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VOL.~~~~~~ ~ XL. NO 0.'NWER.S ..1 94 IIEAWE RALLY DAY. A Pleasant and Profitable Day at Trinity-Recitations by the Children-Addresses. The editor had the pleasure of at tending rally day at Trinity in No. 6 on Sunday and mingling with the good people of this section. The Methodist church in the south has set aside one Sunday in the year to be known as Rally Day for foreign missions. This was the day observed at Trinity on Sunday. Rev. T. E. Beard is the pastor of this church. Next Sunday the day will be ob served at Lebanon and the Sunday following at New Chapel. A morning and evening service was held at Trinity on Sunday. At the morning session an interesting pro gram was rendered by the children and a strong and eloquent address de livered on missions by Dr. George B. Cromer. After an intermission of an hour for dinner Mr. H. M. Henry made a fine talk showing the necessity and the dut- to engage in foreign mission work. He was followed by Pastor Beard who said he had been in the ministry for twenty-three years and had ne-er failed to carry up to con ference the assessment of his charge for this cause, and that the Newberry circuit would not fail him. It de \veloped that one of the churches had raised the amount and had a surplus and that the others would be ready by conference with the small balances yet to be raised. It was a good show-! ing. The following is the program by the children which was most hap pily rendered by all. the children reciting their parts in a very pleasing and instructive manner. Miss Eula Pitts whose name apnears on the Dro gram was not present on account of sickness. Song: "The Kingdom Ts Coming." Prayer. Responsive Reading--'The God of the Nations." Song-'Jesus Shall Reign." Recitation by George Hendrix "Send Them Aid." Recitation by Evla Pitts-"The Macedonian Cry." Solo by Lucy Hendrix--"A Heath en Child's Want." Questions and Answers on the Pro gress of the Work. Song-Reapers. Recitation by Vesta Harp-"John nie's Gift." Recitation by Malcolm Hendrix "A Little Boy's Thoughts." Recitation by Ola Bishop-"Law of Love." Song-"Hark the Voice of Jesus Calling." Recitation -by Mamie Sitwell-"A *Little Busy Bee." Address by Dr. Geo. B. Cromer. Collection while singing-"From Greenland's Icy Mountains." Benediction. This is a good section of Newberry county. The farmers have all made good crops, both of corn and cotton. The corn crop has been very good and most of the farmers have al ready sold more cotton than they made last year and have some little on nand vet. The church is a nice country church, located in a beauti ful grove. The crowd was large and more young people than one usually sees in the same size con gregation and we feel sure the young men outnumbered the girls. This community used to be known as the "Nation." just why we do not know. No. 6 is a good township, with good~ lands and good people. The exten sion of rural delivery has done much to develop this section of the county as it does for all sections through whiciA it goes. Nearly every family takes one or more papers and they keep posted and every body seems a goo(l work this year on the New herry circuit. At the rally da it Lebanon next Sunday. Dr. Crr)IC will speak again in the morning. Report of Education. Washington. October 31.-The re port of the commissioner of educa tion for the fiscal year ending June 3o. 1904. shows that 16.009.361 pupils. r 20 per cent. of the entire popula- t 'ion of the country, attended the pub lic schools during that year. As com ared with the previous six years. this percentage shows a slight decrease n the number of pupils as compared vith the total population. The to -al cost of the public school system t s given as $25r.457.625. This is an :rease of $16.ooo.ooo over the previous rear. It amounts to $3.15 per capita >f total population and $22-75 per a :apita per pupil. i Since 1870. the proportion of male C :eachers has decreased from 39 per F :ent. of the entire to 26 per cent. of t :he entire number the past year. The t iverage for male teachers was $49.98 s md $40-51 for females. a The enrollment in the private ;chools for the year is given as 1.093. 376. The report estimates that the aver- C ige schooling g'ven to each inhab- e :ant in 1870 was 672 days and in 1903. iY [.034 days. Last year 1.578.632 col- 1 >red children were enrolled in the s :ommon schools for that rece in the h ormer 16 slave states and the Distr'' c >f Columbia. Since '1876. it is es- v :imated that $13o.ooo,ooo has been ex- a )ended in the education of the color- d d children in the former slave states s md nearly $6oo.ooo.ooo for the sanme >urpose for the -white children of the r :ame section. ( King Peter. j Sona. Bulgaria, October 31.-King eter of Servia arrived here yester ]ay mrnorning and was cordially :omed at the station by Prince FLr- e linand. The davs ceremonies con .luded with a dinner in 1- onor of the oyal guest, at whicb. in offering a :oast to King Peter. Prince Ferdinand aid the visit constituted an epoch in ' :he life of the two people and was i in expression of their sincere and mr-r :al understanding. The prince em- t )hasizel the necessity of a friendly f md intimate union, on which the fu- t :ure of the two countries depended. FIe said: "am convinced that today's events bvll contribute to the triumph of ef ~orts to preserve peace."r King Peter. in responding, said hist :onstant aim has been to make ai Servian policy devoted to a sinceret ~approachment. It afforded him great >leasure, he said, to find Prince Fer-a inand animated by the same senti-a nents. This visit King Peter added. 1 would give him a fresh impulse to Leir efforts in behalf of intimate Liion of the two peoples. The Macedonian committee hase published a manifesto declining to t participate in the reception accorded King Peter on the ground that the inderst.andling between the two coun tries aims at an attempt to partition Mace don ia. Jap Minister Ill. New York. October 31.-An opera tion for appendicitis was performed on Japanese Minister Kogoro Tak ahira in a hotel in this city yesterday. The case is said te- be a serious one, 1 and attaches of the Japanese legation at WVashin~gton. have been summoned to the minister's bedside. Mr. Takahira arrived here from Washington Friday night and imme diately after being assigned te -a iom at the hotel complained of ill ness and( asked that a physician he se't for. The,, phyician fa"nnd thei minister sufferini much pain. but rem edies were administered which eased his suffringand anllowerd him to nms he rcmainder f t i- com rt by Saturday. however. the in-x w (r0cou(l retain no food nd thi. with v ,tlicr ymptomi. causCd the ph-,ician h: 1 believe that the case was one of i ["(ndicitis and yesterday. when it C: S. positively( diag-nosed as such an r mmediate operation was decided up- I II )n. g Sadazuchi Uchida. the Japanese tc :onsul general at this port. said after af he operation: "The minister rallied after the oper- F tion and while his condition is far al rob being good it is favorable and -: here s every reason to hope that he t vill pull through. The minister i fc 2 years of age and has a wife and w hree children living in Tokio." ri d; Row in Spain. ir Madrid, October 31.--Prolonged P .nd tumultuous scenes have occurred Iil n the chamber of deputies during the It ourse of debate on proposals for the c rosecution of certain deputies. When p( he discussion was resumed Saturday P( lhe disorder consequent on the oppo- m ;tion's obstructive tactics compelled ri suspensior. of a secret committee to ,ive judgment concerning insults ex hanged during the debate. The s;t ing was stubseq-,ently resumed. The aT 1pposition repeatedly demanded roll th :lls on votes and the procecd(in's C vere heated - and disorderly. The b( >resident. being threatened with per- ir onal violence. had to be protected v the clerks and attendants. The tc rucifix behind the president's chair tr vas overturned by blows of sticks: H 11 the writing materiol on adjacent Iii esks was swept zo the floor. and ir.k- io tands were flvnk at the vice-presi lent. Premier Maura was present m n the min;sterial bench from 7 w iclock in the evening. declaring he bi Vould not leave till the sitting ad ourned. which did not occur until p ate yesterday evening. a: Tt is reported that Premier Maura o: vill suspend the sittings and ask the hamber for a voc of con6dence. tl ni Three Killed. Kansas City. Mo.. October IT. 7hree persons were killed and 12 in vred in a rear-end collision between eciiOn No. 2 and section No. 1. of rain No -. Missouri Pacific worbl's air special at Tipton. Mo.. early yes erday. Train No. 3. on account of the ' reavy world's fair travel, was made ip in two sections. the first leaving~ ;t. Louis for Kansas City Saturday iight at 1:1o p. m. The second sec son left a few minutes later and when . t reached Tipton section No. I was aking on passengers. According to ~ngineer Ramsey of section No. headlight in the yards blinded him nd he was unable to see section No. s .He says also that his orders were . clear ahead." The second section vas running about 30 miles an hour vhen the collision occurred. The nd sleeper of section No. i was en irelv demolished and the second leeper was overturned. The dead: t Mrs. D. Eright Miller. Lewisburg. k 'a. Mr. J. W. Baghy-. Unknowvn woman. Among the in.jured were WV. .T a slack. gzeneral passenger agent of the a \tchien. Topeka and santa Fe rail- a -ad, co(llar hone broken, and Mrs. V. 3. Black, ankle broken and head ta:llv bruised. Subway Crowded. New Yo.k. October 31.-Sightseers :rowdled - the subway for hours this tternoon. It is estim'ated that 18o. >OO people rode in the undergroundl s rains (luring the three hours from 2 o 'cock ye'sterday afternoon. The plans of the managemnent weret ;oon disarrangedl when the afternoo. -ush began. H-eretofore the two down -own staine at city haIl aned Brook.. .r -n b)ridge have ben hC p<ints ai er hih ICIh rsh has nc ured. b!t w ( itS shaVC - the Ill)SiiesS and 1111n (l1 the Sunday passenger5 let the p trs until the end of the road was ir ached. As a result the train sched e previously arranged was disre irded and locals and expresses. filled C I capacity. skipped stations all the ternoon. st The jam at the One Hundred and ortv-fifth street terminal grew to most unmanageable proportions at' 30 o'clock when the tickets gave out cre. A hurry call was sent out tr ir a fresh supply of tickets but it t\ as a full half hour beore they ar ved adi in the meantime the holi- h; tv excirsionists had been gather g at the station in great numbers. olice reserves were sent for and b led up -all hands six abreast. When .ey had finished this task, the pro sion was three blocks long. The' )lice estimated that at least 8.ooo cl ,rsons were gathered at the termi- as il when at last the new tickets ar- ai ved. Twenty Buried. u Memphis. Tenn.. October 3-.-With 'c i awful crash and without warnin-. d e, Doyle building, occupied by the nntinental Savings bank and a num r of offices.- collapsed this morn at 9:40. At least twenty lives are believed C have been snuffed out in the death ai ap. Only one man escaped al;ve. e was Joseph Fisher. a tailor who -ed on the top floor. He was ser- tI usly injured. Scores of policemen and others im ediately rushed to the scene and the ork of rescuing is now going on ovely. c1 Business in every direction has been ir-ilyzed by the awful catastrophe. id every effort is being made to get il the bodies of the dead. T e btilding was near to the s;te of lc proposed skyscraper of the TeI- T ssee Trust company. the excava -s for which caused the collapse. .I r N cc the Boyle build'ng. Why the Preacher Objected. t( A s';rv of an eccentric WesUyn y :sier is too good for the "crasure oblivion." One Sunday he caused a me surprise by declaring that he it d not in the least object to people eeping while he wvas preaching.. A few minutes later he and his rarers were distributed by the loud tI zoring of a man just below the pul t. "Give him a tap on the head." 11 .id the minister. This was done, effectually. "Give him another," till the man slumbered. But at rr ngth, by dint of much tapping and taking, he was recalled into abashed I The Sm Is the place to save money. E ~ady to buy your brand, brand r >be selling at The Smii.h Co., or now you and you all know then ioney by trading -vith them.T We have just pua in :: nice sic .nd Notions. No old z:ock round the door for the last twer i1 brighti and n-w, which we will We wit contin.e to c:rry our We are selling full Cream Che Four boxes Star Lye for 25 ce1 Two pounds Keg Soda for $ ct U. M. C. Loaded Shells 40c. p WMe c:rrv a 1r~e 'ineC orts of ammunition. We have the largest ar og ar;i7 r.mo.kin- Toba~c he lead ina brandcs. In f !Ou need, as we have nerchandise. m,*Sc'i fusn'. "You are making a rah ed nise." ro:ared the minister, an1ng ver th pulpit edge. "I .n't m1ind y lu leeping. but you are -.vemiing Other people from sleep He Had Suffered No Harm. oflier's Weeklv. Dr. Edward Everett Hale tells a ory of a New York clergyman who id received a call to a fashionable iburb of Boston. A gentleman who id in his employ two English -ooms accidentally overheard the llowing conversation betweent the mo servants: It appears that the first groom, who id for some time .been endeavoring get the second groom to attend rvice at the church presided over the New York clergyman, said: "Didn't you like the sermon?" "Very much," replied the other, -ery much, even hif 'e is a bit 'igh iurch and Hi a Methodist. Hi thinks 'ow I'll probai - hattend the haf ternoon service, too." "Hi just knew vou'd change your and." remarked the first groom, tri iphantly. "As Hi tol yer. I've ard 'im twict an' what 'arm 'as it ie me? No Excuse.' Dr. Yamei Yin, the talented Chi :se woman now traveling in Amer! is opposed to capital punishment id to war. To a reporter the other day Dr. amei Yin talked about the reforms at she favored. She talked earnest Then she smiled. "I smile." said the Chinese physi an, "because I am reminded of a orv. It is the story of a Chinese -iminal. an educated Chinese crimi i, a graduate of Oxford. "This man killed another as vul irlv and brutally as any coolie ould have done. He was tried. und guilty and condemned to death. he Judge said to him: "'Prisoner. the sentence of the art is that you be beheaded tomor >w morning. Have you anything say for yourself? Are you able advance an reason why this sen nce should not be pronomiced on 'My lord. said the prisoner, 'I am member of the society for the abol ion of capital punishment.' " Pleasures of Married Life. Besides putting up the stuff to run e house, the average married man ill now be called upon to put up e stovepipe. Johnny-Pa, what is the average an? Pa-He's the fellowv you see every here except in the mirror. Ith CO. o corne along a.nd get you' ew goods,s for they are going the Mittle corner. They all , so you can and will save ek of )hr e3s, Dry Goods jf smIui that has been thrown Lty year s, no old stuff at all, s2ll as cheap as the cheaDest. nice and selected stock of ese at 15c. per pound. er box, f Oun', Sht!:an all d nicest line of Chew cin NreN''rr--all of act we carry anything a full line of general