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When You Visit a Very Sick Friend C)I&~dlo By Mrs. L. H. H., in Ladies' Review. Mrm-4 What You Must Not Do. ON'T go to the sick room unannounced. Don't rock. Don't wear rustling silks or squeaking shoes. Don't stay more than ten or fifteen minutes. Don't say, "I have something that will particularly inter est you. So and so is very ill, or has just had a terrible operation." described in detail, or "I once had a dreadful illness," described at le-1gth. Don't send books and then insist on knowing whether they have been read. Sometimes a person is too ill to read evertyhing. Don't send gloomy books full of harrowing incidents. Don't shake the bed or hit it in any way. Don't be so optimistic that you are unsympathetic. For instance, don't congratulate a sufferer too much on an approaching operation, even if relief is expected. People often do this and it is kinder to do the congratulating afterward. Don't be excitable, or show any intense emotion. Don't say, "What, still in bed. and you look so well-" Moreover, don't be hurt if your friend is not able to see you at all. What You Ought to Do. Do bring at least one beautiful flower, if you can. "Do wear your prettiest clothes. Do tell about things your friend will enjoy thinking about afterward. Do ask one or two interested questions about the progress of the patient's health. Do, above all, be natural, gentle, and quiet voiced. After all, it is better to make a mistake thr.n to seem to try too hard to do the right thing. It is a comfort in it all to remember that the very fact you have called at all gives evidence of thought and kindness. If your friend is too sick to see you. send -something. A package of kodak pictures, showing what you are doing, or how the children have grown, is sure to bring pleasure. I once saw such a set that was sent every week from Italy, showing the few weeks old baby in her bath, in her basket, with the Italian nurse, "with the grandmother, etc. An attractive magazine, one large grape fruit, a little pillow with a linen cover, a silver spoon, some ice cream in:a 'pasteboard box, and always and ever flowers, are among the gifts that cannot fail to carry a message of comfort and bring more brightness than you will perhaps realize. English Wewspapers. And Our Own W0V e&#F By Henry Watterson. 4. goenWWI: - . OURNALISM .may be philosophy, but it is not statesmanship. + + It is the current chronicle, among other' things, of statesman + + ship, real or spurious. It may be narative or it may be + J + doctrinal. In England it aspires to be both. With us, less so. But if it be enlightened, if it be honest, if it seek the good of the many, it cannot blindly follow the politicians, ==Sand in England and in America, it is less and less doing1- so. There is ;a very marked difference in the make-up of the London newspapers and, let us say, the New York news papers. None of the great dailies of London use display type as it is used in America. They affect .bookwork in their typography as well as their com position. Another 'point -of dIfference -much to the credit of London as against New York is the reduction of the day's news into some proportion, and the abridg mnent of each ,detail within its proper quantum. There is less "featuiring:" no needless superfluity. London :compresses into a paragraph what New York would amplify into a column. New York covers the field more fully. But :It does this at the -cost sof a vast amount of the immaterial. When one has read any one of the five leading London dailies he is tolerably sure of being in possession -of the 'history of yesterday. The cleanliness of -the London newspapers is delightful. Much of their interest and value is found in their court reports, wherein the story is set down with great particularity, without surplusage. There are no exaggera tions in the text and no headlining to distort the text. In London, as in America, the leading article is beginning to play second tiddle. Whether this is the decline otf strong writing, or whether it implies that the public has found out the Thunderer and where thLe thunder comes from, it would be har?'. to say. *There is no reason why good editorial writing should not exercise the charm it once did, if not the power. But good -editorial writing, like good butter, must he genuine and fresh. Leading articles kept in cold storage and served, like chickens in a restau rant, on demand, deceive -no-one who knows the difference between hot chops and cold 'potatoes. 'The editorial should be tbe rationale of the day's doing, It rhould expound the news, -giving precedence to the most important. The reader should instinctively turn to it after he has perused the despatches. Long or short, it should be sincer'e. While there is nothing more meritless and grotesque 'than a bit of wood with a nib of lead at one end and a fool S the other--and, yet 'worse, a knave-the clumseist illustrations of good sense and good feellflg, hot from the .hearts and brains of truthful men, responsive to Lhe wires, did .priceless. Criminal Chemistry By Associate Judge Werner, of .the ANew York ~ Court of .Appeals. M'ONG a'll the 'enumerated powers of government none is more 113 important and .far-reaching than the branch of the police power through ,the exercise of which the state seeks to re IJIstrain .and punish the adulteration of foods and foodstuffs. Of superlative importtance .is the vigilant and fearless exercise of that power in regulating :the purveying of milk, which is most easily .adulterated .of .all the foods and beverages of civilized humanity. The crimes of murder and theft in their usual significance might almost be counted as virtues when compared with the poisonous adulteration of foods, for the latter combines the felonious villainy .of both the formecr, not against selected individuals., it is Lrue, but .against society at large. It is a mean and insidious crime, stealthily committed in the marts of trade by men who mas querade in the garb of good repute. but in whose breasts the qualities of hon esty and morality have been stifled by the most despicable form on which the pharisees of commerce wax fat at the expense of:thei'r innocent competitors and of the poor and helpless consumers. No form of food adulteration within the field .of .criminal chemistry can be more deadly and far-reaching in its effects than the adulteration of milk. Other' adulterated foods and beverages, which are used by persons whose powers ot resistance have been developed by maturity, vary so greatly in the kind and quantity of adulteration that the ill effects from their use may be considerably minimized or altogether neutralized by regular or frequent change of diet, Net so, however, with the myriads of help'ess babes for whom nature's greatest food is transfojrmed into any artificially ceolored. flavored and preserved fluid which mocks at the pangs of hunger or defies the powers of digestion; that either cheats them with the appearance .of nourishment, and thus deprives them of the nutritious food which they need, or fills their system with drugs that may entail upon them lifelong weakness and misery. In the presence of such a crime humanity may well assert itself through the voice of its legislatures in the enactment of statutes designed to protect society, and as against such statutes and so-called common law rights of the Individual criminals should not be so zealously hedged about by tecnical sate guards as to render the state helpless to effectuate a great, just and humani tarian policy. Ingenious Device. Salad Grown at Table. The Icelanders have a strange but The experiment of serving a dinner etfective plan for preventing horses party with salad grown under the straying from any particular spot. Il gutest's' own eves was recently tried two gentlemen happen to be riding in Berlin. Here is the recipe: Take without attendants, and wish to leave good germinating lettuce seed and their hcrses for any reason. they tie -soak it in alcohol for about six hours, the he:ad of one horse to the tail of sow it in an equal mixture of rich soil another. and the head of this to the and unslaked lime, and place It on the tail of thle former. In this state it is table. After the soup water it with utterly impossible for the horses tc lukewarm water, whereupon It com move on. either backwards or for- mences to' sprout immediately. The wards. If disposed to move at al t'hing worked like a charm, and the will be only in a circle, and even ettuces when plucked and prepared there must be mutual agreemenor eating were the size of Barcelona 1turn their heads the same wa- uts. OFFERED $100,000 REWARD Offered For Conviction of a Gang of Brutes. New York. Special.--Isidore Worm ser. the millionaire banker, offered $100.000 reward for the conviction of a gang of men who recently assaulted Annie Thornton. a domestic employ ed iii his household. In court when five men were arraiglned for the as sault Mr. Wormser said: "I will g-ive $100.000 to have the perpetrators of this dastardly crime convicted and sent to prison.' Recentlv, on Miss Thornton's birth day Mr. Wormser gave her $50 and a holidav as a reward for several years service in his household. That evening while passing a stable on the West Side. she said she was seized by two urn and dragged into a stable and that about a dozen others join ed them there. She did not escape from the stable until the next morn ing. Her health was seriously affeet ed by her exNperience. The five ren arraizned were held in $2.000 bail each and the police an nounced that they expected to arrest nine more mna in connection with the assault. Mutiny on High Seas. Wilmingtn. N. C.. Special.-A spe cial to the Star from Southrort says the schoone:- Blanche H. King. Cap tain J. W. Taylor. [Brunswich, Ga., September 23rd to Philadelphia, put in there br-nging iI irons three jin groes. all that remain of the crew of the four masted schooner Harry A. Berwind. Captain Rumill. from Mo bile. Septetrber 23rd. to Philadelphia. the captain. mate, cook and anl en gineer having been ostensibly murder ed in a mutiny at sea and their bod ies thrown overboard. The body of a fourth negro of the crew was found lying on deck where lie, too, had evi dently been inurdered. Captain Tay lor. of the schooner King, siglitd the Berwind early ThNrsday morning about thirty miles off the Cape Fear bar. imd wis attareted to her by the mianner in which she w~as beiqg steer ed. having several times come verv ner 1 runninr down the King. A near er approach to the Berwind showed that she iad been practically aban doned. Captain Taylor and crew boarded the vessel and placinz the two vessls oil the bar. whenee one of them was towed in by Wilmington tugs. which have now gone for tie other schooner. a gale prevailing on the out sidc. The Italian Earthquake. Rome, Special.-According to the latest officiai reports 300 villages were destroyed by the recent earthquake in the proviice of Calahria. Reconstruc tionl wor-k, it is estimated, will cost about $30.(00.000 and funds contri buted up to the pr-esenlt time amount to .800.000. The pope is much dis tresed b)ecause if the situation, es peially now thlat the severity of the etomni wecathier is felt among tihe in habitants of tile stiricken district. His hlolineCss r-eceived tihe Right Rev. Fran ci. Borun~e. Ronman 31athlolie airchbish op of Westminster, in audience and thaked im~ warmly for- opelnmg a collection amonlg the clergy of West mister. adding: "'All gtood Catholics t houhout thle svorid should imitate Governor Wright to Retire. Washington. Special.-By r-eason of what appears to be dissatisfaction with the situation in tile Philippines. Luke E. Wrliight. governor general of the Phlilinpine commiss.on, wvill retire from that po4stion abo'ut tile 1st of December. G;eneral Wright is ex peted to tLrrive in the United States during that monithi and is entitled to six monlth' leave? of absence prior to tle formial relinquishlmenit of his Ia bors ats gov) ernor- general. To Force Mixed Schools. Topeka. Kas.. Special.-Thie State supreme cour-t issuedl a writ of alter niatie mandamus against the boardl of educatien of Kansas City. K{as., r-e tunabllle November 7. reqiing said boartd to show cause why colored pu ~is a1re n1ot allowedl to attend school at the samle 1hours and( ill the same bilingsl~ as tile white pil1s. Hearst Accepts Nomination. New Yo?k, Special.-Williaml Ran dlo ~lhiHeirst has made pubilic a letter odressed toI .Judge Samuel Seabury, of the Mu nicipal 0Ownershlip League. aeept ing the league's recent tenlder of a nominationl for mayor of New Yo rk. Tile mniciip~al convent ion of tle o~-ranizationi wil lb held Thlurs day. liut Mr. Hearst was offered tile n oiialt ion at at meeting somei (lays ao. Hlis aceptance assures till-ee mayoralty tickets ill the field thlis faill -the democratic, thle republican and mniial ownecrsh ip League. Was There Foul Play? New Yor-k. Specia.-Police (draggedl tile Harlem river for thle body of Mr-s. Katherine D uerir. who was d h-ownedl under circutancest 0.ICso5 suspicious as t'o cause the arrest of Mrs. Duerrt s h~usbandi. Otto. and his frienld Char-les H hn~i2. Raymondill Messmer- and his Iwife. Mary, parenits of the drownued w vomal. d!( ele to (Coroner (O'(Gor mai thait the beV )lieved she had1( beenu Neck Broke But Went Mile. into a Big Four- grav-el pit near. saw renlcebrg. Id., and brea)1C~king. hi~ nec-k an Italiani laborer, a51sisted by a friend. waulked nearly amile to his ent holding. his head ill he hi nds tihe hole distance. Physician'. found that the man's ieek hlad bcen frac ured at the fifth vcriebu ac an'd deC eared the injuries3 fill unhloubtedly nroe fetal. Notes of Southern Cotton Mills and Other Manufacturing Enterprises. Ware Shoals, S. C.-Another biz South:--rn. mill, the Ware Shoals Manu facturii company, is nearing compie tion. Its buildings are now eomplet ed, the machinery ias been ordered and is being received at the plant for installation. This latter work is ex peeted to be completed by November 20, and then the spindles and looms will begin to produce. The mill build ing is four stories high. 1.50 by 277 feet in size, and will have 25.000 spin dles, together with SOO looms, from the Draper Company. of Hopedale. Mass. There wil then remain sumei ent space in the building to double the spindles when the company desires to increase its equipment. The corpora tion owning this mill is capitalized at $500,000, and N. B. Dial. of Laurens. S. C., is its president. Gaffney, S. C.-It is expected that the work of developing Gaston Shoals. a property on Broad river, about five miles from Gaffney. will be started at once. This property and other water privileges were acquired by the Gaff nev Manufacturing Company some time ago, but were sold recently to a company that Mr. J. B. Cleveland, of Spartanburg, is said to be at the head of. This company had a corps of surveyors at work at the property last weeI and it is thought here that the work of developing will be bee-uln in the near future. This property is considered very valuable and if prop erly developed it is thought that these fals will furnish water power suffi cient for the manufacturing plants at Gaffney, Spartanburg, Cherokee Falls, Blacksburg, in South Carolina. and Shelby and other points in North Carolina. Nashville, Tenn.-A meeting of the stockholders of the Warioto Cotton Mills. was held on September 30 to consider plans for that company's en terprise. Officers were elected as fol lows: President, W. R. Odell, of Concord, N. C.; vice-president, Wil liam Nelson: and secretary-treas-urer, J. B. Morgan. Directors were chosen as follows: M J. Smith, Edward Warner, Joseph H. Thompson, H. G. Lipscomb and A. H. Robinson, and the three officers named. This com pany will not be in a position to make its building ready nor to install ma chinery until next summer, as it has purchased the cotton mill property of the Tennessee Manufacturing Con pany, which is under lease for some mciiths yet, as stated recently. Durham, N. C.-The Durham and Southeastern Railway will soon be running trains from Durhanm to Apex, N. C., where this road wiln eross the Seaboard Air Line and connect with a road already running to a point on the Atlantic Coast Line a few miles north of Fayetteville. This road will be a great convenience to the Erwin Cotton Mill interests at Durham which have already established a large new mill and commenced the erection of a fine new town at Duke, which is on the line of this road only a short distance from its eastern termi nus at Dunn, N. C. It is probable in fact that the Duke and Erwin inter estshave been the chief factors in the building of this road which will be of great benefit to a section of coun try heretofore seriously lackim' in fa ciities for transportation of its pr1o Spartanburg, S. 0.--The Sun Mills will be incorporated with an authoriz ed capital stock of $300.000 to build and operate a cotton-rope and twine mill. John B. Cleveland, John A. Law, Walter S. Montgromery and A. W. Smith will . e the directors and im charge of construction work and mn stallation of machinery. Mr. Mont cmery will be president. __ San Hartonia, Texas.-The contract with Del Rio people and Eastern cap italists for the erection of a large cot ton mill at this place was closed on the 29th and Colonel S. G. Grimshaw. rereseitiig the capitalists, left at nce for Fall River, Mass., where lie wll make arrangements for work to bgin on the building. The plant will cost $150,000, and work is to begmn within four weeks. Muscagee.-Thie Commercial Club is neotiating with the representative of w~ York capitalists relati-e to the erction of a large textile mill, prob ably a cotton factory. Marion, S. 0.-It has been but a few months since the Marion Manu fact uring Company begain operations with its 5,000 spindles, but alrcady it finds it necessary to add to that equipment. The company's directors mt and ordered that 2.000 spiett.9Te installed, and William ~jt'ekhouse president left at once for the North to buy the newv egnpment. Memphis, Tnn.-Makers of textile machinery rre invited to correspond with he S'heby Cotton Products Co., atatvO the "purchase of machinery~ for anufacturing cotton yarns and blciing that product. Th -hlb entrprise contemplates adding a yarn mill to its present plant to utilize the hiners and waste cotton, and is pr~e pared to receive information and esti mates on the cost of the required equipments for the purposes named. Lidale, Ga.-The Mpissachiusetts Mills whose plant is here will make a comprehensive exhibit at the Floyd Conty Fair, Or-tober 10 to 14. Tue dsiplaav will include a Draper auto matic'lom in operation, andl also the other details of manufacture from thec raw otton to the tinishied product. The Massachusetts Mills in Georgia haave now in operation 514 of the Dra peer automatic looms. Burglarc who rifl safes -;hould bc IS LIKE LYNCII LAW President Spencer Speaks on Railway Rate Legislation TAKES A FiRM STAND AGAINST IT Declares Government Regulation is Unfair, Unjust, and Opposed to the Fundamental Principles of Anglo Saxon Jurisprudence. Newark, N. J.. Special.-That gov ernment control of railroad properties as proposed in the Esch-Townsend bill, which was considered at the last session of congress, is unfair, unjust to the railroads, opposed to the fun damental principles of Anglo-Saxon jurisprud'ence, and is equivalent to providing by statute for the enforce ment of commercial lynch law. is in substance the replay of the railroads to the agitation for railroad rate leg islation, as outlined by President Sam uel Spencer, of the Southern railway, in an address before the Newark board of trade. Mr. Spencer said in part : "Up to the present time shipper and carrier have been free to work to ether. without political interference to facilitate the establishment of new industries: to reach out for new mar kets for our farmers and manufac tuiers: to create new communities and to maintain the prosperity of those already established, and to cooperate to the fullest possible extent to en large the volume of both our domestic and foreign trade. Propose to Change System. "It is now proposed to change this system and substitute for it one in which artificial bureacratic methods will take the place of the natural laws of trade and commence. which have been the controlling force and evolu tion of the present system. "And it must be borne in mind that it is proposed to give those enormous powers to a body on whom no respon sibilities rest or can rest. for the pre servation of maintenance of the rail road property, or for the discharge of financial obligations, or the fulfillment of its duties to the public as an effi cient common carrier. "The president, in his last annual message, laid special emphasis upon the necessity for doing away with re bates and for the keeping of the high ways of transportation open to all upon equal terms. There is no issue or controversy before the people oi congress as to whether or not rebates or secret discriminations should be stopped. No one desires more than the railway managers themselves that there should be an end to all such practices. No Rational Suggestions. "No rational suggestions have been made, however, as to how the grant ing of rate making power to the in terstate commerce commission sould be effective to this end. A rebate or any secret discrimination device can. of course, be applied to a government rate as well as to, one made by -the carrier. "One of the most serious objections to thelegislation proposed is that, un der it a rate once fixed by the com mission would continue in force inde finitely, unless changed by the com mission or by the court. The carrier would, therefore. have no power to make either reductions or increases to n'7et new conditions. " To pliace in the hands of one tri bunal which is or may be prosecutor, jury and judge and at the same time executioner is equivalent to being one statute for the enforcement of com mercial lynch law.'' Judge Solicited for Campaign. Washington, Special.--The charge of soliciting and accepting campaign contributions in the campaign of 1902 made against United States Circuit Court Judge Baker, of Indiana, by the Civil Service Commission, has been referred to the Department of ustice by the commission. In connec tion with the refernee the commission ave out an official statement of the case in which it was said "'the statute of limitations is the only defense which can be opposed to the charge.'' Gave His Body to Science. New York, Special.-In accordance with the provisions of the will of George W. Catt, president of the At lantic Dredging and Construct ion Company, who died on Suday, at his residence here, his body was taken to the Bellevue Hospital Medical Colege to be dissected in the interests of science. Mr. Catt was the husband of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Presi dent of the National Suffrage League. Farmers Holding Cotton. Norwood, Ga.. Speed.- Fa ih4+ in this sct ion reie to sell their cot ton fri less than 10 cents and are haul:ng it back home. Less than ten bties of cotton have been sold in both Yarren ton and Norwoodi so far: this week, and the buyers are sitting around with absolutely nothing to do. The farmers in this section are all in rood condition, and are able to hold ndenitely. Crops are short, about 0 per cent of last year's yield. Wisconsin Central Sold. Milwaukee, Special.--The Journal savs: " The Wisconsin Central has been sold and the new interests are in full control. They represent big Eastern financiers and the change means that the line will finally enter Milwaukee Southern and that it will beom part of a great railroad sys PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARIF3 Many Counties Have Decided to In crease the Number of Libraries Put in Operation Last Year. Columbia. Special.-The S:ite svp erintendent of educati-ni as received the annal statistical rep-i s fm all of the ouinty sluperin tendens except those of Anderson, Chester, Chester field, Colleton, Florence, Greenville, Lancaster. Laureiis and Lexington. Some of these superintendents have written that their reports will be ready to send in wthin the next ten days. One feature of interest in the re port will be the matter of elcourag in,. free libiaries in the rural schools. Suerintendent Martin Friday is sued the following le:ter explaiuing the status of the library proposition: To County Superintendents and Tech ers: This office is receiving library re quisitions at the rate of one a day. Now is the time to push this work. I think that the State apnropriation will hold out until the end of the year., but it will be impossible to get the State money during January and Feb ruary. as we have to wait for the ap prppriation bill. LEt us'hear from every first-class teacher en ibis im portaut matter. Surely every one of this class can raise $10 in order to zeta $40 library. During thc past IS moinths libraries have been establish ed and increased as Pllows: Esteh. Iner. Abbeville.. ....... .. .....30. Aiken.. ........ .. .. .. .. 12 Anderson.. .............16 6 Bambere... .. .. .. .. .... S Barnwell.. .. .. .. ....... 12 1 Beufort .. .. ... .. .. .... 3 Berkeley...............-. Charleston.. .. .. .. .. .... 10 3 Cherokee.... .. .. ...... . 7 Chester.... .. .. . .. ... .. 9 C hesterfield.... .. .. .. ..... 6 Clarendon.... .. .. .. .... 12 Colleton.. .. .. .. .... .... I 1 Darlineton ............. 2. Dorchester.. ...... ..I.. Edgefield.... .. .. .. .. .. 13 2 Fairfield.... .. .. .. .. ....14 2 Florence.... .......---17 G orztown .... .. ...... .. 2 Greenville.... .. .. .. .... 19 1 Greenwood.... .. .. .... . ..4 2 ampton.... .. .. . . . - ... - H(.Arv ...... ....... .........1 Kershaw.. ..... ..... ...11 Laflen;ter .... .. .. .... ..-9 Laureus..... .. ..--- 1 Lee... .... ....... .... .. . Lexington.... .. .. .... .. 9 Marion.... .. - .. ......22 Marlboro.... .. . ...... .. 15 2 Newberry.... .. .. .. ..... 13 Oconee.... .. .. .. ....... 14 Orangebur............--.19 5 Pickens..'.. .... .........~ 30 Rihland.... ... ----.--.30 10 Saluda...........-.-----13 Spartanburg.... .. .......23 . Sumter. .. . . .. - - - 1.2 1 Wliamsburg. ......--- S Union.. . . . . . . - S - York.. .... ....--.-. ---... - We have received notice of the building of quite .1 number of new sool houses under the act of the last session of the legislature to encour ar adequate school buildings. The coproller greneral will. in -1 few days send out another apportionment of dispensary funds. The law pro vids that somec of this money many be used for this purpose. This is a great opportunity for a community whic needs a new school building. It gives a good op)portunity also for several communities to consolidate their schools. Please let your trustees understand that local or special taxes moy he voted after January 1. There oughit to be a great many such taxes voted fo next year. This is the only plan ~ndr the law to replace the dispen sary funds in those counties which hae or may vote out the dispensaries. For the last two or three years the schools have been receiving from $200000 to $230,000 from dispensary profits. This amount exceeds either the poll tax or local taxes. Local tax ation is one of the best ways to ra~ise school revenues, because it reouires local interests and enthusi~fsm. Most of the States raise the greater part of their school funds by Ioeal taxa tion. While some districts have vr~ied ll the constitution allows them to vite yet less than 20 per cent. of our school revenues is raised in this way. Let us agitate this question nowy. so that the people may be ready to vote by January. * aiteatn *Allowv me againtoclthate tin of teachers to the teachers read(~ n circle. Pr~ogressive teachers should eep etudying aind~ '~ ve reew d zeal to stddith other sue!iteasf ei5~ji'l township or c.ounlty. 'Wishing you a most successful ses siol. I am. Sincerely yours. 0. B3. MARTIN, State Supt. Education. A New Telephone Company. A new stoek telephone company has been organized at Fort Lawn with 42? suscribers and bright prospects. The stockholders pay $10 each and a rental of 40 cents per month. Mr. Less Ab enathy is president and Mr. Chapman anager of the company. A p'ivate line has been strung to Great Falls and a rgular line to Chester. Due West Railroad Company. A commission was issued to the c'or poators of the Due West railroad comany, capitalized at .922.0001. The coifpany proposes to build and ope rate a standard guage railroad be teen Due Wecst and Donalds. The legth cf the road will be fotr miles. he )ersons interested are: R. S. Gal lway. Rev. James Boyce. [R. C. Broo-nlee. N. B. Clinkseales. .J. W Wdeian. P. L. Grier. J1. R. Bell. E. L. Reid. J. C. Tribble. Rev. F. Y. Press lv. E. P. Kennedy and A. S. Ken ned all of Due West. TilE C Portsmouth IS DONE War in the Far East Offic With the Signatures of Car and Mikado. Washington, Special-The emperor of Russia and the emperor of Japan Saturday morning signed:7 their re spective copies of the peace treaty, thus officially ending war. Baron Rosen, the Russian ambas sador, called at the state'department and saw Secretary Root. While he had no official advices on the subject information had reached him to the effect that the emperorof Russia had early in the day affixed his signature to the treatv. . A few minutes after n inister Takahira appeared af the state de partment with a message stating that the emperor of Japan had signed the treaty at Tokyo. A cablegram was immediately dispatched to Spencer Eddy charge of the American embas sy at St. Petersburg, who was in stracted to inform the Russian for eign office that the emperor of Ja pan had signed the treaty St. Petersburg, By, Cable.-The treaty of peace was signed Saturday though the representative of the for eign office refused to make any offi cial statement on parehniept with the the French and English.teit -in paral lel columns, was sent by Foreign Min ister Lamsdorff to Peterhof, where the ceremony of signing took place. Paris, By Cable.-Premier Roavier, acting on behalf of the Russian gov ernment, cabled M. Harmand, the French minister at Tokyo, to inform the Japanese -overnment tiat the em peror of Russia had sgined the peace treaty. thus completing Russia's part in the conclusion of peace 'between that country and Japan. DEATH OF SIR HEN IG. Attack of Synocope After Eern to Hotel On Conclusion of N!form ance at Bradford, Englan4C-aus ed Death at 11:30 O'clockFriday Night. London, By Cable.-Sir H Irv ing died suddenly at Bradfor riday night. The death of the distinguished ae tor was totally unexpected. 1 was engaged in a tour of the prcnes, appearing nightly, and a few ' ago spoke at a public 'meetmng i dvo-, cacy of the movement for a i~ici pal theatre. ' , Sir Henry played, as usual a4 Brad ford, and -eturned'from the j eatre to his hotel, where' he was seized with an attack of syncope,' dying at" 11:30 o'clock. Irving's last appearance was ts "Becket." in Lord Tennysorn's 'lay of that name. . The Associated Press received the following telegram from. Sir 'Henry Irving's mnag'er, Bran Stoker: i tery terrible news. Sir Henry 'Irvi~ihad an attack of Syncope after returning from the theatre to the hotel an4lied suddenly." Beady For General Passenger Agents. Mexico 'City, Special.-The commit tee having in charge the entertain ment of the members of the'General Passenger Agents' Association of Ameirea has completed all arrange ments for the care of the party from the time of their arrival at the bor der until they reach this city, where they will hold their convention from October 17 to 21 inclusive. Five Swept Overboard. New York, Special.-Five lives are known to have been lost niid more than 30 persons injured, some of them serijously, on the Cunard,'line steamer Campania last Wednesday when a, gi gantic wave rolled over the steamer and 'swept across a deck thick with steerage passengers. John Graham of Milwaukee was one of the passengers washed overboard and lost. He .was traveling in the steerage. In addition to the name of John Graham the Cunard line officials gave out the fol lowing names of steerage passengers who were washed overboard. River Craft's Fatal Mishap. icksinurz. Speciol.-Ilcavily load ed with freight and with a ciew "of 25 men, the er Elk, while back 'flin ro thec en landing struck a snag and sunk in 2 feet .$ From five to ten niegro rous were drowned, but the exact will probably not be knownu eral days. The loss of the bo caro is estimated it $23.00, pa. insured. The Elk is a local steamer, which has been plying betweeni this point atnd Davis Bend. Holston Methodist Conference Prats es President. Bristol, Va., Special.-The Holston Conference of the Methodist F.'isco pal church. South, in session here unanimously adopted a resolution comeding President Roosevelt 's ef forts in behalf of peace between Ja pan and Russia. Bishops Hoss and , Duncan of the Southern Methodist church, were both present at the con ference. Slight Fire on Governor's Island. New York, Special.--A sligh~t fire started Sunday in the bakery of Cas tle Williams, on Governor's Island. in which there are about 300 military prisoners, most of whom were exer cising in the court yard. The pris oners formed a bucket bagrade and had the blaze out before the fire cgt pany arrived. The damage is small.