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FtTBLISHED TBL TEXAS HARD HIT Eighteen Persons Perish in the Hurricane. HEAVY RAINS FALL Besides the Dead, Sixteen Were Ser k iously Hurt and Property Dam aged to the Extent of Over a Mil lion Dollars, According to the La-t est Reports. Eighteen persons dead, and six teen seriously hur, and property ex ceeding a million dollars damaged, as far as can be ascertained at a late hour Thursday night, is the igrim record resulting from the de structive sweep of the hurricane along the Louisiana and Texas coasts. The number of dead as reported from various towns and cities are as follows: Texas: Bay City 3; Galveston 4; Palacios. 4; Eagle Lake V, W'harton 1; Ken dleton 1; Ramsey 1; El Campo 1. Louisiana: Mudd Pass 2. The number injured seriously is reported as follows from Texas points: Eagle Lake 1; Bay City 15. Meagre reports from the following Texas points, with many other towns in the devasted district not heard from give but a faint idea of the immensity of the storm in property damage: Galveston, loss $175,000. Bay City, loss $150,00D. Bay Shore, considerable property damage. Velasco, only three stores left standing, and many homes blown down. Iago, syrup mill destroyed. Austin, many buildings unroofed; telephone and telegraph wires level ed. Damage about $100,000. Brazoria, many buildings destroy ed, and loss of life feared. Pledger, heavy property damage, syrup mills wrecked. Allenhurst, many structures were wrecked. Rumors of loss of life as yet without confirmation. Richmond, fifty residences and stores partially demolished. Palacios. a number of houses were blown down. Angleton, every house in the town badiy damaged. Blessing, several lives reported lost and conside able property dam age. Eagle Lake, many houses unroof ed and two large sugar and rice plants partially wrecked. In Louisiana points in Cameron Parish are reported to have suffered severely from the hurricane. Much property is reported as having been damaged in the settlements at Bar ry, Creole, Grand Chenier and John son's Bayou. B * The territory around Bay City seems to have been the c entre of the I storm, which moved southwest from Galveston. For four hours there a 70-mile wind swept across the coun try, carrying everything before it. Velasco, a little town near Bay City, is reported demolished, but with no loss of life and none Injured. Every building was unroofed, or partly demolished, and the town is in four feet of water. People are escaping in boats from Colorado Riv er, a mile away. Reports from the special train, on which General Manager W. G. Vanv leck, of the Southern Pacific Rail road, left Houston, indicate that the lower coast suffered greatly. The loss will total thousands of dollars, and in some districts reports state that the storm was worse than the disaster of 1900, which destroyed Galveston. Eagle Lake seems to have suffered on a parity with Bay City, but very few houses escaping the fury of the storm. The same situation reported from Lissde. Nowatta and East Ber nard, though there is no fatalities reported. At Glidden. a round house is en tirely demolished, and a well der rick is scattered over town. At Willinger part of the railroad station and office was unroofed as was the Allentou depot and East Bernard station. It is impossible to estimate the total damage. Along the Brownsville road from Kingsville, in parts, the desolation was nearly complete .Corn fields were swept to the ground and har vesting will have to be done by a hay rake. The cotton, however, withstood the storm well. At El Campo. the electric plant is wrecked, all elevators are badly damaged and almost every church in towns is either demolished or wreck ed. In the oil field around Markham, derricks were blown down and wells stripped of their machinery. The ir on ware house of the Markham Mer cantile Company, the Brown Grain Company ware house and the Enter prise restaurant were entirely de molished. The new building of the Coast Telephone Company was lift ed from its foundations and proba bly will be a total wreck. At Bay City, about 50 per cent of the business section was damaged, including the Opera House, one bank, TEN LIVES LOST MEMBERS OF FISHING PARTY SWEPT INTO THE SEA. They Were Caught Far Out in the Gulf of Mexico on a Fishing Pier by the Storm. Ten dead is the total number of lives lost so far as is known in the hurricane, which swept over the Gulf of Mexico and struck Galveston Wed nesday morning and continued until after midday. While the city of Galveston was held safe against the fury of the storm by the new $2,000,000 seawall, far out in the Gulf, on Tarpon fish ing pier, seven miles from the city, where the storm whipped over the jetty Into the bay, ten persons were washed from the rocky promotories into the Gulf. Boats are searching the bay for the bodies. Those drowned were members of a fishing party and employees of the Tarpon Pier, marooned on the petty. Boats were sent to tneir assistance late Wednesday, and it was learned that the house in which they had sought refuge had been washed away. While it is impossible to get an accurate list of the dead, owing to the fact that the register has always been kept at the pier, the best in formation obtainable is as follows: Capt. Beitison and wife, Edward Lewis, C. H. Daly, circulation mana ger of the Galveston Tribune, form erly of Chicago, and four negroes. The others are unknown. Mr. Daly was a guest at the pier, and it is stated that a young man named Peatsorn, of Houston, son of a book dealer, was also among the guests. This report could not be confirmed, however. Friends in Galveston set forth a ' faint hope that it might have been possible that all, or a part, of the party on the pier might have secured ' wreckage from the pier and floated to the Bolivar shore. In view of this report the launch Clifton, owned by Capt. Bettison, made the trip <to Boliva r Wednesday evening, returning shortly after sev en o'clock, the captain, however, re porting that no trace of the party had been found. THEY' ARE BOTH GONE A County Clerk and His Stenograph er Are Missing. The police in every city of the South, in addition to a number of detectives, aTe searching for Foy W'. Dulaney, the missing Circuit Court Clerk of Washington County, Ten nessee, who isuddenly disappeared from his home nearly three weeks ago. Warrants have been Issued for his arrest on a charge of embezzle ment. It is believed that he is near ly $20,000 short as clerk. He left other indebtedness of probably $20, 000. It is a singular coincidence that Dulaney's stenographer, a pretty black-haired girl, left Johnson City the day before he was missing, and has not been heard from since. Du laney left a note saying he was go ing away to try his fortune else where, and if left alone would, if possible, pay back his shortage. Dulaney has a wife and one child here. He is believed to have gone to South America. "WILL BE READY' SOON. The State Will Help Take the Cen sus Next Y'ear. As a result of Commissioner Wat son's visit to Washington and a con ference with the chief of the bureau of statistics it is very probable that the census figures for South Carolina for the year 1910 will be published at least one year earlier than usual. It is also very likely that this State will be the first state to announce the result of the census. By an agreement reached between Col. Watson and the census bureau it will be necessary for the manufac turers of the State to fill out only one schedule, thus relieving them of much work. The federal and State government will cooperate with each other in the matter of tak ing the census in this State. The method of gathering agricul tural statistics will be improved. An expert from the bureau of animal , industry is now available for this ' State whenever needed. Was Millionaire's Son. The body of an itinerant timbrel- j la mender found in Stoney Creek. ' near Paris, Ky.. last Friday was identified as that of Harry Hobbs, I whose father is said to a millionaire, j Word was sent to the father wheso home is in Doreliester. Mass. He ordered the body buried and full particulars of the death sent him. j The umbrella mender, who was known as Harry Martin, was about j 30 years of age. the Court House, the new high school building and the oity jail. In the jail the cages were left standing and the prisoners were exposed to view I ut were safe. Six prisoners escaped from the jail at Richmond, when the windows had been blown in and while the guards j were repairing the damage. OBANGBBUBG, GOOD ADVICE Given the Younger Members of the Prsss Gang BY COL. JAS. T.BACON "Go and Wrestle With the Angel Un til the Breaking of the Day," Says He.?An Article That Should Be Bead by All the Young Men of the State. The following is from the pen of that knightly gentleman and ripe scholar, Col. Jas. T. Bacon, Editor of the Edgefield Chronicle. Every young man and young woman should read it: Dear Sunday News: At the very recent meeting of our Press Asso ciation in Greenville, we picked us out an Olympus of very young gods. We have old gods. And now we are going to utter a discourse to our youthful Olympus. We do not say preach, because we regard preach as a very unpleasant word. Stand up, Rutledge McGhee, le Rousseau, of the Daily Piedmont, and hearken unto the words of wisdom. Stand up, El more Boney, of the Laurens Advertis er. Stand up, Archie Willie, of the Woodruff News and Herald. Stand up, Herbert Sass, of The Charleston News and Courier. Stand up, McDavid Hor ton, of the Columbia Record. Stand up, Edward McDowell, of the Camden Chronicle. Stand up, Perry Cleaton, of the Greenville Daily News. Stand up, Junius Bailey, of the Johnson 'News-Monitor. Stand-up, young Cald well, of the Chester Lantern. Stand up, R. Boyd Cole, of the Barnwell Sentinel. Stand up, Neil Chrisfer.sen, of the Beaufort Gagette. Stand up young Gardner, of the Greenwood Journal. Stand up, young Bailey, of the Greenwood Index. Stand up, Jas. Izlar Sims, of the Orangeburg Times and Democrat. Stand up, Alva Lor enz, of the Alken Journal and Re view. Stand up, Louis Wigfall Cheat ham, of the Edgefield Chronicle. And stand up?last, but oh! so far from least!?Estella Smoak of the Branch ville Journal. Rutledge McGhee, on account of your vivid piety, we appoint you to be priest of all the oracles. Elmore Boney, you will be the young and graceful Apollo of the Mount. Archie Willis, you will be Mercury, the mes senger, and e to it that your wings are safely attached to your heels. Ed ward McDowell, on account of your tender youth and your white skin, you shall be the blind god Cupid. Es tella Smoak, remember that you sprang from the brain of Jove, and do not forget your heavenly birth and the "compulsory education" of the lesser little gods. Now draw near, in a line, and hear the words of wisdom from old Sa turn; or from an older deity still, if there was any such: To the young men and young wo men annually making their entrance upon active life, with great ambi tions, conscious capacties and high hopes, the prospect is, in ninety-nine cases in a hundred, most perplexing. They see every avenue to prosperity thronged with their superiors, in ex perience, in social advantages, and in the posession of all the elements and condition of success. Every of fice is filled, every path crowded. Where shall they find room? It is related of Mr. Webster that when a young lawyer suggested to him that the profession to which he and devoted himself was overcrowded, the great man replied: "Young man, there is always room enough at the top." Never was a wiser or more suggestive word said. There un doubtedly is always room where excellence lives. Mr. Webster ws-.s not troubled for lack of room. Mr. Clay and Mr. Calhoun were neve" ciowded. Mr. Evarts, Mr. dishing, and Mr. O'Connor had plenty of space around them. Mr. Beeker, Dr. Storrs. Dr. Hall, Bishop Phillips Brooks never knew, in their personal experience, that it was hard to obtain a desirable ministerial charge. Tue profession was not crowded where they were. Dr. Brown-Sequard. Dr. Willard Parker, Dr. Hammond were not troubled for space for their el bows. Henry Watterson, and John Temple Graves, and James C.il,-in Hemphill, and Tom Waring, and Wm. E. Gonzales, and James A. Iloyt, and August Kohn have room to kick and splash in. When Nelaton died in Paris, he died like Moses on a moun tain. When Yon Graefe died in Ber lin, he had no neighbor at his alti tude. If is well first, that all young men remember that nothing will do them so much injury as quick and easy success, and that nothing will d--? them so much good as a struggle which tenches them exactly what there is in them, educates them grad ually io its use, instructs them in personal economy, drills them into a patient and persistent habit of work, and keeps them at the foot of the ladder until they become strong to hold every step they are able to gain. The first years of every man's busi ness or professional life are years of education. They are intended tn be. in the order of nature and Providence Doors do not open to a man until he is prepared to enter them. The man without a wedding garment may get in surreptitiously but he Immediately goes out with a flea in his ear. We think it is the experience of most successful men who have watched the S. C, S?TUKDAY. JUJ course of their lives in retrospect, that whenever they have arrived at a point where they were thoroughly prepared to go up higher, the door to a higher place was swung back of itself, and they have heard the call to enter. The old die, or voluntarily retire for rest. The best men who stand ready to take their place will succeed to their position and its honors and emoluments. The young man will say that only a few can reach the top. That is true, but it is also true that the further from the bottom one goes, the more scattering the neighborhood. One can fancy, for i!;astration, that every profession and every calling is pyra midal In its living constituency, and that while one man is at the top, there are several tiers of men below, who have plenty of elbow room, and that it is only at the base that men are so thick that they snatch the meat out of another's teeth to keep them from starving. If a man has no power to get out of the rabble at the bottom, then he is self-convicted of j having chosen a calling or profession ' to whose duties he has no adaption. The grand mistake tbat young men make, during the first ten years of their business or professional life, is in idly waiting for their chance. They seem to forget, or they do not know, that during those ten years they en joy the only leisure they will ever have. After ten years, in the natural course of things, they will be ab sorbingly busy. There will then be no time for reading, culture and study. If they do not become thor oughly grounded in the principles and practical detail of their pr?fes [ sion during those years; if they do not st?re their minds with useful knowledge; if they do .not pursue habits of reading and observation, and social intercourse, which result In culture, the question whether they will ever rise to occupy a place where there is room for them will be decid ed in the negative. The young phy sicians and young lawyers who sit idly in their Offices, and smoke and lounge away the time, "waiting for something to turn" up," are by that course fastening themselves for life to the lower stratum, where their struggle for a bare livelihood is to be perpetual. The first ten years are golden years, that should be filled with systematic reading and observa tion. Everything that tends to pro fessional and personal excellence should be an object of daily pursuit. To such men the doors of success open of themselves at last. Work seeks the best hands, as naturally as wter runs down hill; and it never seeks the hands of a trifler, or of one whose only recommendation for work is that he needs It. Young men do not know very much any way; most of them know mighty little; and the time always comes to those who be come worthy, when they look back with wonder upon their early opinion of their acquirements and themselves. There is another point that ought not to be overlooked in the treatment of thl9 subject. Young men look about them and see a great measure of worldly success awarded to men without principle. They see the trickster crowned with public honors they see the swindler rolling in wealth, they see the sharp man, the over-reaching man, the unprincipled man, the liar, the demagogue, the time-server, the trimmer, the scoun drel, who cunningly manages, though constantly disobeying moral law and trampling upon social courtesy, to keep himself out of the cluiM of the legal police, carrying cff I be pri.:e of wealth and place. All this is a de moralizing puzzle and a fearfu! temp tation; and multitudes of young men are not strong enough to stand before it. They ought to understand tlist in this wicked world there is a great deal of room where there is integrity. Great trusts may be saught by scoun drels but great trusts never seek them; and perfect integrity is at a premimu-n even amoung scoundrels. There are some trusts that they will never confer on each other. There are occasions when they need the ser vice of true men, and they do not find them in shoals and in the mud, but alone and in pure water. In the realm of eminent accpiire ments and eminent integrity, there is always room enough. Let no young man of industry.and perfectly honest despair because his profession or calling is crowded. Let him al ways remember that there is room enough at the top, an dthat the ques tion whether he is ever to reach the top, or rise above the crowd at the base of the pyramid, will be decided by the way in which he improves the first ten years of his active life in securing to himself a thorough know ledge of his profession, and a sound moral and intellectual culture. Go now, good children, and re meml er your Creator in the days of your youth. Go, now and wrestle with the angel until the day break?until you secure the blessing. Made I?ig Money. The Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company made big money ou? .if the farm* rs the past year. President S. T. Morgan said that the net profits of tin- parent and subsidiary eomnan ios for the year amou ited to $;Lr>.1S. "?93, and the total sales to ?! ! 1.!' II'. L'l'T. exec-ding the last year's sales by ?5,1-11.2S7. Stung by Bees. Two young ladies of Fair Forest "'i Spartanburg County were fearfully stung by bees Wednesday. The young ladies went to the rescue of a calf that had overturned a bee gum. and the bees made for the girls by the thousands. The calf was so badlv stung that it swelled to the size of an ox. iY 24, 1909. SAVED THE CITY Galveston Secure Behind Her Great Sea Wall. WATER fS HELD BACK The Texan Seaport Weathers a Ter rible Tidal Wave and Hurricane of j Similar Porportions to One Which j Well-nigh Destroyed the City Nine Yean Ago. Man's strength and skill were pit ted against the fury of the elements Wednesday and man won, when the city of Galveston, safely entrenched behind her impregnable 17-foot sea wall, withstood, with comparatively trifling loss, a tidal wave and hurri cane equal In intensity and destruc tive fore to the one which destroyed the city on September 8, 1900. The hurricane swept the entire Gulf coast with an intensity and vic iousness that has seldom been equal ed in a country where destructive storms are not unusual. It has its origin on the Atlantic coast, and, swinging westward and southward, devastated the entire Gulf coast even as far South as Matagorda Bay. That some lives were lost and that much property was destroyed is the general belief. The hurricane struck Galveston about 11 o'clock Wednesday morn ing. The wind, attaining a velocity of nearly seventy miles an hour, whipped the treacherous waters of the Mexican Gulf into a fury of de struction. With the pent-up anger of ten years of hate the waves blind ly assaulted the grim parapets of stone which man had builded to re strain Its attacks. In vain it hurled its thousands of tons of water upon the splendid breastworks. Only a feeble burst of spray and a little water reached its objective and the' beleaguered city lay calm and safe behind the wall. Outside the limits of the city, where the wall had not been reared and where the city had not been ele vated, the waters had their way, but they wrecked only deserted huts and abandoned territory. In this section of the city, which is low and sparcely settled, the water rose to a height of seven feet, but the warnings of the weather bureau had been heeded and the Inhabitants had removed their possessions out of the danger zone. A hurricane for East Texas was forecasted at the district weather bureau in New Orleans early Wednes day morning, and warnings were sent out. When wind and rain arrived several hours later they found Gal veston prepared. The inhabitants of ihe few scattered houses in the low part of the island had already sought safety, and the vessels that had clear ed and prepared to sail were riding at anchor in the bay. The fury of the storm soon abated and the anxiety of those who enter tained fears of another tidal wove were soon relieved. Small boys pad dling around the flooded streets, even before the heavy winds had died down, presented a scene which dis pelled the alarm felt by the timid. So short was the duration of the storm that the Mallory Line steamer, which was booked to sail for New York shortly after noon, left on the scheduled time. Message of Greeting. The following message was issued Wednesday night: "The city of Galveston sends greet ings to her sister cities, the people of the United States and of the world in that, at this hour, it has passed through a most formidable storm, manifesting in its course some of the most violent incidents of cyclonic disturbances and its great sea wall hafS completely vindicated fits effi ciency and protected the city against dangers from the seas, leaving such insignificant damages as are incideut to all storms. "The city, its great business inter ests and its people have safely pass ed through a most severe hurricane. the sea wall proving a complete suc cess. The city's great wharves and shipping interests suffered no dam age and not a life was lost. (Signed:) "Lewis Fisher, Mayor; E. O. Flood, President Chamber of Commerce; B. Adoune, Presideu: Maritime Association." KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Mrs. Ration of I lorry County .Meets Death in a Storm. During a heavy thunder storm on Wednesday Mrs. Tally Rabon, who lives near Coo! Spring, in Horrv county, was struck by lightning and j killed. Her step-father. Mr. Abram Rabon, who stood only a few feet from her, was struck by the same bolt and knocked unconscious. His slioes were also torn from his feet. .Mr. Rabon no\*er regained cosclous iit ss until] several hours afterward. Mrs. Ration's husband and children knew nothing of tin- sad occurrence until several hours afterward, when returning from the tobacco field they found the dead body lying in the yard and only a few feel away the unconscious form of another. The man and woman were in the yard when struck, they having started to the well during the heaviest of the lightning. ' DANGER FROM FIRE CAN BE REDUCED BY RIGID IN SPECTION OF HOUSES. Commissioner McMaster Thinks That Something Should Be Done by All Municipalities to Save Property. Insurance Commissioner McMaster is determined to enforce the building inspection law which gives and re quires of every fireman or other city official the right to inspect buildings in order that risks might be reduced. Recently he called attention to the carelessness many officials had shown in the examination of property and as a result just that much wealth of the world had been wiped out by the flames. He has prepared a "circular letter, setting forth the requirements of the law, which has been mailed to every I mayor or intendant, the chief of po lice and chief of the fire department of every city and town in the State. I The letter is as follows: "In the hope of reducing the fire : waste in this State. I call to your j attention section 4 of the act of 1904, which gives the chief of the fire department, or chief of police, or intendant where there is no chief of the fire department, the Tight to make examinations of all buildings and premises within their several jurisdictions, at reasonable hours, and whenever any of said officers shall find in any building or upon any premises combustible material or inflammable conditions dangerous tc the safety of such building or premises, they shall order the same to be removed or remedied. A like power is conferred upon the insur ance commissioner, as the successor of the comptroller general or his deputy, to act in a like manner. "It is the desire of this department to act in co-operation with the muni cipal authorities of the State, and to render such assistance as is within its power in such matter. In order that the assistance which this depart-j ment Is able to give may not be over estimated, It is proper to say that the only fund at the disposal of the de partment for this purpose amounts to about $1,500 a year derived from a tax of fire insurance companies. This fund must be used primarily for the Investigation of incendiary fires. The deputy of the department may aid In the inspection of buildings, only wfyjn he is not employed in investigating supposed incendiary fires. "Hence the appeal is made to the municipal authorities to have made periodic examinations of all buildings and premises within their jurisdic tion to discover combustible material or inflammable conditions and to have these evils corrected. The sug gestion is made that a house to house examination be made at least once each quarter. "This matter is of such great im portance that I should be glad to give all aid within my power, to furnish information concerning fire preven tion means or building codes. All requests for information or corres pondence will be gladly answered. "I believe the following to be axioms: "(1) The destruction of property by fire is a loss of wealth to the world, and especially to the commun ity in which it happens. (2) Property destroyed by fire, if insured and replaced by insurance money, is paid for by the other in sured, members of the community through their insurance premiums. Insurance companies merely act as the clearing houses for the collec tion and distribution of fire loses, and so far as they are able they at tempt to make each community pay for its own fire losses through the rates charged for fire insurance. In cases of great conflagrations, as Bal timore, San Francisco and Chelsea, the whole country is laid under con tribution. But as a general rule each community has its fire insurance rates fixed by its fire loses. "(3) Careful property owners should not be subject either by direct destruction of their property, or by being laid under contribution to re pair the losses of their careless or criminal neighbors. "Therefore the great need for the municipal authorities to take steps in prevent fire loss. It preserves wealth and money In the pockets of those who take care of their own property. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The removal of combustible material or correction of inflammable conditions, may save I thousands of dollars, or may pre vent, the loss of life or limb of fire men who attempt to put the tire out after it has started. "With duo respect, i suggest: "(1) Adoption of a building code by each municipality. "'iL' I The careful inspection of all buildings in process of construction to see that they conform to the build-! Ing code. "(?,) The quarterly inspection of' .-ill buildings (whether a building code is adopted or not ) to see that ? inflammable conditions are reme Ya I liable ('atelier. Hood base ball players are worth big money. President Murphy of the Chicago National League Baseball Club is quoted as emphatically de claring that he would not take $50, 000 for Catcher Kling. '0 r<~> CENTS PER COPY GOOD MAN GONE The Passing Away of Judge Joshua H. Hudson. SOLDIER AND JURIST The Venerable Man Was Visiting His Daughter When the End or His Long and Useful Career Ended? Body Shipped to His Home at Ben nettsviile for Interment. Joshua Hilary Hudson, lawyer, Judge, teacher, State Senator, and Veteran of the civil war, one of the most distinguished men in South Carolina, died shortly after noon Thursday in Greenville at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William A. Williams. Death was-'due to Bright's disease which had confined him to his room and bed for the past two weeks. His last public appearance as a speaker was at the meeting of the State Press Association when he delivered a short impromptu address. At that time he appeared to be in the best of health. Several weeks ago he left his home at Bennettsville to visit his > daughters at Greenville, and during a large part of the time he spent in Greenville he complained of feeling ill, and for the last few days his family and friends have been ex pecting the end. He wa3 totally blind during the last hours of his illness. Judge Hudson is survived by the following children: Mrs. William A. Williams, and Mrs. A. A. Brlstow, of Greenville, and Mrs. J. L. Jordan and Mrs. W. R. Crossland, of Ben nettsville. The interment, was at Bennetts ville, the remains were taken to .that place on the train leaving Greenville at noon Friday. Members of the Greenville Bar Association will act as honorary escort for the body when it is removed from the residence of Mrs. Williams to the Charleston and Western Carolina railroad station. Judge Hudson was one of the ablest lawyers, as well as one of the most prominent and highly re garded citizen?, of the Palmetto. State. He was president of the State* Bar Association at one time, and* South Carolina has produced few members of the legai profession who stood higher in the estimation of the people. He was a lifelong and consistent members of the Baptist denomina tion and, as in affairs of State, his advice in church councils was always respected and generally followed. In 1897 Judge Hudson wrote his autobiography for "The Bench and Bar of South Carolina," by Co 7 Brooks, in which he graphically but modestly portrayed the struggles of his early life. CHARGED WITH ELECTRICITY. Stepped on Ground and Shocked to Death. Two horses were killed Wednes day morning at Anderson in a most peculiar manner. Early that morn ing a horse belonging to J. H. Evan was passing in front of Anderson's Pharmacy, when it keeled over as dead as a mackeral. A crowd Quick ly gathered, and about the time they had decided on the cause of the ani mal's death Mr. Prtie Skelton came along, driving a horse belonging to Ligon & Led bi tter. He was told to stop but nefore he realized the dan ger he drove onto the same spot of ground and his horse, too, fell dead. It appears that the electric wires leading into the pharmacy had be come crossed in some way. This lead a heavy charge of current, about 1,100 volts, into the ground wire leading from the store. There Is a little drain running acioss the street at this point, fed by the waste water from the soda fountain, and as water is a good conductor, it soon had the ground along there charged with the electric current sufficient to kill a horse. Several bystanders who came up at the time were shocked but not hurt. It takes a much heavier charge of electricity to kill a man than it takes to kill a horse. The matter was speedily reported to the authorities. CHARGED WITH DEFRAUDING. A Man Arrested in Charleston Ou Such a Churgc. Joe i . "eWS of No. 624 King St., Charleston, doing btr ness under rln> name of the Carol na Produce and Commission house, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon on a warrant sworn out by Postofilce Inspector Smith, charging fradnlenl use of ih<? mails. On account of the absence of material witnesses the preliminary hearing before United States Com missioner Young was deferred uu'.'i m x; week. Andrews is an Italian. He is charged with soliciting and re ceiving consignments of fruit and vegetables and not making returns He denies that he meant to defraud his creditors and corre:pondents. among whom are several parties in Orangeburg and other places In this and adjoining states.