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Edgefield Advert?: Oldest Paper in South Oaroli : EDGiU'IKLD, S. 0. iwnat we want most, sighs the ' - Doner, is not always what we need. , Xi?t those who invent the fas provide for ladies a modest, ct going hat, prays the Christian I 1er. Perhaps at one time married v ?as one grand, sweet song, a< the Philadelphia Record, hut i days it seems more like;* talking , chine. The Pharaoh who was sun/osi have perished in the Red sea and was embalmed, asserts the C lian Register, and his mumm] mains to this day. It is a waste of time, warns Philadelphia Ledger, to advise pie whose me ital construction irr them to indulge in panics when t ls no tiing to he scared about. -'? '? ' '? Prophesies the Cincinnati Bn< er: It will some day be discov Chat the real reason for the pre -crisis in our affairs is caused by ?d?sire of young men and woree: Set atong in the world without docing anything. The cou nt 17 been depopulated and the cities fi ed with young people whose ambl it is to make a living with t trains rather than with their nan ,* - Why not the zither? A correspc ent suggests it in a note that gi the New York Mall a pause: ' should have a national musical lus meut The violin is too difficult, piano is too expensive, brass I tube instruments are not suitable home use. We should choose zither, which can be played by a body in any apurmtent, tenement, 1 tage, camp, or dugout. The zither be national." Well said! The zit ls not noisy like the horn, nor oct like the violin. This country ' some millions of pianos, bought the daughter ol' the home, but mot misused, or unused. "VThe zither < be national," says this corresponde The only trouble is that lt is alret international. The observer at ; Office Window has heard its stra floating out from cottage windo while tramping the roads of G many, Switzerland, Austria, Italy a Unssia. Other people discovered nd vantages ahead of the .American With a million immigrants pour! into the country this year, the prc les? of distribution, employme: education, and the general well-bel ?nf society bee wie portentous to t Christian Register. There is roc enough for a million men, wome and children if they could be put the right place and given a chance earn their living with healthful co dirions and be stimulated to imprc the chances of education; but, if th are to come kt at haphazard, to 1 crowded Into the East Side of Ne York, to be jammed into our min and steel works, and there left work out their own salvation, CTim poverty and misery will increase. A ready the criminal record of the Uni ~ ?ed States surpasses that of the Wes ?ern European nations, and the wor elements of anarchy and semi-sa1 agery imported from the south-ea ?of Europe are becoming defiant, lav less and difficult to control. We ha\ native delinquents enough withoi importing all the criminals of Soutl em Europe that can be smuggled ii to the country. j It is easy to point to the uncei taicties of medical science and th disagreements of medical authorities but such , criticisms seem ext re rael trivial whenever we think of the won derful achievements that are to b credited to the progress of medicine declares the New York Evening Posl When we think of smallpox almos unknown; of diphtheria reduced within a score or so of years, fron being a terrible scourge to th? pos i tion of almost a minor ailment; o yellow fever extirpated in our South ern States, in Cuba, and at Panam a when we think of these and the al most incredible achievements of mod ern surgery, ii makes the ordinarj careless fling at doctors seem verj small. All sciences, to be sure, an made contributory, as physics is' ir such a story as that given In th? I newspapers -mis morning of the ex traction of a nail from a boy's lune, by the aid of the X-rays. What a tale cf magic it would have seemed, a gen. eration or two ago, before anaesthet ise bad been Invented, before a-ui aep?c methods of surgery had been introduced, before surgery had been developed to its present wonderful perfection, and before Rontgen had found the way to make our flesh and ?blood transparent! THE COMMANDEB-rNF-dHr?^; "What diuclnguished for?ign?fcW sis ted the colonies in the Auk Atfvi Revolution ?" asked aa Ohio ter cheri "God," answered Tommy promptly. --Everybody's. England's Capital Greater Than Ever Before and Stead* ily Increasing By Frederic dustin Ogg i N^recent years there has been a good deal of foolish, talk . about the supposed decadence of Britain. Not a few Eng lishmen have themselves fallen into grave doubts on the subject As a matter of fact, the nation never possessed elements of strength equal to those of today. A population of 20,000,000 in 1815 has increased to one of 44,000,000. In 1815 the nation's accumulated wealth was under ?3,000,000 000; as late as 1845 it was only ?4,000,000,000; in 1882, ac cording to Mulhall, it was ?8,720,000,000; today it is vari ously estimated at from ?12,000,000,000 to ?15,000,000,000. The yearly ad dition to this accumulated wealth in 1815 was ?00,000,000; today is it ?300, 000,000, or,six times as much. The total foreign investment of British subjects, almost a negligible quan tity a hundred years ago, is now estimated at ?2,700,000,000, upon which there is an annual income of not less than ?140,000,000. During the. last six years the placement of British capital in foreign countries, largely suspended during the previous decade, has been resumed on a stupendous scale, greatly 'to the improvement of foreign trade, and distinctly to the encouragement of public and private thrift. At least a hundred millloLs were invested abroad in 1908,, and approximately the same amount in 1909. These are merely a few of the more obvious evidences of the financiaL_power of the nation. Of the ultimate ability of the British people to support a government twice as lavish as any yet on record there can be not the remotest doubt Assum ing that the principles of reasonable economy are to prevail, the one tower ing question is as to how the public burden may best be adjusted so that the 15 percent of the population which receives 50 percent of the national, income and possesses more than 90 "percent of the nation's aggregate wealth may be made to bear its just share.-Review of Reviews. . . ti Ss Ja mum The Discontent of Riches - and Poverty Ey Winifred Black UTTLE girl lay down on her sister's grave and died the other day. And' Wjien the mother went to the drug store to tele phone to ask for help she fainted, and the drug store people discovered that the mother had not eaten anything for near ly two days because there was no money to buy food. In the same paper that told this little story I read that aigrettes were in fashion again thi? year because they were so expensive that the very presence of an aigrette meant that the owner must have money, or at least had it when she bought the hat, and that black pearls were again in vogue, and that it was bad form to let the bay horse go but with anything but an ermine carriage blanket. I wonder if the little girl who lay down and died rather than to struggle through a world like the one she lived in wasn't after all, wise after her kind and condition? I suppose that poor mother walked the street right beside some discon tented rich woman a dozen times, and unless ehe walked unusual paths she certainly went past a dozen young gdrl? who are making their own mothers miserable because they can't have Just exactly the latest thing In jewelry or the newest thing in automobiles, "like the other girls." If I had one of those "like-the-other-girls" daughters I'd make her spend at least half of her time getting acquainted with some of these "other girls," like the one who lay down and died of hunger and heartache and sorrowful discouragement the other day. I believe it would do her good.-New York American. ? ? st / ?WMAs?aTake burTrade?^ - I By Moreton Frewen, English Economist > HE most serious aspect of the depreciation of gold-or. to word it more simply, of the great rise of gold prices-is that it is stimulating the industrial development of Asia, with eight hundred millions of people, and involves a competi tion which, though little noticed thus far, is a menace to our Western civilizations. The great abundance of the new gold inllates our currencies, but there is no equivalent inflation of the silver currencies of the far East. The re sult is a great stimuus to all that Asia exports to us, and if the rise of gold prices continues during the next quarter of a century, as I believe it will, we shall hand over the control of many great industries-such as steel and coal, cotton, leather and jute-to an awakening China. When I think of the creations I have myself seen-the cotton mills of Bombay, the jute mills of Calcutta, the boot factories of Cawnpore, and now this terribly ominous competition of Hankow, Shanghai and Hong Kong-I find myself won dering what white industries menaced by this murderous Mongolia compe tition will survive. The coming competition of Chinese pig and steel must keep the prices of pig and steel down here In the West to something like their cost of production in China ^IUS freights, but there is. no such competition in the case of perishable commodities-wheat, beef, bacon and butter. Thus the necessaries pf life here must get the full uplift of the increasing depre ciation of gold. ? tl li m m m ^m^^hmmtt^/m Don ts for Autoists Ey H. Clifford Brokaw ONT smtice ,a cigar when filling the gasoline tank or you will be jammed through the pearly gates before you make your proper farewells. Don't argue with the policeman who arrests you for speeding. Ee knows better, or he won't admit it if ne doesn't. Argument only excites him. Save your convincing appeal and tell it to the magistrate. Don't run away if your machine injures a person. Every law oC humanity demands that you do what you eau to help the injured person, whether the accident is a result of your own or the other fellow's carelessness. Don't get a swelled head Just because you own or drive an automobile. Remember that every man, especially the one on foot, has as much right to the street as you have. Don't continue cranking the engine after a kickback witnout doing something to prevent another kickback. It may mean a broken wrist Don't dismantle the engine entirely if it refuses to start. You may find you have not turned on the switch or the gasoline. Don't chase back 'along the road looking for a missing cylinder. You will probably find the trouble right under the hood. U_I A Law-abiding Child. A health of?cer recently received the following note from one of the fOiddn's of his district: "De: J Sir:-I beg to inform you that aiy child, aged 8 months, is suffering from measles as required by act of Parliament"-[Tit-Bits. Formaldehyde is used In meat ex port?e, to England and the govern nc eat is makiDg investigations as to ii s elfect on the health of consum es. Easily Answered. "How is it doctor," asks the smart patient, "that if I get my feet wet I contract a cold in my heud, while If I get my head wet I don't have cold feet?" "lt is caused," replies the weary phy sician, "by the fact that there is no room in your feet for a cold."-Chica go Post. During 1909 Chile produced 18,179 tons of copper, aa against 19,463 tons ,1908. DEATH IS AIWA -Cartoon by C RAILWAY DEATH TOLL 253 Passengers Killed Against 381 Year piojos-Operating Revenues 52,418,677,538; Eipe $17,487,868,935 PAR VALUE Washington, D. C.-The total num ber of persons killed on or by railroad trains in the year ended June 30, 1909, was 8722, and 95,626 persons were injured, according to an abstract of railway statistics made public by the Inter-State Commerce Commis sion. Of those killed outright, only 253 were passengers, as against 381 passengers killed the previous year; 4944 were trespassers on the road, and the remaining 3525 killed were railway employes. To passengers the greatest cause of Injury seems to have been derailment or collisions. In this way 86 passen gers were killed and 4805 injured. In the whole year, the report states, 1 passenger was killed for every 3,523,506 carried, while the injured averaged 1 to every 86,458 carried. The indications are that railroad tra vel is becoming less dangerous with the irstallation of improved safety devices. The statistics for the year show an increase of 3215 miles of single track ing ID the United States, mostly scat tered through the West and South, while the increase in mileage of tracks of all sorts is 8705. On June 10, 1909, the report shows, a.single track nileage in the United States of 236.Ses ; 20,949 miles of second [ track. 2169 miles of third tracking. The'increase in locomotives over the year previous was 479, the total number in operation on June 30. 1909, being returned as 57,212. Of these about 13,000 were classified as passenger engines and about 33,000 as freight engines.' The total number of cars in operation showed a reduc tion of 12,901 under the returns of the year before, this year the total number being 2,218,280. The' total number of persons on the pay rolls of the steam roads in the Unite* States was on June 30. 1909, 1,502,823, or an average of 638 per sons to every 100 miles of road. These figures show an Increase in the total number of employes of 66,54S over the previous yea . The total capitalization of the rail roads of the United States on June 30, NOVEL METHOD OF Captain Conrad of the United Sta Number or Washington, D. C.-Captain Cas par H. Conrad,' of the Quartermaster's department of the army, has suggest ed a new method of marking horses in order to enable the War Depart ment to keep a record of them. For several years the hoofs of the animals have been numbered. This .method, however, has not been satisfactory be cause of the fact that the number of ten wears off the hoof and is obliter ated in other ways. Captain Conrad's scheme is to tattoo the number on the inside of the aulmal's lip. This sys tem is in practice in the Quartermas ter's department of the army of Great Britain. It is probable, however, that the humane societies of the country will raise objections to the proposed plan of tattooing numbers on the Hps of army horses. John P. Heap, secretary of the local humane society, had this comment to make on the subject: "I cannot speak for the executive committee and I cannot reach them at this season to learn their views, but it is my belief that the members would disapprove any such system as this. I would like to have data on the subject before submitting it to the Twelve Couples Married on Cente nal y of Louise of Prussia's Death. Potsdam,Germans'.-Twelve young couples were made happy at the Gar rison Church a few days ago thanks to Queen Louise of Prussia, the cen tenary of whose death was thus com memorated. Her Majesty left a fund to provide annually a dowry of $112 for each of six servant girls, to be cliosen from the most worthy. On this occasion twelve dowries were awarded, as the date fell on the cen tenary and also on the fortieth anni versary of tte war "*ith France. Feminine Notes. Mrs. Helen Kelly Gould and Ralph Hill Thomas were married in New York Citv. Frank J. Gould and Miss Edith Kelly, ai acta ess. were married five weeks ago ne tr Paris. Commissioner Stover gave out ? list ot pa ks in Ki w York City where stffragett ;s rould hold outdoor meet ings. President Frederick W. Hamilton, ol Tn fla 'ollige, nominated Mrs. Car oline S. 1 avi s, Boston, as the first dear of .lack .on College, the new in stit* ion for vomen at Tufts. LYS UP TO DATE '. R. Macauley, in the New York World. LESS FOR YEAR PAST 1 Previous-4944 Trespassers, 3525 Em. in the United States Were lises, $1,599,443,410. OF THE RAILROADS IN 1000 1909. was S17.487.86S.935. Of this amount about $13,000,000,000 waa outstanding in the hands of the pub lic, representing a capitalization of $59,259 per mile of line. Of the total capital outstanding there existed as stock $7,686,278,545, of which $6, 218,382,485 was cominan and $1, 467,896,060 was preferred; the re maining part, $9,801,590,390, repre sented funded debt. Of the total capital stock outstand ing $2,766,104,427,or 35.99 per cent, paid no dividends. The amount of dividends declared during the year (by both operating and lessor compa ni< ) was $321,071,626, being equlv a" *o 6.53 per cent, on divldend pajiiig stock. No interest was paid on $718,351,332, or 7.57 per cent., of the total amount of funded debt out standing. The number of passengers carried during the year ended June 30, 1909, was 891,472,425. The corresponding number for the year ended June 30, 1908'. was 890,009,574, an increase of 1,462,851. The number of tons of freight was 1,556,559,741, while the correspond ing figure for the previous year was 1,532,981.790, the increase being 23, 577,951 tous. The average receipts per passenger ! per mile, as computed for the year en?efl June 30, 1909, were 1.928 cents; the average receipts per tou mile 0.763 cent. The passenger serv-| ice train revenue per train mile was $1.26;958; the freight revenue per train mile was $2.76.450. The aver age operating revenues per train mile were $2.16.7S9. The average operat ing expenses per train mile were $1.43.370. The ratio of operating ex penses to operatingrevenue was 66.16 per cent. The operating revenues of the rail ways in the United States were S2. 41S.677.53S : their operating expenses vere $1,599,443.410. The corre sponding returns for 1908 were: Op erating revenues, S2.393.S05.989; op erating expenses,$1,669,547.876. Op erating expenses averaged S6S65 per n.ile of line. MARKING HORSES. tes Army Suggssts Taits oin g tho i fee Lip. so:iety for action, because lt would benecessary that we know how much pan is inflicted upon the animals wlen they are subjected to such nurking, and what results are aciieved by it." Discussing the subject. Dr. A. D. Mdvln, chief of the Bureau of Animal Inlustry of the Department of Agri cuture, said that the method of tat todng letters, numbers and other de signs inside the upper lips of horses is on? of the plans being considered to seare permanent marking of such aninals. 'A system of this sort ls now being folowed in the marking of English arty horses," Dr. Melvin continued, "aid I understand it is considered a deeded success. A similar scheme ls usd in this country for marking reg istired cattle, only with cows and ste rs the tattooing is done in the ear" Ir. Melvin explained that the tat tcong need not be very painful to the aniial because it can easily be done wit a pincer-llke punch, on which all theaeedles are inked at once and the mak placed in the lip with one oper atic!. Exprt Expects Visitation of Seventeen-Year Locusts, Nw York City.-The "seventeen yeai' locust will sweep over the At lante Coast from Virginia to North ern New Jersey next spring, accord ing :o Curator Ditmars. of the Zoo logial Gardens, in Bronx Park. "text year," said Mr. Ditmars. "will be te seventeenth year since the 'sev enton-year' locust swept over the up per Atlantic seaboard. I found in Virgnia that the locust, still In th* grulstage, will mature next year, an/ it wi be one of the worst invasions^ The Field of Sports. Jilt Johnson says he refused to "sel* the fight. Jonson in his prosperity remem ber^ old associatos with gifts. O'ing to tho injury of Francis Grefell the international polo match ls o? fon this year. "?lek a pin 'n thc prediction thal the "uturity will be run at She<?ps heacBay," said a well posted racing man Sm Langford, through his mana ger, Joseph Woodman, intends tc plae Johnson on record regarding 8. fighlor the latter's title. ? IN OLD SOUTH CAROLINA Cream of the News Gitternd From All Sections of the Commonwealth For Ocr Many Beadon. 400,000 Election'Tickets. Over 400,000 tickets will be print ed for the State Democratic election.. The tickets will be printed within the next few days. Since the cam paign commenced three candidates have withdrawn from the race, Ju lius E. Boggs, candidate for Con gress, from the Third Congressional District; L. P. Boyleston, candidate for Congress, from the Second Con gressional district, and P. IL McCul ley, candidate for the office of adju tant general, from Anderson county. The campaign assessment has been refunded to the candidates withdraw ing. It has been announced by Gen. Jones that the assessment will not bc returned to a candidate withdrawing from the race after the tickets have been printed. . Tax Reduced on Cotton Mills. An action by the State Board of Equalization, in reducing from 60 per cent to 50 per cent the basis of as sessment on cotton mill properties, effects a reduction of one-sixth in the taxes wbifh these plants will bear. For a time the mill basis was 100 per cent. For some years it has'been 60 per cent. The action was taken by the board on a motion of Mr. Shuler, of Qr-r angeburg, after an address by Barron Grier, of Greenwood, representing the South Carolina Manufacturers' Association. Thc basis is still con siderably above that for real estate which ranges from 20 to 30 per cent. Eibertas Plentiful in Anderson. Eight ??rs of Anderson peaches will find their way to the Northern and Eastern markets this year. The first of the cars have been shipped and one a day will be forwarded un til the crop is exhausted. The ship pers are Messrs. O. M. Heard and H. H. Watkins, who have seventy acres in Elberta peaches. One car war shipped last year, and Mr. Heard says there will be twenty next year. "inspecting Seed. The work of seed inspection under the act of the last General Assembly has commenced. Samples of seed offered for sale in this State by seed houses in South Carolina and in oth er States have been received by the Department of Agriculture and sent to Clemson College. In Language Plain. One of the candidates for governor having made certain charges reflect ing on The ?tate, and a correspon dent, Mr. Covington, of t?onnetts ville. having sought information as to meir meaning! the editor aad pub lisher submit the following: "If'Mr. Covington or any other doubter will secure the appointmint by any Justice of the Supreme Court,, by any Circuit Judge, or by any white Ministerial Union of any city in South Carolina, of a committee of five persons to inquire into/the charges of Duncan, and if any ope of these de rogatoiv allegations ajjainst the State and "Gonzales" ia substantiated, the State Company will pay five thous and dollars to whomsoever that com mittee designates. "A. E. GONZALES. Publisher. "WM. E. GONZALES, Editor." New Member Education Board. Gov. Ansel has appointed D. M. O'Driscoll, of Charleston, as a mem ber of the State Board of Education from the First Congressional District to take thc place of W. K .Tate, who recently resigned to take up the work pf supervisor of elementary schools of the State. Prof. Tate re cently removed from Charleston to Columbia. State Accounts All Hight. The books and accounts of the Siate officials are being audited by the auditing committee of the House and Senate. The committee is com posed of G. K. Laney, senator from Chesterfield county, and D. L. Smith sf Colleton county, and L. M. Gasquc of Marion, members of the House The books audited have been found to be in excellent condition. On Easy Street. Aiken county is out o>: debt and has $80,000 in the treasury to be ised for school and county purposes. This is a very unusual state of af fairs and is one to be proud of. Way of the Transgressor. Mark Duncan, a white man from A.iken county, must serve a sentence )f seven years in the Sti:te peniten ;iary for the murder of Will Brooks n Aiken county, thc supreme court landing down a deceision in which ;he judgment of the lower court is ifhrmcd. A Prisoner 21 Years. After nearly a quarter of a cen ury spent behind prison valla Bob iones hrs left the penitentiary a free nan. With the commutation of his entence by Gov. Ansel He completed L term of 21 years imposed upon him n the Lexington county court for thc nurder of Edward Pressley in Edge ield county in 1836. The two sons if Edward Pressley were killed at he same time, but Jones was never ried on this charge. The affair was aused by ? land dispute. Superintendent Exonerated. W. H. Woodward, superintendent if gang No. 2 .if Aiken county chain ing, has been exonerated of the barge of causing the death of James Mitchell, a convict who diet, while crving a sentence on his gang. Want Wet Goods in Greenville. Supervisor Goodwin has finished he count of names on thc: petition sking for a nclection on t.ie estab ishmcnt of a dispensary ir Orcen ille county, and thc < lection has een ord caed. The proposition will o into the regular August primary. INTERESTING STATE NEWS Column of Current Errata . Caught in Every County From Coast to Mountain Oap. Great Meeting Factory Inspectora Commissioner Watson "will, within the next few days, confer with Sec retary Hamby of the Columbia Cham ber of Commerce, relative to the en tertainment of the International As sociation of Factory Inspectors and the International Association of ; Labor Commissioners. Thc hall of the house or representa tives will be secured for the sessions which will be held in Columbia on August 26 and 27. Arrangements have been completed whereby the members of the two as sociations will be brought fron? Hen dersonville to Columbia on a special train. On the evening of August 25 thc textile manufacturers of Greenville will dine the members of the associa tion at Greenville. A number of thc textile plants of the State will be in spected by the two associations. During thc past week* invitations from a number of cities of the coun try have been received asking for thr next meeting of the two associations. ' The Baptists Summer Assembly. There is not a shadow of doubt that the Baptist summer assembly ic a fixture in South Carolina for years to come, the success of last week'? session at Greenville- making this as sured. One of the most masterful ad dresses of the entire week was tho lecture of Dr. John E. White on th? " Backward People. " Dr. Sampey'F lectures on the books of the Old Test? ament have been the subject of much comment, as also have been the ad dress of the Rev. Dr. Jenkins. Other speakers on the week's pro gramme who have made good impres sions are: Mrs. Crutchfield, of Spar enburg; Dr. Vines, of Anderson; President Poteat, of Wake Forest; Dr. Z. T. Cody; Rev. Mr. Flake; Mrs. Hatcher and Dr. Jenkins. , In the Wrong Pew. F. I?. Davis, a young white man, traveling salesman for a Richmond, Va., whiskey . house, spent Friday night in jail at Greenwood, having been arrested on the charge of solicit ing orden for wet goods by distribut ing circulars. The arrest was made by State Con stable J. B. Riley as Davis was about to leave town. ; Davis got in touch with his bous? and put up the $200 bond required ot bim. Davis is the young man who waa arrested about a year ago in Laurens an a similar charge and the case waa ?arried to thc supreme court. Dispensary Sales Decreased $10,000. The sales by the dispensaries in this six counties of the State, retaining ihe system, for the month of Junij ?how a marked decrease amounting) :o several thousand dollars over thej nonth of May for the present year The cjtal sales of the dispensaries iccordinj? to a report issued by J. M Daniels, recently named' dispensar: tuditor. for tht month of June, wa:; ?162,904.11. The breakage amount^; ;o $514.63. The total sales of the dis] >ensaries for th a month of April on he present year was over $180,000.| 't will be seen that the sales decreas ;d in two months over $10,000. The following are the sales fo; Tune by counties'. Naked Figures. Greenville business people have re eived the new directory, published by he Piedmont Directory company of Asheville. The population given for greenville is ,12,240, Spartanburg ?7.435. Columbia 45.000, Charlotte ?0.000. I Thc directory contains some inter ning data concerning Greenville's Ltiinerous textile plants and other ndustries. j Electric Cars on Southern. The Southern Railway and Blue iidge Railway Companies are arrang ng to inaugurate an electric motor ar service between Greenville and Lnderson via Belton, on or before Lug. 1, which will bc in addition to he present steam service between h?se points. A conference has been leid to arrange schedule figures and ietiis of the service. New Charters Granted. The Security Building and Loen ssociation of Spartanburg has been hartered by the secretary of state nth. a capital stock of $100.000. Thr. ompany will do a general building nd loan business. Thc ITugueiwt Land company of rreenville has been chartered with aoital of $30,000. A general real state business will be conducted by he company. A commission has been issued to he T?galo . Lumber company of fadison with a capital stock of $3, 00. A general lumber business will e conducted. Wheat Crop is Great. The increase in wheat acreage this ear exceeded 50 per cent, and the ?reduction will mach very nearly 5. 00.000 bushels, it is stated. The largest production of wheat in outli Carolina heretofore was 3,810, 00 bushels against 2,835,000 bushel? or the year before. The quality of be crop this year is said to be ex ellent and thc crop will go upon tb? market at a maximum average price, 'he seasons were particularly good or harvesting and practically na crcagc was abandoned. Judge Boyd to Preside. United States Circuit Court Judge eter C. Pritchard has signed an or cr designating Judge James E. loyd, United State district judge for :e Western North Carolina district ?> hold tiie district court of the Unit ri States fer the district of South ar olin a from this.date until the 18th t October. 1010, during the absence rc TI tho distr.ot of Judge William [. Brawley, United States district l?ge of Charleston.