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PRESS ASSOCIATION. Annual Meeting White Stone Springs July ii-i4-Programme The following programme has been arranged by tht executive committee for th, thirtv-irst annual meeting of the South Carolina State Press asso ciation which will be held at Vhite Stone Lithia Springs, Spartanburg county. S. C.. July 11-14. Tuesday, July 11-8-30 P. M. Welcome meeting in teh hotel audi toriurm. Appointment of committees. Wednesday-9.3o A. M. Reports of officers, committees, miscellaneous business, etc. Papers will be read on the fclowing subjects by the persons named: "Literature of South Carolina" Mrs. Virginia D. Young, Enterprise, Fairiax. "The Advertising Agents--A. G. Kollock. News. Darlington. General discussion of the above sub jects. Afternoon Session-3 O'clock. "Ethics of Journalism"-Paul M. Brice, Record. Columbia. "Newspapers and Morality"-J. T. Bigharn. Lantern, Chester. General discussion of the above subjects. Opening the question box. and dis cussion relative to the questions ask ed. Miscellaneous business. Evening Session-8,3o O'clock. "The Price of a Country Weekly" -A. B. Jordan, Herald. Dillon. "Newspapers as Lawmakers"-R. T. Jaynes, Keowee Courier, Walhalla. General Discussion of the above subjects. Miscellaneous business. Thursday-9.3o A. M. Miscellaneous business. "The Press, the Pulpit, the Politi cian"-Rev. Wk. P. Jacobs, D. D., Our Monthly, Clinton. "Voting Contests, Gift Proposi tions, etc. Do They Pay?"-C. V. Wolfe, Record, Kingstree. General discussion of the above subjects. Opening the question box, and dis cussion relative to the 'questions ask ed. Miscellaneous business. Afternoon Session-3 O'clock. Miscellaneous business. "Should the Foreign Advertiser Re ceive a Lower Price than the Local Patron?"-W. H. Wallace, Observe, Newberry. "Our Country Cousins"-J. C. Hemphill, News and Courier, Char leston. General discussion of the above subjects. -Opening the question box, and dis cussion relative to the qeustions ask ed. Evening Session--3o O'clock. Miscellaneous business. Address by Mr. St. Elmo Massen gale, of Atlanta, Ga., on the relation of the Advertising Agent to the News paper Publisher. Friday-9-3o A. ML. Miscellaneous business. "My Esteemed Contemporary Across the Street"-N. Christensen, Jr., Gazette, Beaufort. "Getting the News"-P. H. Fike, Herald, Spartanburg. General Discussion of the above subjects. Opening the question box, and dis cussion relative to the quiestions ask ed. Afternoon Session. Miscellaneous business. "The Lights and Shadows of a Re porter's Life"--Wm. Banks, The State, Columbia. "The Business End of it"-J. L. Sims, Times and Democrat, Orange burg. General discussion of the above subjects. Evening Session-8.3o O'clock. Final meeting-Miscellaneous bus-i ness, election of officers, etc. The association will be tendered a banquet by our host. All the railroads in the state have granted transportation to the mem bers of the association and one depen dent female member of our respective families. Those who have no adver tising arrangements with the South ern railway should send their appli cations for transportation to the sec retary, and enclose a stamp with the same. Those who have advertising arrangements should address Col. A. Southern ralway. Ra N - n closing a stamp. If you desire trans portation over :he other systems ad dres, the genral passenger agent 01 each road, enclosing a stamp. If you have no advertising arrangements, however, with any of the systems. send your application to the secretary. who will forward it with his endorse men:. Do not delay in sending in your application, but attend to it at once, giving the name for whom wanted and the date you will want to leave home. White Stone Lithia Spr3ngs are lo ca:ed near White Stone station, for merly known as Rich Hill, on the Southern railway, between Spartan burg and Union. At the station elec tric cars will carry us out to the Springs., one and one-half miles dis tant. The company has granted us a rate of Si.oo a day for boa:-d and lodg ing a: the hotel, and will ledve noth ing undone that will tend to our com fort and pleasure during our stay there. All edit -rs and publishers in the Cate who are not members are cor dially invited to come and join the associatlon a: this meeting. By order of the executive commit tee. C. C. Langston. Secretary. A Georgia Domestic Tragedy. Atlanta Constitution. 1 In the vicinity of Augusta lives a farmer. by name -John Madgett, who has appealed to the courts of Georgia to release him from the galling bonds of matrimony on the ground of in compatibility of temper. During the fourteen years of their conjugal rela tion Mr. _Madgett makes affidavit that he and his wife have quarreled 6.iio :imes. 3\r. Madgett is thus statis t ically precise because, from the very day the preacher tied the knot, he kept a domestic diary, with a possible view to future divorce contingencies. Having thus acted as the historian of the little domestic infelicities that are wont to s.Dmetimes ripple even the placid surface of true love, Mr. Ma gett is enabled to furnish his lawyer with a tabulated classification of the source and nature of these divers and sundry conjugal spats. It seems, from Mr. Madgett's record that the period of his double blessedness was fruitful of 436 quarrels a year, to strike a yearly average of the impos ing aggregate, which gives an average of a quarrel a day and some to spare. It appears from the concrete record that the most prolific source of strife in the Madgett household has beeni late meals--589 scraps are duly en tered on this common score of do mestic unpleasantness. Next on the sad list is "Because she asked for money,2,241.". Because 'he was chided for tracking mud on the kitchen floor caused 821 "scenes" in the kitchen. Because he snored raised 422 nocturnal disturbances, and her snor ing added 1.36 to the list; 145 times ,they said hard things at each other because she ripped seams with his razor, and 163 times he demonstrated his displeasure because she did not make dumplings with the chicken ste ,v. Her cold feet o' nights caused him to raise the roof 123 times, and 54 times they exchanged heated words and sticks of stovewood because she sold the eggs and butter and bought calico dress patterns with the pro ceeds. Forty-thr.ee times there was trouble because she laughed gleefully when he stubbed his toe on the rock ing chair in the dark, and 41 times because he neglected to cut his nails. (Finger or toe not stated.) Because ihe broke plates brought on 136 dis putes. Because his boot hurt himi caused r7: because he wouldn't quar rel,13, and because the clock ran down, 11. Six times they quatreled because he wouldn't go to church, and four times each because she threw his pipe into the stove and because she wore red ribbons on her hat. They had three quarrels because the pump froze, three because the house smelled of onions, and three because she made coffee without an egg in it. Twice they quarreled because it rained, and twice because she saw the moon over her M-t shoulder. There were also single or singular quarrels-quarrels over a specific subject, and which, not admitting of classification, show up) only in the scattering coluimn. Sonme of the sub jects over which they quarreled once are these: Because the black lhen's leg was broken; because the cow canary bird died; because Bryan xv not elected president: because he v not a 11aptist: because the hou smelled o-i cabbage: because the bor ran away: because Germany i'ouldi give up Alsace-Lorraine; because d(g howled: because Go(l made E Wut of - me f Adam's ribs: becau alligators lay eggs: because Solom( had I.ooo wives and no end of conc bines: because the Mormons are n Indians: because pineapples do n grow in Canada; because he fell the creek: because .he shot a pi because she sat down on his hat, ai BECAUSE THEY HAD NO CHI: DREN. We have captilized the last nam, cause because, as a philosophical st dent of the great question of ra suicide. we perceive instantly th; a.though this reason appears in t' singular clmtiin. it is really the su le. psychic s-,urce of all these unic tunate quarrels. A couple of sti highl n erv..us temperament shou have had at least a dozen childre and! me lic them twins, to insure saiC and sane cwnjugal equilibril: Triu. - mih have been hard on t chiidren. I n rcalitv. hwever. the wiC cause f1 the alleged incompatibili lies rig,ht here. As all consistent an race suiciders know, it is the- "oli branches" that keep hubbie and xvij to-o busy to indulge in petty, morb bickerings and hair-pullings. Whi recalls the ever trr.e old sz.w: Satan finds some niischief still Fur idle hands to do. Betrayed. A lady residing in Russian Pola1 wanted to buy an alarm clock, but t price asked by the local watchmak was too high for her, and she ther fore obtained the article subsequent on the occasion of a trip across t frontier. On the return Journey s happened to fall in with the villa watchmaker, to whom she show her purchase, adding that she had g it very cheap. On the pretext of e amining the clock the watchmak set the alarm to the time when t lady would arrive at the frontier. ( passing the custom house the la kept the clock concealec under b garments, when, to' the great amus ment of the bystanders, the thii suddenly went off. The instrume was confiscated, the lady had to p a fine, and the watchmaker had t double satisfaction of wreaking I petty revenge and compelling his f; victim to deal at his shop for t future. Knew Jack. Not long ago a player on a certa junior Rugby football team begg his committee to give a trial to young friend of his, says Tit Bits. "He ain't got much science, ali Jack," he explained; "but he's a: i Cut Glass, Bow ~ iver Wa Knives and Fork Vases, Chafing I GILDElR amocunt o' streigth." 1\,And it happened, the iorward line of the team needed strengthening. and Jack was given a -trial. t In the very first match game it was a early evident that Jack's friend had e accuratelv described the new player. e Whenever that individual got hold .,f the hall'he stuck :, it and endear ored to force his way through a Dt crowd of opponents. Once he actually succeeded in doing pso and scored a try: but in repeating t,he experiment he had a nasty crop d per, his head coming in violent con tact with one of the goalposts. "Merey stunned!" exclaimed the d doctor, who happened to be on the u- ground. "He'll soon come round. :e Slight concussion of the brain." t, Concussion o' the brain be hang b ed!" ejaculated Jack's friend. "Aw b knows little aboot doctering, but Aw knows summut aboot Jack. an' he niver had no brains to 'concuss!" ld Southern Railway Excursions. The Southern railway will sell W round trip tickets to the following points for special occasions: le Niagara Falls. N. Y., Ancient Ara bic Order of Mystic Shriners, Im ti proved Council, June 20-23 , 1905. e Rate: one fare, plus $1.oo for round i trip, from all points. id Toronto, Ont., Account of Inter -h national Sunday School association. June 20-27, 1905. Rate on certificate plan. Calhoun, S. C., South Carolina State Summer School, June 21, July 19, 1905. Rate:; one first class fare, id lGral Sa er ge 01 c!d o Muslins, Colored Law Organdie Wh LADIES' HATS I SATURDAY A SMOSELE nlle We s, Tumblers, 01iv re, s, Spoons, Servers of All Kinds, Wai )ishes, Clocks, at he Right Drug Sto I WEEKS& li lus 25 cents, for round trip from ill points in South Carolina. Athens. Ga.. Snmmer School, June 27 to July 28. 1905. Rate: one first :ia.ss fare phis 25 cents for round ,rip. . Knoxville, Tenn., Summer School, [u:1e 20 to July 28, 1905. Rate: one fare plus 25 cents for rodnd trip. Nashville, Tenn., Peabody Summer School and Varnderbilt Bibical In titute, June 14 to August 9, 1905. Rate: one.fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Asheville, N. C., Annual Confer ence Y. M. C. A., June 9-25. Rate. one fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Asheville, N. C., Conference of Young People's Missionary associa tion, June 25 to July 2, 1905. Rate: one fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Denver, Col., Account I:.ternationat Epworth League convention. Rate very low, and will be given on appli cation. Asbury Park, N. J., Account of Na :ional Educational association, July 3-7. Rate very low and will be given on application. Baltimore. Md.. Account of the United Society of Christian Endeavor Inter-national convention. July 5-Io, 1905. Rate: one first class fare, plus $i.oo for round trip. Buffalo, N. Y., Annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of B. P. 0. Elks, July 11-15, 1905. Rate: one first class fare, plus $i.oo for round trip. The Southern railway can ofer many other attractive rates. For full information consult any ticket agent, or R. W. Hunt, D. P. A., Charleston, S. C. ghter Sale ris, Voiles, s, Laces, ite Dress Goods, IND FLOWERS. ND MONDAY, i 5th, 1905. r BROS. ddings! e Dishes, etc. ters, Pitchers, etc. DETER.