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Thirtytwo Facts About Japan By Burton Holmes, Traveler and Lecturer. 44ese fi + APAN has nearly 50,000,000 ptople, more than half a, many as the United States. ~ ~The word "Mikado" signifies something like "the Sacred Cate" or "the Sublime Prte." The name of the reigning 'Mikado is Mutsu .Hito. The name of the Erc.press is 0 Haru--spring.' The name of the Crown Prince is Yoshi Hito. European dress is v:orn at all court functions. Rice is the common food of the common people. Sixteen cents a day is now good pay for unskilled labor in Japan. Tea y7ears ago it was six cents. Japan has very few millionaires and practically no mulli-millionaires. Tokio is a hundred years older than St. Petersburg. The lovely Japanese cherry trees prcluce no cherries. On the Japanese stage male actors play the female roles. There is only one Japanese actress--Mme. Sada Yacco. Danjiro, the great Japanese tragedian, is also the most skilful dancer of Japan. Japanese dead are buried in a squati.ing posture. chin upon knees. More than 10,000 pilgrims, male and female, ascend Fujiyama every year. Fujiyama is 122G5 feet high, a thousand feet for every month, plus one foot for every day in the year. The Japanese people, even the poor, travel muoh in their own country. Modern Japanese coins and bank notes bear legends in English as well as in Japanese. Semi-nudity is common in rural Japan. and furthermore it is respectable and healthful. The average Japanese is better bathed than the average Britisher. Wrinkles are poetically termed by the Japanese "waves of old age." It is quite proper, even complimentary. to ask a lady's age in Japan. The Japanese "Hello!" at the telephine is "Moshi! moshi!" or "Ano ne!"' 'ith the accent on the "nay." The Japanese farewell. "Sayonara," means something like "If it must be so," or "If we must part thus, so be it." Kissing and shaking hands are rarely practiced in Japan. Japanese mothers do not kiss their children, though they may press the lips to the forehead or cheek of a very young baby. Sewing on buttons is not a wifely duty in Japan-there are no buttons. Japanese inns furnish fresh tooth-brushes every morning free to every guest. The brush is of wood, shaped like a pencil, and frayed to a tufty brush of fibre at the large end. All of the food served to a guest at a Japanese banquet and not consumed by him at the time is taken to his home by the servants of his host. Japanese chop-sticks are delivered to the guest in a decorated envelope. The two sticks, already shaped, form one tong-shaped piece of wood and are broken apart by the guest. Japan has one of the largest steamship companies in the world, with ser vice to the United States and to England by the way of Strez. rMndThe Stage And the Second Self By Gustav Kobbe. N THE stage the actor is two persons. He is the character he interprets, but, at the same time, he himself controls that O character and tells it what to do. This ability to merge one self in a character, yet keep partly aloof from it, so as to be able to guide it, this contradictory dual personality, psycho logically so interesting, accounts for the swiftness with which an actor can step from the society of friends In his dressing-room to the stage and be in character..... To me the swift merging of the actor's self into a role al ways has formed one of the most interesting things tb be observed about the profession. I have seen John Drew, while conversing with a friend in French in his dressing-room, on being summoned by the call-boy, plunge from a con versation in a foreign tongue 'into an English speaking role: Nat Goodwin jump from a funny storyv in the wings into the most sentimental scene of "WVhen We Were Twenty-One;" Henrietta Crosman run from a discussion of her next season's route to make her famous leap through the window in "Mis tress Nell;" Calve, behind the scenes, mischievously knock off Plancon's Tore ador hat, stand back and laugh, and then go on or her Carmen death scenes. . . . Actors rarely are ill, and often die in harness at a good old age. These characteristics of the profession are considered due to the fact that every night the actor gets out of himself, away from his own humors-leads another life. Then, too, many professionals who have given the matter thought believc that the audience, like acomposite personality, projects itself over the footlights, inspiring and rejuvenating the r.ctor with magnetic potency. This is but one more of those mysterious influencea which cross the footlights in one direction or another and which contribute to the make-up of that wheel within a wheel, that character within a character, that person within a per son, the actor's second self. "Wireless'' Actor and audience have been sig nalling to each othsr across the footlights for centuries.-The Delineator. SPerils of the Auto Pace & ~um.i4Dm .#~J By Barney Oldfield. J r u~ OT onl? is there a peculiar sensation felt when swinging about aturn in an automobile, but there is also what may be called N a temptation to commit suicide. It is something similar to the inclination that comes to throw one's self over the edge when standling on a bri-ige or a housetop, and it has to be ~~~ ~fought antovrS ttheame achn die oudhr I refer now to the impulse to steer the machine towardl the outer fence when rcounding a curve. If the impulse was through the fence and into the trees or the crowd in a jiffy- Every racing man with whom I have talked intimately has this same temptation. It comes because when turning in toward the pole to hold the curve of the track you feel as if you surely are going through the inside fence unless you turn away. and there is a constant fight with one's self from steering out from that inner rail. Another peculiar fact about driving a machine around the turn of a track is that it is the inside wheels of a car which leave the ground. Apparently this is not generally appreciated. laecause I have seen drawings of a racing machine in a curve in which the driver's assistant was represented as hang ing out on the right-hand side of the car, tiext to the driver, in order to hold it down. whereas it is always from the inside edge that a man leans when there is any hanging out bciag done. Cost of College Sports P.alph Paine -rx+M+*.+++cN ORDER to place elev an young men of Yale in the field 'l gagainct Princeton and H-arvard last attutn $2(.99G.00 was + suent. or- more than two thousand dollars a head. To fit eight youths to'row atgainst Harvard, a test of twenty mini + i uts, cost Yale $l0.d24t8~>. or two thousand dlollars a head. 4 1not counting the coxswain. This is boat-racing at a cost of + +the beet part of a thousantrd dcilars a minute. r +1++. The football men were equipp~ed with the greatest pos sible care. Their shoese alcne cost $I1189. a bill for foot-gear which would indicate to ithe rank outsider that a team of centipedes were in training. Uniforms andi the armor of the f oot ball warrior cost $?,7u5.5:, or nearly a htundre-d dloilars fer each of the squadl. Hotel bills and meals away from the training tahl~' cost the Yale ire-asury $5.: '@.42. Carriage hire in volved an outlay of $794. The base ball squad required S2.378.l:t wnrt-h of mer't chandise' and sporting gods, or abeout one hundred dollars' worth of uniformns andi shoes per m~an. Twenty yea rs ago Yale footall cost $2.792.:10. an~d there were great elev ens ev.en in those datys. Today this; would not pay for unriformns and ot~her weanring gear-Outing. Strantge Sleeping Places,.TL OE H IG An ecert rie man nanted Hedg~e: ae-oYt aeboe f h whlo has jiust died at Romford, did not~eggmnHveyurtre i sleep in a he for~c overt-wm er His favorite nicht resort wa theh : htwulnth stokehole at. thparish chur"h uint'ie- u O ore. Ihv the poice -toped his visits. After m'lmx pno i ere u that he sle th.e lexanin.a on the :g smc a Vr raiing "-1'- .et ae~-Nnaobel-S" o oua ebokn.f h _____________-eFgagem e Haet youh rurned pop prizs lst yar o bos fr ki t hanged y opditon tof therge. btI rilngsin th, markt pac---odo --Ca haovral.ier NEWS THROUGHOUT TH1E COUNTRY Minor Happenings of the Week at Home and Abroad. Down in Dixie. Miss Virginia Downer, of Norfolk, was drowned at Alexandria. Mrs. Eva Fuller was burned to death at Petersburg from kindling fire with coal oil. E. C. Edwards. of Henderson. was struck and killed by a Seaboard pas senger train on Wednesday. Gen. William R. Cox was married on Weinesday in Richmond, Va., to Miss Claiborne of that city. The Virginia Corporation Commis sion has ruled that the Standard Oil and the American Can Companies must pay charter fees of $5,000 and $3,000, respectively. The aniual meeting of the Southern wholesale grocers began at Norfolk. Judge Berryman Green died at Dan vlle. The training ship at Annapolis, known heretofore as the Chesapeake, has been named the Severn. 0. M. Baldinger. a Norfolk political worker, was convicted of offering forged voters' transfers and was sen tenced to three years in the peniten tiary. Elsie, the baby of Mr. Jack Penow, of Lynchburg. was strangled to death. its clothes having caught in the spring as it fell out of bed. The Credit Men's Association selgtt ed Baltimore as the meeting place for next year. Confederate veterans paraded through the principal streets of Louis ville, Ky. In the municipal election at Jackson ville. Fla., George M. Nolan. Democrat ic nominee for mayor, was re-elected. receiving 1,237 out of 1,473 votes east. In St. Augustine. Mayor Boyce was re elected by 183 majority. At the National Capital. Maj.-Gen. John C. Bates succeed ed Major-General Gillespie as assistant chief of staff at the War Department. Attorney-General Moody submiti:ed to President Roosevelt a statement re lating to the Sante Fe rebate cases and Secretary Morton's connection with them. Secretary Shaw is to try the experi ment of paying Government employes by check instead of cash. The President has appointed a com mittee of five to investigate the busi ness methods of the Government and suggests needed reforms. A Washington special says: "It is intimated in official circles here that negotiations are proceeding looking to an armisLice between Japan and Rus sia. The stumbling block in the way of an armistice appears to be that neither belligerent is willing to take the initiative. The present negotia tions. it is understood, consists of an effort to sound one or both govern ments as to their willingness to agree to ar armistice. Through the North. The Chicago Civic Federation advised against municipal ownership. President Roosevelt spent a few days the first of the week in New England. The City Trust and Safe Deposit Co., of Philadelphia. has failed as a result of the Gaskill forgeries. The Lutheran Synod continued its sessions in Pittsburg and received re ports on church extension and other subiects. Both of the 1S-hour trains on the New York Central and Lake Shore rail road between New York and Chicago arrived ahead of schedule time. Paul Morton. chairman of the board of directors of the Equitable Life As surance Society. has 'directed two ex pert accountants to make an investiga tion. Supreme Court Justice Gaynor has authorized Explorer Champ, to con tinue his search for the North Pole, the expedition having been fitted out by the late William Ziegler. Jesse Wilson, of Indiana, was ap pointed Assistant Secretary of the In terior, to succeed M. W. Miller, re signed. The hot weather caused four deaths in Brooklyn, N. Y.. It is rumored in Philadelphia that Mayor Weaver may cause the arrest of Israel W. Durham, the Republi can organization leader, in connection with certain contracts. Foreign Affairs. Emperor Nicholas received a delega tion of Zemstvoists. to whom he reaf firmed his intention of calling a na tional assembly. Germany. suspecting Europe's inten tion, has engaged in unusual naval actvity. The Chinese movement to boycott American goods is growing steadily. France will take part in an inter natinal conference upon Morocco. Field Marshal Oyama is gradually ex tending his line of Japanese troops from the Mongolian border to the Sea of Japan. Miscellaneous Matters. Three hundred descendants of the Fries family gathered in a reunion at Winhester. M. Rouvier. the French Premier, has decided to retain the Foreign Af fairs porto-folio. On motion of, counsel for Gaynor and Greene, the habeas corpus pro eedings were postponed until Tues day. counsel stating that the motion to quash his clients' appeal to the Supreme Court would be argued on Monday. Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild be cuee-- $4,000.0"" of his estate to chari;a.ile purposes. The Italian Heraldic Court decided that titles of nobility conferred by the Pope are valid It is officially announced that a Jap anese detachment in northern Korea completely occupied Kangsong on Tuesday. A few thousand Russians, wtilh artillery, retired toward Siasong. 12 miles northward. The feeling of doubt that James Hazen Hyde has really sold his ma jority stock in the Equitable Life As surance Society to Thomas F. Ryan appears to oe on the increase and there is a growing belief that there may be as much one-man power in the WAS SIARP RASCAL Forger Got His Hand in Cleverly For Near a Million MANY BANKS WERE EASILY DUPED An investigation Into the Affairs of Benj. H. Gaskill, a Philadelphia Broker, Who Died Four Weeks Ago, Discloses a Sensational Case of Forgery. Philadelphia, Special.-One fc the most sensational cases of forgery that has ever bcen brought to light in finan cial circles of this city was disclosed when it was announced that certificates calling for a small number of shares of stock had been fraudulently raised to hundreds of shares, causing a loss to certain banks and trust companies of this city of from $750,000 to $1,000, 000. The forgery involves the name of Benjamin H. Gaskill, who went to his grave four weeks ago. Gaskill was the sole member of the banking and brokerage concern known as Benj. H. Gaskill & Co. He had offices in the financial district and his credit was considered gilt edged. Gaskill <iied about four weeks ago, and at the time of his death he was believed to be worth about half-mil lion dollars. He left no will and ad ministrators began to close up his bus iness. A patron of the firm, whose name is not given, bought from the estate 100 shares of Philadelphia Trac tion Company stock. This was sent to the Philadelphia Traction Company's office to have the transfers recorded. The stock exchange, of which Gaskill was a member, then sent out notices to its members not to receive stock certificates from the Gaskill estate. A further investigation brought to light a surprising state of affairs. It was found that Gaskill had credited himself on his own books with 6,000 shares of Philadelphia Tractien stock, valued approximately at $600,000, while the Traction Company's books showed "hat he only had 400 shaes. It was also discovered that he had raised stock certificates of the United States Railways of New Jersey from two to 200 and the certificates of the Frank ford & Southwark Street Railway Company, in this city, from two to twenty. The latter stock Is worth $450 a share. Gaskill kept two accounts, one re cording the transactions of his custom ers, which was correct, and another giving his own transactions His books showed that he was losing from $15,000 to $20,000 a year in his business His method of operation was to obtain cer tificates of gilt-edged securities call ing for one, two, three or some other small number of shares, raise the fig ures and give them as securities for large loans At least six banks and trust companies of this city admit holding fraudulent securities for large loans. A financier who has been making an investigation said that the amount of money loaned on the raised certificates will aggregate between $750,000 and $1,000,000. It is believed that very little will be recovered from the estate. Texas Railroad Sold. Beaumont, Tex., SpeciA-The Bean mont, Sour Lake & Western Railroad, a twenty-mile line from this city to Sour Lake, tapping a rich lumber and oil region, has been sold to B. F. Yoa kum, of New Ybrk, representing the St. Louis & San Francisco. The sale was ratified at a meeting of the stock holders here. It is expected that the purchasers will make the road the nu leus of a line reaching from Houston to New Orleans, with various branches. The terms of the sale were not given out. Ex-Governor Lubback lil. Austin, Tex., Special.-Ex-Governor Frank Lubbock. one of the most prom inent men in Texas, at the advanced age of 86 years, was stricken with pa ralysis. It may be possible, it is said, that he will linger for a day or two, but the attending physicians assert that his advanced age gives no hope of re covery. Reddoch Goes to Prison. St. Louis, Special.-M. M. Red dock, ex-postmaster of Yazoo, Missis sippi when arraigned in the United States district court pleaded guilty to having trumped up charges against Congressman Claude Kitchen of the first North Carolina district, and was sentenced to serve one year in the Missouri penitentiary Ct Jefferson City and pay a fine of $100. Bowen Disnmissed. Washington, Special.-The dismissal of Herbert W. Bowen, for some years United States Minister to V enezuela, and the exoneration of Assistant Sec rtary of State Loomis, of the alle gations brought against him by Mr. Bowen, are the outcome of the Loomis Bowen controversy, which has attract edl wide attenthi for many months prst. This disposition of the case is made by President Rocsevelt in a letter addressed to Secretary Taft, made pub li, approving Mr. Taft's report on his findings and conclusions in the case. Dropped Dead While Speaking. Chicago. Special.-.S. P. Sheerin, for merly secretary of the Democre tic nn :onal committee, dropped dead on the Cor of the convention hall in the Au itoriunm Hotel while making an ad ress before the delegates to the con ention of National Inter-State Inde ,.ndent Telephone Association. Death was due to appolexy. Mr. Sheerin Iwas president of the new long-distance telephone company, of Indianapolis, and had been selected to reply to an address of welcome. Negro Lynched in Tennessee. Nashville, Tenn., Special.-Simfonl Ford, a negro who assaulted a white woman near Riverside. has been taken from jail at Hohenwald. Tenn.. by a mob of fifty men and shot to death. Ford was arrested after being perhaps fatally wounded. After his arrest he ad mitted his guilt and was later identi fied by his victim. Ford was hauled to the sc-ene of his crime, about ten miles. suffering from his wounds. H-e asked to be killed the quickest way and did not leadr fr his life, A NEW RAILROAD SYSTEM Oconee People Ask For Charter For County Road. A new railway the "Oconee County Railway Company," applied for a char ter Monday. The railway Will be capitalized at $50,000 witu the privi lege of increasing to $200,000. and will run from Westminister on the South ern to Fairplay. which is near the ccnjunction of the Occnee, Anderson and Georgia lines. and will run through intermediate stations includ ing Oakway. The declaration asks for powers to dam rivers and furnish light and power and provides that the railway may be operated either by steam or ele:tricity. The corporators are W. P. Anderson. and Wm. Bibb of Westminister: J. W. Shelor of Walhalla; J. J. Halley, Jas. Bates and L. A. Edwards of Oakway: W. L. Thomas of Tugalo; J. D. Shel don, E. C. Marett and J. R. Heller of Fair Play, and J. W. Shirley of Town ville. Steamboat Launched. Columbia. Special.--The City of Co lumbia," Columbia's new freight boat, to make weekly round trips between here and Geoigetown. was launched Tuesday afternoon with impressive ceremony and in the presence of several hundred people. the attendance being large in spite of the excessive heat. The boat has a gross tonnage of 300 and a net tonnage of 260, is 135 feet long, 30 feet wide. and is a stern-wheeler propelled by an 85-horse power engine, with a down-stream speed of 15 miles an hour and an up-stream speed of 9 miles. The christening was by little Miss Janie Murray, daughter of Dr. W. J. Murray, the president of the com pany. The enterprise is backed by the wrongest and most successful local business men, who intend to make this an interior port of importance, adding a number of various kinds of boats in the immediate future. With this in view correspondence has been opened with the Washington authorities and with the head officials of the Southern and Seaboard railroads looking to the construction of a draw bridge across the Congaree at a point near where the roads have ordinary bridges over which they Come into the city a short dis tance below the present landing of the boat. The company intends to blast out the entire river, if this is necessary, in order to put on a complete line of boats. Edgefield to Discuss the Dispensary. Edgefield. special.-A call for a mass meeting of the citizens of Edge field county in the court house has been made and the same will be pub lished in the county papers this week announcing Monday July 3, as the time to discuss the matter of voting out the dispensary here. This ac tion is fathered by some of the lead ing and most influential citizens throughout the county and there is lit tle doubt but that an election will be ordered and the State rum mill dis lodged from this baliwick. Whether prohibition absolute is in the majority is questionable and it remains only to be seen, but the people here are sick of the State selling liquor. A Negro Shot. Laurens, Special.-Ferrell Milam, a young white man of the county shot Ader Madden, a negro farm hand Mon day while the two were engaged in a personal difficulty. A warrant was issued for Milam, but he came in and was granted bond in the proper sum for his appearance at the next term of the criminal court to answer to the charge of assault and battery with in tent to kill. It seems that Milam shot at the negro several times, but only one shot struck Madden, which took effect in the arm j':st above the wrist and ranged upward or inward, coming out at a point between the elbow and shoulder. During the fight Milam was struck on the head, apparently with a brick or rock. According to the state ment of Milam the negro was whipping a negro woman and he decided to in terfere for the purpose of stopping the fuss, Madden resented and the fight ensued. Heavy Storm Damage. Tampa, Fla.. Special. -One death and damage to property amounting to thousands resulted from an electric storm and cloudburst which occurred here Tuesday afternoon. Beatrice Co ln. aged 7. colored, was killed by lightning while standing in the door of her home. The roof of the Penin sular Telephone exchange, fell in smashing the switchboard and injuring several young lady operators, none seriously. Major Carrington's Case Up. Washington. SIrecial.-The procee:1 ings in the 'ease of Maj. F. del Carring ton, tried by court-martial in the Phil ippines. have arrived at the War De patment for review by the President. Majo- Carrington was in charge of the battalion of Philippine scouts at the St. Louis Exposition. and his trial was baed on c-harges of misappropriation of funds and the duplication of ac counts. The c-ourt sentenced him to lis issal. Carrington was tried by civil :crities of the Philippines and sen t iced to sixty years and five days im prisonmn~en t. New Enterprises. The Lynchburg Mercantile Company' of Lee County received a commission ths week. The concern is capitalized :$ :(.00 and its corporators are: W. E. Mcintos~h. .1. F. McIntosh. Jr.. S. WV. Frierson. .1. WV. Tarrant and E. D. .\nothii-er cmission wvas issued to the E-rins l.and company of Spartan bur". The capital is $1 1.000 and the coroator:; are: J. Choice Evinis and Thos. .\. Erins. Thet lndeienentn Canning Company of Charleston wvill have a capital stock )f $N'.00)0 and the corp~orator-s will b~e: William Fait. William Q. Lloyd, A. C. Tobias and Edwardl W. Wy.nne. The Wateree club of Camden will be a hunting and fishing club. A num ber of northerners are among the corporators. They are: WV. G. Fel lowes. Ralph N. Ellis and Floyd War-j r. all of New York city and John. Caney of Camden. This is an elee osyna ry orgamization. Judge Thomas J. Christian died in REPORT OF COMMISSION South Carolina Railroad Commission After Thorough investigation of the Wreck of the Ogden Special, Makes Report. Columbia, S. C.. Special. - The Railroad Commission on Wednesday filed their finding on the wrcek of the Ogden special car near Green ville on April 29. The finding goes into the particulars in detailand makes some rather drastic recommendations. In addition to the regular finding Commissioner Earle filed a supple mentary report on the wreck and makes some additional findingse. The commission says: "The yard engine and train engaged rin switching in the Greenv~ille yards was neither a second or third class train, and the effect of the train or ders above mentioned was not to alter the relations between it and extra en gine 1010, as established by the rules I of the railroad company. We find the rules of the railroad company make all extra trains inferior to regular trains of whatever class. The rule of the company which governed the train in question on the day of the accident was as follows: "Yard limits are indicated by sign boards reading 'Yard limits' located on either side of Spencer. Salisbury, Charlotte, Spartanburg, Spartanburg junction, Greenville, Toccoa, Lula, Athens, Elberton. Armour and Atlanta Switching and other engines and trains may work within these limits without regard to second class and inferior trains, but must give way immediately upon their approach. Second class and inferior trains must approach and run through yard limits under full control, expecting to find the main track occupied. In case of accident, responsibility rests with approaching train.' "Frorn this it is apparent that as acording to the company's classifica tion of trains, which is the usual clas sification on American railways, the extra train of engine 1010 was inferior in class, and for the purpose of ascer taining its right on the road to sec ond class trains, it was its duty, in approaching and running through Greenville yard, to do so 'under full control,' and 'expecting to find the main track occupied,' It was right under the rules for the switch engine and train to work within the yard lim its without regard to approaching second class or inferior trains, which include extra trains. but they are re quired to give way immediately upon their approach. "Under these rules the entire obli gation of safety rests upon the ap proaching train. and, in fact, the rule explicitly states that 'in case of acci dent. responsibility rest with approach ing train.' "If we take the rules to govern a train crew, we must decide from the facts shown that the approaching ex tra train, in this case engine 1010. was, in approaching and passing through the Greenville yard limits, being run in direct violation of these rules, and of being under 'full control' was run ning from thirty-eight to forty miles per hour. It appears from the evi dence that the engineer and conductor of this train had been furnished with the rules in question had been examin ed on and knew them, but simply in action, at least, misinterpreted them. HOLDS CREW responsible "The conclusion, therefore, of the commission, is that the responsibility for the accident rest primarily with the crew of engine No. 1010."I The commission after stating that the rules of the company are standard says: "There is one point, however, that the commission are not fully satisfied with, and that is when the operator at Greenville received the last mes sage, that is that the Ogden special was running forty minutes late, if he received it in time, and it seems from the testimony that he did, he (the op erator at Greenville) should have made every effort to convey this notice to the yard crew. If this could have been successfully done, in all proba' bility this unfortunate accident could have been 'averted. "It appears that the trainmen on this special misunderstood their or ders, and that they considered that they- were running a first-class train. It further appears that the yard men in Greenville regarded them as a spe cial, and that they should have come into the Greenville yard under control, expecting the main track occupied. It appears that the train crews having the safety and lives of the passengers in charge are not sufficiently familiar with their orders, and that railroad companies should only employ men for these positioxi who are thorough ly familiar wvith all orders, rules, etc.. concerning their work. "it further appears that when so many trains are handled over a single track, that in all such cases the rail roads should use the block system,. and any other precautions that it is possible to use. It further appears that there is not sufficient track room in the Greenville yard. and that more room should be given for the handling of the large amount of business there. "The commission recommended that in cities like Spartanburg, Greenville, Charleston, Columbia, and other cit ies like these, that the railroad com panies should have an employe for the purpose of delivering messages, tele grams, etc., to the yardmaster and all ard crews that may be in the yard imits on duty. concerning all over' due trains and the approach of all extra trains. "Respectfully submitted. ".J. H. Wharton, chairman, "B. L. Caughmanl, "John H. Earle. "Commissioners.' Shot For Hiring Negroes. A special from Florence says that H. D. Gr-anger. a local Baptist 1)reach er. was shot from amtbush and killed while working on his farnm near there Fidav. He lived in the district. Iknowni as the "dead stretch," where it is said that negroes are not wd'i come, and the only e:-:pianation f hali~ death is that he had hired two n,'rtw's to work on the farm and had protatu them-even allowing theim to sM'c on his premiises. Two New Majors. Major Walter B. Moore, of Yorhville, Iand Major W. T. Brock. of Cheraw. went to Columbia and stood successfiul ly the ('xamination fur promotion. Thee are the only new majors in the militia under the recent elections. Ma jor Moore came through Chester ind reports that the condition of Mr. Paul G. McCorkie is exti'emely critical. Mr. McCorkle has never rallied from the kick in the face wvhich he received from a frightrened horse a few weeks PALMETTO AFFAIRS' Many Newsy Items Gathered Prom all Sections. General Cotton Market. Middling. Galveston. steady ........ ......9 3-16 New Orleans, firm ..............9 1-16 Mobile. firm ........ ..............8% Savannah, steady ..................8% Wilmington. steady ................8% Norfolk, steady ....................9 Baltimo:e. normal ................91 New York. quiet ..................9.20 Boston. quiet ............. ........9.20 Philadelphia, steady ..............9.45, Houston, quiet ....................9% Augusta. quiet ................S 15-16 Memphis. firm ...... ..............9% St. Louis. quiet ....................9 Louisville. firm ....................9% Charlotte Cotton Wlarket. These figures represent prices paid to wagons: Good middling .................S 15-16 Strict middling ................8 15-16 Middling ........ ........ .........8% Tinges ........ ...............7 to 7% Stains ........ ..............6% to 71% J. M. Langley Missing. A special from Columbia says: * J seph M. Langley, a carpenter in th car repairing department at the sho of the Southern railway in this cit has unaccountably disappeared and h. not been seen by his family or any of his friends since Monday. He left his home on the Barhamville road, less than a mile from the shops. as usual, Monday morning. He worked at his accustomed place all day and for two hours extra time, which kept him un til 8 o'clock that night. After leavin work he was seen by acquaintanc going towards his home and the la that, can be learned of him is that h was at the store of Mr. William Allworden, on the Barhamville road, that night. His wife is unable to account for his absence. and she says she thinks he has been foully dealt with. She and her two youig children have been left in a most deplorable condition. Both of the children are sick and she her self is just recovering from a recent illness. The eldest of the two chil dren is two years old and the youngest is only seven months old.. They are without money or the necessaries of life and are dependent on the bounty of their good neighbors for food and shelter. The Langleys invested in $75 wort]? of furniture on the installnent plan when they began housekeeping some time ago, and this has been seized and removed by the furniture house from which it was bought because of her inability to pay the installments. Mrs. Langley said that she had paid about half of the $75 and - that she had lost that and her furniture too. She and her children are being cared for at the home of Joseph L. Gates, who lives near the broken up home of the Lang leys. So far as can be learned there is absolutely notliing to indicate why Langley should have left except that he was in debt and could not meet his obligations. His wife states that he had no enemies, so far as she knew.v There is no reason to believe that he has met with foul play. - Petition For Pardon. A petition for the pardon of John Hendrix. of Pickens county, has been filed with the Governor. The convict is said to be a weak-minded boy who, in 1900. was given a life sentence on the charge of burglary with attempt to assault Daniel Doe, an imbecile, of Barnwell county, who a few weeks ago pleaded guilty to the charge of larceny and was* given a sentence of thirty months on the chaingang. is the object of the sympathies of the county officials in Barwell who have written to the Gov erndr to have the boy released on a pardon. Hurley Jones, of Greenville, is serv ing a life sentence on the charge of as sault. The mother of the woman who alleges that she was assaulted, has ask ed for the prisbner to be pardoned. as there were circumstances which are in the convict's favor. New Enterprises. The Bank of Norway has applied for a charter. A commission has been is sued to the following corporators: W. C. Wolfe and J. A. Berry. of Orange burg. and C. H. Able, J. G. Williams, L. W. Jeffcoat, C. T. Dowling and A. L.. -Garick, of Norway. The capital stock will be $10,000. The Siegling Music House. of Char leston. wants to be incorporated wit'h. a capitalization of $24,000. A commission was issued .to the foL lowing corporators of the Bank of Lynchburg, which will have a capital ization of $20,000. T. G. McLeod. E. D. Smith. J. C. Kilpatric, J. A. Rhame, J. G. Stokes. The Georgetown Boat Oar Company was chartered, capitalization. $5.000. F. D. Wilsey is president: Walter Haz ard. vice-president, and F. C. Clutter buck. .secretary. The Timmonsville Lumber Company was given a commission, the corpora tors being B. D. Dargan and F. L. W. cox. The capitalization will be $40.0. The United Brotherhood of Labor or Enon. Richland county, was given an eleemosyfary charter, as was the "In~ dustrial Health and Accident Company. of Aiken." a burial aid society. A charter was issued to the Charles ton Steamship Company, capitalization $20000. A. C. Tobias is president; Wal ter Pringle, vice-presidenl: John W. Petermani. secretary and treasurer. The largest stockholder is Moses Marks. of Georgetown. Walter B. Dean. of Spartanh~urg, was. appointed a state constable. A charter was issued to the Barnwell County Buildinlg and Loan Association. capitaization. $50.000. George H. Bates is president and WV. C. McNab. secre tary and treasurer. Violating Game Law. Mr. H. McRae, of Albriton. Marionl county, has writtcn to Capt. John C. Sellers that the fish laws are being violate dfiagranltiy on the Little Pee Dee river. Dynamite, traps and. other * means of wholesale destruction are Captain Sellers has written to Gov ernor eyward and recommends the appointment of Mr. S. G. Moore. of Al-v briton. as game warden, under thei i provisions Of the act passed in Febru-. ry lat..