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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of Mor or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the State. The trial of Nan Patterson for thi murder of Caesar Young has beei set in New York for Nov.mber 15. Cardinal Gibbons has reach Cincin nati, where he attended Archbishol Elder's funeral. President Palma, in opening thq winter session of the Cuban congress suggested the creation of a perpetua debt bearing 3 per cent. inte7est. Official reports show that the ar mored cruiser West Virginia, in hei trial trip made recently, made speed of 22.146 knots. Julia Reano and her grandson George Kirk, four years old, wer< burned to death' on Tuesday morning in the Reano home, in Chicago. A number of wild animals, King Menelik's gift to the president, ar rived on the Minneapolis at Nev York this week. . German students of the Universit3 of Vienna, engaged in a demonstra tion in sympathy with their compat riots at Innsbuck, during the dis. turbances of last week. In the Italian election all the mem bers of the ministry have been re elected. The government has beer victorious over the Extremists, whc lost 20 seats. Judge Portlock of Virginia in ar address made on Monday to the grand jury at Norfolk, denounced lynching as the most serious menace to civilization and all organized gov ernment. Secret Service officials have arrest ed three counterfeiters in Cleveland, 0., who are charged with making and circulating large sums of coun terfeit Hungarian money. Boston, Detroit and New . York parties entered on Wednesday a joini suit in the Boston courts for $1,200,. ooo damages against J. Ogden Ar mour, of Chicago. State Representative T. F. Curley and Alderman James M. Curley were sentenced by the United States couri in Boston on Tuesday to two months in jail for impersonating others al a civil service examination. The Freemen's Aid and Education al society, in session at Manchester N. H., discussed this week industrial work in the south and voted appro priations to colored schools of col legiate grade.. The trial of the French officers at tached to the Military Informatior Bureau, charged with appropriating funds which were used to secure evi dence against Dreyfus, came to at abrupt end on Monday by the gov ernent abandoning the :ase. J. Samuel McCue announced in at interview given a reporter yesterday that he expects to get- a new trial He declares that if the -supreme cour1 decides in his favor as to the granting of a trial he will ask for a change o: venue. There is a considerable dif ference of opinion in Charlottesvil< as to whether McCue is really guiltj or not. The country in general seem: to believe that he is. The United States supreme cour confirmed on Tuesday the decision o the aupremle tourt of Wisconsin ii the case of the publishers of newspa pers of Milwaukee, who were convict ed on the charge of combining against another newspaper of th< city, for the purpose of unlawfully ef fecting certain advertising rates. Th< 'decision was of great interest be cause of its bearing on the trust ques tion. A Beautiful Creed. George McDonald. For my part if I can put one touci of a rosy sun-set into the life of an3 man or woman, I shall feel that have worked with God. He is ir no haste, and if I do what I may ir great work on earth. Let God mak< His sun-sets; I will mottle my littl< fading cloud. To help the growti of a thought that struggles towar< the light; to brush with gentle hanc the earth-stain from the white of on< snow-drop-such may be ambition So shall I scale rocks in front, no' leave my name carved upon thos< behind me. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed in the State. Laurens county had a considerably larger sales day than usual this week. A great many tracts of land were sold. The new $40,000 passenger depot of the Seaboard in Columbia has been finished and is now in use. It I! situated on Lincoln street, between Gervais and Lady. Election day passed quietly in most of the counties. There were very few rows reported. A light vote was polled in a large majority of the counties. Jim Brown, the negro who was brought back from New York, charg ed with setting fire to the Dixie ware, house at Florence, has been released. The officers were satisfied that he was the wrong negro. The Lutheran synod of South Car olina opened its session in Orange burg on Tuesday. A cordial recep tion was given the boards and min isters by the people of the town. The actual work of the session began on Wednesday. A local football team at Green wood will meet a team from Charles ton, at the former place, on Thanks giving day. Both teams are al ready at work and a good lively game is expected. The jury empaneled in Greenwood, by order of the circuit court, and confirmed by the supreme court to fix the amount of damages to be paid the Reynolds heirs for the occupa tion of their land by the C. & W. C. railroad, has completed its work and fixed the amount of damages to be paid at $730-00. The C. & W. C. and the Seaboard railroads have made a deal with par ties in Greenwood county for the purchase of several acres of land in and near the town of Greenwood, on which extensive freight yards will be erected. This deal has been un der consideration for some time, and was consummated on Tuesday last. Ben Wardlaw, a burly drunken ne gro of Greenwood county, walked into the county seat on the day be fore election, produced a vicious, looking gun, and declared there was not an officer of the law in the town who could take the weapon away from him. He was disarmed imme diately and punished. At a meeting of the Civic Improve ment league, held on Monday in Co lumbia. Mr. E. J. Watsen made an address denouncing the recent butch ery of many of the trees in the city. He cited a law which gives the city ample opportunity to punish the of fenders. A Bear Hunt. The Chappell's correspondent of the Saluda Standard tells of a bear hunt, which- is a rarity in this section of South Carolina in this day and generation. The story is a good one, running as follows: "On last Saturday evening a trusty of Mr. J. R. Webb's was sent to the pasture to get his cows but could not find them. Early oi Sunday morning the 'trusty,' Pig Watson, went for the cows and found the cat tle scattered and very much frighten ed. Pig soon found some wild var mint, a bear, wolf, tiger or wild cat. His description was: "It has a long body, short legs, short ears, and a great pompadour as large as my hat, a huge back and awful eyes-said it was on the back of one of the cows and had the cow's tongue choked out. "Having hear~d this, Mr. Webb got all of his hands and all the 'dogs he could and went in search of the wild animal. Mr. Webb in his race forgot he had on new shoes until the race was over and then found that he had all of the 'skin rubbed off his heels and toes. He raced the varmint until about 4 o'clock and waded the river a time or so, but at last it got away in the swamps. "Mr. Webb found he could not get the varmint, so he started the darkies Iall to the house and got behind them and fired a few times and yelled to them to 'run, run.' Some of them ran themselves almost to death. "He can't get 'Pig' to the pasture any more. "Webb intended going to the fair SERMON BY DR. HALLMAN. Delivers Strong Discourse On The Degeneracy of the Race. The tollowing emnracts are taken from an able sermon delivered by Dr. S. T. Hallman, of this city, in Green wood on ye.-terday: "Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God."-2 Timothy 3:4. "Two words is our English Bible express the fearful moral degeneracy of our race, and indicate the urgent need of cleansing and life. There are sin and uncleanness-transgression of law and the filthiness of human na ture. Arouid these all grades of moral obliquity gather and in them is embraced every species of transgres sion. The merest glance at the re bellious nature of man and his natural bias towards the evil, will show how fearfully he has wandered from the reht. and how far gone he is from original righteousness. By force of his depraved will he rebels against every law of God and moral unclean ness is wrapped about him as the ivy about the oak. Sin is the centre to wards -,hich his being gravitates, and moral perversity is as natural to him as is flight to the bird. As falcon be-t on prey so man's Jepraved ap petite longs for the fields of trans gress,anz. "Inspiration, by one sweep of its incisive pen, fully outlines man's moral degeneracy. 'Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart is only evil continually.' 'All flesh is corrupt ed in its way.' The whole stream of human life trib.-ted to ignorance and rarely to immorality. The presump tion is that a jury only needs intelli gence and that corscience is of little consequenze in -diusting matters of right and wrong. 1-ifty years ago the people were not so intelligent as they are now, and yet there was less law lessness and crime than there is to day. The explanation is that then they emphasized morals and now we emphasize intelligence." The speaker cso.tinued and spoke of the dangers arising from the race problem. He also touched upon the laxity of discipline in the homes of the land, and the consequent result. "May the law-abiding citizens of the noble state of South Carolina awake to their solemn responsibility and consecrate themselves o the su preme duty of eradicating from their midst this monster crime-homicide and give to human life God's holy gift, the sacredness, dignity and worth which have been stamped upon it by the great Creator and Redeemer of mankind." COLUMBIA CHOSEN. Educational Conference to Be Held In Spring of 19o5. Columbia, November 2.--It was learned yesterday that the conference for education in the south will be held in Columbia next April. The information came in a letter to State Superintendent of Eduication Martin from Dr. Edgar Gardiner Murphy, the secretary. The exact date has not yet been determined upon, but it will probably be the last week in April, as this is the time which suits Columbia best, and is about the time that conference is usually held. Last year the meeting was held in Birmingham, and at that time the invitation from Columbia was pre sented. It will be remembered that when Mr. Robert C. Ogden, the pres ident, and a number of his associa tes stopped at Rock Hill on theii way to Birmingham Governor Hey ward presented the invitation from Columbia, backed by resolution of the general assembly, the city coun cil, the chamber of commerce and letter from the presidents of the various colleges .in the state. Secre tary Clark of the chamber of com merce, also personally urged the in vitation at that time, and Superinten dent Martin and President D. B. Johnson have both been active in se curing the meeting. President John son is a member of the executive committee which selects the place of meeting. It is understood that the committee was almost unanimously in favor of Columbia. The first step towards securing this convention was the action of the chamber of commerce on February 9 last in adopting the following: chamber of commerce extends a cor dial invitation to the conference o, education in the south to hold its 1905 annual session in Columbia, the capital of South Carolina. the state of South Carolina not having yet had the honor of entertaining this body." The Davis Tour. Elkins, W. Va., November 5. Henry G. Davis appealed to his fel low townsmen last night to support him as a democratic nominee for the vice-presidency. The appeal was re sponded to by tumultuous applause by as many of the citizens of Elkins as could get into the local opera house. Among those who sat be hind the senator on the stage were Blaine and Davis Elkins, sons of Senator Elkins. The meeting here was the culmination of a day of cam paigning on a special train. The train reached Elkins at i o'clock. The appeal of Mr. Davis to his "home folks," as he stated it was his masterpiece of the campaign. He reviewed the development of this sec tion of the country, in connection with which he frequently mentioned the name of Senator Elkins, who was with him, he said, except politically. The candidate read a telegram he re ceived last night from Vice-President Landstreet of the Wabash system, a republican, he explained, but a staunch supporter of Mr. Davis. Mr. Landstreet said he was now on a tour of the lines of his road in West Vir ginia in behalf of Mr. Davis. During the day Mr. Davis subordinated na tional appeals to his neighbors for endorsement. Tonight Mr. Davis will speak at Belington, which will conclude his work in the campaign. His address last night was supplemented by a comparative discussion of the issue by C. Woods Bailey. The Al Fresco Feast. Bingham-"Come, now, this isn't so bad. It's .ally homelike." Brazer-"Yes, but I've seen noth ing bigger than an ant on the table yet; at home nothing smaller than a water bug shows itself." A.K. HI the famous Atlanta his practical Opticia Newberry to spend f Monday, Nov Tuesday, Noa Wednesday, Thursday, Nc Call and see him a Son's Drug Store. Examination of eye All work guaranteE Hawkes has all the for the scientific adj to the eyes. H awkes Reliable PI Newberi LIGHT WAVES. Different Kinds Brought Into Con junction Produce Darkness. Everv light wave, as a wave oi the sea. consists of two portions, in one of which the water is lifted above the general average level of the surround ing ocean an in the other is depress ed below it. These two portions form the "crest" and the "trough" of the wave respectively. If two or more sets of waves ar% caused to traverse the same surface as by dropping stones into still water for instance, a complicated network of ripples is produced. At certain points fhe crest of one wave will coin cide with the crest of another and the two will combine to form one crest of double the height, the trough also being twice the depth. At other points the crest of one wave will fall on the trough of anoth er, and as the same particles of watei are called upon by equal forces to move in opposite directions at the same time they will remain stationary and the surface will not be disturbed at those points. Similarly, as light consists of waves in the ether, it has been shown by Fresnel that if one ray be caused to fall half a wave length behind another the troughs of one set of waves will combine with the crests of the other set to neutralize one another, so pro ducing still ether, or dark patches, at those particular points in the midst of the surrounding light. Unnecessary. Boston Transcript. Brown-Hello, Charley! Where's your brother Tom working now? Blac-Oh, Tom hasn't done any work for a long time. 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