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The Heroism By the Rev. A. : rEROISM is determin do it, makes your but the. spirit give has nothing to do are all. The popular c up in calling it the thing that makes the Kaiser a mnakes the newsboy revere the I is not real heroism. Its most s Delight in the difficult, ir They were elements of heroism. they are to be found in many u: There is physical bravery. who robs my house at dead of j lenge to death in the man who lies down to sleep with the gaE an arrant coward. It is not the fact of valor, heroic deed. When the seamstress of H( erty, works like a dog and live toil, refusing the wages of sin isn't the coura-te, the patience. 1 a heroine: it is the reason for I heard a story the other i martyr. She was a fragile girl two younger brothers to car, j for their meagre fare during th and send them off to church, to day came when her frail life su mtendent of the Sunday school child. She lay in mute helplessne! let were her twisted, broken, o tress of mind. "Teacher." she said, "I am o couldn't go to Sunday school. God won't know me when I co "My child." he said. "you nE ly Father, hold up your hands, Causes Acc For Stec By William Lt HEN Andrew Carne W Allegheny, over f forging shop, who A few years late ' Where they rolled furnaces. During profits, so that a mills. was added. and afterwar enrichment of Mr. Carnegie an versal plates and the beams. ch and building construction. As the entire Pittsburg dis duced less pig iron in a year th month, and as all the pig iron had to be purchased at high I Lucy furnace. making it considi blast furnaces already existing. was built. Both have been cor the result of greatly' reducing I mechanical and metallurgical d One of the greatest steps i aid the blast furnace manager the Bessemer and open-hearth mechanical engineers. whose i ances multiplied. Today the ai numbered by thousands. MIoreover, one of the grea1 process in the Pittsburg distric to get rid of puddling, which w: other departments of their wor change his former laborious ta Another important reason excellence of the product andi strucion. In fact, our mioderr construction w ould be impossib Rockefellei By R. S. Seabo ET those clergymen Ltechnicalities ask question: How a Ei He accept mone: others of his kin can and will give One of the alleged philanthropy and gener< because there can be no real Rockefeller founds a church o: the money to do it with? Why of course. And where do thos this monopoly. by methods whi< all legitimate opposition, and and unwarranted price for to pay this exorbitant price are M~r. Rockefeller gets the credit menaces us in this lies in the I posed to guard our moral welft bling arguments to justif:" ace tions which would cause them Their real argument is: It is wrongfully obtained: perhaps it and blasted lives: perhaps it is rere alleged concerning it, but things done we are not suppost tus to build a bigger church. ani Andi this is the church that day He would be a stranger in And this, honeycombed with (1t moral wrong of accepting allege ever existed, is supposed to be day civilization. If this is so.1 help. Umver~rity When and How S P rofee By Presidiert A ~IME alone can sho T (develop) his profes but postponing to his sy mpathies a] r -a en outside of 11 m cable one. While we are shall prcobably see two sets of In those which are connectedl professional school counts for: are likely to set :. tendency to a sharp line of demarcation be fessional studies which are to social adjuncts which a college among institutions which have may expect to find these tender college course in its integrity. ureparation for the actual work institutions and American citiz types of men with one another of such a college to disinteg~rat difficulties and losses whichu t't Century. Led Two Dogs to Deati' At Wilkesbarre. Pa.. a cat ii big dogs to their death whet pursued her. She has been hight on the big 'rats arcun l-utghestown colhery of late. night recently the watchman sa dogs in close pursuit. The cat around the breaker twice. anc headed for the shaft, with thi close behind. In the mnornrb bodies of the dogs were found bottom of the shaft. The cat led them to the jumped across and saved 1 m.hine they plnedr to death, Qf Common Life P. Fitch. ed by motive. Not what you do, but why yOU life petty or sublime. The thing is nothing, th life or bringeth death. The content of life wtit the value of life-the intentions of life onception of heroism is well enough summed martial attitude of souls. It is this sort of hero in the eyes of the German army, which >ugilist. But we all feel instinctively that this plendid exponent is the bulldog. lIifference to pain and death. while inevitably are not its salient or distinctive qualiies, for iheroic deeds. L cool mind and a determined will in the man iight. There is acceptance of pain and a chal ?ngages his hotel room, stuffs the keyhole, and turned full on. But he is not a hero. He is but the reason of valor, which determines the -,ter street, in dark. obscure and piteous pov like a slave, in dull and wearing monotonous that she may still keep her woman's honor, it he steadfastness, the industry which make her these things that makes her divine. ay of as :!ine a heroine as an early Christian in a New York tenement. left alone with hor or and support them. She earned the money e week, and on Sunday would wash and dre-ss > tired, too ill. too unkempt to go herself. The cumbed to its unnatural strain, and the super climbed the attic stairs to call upon the dying ;s upon her bcd. and stretched upon the cover d woman's hands. He found her in some dLs fiaid to die. I have not been to church, and I I just was too tired to pray, and I'm afraid me to heaven." edn't be afraid, When you meet your Heaven and he will see the marks of the Lord Jesus." ounting I4 Displacing Iron icien Scaife. gie and his partners started in businhss in rty years ago, they possessed only a small se specialty was axles, made from scrap iron. r, they built a small rolling mill in Pittsburg, into bars wrought iron made in four puddling the civil war these works paid handsome new plant, known 'as the Upper Union Iron d became one of the principal factors in the I his nartners. For there they made the uni annels and other shapes so essential in bridge trict at that time-cnly a gefieration ago-pro an the Dequesne furnaces alone now make in a needed for the Upper and Lower Union mills rices, Kloman, Carnegie & Co. built the first arably larger than the Clinton. Eliza and other A few years later, the second Lucy furnace -stantly improved up to the present time, with abor and increasing the output by means of vices. n advance was the employment of chemists to , and subsequently to direct the operation of steel workh. in conjunction with educated npgrtance also increased as mechanical appli alysis and drawings of large steel works are est aids to the Introduction of the Bessemer :was the desire on the part of the ironmasters r the cause of more labor troubles than all the ks. The puddler himself has been able to ex ;k for the less strenuous steel p~rocesses. for the change to steel was the comparative :s adaptability to railway and engineering con Srailway deveTopment and fire-proof building le without Bessemer and open-hearth steel. -an' His Money Id, whose zeal causes them to quibble with triiling their own conscience the straight, unvarriished ould Christ Himself nct in -such a case? Would -obtained in the way that Rockefeller and I have obtained theirs? And their conscience them only one answer. treatest dangers that menace us to'day is the )ity of our great trust creators. I say alleged, ;enerosity with that which is not rightly ours. endows a university, and where does he get from the profits of the Standard Oil monopoly. a profits come from? Why, from the ability of :h would not bear a real investigation, to crush then to wring from the people an exorbitant its product. The people who are forced really pay.inig for this church or university, and in this world at least. And the (danger that act that even a part of our clergy who are sup tre should resort to such poor, weak and quib epting S100.000 from a rich man tinder condi to reject a smaller gift from a poorer one! lot of money, and we Wafit It: perhaps it was is part of the price of ruined homes and hopes part of the actual price of blood: these things as long a-s we did not personailly see these d to know about it. and anyhow, it will enable that's the main thing, so we'll take it anyway. Christ founded? Truly, were He to visit it to a strange land, and afar from His own place. e greed and avarice which can blind it to the d help, from as dangerous an element of evil as one' of the greatest bulwarks of our present hen may God help us, for indeed we need His Probleme. hail the Student Develop His ssion'al Activity ? -rthur T. Hadlley, of Yale. w whether the idea of allowing a student to sional activity at as early as period as possible, as late a period as possible the narrowing of td the lessening of his points of contact with is profession, is a practicable or an impracti waiting for this question to be decided, we experiments going on in diiferenr universities. with our large cities, where the work of the more and the life of the college for less, we horten the college course--a tendency to make tween the studies of that Course and the pro follow it. and to disregard or undervalue the cour'se carries with it. In smaller places and a more distinctively collegiate atmosphere we icies reversed--to see an effort to maintain the and include within it as much as possible of of life-in the belief that the gain to American r.shp resulting from the contract of different will be strong enough to resist the tendency on and valuable enough to compensate for any e prosecution of such a plan invoves.--The tojiShow Appreciation by Hymns. d two InSouth Wales, when the people they are pleased wvith the work of an actor liigIthey have a custom of showing theli d the ppreciation by singing hymns at t~he One~* :lose of the perfcrmiance. Henry Irv w to ug was playing at Swansea when hE shd was surprised to see the audience the'irst into "Lead, Kindly Light," wher dohs he appeared before the curtain in re at the spcnse to a call. At the close of -:he atteengagement the great actor was deep ly touched by the singing of "Gio sf' Be With You Till We Meet AgaiD,' rendered i motrveetmanr AN IMPORTANT OPINION The Attorney-General Decided Some Unsettled Questions. Attorney General Gunter recently rendered an opinion to the State board of dispensary directors on three im portant questions involving beer dis pensaries, about which there has been much dispute throughout the State as to whether these dispensaries as at S1 present conducted are nut a violation of the dispensary law. It is expected that the State board will make an announce ment on the subject. The decision is all that the beer dispensary people could desire and will cause joy to them and those who like their method of selling beer. The Attorney General finds that it is legal for beer dispensers to bottle beer on their premises, and that these dispensers may be paid in royalty, as is being done, instead of by salary. as is the case with the regular dispen sers. ai But the opinion declares in the out- t set: t ri "In answering these questions it is t wel Ito observe that the same law gov erns the sale of beer by dispensers who PI are restricted to the sale of that bever age alone, commonly called beer dis- di pensers, as that which governs the sale s of beer by a dispenser who sells beer, f4 iu wines. liquors, etc. Neither has any latitude that does not attach to the ar other, and both are subject to the same u regulations, restrictions, etc." ca Fail to Get Control of Mill. Columbia. Special.-A fight for the N control of the Laurens Cotton Mill. of L Laurens. S. C., reached a climax Friday za afternoon during the progress of the stockholders' meeting. When G. H. Milliken. representing the firm of Deer- go ing. Milliken & Company, of New York, selling agents for a rumber of cotton mills in this and other States, arose to S, nominate a ticket in opposition to the t present management. he and others of ec his friends were served with a restrain- L ing order issued some' time ago by Judge Klugh, which prevented them from voting the stock they owned. lb They immediately left the meeting, uT which proceeded to re-elect President tr: W. E. Lucas and his ticket. bt de $r,ooo Damages Awarded. th Yorkville, Special.-The case of da Waverly Fairman, against the Sea- di board Air Line Railroad, which has se been in progress since Tuesday, was a! concluded Saturday afternoon, with a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $5,000. Fairman was a postal clerk on M the Seaboard train that fell through th Whisnant trestle, near Catawba junc- G< tion, last September. He claimed to of to have been seriously ruptured as the re sult of thc fall, and wanted $20,000. He was represented by Atkinson %~' Born, wi of Atlanta, and G. W. S. Hart, York- re ville. The defendant company was rep-m resented by J. L. Glenn, of Chester; W- th F. Stevenson, of Cheraw, and W. B. I McCaw, of Yor'kville. The verdict is In supposed to have been based on the al- PE leged unsound condition of the piling a that supported the trestle. to Train Demolishes Auto. Hi Columbia, Special.-A Southern Isti Railway freight, shifting backwards of in the yards. collided with an automC- it) bile crossing the tracks at Green ta street at a high rate of speed Friday en afternoon, with the result that two of m the boxes were derailed and capsized nut and the auto was ditched, caught fire from an explosion ef its gasoline tank B and was burned to r. crisp. The occupants. Messrs. J1. Talley s Harth and Luther Garren. of the elee' eat trical supply firm of Harth & Garrer.., ha escaped by jumping from their ma- tel chine. Both were painfully bruisec.. They blame~ the accident on the fact sh that there was no watchman at ths n crossing.tf G. A. R. Member the Orator. New York. Special.-Moro than 250 Confederate veterns and a large num- So her of Grand Army men visited Mont t Hope Cemetery and decorated the a graves of Confederate soldiers. Services were held by the Confederate camp of sti New York. The services were conducted set by Commander Edward Owen, and the op oration was delivered by Gen. George B. Loud, of the United States Hancock of Post. G. A. R. This is the first time in the history of the Confederate post that of the oration in their memormial day hasu been delivered by- a member of the N( Grand Army of the Republic. Pe Bomb Exploded in Pocket.H Warsaw, May IS.-~-A workman who f was trying to avoid the observation of th two detectives on Miodowa street at noon stumbled on the curb of a side- do walk and a bomb which he was carry- ag ing in his pocket exploded, killing the i workman, both detectives and some persons who were passing by. It is be lieved the bomb was intended for pr Governor General Maximovitch, who I was expected to pass the spot on his way to the cathedral to attend ser- Rh vices of the Czar's birthday.d ______gr of Fatal Shooting at Singing. , Chattanooga, Tenn., Special.-Stpte's tb, Church, a few miles from Cordova. a: Walker county, Georgia, was the scene of a shooting affray Sunday morning ce between~ Oscar and 0. Brasfield, on one Cl side, and Thomas Collier and Charles Milligan, on the other. Both Collier e' and Milligan were fatally Injured, while the Brasfields are in a precarious con- , dition. An all-day singing was in prog- sh ress. President of Cox College Dead. va Atlanta, Ga., Special.-A Constitution M special from LeGrange, Ga., says: lo! "Charles C. Cox. president of the Southern Female (Cox) College. of Col- sh lege Park, Ga., died here Sunday night. lat A complication of diseases, which fin ally affected the heart, caused his death. The body will he buried in La- I Grange. As an educator and a man. Mr.W Co was well known in Georgia and the Somth. RIKE MORE ACUTE ars Entertained That All Chicago May Suffer Upheaval tCE RIOT THE OPENING PHASE rike of 2,400 Teamsters Employed by Lumbermen Is Inevitable and the Movement Will Undoubtedly Spread to Affiited Industries. Chicago, Special.-Sunday brought changes in the attitude of either le of the labor controversy now in ogress in Chicago, and everything nday night points toward an exten M of the teamsters' strike during the ming week. Officers of seven express mpanies. whose refusal to reinstate y of their former employes caused e collapse of the settlement of the yuble Saturday night, still adhere to eir determination not to give em yment to any of their former em yes, and other firms involved in the fficulty declared that they would and by the express companies in the -ht. The Teamsters' union has taken at as firm a stand as tL.m employers, id it was said by President Shea Sat 'day night that the union would not 11 off the strike until the express mpanies came to terms. The first spread of the strike Is ex cted Monday morning, when the imbermen's association, an organi tion employing 2,400 teamsters, is es an order to their men to make de eries to all business houses re rdless of whether or not they are volved in the strike. In anticipation such an order, the teamsters met nda.y afternoon and voted to go on rike should any teamster be discharg for refusal to obey the order of the imbermen's association. GENARAL UPHEVAL AT HAND. With non-union drivers making de -eries for lumbermen, the strike will doubtedly spread to affiliated indus ies, as to union men employed on ildings will refuse to handle material livered by non-uhion labor. Should is lumbermen's strike be called Mon y-and there is nothing now to in cate how it can be averted-there ems to be nothing that can prevent upheval , throughout Chicago. PRESIDENT, GOMPERS ACTIVE. After talking over the situation with ayor Dunne and Sheriff Barrett in e mayor's office Sunday, President >mpers, of the American Federation Labor, withdrew from the conference consult with President Shea. of the ~amsters' union. I have been discussing the outlook th Mayor Dunne and Sheriff Bar tt," said Mr. Gompers. "They asked ato use my influence and to do ev ything I possibly could to prevent eextension of the strike. I told them was willing to do everything I could an advisory capacity to bring about At the end of the conf'erence Mayor inne said that Its purpose had bean discover whether it was necessary increase the police force Monday. sa~id: "Should there be an extension of the -ike with a resumption of the rioting two weeks ago. there is a probabil that troops will be called to main n order." ntinue swearing in deputies and wl .ke special efforts to increase their II Posters to Meet in Jacksonville. Birmingham. Ala., Special.The :th annual convention of the South stern Bill Posters' Association, which sbeen in session at the Hillman Ho for the past two days, adjourned rtly after 5 o'clock Tuesday even It was unanimously decided to hold Snext annual meeting at Jackson c, Fla. News of the Dlay. resident Samuel Srpencer of the uthern Railway. made an address on dangers of paternalism before the tional Association of Manufactureres Atlanta, Georgia. overnor Douglas. through whose in mnentality the Fall River strike was ed, decided agrainst the claim of the ratives to an increase in salary. 1ore than 2.500 laundry employes are strike in Troy, N. Y. rhe General Convention of Baptists America was organized in st. Louis, itirag the Baptist conventions of the rth and South. he coroner's jury investigating the nsylvania railroad disaster of South rrisburg exonerated the company. rhe President 3and Secretary Taft re ee to recede from their position on P anama canal purchase. D. Jacob H. Hollander found that cuments he had sent with his charges airst Secretary' Loomis were miss tt is said that Togo has elected to b south of Formosa, and the belief vails that the Japanese fleet is now Aording to a dispatch from Saigon, 'etvensky bore himself with a very int a.ir and showed absolute disre rd of the discussions on the subject n~eutrality. hhereforms decreed for Poland and Baltic provinces are represented bing of a sweeping character. '2 conventioni of the Virginia Dio e of the Protestant Episcopal urch began in Charlottesville. L aarewell dinner was giv en to Gen 1 Pcrter, retiring Ambassador of the kited States to France. The Japanese have seized two steam t. Coxey army is organizing to ad ic upon the British Parliament. Vih a few scatteredI disturbances yy Day passed in Russia without any t. apanese official declares Russian ps were in Indo-Chinlese waters as .e as Friday last. Fe State Department has notified migration Inspector Braun that it II ive him all proper protection in t..ubl with the Hiungarianl author SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN Weather Conditions Given Out by the Department Observer. The week ending Monday, May 15th, was considerably warmer than usual with the daily maximum temperatures ranging from 80 to 96, and the night temperatures from 65 to 75. There was considerable cloudiness, more than usual to the season, and there were damaging high winds locally in the northwestern and northeastern coun ties. With the exception of the southwest ern counties where the precipitation was generally light and where cultiva tion made rapid and favorable pro gress. the week was very wet from Anderson county in the west along the North Carolina border to Marlbcro, as well as over the eastern portions gen erally, so that farmwork was further delayed and plowing or cultivating im pr -cticable except on one or two days. Lands were badlf washed and bottoms overflowed in the northern and east central counties. The weather conditions were favor able for generation and growth, but all field crops are in need of culti vation and are foul with grass and weeds. Some replanting has been done on account of the grass. Stands of both corn and cotton are uniformly good, and the same applies to all crops except to rice in the Georgetown dis trict. Early corn is growing nicely, and in many places has received its first working, but cut and bud worms are still damaging. It has been generally too wet to plant bottom lands to corn. Cotton planting continues over tie western counties where this work has been greatly delayed by the recent rains. Chopping is in prozress in aUl sections and some fields have been cultivated. Fields are generally foul, and in places stands are dying. Wheat improved in places though it Is still rusting and being damaged by the fly In others. Oats are generally promising, with exceptions in the northwest where fall oats were winter killed; spring oats are doing well. Early oats are ripening, and some have been cut in Georgetown. Pruit is all killed in the northwest, but in other sections a fair crop is promised, though peaches are dropping in places. Tobacco is doing well. Min or crops and gardens, truck and pas tures made rapid growth.-J. W. Bauer, Section Director. General Cotton Letter. Cotton Crop Letter furnished by W. F. Klupp & Co.: The weather conditions since some time have been quite unfavorable for the Crop, on account cf heavy.rains having retarded farm work, in nearly all sections of the Cotton Belt. In North Texas, Tennessee, Arkan sas, Mississippi and. Louisiana, the acreage will be much more reduced than at first contemplated, on account of unsatisfactory weather for planting cotton, and scarcity of labor, and we believe over the whole the average re duction will be about 15 per cent, and the crop in all sections from two to four weeks late. The market has been effected favor able recently, on account of continued unsatisfactory reports about the crop and scarcity of offerings of medium and better grades, and prices will continue very susceptibale to weather condi tions for some time to come. Palmetto Items. Bob Smalls, white, recently convict ed of killing a respectable and indus trious colored man, Frank Scott, was hanged at Darlington Friday. On the same gallows. Sam Marks, a negro, who killed Hillery Lanston, whito, paid the penalty for his crime. Several weeks ago Mr. P. S .Camp ball, of Marion county, was assaulted on the public road and robbed of about $75 in cash. Since then the officers have been on the trail of the robbers, and Tuesday two men were taken to Marion and lodged in jail. At a pre liminary hearing before Magistrate D. J. Oliver, they were held for trial at the next term of court. The men are Harvey Bethea and Henry" Walker, both negroes. New Enterprises. The Citizens' Insurance Company of Anderson, which will be capitalized at $10,000, received a commission from the Secretary of State. The corporators are: G. C. Boleman, C. J. Brock, C, Harris, J. C. Cummings and others. The Blacksburg Land and Improve ment Company has increased its cap ital stock from $10,000 to $21,700. Investigating Bocks. The committee appointed by the last seesion of the General Assembly to investigate the books of the Secre tary of State's ofiice is here at work. While nothing has been given out, it was rumored that the committee found the hooks in better condition than was shown by the report of the other com mittee made last year. The former committee investigated the books of all the State's offices, but after a spicy time during the session of the General Asrembly, the present committee was appointed. The members are Senators Butler. Douglas and Representatives Beamguard, Richards and Toole. They will be here several days. Drowned in Tub of Water. Columbia, Special.-The baby son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hfinnant, of Book~ mans, was drowned Tuesday morning by falling headfirst into a tub of water. The vessel had been placed on the ground under the eaves of the piazza to catch the dripping water, and It is supposed that the little fellow attempt ed to climb over the banisters and fell several feet to the water. When found the child's body was lying across the rim of the tub with its head submerged Sentenced For Conspiracy. Orangeburg, Specal.-Judge Dantre. ler passed sentence Tuesday upon A. B. Amaker, J. B. Amaker and Cleveland Hooker, all white, and on William Jan ison and James McLeod, colored, who were convicted for conspiracy on MIon day, they having broken up a picnic by a prearranged plan. The testimony showed that immediately upon arriv ing on the picnic grounds, the negroes commenced singing ribald songs, and when ordered to desist, the white de fendants drew knives and a pistol, threatening to kill anyone interfering with the narroer. IN SOUTI CAROLINA Occurrencea of Interest in Varicus Parts of the State. Geneal Cotton Market. Middlin. Galveston. steady .............8 11-16 New Orleans. quiet ............... Mobile. steady .............. ...-7. 3 Savannah. quiet ............... Wilmington. steady ............-7:4 Norfolk. firm .................S Raltimore. nominal ...... ......S. 8 New York, ouiet ..............8.2 Boston, quiet .....................8.20 Philadelphia. steady ..............8.45 Houston, steady ............... S Augusta. steady ........ .... ...-8 Memphis. firm ........ .... -.....8 St. Louis. steady ..............S Louisville. firm ............... Charlotte Cotton Market. These figures reprEesnt prices paid t3 wagons: Strict good middling ..............7% Good middling ...... ...... ....7 11-16 Strict middling ................7% Middli-ng ..................... 7 Tinges ................ to 7% Stains ........ ...........6 to 6% State Board of Equilization. A very important meeting of the State board of equilization has been calied for next week and the comp troller general has notified all of the members to be present. The meeting is for the purpose of fixing the assess ments of this nature. Below is the official list of the members as issued by the board: Abbeville-J. E. Lomax. Aiken-James L. Quinby. Anderson-J. E. Garvin. Bamberg-S. D. Guess. Barnwell-J. C. Grillin. Beaufort-W. F. Marscher. Berkeley-J. St. Clair White. Charleston-Morris Israel. Cherokee-T. M. Littlejohn. Chester-J. G. L. White. Chesterfield-D. M. Barrintine. Clarendon-A. J. Richbourg. Colleton-B. G. Price. Darlington-E. W. Cannon. Dorchester-C. M. Garvin. Edgefield-R. A. Cochran. Fairfield-Thomas W. Taylor, Florence-Alex. McTaggert. Georgetown-L. S. Ehrich. Greenvile-W. D. Garrison. Greenwood-R. M. Hays. Hampton-J. H. McKenzie. Horry-J. P. Derham. Kershaw-J. M. Sewell. Lancaster-W. J. Cunningham. Laurens-R. P. Adair. Lee-J. J. Shaw. Lexington-F. H. Hendrix. Marion-Lott R. Rodgers. Marlboro-J. J. Lane. Newberry-H. H. Folk. Oconee-A. Zimmerman. Orangeburg-R. M. Claffy. Pickens-P. C. Fricks. Richland-Probably J. A. Meetze. Saluda-H. G. Crouch. Spartanburg-W. W. Murphy. Sumter-H. J. McLaurin. Ujnion--R. G. Hill. Williamsburg-W. R. Funk. York-S. Frank Ashe. Perfecting 'the Statistics. Columbia, Special.-Secretary Arm strong, of the Southern Cotton Grow ers' Association, was here last week in conference with the officers of the South Carolina Association on a trip1 through the South perfecting and sys tenmatizing the statistics that are com ing here from the various States in order to secure a more thorough and reliable general organization. He says the figures he has gathered so far show a membership of 1.270,000 already filed, S00.000 of which names are on record at the central office with postoffice ad dresses. He says that two-thirds of this membership represent farmers who have pledged a reduction of 25 per cent. Mr. Armstrong told of plans which I had been perfected for a meeting of State presidents to be held in New Orleans the 30th of this month, when these presidents would report to Har vie Jordan as to the acreaze in each I State. and he said that the thorough ' manner in which these figures would t be brought together would make the general report more reliable, self evi dent. than any government report had yet been. Step by step the report of acreage will come from precinct to township and thence to county and thence to State organization, three far mers and three others interested in manufacturing concerns making a re port from each precinct. This gen- I eral report at New Orleans will be made three days ahead of the govern ment report. The coming comparison of the two reports will be most inter-) esting. Bookkeeper Arrested. Spartanburg. Special.-William H. Zimmerman, bookkeeper and cashier of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company in this city was arrested here on a warrant sworn out by an inspector of the American Sure ty Company, of New York. on the charge of embezzling $125. which amount, it is said, will be materiallyI increased when all the reports shallt hav'e been received from connecting ex hanges. The accused waived prelim inary examination before Mragistrate Kirby, who released him on bail to await the action of the grand jury in July next. Palmetto Items. Spartanburg.* Special. - Lightning struck the finishing and packing room of the Lion Furniture Company Sat- C urday night, knocking off a consider able portion of the weatherboarding. The bolt followed the telephone wire to the machinery room and scalped off 3 a slight portion of that roofing. For- 2 t tunately the plant was not set on fire and the damage was slight. t An ice factory is now a certainty for Darlington. Mr. W. D. Coggeshall will own and operate this new enterprise. The plant is to have a daily capacitys of fifteen tons. The work on the brick buiding was started last week. The building will be 70x85 feet and will be ready for use by July 1st. The Royal Arcanum. Atlantic City, Special-The Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum opened, Wednesday. The financial secretary reports the assets at $2,500,000, and t a gain in membership of 25,000, mak ing a to1nl of215,00. RUSSIAN WAR BODY Establishment 6f a Permanent Council of Direction CZAR 1AKES IMPORTANT STEP Existintg Counsel of War Has Proved Unsatisfactory and Will Be Super seded by a New Body, with Grand Duke Nicholas Alphabetovitch at Its Head. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-The first tep towards the institution of the ong contemplated council of national lefense, to co-ordinate the activities >f the military and naval administra ions, has been taken in an imperial nanifesto creating a special prelimin .ry commission under the presiden:y >f Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaie itch. The manifesto is preceded by a re ;cript which Emperor Nicholas has iddressed to the Grand Duke, in which iis majesty says: "In order to insure the development )f the empire's fighting force in a, nanner corresponding to the needs md resources of the State, and uni ormity in the duties of the Supreme iaval and military administration, and tlso to harmonize them with those of ther government institutions in ques ions affecting the safety of the state, : have deemed it necessary to estab ish a permanent State Defense Coun :il. I charge the special commission, onsisting of members appointed by ne under the presidency of your im )erial highness, to draw up according ;o my direct suggestion a law relating ;o this institution." The rescript concludes with the ex 3ression of the conviction that the ommission will carry out the task sonfided to it without delay, and with. :he care and undivided attention. vhich the high importance of the new nstitution demands. The formation of the council and :he assumption by it of control of the war is expected to ensue shortly, as he main details have already been worked out. The dispatch of Grand. )uke Nicholas Nicholaievitch, who is. esignated as the president of the per nanent State Defense Council, to Man :huria, to assume direct command of ;he imperial forces there, has been. ;everal times seriously considered,. Lnd he has served repeatedly of late ts representative of the Emperor on ~ommissions dealing with vital ques ions of the war. The existing council of war, which. tas proved unsatisfactory, will be su erseded by the new body. The step ~ s an extremely important one, par' vhich the events of the war in'the ~ar East have, shown the necessity,. he two departments falling to work ogether to the best advantage, even hen actuated by the most harmoni >us feelings, and friction has often >een manifested. Many opportunities or helpful co-operation between the: wo arms of the service are coanstantly rising, and if Admiral Rojestvensky ucceeds in reaching Vladivostock and haking the Japanese mastery of the ea, the council will play a very ~eighty role. At the same time the ouncil is created, not for the present var, but as a permanent . organiza ion of the state, subordinating the Var and Navy Departments, and even ivershadowing the other ministries. It is understood the formation of he new council means the definite .bandonment of the plan of sendin irand Duke Nicholas Nicholaiev4' o the Far East to assume sup eme ommand on land and sea. (~nral ,inevitch and Vice Admiral irelieff ill be left unhampered exc t as to hie grand outlines of stra.t1y Four Killed San Diego, Cal., Spec .-W. P. Rob nson, a house-cleangr, ran amuck fonday, killing four persons, wound rng two others and' then killing him elf. The dead are William Stewar, irs. Emma Stpwart, H. W. Chase, -arry Doddridge, W. Robinson. Wouny-. ed: Mrs. W. H. Doddridge. W. H. )oddridge wa's injured by falling out .window. .At first Robinson was said o be crazed by liquor, but later it was aid that he had threatened Doddridge or an alleged attempt to hare Rob non shanghaied when he was a sailor. t is said also that he expressed a. Lislike for the Stewarts. Six Bankers IndIcted. Dallas, Tex., Special.-The special 'ederal grand jury which was called .t the request of United States A orney Win. H. Atwell, adjourned to ay, after returning .six indictments ganst promiinent West Texas b rs. The indictments were turn r to the United States Attorney efused to give the names for on. Arrested in New Y New York, Special.-Ce etectives, on the request 'lains chief of police, a rd Young, 32 years of a ngineer, who Is charged w y the chief of police of 'a., where he is alleged to ha ~ndrew Paiges, of that place. Th - iorities of Greenbay traced him to Vhite Plains and the police of the lat r place to New York. Telegraphic Briefs. Earl Gilchrist and Ashby Harris wer ccidentally killed by live electric wi t New Port News. Two men have been arrested at No olk charged with forging the nam f voters. Dr. W. S. Love, of Winchester, h arrow escape from death in a way accident. A large number of distinguished merg ave gathered at Winona Lake, Ind., a attend the general assembly of the ~resbyterian Church, which begins lts essions today.