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w % The Press and Banner ! J BY HUG1I WILSON. i akkkvilm:, c =I)IREFITL PKKuIcTlUiN- I c PROF. SERVISS ON THE BIRTH OF A \ NEW WORLD. 1 t c Prof. Corrlgwu S? y? the Bulging Globn on ^ the Sun Will b?Hurl>d Oat Into ?p*ce \ and Will Iijstroy this K?r;h. ^ C The following article from the New j York Journal will be read with inter- i est: c Whatever nr. ay thought of the r alleged discovery of Professor S J. a ^ p?? - y -ii aUN uorrigan, 01 ine \.foau;eii vuiervaiui j, (. of three hither! > unrecogoj/.id planets s circling between thecarih and tbe sun \ and of another planet v? t unfinished s and in process of evoluiim from the i sun, the breaking off of which from % the solar body threatens the destruc lion of all living forn>son the earth by t fire, at any rate his suegestion of the j: birth of these new worlds out o' the i central body of the solar svstem awak- s ens a train of thought which places t th" sun in a new ar ct starling light. i Every astronomer knows that the s sun is the parent of the earth and of p all the other known planets; that they s are bone of bis bone asd flesh f of his lhsh, ard without him s they never cculd haVe existed, a The famous discovery, two years t ago, of the slrar ge solar element, S helium, in the rock s of the earth, was a really a beautiful proof of the substan- e tial identity of the two be dies, the sun n and the earth. Helium on the earth r is a mark of parentage, like a pecul- t: J Jar strain in the bleed of an animal t ^ No astronomer doubts that our globe n * and all its comrades, has their origin a from the suo. b The separation of a vast molten ii mass from the sun would, no doubt, t' produce effects ihf.t might easily c make themselves felt across many mii o lions of miles of space. The fact is ii that we have, perhaps, been wrong in looking upon the sun as a body which f has already passed through all the t more violent stages cf evolution and v has entered upon a steady course of a radiation and slow caoling, leading ii - - * _ j i ultimately ana piaciaiy to grauusi ex- c tiaction ia cold and gloom. Ii is this s view which has induced many mod- i era thinkers to reject utterly the Scrip- b ture prophecies of a fiery end to the fc earth and to predict instead that when t ; our globe reaches the tsrmination of v its career as a living world cold, and ? not heat, will be the agent of its de li struction; in other words, that the c earth wi l eventually freeze to death. I Speculating in this way, we have o turned our backs to t' e sun and practi- c cally left it out of accDunt, except, of c course, so far as the consequences of c its gradual extinction are concerned, f But this process of extinction has been s regarded as something that wculd take s place gradually, slowly, regularly, and without any catastrophic inter 7 ruptions. In fact, many have been o peering into interstellar space to sea if p some concealed danger, some hidden a rock, some invisible wandering hulk p || of matter might not lie iD wait there g gj to bring sudden disaster by collision t iato the otherwise smooth course of a gH the flying eartb. The keen light of o jjj^L the great star Vega, millions and mil- o lions of miles away, but toward which Jj ^ we are moving wilh the sun, has even suggested that in the unthinkably re t: mote future, when we have arrived in i.< the neighborhood of that star, a catas i! j trophe may overtake us through the t terrible power and intensity of i'.s ra t diation?and all the while close by us c the sun has been shining and exhibit- t ing evidences of itstremendousenergy t lor good aDd for evil, some of which a evidence, perhaps, we have regarded p too lighf.Iy or have interpreted wrong- t ly. t Professor Corrigan is probably right, a in recalling us to a realization of the t fact that, just as we depend upon the v sun for light, heat arid life itself, so v we should look to the sun only when i 1 A.L _ 4L?i _ I we iry 10 mi me curiam umi uiucs u the future fate of the globe we live on i The idea which he suggests, that the x> birth of a new world should have the s efft ct of deal roying the iifa of an older t one, has a peculiar significance, a Granted that a pi met may be born f from the sun in the way he points out, tne const quences indicated might well t result. Life on this earth is p'ssible t only through a vet y delicate balance v of conditions aDd forces, andtheevi g dence is daily acc jiuuiminir thai tvm comparatively slight disturbances in a the sun are capable of affecting th?t e balance in various wa\s. a It is simply a question of the amount f and intensity of thedistubaic propa v gated from the sun whether it passes in an electric str>rai or produces some I more senuus tucui uu iuu aiuius^ucit of the earth. The well known pheno t . mena of sun 5pots are sufficient to in- t dicate the trmendous nature of Ihnse f energies whic*1 are continually active c in tne sun. The astronomer at his } telescope sees a h uge black spot on tlie l solar disk, -with torn and ragged r edge?, surrounded with heaped up' 1 masses of metallic vaoors, thousands 1 of miles in height. Lie heboid i other i masses of such vapor spouting, as a from the bowels of a tremendous vol- 1 cano, to au elevation of hundreds of t thousands of miies, and instant'y upon c the appearance of th? solar outbreak t electric impulses shoot round the f earth, playing with the telegraphic in a struments and wav ng mysterious t auroral s'rearners in the higher atmcs phere. Yet what has seen in the sun, and what has produced so surprising an ell'ect on the earth, is a meie noth- f ing compared with such au outburst * as would attend the birth of a new 1 planet from the body of the sun. * The new world which Professor I Ccrrigan sees abDut to be detached 1 I from the sun may be something simi 1 Jar to what took place (if Professor * Darwin's mathematics can be trusted) ) at the birth of tha moon. Then the j earth was the parent body, from whose side the s.Uelite was torn while both were yet in a molten condition, and j the active agent in the Gery birth was . the centrifugal force of the earth's j rotation, seconded by the tide raising j power of the sun. j In like manner, the earth had its birth from the body of the sun when ' the latter was so expanded that it ocmiri?d all the emptv space now ex I tending between it ami our globe, and * later on Venus, ami arterwurd Mcrcu- J ry, were born from the slowly con- i trading sun. All these planets, how- 1 ever, probably first apncartd in the < shape of rings surrounding the sun, j and were not separated with great * violence from the parent body. Now, J lowevpr, the sun has becotre compao-1 H. and f jplosivp enerpifs are stoprj ip in it which could not exist when it I tfas expandtd ow?>r so vtst a space as | hat whic'i it filiod at the tiroe the' arth wa<i I o n. A mass of mattQr i emra'ir & from the sun at present vonld (Jo so unrer circurr s'ances very | 1 ll'erent from the se formerly existing-. The mysierious sun spots which lave puzz'ed astronomers since Gali eo saw them with his hrst telescope, he tremendous upheavals from , the olar surface, to which reference has ilready been made; the up pushing:of rapcr zed matter from the interior of he sun, and the unexplained periodial ccaracter of all these coirelatud >henomena, iike the ebbing and How ng of a tide, are regarded by Profess ?r Corrij>an as proofs that the tine is lear and perhaps just at hand when nother Dlanetary nirth is to take I dace. The sdoIs the bkzlng fsculae treaking the' solar surface at inter-1 rals, the violent outbursts followed by ubsidences, all these are regarded as ndications of the straining of the ;iant in its birth throes. When the detachment of the matter hat is to form the nev planet occurs, (benomena such ss no man ever beield must nresent themselves in the un. Stars have been <nown suddenly i) bltzj forih with hundreds and even housands of times their former intenity. Something of this kind would robably occur if the predicted birth hould tskq place in the sun Viewed rom the depths of the universe the un?visible from that distance only s a star?would burst out with an ex raordinary display of brilliancy, ipectroscopicobservations would show sudden intensification of its radiative Dergv, and violent movements in the eiehborhood of its surfacj would bo evealed by the shifting of the SDecroscopic lines. In the course of time be fact would become evident that a iew liery body nad maae us appearnee close to the sun, and from this iody the processes o: evolution, actDg thro<ieh long atres, would produce he full-fledged planet with its rocky rust, and, if the conditions were favrable, its covering of vegetation and Is complement of living forms. la the meantime the fierce output rom the sun would have consumed be face of the earth, and our planet pould float in space, wrecked and bandoned, with no stir of life upon is cindery surface. The past history f the earto, however, enables us to ay what would be the main steps in he evolution of the new world, whose lirth had cost the life of its elder sis er. The eye of science would be able o see, dimly shining through the hot apor playing over the new born rorld, its future liviDg forms existing ike germs within it. Science per eives no occasion for a miracle in hese things. Processes of the same rder as those which are abie to hanjre a blazing pas into a solid rock an, with equal ease, evolve the musles of a tiger and the brain of man rom elements which, in their original tate, are blinding bright atoms iu the hining sun. Water atmosphere. metals jock?all ?ould be intermingled ani indistin uisbable in the fiery mass that had >arted from the sun, but ss it cooled nd chemical uuhr.s began to take ilace among its atoms and grtvihtion radually brought it iato shape these hings wculd assume their forme,such s the earth knows them now, until, ut of the wildest chaos wculd come rder, beauty and the evident reign of But if Profess r Corrigan's predic ion is well founded,and new planet 3 about to be add? d to tbe solar fam ly, ana the earth is in danger from be consequences of the disturbance bat the birth of the new world will reate, yet it would not follow tbat he newest member of the system is o be equal in magnitude and importnee to the older ones The three new >lanets which Professor Onrrigan hiuks he has found nearer 1o the suk han the ancient planet Mercury are 11 comparatively small bedies, aud he circumstance of its formation eould prescribe forthecno that i$uot et separated from tbe sunasirni'ar nsignilicancs in na^nitude. Moreover, its orbit will fce so near the suu bat a consuming heat must continue o fall upon its surface as long as the un remains in its present state, so hat the chances wculd appear to be .11 against the development of Jiving orms upon it. Professor Corrigan evidntly thinks hat the birth of one of the small in ra Mercurial planets just referred to ras the cause of the catastrophe which :eclogy indicates overtook the eart'-. orne twenty odd millions of years fiinn? that disaster however, the arth has recovered its living forms >nd advanced to a staee of evolu'.ion ar beyond anything that existed pre -iously. Garrett P. Serviss. Mnnt Have CertUlcalos. The Columbia Register says since he information was given out that all hcso who desired to leave that city or Charleston and Savannah, wirch lilies are now quarantining: against f.llow ftver which is raging along be oast of the Mississippi, would be quired to obtain certificates from the ocal board of health. Secretary T. T. L'auey nas oeen ksih quno uusy woinjr certificates. Many drummers and i few Columbians who wanted to cave the city have fcund their way to he city hali building and made raluisitions for certiGcot s. It is announced that those traveling from joints above Columbia can pass quariut:ne without ceitilicates or detenion. Will Nut Attack Tillman. la an interview Senator Ir'oy denifs iver saying he intended to attack ienator Tillman. Irby says he is 1 ci,her a bullly, an assassin or a murder;r, and has no intention of mtking a jersoEal assault on Tillman orauy me else. But I have not anything to ake back that I said either during or ifter the campaign, and if the race was to be run over again, I wculd do just as I have done." The Ne1;ro Not in Ir. It is understood that an arrangement las been reached in ihe matter of tne jostmasteiship of xYugusta, Ga., whereby the appointment will go to ilr. VV. II. Stailings, a while man. It is stated that Lyons, the colored ap slicant, will be given a position in Washington. Forty PaveipDKerM L>ro\vo. Two steamers, the Tzareviteh and iiaipmca, coniaeu xnursuay iu me iver Volga, near the Astrakhan. The ormer sank and while she was going lown her passengers, panic stricken, jumped into the river. Many of Lhem iuccetded in reaching the shore, but rorty were drowned. *><? * ' AT 1 > f " - ' - ?' r ?" -. ? ? VXy a death?low~ TO THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE EST, LISHMENTS. The Hallroiitlft Say that JLlquorslu Hot Wht'ii Not Fucked la Oasen or Ct Are Not lu Fr< p*r Shipping Coi tlon. Some of the railroads are gett tired of handling the original pack stulF and propose to refuse itshipm in future. The two most extern railroad systems in theState. the Soi era and the Atlantic Coast Line, h issued circulars to the above elTect. The following is the circular of Southern Railway: Southern Railway Company, General Freight Department Transportation of interstate si ments of spirituous and malt liqu to points within the State of So Carolina. Notice to shippers and connect lines: Counsel having decided that spi uous arid malt liqu' rs in bottles wl | not packed in cases or casks are in proper shipping condition, and t the usual form of release will not lieve tbe company from liability case of damage by wreckage, notic hereby piven that on and after ? tember 16th, 1897, shipments of spi uous or malt liquors in glass loose packed in cases, kegs or casks, ^ not be accepted by this company transportation. Issued September 9th, 1897, by H Smith, peneral freight agent, Wi ing-ton, D. O. Effective September 16'h, 1897. . proved by J. M Culp traffic manaj Washington, D. C. It will be noted that in the circi of the Soul hern, it is stated "t shipments of spiritous or malt liqu in glass loose, net packed in ct> kegs or casks, will not be accepted.' will be remembered that shortly a tbe decision of Judge Simont many shipments of "original pa ages." the bottles being wrapped tissue paper and packed in sawdus the car, -were received by agents. ' extra p-ecaution of shipping in 8 dust was. of coarse, done for no ot purpose than to prevent breakaj But the circular states particula that "originals" cannot now be shipped. It apDears that tbe uller tive of this is, that if each bottle is curely fastened in a wooden box tl "original packages" can be shipped Again, it would appear, from circular, that if a jug of whiskey is curely packed in "small half bai size," for instance, the road will s the same. The following is the circular of Atlantic Coast Line, which speaks itself: Wilmington. N. C., Sept. 9, 1897 To Agents and Connections: Referring to Circular No. D. 1 J subject: Handling shipments of liq to Doints in South Carolina. Inasmuch as our legal departm advises that the release adopted shipments of liquor iu bottles, pacl | in separate cases, will not be of lej effect to protect us apainst loss, case of wreckage caused by our o | negligence, and as property is not jsbippiog conditoi without a lege f ff-.ctive release, we give notice tfc [from and after September 15tb, j will not receive shipments of liq I so packed. Circular? Nos. 3884 and 3885, I gust 7tb, 1894. continue in effect. Issued by H. M. Enerson, gene freight agent. Approved: T. M. Emerson, tra manager. It was learned from reliable autt ity that the Columbia, Newberry i Laurens road and the Seaboard j Line had issued circulars quite simi to that of the Coast Line. In connection with the recent i I culars the Sumter Item has the folli inc to sav: I if the Atlahtic Coast Line enfor I thp order that no more shipment! I original packages are to be transpi J rd over that system, the original pa ape dealers in tnis tection of the st will find themselves in a very ai ward predicament. They will sr dispose of their stocks and will th being unable to procure a new supp have to go out of business. The Columbia State of Thurst says tbe Seaboard Air Line and Columbia, Newberry and Laur railroads have joined forces with Southern and the Atlantic Coast L in their refusal to longer haul unca bottles packed loose in boxcirs original package stores. Tbe FJor Central and Peninsular, the Soi Carolina and Georgia and the Char ton and Western Carolina roads se still bent on getting all the busin they can. In view of the c rcul sent out bv the Southern and Cc Line, the Florida Central and Pet sular has issued instructions to agents not to receive shipments connecting linfs. At first sight the action of the Sou em, the Coast Line and the Seabo would appear to be a death blow the original package dealers throu cut the State, but a glance at a r road map entire disproves it. 1 counties that can be reached by roads inaependent of the agreem are: Oconea. Pickens, Greenvil Spartanburg, Liurans, Anderson, i beville, Edgetield, Aiken, Barnw Hampton. Beaufort, Colleton, Ber ley, Charleston. Orangeburg. Lexi ton, Richland, Georgetown, K?rshi T.onroctpr York. Chester and Hor Tne countifs most seriously all' c are those of Union, Fairfield and N berry, Sumter, Clarendon, Williai burg, Florence, Marion, Marlboro i i arliDgton. But some of these near enough to the North Carol line to enable buying liquor in ori nal packages to be hauled in by w ons. if the "o p. s " care to do so. What will be the action of the St officials to compel tLese recalcitr roads to yield to their demands? is interesting question. A few wei ago threats were made of forfeiti their charters aud getting injunctii from theS.a'e supreme couri restrs ing them from hauling lfquors 4o. p ' agents. An intimation y made Wednesday by a department sistant thai should the Florida Cent and Peninsular, the South Carol and Georgia and other roads still [ sist in their prisent policy recou might he had to these m:asurcs. State otlicials feel sure that the ro would not have recourse to the junction remedy for should they, 1 der an act of the legislature, their ch ters would ba forfeited. The government reports indie that the cotton crop has been mat ally damaged in the last month, wh ought to help prices some. " " FIVE MEN LYNCHED ? AB- ' W *D VENGEANCE WREAKED ON ROBBERS d( IN INDIANA. I3' tie, [I lAkfl *3 lii M?n I>r?gjj?<l Oat of .fa'l and Stinrj; adl- Up Ti'g?<th'r by Their Fellow Cltl?"n? on IS tlin H?mi Tr?? to thn Town of Versallf 8 ^ jr,tr W<dresday was the most excitiDtf w """ 'foil in I Vi a Kielrt?<w of VavC^iIIpr Tndi ^ at?i. Tbe bodies of five men who had '!7e be^n lynched the night before were 11 found hnngire toother on the same di tree near the jiil Wenesday morning. c< thp ^1r>T Jfars southern Indiana has been afU'Cled with lawless gangs. The F t railways and express companies ?1 ^ brrke uo the depredations of these tt * ganesalcng their Jines and latterly t* mro *bey bave preyed upon the cit:zens. uth citizens bave taken the l| Jaw into their own hands in this " i locality before, but never to such m = an extent as today. The Reno broth C( x ers wre lynched together at Seymour, l n Ind., 20 years ago, and the Meyer 9' f can?. three in number were strung J1 , t up together at Shoals, Ind , 12 years ?0 ago. There have been numerous p< re , v.. 1 _t ? F j.vnuijiil^s ul umo tx>j t% uiur, uuu vif\, j "job Jot" of five tcday brcsks the F 5pd mjorc^ That, an unusual stale of tl V. feeJing existed is shown by the deter P i minatiou of the mob, which Jed it to t* the ferocity of first killing three men u # in the jul and then dragging the liv- tl irg auu dead together and hanging tl p them 10 the same tree. It is notable, D ish- r,r* ou^rafie usual 1]^ ai reuses a mob'd veogeir.ce. no murder, i* a _ was chfir^ed against tbe victims, but ^ ?er tlie'r death was decreed because of L 1 ' long and exasnera^ingsuffering from E ilar robbfry? sorno of which were acc^m 11 kat panied by torture of the "v ictims The lfl excitement of the d(iy was not lessen C( ed by thn suppressed hints that more 8' , xj objects of the nerple's v*rath would 01 ^er be made to suffer in the s.arre way. Stout rop's, not over six feet in D* ' tj length, had served to send cchtohis ft 1 jn eternity, ar,d their feet wtrp but a few ct ^ j inches from the ground Versailles is 11 a town o' 800 nsrnlo. It is odo of the Cl ,w. oldest ia the Slate, and Although it is P her Sve miles from a railroad station at d hi has no tflepraphic communication li ' 1' with the ou side world, it is still the hi 1 so couDtysea'- -^cr ^our or years ^ and even longer, the farmers of the Cl county hsvd b?en the victims of a c< len 'awltsJRan^- Farmers would come ai I into town with a bunch of cattle or ^ A., load cf farming products and next w morning they would be found along a 1 the roadside suffering from a wound w u- ?nd minus the proceeds of their sale. " Old German farmers have fceen visit- it ed, and both men and women have C{ f been subjected to tortures. A(?ed w German women bave been forced to ^ . stand upon a red hot stove in an t lfort ec to ccmpel them to disclose the hiding cc place of some treasure in the house. These depredations have continued uor unceasingly. Arrests have been ^ made, but the guilty parties had cov sv ent ere(j Up t^ejr lawlessness and it was ? *CI! seldom that conviction followed. tV ie^ A few weeks before the lynching j? robberies had increased alarmingly, * m Oa Saturday preceding the terrible ^ butchery word was received by the q in sheriff that a sto^e about ten milrs from Versailles wa3 to be entered iat< The information was given by one of , we the gang'j confederates, who had been ( n uor under suspicion. Sheriff Henry ^ Busbingarranged that his informant m, ^u" should accompany them, and securing five deputies they went to the place. X: !raJ Sheriff Bushing conceald himself in the cellar, while his deputies were t c stationed at a convenient distance out- * s:dd. Shortly after midnight the gang ? l0*' reachcd the store. Clifford Gordon .u and the sheriff's informant were desig' v -i_ j-i- ? 1 :i J: Cc "" natea to DreaK miu iub uuuuiug. j. Llar Goroon himself effected an entrance, and just as he stepped inside the sher f1 C1P' iff grabbed him. Both pulled pistols at * the same time and began firing. Bert F Andrews wa3 with the robbers and he, JP ce? too, j jined in tbe fuulade, while tbe ' 5 ?/ deputies came to the assistance of the 5 ck." sb"i?f- t ate The sheriff was shot through the w hand and Gordon was shot several )0n times. Three pistol balls entered his eQ body and he was shot in the leg. Gor(j ' don and Andrews succeeded in escap- w :ing and went to Osgood. where tfcey w jay were arrested. The robbers had driv- pi ea out to the place in a buggy belong- ca ens ng to Lyie Levy, and from informa- lo uon subsequ9ntly gathered, it was h( jne learned that the robbery had been y< ^ planned at the home of William Jen for kins. Tne two latter were arrested as be ida- accessories. All were taken to the jail at Versailles. Henry Schulter, isi je8. aged 24 years, was put in the ^ j iil for robbing the barbershop at Oi ai [f,ss good last week. L^vi was 57 years of sb Ars t.ge, Gordon 2Z, Andrews 30, and Jen- be )ast l:ins 27. It was 1 o'clock Wednesday w (jjj. morning when horsemen seemed to lil come from all quarters and dismountfor ed on a hillside near Versailles. Little w time was lest, for the details had been fo prearranged. Quietly about 400 men ar?j marched into ttie town. Thejiilwas or t0 in chargB of William Kenan, Sheriff Tl Rushing's brother in-law, the former sb heing at home on account of his in- w [?he J iry* ia Ironl ot m<) J111 proper is u lie residence and in thai were Acting be ent Jailer Kean and Robert Baraett, Wil- si: [je liam Block and L8n Wenzel, deputies. Shortly before 2 o'clock there was a p]j knock at the aoor, and when Kenan ,j.e' and others opened it, they were pren?. s.mttd with pistols by three masked J" x * men and aSked to turn over the key. ^ Ty' This they did and then the mob filed into the j ul. Three of the prisoners, e?*Levi, Jenkins and Shelter, were on jjg the lower floor, while Gordon and P8 m(] Andrews were in the upper tier. Levi, are Jenkins and Shuiter showed fight and P3 jna tL:e former was shot through the Igj breast, while tne skulls of the two a?. latter were crushed with a stool. as liopes were in readiness, and adjust- e" ?ia iug a noose arouud the neck of each. tbeir feet and hands were pinioned aa and then the march began. Thej ra eks w ire not carried, but with several men w: n?? at the end of each rope, the five pris- ^ 3ns oners were dragged a distance of 2UU ^ tjQ feat to an elm tree, where their bodies jt for wore suspended. It is said Levi, Jen- jn kius and Shulter were dead before 4 1 Ann M.ioii If llizy reauiicu iuc piav^o, 1/tam uoum j.0 rdj ed frctn strangulation in the cuss of 0f ina Gordon and Andrews. Justice of the aiJ )0r Psalo OharJes Los sell held au inquest , ~se over the iive bodies Wednesday mornL'he *n''- The five victims were allresi- so a(js driQts of Osgood, three iniles from an in- Versailes. Two men were left in ge un. j nl, (Jlibrles Kelly, aged 1-1, fcr burg- la! iar_ lary, arid Arthur McMilleu, for carry- wi iag concealed weapon . Thtf latter Gi was let out on bond. McMilltn says po ate three of the prisoners were killed in dr eri- the j lil and one of the others almost fo ich killtd there. The mob camo very co near taking Mcfllillen out. Of the wi any hundreds seen Icday at this liace, residents and vifitors. not one as heard to express a word of con- i?8 jmnation of last night's work. The ?ople of Versailes declare that the nchers were all non residents and ' lot not a maw Jiving in rr near iown h0 Bd any hand in the slaughter. There foi a general undercurrent of approval ye f the deed, and it is said lhat no ef- ry >rt will be made to apprehend anyone 141 ho participated. ' dei Thn Monetary Commission. ' Hugh II. Hanna, chairman of the ^ lonetarv executive committee, Thursiy announced the completion of the , )mmission, acceptances having been ^ ;ceived from Louis A Gannett, of San qc rancisco, and Prof. J. L Laughlin, ^ f Chicago. Prof. Laughlin is one of p le best kaown political economists of , te country and during the past few f; ears his writings upon financial quesons have attracted world wide at'.enon. Mr. Garnett is regarded as the ' lost eminent authority on the Pacific . >ast in matters of finance and cur p ; :ncv. He organized the service of the an Francisco mint and spent many ears in it. The commission, 8S comleted by these appointments, is com- j wd as follows: Ex Senator George t . Elmundi. of Vermont; Charles S. q airchilds. N'jw York, ex secretary of le treasury; S Stewart Patterson, | hiladelphia, vho was president of tj0' le monetary convention of last Jan- * ary; J. W. Fries, Salem, N. C , at le head of the great cotton industry t lat b?ars his name; T. G. Bush, An- j* Iston, Ala , president of the Mobile ad Birmingham railroad and largely iterested* in the iron industries of t . labama; George E Leighton. St. ouis, reiirtd manufacturer; W. B. , 'ean, St. Paul, wholesale hardware lerchant; R. S. Taylor, Fort Wayne, ^ LWjer;Louis A. Garnett,$an Francis- .. ); Prof. L. J. Laughlin, Chicago; ^ tuyvesant Fish, New York, piesident f tie Illinois Central railroad. /hile no attention was paid to the j: olitical leanings of the men chosen wil >r the commission, it happens that it * )ntains six Republicans and five Da- y locrats. There was. however, much ire given to the question of geogra bical representation and the distri ^ . ition of the commission in different y aes of business. The commission has ?jg| ?en called to meet at the Arlington . otel, Washington, Sep'ember 22. A (J ill has been issued fnr the executive )mrrittee to meet at the same time ad pl?cr>, and it is expec'ed to begin j" le work for which the commission j as appointed at odco. It will make gj thorough investigation of the curincy question in all it3 phases The , cecutive committee will begin before ^ experts and historical and statisti- * il data gathered from all parts of the orid, as well as a great many popu- ? ir suggestions that have been receivi ? l _ i.1 l ..a i.vU i jrom lnuiviuutws turuuguuui iuo Juotry- oc Fleeing frcm Yellow Fever. at A dispatch from Atlanta says like Gu ightened birds of passage, storm- vei vept from the shores of the Gulf of P?i Mexico, the refugees are flocking to 001 te hill country in search of safety ^ om the terrible scourge of yellow sus ver. Every train that arrives from sh" ew Orleans, Mobile, Biloxi and other dia ulf cities, and from Jackson, Miss., Nil id Montgomery, Ala , is loaded with ma fugees. Some of them stop in At- ^ nta and many of them continue on Ed leir journey toward the mountains of ast Tennessee and North Carolina c&s tie hotel corridors are filled with res last people, and the soft accents of ie dialects of the far south are as immon amid the hum of conversa an as the cracker lingo of the dele- No ites to the county commissioners' invention at the Kimball. Most of iem appear contented and uncon 1 trned, but many of them exhibit the tor oes of deep anxiety on their faces . x id express their fears in no uncertain nguage. A large per cent, of the ^ fugees are traveling men who were P" . the infected districts at the time of Sltl e outbreak and who, finding busi- me ?ss at a standstill, and themselves in P*( inger of being bottled up in quaranne, made haste to get out of harm's sa3 ay. ma Do Soar Best. bal A minister tells how when a boy he cot as a great whistler, and sometimes yai u:_.l 1 _ 1 1 nv. llisutiu j.li uuu)uax auu uuocciuij tav aces. Oae day not long since, he clo ime out of a hotel, whistling quite a g w. A little boy playing in the yard of iard him, and said, "Is that the best cei )u can whistle?" me 4-No," said the minister, "can you ma sat it?'' ag? The boy said he could, and the min- it \ lersaid, ' Well, let's hear you." car The little fellow be?an his whistle, son id then insisted that the min ster jut iouIcI try again. He did so, and the iro >y acknowledged that it was good 4 nistling; and as he started away the tar :tle fellow said: cot "Well, if you can whistle better, wil hat were you whistling that way cot r?'' sav Sure enough, why should not any by le do his best, if he does anything/ stic le world has plenty of poor, slip- bal od, third class work done by people qui ho could do better if they would, oul it every boy and girl try to do the Te: st possible, whether in whistling, wit Dging, working or playing. po'. lur Ships Meet DNaater. Dispatches received confirm the are swsof a terrific hurricane on the p0l manpso nnast. The Norwegian bark lette, whicb sailed from Vancouver r Yokohama, was caught by the hur- apj 3ane at Nishiska and was wrecked. ? >meof the sailors were drowned. A cat irt of the cargo may be saved. The am irricane struck heavily at Yokoha- 0f a. The British ship Glenerich, coc iund for Oregon and the British ship Dnsdale for Victoria, were driven t^e hore. The vessals have been lloat- cor to I Oorpsi h Identified. We The woman killed and partly ere- aPF ated in the Newcastle railroad wreck bo had a watch inscribed "Mamma ?*' Mamie" has been identified is Miss ant ary E Johnston, of Pomona, Cal. uer is believed that the corpse clasped co* her arms was that of her friend, jllie Davis, of Pomona. The charred . C mains of seven unidentified victims ins' the accident arrived in Denver today con id wiil be buried there. 1 How to Soften Wet Shoes-As on as you can remove the wet shoes T ,d rub ihem well wiih a soft rag to pal t scnu of tlio ilampnets out and to elec ke olf all the mud. Then rub them lie ill a cloth saturated with kerosene, for :i as much of the oil mlo them as tist issible and then fill them as full of wel y oats as you can and set them aside the r a few hours, when apply another froi ating of kerosene. The stillness gag il have disappeared. jea A REPORT ON YELLOW FEVER. acd by the Marine Hospital Bm?an at Tl j Washington. D.e official bulletin of the marine spital bureau will contain in its Tt rthcoming issue a synopsis of the How fever situation, wit1) a summa- < of the cases and rip&tha iin tn the th instant. The list of cases and aths id lower lhan that reported in ess dispatches from infected points, th t they are all that are officially es th alished. The summary by states is or folJows: Mobile, 1 case, New Of ids, 17: Barkley, Miss., 9 cases, 4 aths; Edwards, Miss., 12 cases; th ean Sorings, Miss. 5 cases, 2 nc aths; Pascagonla, Miss., 2 cases; <Ja rkinston, 1 case. , ni rhe synopsis covers the outbreak an )m its inception, with all the bu- ra iu orders, reports from surgeons hi d boards of health, etc., concerning H< i status of the fever at various at ints. pe 'A brief synopsis of the occurrence j el low fever in the South is given follows: th B gionine with the report of Pass- pi A^tisiant Surgeon Wasdin of Sep rii uber 3, stating that the situation at ur ean Springs needed investigation, sh d his detail to proceed to that place B< d make an investigation in connec to n with members of the Mobile board 0' health, and his subsequent report gr September 6, stating that an au dr )sy maue by bimsell connrmed tbe re: ifrncsis of yellow fever, the repre fo itatives of the state boards concur to ig, precautions were immediatelv of ten by the bureau, directing passed al: sistant Surgeon Wasdin to arrange a cordon, employ necossary help ea d turn matters over to Burgeon wi irray on his arrival and to notify th i railroad agents that until a cordon fr< iuld be established, to sell tickets ly to points north of Nashville or Lots in mountainous districts, and to ve ?p a record of all persons leaving cri tb points of their destination, noti- pii ng the local authorities " he ifter detailing the assignment of sur- era )ns to various points, the synopsis er jceeds: sU 'The total number of caees at Ocean St rings September 8 was 2 in a sick t of 40 persons, and one case result* i r? rloofVi ttt o es wn t **r\rv-\ "Mam /in , IJU utatu TT UJ igpux i^u J IV/UI iiwn ttt leans, whose illness, it is stated, du nmenced at Ocean Springs. Train yo ipection at the Alabama line was w< ablisbed on the 9:h. On the same ly y yellow fever was reported at an ranton, Miss., and several suspici on s cases in one lccality in New Or- Ti ,ns were examined by experts of ov i Louisiana state board of health tie in inspection on the Louisiana hav- St r been inaugurated several days al] iviously by the Louisiana board, du i the 10th six new cases of sickness ra re reported by three physicians at ean Springs. The suspicious case an Scranton was examined by Dr. er] literas and reported to be yellow fe- in r. On the 10th Surgeon Carter rer le; rted a case at Perkinston, Miss., aii itracted at Ocean Springs " th Che report then refers to the 12 ar ipicious cases reported on 01. uiauae eet, New Orleans. No positive ce .gnosis of yellow fever was made, e of the cases recovered; the re- ap fining three are doing well. de Che situation at Mobile, Biloxi and lat wards is referred to, and the many as Lcial dispatches showing the various ie8 are reproduced. These have al- w( idy been published. ra I SUCCESSFUL ROUND BALE. th pr Tare, No Tariff, Mo Bagging, No Ties, 80i All Cotton. sa Che new prccsss of putting up cot- ha l in round bales is destined to revo- ' ioniz9 the packing for shinment of p? i great Southern staple. The new >cess is being exhibited at the Expo- sti on in Nashville, and all cotton ia m who have examined the process be ir.laim it a success. In sneasins of Pi ) matter the Nashville American rs: dr 'The American Cotton com piny pij de experiments covering several fie es of round cotton with 68-incb ton cloth, weighing 15 ounces per f0] rd. The tare on these bales will not mi :ted three pounds per bale. The th proved strong enough and makes sh ood substantial covering. The cost j this covering will not excesd 30 th( its per bale, and the strong argu- mi nt in favor of using it Is that it is de in the South and can be used pe lin for other purposes and besides inj vill do away with, if adopted (as it pit i be to great profit,) the trouble- da ae question of tariff duties on India Fd e bagging and imported Liverpool rai n and steel ties. j 'The bale is properly placarded, "No 6: e, no tariff, no bagging, no ties, all is ton" Visitors are carried away we ;h this wonderful revolution in the se< ion industry, ine suuwiug ui great oei ings grow day by day, as is proven raj actual results. The company is Sqi :king to their standard 425 pounds 0f e, not because it is to their benefit; im ;te to the contrary, for they turned 0v ; a bale at one of their plants in ov ras yesterday weighing 700 pounds, 0f ,h a density of a fraction over 40 UQ inds to the cubic foot. But these ge packages, they claim, are not J y inconvenient to handle, but they ' i an injustice to labor. The 425 A. ind bales are made to conform to err strength of a man. and all railroad 4 I oriBg men hail this change with inj jroval. gal Soma of the most prominent advo era es of this new system, and foremost 01< ong them Mr. Stephen A. Knight tie Providence, R. I., have urged the am npany nat to increase the weight of a covering of cotton. The results of ms s? tp&ts are nhenomenal. when it is I ele i&idered that the old bcx bale has fre De "tared" 25 pounds per bale. The pri ight of the bile of cotton is also >roved by the manufacturers, and h the four foot length and weight I ,heir standard bale was suggested am 1 urged by one of the most promi- Te: it railroad m?n in all the southern me ion country." bee ? she Jol. Mike Biown of Barnwell will Th tall a cylindrical plant there and pos amence operations the latter part fra he present week. in at i N? w Pr tidfut dlt nmoD College. t^e he liav. ilenry S. Hartzog, princi- dej nf t.'u! Johnston hiijh school. was nui :tcd president of Clemson College, exj. is about 33 years of age and was a few years engaged in the Bapministry. Ha is a native of Barn- I 1 county, and went as a cadet to wh South Carolina Military academy nui n that county. He has been en- gus ed in, teaching for the past few har rs. tell . WEATHER AND CROPS. ; HE CONDITIONS OF THE 8TATE'S FARMIN3 INTERESTS. "J! in General Oatlook-Weekly Bulletin j >f the Weather Harefta Iunrd Lut Week | )* Dir#etor Rin?r. The following weekly statement of j e crop and weather conditions for A is section has been served by'direct- J Bauer; TEMPERA.TCRE. The temperature conditions during e pa?t w&k were slightly above the >rmal, due to comparatively high iy temperatures and seasonably cf?ol gnts. The former ranged in the 80s id the latter in the 603, with daily nge from 20~tn 26 degrees The ghest reported? 95 on the 10th at ndses, and the lowest, 52 on the 5th Liberty. The mean for the same riod is approximately 75. RAINFALL. Over nearly the whole of the SUte A Tnftftlr mnn n vni m 1 nnn /n?ia Ql v o *viw a xcuuicoo uuo uia aces reported light showers on va3us dates, with a maximum measement of 0 15 at Allendale. The owers were confined to portions of jrkeley, Colleton. Hampton, Charlesn, Beaufort and Marion counties. rer the remainder of the 8tate the ound is very dry with severe nughty conditions in places. Cor?r>nndents all note the need of rain r ?he growing crops. - The normal r the week is about 1 27. The week corresponding dates in 1896 was 30 without rain ' ( ;'$a The winds were generally light, sterly. The sunshine was ia exes* ith an estimated percentage of 85 of e possible for the State, ranging 3m 64 to 100. GENERAL REMARKS Favsrable weather prevailed for harstinc and catherinc the riDened ops, such as haying, rice harvest. eking cottonr, making syrup and using corn and fodder, but pastures, rdans, late corn, turnips and 'gen* ally all crops not fdlly matured ind in urgent need of rain, over the ' ate. CROPS The reports on cotton would indite a further decline in condition 19 to tbe dry weather which caused tung bolls to shed freely over the / astern counties, where, until recent, the plant had continued to fruit, ,d where it is yet in placM putting / . l fruit sparingly, but not generally. lere are reports of a small "top crop'' er the extreme northwestern coun* is, but over the larger portion of the ate;those bolls and squares tbat usu- ^ [y form the "top crop" all shed off iring and following the August ins. . -'#?1 Over .the eastern counties generally * d over a large portion of the west* a counties cotton is opening ranidly, places prematurely, and in Berke y, Marion, vjrangeuurg, jonuiucig d continuous counties from half to I ree fourths, or more, of the bolls e open. In one locality in Berkeley 70 per at. is already gathered. . Ia the eastern counties the plant is parently dead, caused by rost. which veloped over large areas duriag the iter part of August many fields look if saared by frost. Under the prevailing favorable >ather conditions, picking made pid progress. 3ea Island cotton has not shared in e deterioration, on the contrary, imoved in condition during the week. The dry weather injured late corn to meextent.but parmitted fodder to be ved in good condition. Some corn s been gathered. Sweet potatoes look and yield well nerally, but rain is needed for late antings. t Rice harvesting has made great 'ides in Ck)lleton and elsewhere in the rice districts and threshing has gun generally. Upland rice in - 1J i au~A v.? .a;n CK6DS WUU1U UC UCUOUtKU ujr loui, In places turnips seem to stand the y weather, but generally the young aDts were killed by the hot sun and Ids will have to be resown. It was an extremely favorable week r curing pea vine and other hay and ich was saved. Peas generally fruiting well but edding their leaves freely. 3orghum and sugar cane maintain sir excellent condition and syrup, iking continues. Pastures and gardens are parched, anuts yielding well. Tobacco best freely marketed. Late apples mtiful and of good quality in Salu. Scuppernong grapes plentiful, ill plowing continues in the truck ising districts. from the national bulletin of Sept. "Tiie general condition of cotton less favorable than in the previous iek and over portions of the middle stions of the cotton belt tnere nas en marked deterioration. Absence.'of n has ctused it to open rapidly, to ne extent prematurely. In portions south and southwest Texas showers proved late cotton aud the top crop, er the northern part of the State and er the central and eastern portions the belt the conditions have been favorable. low Animals Suffer from Bad W?t?r. ' rhe following note from Dr. W. E. Wyman, of Clemson, the State vetlary surgeon, will explain itself: have just received a teiegram uuiI me to Denmark, S. C., to investite a supposed outbreak of hog choli. The other two outbreaks (daluda i Town and Hock Hill among cat* ) were due to shortness of pasture d stagnant drinking water, causing form of poisoning, characterized jnly by a breaking down of vital ments of the blood, a disease very qjent in our State, especially in jiongeddiy weather." Dael to the Death. )r. T. B. Carter, of Kaufman, Texas, 1 Charles P. Russell, of Abbott, icas, two of the most prominent n of that section, who had hitherto :n friends and business associates, it and killed each other at Abbott. ?y met Thursday afternoon to dis>e of business relative to a land nsaction. The settlement resulted a quarrel and an agreement to meet \boott for the final settlement. At appuinted hour both arrived at the jot and drew pistols, exchanging a uiber of shots. Both men fell and >ired within a few minutes Labelled Children. n Japan small children of the poor, o have the gift 01 siraymg auu uu rses to look after them, are safe irded by the simple precaution of iging: labels round their neck which their names and addresses.