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TO THINS OWN 8ELF BB TRTJB AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS TUB NIGHT TUB DAY, THOU OANS*T NOT THUN BB FAL8B TO ANY MAH. BY JATNES, 8HELOU, SMITH & 8TEOK. W A IJ 11A lilt A? SOUTH ?AKOJL1NA. AUG. 20t 1002. HBW SHH IKS, NO. 226.-VOLUME lilli.-NO. 84. We Wai We are please you as 1 We an A few 1 Come i ftW.&J. nixed I It costs just as much lasts but two yours n that will last four tho work of pul costs tho samt usc good or rial. I sell any colo any qa And ni) contain : White IA Linseed Oil, pentine Dryer, Colors. No Al Barytes, Whiting, in and get Color Ca hints about Body Cc J. H. Darby For Tax Rolorm. Tho State Board of Equalization has been having lots of troublo try ing to arrive at an equitable basis for tho appraisement of property for taxation, and on last Friday a oom mitteo of that body propared a memorial to tho general assembly on the subject. The preamble reads as follows : To the Honorable, the G lierai As sembly : Whereas, grave irregularities ex ist in thc valuation of all classes of property throughout the State, which inequality a majority of th< State Board considered it impossible to correct or even modify under ex isting laws ; and Whereas said inequalities leave the real estate of certain counties of thc State assessed at from f> to 50 per centum above that of Other counties ; and Whereas, personal property gen erally is believed to bo assessed at about 60 per cent, of its market Value, except as to the matter of merchandise, which upon reliable in formation presented to the Board -appears to be assessed at from 3.0 to f) per cent of its market value ; and Whereas, it is believed that just and equitable amendments to tho existing tax law will alleviate, if not correct, existing defects ; therefore, be it resolved, etc. The most important of the reso lutions reads : We recommend that the county auditor in making his annual assess ment of property, may have author ity to summon his Township Board of Assessors to sit with him for such time as it is nesessary to take the returns of the entire township, and when the return is taken that it be passed to the Township Hoard, who shall immedietely proceed to j^pass publicly noon the values and souri n?lH ?^ 8a'(^ r(!turn) nH fixed by tho ginia (v''lual returning. That the 2 4 jj .mptroller General prepare books g . ,i each county of the State to be o'known as township tax lists, indexed to contain the returns itemized in the form of county auditor's dupli cates. That during the period of j taking returns the Auditor be allowed tho assistance of a clerk at a reason able salary, who, nu esch assessment is made and passed on hy the bonni, shall proceed to enter tho samo in its proper place in said township's tax list, and when all persons meet ing thc Auditor shall have assessed their property, that said board then proceed to assess such as have not appeared, adding to their returns 10 per cent for failure to return, un less good cause for absence shall be shown. That in taking returns the auditor, his clerk or a member of the board, shall administer to the indi vidual making tho return tho oath prescribed by law in tho same man ner as witnesses are sworn in tho Circuit Court. That thc assessor, . malting Clothing a . to fit, style? and price. i still offering some S*J more Bitte Flannel Sui in and let tis show yoi E. BAU Kl Paints, to uso a Paint that s it docs to uso ono or live. That is, ting on Paints ; whether you poor mate I Paints of r and in antity. Pure 1 mting ^ kalies, Benzine, or Fish Oil. Drop -v rd. I will give you >lors and Trimmings. , Druggist? with the assistance of the Auditor and his clerk, shall aggregate and balance tho township list. This book shall bo retained by tho chair man of the board of assessors who ?hall produce the samo at tho meet ing of thc County Board of Equaliza tion. That all persons assessed in their absence shall be notified by the A uti ?tor of thc items assessed aud amount of such assessment, the dato of meeting of county board, so that be may appeal thereto. All persons making return of property for taxa tion whose return in the aggregate is increased shall have the right of appeal to tho County Board of Equalization. Half Million Tickets Printod. The tickets for use for tho State and Senatorial elections aro now being sent to the various county chairmen in accordance with the estimates furnished by them of the number needed. There have been half a million tickets printed and this should be a sufficient number to meet all possible demands. Those who are thoroughly familiar with South Carolina olection matters pre dict that tho total number of votes in the first primary will not be over 0*2,000, and say it may not reach that ligure. Richland has been fur nished with 10,000 tickets. Charles ion and Greenville take 20,000 each and Spartanburg takes 25,000. An derson asked for 10,000 and Orange burg 14,000.-Columbia State. What this Boy's Mother Says has been said by the mothers of many other boys and girls, re garding the wonderful curative and strengthening qualities of M Ses' Nervine HASTINO. NM. "Our little boy, Harry, hud spasms for i years ?nd we feared the disease W< Ula affect his mind. Though we doctored continually he grew wor.ce and h.nd ten spasms in one week. Our at ti ntion was directed to Dr. Miles'Nerv ine and wc began its When he had taken the fourth pt the spasms disappeared and he hah ot had one for five yean. His health now is per fect." MRS. B. M. TINDALL. Dr. Miles' Remedies are sold by nil druggists on guarantee to benefit or money refunded. Or. Milos Medlo*! Co., Elkhart, Ind. Clothing pecialty, and will sell * * * * * lits at unheard of pri< ts at only $2.50. i throtitfn otar Clotnin 1IGKT, M CATTLE FEVER DREADED IN SOUTH. Where it Originates-Methods for Ridding Pastures of the Fever Tick. |Tho State. 1 Cattle fever is the general name of a disease among our cattle that the stock raisers of this State are only too familiar with. It occurs every summer and fall and is known by several names, tho principal boing Southern fever, TexaB fovor, Sple netic fever, Red Water and Tiok fever-Southern fever because it originated only in the Southern States, Texas fever because Texas is the groatest cattle raising State and tho most Southern, thoreforo has more cases than any other State; Red Water fever because of the hemorrhages from tho kidneys dur ing the last stages of thc fever ; Splenetio fever because post mortems show the spleen to be excessively enlarged and discolored ; Tick fover because tho United States Bureau of Animal Industry insists that the cat tle tick is responsible for the dis ease. Tho bureau bas issued many bulle tins and cited many instances to provo its theory, but, unfortunately for tho Southern cattle raiser, all treat of the disease in tho territory lying north of the quarantine line, and nearly all the investigations of the bureau have been confined to the territory affected by the transmitted disease and not in the territory of original infection. Wo do not deny that the tick transmits the disease to Northern cattle in Northern terri tory and to a certain extent in Southern territory, but tho experi ence of 12 years of close study in the homo of the disease proves to us that the tick is not responsible for the disease in the Southern States. The writer bas inspected many herds of cattle in this State and has found the fover raging in bords that never carried a tick, and, vice versa, bas found herds, every head of which was covered with ticks and fever never prevailed. In one herd of Chester county the loss from fovor each yoar for a number of years was from five to fifteen head and there was not a single tick to bo found ; a olose study of this herd was made, individual animalu were noted as they grazed and record kept of whero they grazed mostly ; six cows were noted as going to a certain placo in the pasture (pasture contained about 300 acres) every morning and graz ing until satisfied, and these were the first to contract the fever and bad the most violent attacks, three of them dying. This spot of an acre in extent was fenced out of the pas ture and not another case occurred that year, 1890, nor has a case oc curred in that herd since, though tho same pasture is used year after year. This led to tho theory that tho germ was received from the soil and the same measures of prevention have been used dozens of times all over tho State and have not failed a Hingle time in 12 years. Herds that were visited every year by the plaguo havo been freo from it since tho pasture was inspected and tho poisonous spots fenced out. Some carried ticks and some did not, some have them now and some havo not, but none have fever. The disease is moro provalent this year than usual and promises to be como raging lator in the summer and fall unless conditions chango mate rially ; the object of this articlo is to bring to tho attention of tho stock raisers of this State the fact that nothing is being done by us or by the government to lessen tho losses or to prevent tho annual occurrence of tho fever. The government has devoted practically all its offorts to the northern territory whore tho dis ease novor originates, but is always transmitted and has done very little, if anything, for tho South, whore the disease originates, but is transmitted to a very limited degree. Wo find the Northern oattle protected by a set of stringent quarantine laws which prevent tho Northern move ment of Southorn cattle oxcept dur Trade 1 you wk. suit that will * * * * * ces. ierchants ing a few certain months. This is fair for tho Northern cattle raisers, but it is most unfair to the Southern raiser, for it leaves him to tho tender meroy of the fever without the knowledge of how to fight* it and at the same time shut3 bim out of the Northern markets and deprives him of th? benefits of the higher prices to be ob tained there. This is the only disease and the only reason that prevents the South becoming a great cattle region, for wo can pasturo our cattle the year round and raise more beef and cheaper beef than sections that have to feed part of ovory year, but our farmers hesitate to invest their money in cattlo when each year sees hundreds of heads carried off by this plague and nothing done to remedy the evil. This disease can be stopped, and we t rust the farmers and the stock raisers of tim State espeoially will unite in demanding, through our Representatives in Washington, that the government will expend some of its energies in tho infected district and givo us relief from this costly disease, that wo may raise, at least, enough beef for home con sumption. A. W. Love. Chester, S. C., August 5,1902. Dearness Cannot be Cared by local applications, as they cannot reach tho diseased portion of the ear. Thoro is only ono way to euro deafness, nud that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is causod by an inilamod con dition of thu mucous lining of tho eusta chian tubo. When this tube gets inflamed you havo a rumbling sound or imporfect hearing, and whon it is ontirely olosed deafness is tho result, and unless the inflammation can bo takon out and thin tubo restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroycd.forovor. Nine cases out of ten aro caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condi tion of tho mucous surfacou. Wo will givo ono hundred dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars froo. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Proprietors, Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills aro tho bost. Gaynor and Greene Set Free. Quebec, August 13.-Col. John F. Gaynor and Capt. Benjaman D. Greene scored a decisivo victory to day in their fight against extradition to tho United States, where they are wanted in connection with alleged frauds in harbor work for the Fed eral Government involving millions of dollars. Judge Caron, in the Superior Court, discharged the pris oners from tho custody of Sheriffs Laugher, of Quebec, and Valee, of Montreal, in whose official care they have been since their sensational arrest in Quebec last May. A large number of the prisoners' friends wore in tho Court room and they heartily congratulated the two men upon their release. Col. Gaynor and Capt. Greene left the Court room soon after Judgo Caron had conoluded, and Col. Gaynor, who is suffering from rheumatism, retired to his room. > It is understood that the United States Government will institute new proceedings for extradition, but up to a late hour no step has been taken by counsel representing the Washington authorities. Unusual Malicious Mischief. An unusual story of malicious deviltry comes from Brushy Creek township. Several nights ago, it is said, that somo miscreant went to a plantation near Mount Airy and out down an aero or so'of cotton, an acre of corn and all the growing stuff in a garden on the place. Tho growing stalks were cut smoothly, as if with a knife. There is no clue as to the identity of the villains. It is hard to conoeive that any kind of person would commit offences of this kind, and no punishment would be too severe for them if they oan be caught. It is said there have been offences of this kind in that seotion before, and this should, and doubtless will, stimulate the people to uso every effort to havo the guilty person fer roted out and punished. Anderson Mail. There is no fool like an old fool in love with a young fool. THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL 8TATE FAIR. Preparation? Started (or the Holding ol the Slat? Fair, in Columbia. The annual premium list of the Thirty-fourth Annual State Fair, whioh in to be held in Columbia, be ginning on Tuesday morning, Octo ber 28, and ending Friday ovening, October 81, bas been issued and is being distributed by Col. Thos. W. Holla way, secretary of the society. This year the following announce ment is made as to a commercial dis play: "For the best installed and mont handsomely decorated commercial exhibit a premium of $100 will be paid. Not less than 15 to exhibit. Five dollars for floor spaoe (15 feet front) from every exhibitor. Score points: Installation : 40 ; decoration 60-100." This is provided to induce tho merchants of the city to make displays. All entries in all departments will o Io HO October 21. The annual special announce ment reads as follow? : "The Thirty-fourth Annual South Carolina State Fair wiH be held in Columbia, from Tuesday, Ootober 28th, to Friday, October 31st, in clusive. "Entries are absolutely frnc, ex oept whero otherwise stated and all premiums regularly awarded are paid in full. No part of the pre mium money in retained by the sooiety on any account or pretext whatever. "The management seeks to en courage the exhibition of only Buob animals and products as are really meritorious and aro of utility and profit to the people of the State. This is tho one great objeot of the fair and the society is imbued with an ambition to add a new zest aud a new dignity to agricultural and mechanical pursuits and secure in creased influence and greater re muneration to those engaged in them. "The premium list has been care fully revised, and the sooiety wishes to call attention to the inducements offered that will certainly attract the best exhibits that can be shown in every class. "Tho achievements of the State Agr'i3ultural and Mechanical Society in promoting the development of agriculture and its allied industries have never been fully appreciated by its best friends ; its possibilities for future usefulness in suggesting and disseminating ideas that will materialize in improved crops, live stock and farm practice cannot be over-estimated. "Not unmindful of the entertain ment of its patrons, the management is endeavoring to secure a number of new and novel attractions that will both instruct and amuse. These will be announced later. All im moral shows and devices for gamb ling under any form whatever will be excluded from the grounds of the society ; and any person caught vio lating any law of the State, practic ing any gambling game or device will be immediately arrested. "Realizing how large a part of tho successes of the past exhibitions has been owing to the work of the fair women of tho State, tho socioty ear nestly requests exhibits in the seve ral departments. "The large attendance at the fair offers splendid inducement to manu facturers to make elaborate displays of their works. On all tho leading railroads of tho Stato entering Columbia excursion ratos will pre vail during fair week, thus extending facilities for visiting the fair to the people of every quarter of the State. "Visitors to Columbia will find mtich to entertain them besides the fair. Among the places of interest moy be mentioned : The State House, asylum, penitentiary, ceme tery, factories, colleges, graded schools, churches, etc. "Every effort is mado by the city to entertain her visitors, who are assured that thoy will receive a cor dial reception and spend a pleasant time. Tho fair is conducted for the benefit of the public at large, and their mor cupport and active co operation are requested in order to make the thirty-fourth annual fair tho grandest in the history of the Agricultural and Mcohanioal So oiety." - Seoretary Wilson expects to con tribute 40,000,000 packs of garden and other seeds, to the ordinary stook, most of whioh will be sent out throngh Congressmen who do not for get their agriculturally and garden loally inclined constituents. The contribution costs $270,000. Brief Newt Note?. Columbia, August 18.-The offioial announcement was.made to-day of the appointment of Mr. John S. Reynolds as Librarian of the Su* preme Court. The announcement was made by the members of the Supreme Court and was in the nature of a pleasant surprise Mr.. Reyn olds's appointment will give entire satisfaction to the members of the bar. It is well that the members of the Supreme Court made a selection on merit. Mr. Reynolds has been appointed to fill the vacanoy occa sioned by the death of Mr. Thomas S. Moorman. LaCrosse, Wisconsin, August 18. W. T. Woodward, a LaCrosse attor ney, has drafted a bill which he will present to the Legislature this win ter, the purpose of which is to pre vent the telling of ufish stories." The bill provides that every fisherman must, under penalty of fine, register the weight of every fish taken ex ceeding one pound in weight. It provides for the appointment of a State officer with county deputies, with whom register shall bo made, and whoBe duty it shall be to see timi, the law is enforced. New York, August 18.-The In ternational Harvester Company has been organized under the laws of New Jersey with a oapital stock of $120,000,000, to manufacture and sell harvesting machinery. It has purchased the property and business of the following manufacturers : Tho McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, Deering Harvesting Com pany, Plano Manufacturing Com pany, Warder, Bushnell J Glessnor Company and the Milwaukee Har vesting Company. The company is capitalized upon an exceptionally conservative basis. Of its assets $80,000,000 aro in cash working capital. The company will require no financing and there will be no offer of its stock to tho publio, all the cash required having been pro vided by ita stockholders.* New York, August 18.-The boiler of the tug Jacob Kuper blew up to- j day near St. George's, Staten Island. Four of tho orew were killed or drowned. There, were eight men on tho tug e >d all were blown into the water. F^ur were rescued. Thr?>3 of them aro injured badly and one at least is not expected to live. The tug boat sank immediately. Bridgeton, N. J., August 13. County Colleotor William O. Garri son in missing from his home and the Cumberland County Board of Free holders after its meeting to-day con firmed tho rumor that he is a de faulter. The amount Garrison owes is not known, but sn officer of the board estimated it at $25,000. Gar rison is supposed to have used the money in his extensive coal and grain business. Tampa, Fla., August 13.-A train on the Seaboard Air Lino's Palmotto Extension and a trolloy oar on the Tampa Electric Company's line col lided at the 22d street crossing at 9.30 o'clock this morning, and Mrs. J. P. Munn, a passenger on the trol ley car, was so badly hurt that she died this aftornoon. The motorman was also severely injured. Tho car was completely wrecked and the engine is considerably damaged. Threo peoplo were killed at the same orossing in a similar accident three years ago. Tucson, Arizona, August 13.-El Correo De Sonora brings an account of a hold-up near Mazatlan, Mexico, by threo masked men, supposed to have been outlaws. The robbers secured $4,000 and made good their escape with the plunder. Mariano Gordillo, the driver, was shot dead. The stage was full, but the passen gers were unmolested. A shipment of $4,000 to a bank at Mazatlan was the booty the robbers wero after and when they secured this they allowed tho stage to proceed. Negro Cuts Girl's Throat. Aiken, S. C., August 12.-While Miss Susie Clark was alone in her father's house near Vaucluse, in this county, sho was sot upon by an un known negro, who beat her into in sensibility and then out her throat. A large posse of citizens are scouring the country and it is reported that tho negro is surrounded and that his oapture is sure. If taken he will be lynched, as thc community is much aroused. The young lady is in a oritioal oondition. A lady living near Augusta, Ga., fired at a mad dog that had entered her yard, but the bullet intended for the dog went wide of the mark and killed the lady's sister. --? ?? - Tho widower who goes to court a second timo moves for a now trial. HEAVY L088E8 OF GOVERNOR. Said to Have Parted With $7,600 at Charles, ton During Exposition. Charleston, August 15.-Some of the Atlanta visitors to the Charleston Exposition who lost money in a crocked gambling, house here, which was subsequently broken up by the police, will be interested in a state ment made by Magistrate Louis Manigault, in the Civil Court at Portsmouth. Manigault was sum moned to Virginia to appear as a witness in a civil suit against Charles Harper. Harper claimed to have lost heavily in Charleston and Mani gault was asked to bear witness to that effect. According to the testi mony Harper dropped $4,500 against sundry games which flourished in Charleston during the exposition period. Perhaps the most sensational statement in Manigault's testimony was that a Governor of a certain State lost $7,500 in cold cash in one night's high play at Charleston. This testimony was given under oath, and while ex parte in tho Har-; per suit, it went to show that all manner of high rolling marked the sporting und of Charleston's big show. Looal sporting people claim that if this money was dropped it fell to the sharpers, whose work finally got to the ear of the police after visitors had made violent complaints of being fleeced. A club room was opened hero where local players were not allowed. Well groomed men met the trains, pretended to be bankers of Charleston and finally got the unsuspecting visitors to tho fashionable dives, where they were soon relieved of their cash. On one oocasion these grafters met a Ten nessee delegation, claiming to be citizens' committee, and it has long been a question as to how much the Tennosseeans dropped into tho sport ing club. Many Georgians fell into this looal trap and ono visitor from that State complained to tho police and assisted in having tho gang driven out of town. After Gen. Chalice's Scalp. Chicago, August 13.-Prepared to take the law into her hands, Mrs. Annie White, of Verde, Arizona, is on her way to New York, where she ex pects to have a settlement with Gen. Chaffee when he arrives from the Philippines, says the Tribune's El Paso, Texas, correspondent. She is the widow of a discharged soldier of tho Eighth Infantry. On his deathbed her husband ex acted a pledge that she would prefer charges against Gen. Chaffee for al leged cruel treatment at Camp Mc Dowell, a post near thc San Carlos reservation, Arizona. Mrs. White charges that Gen. Chaffee, then a major, sent soldiers to their home, which was just outside tho reserva tion, burned their house, and drove off all their Cattle. When seen at El PaBO she said : "I am going to New York to meet Gen. Chaffee, and if he does not give me satisfaction PH shoot him dead in his tracks. I have preferred oharges, but he prevented thom from getting before Congress. I have told Gen. Miles about it and he says for me to wait. I have waited long enough. I want a settlement and I am going to have it. PU have his life or satisfactory reparation." TEJUtfUl OR CHEERFUL? Whether a woman is tearful or cheer ful depends not on what the liss materi ally, but what she is physically. Many an indulgent husband is driven almost to despair by the tearful outburst of a wife who has "every thing she wants." He wants to know what's the matter. But the wife can't tell. She only knows that she is de pressed aud despondent. Such a, condition is usually re lstea to< some form of womanly disease. Tue mental depression has its corresponding womanly weakness. Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription changes tearful women to cheerful women by curing the diseases which cause phys ical weakness and depression of spirits. It establishes regularity, dries unhealthy drains, hesls inflammation and ulcera tion, and cures female weakness. Mr*. Alice Adams, of laboratory, Washing ton Co., Pa., say* ; ?With many thank* I write to let yow know how 1 am. I can say by Ood'a help nnd your hetp I am well. I have taken six bottle* of Dr. Pierce'* Favorite Prescription and two of bia 'dulden Medical Discovery,' and I can do all my work. I can't praise your medi cine too highly. I will recommend your medi cine* a* long a* I live. If anyone doubt* this give them my address." w Favorite Prescription " makes weak women sirona ana sick women well. Accept no substitute for the medicine which works wonders for weak women. Keep the bowels healthy hy the timely use of Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. Tne Exposition's Largest Creditor. Charleston, August 15.-The olaim of Capt. F. W. Wagener, president of the Exposition Company, against the company was filed in the office of Master G. Herbert Sass last Mon day. The total amount of the olaim is ?162,062.82. The olaim of Capt. Wagener is larger than tho total of all the others. It isN a lengthy one and each amount is speoified. It shows that the rooney due him is for notes endorsed by himself, and for overdrafts on different banks of 1 the city guaranteed by bim. It also . shows tl mi he paid out considerable money as interest on notes. Capt. Wagoner includes the expeuse of his trip to Washington and Baltimore. Besides the olaim of Capt. Wagoner several other olaims were filed, which, added to the olaim of Capt. Wagener and total of all of the others, brings the total amount of claims up to $188,210.99. Among thoso who filed olaims today was Mr. J. F. Fickeu for $4,470 for services ren W?M - r dered as attorney for tho expositen. -rn* Wasted Lives. We havo seen fine lives wasted through a love of wine-some in one channel and some in another. If it never comes to actual drunken ness, it lowers the man and spoils his influence. So it is with the tale bearer, or a tell-tale. Hie lowers himself and spoils his influence. How many would be grandly useful, but for some wretohed impediment 1 Worthlessness runs away with many a man's energies ; love in this petty work, he thinks, makes groat gutters in other people's fields ; though, tho volcano never throws its contents so far but that the crater can bo found. Fondness for feasts and gilded truthlessness robs him of his sphere of usefulness in tho community where ho works. Ho is always gal ing at his fellowman and never stops before the mirror of truthfulness to behold his own likeness. When a person indulges in thin hopeless, degrading, conceited and deceptine practice, ho ought to bo the possessor of a wonderful mem ory-a memory that will retain a chain of despicable expressions suf ficient to reach thrice around the world, so that he could bridge over the canyons of truth with a clearer conscience than tho common in truder. Ananias and pphira wero up to dato in this petty work, and they faltered. They foll dead at * Peter's rebuke for tolling a falsehood. I If Pelter could only rebuko tho samo characters to day, sections of our I country would have a chill. And I fear many of our churches would have no one loft to tell what had happened. The talo-bearer is like a sputter ing candle. You seo its firo and light, but something extraneous and mischievous is at work, and it needs to be removed. Such characters need to be snuffed with gold snuffers. Thoy may well desire tho Lord to snuff them, however painful tho ope ration may bo. Depend upon it, we have no life-force to spare, and everything that lessens our conse crated energy to tho truth is a rob bery of God. Jonathan Oldstylo. mum Codon Mill Insurance. The cotton mills of this State have organized a mutual insurance company with headquarters at Greenville for the purpose of insur ing members against loss by fire, storms, etc. The company is known as the Southern Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Company, and there is no capital stook, as tho company will bo conducted on tho assessment basis. The company hon beon granted a commission by tho Secretary of State, and the list of incorporators include Jas. L. Orr, J. A. Brook, E. A. Smyth and many other mill presidents in various sec tions of the State. No Need for Worry About Grant. General Fred Grant, a few months ago received a lotter which ho showed his army friends in Luzon as a joke at his own exponse, and whioh, thcroforo, may properly bo promulgated. Tho general's son, U. S. Grant, third, is a cadet at West Point, now a first class man and ondet adjutant. But earlior in his course tho father became anxious about him and im {arted his anxiety by mail from the 'hilippines to a professor in the aoadeiny, a contemporary of his own, begging him to send exaot and confi dential information as to the cadet's standing. Tho answer which re lieved his anxiety was as follows : "Dear Fred : You needn't worry. The boy stands higher in. every thing thnn you over did in any thing."-Now York Times.