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The ANature of Electricity i Remains One of the Unsolved Problems of the Century. By Professor A E. Dolbear. S +++++++osog ERE on the threshold of the new century we are confronted - - - - - -with the question "What is electricity?" and the answer - plied by the question seems to demand a something which could be described by one who knew enough, as one 0 would describe some new mineral or gas or thing. Some eminent scientific men are befogged by the question, say it *#**Me***t is some ultimate unknowable thing, and hopeless as an in b * quiry. If it be a something it must be described by Its constant properties as other things are. If it be unlike everything else then it cannot be described by its constant properties as other things are. If it be unlike everything else then it cannot be de scribed by terms that apply to anything else. All material things have some common properties. A glowing coal is an incandescent solid, a flame is an incandescent gas, but neither glow nor flame exists apart from the matter that exhibits the phenomena. Both are conditions of part-4'ular kinds of uatter. If electric phenomena are different from gravitative or thermal or luminous phenomena it does not follow that electricity is miraculous or that it is a substance. We know pretty thoroughly what to expect from it, for it is as quantitatively relalted to mechanical. and thermal and luminous phenomena as they are to each other; so if they are conditions of matter, the presumption would be strGngly in favor of electricity's being a condi tion or property of matter. and the question, "What is electricity?" woulC then be answered in a way by saying so, but such an answer would not be the answer apparently expected to the question. To say it was a property of matter would be not much more intelligible than to say the same of gravi tation. At best it would add another property to the list of properties we 1already credit it with, as elasticity, attraction and so on. In any case the mature of electricity remains to be discovered and stated in terms common to other forms of phenomena, and it is to be hoped that long before this new century shall have been completed. mankind will be able to form as adequate an idea Qf egetricity as it now has of heat. The Happy * - Married Man's Face } spuiugBj,#C By Walter Beverley Crane. (\oe # $ HERE is an 4xpression in the face of a good married mait who has a good wife that a bachelor's cannot have. It is indescribable. He is a little nearer the angels than the T sweetest cotillon leader living. How often. or, how often, in looking o'er the happy features of my dearest friend I have envied that bactific ex pression and wished 1 could change faces with him: Faces, I say, not places. For the variations of the intensity of magnetic action, either from time to time, or as we proceed from place to place, are among thte most interesting of all the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. No one ever mistakes the good married man. It is only the erratic one who leaves you in doubt. The good one can protect all the unprotected females, and make himself generally agreeable to the ladies, and yet nevet leave a doubt on any mind that there is a precious little woman at home worth all the world to him. For we have seen already that from hour to hour. and from day to day. there are changes in the extent of the minute oscillations of the suspended magnet, and that these changes indicate variations in the intnsity of the magnetic force under diurnal and annual solar influences. Roof garden students and astronomers, scientists and waiters, add tc these variations a change which has a period corresponding to the motion: of the moon, and it becomes evident that it is to an influence as subtle and as pervading in its character as gravitation itself that the terrestrial mag. -net owes its powers. Yes, there is an expression in the face of a good married man "that won't come off." SWhat Business Men Demand of Boys By illamHosea Ballou, Author and, OYS need, most of all, to be taught how to 6beerve -and Istudy, to study things themselves, rather than the names 01 B! things; to acquire correct habits of thought, to investigate and discover for themselves what they wish to know. TC _____this end it seems to me our schools are doing excellent I work. But in what, if any, respects do they fail to meet the I dmandis of business men? In conversation with severa! men of large experience in my office, and as I have met them-' in hank, counting room, at lunch and elsewhere. I havc put the question, "In your experience as a business man what sort of school training does a boy need?" The question applies, of course, only to boys untrammeled by require. ments for admission to college. All were agreed that boys shotuld leave school with a more thorough training in the rudiments of education, particularly in what used to be known as mental arithmetic. If I may generalize, let me say, to sum up, that business men ask: That our schools give boys a more practical training; that they guard against mental indigestion as we wvould against physical indigestion. That such training be more thorough, par-ticular-ly in arithmetic and ac counts. That more attention be given to English composition, spelling and pen manship. That the school (and perhaps the home) teach the gospel of WORK, WORK, WORK! This lesson well learned will surely win promotion, give - character. studying quality, persistence. stick-to-a-tiveness and, coupled with thrift, will enable any bright boy to grapple wIth the problems of life and tc climb ambition's ladder.-New England Grocer'. P Is the Education i Wihof Women WithMen a Failure? By Dr. Ely Van: de Warker. *9+++. OES co-education educate ? This is the supreme question. 11 * * it precuares men andI women for the higher utilities, if it in. *~ : sures to its graduates a broad culture and a high standard of character, and gives this to a degree equaled by the col. ___ lege for men, or the college for women, it must be giver * ~ consih'eration. It dloes not, and, from the limitations with wich co-education uinpos es, it cannot. Co-education is a hyri bred from an unnatural union between two systems that contain irreconciable differences- It presents no meth od of self-adjust ment to the needs of women. It appears that women have been made to believe, and the notion has been fostered by the equal suifragist cult. that if she were educated after- the manner- of man she could do man's work in the way- hat men do it. The se~x problem is actually ignored as non-existent. Ne w-oman ever did man's worli after his ways. or thought his thoughts after his manner of thinking. She is first unsexed and then treated co-educationally. There is no escaping from this conclusion: neither do the advocates of the method meet the qtuestion. They sim ply assert. dogmatically, that it is better for her to be so edtucated. Harner-'s Maeaz/ine CRANBERRY DE'MPLINGS. 1SiiaSypos - Rail out a layer of dumpling crust "el uz zy"eauae thin: spread thickly with wet cran- eunciznofruyow.pn -berries roiled in sugar. rol. up. p~fin Caga cqananenYo r the edges tightly together. and steam e t.ra mli'adstsidti ter ptuddug sauSimnlar -Symptoms. One up f pverii.- suar.c:'el "Wel3i.h suraz. Ezry" eacuthed rely withone arg tabesponfeofIa n ctizaed af Prunyorse upon ter thn eatlihti-' it hi . ~ on' re! smili' o an sanimale that of ne gg hunti smoo wth a ry bu- .a rn. Beathn inthe a woyorl thel Bte th whdite toce ad st fohlix s ::rwthiexptaspinte lightly but thoroughly, Iheap on a hae n tigat htswa glasdish sphkiewithnuteg, icBes mhao '-inTom wason's repl. stndhoethesiandJ aaden.iagheal-. Tht' wha A VRY (I[I LYNCHING First News of the Work of a Barn well County Mob on Friday Reach ed Governor Heyward Yesterday in an Official Report From Sheriff. Colnnbia. Special.-Two negroes were lynelied in Barnwel'eounty Fri day, and t he firt news of the crime as ie"eived inl Columbia Tuesday vin (;(overnor Heyward r-eived the oilicial report of the sheriff. From lite rel or i 1is eVier.t that the lynch ill." waVs on1e of the m1(0t u llnrovoked c imes recently eornmitted. and Gover nor Hleyvard will order a flhorough investigition of the whole affair and endeavor to place tle responsibility where it belongs. According to the report by sheriff ('reech. Iwo negroes. Frank and his sei Joln. DeLoach approached the house (of laynes Craddock to colleet a debt. Sonie words passed and Crad dock was killed. The two negroes were arrested. anild while waiting- until they could be taken to Barnwell were colfinled inl a shed. Here a lolj of white miien took them out and riddled their bodies with bullets. Afterwards W. H. Hunter. a white mai. who ap pears to have had the prisonprs in charge. wired Sheriff Creech thai the prisoniers had escaped. A jury of several white meii and five negroes he'd ain inquest and broughbt inl a verdiet that tile men had come to their deaths througli guiir-lot and pistol wounids at tie hands of parties unikiiown to the Jury. The sheriff is making an investigation of tle whole affair and as soon as possi ble will imako another report to tle Governor. The mysterv about the whole af fair is tile imaiiner ot which it wZas kept out of the newspapers. Chief Constable HIlammet. who has just re turned fro iBarnwell. said that morn ing that tlie news had just reached there. and a gentlemaii remarked this afternoon that lie had heard of it for tie first tiie last night from a gen tileman froni Barnwell. It is ole of tihle most insTerious lvnhiinis'on rec ord in this State. Homicide at Salley. Col i uibia. Special.-Piaul Frasier and Ienry l\illianis. t wo negroes were broughit to Columbia for safe-keepinrg and lodged in tle State penlitentiary. The negrovs are charged with the kill ini12 (of E. 11. Fisher. a prominent mer chant at Salley. in Aiken county. and according to those who came up ton the train the killin was a deliberate aid cold-bloded murder. Mr. Fisher had a warranat out for the arrest of Frasier foi diisposning of property tin (der a lien and~ wvith a constable went to serve it. As soonl as lie entered Frazier's house both of the negroes fired at bim. The tirst shots (lid not take effect and as Mr. Fisher reached for his own weapon the negroes tired again. killinug the man instantly. Thie constable saw that he could not ar lest the iiegioes andl went back for help1. Thle neg'oes at on1ce at tempted to esp a ~ cm tlegramis were sen~ 1to Colunmbia. Charlstoin. B.ranchvillec and '.iigust a for t heir aiprehensionl. Thiey were caughlt. however, a few miles out from the town niid -irani2eits made at on1ce fo4r their removal to Columbia, as thle whle cotltlir was arouse(I at lie kill ing and vi ilencee was fearedi. Deputy L. L. WIllams took inle inn. securielv'li indeaffed. across the 11 o(un-11 Iry ali placeil thenim1 oi iar the traulil foir (ohunbia us qulickly as possible. At thle peniiteintiary the necuroes will not4 talk, althlough one :.f them ad miittedl that both11 had been drinkinz. 3ir. F'liher was a proinent mlerchan1!t :nll iis well conne jict ed Ii4throughout t )ranugebu rg andi A iken sec'tion. , Mill Bmployee Killed. A hhwvi lie. Special.-Mr. W. W. Sprose, all elipli vee of' ie A bbe'vil le ('Ottol mii illI. tliet Sii urdahiy aftteriilanll froim i l~l ulies suistainied severatl dia s ago whlile at work in tie mill. One oft his arms was badly crusledl anld am putat ion was necessary'. MIr. Sprouise was aii induisterous and~ respectedl citi zen. H~e wvas 70 year of ge and1 leaves a large family. Negro Shot White Boy. sonl. of Blackshlurg. brtought to ii c'ity' Tom Poistel!. a negri . from iiear Ri neksbui~rg ando i ldg'edh hm in jl writlh sllootin~g a s~iialh wliite btl I til leg. lite llegroit iniilltdins ni 1:: ('harg~ed that at the time' otf th sil(4tt ini' l'istell was ihrnnk anti ili orderly. Til boy. whlose nl ne :s '-erittuslyx hutrt. althoiugh thle result canno14t b~e definitelv foreseen at tis Fusilade in Railway Coach. Molut 'armel. Ill.. Specil.-Two min were kil led4. a third was p~roblyx fat inlly injutred Hin every windo. was sho t (iut tof a passeniger coach 4o1 the' Souillern lRaiwav. wneni two inen ini (custo(dy for' Iarieenyv triedh toi 1'eue~ by killing a c'nlst able. Iniciden t a ly 25 piasseng'ers in thle ear were keptI tdodging butllets ftir several minutes. slieed. Struck by a Train. (;reenivillec. Special.--Jli Bondius. a co1lredlil dri e ' for H(1d2es Drayv' comi pally. was5 run itver by switeli e'ligine on the t'hiariesioll athI e\sterii t aro lina railway Sat urtda' af'ternlooll ani it is thtuight he will die from effec'ts ofl injuries0 recived . The 'woundedl~ manl was attenided by Dr. (. B. Ealrle. The nlegroi was atitempit inig toi cross the railway tracks on1 Boyce 5treet. when le was struck by the train. hurlhing the driver high in the air' and come nletelydemo~lsno- the wanon. PALM!ITO AFAIRS Occurrences of Interest From All Over South Carolina 0~ ti MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS 6 -. 14 A Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover ing a Wide Range-What is Going t On in Our State. . e General Cotton Market. Galveston dull.. ..... ...11 13-16 v New Orleans qluet.. ..1....11 3-4 t Mobile dull..............11 1 Savannll dull and easy.. ..11 11-16 Baltimore nominal.. ....1..11 7-S s New York quiet..........11 7-S j Charleston stea(ly.. ..-....11 3-S o Boston quiet.. .. .. ..11 95 Philadelphai quiet.. .. .. .. ..13 20 Houston easy.. ........11 11-16 Augusta quiet.. ..........11 5 Memphis steady .. ..'.... 11 -16 Louisville firm.. ... ..1.. i 13-16 Charlotte Cotton Market. These figiiures represents prices paid 3 to wagoins: Good mid(lling.. ... .......11 60 ' Strict middling.. ...... ..11 1-2 d Miiddling................11 3-S s Good middling tinges.. .. .... 11 3-S y Strict middling tinges.. .. ..11 1-4 1 Stains.. .. .. ....10 1-4 to 10 3-4 s Farming Association. Columbia. Special.-The Incorpora ted Farming Association. of Aiken county, has been foried as a result of the work of Commissioner Watson and his New York representative. Mr. Raymond L. (riffies. The colony will settle 2.200 acres in Aiken coun ty with a number of families and a lo-operative farm will be established in the course of the next few weeks. Mr. Chas. Weintroub, president of the association, was in the city comn pletin, arrangeiments for the colonv and he is most enthusiastic about the prospects for bringing a large number of families here about 25 b.failies, or about 100. persolls who will be broug-ht here 11 t. They will come from Russia and are all Eiiglish peaking, having lived in 'his country for some time. A peculiar perisonai characteristic feature of these people is that practically al' of them are blondes. Thev are describd as a hard working. industrious race. and with the desirable land they have se ured are bound to suceeed. Messrs. Watson and Griflies have been at work on this scheme since last fall and the coon is a direct ] result of interviews published in the New York Herald with Conmissione Watson :md Governor Heyward. M-. Griffies camne to Columbia as the ren reentative of this State in New York and since here has conferred with the commissioner of immigrration on a number of plans for bringing settlers to this action of the country. There are also a number of industrial plants in contemphation, antinouncemen ts con erning which will be made later. Boy Killed Playmate. TUion. Special.-A terrible tragedy marred. th$ Christmas pleasures i.: he Sedalia r eighborhood of this ounttv. wvhen Wednesday about 2 o'cloeck Clarence Rochester. aged 15 years accidentally killed instantly a colored boy narne'd Swet Thomas. with whom lie was playing'. The boys hlad beeit throwvig upi their caps to be shot at with a single barrel breech-loading slio tgun. The cap onl one oft thle shells failed to explode. ihongh it was sntap ped about a dozen times. The last tm itCihe negro ithra~v up his cap andi~ .iist as lie wvas (catehingz it. while in fon1t o f thle gu n, it went off. blowingr off thle top) of his hieadl. to) th hi lorror of his white playmate, who ts areat ly d ist ress'2d over lhe eenrrence. Thle coroner's verdict was t hat the kill ing v~a accidental. Boy Shot His Sister. Newvport News.. Speial.-Roseland Cook. thle little daumghiter ot Mr. T. A. (ook,: of Hiampton. was shot in the eve by ier brother Ma iviln. witlh an air rifle, which came as a Christmas presenit. Tebywsaiming at a target ii the folding doors of th par lors at his father 's home. and p)ulled the tigger. just as thle door was throiwn open anid hi:- sister entered. To Review Rice Industry. SatItery. special a'2ent of thle nited'( States Aguriecullural Diepa rtmient .ps :u' thiroughi (Charlestn for 1' l'1leton)1 formaitftioni regardinig lie ind' ustriv. Mr. Slat tcrv formerly ilanted rice in t'ulleto~n county b)u1 for more titan a year' he has byeen in thme employ oif he governtmenlt. with ht!eadquaters('1 at I ake (Chlarles. La. Mr. S!attery is of he opinitn that tee si sill a brig'ht I aimure for the i2Initst ry in Somuh b Caro i.a. and he does t~ :idvise t he abant donment of the iindiustry oni a(reolunt of. any temporary reverses. For Saving a Prisoner. Gover'nor~ Heyward'l has r'eceived the expenCise are'oun't (It Sher'itf 'reech of Barwell in bringintg to thle peniten iary. tot soafe keeping thie neg'ro .Jim Hall, who was accused of throwing a irock at a ladv in Al le-nda!e i bout .10. lays ago). On aiceoti 1 t l 'e insistent efforts of the peopb to kill thme tr ~ro. thle sheriff was foredt tol the ox tremity of sendlint hiian ar~ound by Sa vannah antd back by Augusta to Co Ilumbia. The entire ceiense is e) The Bank of Fairfield. Winnsboro. Special!.-lThe stock holders of tile Bank ot Fa irtied1 held a mneetintg aitd elected Wi. R. Rabb. presient: Thomas 'A. Trayvlor. vice ier. andil the fol lowing b1o4ard oft direec iors: T. W. Travlor. J. M.h Jennin. W. R. Rabb. D). V. Walker. Dr. J. (. P~uehanani. Dr. J1. .1. Rober tson. (Col. LeRoy Spritigs. F. R. Mceektn. R. Y. Turner. John L. Mitmnaugh. . R. far lee, T. W. Ruff, S. C. Catheart and SONS Of R[VOLUTION lan to Establish a Branch For South Carolina. The National Society of the Sons C the American Revolution wishes ) establish a society in this State. overnor Heyward is inl receipt of a -tter to that effect from Gene.ral and [oi. Francis Henry Appleton of Bos n. Mass., in which lie says: "1 with thers, am greatly interested to se ire the establishment of a State so iety of this society in your State. 'here must be many of your citizens -ho are descendants of those who par icipated in the *Revolution of '76.' e hope that you are eligible and will tart the movement or induce some ther eligible person to do so. Fifteen r more persons can associate them elves together and form a State so iety. From each member 50 cents a ear is required for the expenses of ie national society and the annual ues can be made what each State de ides. The next annual meeting is to c held at Boston. by delegates, April 0 and May 1st, 1906. "We wish very much that you ould favor us and come here as a elegate at that time. President Roo evelt is a member through the Em ire State society of New York. We eg of you totart it or to get it tarted in your grood old State." The Neals Shoals Plant. Union, Special.-The electrical ower plant at Neall's shoals and the ine are now all completed and on Vednesday a current of 13.,200 volts cas sent over the line for the first ime. Everything worked like a charm ud the power can be switched on at suffalo cotton mills in almost a io ient's notice. At the Union cotton nills the motors have not vet been eared up, but the transformers have We(n tested. At Neal's shoals Sunday night. 3nroad river was unusually high on eouiit of the excessive rains. the vater being five feet above ilie top if the (lain and it was estimated that lie highest water would prevail at olumbia Sunday night about 12 >'elock. Charleston's Union Station. Charleston. Special.-Arrangements tre proceeding for the construction of le new union station. The bond of he contraetors has been forwarded to .lumbia and as soon as it is passed ipon by architect Milburn and by the aw department of the railroads. the oistI'uction will be started. The site s being marked out for the piling and reparations are being made for the etting of contracts for the piling, wir ng and plumbing. Mr. J. A. McCor nack has been appointed the assistant :o Stuperintendent of Construction Ruby'. The station is to be built by 3 rant Wilkins of Atlanta, who was he lowest bidder, his bid being .$152. )00. As soon as the contract and bond tave beein signed, no delay will ensue n the actual constr'uction of the much ieded union d@Nt. A Knight Templars Visit. Chai'leston. Special.-Southi Caro ina commander'y No. 1. Knights Temn plai'. :.ave begun arrangements for he entertainment of' Apollo comn mander'y of Troy, N. T., which will isit Charleston andl other Southern ities next April. The New York -omni~eryie'~ is a v'ery (list ing'uished -ommlid( and it is prioposed to make he visit of thie commanden a memo able occasion for thle Teniplar 3Ma-I onrvI of the State. The military fea-I ur.s of thle ori'i zait ioni aire to be spciall'played and it is expected hat lhe e.mmo deries at (Coluimbia. part anihmi a'ndi Greenvill wc~~ill be 'ral I est ivi jcs .,iih are to mah inlie isit of the New York kntights. Saluda Cotton Growers. Saluda. Special.--At a i'eceint meet og' of thle Saluda county; cot ton -grow r1s' oen\'ition the f'ollowiing ufieers ve'e elec'ted for the incomuing year: apt. JIas. Hi. Watson pr.esidlent :'J. W'. ledsoe. vice president: 31. 31. Payne. eretarv: II. ( . Wh'lite. treasurer: \essrs~ H. WI. :'ouchi. L. B. Blease md W. F". W\hitile were' elected~i dele rat es to the St ate c'onuvent ion which nets iln Columbna ni .Jan. 8. The Failure of Grandy & Sons. U(now'n ('i!itra'iigi I1rm ut' (irand. & *Sons ofi thIiis i'ityV~i wa adjudgled bank '-uplt byUit e i(d States D istiict Judgae rawitev in ( 'lilarest iii. voluntar pe 'ii Iirallt. T al antiorized statement hat the liabilit iis or lie coniitrae(toris re inc i the uin1i!hbrhod ''f .9S%.000 hile iheir is-ts v ill not fo;t ui nore t ilin .$1-5.f0lias oeeii inane. "Squadron Week" Programme. (hai'lestion, Special.-The progi'an rises5C of --squaiidr'on week '' next eek. There will be mnany' sports fori le seamen and mar'inies of the vessels. including eveiits on the water as well i on land. anid substantial prizes will ) offered to the su(ccssfuli men conii esting. The programme will exteind ver several days. The enlisted men w~ill also be othlerwise entei'tained with mtigs at the Sebuetzenplatz. where vster i'oasts and other forms of' enter ainmen t tor t heir especial benefit will ake place. The York County Court. Yorkville. Spe'ial.-The court of 'omnon plueas adIjo urnied sine die Fri lay afternoin and .Jiudge Hy'driek left Lor his home at Spartanhurg. D~uring as stav at Yorkvile. the judge has uvon he admiration of thle people of >nii townl and~ 'outiitX tor' the most ible and 'our'teo'us manner in which ie conducted the business of the :ut. SHIPMtNTS Of LIQUOR Assistant Attorney General De clares Where the Liability of the I Common Carier Terminates. In view of the fact that so many counties have voted out the dispensary and the "drummers'' have come in ( soliciting orders for whiskey to be shipped into the State, the following I opinion written by the assistant at torney general under date of Dec. 19, 1903, will be of interest: Columbia, S. C., Dec. 19, 1905. Wm. M. Hamer, Esq., Dillon, S. C. Der Sir: Yours of December 18th has been received. You are right in the idea you seem to intimate, it is only when required by the State offi- S cers that it is the duty of the attor- ) ney general to consult and advise with ( them on questions of law relating to their official business. The opinion of mine to which you refer must have been one in which I t briefly stated what had been decided c by the supreme court in these two A cases, the State vs. Chastain. 49 S. C. t 172, April 9th, 1896, holding that un- v der the dispensary law it is a criminal a offense to store and keep in possession I alcoholic liquors for personal use e without having fixed on the vessel con taining it label.s obtained from the i State commissioner. On this question, a the members, of the supreme court were equally'divided. The later case of the State vs. McGee,.55 S. C. 247, 1 was decided without dissent June 3. e 1899, holding that liquor purchased without the State for personal use is j not contraband, simply because the a purchaser does not procure and attach to it from the State chemist a certifi- e cate of purity, as provided in the dis pensary law. In an opinion given by t Hon. U. X. Gunter. Jr., now attorney general, on March 16th. 1900, when he t was. assistant attorney general. he s says: "It has been clearly settled by a long line 6f decisions of the United e States court beginning with Bowman vs. Railway company, 125 U. S. 465. to Vance vs. Vandercock. 170 U. S. f 43.. reviewed iii the decision of our 1: own court in the State vs. Holleyman, i 31 S. E. 362, 33 S. E. 367. that no pen alty attaches to the importing of liquor into this State for personal use. It is also well settled that in ordinary consignments delivery to the carrier t is a delivery to the consignee. Hence, t when a dealer in another :state recei- I ves an order for liquor from this State t at the place of the consignor, and as such a transaction is inter-state com- t merce when the liquor is ordered for I personal use no action lies either in personam or in rem. * * * The mere t ordering of the liquor by a person in i this State for-his personal use, 'rom I another State, the purchase price to i be collected .on delivery, does not con- s stitute a sale in this State and is not 1 in contravention of the laws of the State in regard to alcoholic liquors.'' t In an opinion of Mr. WV. H. Town- t send, then assistant attorney general, I Sept. 4, 1905, he says: " The State law cannot prohibit drummers or salesmen from soliciting orders in this State for f thre sale of liquor by a non resident in a-nothrer State. to be shipped fito. thisi State for deliver as snuch transaction is purely one of interstate commerce. over which this State has no control.'' 1 Splendid Cotton Results. The present year is not famed for1 lar'ge cotton crops in South Carolina. Still, a farmer of Chester county has just soldl nearly $900 worth of cotton from the work of two plows, and all this without a poumd of fertilizer. Another has realized 15 heavy bales. 500) pouds b~eing the average weight o f the bales. from one liow. This far1 mner' has made this year 13 bales f'r'om 1(5 aces. With suich. results as these w~hyv should South Carolina far muers go to Texas to raise cotton ? South Carolina Items. The cease of Ross vs. thre Street rail way of C'oluinmbia was concludledl Fridiay when the jury awarded $4.300 to Ross. The plaintiff was foreman of the construction gang and w'e injured in a collision near Smith 's branch last year. He was representedl by J. Q. Marshall. J1. S. Muller and Andlrew Crawford. The amount demanded was $25,000. ] A meeting of the teachers in Aiken county was held at thre Aiken insti tute on Saturday and the Aiken coun ty Teachers' association was organiz edl for the p~urpos(e of carrying on courses of study leading to the bet tering of the work. At an extra communniientioni of thre Surmmerton lodge. No. 105. A. F. M.. Monda nit. the following officers wereinsalld:H. M. McKnight. W M.: .i. Q. Mathis. S. W.: M. R. Mood, J1. W.: JTeff M. D~avis. treasurer; J. ('. Lanhamr. secretary: R. B. Smyth. S. 1).: A. .J. Richrburg. J1. D.: C. M. Davis, P.: M. arid H. S. DesChamps. steward; :J. E. Tennant, tiler. -Robbery at Swansea. Swvansea. Speial.-The store of T. L. Martin at this place was broken i to by some tunknown persons. shtppos ed to have been tramnps. Tire mis creants br'oke openi tire back door of1 the store and went out tihe front door.1 breaking the lock and glass of the I same. They broke open the money1 drawers. burt failed to get any money.1 However. they secured abotut $40 or $30 worth of goods. Plot Nipped in Columbia. Washningtonr. Special.-Thre State Departnment Ihas received informationi by cable that an attemp~t was madle in B~ogota to dlispose of President Reves as an inreident to a plot for Iverthirowinig tire government. In I cosequencee there was marry arrest 1 of prmnn men. wvho were to be tried by court marshal. Among them was a former mi'nister of. tire cabinet arid five leaders of tire opposition. No details are given of the reasons I r. the .>ttempt upon General Reyes. 1 110 ARE KILLED tussian Riots Continue With Great Slaughter OVERS THE WHOLE COUNTRY usiness is Suffering Seriously From Strike in Russia-Letters All Cen sored-Attempt to Kill Prefect of Police at St. Petersburg-Soldiers Surround Hotel and Bring Up Ar tillery-Two Regiments of Cos sacks Mutinied. Moscow, By Cable.-Firing ii the treets continued until midnight Vednesday night. The Governor eneral issued an appeal to the peo le, which is displayed in the streets, rging the citizens not to trust to ie false interpretations given the re ent manifesto and calling on them to ive up the strike and take sides with e troops and the police in the preser ation of order, resting on the assur nee that the lawful authorities will now how to protect lives and prop rtv. London. By Cable.-The St. ietis urg correspondent of The Times. in dispatch dated December 26, says: "Governor General Doubasoff. tele raphing reports that 15,000 persons ad been killed or wounded at Mos ow. "The latest news from Moscow says hat the first regiment of Dun Cos acks. Tvern dragoons .and the Nes -izh regiment of infantry mnined nd are confined in their barraeIs. "I ani informed from a good source hat 2,000 persons were killed and 10. 00 wounded. The revolutionists are iaking no headway but they show up igns of exhaustion." All over the city there are marks f the battle which has iaged in the treets for three days, and the distant ooming of cannon shows that the hting is not yet at an end. Houses ave been completely demolished by he artillery, and everywhere- win ows have been smashed by butlets. Governor General Doubasof t has rohibited the opening of windows. he better classes are afraid to ven ure on the streets owing to the fact hat numerous bombs and other dead v missiles are being thrown from lie windows and roofs of houses. ear the triumphal arch could be seen oday. the red flags of the insurgents - Ivine above their barricades. Sol iers surrounded the Continental Ho el and artillery was brought -up as it ras claimed that a shot had been fired rom one of the windows. It was rith difficulty that the landlord per uaded the troops not to demolish the uilding. As the correspondent enteredi the elephone exchange he saw two agita ors shot by a passing patrol. Artil ery can be heard at work near the .e ~iholas station. Two attempts on the life of the pre et of police by students, one of them won,~ was frustrated. Thie stu let eearrested. The Bourse Gazette savs it is report d that General De Dioulin. pirefet of olice of St. Petersburg. has heen nformed by telephone that the muir ~er of dead or wounded at Moscow mmber 10.000 and that when ques oned tonight the general (lid not leny that such a report had bee'n re i ved. Thle mehaiits here u nplain' that hev are suffering seriously from ;he t rike in Russia. and arc no)t reciv niz the information in regard to the itunation there, as all letters are care uly cenisoredi. The correspondent of the St. r ~etersurg Times. wires that i sre ' orted there, that a muilit ary - ed )lot hats been discovered by the au horities. Fifty arrests i:a'e . been nade in connection with this discov- - Fruitmen in Conventir.. Des Moines. Ta.. Special.-The - Western Association of Fruit Grow rs opened its annual mecetiaz Jhere. he attendance is quite large and Smeeting presents inany i:erest oa "atur'es. Many promin.o: frit ' 'oweris and experts from this aInd Aiher frait States are in s..t':lance md some highly important: papers iae been promised to be readt. Wcdding Present for Miss Resevelt. Washingpon. Special.-The' Presi lent's attention has been ezn.l to a isatch from Baker City.0" 'O the ?acel that a subse'riptio ut1 e starited for1 a weddinig er ' n o Miss Alice Roosevelt. dn Roosevel t st.ated tha: whil . (ep y appreciate'd the evidence ;'.od 4vil. he hoped nothi::gof kd w(uld be und~ertakeni. In fr- 1,.h vjshedl part icularlyv tha.Zt the' !rvo'e oullection 4of1 funids soi' no he ade. Three Killed, Several Eart. Meridian. Miss., Special.-in: a rear nd1( (colhilio on the Albamna and1( Vieksbrgz railroad att Cimakey. Mon'I la' nizht. two) trainmen we:-e killed md three seriouisly jinjured 4 :d a rain load oft passengers badly shakeni ;p. The dead are: Vance L~ader, a iCar1o fireman. Peter Kenosky. a ramp. FLnzineer Tucker and his fire na of lie freight and Enuineer oker' of the p)assenger were also. ini u~red. Alleged Baron Under Ar-est. Newm Yor'k, Special.-Baron !.reder 'k Scelield, whose residens." is in hliladelphia, was arrested he:-e chiarg d with securing money tunderi false retenses. The police say that Coun essllka K. Palmay who is living at a Cew ork hotel chargzes that several veeks ago she loaned the baron a large tm of money. taking his automobile i a security. and that she afterwards earned that the automobile did not