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AN OLD WHALEWS SFRI CN JONAH AND THE WHALE: A REPLY TO LYMAN ABID1 An Able Seaman. who has Handled 'hales, Tells of the E erlerncs That Convinced him of the Truth of the mtb14 Story-Eta Warning to Sceptics. Desnite modern scientic researches and learned treaties of eminent di vines, who have sought eag-erly to prove to the world the unreasonvlaW ness of the assertion that a whale can swallow a man, I desire to say, witit out fear of reasonable contradictuon, that from practical versnal knowl edge on the subject i know they -re all wrong. Thirty years ago I sailed f:om New Bedford, Mass., on a whale ship for a forty four months' cruise in tne South Seas with the veteran whaje man, Capt. Elisha Babcock. who is well known to the whaling fraternity. We had a very successful voyage up to the time I left the expedition, twer ty-seven months afterward, off the coast of Borneo. Now, a whale is the biggest of all God's livin r crea:'-tu on sea or land, and what we cil a sperm whale is the smallest of whales. varying in length froa 5'. to 131 feel and large in proportion, -naking from 40 to 10 barrels of oil. One beautifui day in August, tSGo, on the Western Oceau. a whale was sighted by the man at the masthead, who sang out: "Ah, she blows." Those words had the Eifect of aa electric shock. Every man in the ship from stem to stern was up and doing in an instant. Pr sently the captain shouted back: "Whe-e away -" "About three points on the lee bow. sir.' "How far off!" "About -hree miles, sir." Then said the captain to the crew: "Back your main v-s .' wer boats and away," 'I%1 ext order. Our ship each I n y a crew of five men ani-as cr. The boat in which I was reached the whale first. When we got to him he was asleep. It ' as the most dangerotts time to strike him, be cause nobody can tell what move a whale suddenly aroused will make first. He was the largest sperm whale I think I ever saw, and probably was good for 140 barrels of oil. That is a vast amount to get from a sperm whale, although from a bowhead whale one sometimes gets 250 bar rels. When we struck this fellow he raised his tail, which meassured about fifteen feet across, and made the water seethe and boil a moment or two; then he went down. Being fast to him with two irons, we payed out the line very quickly to keep from going down with him. Presently the line grew slack, which means that he had stop ped somewhere just beneath us. But the water was so thick with his blood that we were unable to see how far down he was. We knew he was near but how near we could not tell just then. While we were eagerly look ing over the sides of the boat, quick as a flash he struck the bottom of the boat and we went flying. When I re covered my senses I was about fifteen feet below, looking for fresh air. When I reached the top what should I meet but the whale, just as he was raising his tremendous tail high above my head. I darted to one side. Down ~ethe tail with an awful splash. Itf adbeen under it I should have been smashed to smithereens. As I was making desperate efforts to get away from the whale. who should come up right alongside me but the harpooner. He could not swim. A few strokes away there was a buoy. I secured it, dragged it to him, and just as he was about to give up in despair he grasped it, and was saved. Then we both clung to the buoy and took in the situation. The bow oarsman was thrown over about twenty rods. The tub oareman, stroke oarsman, and the second mate were thrown in differ ent directions. I, being midship oars man, had been picked up, as a pan cake, and flopped over and shoved down. While the harpooner and I hung to the buoy were kept busy kick ing away sharks, pushing them first one way, then another. Not sharks of the kind one sees around the bays and rivers, but big fellows, from .fif teen to twenty-five feet long-the kind that can divide a fellow at one nip. Our stroke oarsman could not swim, but he got hold of a piece of the boa't; that piece was fast to the line and the line was fast to the whale. He passed us like ashot, reaching out his hands and shouting, "Bill! Bill! Save me: Save me1:" He had no sooner said it than he was gone. Presently the whale went down, the piece of boat went with him, and the stroke oars man was left at the mercy of the waves, a good distance away. Mean while the other three boats were com ing up, and just as he had exhausted himself, struggling to keep on top, the third mate's boat reached him. He was rescued, and then the rest of us were picked up. All this happened within ten min utes. Nothing remained of our small boat. The 500 fathoms of line were gone, as were also the lances, harpoons, and the two buoys. One of the other boats, however, put for the whale and captured him. Now, when I was clinging to that buoy the Bible story of Jonah and the whale came forcibly to my mind, and I wondered if I was doomed to gc through Jonah's experience. When the wnale was lying at the ship's side and we were cutting him in I told the boys of these feelings. They urged me to go through the whale's throat and I resolved to do so when his head came on deck, to demonstrate the 'osbility of Jonah's experience. did not tfien believe in the Bible, but I verified the whale story, for when the head was on the deck I went through the throat as easily as I had cra wled through bars when a boy. The head containing the spermaceti oil is always cut from the trunk and hauled in whole. Of course, the whale's jaws come with it, and they measured often from eight to twelve feet. When we killed other whales. from time to time, some of the men lifted up the lower jaw, while the rest, one after another, would craw: through the throat, not down where Jonah went, but to the deck. This]I did more times than I have fngers and toes, It should be remembered that in each case we crawled through the throat of a dead whale. If, when dead, a whale had a throat to a-Imit me, then weighing 170u pounds, what would be the possibility of a live, mad, and hungry whale: Although a sperm whale is larger. with a throat not only capable of swallowing a well built man, but, in my judgemnent,a good sized horse or cow. Thus it can readily be understood how and why ] am so emuhatic in my remarks at the beginning of this article. I would further say that all the stories and learned opinions that hav~e ever been die. vised and related in reference to the inability of a whale to s wallow a man are simply absurd, I am a saeumtc nc longer, and, whatever man may say or believe concerning the veracity of the wonderful whale storyr of the Bible, not one jot or tittle of it ought to oe abated, modified, or left out. dies urle.si :U 5ometimes nc e s over east when we kl- 0 u., t when the clouds would . anish iT would be seen that his h a as to3sard the sun. I never kewcof a whale t- be otherwise, I caunot explain it, nor did 1 ever iir it explained, but someho1 nave an idea that G, thle creator of Lhis tionstrous creat' are, has, given him the instinct to iurn to the ight while he is sinkin; in dark nes and death. Is r.ot this a lessoni to the higher creatures, eaing tem in darkuess and despair to eep their faes ever toward the Greater -n: WILLIo1 . C 7. THAT D;SP~NSARY DEZS ON. r oe. N.. Hold. authorit:r s have found on einuina t io of the de-cson in :t_ dispensary case that teon irjno azainst constales d not hld. This phas; o' te decision; is b, ro iht ojt in the equity case de cided in ':I 1 ni tedl States S.1preme Court Th decis Ion requires udge Sicmo o mod ;IV his decree C i inciq to con foram -.o the decision.'ma it apply only to -he constales naned in the criginal action. The State however. idoes not propr o r int-d to a ntgo i t he p t i( The anti omn'ibu' iri cion pr;n ciple IS said to be of mu import'and th'e de ision of te United 6-stes Su oreue Court says oIn 1-"i:s point: 'Ba' Ive we thn th-u the co nplainant was enmitled to -: itjinciion against these deferndants who had despoiled him of his property, and who were threatening to co'tinue so to decree in th.s case. The theory of the decree entered in this case. The theory of the dec:ee is that the plaintif is one of a class of persons whose rights are in fri.ged and threatened, and that he so represents such class that he may pr:.y an injunction on behalf of all pesons that constitute it. It is, in deed, possible that there may be .=A'ers in like c- i plaintift, and b persons may be namer ous, but such a state of facts is too conjecturai to furnish a safe basis upon which a Court of equity ought to grant an injunction. We prefer to accept in this respect the views expressed by Justice Nel eon. in the case of Cutting V. Gilbert. 1 5 Blatch, 259.) Extracts are cited from the decision. Similar views pre vailed in the case of Baker vs. City of Portland (5 Sawyer, 56.) The decree is also objectionable because it enjoins persons not parties to the suit. This is not a case where the defendants named represent those not named. Nor is there alleged any conspiracy between the parties defendant and other unknown parties. The acts comlained of are tortious, and do not grow out of any common action or agreement between constables and sheriffs of the State of South Carolina. We have, indeed, a right to presume that such officers, though not named in the suit, will, when advised that certain provisions of the Act in ques tion have been pronounced unconsti tutional by the court to which the constitution of the United States re fers such questions, voluntarily re frain from enforcing such provisions; but we do not think it comports with well settled principles of equity pro cedure to include them in an injunc tien in a suit in which they were not heard or represented, or to subject them to penalties for contempt in dis regarding such an injunction. (Fel 10ow vs. Fellow, 4 John Chan, 25; cit -ing Iveson vs. Harris, 7 Vesey, 257. The decree of the court below shoulc therefore be amended by being re stricted to the parties named as plain tiffs and defendants in the bill, anc this is directed to be done, and it i: otherwise affirmed. Mr. Justice Brew er did not hear the argument, anc took no part in the decision of thit case. The full text of the decisiot was given out tonight, but the ex tract giverL is the new and importan part not published heretofore. The official dispensvy bill will nrobab2 be introduced tomcrrol.-News an< Courier. NEW TORK, Feb. S.-Congressmai C. J. Boatner, of Louisiana, who is 11 the city, said that about 100,000 peopl< are destitute in the northwestern par of this state, because of the failure o: their crops. He had received dis patches from a New Orleans editor stating that the people needed seet with which to make new crops, anc asking him to make an appropriatiol theref or. "I shall not ask congress t< make appropriations for seed." the congressman said, "because I feel sur' that President Cleveland would ver< any bill of that nature. He vetoed bill of a similar kind for the sufferer: in Kansas some years ago." He ex plained the reasons for the fearfu condition, which wei-e as follows 'Last year we had a drougth for fou months. It not only killed the crop but the streams dried up, cattle diet or those that lived he::ame very poor The drought was coanfined to the hiht: or sandy soil and not to the rich allu vial lands of the Mississippi, Red ant Oachita rivers. The alluvial lands however, can stand longer drough than the other lands. Tnere ars about 100,000 affected by this failuri to make crops and we are doing all wi can to help taem. The state of coursi will do all it can to prevent them fron suffering; but they are in actual want A Fatai Fail. NEw YORK, Feb. 3.-While exer cising on the rings in the gymnasiun of the Twelfth Regiment armory to night, Robert Marmont fell to th< floor and was instantly killed. Thi distance was only six feat. Marmon was not a member of the Tweif& Regiment. The only mark that coult be found on the body was a sligh bruise on the left temple. Deput; Coroner Weston, who made an exam iration of the body, found that th, man's neck had been broken by the fall. Peacemakeri IKilled. SToc:.Tc'N. Cal., Feb. 3.-Charles R~ Dodge and Alexander Borland. o0< residents of Newhope, in the souther: section of this county, and two of th' best known and respected residients o the county, were murdered last nigh at Newhope by C. F. lieapfer, th< senior member of the firmn of Kieupfe: & Co., general storekeepers and s ionkeepers in that sown. The tw< men acted as peacemakers in a par rel to which Kieupfer was a party. B:ch, awiewmn htads taly' wounded a ne..ro, Harrison Bar dock, this morning. The negro at Itenied to assault her in her housi here. Shie retreate:1 to the upper hall war, secuired a pistol and fired upa: her assailant. The bullet entered the negro' ai:ia a and he is believed t< e dymge. A ~,t'slwrc. Do I .'l., Feb. :' - A ' mxei train, whil:estaning c. th sid trac! at Arlin:;ton iast evening, was ruw nto by rn engine. C'onduc'or Ad dington, Brakeman 'Hosie Joh: Loftus ofDesmit andtMr. Hairrisn o AWORK OF THE HOUSE. ONTNIt ki0 iaG i NE Gxod wini, de oach and BarkelIy, and lierton and Mc-Cullough composed the pairs. The Hnse rfus -d to table the oi on by a vote of 3: to 5:, as follows: Yeas-Di llC. B Biley, yte, 1 -1s. Carraway. Childs. Colconek, Cram, Gad,.sden, Kiler, Livi'nston, Lofton, I V res, Metir en s, Mitchell, Mcore, R vynom.~ R zers, Sanders. Seabrook, 1i er. -itb . J1. R.IZ; SMit. W. S .EV. D.: Stevenson, Suliv.an, Thomas, Jnr. P. Jr.: Thomas, XV. I. Townseud. Verner, Vinccnt, Whio Nays-Gary, Speaker; All. Ander son)i, Armustron-g, A3bil. shey A-,zs .Ban ks-, 1 ed on 1, h Uhree lanid, Carso-n, amaCushman. D aviI ts, Geo. W.: Davis, W. C.: dei x i aired: Dakes. E wardi, i, ,re, ris, Gas z-. Gl-nn. G(odlwin. H. P. Graa .1. S.: HI.milton, Harvey, H1t"on. Hender-son, Hiott. Hollis, Ju1inson, Keanedy, Kinard. Henry J.; Lancaster, Layton, Lester, Limehouse, agii!, Mauldin, Miles, Miller, Joel H. M ishoe. McDaniel. M ri hi te, Oven, Phillips, Plyler, Princ, Raiosford, Robinson, Russell, 'kinner, Simkins, Speer, Sturkie, TimmermanWollinz, Westnmoreland, Vi rgo. XVinkler, Williams, Wyche, Yeldell1-5. Thc motion of Mr. Mazill was then put and the bill was continaed to the rext session, the final vote being clinchid. Mr. Robit:son's bill fixing the fees of witnesses for attendince upon the courts or general sessions was called up and Mr. Westmoreland moved to strike out the enacting words of the bill. After some further argument Mr. T. Y. Williams called attention to tne fact that a great proportion of witnesses could not make 50 cents a day at home. By a vote of 53 to 31 the house killed the bill, which was to raise the per diem from j0 c atsToil a y:- The HT6use then ad journed un til evening. At the evening session much work was accomplished. It was the last night for the intrcduction of new bills by any member, and there was a rush of new measures. One of them, a joint resolution offered by Mr. Gage, was one of the most far-eaching and important yet presented. It is direct ed at the enforc- ament of a mandatory provision of the new Constitution, which will cost the State $90,000 and more. This resolution directs the comptroller general to levy a tax on the mroperty of the State sufficient to realize the sum of $92,070.12, to be held and used as the "supple mentary school tax" provided for in the new Constitution. The resolution sets forth that the report of the super intendent of education shows that on Oct. 31, 1S95, there were enrolled only 223,021 pupils,and that $669,063 should have been the total fund. The dispensary committee reported Mr. Child's prohibition measure back to the house without recommendation. Unfavorable reports were presented on Ur. J. P. Thomas' resolution relating to the sale of native wines in the dis pensaries, and Mr. Joel T. Miller's bill to allow the county boards of control to purchase liquors. A substitute bill was presented by the committee for the original bill es tablishing Dorchester county. The substitute bill establishes the county with St. Geo-:ge's as the county seat, the j-udiciary committee being of the opinion that the matters of the name -and county seat of new counties are not required to be settled by a two thirds majority, but are settled by the rules of ordinary elections and that -under those rules St. George's was chosen as the county seat- This view was adopted by the committee upon the corclusion of a majority of the committee that section 2, article 7 of the Constitution applies only to the establishment of the new county and -not to the choice of a name for the county seat. The Bamberg county bill being the speeial order for the evening was called up. Mr. Crum was in charge of the bill. He had the bill amended in regard to certain minor features. The bill was then ordered to a third reading without dabate. Mr. Bacot also introduced a joint resolution for the paymeat of a jndg ment of $3,000 obtained by Aarramia Cantini against T. G. Gaillard, C. B. -Swan, R. H. Pepper, C. B. McDon ald, State constables. The case has been carried up to the court of appeals and the judgment against the consta bles still stands. The money cannot be recovered from them and the prop ostion in the resolution is to require the State to pay it, it being contended that the men were acting as State cli1 crs. IMr. XWinkler's bill to amend the law relating to costs created some de bate. Mr. Stevenson opposed the bill. Mr. John P. Thomas was in fa vor of the bill. Mr. Winkler then de fended his bill at some length. He said it was not right that the sheritf should get the same fees for foreclos ing a 850 mor tgage as a $5,000 mort gage. Mr. Skinner said that the bill simply proposed to put sheriifs and clerks on the same footing with other otlicials. The bill was passed to its third reading. It provides that the costs allowed by la w in all cases of partition where the property sought to be partitioned does no exceed $1, 000 in value,and in actions for foreclosure of mortgage where the amount does not exceed $500, shall be one half of the costs allowed in cases where the value exceeds those sums, and this provision shall apply to all cost in the cause. Mr. Crum's bill to save small es tates from being consumed by the e. csis of ad ministration was taken up and passed. it provides that the costs and fees and other expenses allo wed by law for the administration of in estate estates shall not in any case exceed 10 per cent. of the appraised value of the personal property in cas es where the said sum of 10 per cent. of the appraised value of the personal estate shall be less than the fees, costs and expenses allowed by law for ad vertising an es- ate, that in that event the said sum of 10 per cent. shall be prorated among the varicus oflicers, Iincluding the printer for advertising, according to their respective amounts alowed by law. Mr Wi\ ngo's bill to require the comn m-rutation tax to be expended io the tow n in which tue taxpayer resides was ordered to a third reading with -Ot debate The H~ouse then adjourned. A Forfeited Estate. A~ T\on, Ga. Feb. 4.-A Special to th onstttion from Sparta. Gatsays: Josphi Babcock, an eccentric man wh o had lived hete forty years, died vesterday. He left an estate wrthv 0, ,but made no will, and. so fa as is known, had no heirs. He came here from New York before the war. lie was a pour boy then, but by industry accumuliated money. Mr. Dabcok was :jeweller. lie t He never made - c'niident of any : one, never married and never c orres ponded with any member of his fami ly. Despite his reserve, he was very much liked by his neighbors, foi he was always courteous. His propert y A DM iR A BUNCE SETS SAIL. WV m: N, . --Admiral nwe is noW eur Crleston. Te let of V.aIr ship s blongLing to te North. Alantic squadron tailed ot 1Of Hamon RO to day. healed by the Iship'N Net Yor. with Ad niiral Btnce i'V e and. The ves ss hIch l -ed th New York were tie oattle shic Indiana, the ar mr cruiser M'ine. the turret ship Ampitrtethecrai.,-r C"olumbia, ard dispa:ch boat Fern. The Admiiral telegra-0iped tie fact of his d parture to tLe navy deuartm_-ent, and added ti the Marb'eheadI, which s Sm1e x here cutside thue Capes, would o ordered t fall in line. if sighted. Tile douib: turrezea' moniitcrs Paritan and Te-rro- are also expected to j~in the 'xad ron. o ad by the time the ac taal Ilock-ade tacacs ocia there will zrobably -, other additions to the force of vessels. The sqaudron will urobably put in some time during the favorable weather drilling off tbe Capes and on the way southLward, and it is not exnecKd that the ships will be olf Charlestn before the Sh instant, unless the weather forces a change in the programme. The Tex as, Massachusetts and Drookiny are disabled. and they wil not be able tc participate in ihe blorkade of Cuarles ton harbor. Ti- Raleigh, Newark and Dophia, now engaged in patroll ing the Florida coast may be ordered to jin the squadron at Charleston, provided they can be spared from their present duty. The Cuban agita tion along the C-ast is subsiding, and Secretary Herbert will allow Admiral Bunce to use his discretion as to the advisability of drawing the ships lasi named further north for 'ieet drill. Admiral Ramsey, chief of the bu reau of navigation and detail, says that Admiral Bance h is been invested with full authority to employ the ves sels of the sque dron as he may deem profer under the circumstances. Oa ithe cruise down the co2St to Charles ton the Admiral wili practice a new set of manoeuvres and dills in hand ling war ships at sea. Admiral Ram sey says it is diflicult to describe the proposed manoeuvres, but the idea is to test the capacity of the re.spective ships for getting into action, sustain ing sister ships in case of emergency, and indulging in other evolutions al sea, on the same princiwle that a regi. iment of infantry would be drilled on land. Some vessels can go about and come lp in line quicker than others. These details have to be carefully timed and measured, so that when the flagship gives certan commands it car be ascertained to the minute how long each suip will take to get into the position assigned it. Under the cir. cumstances a week or ten days may be thus employed before the greal event-the blockading of Charlestor harbor-will be attemptd. When the fleet reaches Charlestor it will be divided into two divisions. Half of the fleet will be assigned to duty to guard the entrances to the harbor. The oter half will be desig. nated as the attacking party. While the rival divisions are manoeuvering one of the swiftest ships will try to run the blockade. The following da3 the assignments of the two divisions will be changed, and some other ves se will try to get through the blocade The officers and men of the fleet are reatly interested in the sea game, which strikes us land lubbers as bein! something on the style of modert foot ball. All of the vessels that car cross the Bar will rendezvous ii Carleson harbor, where Secretar3 Herbert will review the fleet. Whbe in the harbor a boat race be ween the rival ship's crew might b< made an interesting feature. Anyone who has ever witnessed a boat race be tween the crews of several men-of -wa in double-banked cutters will nlevel forget the scene. Each one of thes4 war ships have in constant training cutter or a gig crew prepared to roy a race at pop of the gun. This sug gestion is thrown out f or the benefi of the committee in charge of th< Charleston end of the demonstration -News and Courier. A Note of Alarm. RIALEIGHI,.N. C., Feb. 2.-The Pro gressive Farmer. the organ of thi National FArmers' Alliance, has the following: "'We have just learne< of a gigantic and diabolical combine about to be effected to control thi rce of cotton. The plan .is to se cure charters and establish gins witi compress attachments at as man: points as possible in the cotton states The bales are to be round instead o square. Cotton buyers will co-ope rate and force farmers to have, thei cotton ginned at these new gins b2 refusing to pay as much for cottor put up in the ordinary way. Thi will comipel the present owners 0 gins to go out of business. The rail roads will haul round bales cheare: than square bales. The cotton seet oil mills will like the new gins anc compresses, be located mainly o1 railroad lines, and the seed men wil always be on hand to get bargains, a: many farmers would sell seed cheape: rather than haul them a long dis tance home. To defeat this scheme i will require the united efforts of al te farmners in the cotton states. I is probable anplication will be made for charters for such entersprises iu the present and all legislatures heih in the near future. Jamped in the Elver. NaurILLE, Feb. 2.-A sensationa suicide occurred here last night, bu was not discovered until early in th morning. Miss Maggie Coiner, beautiful and prominent young ladI 25 years of age, leaped from the bridge into the Cumberland river No one witnessed the suicide, but she was seen on the bridge by severa persons about 12 o'clock and a shaw and umbrella were afterwards foun< at the pla:e where she was last seen She had been in bad health for, abou two months and retired last night 1 gocd spirits. Upon awakening tli morning the family found her miss ing and a note was pinned to the bed saying that her health had broke' down and she was going to commi suicide. The body has not been re covered yet, but a number of men are dragging the river at the place she was supposed to have jumped from. Lynched for Iisk 1impudenice. BowxaNt GEEN, Kry., Feb. 4.-Rb ert Morton, colored, was hange< by a mob near Rbck field shortly afte: midnight last night. It. is said tha veserday the negro. a son of a sectiol band at iockfid, wrote an insulting Iand insinuating note to Miss Tommie Johnson, a well-known young white woan of R~ock~eld. Morton wa: captured and taken to a house on the Russelville pike and put under guard About 12 o'clock a party of men ap neared at the house, overpowered the guards, took the prisoner away an< haned him. Cooked to Death. UnacAgvus PtE.a.. Feb. :1.-A six Ivearod daughter of Mrs. Willian IHines r-esterday fell into a wash boilem jille'd with hot water and was literally ooked to death. The child had beer playing around the boiler. She diec .shrl .a being. reoved from the ROUND %COTTOZ BAL2-. Intersmg &pa rimen;i, widch S-t'rm to vavor Thom. ery interesting experiments have recently been mnade in St. Louis, de monstratinr the advantages to be ob tained from Dickinz cotton into bales of clinldricil form. The test was made at St. L-uis, and the objct was to note the eirects of ire upon bales of this kind. Tile judges were from the board of underwriters, and the follow ing from the St. 1;>uis Republic. in dicates that the system of packigu has many advantages over the old. The Republic says: "Cotton put up in round bales won't burn to any great extent. This fact was proven betore the board of underwriters Wednesday morning by the American Cotton Company which. operates the round bale system. A round bale was shown complctely covered, ends and all, with a closely woven cover, and with no cotton whatever exposed. The '11ash haz zard," one of the areatest risk in cot ton, is thus removed by the new method of bailing. It was explained that no cuting of the wrapping of auv sort was necessary or permitted, as a guaranteed sample of the bale was drawn in process of making and properly identititd. As the objection had been raised that the bale could not be sampled, it was demonstrated perfectly that a sample could be drawn from the round the same as from any other bales, simply by cutting it. Then the ends were cut open and the char acter of the winding fully shown. The bale was then placed upon proper supports, the bagging still further cut and the cotton thrown back and ex p.osed, and wood piled under, around and on top of the bale, and coal oil poured over all of it. It was then tired. After twenty minutes the fire died down and the bale was rolled out, and it was found that beneath the outer lawyers the cotton was un touched, and that it could not pene trate the ends of the bale, simply charring the exposed ends slightly. It was again set fire to, but the blaze quickly died out. Meanwhile another bale of similar character was shown, with an iron rod run through it and properly sup - ported, and this was unwound clear down to the core, rolling of like a coll of paper in a modern printing press, delivering the cotton in a smooth, regular "bat," ready for the machinery. There was no hitch in the nnrolling. Then the fire bale was returned to, and to show that water would not penetrate it, as well as to put out any little remnants of fire that might be left, water was poured upon the bale. Then, with the unrolling of one single turn it was shown that under the first layer the cotton was perfectly dry and not damaged in any manner. The bale was then reovered, wcighed, and it was found that it had lost 11 per cent. The large number of prominent men, railroaders, bankers, insurance men, etc., who were present, expressed themselves as satisfied with the suc. cess of the tes t. From this it seems that the round bale has much the best of it, but of course there are oth er points to be considered. For ex ample, the packing of cotton in this manner requires a change in machin ery. Can it be packed at as little cost; can it be compressed as <ffectively, and can it be stored in the hold of a ship or in freight cars with as much economy of space and handling? All of these features must be weighed be fore the new bale can become the standard. Spanish Cruieity and Brutality. KEY WEST, FL A., Feb. 2.-The fam ily of Rogero Cordivo, Cuban born, consisting of father, son and three daughters, one of the latter under ..6, were brutally killed at Guanabacoa, Friday night, under revolting circum stances. The son, aged 19, had in curred the enmity of the officer of the patrol some days before by wearing a small button with the United States flag on it, and refusing to take it off when ordered. The patrol officer, knocked him down, tearing the but ton off and injuring the lad severely. The father made a complaint to the commanding officer but was thown out of the office by soldiers. Friday night the patrol visited the house in the city limits and after binding and gagging him, his wife and son, pro ceeded to exercise the greatest indigni ties upon the helpless girls. They were compelled to dance before the soldiers under threat of death to tbeir father and mother if they refused. After several hours spent in carous ing, suddenly the leader drew his machette and killed the father. One soldier killed the mother and another shot the lad. The girls we:'e then taken off, their dead bodies being found next day hal. a mile from the Spanish sentry lines hacked in a hor rible manner and showing evidences of brutal treatment. The bodies of the others were found in the house, and the boy with his dying breath told the story in all its horrible details. Fron deveilla's officers, when told the story, laughed at it, saying with a shrug: "Only soldiers' play-it was only Cubans.' A FataliFight. SPAR.TA~nBURG, S. C., Feb. 2.-Par ticulars have reached here of a bloody encounter this afternoon on the line between North and South Carolina six miles from Tryon. On Saturday night Will Gunnels and Claude Jen kins, two mountaineers, disagreed and came to blows. Gunnels got the worst of the encounter and while no dedly weapons were used he was beat up considerably. He s wore to have revenge, so today he got his brother, Joe Gunnels, and set out to find Jen kins. The three men met on a lone ly mountain road and immediately they began the difficulty anew. One of the Gunnels brothers dealt Jenkins a territlc blow, which almost stag gered him; the other cut him severely in two places and he fell to his knees. While in this pcsition Jenkins suc ceeded in drawing his pistol and killed both Gunnels on the spot. It is not thought that Jenkins will recover from the wounds he received. Will and Joe Gunnels were both shot in the head and died almost instantly. But T wo Escape. JacKsomtiLE, Fla., Feb , :3. Captain Fozzard and the mate of the -schooner Biscayne, which was wrecked Tuesday night near Sebastian, arrived in the city to-night. The three sea men constituting the remainder of the crew, were drowned, refusing to get in yawl boat because they thought it was unseaworthy. Several passen gers were reported dros ned, but this the captain denihd, sayinz that hie had relused to take them aboard on leaving this port, the weather being so stormy. Drowned Her Babe. WELLSVILE, N. Y., Feb. 2.-Mark Ells worth, 23 years of age, and his wie, of Genesee, Pa., a villag'e ten miles south of this place; were jailed at Coudersport today, charged with. drowning their two months-old baby. When charged with the crime, Mrs.! Ellsworth confessed and implicated the father. The mother says that cold and hunger drove her to the awful A DEFiCIENCY IPPENDING. C-rnmpsZncIler Nton' I ' H. More I:,.-e2J May~ be .Juely iRalI4ed. C( umu. iS. U.. Feb. :1 --The WaTs and Means Comnmitlee f the House, it is said, has not x-r. y or menced on tre appropriali -n, bil for the year, awaiting the Comiptroilr Genral's r-?port which is being prin~t ed. baving be:-n r c:ived too late to ha v. it o:, the desks of nembers be fore. This was ow ing to the change in the fiscal year whici prevented the report being compelled until some time after the close of the fiscal year the General Assembly meeting soon after. There has been more or less talk for several nonths about a deficiency in the revenuts and a conscquent in crease in the tax levv. General Nor ton was asked about these matters yes terdav and he said there was no defi ciency this year, b:i he thinks that with the present basis of axation and the assessment of property, which must staad for some time, tX,:re will be a deficit of $150.000 to be met in January, 1803. There can be only j92,000 more from the dispensary to go in the general fund, and tnat counts for this years appropriation. The State treasury now lias cash on hand of about $500,000, the interest having been paid in Jacuary. The Legislature will have that much and a little more now in process of collec tion, besides $15,000 in fees and the jz92,000 from the dispensary, for ap propriation purposes. The estimated amount which it will take to run the State government at present expendi tures is about $300,000, so it will be seen that unless some provision is made otherwise, the next session will have to face a deficit about at tbe fig ures stated by Mr. Norton, .150,000. The Comptroller General has, how ever, warned the Legislature of the impending crisis and his personal be lief is that, unless expenses are Cut down, the levy must be about five mills, if not something over. Other wise the State will have to borrow money and get off the cash basis it is now on. Mr. Norton expresses the opinion tha. there can be a reduction of ex penses without detriment to the pub lic service, but exactly what these are he will indicate to the committee, probably, when called on for informa tion. H1e suggests other ways, however, of raising additional revenue which he thinks is just and fair. He believes that insurance companies could be taxed one and a quarter to one and a half per cont. on their gross business in the State, instead of paying taxes separately in each county as they do now. This law has been operated in other States and has proved accepta ble to the companies. He suggests, further, a graduated income tax on people doing business in the State, which business, however, is such as not to be liable for taxation -such as the Pullman cars operated in the State. Another idea is licenses for professional men of other States who come in here temporarily to do business in comp-tition to native pro. fessional men who pay taxes. As an instance of this he cited the case of a dentist frcm Marion who went on professional business in three counties in North Carolina for a certain period. In each of the counties he had to pay a license, while a similar man from North Carolina can come into this State and practice for nothing. The tax department seems to be hard for one not versed in its intricates to un derstand, but after a talk of an hour with Comptroller Geperal Norton the above seems to be his ideas on the situation and the remedy.-Register. Desperadoes Captured. BAltBERG, S. C., Feb. 4.-News has just reached here from Brtar Creek, a' swampy, thinly settled portion of Barnwell county, about ten miles be low here, of the capture of Carolina Davis, and his son, Kelly Davis, lead ers of a band of desperadoes that have infested that community for a num ber of years.- Last Friday night Davis and his son entered the house of Mr. Thos. Rentz, a prosperous farmer of that section, and pillaged the house, securing everything of value. Then going out into the yard went into the meat house, stole seven sides of ba con.- Tt t- next morning a searching' party set out and suczeeded in tracing the robbers to their house, where a search disclosed a lot of stolen articles, such as watches, je'elry, rdzors, etc., also re covering the articles stolen from Mr. Rentz. Kelley and his son~ were ar ranged before a magistrate on Satur day and given a preliminary hearing and bound over to the next session of court. Some time ago this band was cased by the sheriff and posse, and a number of shots exchanged, resulting in the shooting down of one of the robbers, and they ainally escaping to the swam os. A Convenient Invenulon. An Orangeburg farmer comes to the front with a new invention in the shape of a Lubricator for oiling ve hicle wheels without taking them off the axle. It is inserted in the hub between two of the spokes. When y ou want to grease your wheel all you have to do is to withdraw a plunger, which operates with a spring, and put as much oil as is needed on the axle. Upon being released the spring closes up the oil hole until it is opened for oiling up again. It is a -very ingeni otis and clever device, and is bound to be used generally. With these lubri cators a vehicle can be oiled up any where along the road in less than one minute. The patent for this valuable invention is owned by the National Lubricator Company of Orangeburg,I S. C. Mr. Jas. L. Sims, Editor and~ Proprietor of the Urangeburg Tim esj and Demccrat, is the manager of the' company, which is a guarantee that it is all right. The company wants an agent in this covnty to sell the Lubri cators. See advertisement in another column. A Degenerate Gireeley. Los ANGELES, CAL , Feb. 2-. degenerate relative of Horace Greeley, the great editor is now confined in the County jail, a confessed horse thief. Behind his capture is a story of wild, reckless riding by the robber over snowclad mountains and the dogged perseverance of Frank Grif11th, depu ty constable of Handford, who plucki iv trailed the gang for five weeks and arested Youu g Greeley this morning. Greeley is about 25 years of age. Hie confessed the crime, but refuses to di vulge tne identity of his partners. His father, who claims to be a cousin of the editor, said his son had only re cently given indication that he was on the wrong course. Fight With BaendIts. Gcru1E, OKL A., Feb- 4.-The re port was received here this afternoon that about dark last night a gang of six or eight bandits attempted to rob the government offices anid general store at Sac and Fox agency and in the battle which followed one outlaw and three other men were killed, among the dead being Gen. Thomas, the indian agenf formerly at Atlanta. Ga. At Shawance which is the near est telegraph station to the agency, the same report is current, but no particu lars can be obtained andi the reports SEVEN PER3UN3 BURN T TO DEAH. F~i!hbr lay izr Card S n ::, s.1,an M il H J, 1-. M y P ILzTr.i f 11~?I. E:L: , N. J., Jan. .-Ti is c1-T was visited by two dij:strous iires be tween 11:30 'S~turday night and o'c!cck t'is morning. Seven persor~s were burned to death and thirty fan i lies were made homeless. 'Ihe Satur day night fire started in ihe three story frame building at 400 Newara street. Here six persons lost their lives. They were: Mrs. Nellie Schroeder, 40 rears old: Henry Sebroeder, 11 years old; Maggie Schroeder, 7 years old; Kate Schroeder, .) years old; Jobn Schreder, 3 years old; Willie Schroeder, :3 months old. The father of tne family, Charles Schreder, wrs in a nearby saloon tlaying cards while his w:~ife and children were dy The second fire started at 3 o'clock this morning in the five story deck tenement at 157 Fourteenth street, over a mile from the scene of the first In the first three tenements, Nos. 155, 157 and 159 were entirely wrecked and No. 153 was damaged badly bv water. One child was burned to deat i on the fourth floor of No. 157. She was Mabel Mangles, 8 years old. As rear as can be determined the fire last night at 410 Newark street startEd in a defective flue in Schaffer's wheel wright shop on the ground floor of a three story frame building. Schatffer occupied the second f!,or as living apartments. The front rooajs on the third floor was occupied by Charles Schroeder and his family, while James Blanchfield and family occupied the rooms in the rear. The Blanchfields discovered the fire which had gained such headway and b irely made their escape by way of the roofs of ajoining buildings. It was impossible to disco ver the fate of the Schroeder family until the fire had subsided. W hen the police entered the build ing little- save the shell remained and they were obliged to exercise great cire in climbing about the place. They finally reached the top floor and made their way into the front room. Stretched across the bed, blackened and charred lay the mother, and clasped tightly in her arms was the little baby, Willie. Besides the mother ard baby in the same bed, lay the charred bodies of the girls, Maggie and Kate. It is likely that they were suffocate.d in their sleep. Oa a mat tress on the floor near the window lay the body of the boy, John, bat the body of Henry, the oldest boy, was no where to be seen. Upon Iurther search being made the boy's body was found under a mass of debris in the hall, burned almost to a crisp. It is be lieved that the boy was aroused dur ing the fire, and in his efforts to es cape ran into the hall. There he was overcome by the smoke and his body was covered with part of the roof which fell in at that point. The loss to the buildings and its contents will probably not exceed $15,000. L-gislature Burned Out. HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 2.-A fire, which started in the rooms of Lieu tenant Governor Lyon some time this morning swept through the an cient Capitol of Pensylvania and within an hour and a half af ter the breaking out of the flames, the strue ture was in ruins. The senate and house were about to reconvene for their afternoon session when the first tiames burst through the walls and the law-makers were driven for their live to the open air. A~s far as known no one was killed, but a number of people we'e in the building tryng to save i urn iture and other effects when the dome fell in, and it is possible that some one may be buried under the ruins. Q ite a number of neople were cut and bruised or half smothered by smoke, but no one was seriously hurt. The most valuable of the state and legislative records which were in the building were saved, but the records and statistics of the department of public instruction, which included much valuable information bearing upon the public schools of the state, were destroyed. The legislature will find a temporary homie tomorrow, the senate in the rooms of the Suprema court and the house in the United States district court, in the post ofice building and the legislature will at once take steps to have the capitol rebuilt. The total loss is estimated at nearly a million of dollars, on which there is an insurance of but $200,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. Etnled Himself for Love, KEY WEST, FLA., Feb. 3.-The body of Manuel Perez. who lost his life in a balloon ascension here, was rec overed from the bay this morning. It was first thought'that Perez lost his life by accident, but developments show that rejected by the woman he loved, the man deliberately jumped from the bal loon into the bay. Pere z was the son of a wealthy Cuban at Tampa and when the Forepaugh exhibition com pany was at that place the young man became infactuated with Mlle Zola, a beautiful attache of the company. Perez left home and here with the company, all the time pressing his love on Mlle, Zola. who gave him no encouragement. When tce show ad vertised also an ascension Perez volun teered to go up and descend by para chute. The ascent was made, but Perez waited until the baloon was well over the bay and then leaped to his death. When he jumped the balloon was at an altitude of 1,000 feet. Mlle. Z la, who was watching, gave a piercing shriek as the man she had re jected leaped to a watery grave. In ?erez's trunk today a note was found addressed to Mile, Z >la. In it he said he could not live withu:. ner and had determined to ascend in the balloon and then leap into the bay in order to en d his torture- Mlle, Z )l no w says she loved Perez and was or i - cold toward him to test the strength -f his love. Mr. slbbley of Petnayin a'l. Hon. Joseph C. Sibley, "f Pany i bania, advises his Demucratic friends in congress to make no captious op position to the passage of a tariff bill such as the R e publicans desire. He says if the Republicans can bring about prosperity, nobody need ob ject, and they shouM1 have a fair trial. He is a free e -, -. e man, but would welcome prusenty in any shape and by any political pyty. He says, however, that 'if th- oresent cnditions continue Mr. Br:. a will be nominated for president by accla mation by the Democratic panzy in 190 and triumphantly electe d On the other hand, if times are __ d the Deccratie no:ninanoai an d au er nominations except that M tn-e Re publican party .will be but empty hon A Fool with a Gun. Cmmauo, Feb. :3.-Julia Sheehan, 17 years or ax e, was shot and killed last night by her sweetheart, Joseph Cronin, who was handling a double barrel shotgun which he did not know was loaded. He snapped one barrel at her andi when she urged him to put it down hec still pointed it at her. She tried to push the gun aside, when Cronin said: "Lookout, I'm going to shoot," and pulled the trigger the sec ond time. A heavy load of duck shot struck the girl in the abdomen. Cro Absolutely Pure. Gelebrated for Its great 'cavenivg strenfwth and lealthfulness. Assures the food against alum end all forms of adut. teration commen to the cheap brands. ROYAL BAKING POWDEr CO , NEW YORK. THE STATE'S FINANCES. Govwner En1Ierbe Think% rhat Tb y Aze in a Bad Way. CoLna;I.a, S. C., Feb. 5.-Gover zr E!Lierbe has found, upon careful investigation, that the tinances of the State are not in the most flurishing condition, and that there is a deficien cy in the general fund of $34,041.66 unprovided for. This State of affairs called forth the following message from the Governor which was read at the session last night: Gentlemen of the General Assembly After thorough investigation I find that the finances of the State are not in a very favorable condition, and I deem it my duty to call your atten tion to the following fac:s: There was in the State Treasury on January 26, 1897, $113.958.31; balance due SLate from dispensary on general ac count, $92,000; insu ance license fees (Gstimated) $10,000; :ees Secretary of State's offie, $5,000; ucollected taxes (estimated) $85,000; :naking, $605, 95S 34. The above includes all the reve nues of the State available for current expenses for the fiscal year 1S97. Es timating the current expenses of the State government at $30,000 per month for ten months, beginning January 1, 1897, a:nd ending Novem ber 1, 1897, we have current expenses $300,000; legislative expenses (estima ted)-$45,000; special appropriltion for militis, $10,000; pensions, $.00,000; public printing, $20,000; total, $640. 000. Making a deficiency in the gea eral fund of $34,01166 unprovided for. I have counted the expenses to November 1, because the books are not opened for the collection of taxes until October 15, and the State treas ury will not receive remittances from the county treasurers until November 1. We estimate the expenses at $30, 000 per month on the basis of last year's appropriations. Of course if any of the appropriations be increased or additional ones are made for spec ial purposes, the deficiency will be in creased in proportion. The trustees of the Winthrop Nor mal and Industrial College have ask ed for an additional appropriation of $30,000 to build another dormitory. They now have room for 240 students, while the attendance at the college is 403, one hundred and sixty-three hav ing to board in the town. It would be infinitely better for all the students to board in the college, and if we knew that the attendance would re main as large as it is now, you would take no risk in making the appropria tion. But as we can have no guaran tee of this af ter the ephemeral favor which generally bubbles up around a ne w college subsides, we may have here, as we had at Clemson, a decrease in the number of students. When Clemson College was first opened many boys out of curiosity and without serious purposes rushed in, and there was not sufficient room to accormmedate them; but after run ning a year or t wo, the attendance, as might have been expected, dwin dled down to normal numbers, and the dormitory is large enough for present uses. Should you decide to build another dormitory for Winthrop I would re spectfully suggest, owing to the un favorable condition of the State's fi nances, and the financial condition of our people, that you have all the brick necessary for the construction cf the dormitory made by the con victs of the Penitentiary. This could be done in the summer after the crops on the State farm have been "laid by" and before harvesting time begins. You could then at the next sesion of the General Assembly make a small appropriation to have the work com pleted. The deficiency that I have called your attention to should be provided for, and the question for you to de cide is whether it should be done by increasing the levy or by increasing by some ther-o means the revenue of the State. This can be done by a graduated income tax and a graduat ed license tax. Every legislator should be commended for his efforts to give the people a low rate of taxa tion. but it is unwise and unbusiness like to levy a tax insufficent to meet the current expenses of the govern ment, and thereby incur a debt. I believe in the principle of paying as you go. In my opinion there is ex travagance in the management of county affairs which should be thor oughly investigated. The county government Act is objected to by many on the ground that it is too cumnbersome, and that the work of the chain gang costs more than it is worth. I would recommend that you examine these matters thoroughly be fore making any radical changes in the law. -Register. Ii Tis~ Prosperit? CI'AGO, Feb. 2.-T venty- five hun dred employees of the Illinois Steel Company, 8outh Cnicago, accepted sweeping reduction in wages yester day. Not a man from the president down was exempt frcm the red~uction. Five ten and tifteen per cent was taken from each day's pay, but there was nothing more serious &han grumbling and dark looks. The cut did not affect members of the Amal gamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. The announcement of a cut was not bad news to all, however, for along with it the company ex ori ssed its intention of soon taking ack a thousand men discharged a month ago. These men have been stfering the keenest poverty. . In fact, many of them with their families have been supoorted by charity work ers of South Chicago. By them the message from company was hailed with joy. _______ Fkve Chuldren Djrowued. NEENaSK CITY, Neb., Feb. 3 -Five children ranging in age from 8 to 15 years, broke through the ice while skatwg on a pond near the Missouri River. on the iowa side across from this cay, I ast night and were drowned. Tnree boys belonging tO the family of G. WV. Gibson, one boy to the family of P'houaix Gibson and one girl to J. MI lvane.