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jemocrac Coll4 By Rat; T Yale the most s( of the campus is 1 ies outside the co with freshmen ai welded together c drawing more and fellows. The stud with such young what for generati fits derived fron four years at Yalt ;ind equality of intercourse. The very strongest influence th cial inepality. false standards an( American college life is athletic tr tance of this held of activity is fou fessionalism." "frenzied rivalry." un lete is to be suspected of warped i diamond and the river are where Y( ly qualities, and nothing else coun room. but you can have brains witi letic rivalry without developing a: wgys made good men. strong men, ' Send Gra By Former Juc HERE are perhap: ulation. than tho. ago, and, though places, we must than ever before Besides, we m tions are not rev ors in the insur every man in the because. for the most part. the met honest and high-minded. If some act of giving rebates, or are guilt: has probably never been a busine: honest as well as efficient. have b line of our industrial life. Now. how are we to meet thi cause our criminals wear broadcl which some were once clad? It li or to advise individual executive of easy, royal road in the punishmei else. The way to convict is to con New York a few men who, involve nished evidence, fairly corroborate ity. But why should there have be< ly half a century. we have been bi monopoly, why should we be surpr handful of our merchants and lawy the instructions of their teacher? thus threaten to break up the fo should we grumble, or fume, or re own hideous monster, why should While, however, we are only r be up and doing. The effect upon deep agnd profound as our own tr faced, impossible to be hid. For life have been shattered, andl~ our1 1 their early promise. All these things are batd-ce'rt any coypi~'thin a century: but assert affew alid with added effee character, and to appeal to the inh dQ right. By yMrsJ. G.P __________ LAME is often 1)1 in her work: and uponI ability to wvorking girl for -- nmonly turns out. position and to It is True eno andI cheerful dlisp but having a cheerful disposition tions under which the average gi where all is fair, just and goodl i: tlice and wrong Iprevail is impossil p-ratmental qualities of the girl r erable. The average worl:ing girl's ho constraint, but the conditions am and so inimical to healthy gr-owt .spirit that instead of joyous acce them, her whole being (if she is their injustice. Whna the working girl nIeed's. I will leatd them TO be uT ter-ly unwill dleflds produced iuder' condition OS .spiritual welfare of t'.:eir factory On the shoutlders of the eml spons ibility for perhaps nine-tent girls somei~times fali: just as onTI nine-tenths of : he retsponsiS&lity~ f erished constitutions which lead needless and prventtable causes. A great d'eal of dis-ontent ib wrongs. but to a rankling sense o solute in liffere ace of emp1loyer~s know that from my own experienc People who draw dividends si these dividrnds comle froni. Ofrte mauy mean just the difference het~ Terence to their condition. I say dividends v. ithout knowing sonie; spring. If .lesus were in c'ur mild ple? I don't want to prea'ch, but liess of where the money came fr-a the misery of workingwomien. I b ut I think 1 cc~id guess Easily Explained. "'Why does Representative John W ley Gaines of Tennessee get so mt things from the House if he is so noiu to everybody?" asked a c sti:netnt of Repr-esentativo Hepb1 of lowa. --Suppose yotu were a business m~ hav-ing business to attend to, anl man came in and sat down next y-ou and began to file a saw." swered Col. Hepburn. "wouldn't: p- em waihat he wanted?" yof ?ge Athletes zh D. Paine. rious condition thre-ate'ning the social life he erection of luxurious private dormitor lege grounds. These buildings are filled .d sophomores who form communities nly by ties of wealth, whose lives are more apart from 'the common life of their ent of modest toans cannot freely mingle aristocrats of Yale, who are underining ns has been the foundation of the bene , an essentially sane and sound fraternity at today is combating the grave evil of sc an encroaching aristocracy of wealth in ining and competitioi. The vital impor ged in the talk of "comiercialism." "pro til one might think that every college atlh notives. The football field, the track, the ung men meet on an equal footing of man' Ts. There is the democracy of the class out manhood, while you cannot have ath-, d maintaining the qualities that have al useful ren.-Oiating Ma fters To Prison 'ge Alton B. Parker. ; fewer thieves now, in proportjon to pol e who preyed upon our society fifty yers'4 more dangerous, because found in h'i ' -V oness that, on the other hand, it is easier to find, expose and punish them. tst bear in mind that many of the revela-: 2ations at all. A half dozen great offend ance companies have bred suspicion or; same business, a result not at all justiliedf engaged in it, as in all other callings, ar10 railroad officials nave beea caught. in thef - of other offenses against the law, there s of such magnitude in which more mari een engalg(l. And so it is all along t-t s crisis? Shll we hesitate to punish ) oth instead of the tustian or the rags in s entirely beyond my province to instru-t i-ers or public prosecutors, but there is n t of criminais any more than in anythmiiri -ict. There are today within the state At. I in insurance frauds, have themselves ft:.r I on the witness staud. of their ovn Ve ill n any cause for wvondec! When, for nea ding our manufacturers as apprenltices to4 ised that a fewv of our financiers, or a hort ers not only learned the tirade but bettered Having ourselves creatd the forces which mitains of the great deep of morals, wij p1ne': Shi-inking back at the sight ofor we take counsel of despair? aping as we have sowvn, it behooves rt-. to the world of these revelations must be as1 l has been serious, our shame open, bare time, tile ideals of our- three centuries ol1 eople feel that they have come tar- short o$ ainly not hing worse has leaped to light in it is not too kite to retrace our steps. to~ iveness, the strong points of our national erent :zood, the almost unerring inmpulse to) r Women's ' rongs =: helps Stokes, formerly 2ose Pastor- eal e% ied 0. tihe working girl for finding no joy as work of a. high standard largely depends joy doinmg tile work, we also blame the' the poor quality of the work she so com-. She is told to cult ivate a cheerful dis: e a little more lighthecar ted, and all will .h both herself and her work. ugh that it is desirable to cultivate a happy sition, and to he a little- more lighthearted,~ is one thing and heing happy amid condi r works is quite another. To be ha ppy an easy thing; to he happy where injus-: e, except in uncommon e-sses where temn lake thle work pleasurable or- a-t least tol ly andl soul functions1 ar:e not mlerely r;uder which shte works are usually so unjust. [~and dev-elopment of indt and~ bodly and liane 0f tile condlit ions, or indiffe:ecel( to girl of dlepth of feeling> cries out, against hat attitudeti from people of wealth hich jl in to receive benefits in the shape of dlivi Ietriental to the healthi and happiness and nd wokshop sisters. uying andl propertied (classes lies t h- re is of the wickedness ito w ~hich wor-king he shoulders of t he samec classes nmust lie r the wveakened physiqjues and the imupov to the appalling lprevalencee of death from dui(. not miere ly to any specific acitual injustire ca used by tile feeling of the ab md !( other1 people that they deal with. I e of 2 years~ in a factocry. old make it theair business to know whore a oiy a few rents' difference in a dividend en justuce to enmployes and complete inidif ha 10 rich person~ has a:t ight to ac ceplt hing of iu- condit;ions out of which the:; S tolay. whlat would lie saly to such lec here are women w'ho wea r diaimonids, care m. when the cost of those diamonds me-ar~s Ion't know what Jesus weald ray * hm Helen Gould's Many Charities. s- In the name of her father- and ny mother, Helen G'nuld, with the assist >- ace of Elizabeth Altman, annuall >l- distributes $500.000 in charity. Prob tr' aby Miss Gould supports direet'y and indi-etly more charities than arny pera a, son living- Her donations annually' a areach 500 or more beneficiaries. Her to total disbursements during the last an- eight years-and they are all made --oJwith business judgment and thtrough, ., p-rc sysem..-reach $4dOa nn Ill WORK Of CONGR[SS What is Being Done Day by Day By the National House and Senate. Senator Daniel Concludes. In the Senate Senator Daniel con Chided his speech on the railroad rate bill. Taking up the question of the extent of the review to be had by the I courts in rate cases and repeatina briefly his objections to Mr. Baileys proviso for the noi-suspicon by the courts of the orders of the iter State commeree comniission. he said he did it agree with thle who con tendel that tiere was 'no ot her way ot prote(ting the interests of the Ship 1n aas:-s where the courts have sis pendei ti rates of the commission. 3Ir Ihielic stuggested that a stubst an .al bond he reinired (Iof the railroad.s le took is.sue With stat ne!its that V review would mean re-Trial so far as tl taking. of testinny was eon eerned. for he deviared that tle in-a ter-Stale contIerce cotmtiss1o1il was1 dIce .I I petCitt rillnal to tak's .Adniting 1931 , flhttI h ill was fx- froi complete. lie said it would provide for a swift hear., in- before stich a tribunital and tha; a was positive, veritiable progress in the right Iirectio.b Definting the ternis "jus conipeisa. P tion -' and " reasonable rates." Mn SI Daiil adopted tle fornec expresioi b as broadly covering what a rate S should be. fi Second Section Completed. A The Senate comlieted the eon, Sidra2tZionI o Ihe sIl ml SeeiitI (If th t ail road rate hill aId lls' liefore tli djmrllinment listeletd to reatlin o d sections 3 and 4 without cnsiderin anyv ainelil miiIs offered to thiem. Th P pupot]se Of this reatding" was to brin the esiderat'ion of the bill up t4 v th o oint ol taking up tIh: Allisol . cin! ptoi ali icendmients.k A I iumb-r of verv inlportanmt cnh.ns were nudle inl the second see tfion. includfill a pirovision restorimi I the impriSionmen t penal of Ihe act u of 1S. ated an amndcment stug'eted , by Senator 3e('umtber imposing a pd inliv of ine ad11 imlpiIsonmelt 0 the Shiippeis whio secire re- e b:Ies frm transportationl coipanlies. S, lTChelt Ier amIiendiineiit w71as illorpo- L tated Ir tie avowei pu1rpose of hit tilg Ile trutsts. Allother aimeitndent aopted was offered by Senator u Warren. It gives M business a >reference over ll other irarlie in time of war. A hlngr sereS c; chan.tes also were made at the i stnice of the inter-State comimierce cm mitnission. Many of these wore verbal, and all were intended to im i'or e the administrative features of the lhn,. Six Propositions Agreed On. . notferienices in lie Senate which res;uuiwd in positive agreements on 1 six pir' positiwns to be inicorp~oratted in t he A!!isoni amnendment to the railroad hill were ratified by additiotnal con- g feences of~ Senate .ieaders represenlt- r ic Henutblican factlions. That there I, ca'uhi he no furt her misunderstand-t I:s this dantau for the basis of the nyreemrent waus prepared and cxchangz- s -- The Al!ison aimentdmenCt is to comn pris 1i<cropoisitins: II iFirst-Thle words fairly remun erative' in Sect ion 4 of lie bill are to I be- stricken out: Seond-The words ein its juibre-. mnent' in 1iw samie section to be re uced: I -Third-Julrisdiction is vested in t hie litedl Statl(s circutit court to hear 3 and determcine suits against the comn- c "Fourthl-No preliminary injune- s tion or interlocutory order is to be e ganted without a hearing and not ice; ( -Fifth'-The application for prie-t hinaryi inunctioni or interlocuttory 5 tieeree is to be heard by three juidges; 2 -Sixth-A direct appeal from the interloctoryi' order or decree to lie ; tnly to itie supreme counts or ute lited States.'' Buyin of Sheels Made Open. ShelIls an illrojectiles for the Navy Departmenit will after June 30, 19t06. C lhc purchased by the Btureaut or' Ordin- ~ anice in thle open market iinstead of, ae is now the practice. in seeret mark is from fitms engaged in the manut factture of the articles. This change r. exititiig coniditOins was brought about through th~e efforts of the chairl man ot the appropriation committee, Mr.i. Tauwney. oif Minnesota, who offer ed n amuetndmtent to theI naval a ppro Iriation1 i1, whichh the Housi- had I m:der ciunsideratliion. dire:'ting thiat the Setain ~ry of the Natvy shold ad'. tl-rs tor Jirliposak for Siell andl projec~(t ili-s so thati ail! Iirmos engagned soc the buisiess of th-ir manufacture iav- haiv- :;n opplil i ty to cmtet. Minhi -tima' was spent in conisidler inc ihe ot1 St ion of (lidiat inleisit h naviy an~d i e failure IIt recrulin f fleros ii pr.perly enfortce lie lawv as to) ller. The <it-hai on this amemnment ex te tnde-u Iver mneh of the seesion -nd .t thu :l'. :rewt dlecidely animated. I Telegraphic Briefs John Hit cheock, a prisoner in the Virginia pienit entiary. lost his chance or pardon1)1 by Governor Swanson by S. G. Duckworth formier agrent of v its iiien.. by- t hie Parker-sburgt t W. Va):r:n Il jutry in e~Iiht cases or cob 'eath cert itii-ases. Bar !m brners are at work in Fred c-ic-k : ltouty. Virgii na. A\ ictrmlan shiip. seizedl by Tfurk ish anthorl~ities wats taiken awayit nit-t uder- Turkish coos by the Germnnt Trhei Vic-er-oyit of 'anitn has llaid Ic, le Amecan:u l'tnsul ter- $hl.00t as sw primr 4Iiv at tii!heine: of theK Lien 'TM (au r Sin ;- a~nd Tr-ush .ma of P~ bui.xus. .fie . p: ZAR' OP ussia Makes Her Representativ OP[FUL VIEWS PRYAl ith Pomp and Panoly Perh2r Hitherto Unequaled Constitutiona Government is Inaugurated in Rus sia When the Sovereign Reads Hi Speech From the Throne in t! Winter Palace-Address Merely Brief Exhorta tion to Co-Operatio: St. Pet trs. y i able.-Withon sinizle Ilitch maol with onl.y a ino Cideit 1o mr tnhe I:-orae <ia. e Russianl Parliament was"nu ted. Th wh.r NvawaS superb. an Ve ceremoin in Ihe O inter Pala lere ngerer e e I* tias. surroulld - courtlirs andl I he pomp a)nII noply Il, power. delivC!ed I I eech froiml the Ihoine. to the men rs of the two houses. was per!ee ech a spectvife perhaps never i re has been witnessed on the card! age. The me i ealit v N-as less irone speechi than a g'reeting' anl !uired only itree minutes for i1 ?iverv. Upoi eilt-riig thlIe eh:imber the En rr halted in ti.- center of the ha id the letrpolitlni. An i . - iiieed (o ineet hiiii an 11hl otlt li oss. wVhiihI his nijesty Iverenti issed. . Iei. bendin-z forward. t. nipeior clasped the hndl of the ie politan, raised it to his lips en issed it. the metlitAn retul g the salutation. The Empress, who had in the mea e advanced and taken their plec a either side of the Elinperor. uree I the sacred emblem anl tlhef re-pr ntative of the Church in a simih aiiner. Spoke in Firm Voice. His majesty rose and looke(d d pon the wonderful scene, then d vered his message to the Russii J lions. The Emperor spoke with tm. steady voice which was hea stinetly in every corner of the lie nphasizinag deliberately every wor< uich a Iiush fell on the assemb! rig the readinig that lie snap amera shutter was shprly) d Thle Emperor's spteech. was as so' The Czar's Speech. "The supreme Providence whit ae me the care ot our fa hierhni ;ovedl me t< (;(ll to miy assistance gi-slatve woerk Leeeed reprecsent: ves of' thle pleI. ha lie expect; ion ot a b-ill ianrt utre for Rui a I gree-t in your persons~ the be: .ea from the empire. whomi I ordert y beloved suhjects to choose fro :ong them selves. "A 3:lictult work lies before yo tI'ust that love for your fathierbti adt vour earneslt desire1 to ser've "I' shell keep inviohi e lie inis tions wich I have granited. wil ie tinn assuranice :hat vou will d ote all \ oiur strelr:thI to the servi< your counftry, especially to il .eeds of the peasantr-y. which a >elose to my heart. and to the ed ation of tl e peopl'e, and their een mical rcl fare. remiembering that e dignity and ptrosperity of i tate not ttily freed(omU but ord mnded upon justice is n(eessary. "I desire from myv heart to see r eople happy and hand down to n * Frost Kills Cotton. Greenville. S. C. Specia.-Efee f the recent cold have been far-rene 1in this and adjoining countie: l lowland cotton has been eithi illed or' badly injured. In many alities farmers have already gone -ork to plow up the damaged er< nd will plant the land ini corn. Sor ill replant in cotton. The tern ai storm of last Sunday so mjuri he crop that it could not stand tl old and frost following. Cott< anted on the high lands has far< mch better, though has been injur o some extent. otton Killed in Northern Alaban Birmingham, Ala., Special.-A si: tial from Decatur. Ala.. says anot r heavy frost fell Wednesday nig tithe Tennessee river valley and th his frost and the one of Tuesd; iiut have killed all the cotton th s p, in that section otf the Sta ii some places the entire crop w iae to) be replanited. Memorial Services at Richmond. Rihmond. Va.. Special.-Beautif d impressive services were held lonor of the 16,000 Confederate s< ies who sleep in Oakwood Cenietei rhere was a parade of local milita1 of teerae Xeter'ans and Sonls oifedrae Veterans. (Col. .John o i being chijetf marshol. Govy io Sanso~n was the or-ator' oft Eunder of Tampa Cigar Indust Dead. amipa, Fla., Special.-Igna< -lava. age 1 64, president and contro n owner of the Sanchez & Ha: iar Coupanly, one of the large -lear Havana factories in the wot ied at his home here after an illne f two days. He established the fi: iu-ar factory in Tampa in .LSSG ai as the founder of the Centro I )anol Cub, of this city. He was matio Af Snain. PALAEN First Experiment in e Government P fo 1son an empirc seoure. w-1l organized and enli'htend. at - Av God ble4:Ss the work{ that lies m befor" 'me in unity with tIhe uiw ec h" Eilpire and the inenal . 01.m11.m. Aii.y (tia ye the day of1 the ma-ul re vival oIf Ruhssia and the wV s day 1rthe rnewa of its lighst u Cc~ I -- A 'rch wV.i solemnity hela- a ain'r 1 fo which I \,)., vnnd k~lb worthyI 0 li 1 the r lu5nsih li t -lit 11pon . Li 1) IW lie Elp1,eIor and peoph - i ME2mcbrs Dissatis;;ed. Fnueror Nicholas reai slowly The a Idnuiriahle .:1al even corial. tne)c -tm thesoerIn rnein hsplde a an1d asking the coperation of parlia lient for the re:era~tion of the 01 coin'i' was onlv ieaitively satia bi or. Courties and sertatr ote c( :ba'n miemrbers of the nationlal Parliai- ii n- it led tle cheerinu. hat the menm- ai - iers Were w11irnousiily silent, expressing 0 Lither apova lCr d ipp Ioval. S Whai ronkled In'st -was the laihnre - t1 ,f the E1mpeLrorl to mntion a nislt. el SandI latcr when the :nombaCs assml-* w ed in the Turide Pa!:w :Way from ti 1 the spell o1 the thrnc 0%e 1roi. manY c< Of them wele with ifii'ilty ri-. i alnv ci r- i'ro m prLOpitt tni m malters by '''- tl i n resointions on1 the subject. The tI I!- o titional DeIoe-atie ldetrs. tl c hmwv r-. Who dmntdeeyhm V vC rv anIXioIs nie iL weak ll the rep'ui n it the speecIh from the tirone. it cl d hie issue with1 thle erown i b-;! In joied. an"d suceceded in staving o4 f leuture action. The Eml-perr and the Empress if S 'ter leaving the palace enteredT -' mch. .ais( d (dlown the river. board -i the Ipneri yv: iacht Alexander and e The rowds on the bnks of lih I r ier :md I and h :aiiv cheeraiL the impedt:d pny. There wAls n1o other Ii Parlament's First Session. d The scene around the Taurid.e Pal- h Fc wit inl strikingit coitrast witi that e the Winter Palace. Each. indeec. L - I typi(l . .d told ani eloquent ory. At the Tauride Palace. ten h (it thou-altds of people were acclaim- o : thieir representative.;-: at the Win n-ri Palce legions of military and ecur1tilers by thne huniidreds cheered for the Fmriperor. Nevertheless, the pro- r eeedings of the lower house were not ~ h sneetacular; inl fact. they were most d t mll ni comlupiso 01Witha those at thet ] Winra tPalace. The only genfumfe - :',e of tir i'wIh cih sh)oed real tem 1r of t)L1he mucmbters of t1he ~oui'es ere wh len P'rof. Mouiroimstei. who , ad eent elected presidlent of tihe low er house,50 inivitedL :government~t ollicihi m1 . nd e lerks to leave tihe hall and whenl Iva Pitet runkevitch, ill a few eloqtuent .I word fromp the rostrum, tocld the a udiors that the first thought of the SParlriameint shiouild be for those that have suirered in the cause of liberty,0 who now fihll the prsn and whIose arms were stretched ottt ill hiope and I- conidncei~t to the people's representa -tires. MIore enthiusiastie cheering d e. than thlat whichL greeted tis appeal .r re never was heard in a political con- e vention0' in the Uni ted States. e n- C onstitution and amnesty were the 0 to kev notes of Prof. 3Mouromtseff's I: er Dispaitches received here from all a parts of Russia indicate that the op- S iv einT oft the Parliamen~lt was cele- r hinbrted everywhere(. IGlass Factory For Lexingte. ts Lexington, Special.-Leximztoni i -. to have a new industry in the shape e of a glass factory. A company ha f been organized and the capital ol I to 15,000 required has all been sub~scrib- c ied. Among those interested are a Moessrs. J. R.* 3eCrary. D. F. Conrad. I fe W. H. Walker and J. T. Hedriek. and e .\(r Thomas Gallaghier. of Pnsla a ia. The new comipuy mltenuis te ~he Lcxington factoiis use a g:ecal u :nit y. . Bapitst Missionary Union Meets. te- Cihattanooga. Tenn.. Special.--The - MIissionary Uniion of the Southern ~t Baptist Churrch met. Rieports were at readl by th~e corresponinlg secretar ay Miss A. W1. Armustronig. and the treas turer. Miss E. V. Ricker, both of liary te. I ill l anid. Tlhe conlvenition of the churcb opens F riduy. Boy Killed by Accidental Discharge ul of Gun. ii Randllemian. Special .-WVhile play l-.i1 with a pistol at his hiome hiere D~*[elmar, the nin~e-yeari-old son ot Mr D. H. Hill, fatally injured hlimself oth le biullet paEssinig abn1o(st t hrough hit body and lodingi in his back. An 01peraItion1 was performed at on1ce but1 death11 enIsued wit hin ai few hours aftel the acceidenit. ryCotton Buyers' Convention. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-Thre South geastern Cotton Buyers' Association 11 met here in annual session, with an ya attendance from the principal citiet 1st of Georgia, Alabama and the Caro d inas, about 50 members of the asso ss iation being present. The sessions -st were executive and nothing was giveri ad out officially as to thle proceedings. It :s is understood however that the rela a tions of tihe cotton handlers and spin-. tier was a topic of consideration. 1 [UTH CAROLINA CROPS )port of Crop Conditions For the Past Week as Given By. the. De partment of Agriculture. The South Carolina Section of the eather and Crop Service of the DO .rtment of Agriculture issues the llowing Bulletin of conditions for e past week: The temperature for the week aver -ed from 4 to 5 degrees above the rmal. but the weather was nuch oer. wiih the temperature slight below normal at the end of the ek. The State inaximun tempera re was 94 degrees at Blackville on e 2nd and 3rd and at Bowman and Summerville on the 2nd. The 2nd as the hottest dav of record. inelud g period of thirty-six years. for the -st week in May at Charleston. The :ate minimum temperature was 53 rees at Greenville on the 5th. The inimum temperatures for the week nged from 53 to 72 degrees. There was about an average anoiunt sunshine along the coast sections it over the central and western unties there was an excess of cloud ess, with frequent light showers d some heavy rains. At a number )laces in the western half of the ate, the rainfall was nearly twice te normal amount. but over the east -n half of the State generally, there as a marked deficiency in precipita n. and in a few locations (roughty' nditions are reported to exist. Show s set in over the western and een al counties during the morning of e 7th and ,t was still raining oyer e entire State as the week eneded. he rainfall for the last two days is )t included in the amounts iven un r "Observer's Reports' but is in uded in the "Special Rainfall Re rts.'' There were hailstorms in 2 ,w western counties on the 3rd. Report of Storm Damage. Columbia, Special.-It was report. I by pasengers arriving in this city -om the northern part of the State irly Sunday night that a storm ad swept across the northwestern etion doing great damage in Wa lla and vicinity. the report being iat a number of houses had been troved, but so far as eould be 'arned there was no loss of life. Tel )hone and telegraph wjires were down id these reports could i(t be veri ed. Greenville was visited by a eavv hail storm during the after Two Stabed to Death. Columbia. S. C.. Speial.--As the sult of a fatal euttin aff'air in enIfiletownf at .0 o 'clock Saturday iht. Burt, alias John. Satterwhite r'd Charlie Ruff, two young ne.-No .en. are dead and the entire affair is raped in blackest mystery. Satter bite being asked by Deouty Sheriff 'atheart the ntame of his assailant asped with his dying breath the ae of Arthur Wrightr. A seareh .r Wright only resulted in the dis very thiai he 'had fled. Exept for tese few piimairy facts nothing is nown as the cause. manner or" plaice the killing' 'ruck By Lightning, Home Burned. Anderson. Special-A seer thun er c'rmt, accompanied by a heavy atin. bail and wind. p)assed over the ity late Sunday afternoon and caus some damage. The two-story house f Mrs. Fannie Riley was struck by ghtning and completely destroyed by re. The loss is about $2.500. Dam. g was eaused by\ hail, some of the tones being an in'ch in diiameter. No ports of damage have been received rom the county. State News Items. W. HI. Newbold. attornev. has ask Governor. Heyward for a pardon or J. D). Walker. a white man in 4ancaster county who was convicted f vilto of the dispensary law d was fined $500. Lancaster wvill ae neither dispensary nor blind ti (;nle fromf Edgelfieldl. has asked ( . rnor levward to nlame - C. .\ader en f Ninety-Six as one of the suir exrs to run the line het ween1 Aiken 'd Edetield counitis asru mhorized v the last lenislat ure. Goero Ieyward hoas learned fromn Ir. WV M. Durst of .JJhns'i(on t hat he reward of $150 offetedl fo the -rrest og j Joe Graitn t has been inceas d to 'j23. Of this amnoount :he t own t horit irs of . lhn ton o:> red 30. Prom inent prohibitibonists hav~e is. ned an address to the voters 'of the The ( hester ( oco ola Bottlin:: tpany wva' c'hartered. (Capitaliza oon $5.000. T~e Mer-h nt '- ) or-ry~ company rl Maron was' cirterd. ( apital iza ion $5.000. W at is saidI1' toirle in Zioon ( it, ad 1 maux :re mo'vint: to other place. )ovio i- re-torietl io he near dieath Ed \'oivar is said. to be distru~stedl ar b- en~:1 t w it I itoi the c News Notes. The Comptroller of the Curreney hosed the Delmont National Bank at )elmont. Pa.. and a receiver was ask d for the Monongahela Valley Bank. Governor Hoch, o4f Kansas. was re ominated by the Republican State The proposition to establish a uni 'ersal postage rate (of 2 cents was 'oted down by the international Con PALMETTO AffAIRS Occurrences of Interest from All Over South Carolina NIANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS -. Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover ing a Wide Range-What is Going On in Our State. General Cotton Market. Galveston. firm.... .... ..-. 11 1-2 New Orleans quiet and steady 11 7-16 Nobile. firm.... .... .. ...1 5-16 Savannah. steady.... ......1 1-8 Clarleston. quiet.... .... ...11 3-1ti Wilington, steady.... ......11 -s Norfoik. steady.... .... ....1 5S Baltimore, nominal.... .... 11 34 New York, steady.... .... .. 11.95 Boston. ru;l.... .... .... .. 11.95 Philadelphia. steady .. .... . 2.2t Ilonst-n. steady.:. . .... .... 1 Awns., firm.... .....---- . Memphis. steady.... .... .. St. Louis, sleai'y.... .... .. L'ouis vilie. firm .... .... ---- Charlotte Cotton Market. These prices represent !the priee paid to wagons: Good middling..... --. ....11 34 Strict middling.... .... .. 11 Middling.... .... .... -1 Good middling. tinged.... .. 11 Stains.... .... .- - - 9 .. State Executive~Commicatee. A list of the members of the State Democratie executive corrmittee as compiled from the newspaper reports will be of general interest at this timd in view of the State convention thi i week, and the matters that mrty come before the committee. There are sev eral so far to be reported but the list so far is as follows: Aiken-W. M. Jordan. Abbeville-A. W. Jones. Auderson-H. H. Watkin s. Beaufort-C. J. Colcoek. Bamberg-J. B. Black. Barnwell-W. D. Black. Charleston-W. Turner Logan. Chester-R. B. Caldwell. iChesterfield-W. F. Stevenson. IClarendon-W. C. Davis. Colleton-J. W. Hill. Dorchester-J. ). Bivens. Edgefield-J. Win. Thurmond. Fairfield-T. H. Ketchin. Florence-J. V. Ragsdale. Georgetovn--J. Walter Doar. Greenville-Jno. T. Bramlett. I Greenwood-D. H. Magill. Hampton-J. C. Langford. Kershaw-J. G. Richards, 'Jr. Lancaster-T. Yancey Williams Laurens-T. B. Crews. Lee-W. A. James. Lexington-D. J. Griffith. Marion--Jas. Stackhiouse. Newberry-C. L. Blease. -Ococe-Jas. Thompson. Pickens-R. F. Smith. Oangeburg-Robert Lide. Rihland-Willie Jones. Saluda-W. E. Bodie. Spartanburg-N. L. Bennett. Sumnter-L. L. Parrott. Union-J1. M. Greer. Williamsburg-C. W. Wolfe. York-F. H. Barber. An Open Switch. Laurens. Special.-At 9:45 Thur~ day night local freight train No. I from Columbia, in charge of Capt Lucas and Engineer Oscar Land, ran into an open switch just before com ing into the station yard here. def railing the engine and tender. Engi neer Land had his engine under con-, tol and was coming in- slowly. but for which fact results would have been more serious, no doubt. John Car'ter Shgt by Allen Fowler. Union, Special.-News reached here of quite a serious shooting affair at Meadows, on the Union and Glass Springs railread, in which John Car tr was terribly shot by Allen. Fowler. Meadows is about eight miles east ot l iion in a very thinly populated see ion without any telephone connee ion and details are rather meagrre. Items of State News.. The County Superintendent of edn, ei on of Marlboro county has receiv ed notice fromt the trustees of the Willie School district that no muore di~)nsrv runds will be ~ued for school pu:t-poses in that district. t is proposed to drain the Soutl; Carolina rice and other lands in see ions of 50 square miles, a commis sion being authorized by the propose aet for each section and the drain ing to be done at once from uhe sa ot the bonds, which wiljl be retire ;radaly by the tax. The ueneral assembly of the South eern esbyteiaX n hrch w~ill conven ;n ,;enrille~ on Thursday -of t ee ndwill conitinue in session fo 5V~l days5. 511pt. J1. L. Mann of Florence ha uriZen Gov. Heyward that the peop of Florence are ready to show to t coomissoners of the schooi for boy a suitable site and they await a visi o the commissioni as was provided fo at their last meeting or rrlo;ion 0 Supt. E. L. Archer. Gov. Heyward has offered a rewa of $100 for the arrest of Arth Wrig~ht. the negro who killed two eroes in Scufiletown Saturday niglh 'One of the negroes in the death th eclrd that lie had been kille'd b WVright. The latter seems to ha spoled anyV pr.obable plea of self fne y nmnug away. The N. C. Duffie company of Spa~ tzinbg was commissioned. This . to be a wholesale concern wab - hbranch in . Columbia. The -ear ..,.i;.m will he $15.600.