in water, .petrole umn, oiks and carbon bisulphide, ad heres very strongly, and is applied as a paste with water,. What seems to be true mimicry in plants has been pointed out In South Africa by Dr. R{. Marloth. Of four singular species belonging to the gen us Mesembrianthemum, two resemble* both in form and color the quartz peb bles among which they grow, and the others have each two leaves about the size of a duck's egg, with a surface like weathered stone and a stone like brownish gray color tinged with green. At least two of these species d-> not change their characters under cutiva tion. A species of the genus Anacamp seros has leaves covered with white papery- stipules, and also resembles the surrounding quartz pebbles. California, that wonderland of vege tation, has also produced for a num ber of years, in a commercial way, silk worm eggs that find a ready mar ket in Europe. The California Ex periment Station has recently taken up anew the problem of silk worm culture, .with the ideat of divising a method which will reduce the cost of poducing rawv silk. The European. market absorbs all the silk worm eggs Califor:nia produces. but the expense of producing the silk is too great to enable the silk worm growers to com pete with Oriental or European growv ers. Life as it Reatly Is. The man of grand impulses sheds a lustre on all around him. When a woman says she is of little consequence she dhoes not expeCct shie will be taken at her word. A man usually estimates his value a(codinig to the scale of his own mak -Men speak of womn's vanity as somethin.g which is partz of every wom an's make-up. The kiss of love lingers long in~ the memory of a woman. When a man undertakes to prove his importance he is inclined to overstep the mark. Every woman feels she knows just~ how far to go in the matter of assist ing nature with her face and figure. Many commanding men are easily controlled by those who seem to be other than commanding. The woman who thinks she can man -age her husband's affairs never makes known how she would do it.-Pittsburg Dispatch. The primary schools of Bangkok are now attended by over 10,000 pupils oi oh sezes CHIICAGO IN BAD WAY Labor Strike Assumes Alarming Pro. -ortions and Bloodshed Results SHOOT AND CLUB ON SUSPICION Fighting Was Even More Savage Than Monday's, Men Being Shot Down and Beaten cr Kicked Nearly to Death in the Heart of the Business Section. Chicago, Special.-The death of one man and the injury of scores of others was the immediate result of Tuesday's fighting between the striking teamsters and their symparhizers on the one side, and the police and the non-union men on the other. There were riots in all parts of the city. Men were clubbed and stoned almost to death within a square of police headquarters, and five miles away men were shot -down in the streets. At a hundred places between these two extremes of distance there were assaults and fights in the streets. Non-union men were pelted with stones, bricks and every other conceiv able sort of missles. They were drag ged from their wagons, beaten, club bed and stamped upon. EMPLOYERS DISUNITED. The Team Owners' Association, which employs none but union team sters, flatly refused to make deliveries to any of the firms involved In the strike, when asked to do so by the Em ployers' Association at a conference at the Union League Club. When the em ployers received this ultimatum they otified the team owners that unless the request that no discrimination be made in deliveries were granted, an ef fort would be made to have all exist ing contracts' between team owners and the business houses and the railroads cancelled. Ask For Troops. Chicago, Special.-Rioting in the streets in connection with the team sters' strike was so prolonged and so fierce that many of the leading busi ness men have concluded that there will be neither peace in the city nor safety for business interests until the State militia has been called out to restore order. A committee of members of the Em ployers' Association left for Spring field to confer with Governor Deneen and to request him to give orders to the State troops. The labor unions have several representatives at the State capital, and it is likely that they will also be heard before any action is taken by the Governor. Chief of Police O'Neill says he is confident that he has control of the situation and - can keep peace in the city. Mayor Dunne supports him in this view and has declared that in his opinion the emergency has not arisen requiring the presence of troops. BUSINESS MEN'S PLEA. On the other hand, business men point to the long list of injured which marked the rioting of Tuesday and the greater number of persons who were hurt Wednesday, and declare that these lists of injured alone are suffi cient proof that the police department is not sufficiently strong to cope with the situation. No complaint is made against the police department, for the officers have dispersed every mob with which they have come in contact and have guarded wagons night and day* with th~e greatest vigilance. But de spite the utmost efforts of the police fighting continues in the streets, and is if possible, more vicious On each succeeding day. While policemen have been able to disperse mobs and guard the wagons, they have not been able to prevent the many attacks that are made on non-union men in the business of the city alone. The situatison, business men say, will be ten-fold worse when express wagons and retail delivery wagons are sent to remote parts of the city. bespite the ordere of Mayor Dunne, many wagons of concerns against which strikes have been declared were handled by men armed with rifles and shot guns. Buys Atlanta Journal Stock. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-James R. Gray, editor and general manager of the Atlanta Journal, purchased a con trolling interest in the Journal, of which he has hitherto owned a minori ty of the stock. With Morris Bran don and H. M. Atkinson. Mr. Gr'ay in April, 1900, purchased the paper from Hon. H~oke Smith. H. H, Cabaniss and their associates. Mr. Gray has now acquired the holdings of Messrs. Bran don and Atkinson. The trade was for cash, but the figures have not been made public, but it Is said that these two gentlemen realized a large ad vance on their purchase. The Jour nal will continue under the sole man agement of Mr. Gray. $100,000 Fire. Bristol, Va., Special.-Fire at John son City, Tenn., starting at 12.30 Tues day night, destroyed property valued at $100,000. Insurance will cover half the loss. Among buildings destroyed are: Christian Church, City National Bank, Cargal's Gallery. Webb Broth, ers & Williams. Silver's stores. Iron and Steel Workers Meet. Detroit, Mich., Special.--The thir tieth annual convention of the Amal gamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers began here, wit'h a large. nuiber of delegates in attendance. A complete reorganization of the asso ciation is being urged by several of the lodges. The principal plan sug gested provides for a change in the name, form and government and methods of arranging wage scales for the various branches of skilled labor employed in iron, steel and tin plate Destroying Boll Weevil. Mexico City, Special.-The gold standard went into operation without the slightest jar or disturbance in business circles. The finance depart ment ht~d by a series of new regula tions and laws smoothed the way for the adoption of the gold standard. The present peso is worth 50 cents gold. The final completion of the monetary standard'. is hailed with general satis faction, especially by great transpor tation lig3es and Importers who have to buy ;heavily of raw materials abrod_ ( SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN Weather Conditions Given Out by the Department Observer. The week ending Monday, May 1st, had practically normal temperature. Although the first of the week was cooler than usual, the last few days were very warm, with maximum tem peratures above 80 degrees on the 29th There were rains on the 26th, 27th and 29th, with hail in a few places, and destructive high winds in Union and Saluda counties. The precipita ion averaged somewhat over an inch for the State. though many places re ported less than an inch, but ovep the entire State enough moisture was sup plied for the present need of all crops nd for germinating recently planted eeds. There were excessive rains in :he central and eastern counties that lelayed farmwork from one to three lays, but as a rule, the precipitation vas needed and proved very beneficial. Plowing and planting were inter ,upted. but made fair progress with he soil generally in fair condition. -otton plantang is more than three ourths finished, and early plantings ire coming up to good stands; some otton has been chopped in the eas :ern counties. There has been some eplanting done in the central coun ies where the nights have been too ool. Corn planting is now confined o bottom lands, and generally to the western counties. Early corn ha; good tands but it is being severely dam iged by cut and bud worms, necessi tating considerable replanting. The -orn that was cut down by the recent rosts is coming out again, and will iot need to be replanted. Early corn s being cultivated. The wheat crop Is being damaged by the fly in several northwestern ounties, but Is otherwise promising. rhe oats crop was scarcely injured by he frosts, and with the exceptions in he southeastern counties, is in a romising condition, though heading oo low in places. Truck was greatly benefitted by the showers of the week, and is promising except peas, which were Injured by he cold weather of February and igain in April. Some white potatoes were completely destroyed by the rost, while the larger portion of the rop is making a new growth. Large shipments of strawberries are being nade. Protected peach and other fruit :rees were only lightly touched by the rost of the 17th of April in the ex reme nogthwest. while exposed trees .ad all their fruit killed; the damage s less in the central counties and very miall in the castern ones. Apples are ot promising. Pear trees are blight :ng badly. Rice planting has not yet egun in the Georgetown district, and s about finished in the other districts. robacco transplanting is well ad vanced generally, and finished in a [ew sections. Melons and other crops -re now doing well. Pastures afford xcellent grazing. The season is from )ne week to ten days later than usual. -J. W. Bauer, Section Director. TO BRING IN FOREIGNERS. ommissioner Watson Arranges For Formation of Immigration Colonies to Locate in South Carolina. Columbia, Specia.-It arrangements which Commissioner of Immigration Watson is perfecting with Mr. F. A. alaman, an Englishman living in New Yfork, are carried out, a number of new tumber manufacturing concerns will be established at various points in this state with English labor, which will be colonize I later on. on the lands which are thus cleared. Mr-. Salaman returns to New York, after a confer ence with Mr. Watson, with whom he has been in correspondence nearly a year. The Englishman has been In this State about ten d.ys making a person al examination of the largest available tracts, and he Intimates that three or four of these properties will be taken aver. He is backed by New Jersey financial interests. After organizing things at this end of the line, he will go back to England and organize his colonies, which he will first use to gather the timber and afterward settle on the land thus cleared. Mr. C. J. C. Van Wyngaarden, who is to settle a Dutch colony in tihs State, after a lecturing trip throuah Holland, during which he will distrib ute Illustrated South Carolina litera ture, printed in Dutch, leaves Charles ton by the Clyde Line to-morrw: He will sail on the 10th of May for RottMe dam. Mr. Watson is now about to e' lect a man to put a similar schem a Germany. Negro Accidentally Shot. Spartanburg, Special.-While driv Ing a buggy along the public highway Sunday night about 11 o'clock, Gus Wallace, a negro, was accidentally shot and almost instantly killed by the discharge of a shot gun which he carried. The load entered the abdo men, and the man lived only a few minutes. Walace and another negro, it appears, had a difficulty a short time before the accident, and Wallace vas waiting for his adversary to pass along the road. A friend of the dead negro, passing by in a buggy, invited him to ride with him and the invita tion was accepted. South Carolina Items. Chick Springs Transfer company. Capital $400. D. H. Bull. J. W. Ken drick, J. A. Bull corporators. Brown Lumber company of Walhalla. Capital $10,000. L. J. Brown, presi dent; L. M. Brown, secretary and treasurer. Dillon Iron works. Capital $10,000. J. D. Haselden, president and treasurer. No other officers. Directors: T. A. Dillon, J. H. Davis. J. W. Moore, T. G. King. T. B. Stackhouse, George Bene dit and J. H. Hamner. Charleston Coco Cola Bottling com pany. capital $10,000. W. K. McDoweli. James E. Cross, corporators. News of the Day. A large barn in Loudoun county, Va., containing many horses, cattle and mch other property, belonging to Judge Youmans, of the Court of Claims, was burned. A memorial windolw presented by the Maryland Daughters of the Con federacy, will be unveiled in the Mart land Room, Memorial Hall, at Rich mond, on May 9th. New Enterprises. The following new enterprises were given charters and commissions: Farmers' and Mechanics' bank of Florence. Capital $25,000. Corporators: J. W. Ragsdale, E. M. Matthews, W. M. Waters. Interstate Trust company of Green ville. Capital $100,000. 3. F. Capers, W. E. Beattie, N. C. Poe, E. A. Smyth, L. W. Parker, W. Haynsworth cor I HE EUTAW VILLE LYNCHERS Henry Edwards Has Been Kept in the Penitentiary For His Own Good. Columbia State. 2nd. Henry Edwards, the State's witness In the Eutawville lynching case, was sent to Orangeburg Monday in charge of a guard of the State penitentiary. Edwards has been kept at the State prison ever since his arrest, for it was feared that violence would be done him if he were left in jail in Berkeley county. The so-called lynchh. at Eutawville was the assassinatioL of Keitt Book hardt by parties unknown the 7th day of last July. The negro had been put in jail on the trivial charge of having exchanged epithe'ts with Henry Ed wards. That night the negro was tak en from the flimsy structure used for keeping prisoners and his body was found two days later In Santee river, having floated and brought to the top a heavy grate bar which had been tied around his waist. The body gave evidence of Inhuman treatment at the hands of the fiends. The ears had been cut off and there were other marks of violence to show in what manner the murderers had tried to degrade the body of their victim. Governor Heyward's attention was directed to the crime by a letter from Mr. J. D. Wiggins, magistrate at Eu tawviile, who denounced the murder and and begged Governor Heyward to take some action. Accordingly Gov ernor Hev-.,.rd urged Solicitor Hilde btand to go to Eutawville for the In quest. The Pinkerton Detective agen cy was also communicated with and Inspector Demaio was put on the case. The Investigation resulted in the ar rest, after three months, of several white men of prominence In that sec tion. These men were kept in custody at the penitentiary until the 17th of De cember, when a preliminary hearing was held at St. George, Dorchester county, Magistate A. E. McCoy pre siding. The preliminary was held at St. George because that point is on the railroad and was as accessible as Eutawville and more accessible than Monck's Corner. With one exception the prisoners were remanded to jail to await trial. "Piney" Martin was released, as h6 had been arrested on a warrant intend ed for "Penny" Martin. The others indicted are: Henry C. Edwards, who confessed and is being used as the prosecuting witness; S. A. Eadens, the onstable in whose custody the negro was on the night of the lynching; J. H. Palmer, a policeman at Eutawvlle; Penny Martin, Andrew Martin and Ad ger Butler. The latter, was released as nothing could be proved against him. The crime was supposed to have oc curred in Berkeley county, and the ac used were taken to the county seat, Monck's Corner, where they have been lying in jail since last December. Sheriff J. B. Morrison, of Berkeley county, who was here a short time ago, declared that although his jail is but a log hut, the prisoners have been quite comfortable as they had the use orf the yard in the day time and, as e expressed it, "were getting as fat as pigs." But when the case was called for trial at Monck's Corner in January, Solicitor Hildebrand sprang a surprnse. He had had the territory surveyed, and while it Is true that Eutawville is in Berkeley county, still the place at which the murder was alleged to have been committed Is in Orangeburg county. The case was thus transferred to a county in which there was not so much personal feeling and interest. It g probable that at the approaching i'tm of court, the defendants' attor tys, Messrs. E. J. Dennis and J. W. Haynes, will make motions to take the case back to Berkeley county. Fire in Edgefield. Edgefleld, Special.-Monlday morning at 12:30 o'clock the home, of Mrs. C. . Asheley in Buncombe was discovered on fire, and before suffcient help reach ed the house the fire was beyond con trol and it was totally destroyed. Most of the furniture was saved. Mr. J. L. Mims was the owner of the property and it was partially Insured. Mrs. Asheley had some insurance on her effects. Sentence Commuted. Governor Heyward has commuted to life imprisonment the death sen tence of Sam Marks, the Darlington negro sentenced to hang next Friday for the murder of the white man, Hli liary Langston. Much feeling has been aroused In Darlington about the matter, and Marks and Moses Ham, who was given a life sentence for com plicity in the crime, were brought here to prevent them being lynched. There were petitions and counter petitions with reference to Marks, and even Judge Aldrich and Solicitor Johnson took opposite views, the latter con tending that Marks should hang Crop Damage on the Brozos. Houston. Texas, S pecial.-The Bra zos river is flooding the bottcm lands all along the valley from Hearn south to Richmond, and rising slowly at the latter place. The water Is a foot and a half deep in the town of Columbia, near the mouth, and has spread over a considerable area of farm land. The damage Is greatly lessened by the warning, which enabled farmers to get their stock out, but the loss to cotton and corn will amount to many thousands of dollars. Publishers at Charleston. Charleston, S. C.. Special.-The Southern Publishers' Association met at the Charleston Hotel Tuesday morn ing at 10 o'clock and after being call ed to order by President Cabiness. of Atlanta, was welcomed to the city by Mayor R. Goodwyn Rhett, the re sponse being made by Mr. Cabiness. After a short business session the par ty was taken in hand by the local en tertainment committee and took a fly ing trip through the city on trolley cars, stopping at the custom house wharf, where all embarked for Sulli 'v-.' I.s.ad ana the Isla of Palms. PALMETTO AFFAIRS Occurrences of Interest in Various Parts of the State. Geneal Cotton Market. Middling. Galveston, quiet ........-.... 7 5-8 New Orleans, quiet ............ 7 7-16 Mobile. quiet ................. 7 7-16 Savannah, quiet ...............7 1-4 Charleston, quiet ..............7 14 Wilmington, steady ............ 7 3-8 Norfolk, steady ............... 7 5-8 Baltimore, nominal ............ 7 34 New York, quiet ............. 7.85 Boston, quiet ....... ......... 7.90 Philadelphia, quiet ............ 8.10 Charlotte Cotton Market. These figures represent frices paid to wagons: Strict good middling ......... 7 5-16 Good middling .............. 7 5-16 Strict middling ................ 7 1-2 Middling .................... 7 3-16 Tinges ................. 6 to 63-4 Stains ................ 5.00 to 6.06 Report On Wreck. Columbia, S. C., Special.-Railroad Commissioner Earle Thursday filed his report on the wreck of the Ogden spe cial last Saturday morning, and the commission'set May 23rd for the hear ing when the crews of the two trains the yardmasters at Greenville, the op erators and dispatchers handling or ders affecting either train and ths sup erintendents of the Charlotte and Sav annah division will appear in answer to summons to give evidence, and will be asked to bring copies of all orders and telegrams affecting the moving of the special. No passengers will be sum moned. The report asserts that Greenville was not notified by what is known as "order No. 31", which the yardmaster receipts for in triplicate, the operator checking back "complete" to the dis patcher, but Commissioner Earle re ports that Night Operator Lebby told him that he placed a copy of the sched ule of the special on Yardmoster Faus saux's hook before 3 o'clock Saturday morning. Mr. Earle was unable to see Mr. Fausseaux, but he makes this sig nificant report of an interview he had with Yardmaster Riser, who succeeded Faussaux at 7 o'clock, 55 minutes be fore the wreck occurred: "I saw John Riser, Jr., who came on duty as yardmaster at 7 a. m. Mr. Riser says that he went to his file hook in the telegraph office soon as he came on duty; that he relieved M. G. Faus saux, who turned over no orders to him and said nothing about a special train; he further says that there was no orders on his file concerning this special train. He went immediately out and at the time of the accident was at what was known as the "overhead bridge' (a distance of 535 yards from the telegraph station). Mr. Riser says he had no notice of the time at which this special train was to arrive, but knew that such a train was coming in some time, and that it would be third class (it being an extra), and that his work train would have the right of way on the main line; that he received a copy of the schedule hereto attached after the wreck, getting a copy of it from the dispatcher, but understantis that a telegram, a copy of which fol1 lows: '4-29-05. Extra 1010 Ogden spe cial train reach Greenville 7.55,' was placed on his file at 7.18 a. in., while - he was at this overhead bridge." Shot in Dispute. Spartanburg, Special.-Thos. Jones was shot and instantly killed in his yard on north Church street Thursday morning by Thos. Godfrey. Godfrey was taken in charge by the police shortly after the shooting and is lod ged in the county jail. Jones was shot down very near his own doorsteps and in his lot by a neighbor. Godfrey, whose lot is nearby. At the time of the tragedy Jones was sitting in his front porch awaiting a street car to go to his shop. Godfrey approached from his (Godfrey's) house and holding out some pieces of grape vine in his hand, inquire of Jones if he k-new them. Jones replied in the negative, and Godfrey insisted that he did. This caused Jones to emphati cally state, without the superfious use of oaths, that he did not. Godfrey made some remark to which Jones re plied, calling Godfrey a liar. Gc 'frey drew a 38-calibre pistol and fired one shot at Jones. The ball entered Jones? left brest and plowed to the heart, and in a minute or more the man was dead. For Highway Robbery. Marion, Special.-Harvie Bethea and Henry Walk-er, two notorious negro characters, claiming Latta, this county, as their home. were arrested a few days ago, brought to Marion and lodg ed in jail on the charge of highway robbery on the person of Pres Camp bell Saturday night. They were brought before Magistrate Oliver and bound over to next term of court.-of general sessions. Charters and Commissions. A' charter was issued .Thursday to the Farmers' and Mechanics' bank of Florence, capitalized at $25,000. J. W. Ragsdale, president; F. M. Matthews, vice president; W. M. Waters, cash ier. The Pee Dee Furniture Manufactur ing company of Hartsville was given. a commission. Capits.l stock to be $10,000. Corporators, A. M. McNair, J. M. Fcrd and M. S. McKinnon. The A. C. Touchbury Lumber Co., of Charleston was chartered, capitali zation $300.000. A. C. Touchbury, presi dent: F. G. Davie, vice president; 3. J. Fleetwood, secretary, Charles Hill, treasurer. South Carolina items. The music festival, held at Spartan burg last week was a splendid success in every way. These festivals aro held annually and are always largely attended and highly interesting to 10' ers of genuinely artistic music. The convention of King's Daughters and Sons was held at Charleston last week, a large number of delegates and visitors being in attendance. Manning, Special.-The heaviest rain of of years fell here Thursday af ternoon, the fail being five inches in an hour and a quarter. Much damage is done to streams and bridges and a fine cow belonging to Mr. W. S. Hiar in, was drowned. Many bridges throughout the country are washed away and all access to Manning with vehicles is cut off on the Santee side. The damage cannot be estimated yet but will be heavy on the county. Palmetto Lumber company of Co lumbia was chartered, capitalization $,000. N. H. Driggers, president; Joel A. Smith, secretary and treaurer.