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LMETTO AFFAIRS currence.: of Interest in Various Parts of the State. Geneal Cotton Market. M Id ding. eston, frm ............... 7 7-8 e . te ............... -4 vannah. stead. .............. .-4 harleston. quiet ............. 7 9-16 'ilmington. steady ...........-7 1-2 0ofolk. steady ................ 7 7-8 altimore. nominal ............ 8.0) ew York. quiet ... ......... 8.15 sten, quiet ........ ........ 8.15 hiladelphia. steJ). .......... 8.40 ouston, steady .................8 tugusta, s:eady ............... 7 7-8 emphis, frm .................. 7 78 . Louis. steady .............. . . Ouisville, flrm ..................8 Charlotte Cotton Market. IThese fig::res represent prices paid b;. Wagons: tr ct 4g middling ............ 7 1-2 cod midd'ing ............... 7 1-2 'rict middling ............... d .i ...................... . 5-1 g ................. 6 3-S to 7 1-4 tains .................. 6 1-4 to 6 7-8 0 WAGE WAR ON BOLL WEEVIL. eEntorologists Adopt Resolutions etting Forth the Precautions That Culd Be Taken. emson College, Special.-Prof. C. hambliss has returned from At , where he presided over the meet of the State entomologists of the growing belts. The principal for discussion was the "Boll w." The following resolutions sed: eas, additional knowledge con he Mexican cotton boll weevil since the last meeting of this tion August 2, 1904, indicates the bility of the modification of s recommendations toward a State system of quarantine ions; therefore be it lved. That the previous resolu modified, and we recommend e present laws and regulations arious States be changed to to the following plan which, opinion. would furnish the re protection without unnecessary enience to the shipping interests rned. solved., That cotton lint (loose flat, or compressed), cotton seed. otton. hulls, seed cotton and cot ed sacks which have been usei. orn in the shuck originating in boll weevil infested localities of and Louisiana and of other which may hereafter become in should be excluded absolutely the uninfested territory. olved. That all shipments 0! old goods from infested areas id be prohibited unless accom 'ed by an affidavit attached to wiy to the -:fect that the shipment ins no cotton lint, cotton seed, cotton. totton seed and seed cot sacks. or corn in the husk. esolved. That all quarantine re ions now maintained against all r commodities be removed. esolved, That shipments of Quar ''articles through the States made in tight closed cars. That no comomn carrier edding or feed for live the quarantined articles.I That all laws and regu ned to eradicate isolated e boll weevil or to control tuld include the following ition against bringing in tory or bringing into the otton boll weevils. delegation to authorized nary authority to take eps are necessary for the of colonies and control of vil. definite authority be given r officers in charge of boll rantine matters to establish to time the necessary rules ation and to enforce the 'Res ed, That for the protection of cot rowing industry we rec mend the naction of the above visions in cotton growing States re there is t present no shipping rictions upon articles likely to dis inate the boll eevii." A ChapeT f Seamnen. arleston, Special.-gAt a meeting of standing committee of the Episco diocese next month ''n the matter sthe erection of a chape~l for seamen 'll: be acted upon., In 186S Miss Hiar et13nckney left $38,000 ftr the pur ase, but the church was never erect ' forts were made to apply the ei to other uses, but these pur having failed, it is likely that amnan's church will be built. Bored Hole in His Body. nsca. Special..-A very peculiar erious accident occurred at W. ast's factory Monday evening. nis, the 14-year-old son of Richard , was boring with an augur that turned by machinery. To steady' short board he was v essing his against it. The board was a thin nd the augur went through and s groin on the right side five or "nches. He pulled the augur out self, and in coming out it brought ves full of fiesh. The boy had w. minutes before the acei told to keep away from the is condition is critical. acolet Mill. :cial.-The building Miil will begin at 'liminarv work is dI the active con silding will comn time . Pre'sident \. left last night for~ the purpCO of purchasing or the new mill, and the wu. be read:y for shipment just )on as the building is re'ady for stallation. York's Graded Schools. kville. Special.- The gradedI 1 trustees have re-elected Super ent J. C. Allen and all the pres cuity, as followvs: Prof. L. W. s. principal: and Misses Allen. 17 and Sudie Allison. Miss from Florence. and the others Yorkville. The 10th grade pped, and, of course, one was left off. This was Prof. vey Witherspoon. who has made ~xcellent instructor and given sat faction to the patrons of his room. he others have also proved to be PALMEITO STATE CROPS Conditions as Given Out by Depart ment of Agriculture. The temperature during the weEk ending Monday. May Sth. was much above normal. and the daily maximum ranged generally above SO degrees du ring the last half of the week: the night temperatures were also slightly above normal. The preciaitation was heavy, in many places excessive and -amaged lands by erosion and fooding. Farmwork was imprar-ticable during .he greater part of the week as the lands were to wet to plow, plant or cul tivate. The prevailing high tempera ture and copious rainfall caused crops of all kinds to grow rapidly, and were particularly favorable on small grain and truck crops, and for transplanting. Many fields have become foul with grass and weeds and stand in urgent need of *work, this bcing especially true of early planted corn and cotton; :he much early corn has received its first cultivation. Corn has good stands as a rul., but bud and cuts worms are thinning tands on low lands; some corn is turn ing yellow from too much rain.. Cotton planting is not finished in the western parts, the practically finished n the central and eastern counties. ex 2ept on bottom o- low lands that have een too wet recently to plant. Stands vary greatly, being generally good for that planted since the April killing frost and very poor for the early plant ings, much of which is being replanted. Some being replanted on account of cut worms, and some on account of being too foul to rid of grass and weeds. ome cotton has been chopped. Tobacco transplanting is about fin shed. and is doing well generally the grasshoppers and cut worms have dam aged stands locally. There has been a marked improve ment in oats which is quite promising. Wheat is not doing so well on account >f the Hessian fly and some rust. Truck rops and gardens have improved rap idly, the melons are still poor. The weather was favorable for rice. Peaches are dropping in the eastern ar.d south rn counties with enough let to make a good crop: In the westr (lnties the fruit prospects are very .-. apple and pear trees are blighting oauiy. Pas tures are fine. The shipments of beans. peas and strawberries are heavy.-J. W Bauer, Section Director. Will Sell Court Square. Sumter. Special.--Supervisor Seale. Commissioners Brogdon and Thomas, Senator faaning and Representatives I Moses, Fraser a.id Clifton, composing the county commissioners and legis lative delegation, held a joint special meeting. and it was decided to sell the ourt house square and buildings for not less th:n $60,000. The vaults, fur niture and other fixtures will be re tained. It was decided to purchase he entire property known as the Solo mons property, on North Main street. etween Hampton avenue and Canal tret, for $25,000. The sale of this property and the emoval of the court house site and the erection of a new building have* reated .interest and excitement among the citizens and property owners. It s the talk of the town among business nen. It is pleasing to know that this ourt house square will be sold for at least $300 a front foot. Charlie Hill Investigated. Spartanburg, Special.-Charlie H ill, olored, was investigated in United States Commissioner McGowan's court Saturday morning, charged with col lecting a money order directed to "C. Hill. Salisbury, N. C." He pleaded uilty. The amount was $10. Charlie Hill was working in Salisbury several onths ago, and inquired at the post ffle for his mail. He was informed that there was a letter for C. Hill. He pened it and discovered that there was money order in it for $10. He se ured a friend or acquaintance to Iden tify him, and collected the money, which belonged to another person. He was bound over to the United States :ourt and will be tried at Charlotte. rhe case was worked up Dy inspector Pt'.fer. Henry Grandy Acquitted. Greenville. S. C., Special.--In the eneral Sessions court Henry Grandy was acquittend of the murder of Otto d4ace, the homicide occurintg in a beer lispensary on Washington street last ummer. It will be recalled that Gran y and Mace fought with beer bottles td Mace received a wound in the head which resulted in his death three days later. Self-defense evidence was ad luced at the trial and the jur~y was ut ten minutes. Fleets Have United. St. Petersburg. By Cable.-Accord ing to dispatches to the Admiralty brought to Saigon. by the hospital hip Kostroma, the junction of Vice dmiral'Rojestvensky and Nebogatoff is by this time an accomplished fact. rhe Admjralty professes ignorance of the present location of the united squadrons: but in view of the long and uninterrupted voyage of Neboga toff's division, it is believed his ships will spend some time in sheltered1 wa ters of the China Sea, near the coast but outside- the three-mile limit, in or ler to complete final recoaling and ther preparations before setting out n the last and crucial stage of the voyage. Plans For Colony. Charles Pievania. a Swiss. who was consultation with Commissioner Vatson, is the forerunner of a Swiss olony which will devote itself to cat le-raising and will likely settle in the .iedmont. Mr. Pievani will spend until all on farms in South Carolina in or-I cr to thoroughly study the situation. ;hen he wvill return to Switzerland. *vhere. with his father, he will organize Scolony. Captured in Arkansas. I Alfred Free, a white man wanted for he assassination of W. M. Moss in Sa uda county last October. whom he is accused of killing with the assistance f two others, was foolish enough re ently to write home from Perris, Ar kansas. The Saluda officers were ad ised. with the result that Free was ar ested in Arkansas. where he is in jail. Sheriff Sample was here to see the sovernor, who will make out requisi ilon papers and have them sent to Ar CATAWBA INDIAN AFFAIRS A Complete Investigatio-n Being Mai Into Their Affairs. A complete investgaton of the co ditons of the Catawba Indian trib and of the recent requests made I some of the leaders will be made f< a report to the General Assembly. will be remembered that some tin ago Chief Harris came before the Go oriror and asked that the tribe be - lowed to go West and settle with 11 other Indians. This is a matter, ho' ever, that would have to be considerE by the General Assembly, and the gro osition will have to come before th, body. The State now makes an appr priation of $1.500 for the support of t1 tribe, and according to Harris this not enough for them to live on. It ma be of interest to some to know ..h, the first contract made between th Indians and the State was in 1783, an that up to a few years ago they r ceived about $5,000 a year from th State. There was a tract of land alsot fourt.en miles, which was owned b the tr~be, and the proposition accepte by them was that the State was 1 make this annual appropriation $5,000 in lieu of iuit-claims whic could be collected from the white- pe ple who had settled on the reserv, tion. There are only a few of the ful blooded Indians left, and it is ver probable that the State will accel their propostition and allow them to g West. One year's appropriation woul pay the expenses of the tribe, and wit the aid of the Federal Governmer enough land could be obtained to allo them once more to follow the occupi tion of farming. At present they d very little work and are gradually d: ing out. UNIQUE SPECIAL EDITION. Southern Industrial Number of Chai lotte Evening Chronicle to be Issue May 20th by Rev. J. A. Baldwin, Fe the Benefit of Piedmont Induslria School. Something of special interest in th way of a special issue will be the In dustrial number of the Charlotte Even ing Chronicle that Rev. J. A. Baldwir principal of Piedmont Industrial Schoo will publish on May 20th. Apart froE the fact that the receipts go to a mos worthy object, the paper in itself wil be something far out of the ordinary and well worth a permanent place ii every home in the South. An idea of the extraordinary valu of this edition can be gleaned from th long list of contributors of national an even world-wide fame, who have s generously lent their labors to make u the extraordinary contents. The fol lowing are selected at random from th long list of able contributions that wil make i:s pages interesting: "Whyr I Established The Piedmon [ndustrial School." by Principal, J. A Baldwi:2; *"The Dignity of Labor." b: Mr. Edwin Markham. distinguishei poet, author of "The Man with thi Hoe." and other poems; "Industria Schools in Germany," by Prof. Jeroma Dowd, professor of Sociology in Uri versity of Wisconsin: "A Beautif'u South," by Mrs. John Van Landing ham. Charlotte. N. C.; "Agriculture il the South."' by Hon. R. N. Page. Con gressman. 7th North Carolina District "The Spirit of Tolerance," by Mr. J. F Cadwell, editor Charlotte Observer "20th of May, 1775"-A Poem, by Mrs F. L. Townsend, Franklin, N. C.; " Young Man's Chances Today," by Mi D. L. Gore, president cotton mill, etc. Wilmington. N. C.; "The Power o Habit," by Rev. Dr. M. D. Hardin, pas tor Second Presbyterian ch'irch, Char lotte. N. C.: "Tariff Revision," by Hon E. Y. Webb. Congressman, 9th Nortl Carolina District: "Political Econom: in the South,'' by Richard T. Ely, LL D., head of department of Politica Economy in University of Wisconsin author of many bookts; "Immigration, by Hon. F. M. Simmons, U3. 5. Senato from North Carolina. Rev. J. A. Baldwin, Editor-in-chief Charlotte, N. C., will sell the papers a 10 cents per copy or $1.00 per dozen and the entire proceeds will go to th fund of the Piedmont Industrial School $60,000 Fire. Columbia, S. C.. Special.-A special t The State from Greenville, says: "Fir which broke out about 8 o'clock in th millinery department of the larg dry goods establishment of the J. 'I Arnold Company completely gutted th store. The stock, which is valued a $0,000, is almost a complete loss, wit] about 50 per cent. insurance. The ori gin of the fir-e is a my'stery. Mr. Salley at Work. Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr., the secretary c the historic commission, is rapidi: getting the records at the Caf.itol il shape. A meeting of the State Hous commission will be held on Ma:- 1 and the plans submitted by Architer Wilson for the record cases will b ccepted, and work on the cases an filing cabinets for the preservation C the valuable data will be begun at once ..r. Sally will use the room adjoinin the Secretary of State's office. whic] is now used as a clerk room, for th latter. The records are now up-stairs assorted and prepared for the files There is a great deal of work neces sary to get things in shape. State Hoopital For Insane. The work of wiring the Talley build ing at the State Hospital for the Ir sane is progressing rapidly. The build ing; will probably be completed an readly for occupancy in the next fel nonths and will relieve somewhat tha ongested condition of the institutior .ust at this time of the year there ari ore patients than at any other seasor The proposition of housing them al will continue to be a serious one. bu he new building will relieve the stral: emporarily.. Palmetto Items. Anderson, Special.-The purchasin, ommittee of the librar:y associatioi has bought a lot for the Carnegie Ii brary. It is centrally located and was purchased for the sum of $1.30'). Al on litions have been complied with t: secure Mr. Carnegie's donation of $10, 000. and as soon as he is notified o this fact the amount will be forwardet by check. Manning. Special.--Durinlg the se vere rain and thunder Wednesday af ternoon lightning struck and kille< Mrs. Josephine Timmons. an age white woman, who was one of th ALL MUSi VACCINATE le embers of Boari Ar Determined That There Shall Be immunity From n. Curse, of Smallpox. e, The State board of helith held a >neeting last week and discussed vac >r :mazion again. The board evidently It ntends to have the people of the State Le endc red immune for the following V- 'ules wvere adopted in accord with the .1- -ecent. act of the legislature: e "Rule 1. That all perscns within v-! he State of South Carolina who do d lot reside within the limits or juris p liction of an incorporated city or it own shall be vaccinated and revacci iated by the duly appointed agents of e .he said State board of helth, except s >ers-ons who may obtain a certificate y )f a reputable physicion that vacci t ation Would be dangerous to health. at e he following periods: During the first, d ;ixth and fifteenth years of the age )f the persons; and that all persons who have never been vaccinated, or ;hall be exposed, or are likely to be it ome exposed to smallpox, shall be v accinated forthwith: Provided, that I he charge for each vaccination shall >e 10 cents. except to indigent per i ons, to whom the charge shall be If 1othing. hRule 2. No superintendent of any nstituition of learning. and no school >oard or principal of any school in L- he State. not located within a city I. r town. shall admit as a pupil any uhild or person who cannot pro luce satisfactory evidence of having 'teen vaccinated as often as required 0 n rule 1 above. and it is hereby made d :he duty of every parent, guardian >r other persons charged with the care >r responsibility for any child to see hat such child. if not a resident of a V :ity or town, is vaccinated as often L- is required by rule I" o The penalty for nct complying with . he rules is $100 fine or 30 days in jail. The laws governing municipalities Ire practically the same as those ibove. Delegates Appointed. Governor Heyward was recently ask r d to appoint thirty delegates from this tate to the Southern Industrial Par liament which will meet in Washing ton May 23-26. Governor Heyward. in response to 'he request, appointed the following -Jelegates: E. J. Wason, commission - ar of agriculture. commerce and Immi -ration; Niels Chritensen, Jr., Beau fort: J. U. Jackson. North Augusta; E. D. Smith. Lynchburg: T. B. Stack 1 house. Columbia: T. 3. Thackston, Co t lumbia; W. A. Strothers, Walhalla; I Col. Henry Schachte. Charleston: A. L. White. Spartanburg; W. J. Thack ; ston. Greenville; D. A. Spivey, Conway; John Wood, Rock Hil; Leroy Springs, Lancaster: W. W. Lumpkin, Columbia; 3 Emslie Nicholson, Union; A. W. 1 Smith. Orangeburg: R. B. Caldwell, ) Chester: E. B. Clark, Columbia; R. H. Wichman, Walte-:boro; Ramond L. - 3riffiss. New Yorl, representative State department of agriculture. com Imerce and immigraticn; W. W. Adams, Edgefield; James Henry Rice, .Jr., t Georgetown; W. F. Sherfesse, Barn - berg: Thomas Wilson, Cades: J. Frank Fooshe. 'Yinnsboro; A. M. Carpenter, IAnderson; J. J. Fretwell, Anderson; a C. C. Moore. Camden: W. R. Carroll, 1 Yorkville: Mclver Williamson. Dar 3 lington. These gentlemen should noti -f-. the Governor if they expect to go to Washington. -g Death of Ex-Senator Moody. IMarion. Special.-Ex-Senator Thomas - . Moody died at his home here Thurs :lay night. He had been in failing heialth for more than a year, and dur ng the past winter spent a short time . in Florida with the hope of regaining . is health, but finding that he did not : mprov-e returned to Marion. and for - :he past few weeks has not been able - to leave his room. While confined to . his room, he spent most of the time 1 sitting up and daily received calls from his friends. of whom he had a great . number, anid when the end came he I passed away peacefully and quietly ,while sitting in his chair, having been 'talking to a friend only a few minutes rbefore he breathed his last. Mr. Moody was 66 years of age, having been born . n the 14th of February, 1839. He was t i son of Barfield Moody and Sarah ,Crawford Moody, both natives of Ma irion. Palmetto Re'alty Co. Union, Special.-The Palmetto Real 3 ty Company held a meeting of stock holders on Saturday, electing the di rectors as follows: Mes. -s. R. P. Harry, J. A. Sawyer, G. C. May, B. F. -Arthur and Judge J. M. Greer, who in turn elected as officers: Mr. R. P. Harry, president; Mr. J. A. Sawyer, - vice-president; Judge ,. M. Greer, sec retary and treasurer. Acquitted of Foster's Murder. SGreenville. Special.-Watt Nobles and Boyce Stone, two white men, and SGeorge Downes, colored, were acquit 1 ted Saturday afternoon of murdering a Policeman Foster at Greers. Police Qficer William S. Foster was shot and t instantly killed while on duty in the a town of Greers on the night of July 1 2. 1904. between 9 and 10 o'clock. No f les.5 Stone and Downes were in town. the night before the tragedy, and on ac-count of their being seen running i from the place where the shooting oc Scurred and their previous record as whiskey dealers, they were at once con nccted with the crirne and subsequent lv arrested. The evidence at the trial was wholly circumstantial. Dr. Millard is Released. O rangeburg. Special.-Dr. Kenyon V. Millar-d, of Indianap~olis, who bas been here in jail for several weeks on the chargo of bigamy, was released from custoLy -at-ur-lay aternoon, the evi dena beingr insufi-ent to hold him. r.- Millard sttc that he and Miss Ke~on wil beo rc-married next De comber.w at thv' expiration for- the time s et for the intoraotitory liVOrc?. Inj th meantime hc will "--nn:inue on the lcturm, pltom appnearing in Orange burg Monday night. Two Killed By Lightning. Bennettsviie. Special.-Two persons1 lost their lives from lightning strokes in this county late Thursday afternoon. - The first was Charles Sawyer, a young Scitizen from Brownsville, the other a negro child, in Hebron. fifteen miles distartt. Mr. Sawyer was plo-wing in -his field, and he and his mule was both killed. Later in the afternoon, the ihouse of JToe Watkins was struck and his child killed. Watkins and another child were shocked and severely burn-) DEATH OF W. DUKI Wealthy Philanthropist Passes Awa Full of Years and lonors HEAD OF AMERICAN TOBACCO CO The Founder cf the Duke Branch a The American Tobacco Compan) Dies at Durham in the 85th Year oi His Age-His Three Sons and Othei Relatives Were Present When the End Came. Durham. N. C., Special.-Washington Duke, founder of the Duke branch of the American Tobacco Company, father of J. B. Duke, president of that com pany, and philanthropis:, who directly and indirectly gave more than a mil lion dollars to Trinity College. died Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. His death was no surprise. For several weeks he had been close to death's door, and Sunday afternoon began to sink rapidly. All Sunday night it was expected that the next minute would be his last. Monday morning he was weak and sinking. When he passed away, his three sons, B. L., B. N., and J. B. Duke, with other relatives. were gath ared by his bedside. He was in the 85th rear of his age. He was part of the his ory of Durham, and his death has cast it gloom over the entire city. Through Mr. Duke and his influence, here has been given to Trinity Col lege, a million dollars or more. His first great gift was when the college was moved here in 1891, when he gave 150,000. Other gifts followed, until his personal gifts amounted to more han a half-million dollars. His sons nd other relatives added to those gifts until the amount is now more than a million dollars. One gift of $100,000 from the deceased, opened the doors of Trinity and other State col leges to women. Some time ago he divided a large part of his wealth among his relatives. It is learned that the greater part of the wealth went to B. N. and J. B. Duke. In addition to these gifts, he gave to each of his grandchildren, some eight or ten in number, $60,000 each. Practically all factories in this com munity closed upon hearing of the death of Mr. Duke. Other business houses will be closed when the funeral takes place. It is supposed that the city Dfficials and business men in general will join to do honor to the man who has done so much for the town of Dur ham and the State. SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. Born on December 20, 1820. Wash ngton Duke would have been 85 years f age had he lived until December f this year. He was the last of his Immediate family, which was a large ne, and spent all his life in this sec ion of the State. He came from New England stock, but his father spent miost of his life In this State, the fam ly having been identified with the af fairs of this section since colonial days, The deceased was one of nine chil ren, six boys and three girls, and up until he had passed middle life they were people not used to the great lux ries of life brought by wealth, but had to struggle like all of the early settlers of this State and section, for the material things of life. It was ander conditions of this kind that Washington Duke and his brothers and sisters came into this life. These ear y surroundings taught that frugality and developed the strong, positive haracter and self-reliance that in later life made him the great man that he was. Beginning life with absolutely othing save a strong character and powerful will; his education being that e learned from nature and between the plow handles on a poor farm in range county (now Durham), he re turned from the struggle of the Civil War, to a poverty-stricken section of the country, his only assets being char cter, poverty and a family to support. n the forty years that now intervene between the present and that strug gle, he has builded a name that is known around the world and accumu ated wealth that he has used to blesis lated wealth that he used to bless nd nobler. The Funeral of Mr. Duke. Durham, Special. - All Durham paused Wednesday to pay honor to the :emory of Washington Duke. All business activity ceased and during the time that the funeral was on, housands of people gathered at Main Street Methodist church and in that icinity andl at Maplewood Cemetery o pay a last respect to the memory of the deceased. Never before in the istory of Durham has there been such an outpouring of the citizenship o pay honor to the memory of man. A conservative estimate is that 15, 00 people were at the cemetery and along the line followed by the proces sion. The cemetery and that vicinity was a block of humanity, thousands not being able to get within the hearing f the voices of the speakers. The procession was of such length that almost a half-hour was required for It to pass a given point. All ve icles of a public nature and most of he private conveyances in the city were called into use and in addition to hese, quite a number of carriages were brought from Raleigh and assisted in handling the large crowd. All street ars on the traction line gathered in ront of the chur'ch to carry. the throng to the cemetery. The request of the mayor and board o aldermen that basiness houses close ruri~ng the funer.al was carried out tc the letter. There was not a business house in the city too large or toc small to observe the request and close. All factories and large manufacturing plants, with the banks and similar in stitutions. closed for the entire day. Investigating Oil Industry. Beaumont. Tex., Special.-James R. Garfield, Commissioner of the Bureau of Corporations of the Department 01 Commerce and Labor, arrived in this city Monday. Mr. Garfield will investi. gate conditions in the oil field here. Hi! work was preliminary, paving the way for his assistants, who will concludt the investigations. Mr. Garfield left foi Washington, having been absent eighi weeks. When a girl has been kissed it is sin she will1 deny it TO KEEP SEMINARY OPEN Dr. McPheeters C'r.airman of the Fac ulty and Dr. S. C. Reid Rcsigns. Columbia. S. C.. Special.-A joint meeting Wednesday morning of the di ectors and faculty of the Columbia seminary brought out an ineresting liscussion as to the future prospects nd puresent needs of the ingtitut!on. :he talk having a bearing on the ques Fion now before the directors as to the ir dvisability of closing the seminary for dI iyear or more. sl After a session lasting until after h nidnight the seminary directors decid ?d to keep open the institution in Co umbia for another year and placed tself on record as opposed to any *hange in the policy of the institution. During the meeting it was developed that there was considerable feeling . among some of the members of the board against some of the members C If the faculty for their activity in pro moting the plans to remove the institu- ic o:in to Atlanta. Mr. W. A. Clark, of te columbia, severely criticised the facul ty lanog this line, but he opopsed Mr. ". E. Graham's efforts to close the in 3titution temporarily, urging that it would be a better business proposition 114 .to get a more united faculty to run the ti seminary than to close for even a tem porary period. This was discussed for ' some time, and finally Secretary Ne ville stated that it was definitely decid ad to run the institution another year s in Columbia. Despite the fact that few :f the directors would talk it was as ertained that Dr. McPheeters, chair man of the faculty, had resigned, al hough this will not be acted upon until A Thursdav Dr. S. C. Reed has also re- h 3igned, to accept a pastorate at Gasto- ti nia, N. C., but his resignation has not F been acted upon yet. This leaves only a two of the faculty, should Dr. Mc Pheeters not decide to stay. Two Kie in Wreck. Union, Special.-At 4:30 o'clock Wed nesday afternoon the combination freight and passenger train of the b Lockhart road jumped the track and 4 rolled down a 20-foot embankment, a killing Richard Wilburn, aged 17, and another man, whose name is not learn ed, and injured several others. The en- a gine and cars were demolished. Among el the injured at T. B. McClain, traveling st salesman of Columbia, S. C., who left tl here Wednesday for Lockhart. This road runs between Lockhart Junction and Lockhart, a distance of n-ine miles. It was built by the Lockhart Mills Com pany, but is now operated by the o Southern, and is used mostly to haul h< I freight to and from Lockhart, which is al a mill town with about 2,000 inhabi- a tants. di Palmetto Items. 14 The A. R. P. Synod met in the local 10 A. R. P. church at Columbia Tues- t day morning, with a full attendance, ei practically every church in the Synod g< being represented. There was nothing tc out of the usual run In the proceedings, which ran smoothly and rapidly. The opening sermon was by Rev. A. T. d Lindsay, of Lymwood college, who de livered a strong discourse on the re- e sponsibility of the preacher, -using for St his text, "Am I My Brother's Keeper?" t He then introduced the new moderator, of Rev. J. Walter Simpson, of Concord, id N. C., who presided with grace and i Iease. The remainder of the morning re session was taken up with routine con nected with unfinished business, and " the appointment of committees. Dr. o: William T. Hall, of Columbia Semi- mt nary, was introduced as a visiting al member. The call of Rev. S. J. Pat- Sv terson, of Steele Creek, N. C.. to go v to Pottsville, Ark., was presented to the Synod, which granted the dissolu tion. Much feeling and some bitterness have been engendered in Pickens coun ty by the fight that has been going on there for the past several months over the question of voting out the dispen saries and the State board of dispen sary directors today granted a strong petition from that county urging that all dispensaries in the county be clos ed on the 20th of May. when the elec tion will be held to determine whether o Pickens will close up its dispensaries to or continue them "in their midst" It ft is said that the election hangs over th the heads of the dispensary advocates ha in that mountain county, where moon- b shine stuff Is as plentiful as butter milk, like the justly famous sword of J Damocles, dispensary defeat being 1 practically certain. The petition call- ' ing for the election was signed by over Ia thousand freeholders, which repre- tv sents about a third of the voting et strength of the county. Figur'es obtained in the Comptroller s1 General's office Wednesday regarding dli the new pension roll just made show a a striking relative Increase in the num ber of women pensioners. The net in- $ crease of male pensioners is only 49, ~ the roll last year embracing 4,862 o1 names and this year 4,811, while the at widows this year number 3,880, as er against 3,682 last year, an increase of 198. There is no change in the law as t othe eligibility of pensioners and the ci C'omptroller General's office is at a loss to understand the difference.p At W. B. Rast's basket factory at hi Swansea Tuesday afternoon, Ines ~ Carter was almost disemboweled while a) operating a steam augur, which caught fit In his clothing. It is thought he will te die. At the time of the accident, Car- to ter was not in the employ of the fac- a tory, but was idling about experiment ing. If Jerome Williams, of this State. et can be located there is a 'sum of money awaiting him in Columbia. Wil- f liams enlisted in the Philippines. He filed a claim with the government on account of some special service and cc after two years the government has allowed it. However, Williams can- ht not be located. and the department a Ihas written Mr. W. Boyd Evans, of Columbia, to hunt him up. 1 Wednesday night some one of the to clerks or managers of the company sh store at Arkwright Cotton Mill in b Spartanburg, discovered that some one "V was in the store. They opened the at door and soon discovered their man. W Thecy ordered him to surrender, but te he 'attempted to escape. They firea er on him and brought him down. The er ball glanced around a rib and it is s Ino' believed that the wound is a very serious one. The burglar was a young white man who lives in Spartan. burg. The special election held Wednesday fo to decide upon the issuance of $400.000 er in bonds for a new system of water- ] works has aroused very little interest. St and the bond issue was authorized by t) a large majority. The plan is to get water from the Broad river and carry I it through an approved system of fil tration. a board of experts deciding that th this is feasible and that absolutely it pure water can be so obtained. A large cc supply is to be cbtained to meet thepa growing demands of the city, and the question of pressure, which has been annoying the town for many years, is. tjpU5EI*LE .AFFAIRV T0 MEND A KNIFE. A loosened knife handle can be satis mtorily mendced by filling the cavity the handle two thirds full of pow ared rosin and brick dust. heat the iank of the knife, and while very )t, press it into the handle, holding it lplace until firmly set. A HANDY RECEPTACLE. The tin boxes in which sweet wafers re purchased are handy receptacles : which to stow away sandwiches for rPning lunches. Packed carefully, ith lids nicely adjusted, and set on e until needed, the sandwiches are mptingly moist and cool. TO CLEAN HOT FAT. When hot fat is spilled on table or >or. pour cold water or drop ice on ie place immediately to harden the ease and prevent its soaking into ie wood, then when attention can be ven to it, wash out with very hot >da water and scouring sand. THE KITCHEN SINK. Be sure the kitchen sink is a comfort le height-especially if you own the >use-so no one need stoop over if e dishes are to be washed there. our or live inches in hanging it. make ) difference to the builder, but the lily annoyance needlessly wears on te nerves of a woman.-Pilgrim. POTATOES IN THE SHEIL. Potatoes in the shell are very good, sides being wholesome. Bake large >tatoes, and when quite done cut off piece from one end and scoop out (he side. Mash with salt, pepper, butter, little hot milk, and the white of an g to three potatoes, the egg beaten if. Refill the shells and return to ie oven for a few minutes. AG CARPETS HIGH IN FAVOR. Colonial dames, the genuine article Colonial days, fine ladies and good >usewives of old, would be amazed : the vogue of the rag carpet of today, hich was never before considered so stinctly smart as now. The rag car t helps to furnish summer bunga ws, mountain camps and seaside cot ges. It is made into large rugs fox itire floors and into smaller ones to ) over polished wood or filling. It is be found by the yard in various idths. Rag carpet, to be sure, goes by a fferent name these days than form -ly, but as a "rag-style" carpet it is ill hit or miss and much of a mys ry as in its early days. It is more -ten now, however, made up with an .ea of the effect 'and different mater Is are used to produce the desired suit. A charming rug is made of ting and canton flannels. The warp the rug is white, while the wool is the outing flannel colors. The tones e a soft pink ^r pale green, with the hite canton flannel woven in for a ~lvety border at each end. One must .e to appreciate the beauty of a white Lton flannel rag carpet. Banana Layer Cake-One small eup butter and two cups of sugar beaten gether until light; then add one cup t of mill and four eggs well beaten: en add three cups of flour into which te been sifted two teaspoonfuls of ting powder. Bake in layer tins. ice bananas and place between the yers, covering tae bananas with hipped cream. Blackberry Cake-Cream together ro-thirds of a cup of butter and one ip of sugar; add three eggs, whites id yolks beaten separately, four table oonfuls of milk, in which has beeq ssolved a small teaspoonful of soda. cup and a half of flour, a half tea oonful of cinnamon and the same nount of nutmeg, and lastly one cup blackberry jam; stir but lightly after Iding the jam; bake slowly la a mod ate oven. Date Patty Cakes-Mlix a third of a ipful or soft butter with one and one ird cupful of brown sugar. When rtly creamed break in two eggs and ~at the misxture until very light. Then Id half a cupful of milk. Add one id three-quarter cupfuls of sifted r in which has been. mixed itwo aspoonfuls of baking powder. Beat a smooth batter, then stir in half teaspoonful each of cinnamon and itmeg. Add half a pound of dates hich hare had the stones removed. it smnal, and mixed with a little mr. Then beat hard for two or three iutes. Bake in small fancy patty ns, in a moderate oven. When cold ver with vanilla icing. Good For the Chafing Dish-Put one tlL pound cheeso in chating dish with lump of butter tihe size of a walnut, id after well mixed put in another ilf pound of cheese. adding from time time enough water to thin if cheese ould become thick. Have prepared -fore seasoning as follows: One egg eli beaten, add a very small portion Dutch mustard. one teaspoonful of orcestershire sauce. about one-half asp1oonful of salt and a dash of cay me pepper. Have toast hot and coy ed with drawn butter. Put one-nflfl asoin~lmg iln chees and mix well and it other half on toast. Cover toast ith cheese and serve. Weddina Rina Found! on Harrow. A blacksmith at Aswarby. near Slea rd, has made a most curious discov EIe received from a neighboring farm ea a harrow for repairs, and while ese were being executed a twenty ro carat gold wedding ring was und sticking on to one of the teeth tile implemen~t. It is supposed that e ring was lost on the innld and that was picked up by the harrow in the ure of its work.-Reynolds' News per. If tile camphor bottle becomes reilly. s -ning to storm.