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VOL. XV. M1ANNING. S. C,~ WEDNESDAY, JULY 19.4 1899. O 2 THE SIDDIE R S-100L For Teachers Closes Its Succssfu! and Valuable Work. IT WAS A MARKED SUCCESS. The Final Day Devoted to Exam inations in the Several De partments. A Clos ing Concert. The State summer school at Rock Hill for teachers closed Wednesday night. The last day was a very busy one and a very iuteresting one; it was the day of examinations. Written ex aminations were held in all the class except political ethics and primary methods. It was not considered advis able to hold examinations in these sub jects. The examination in Victorian poetry was held Tuesday. There were enrolled in all the classes 379 students; all save a half dozen or so were teach ers. Of these not more than ten or fif teen dropped out, so that about 360 stood the examinations Tuesday and Wednesday. The results of these ex aminations will be published later. At dinner the last day Mr. J. Frank Fooshe called the large body to order and offered fur consideration the fol lowing resolutions: Whereas we, the teachers in atten dance at the State summer school at Winthrop, feel that the great pleasure and profit received by us during the past month calls for a pullic expression, be it resolved, that our thanks are here by extended. First. To the general assembly of South Carolina for its liberal appropri ation for the improvement of the teach ers of the State. Second. To the State board of educa tion for its judicious management of this appropriation. Third. To the Hon. Jno J. Mc~a han, State superintendent of educa tion, for his enthusiastic and success ful efforts in arousing a deeper inter est in the cause of education through out the State, for his efficiency in all the duties devolving upon him, and for his devoted and faithful attentions to all our interests. Fourth. To the authorities of Win throp.college for their financial aid and to President D. B. Johnson for his most hearty cooperation in organizing the selcol and for his faithful supervi sion of &il interests entrusted to his care; and also to all his assistants for their valuable services. Fifth. To the members of the faculty for their very efficient labors in our behalf, -for their uniformly kind and courteous attention, and for their great interest in the success of our work, and also to the lecturers who :9tributed so largely to our pleasure and pot Sixth. To t iscitizens of Rock Hill for-the. -coutinued interest they have manifested in our work, and for tbeir many kind and thoughtfui contribu tions to our enjoyment. I Seventh. To the press of the State for its aid in bringing the meeting prominently before the people, thereby adding largely to the possibilities of its success. Eighth. T' the railroads of the State for reduce-1 rates to and from Rock Hill. The resolutions were seconded by Mr. D-eher of Columbia and passed by a standing vote. O. ednesday evening there was a grand concert given under the diree tion of P"-of. Wade R, Brown, the pro fessor of vocal music of the school. This was in every respect a brilliant success, delighting the audience of be tween 700 an:d 800 people. It was an unusually appreciative audience, bemng -.omposed of the very exponents of ed ucation and culture. The following was the programme rendered: Chorus-Gloria, from "Twelfth Mass." (Mozart.) Vocal quartette--"O, For the Winp's of a Dove" (Knight ) Miss Ida M. Cronan, Miss Sallie S. Bailey, W. Z. McGhee, Hugh C. Haynsworth; Mr. Brown at the piano. Soprano solo-Sancta Maria. (Faure.) Mrs. Wade R. Brown. Chorus-"O, Hush Thee, My Babie. (Sullivan.) Piano solo- Valse de Concert. (Wieniawski ) Miss Margaret Hope Roach. Vocal trio-Forget Me Not. (Rotoli.) Miss Cronan, Mrs. Brown, Miss Zula A. Brock. Chorus-Under Blossoming Branch es. Serenade. (Meyer- Helmund.) Baritone solo-Lochiel's Song, from "Rob Roy." (De Koven.) W. M. Clyde. Part song-Good Night, Good Night. Beloved! (Pinsuti.) Mr. Brown, Miss Brock, G. B. Tocle, Fred A. Cum mings. Choral ballad-The Millers Wooing. (Faning.) The State summer school chorus. IMrs. F. N. K. Bailey presided at the piano. At the conclusion of the programme President Johnson arose and made a few very cordial and appropriate re marks concerning the marked success of the school, congratulating the teach ers assembled on their excellent and faithful work. He assured them of welcome to Winthrop, and hoped that it would be his pleasure to have there again. After President Johnson, Superin tendent McMahan arose, and. mounting the rostrnrd, said: "I do not come forward to present you with diplomas. You deserve them, it is true. But you deserve mo-e. A diploma does not always rep resent what it should. The true rewarc of effort is achievement, and you have what you deserve. A public testimo nial is not the prize for which you put forth intellectual effort; the true prize is the added mental power the increased capacity that results from honest effort -the real benefit whether .or not it re ceives the world's recgnition. "The past four weeks impress upon us the truth that life is measured not by the lapse of years but by the variety and extent of our activities As you look back upon this month and co)m pare it with the many months that have gone before and become indistinguish much you have lived during these 2S days, which shall stand out in your lives forever. You have more than you can tell at home for months to come. You have much that you will remem bcr with pleasure for years. Your lives have been enriched. "When on the morning of the 15th of June, but a little while ago, we gath cred on our first day, you felt that you were about to enter upon a doubtful and adventurous voyage. I am sure that, with me. 3 ou now feel like return ing thanks that we have come to so pleasant a haven, so worthy a goal though not the final goal. -And now we have reacbed the end. Yet it is not the end. Every end is but a new beginning, and the end of our summer school is the beginning of a greater professional spirit and ambition among our teachers, of a higher stand ard of the intellectual and moral at ta nments for which the teacher must strive, and of better teaching and bet ter schools in our State. You go forth from here as apostles of light for South Carolina. This ending will be the be gi iniug of an educational awakening of the people throughout the State and of better educational conditions. And it is the beginninr of weet memories, bringiug back to us the scenes of a month of delight; memories that, as time passes, grow stronger and zweeter, brightening our lives and binding us together in'the strongest bonds through the years to come. We will close by singing '(;d be With You Till We Me.z Again ' 'I ne audience then arose and all joi-J in the song. "God be With You TIll We Meet Azain." After this the summer school was at an end. A few teachers left on the 11 o'clock train that night, but the most of them remained till yesterday, when there was a grand dispersion. The ticket and baggage agents had been up one day and part of another sching tickets and checking baggage, so as to avoid the rush and confusion at the station. ADDRESS TO THE SONS. Division Commander Weston Makes Announcements About Reunion. The folloving has been issued to the South Carolina camps, Sons of Veter ans, from the headquarters of Mr. F. H. Weston, commanding South Caro lina division: Columbia, S. C., July 12, 1S99. It is needless to urge upon the sons of South Carolina Confederates the great work before the orgrcization of United Sons of Confederate Veterans. Nowhere else is the Confederate soldier more loved and honored than in the Palmetto State. The sons of South Car rolina's brave soldiers can never do enough to perpetuate the glorious bis tory of that memorable struggle for which their State was so largely re sponsible and in which their fathers bore such a worthy part. The annual convention of the South Carolina division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, is to be held in Chester, July 26. At that time and place the veter ans will hold their reunion, and the oc casion will be one of thorough enjoy ment and valuable instruction. Every camp of Sons should be fully repre sented, and to that end attention is called to special order No. 1, recently issued. Camps are again urged to elect delegates and send their names at once to the division commander at Columbia and to Arthur L. Gaston, adjutant of Camp J no. R. Culp. at Chester. This is very important and should be attend ed to at once. Eich camp is also entitled to one sponsor and as many maids of honor as may be desired. The names of these should also be sent to Comrade Gaston at Chester. Preparation for their en tertainment in fitting style is being made and a grand ball in their honor is prop'osed. It is very important that the Chester comrades know how many are to be provided for, and the camps are earnestly reqluested to aid our hosts in this way. Let us all unite our efforts with those of the Chester e*)mrades so that the convention may be a success and the deeds of our faihers be appropriately honored in the eyes of the world. By order Francis II. Weston. Division Commander. Ofiial: Jas. A. Hoyt, Jr., Division Adjutant. Some Figures that Dazzle. A biblical student in the city, says the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Record, declares that if the descriptions of Solomon's temple are accurately given in the Bible and by secular authorities, the total values of that edifice and its contents must have exceeded $->0.000,000,000. In the first place, the value of the materials in the rough is estimated at $12,500.000. 000 and the labor at $3,000.000,000. According to Villalpandis, 10,000 men were engaged in cutting cedar lumber, 80.000 were engaged in cutting stone and 60.000 in bearing burdens, for a period of seven years, who, in addition to their wages, received 50 cents a day for food. According to the same au thority. which is corroborated by Jose phus, the vessels of gold were valued at 140,000 talents, which reduced to American money, is equal to $2,326, - 481,015. The vessels of silver are cal ulated at $3.231.715.000, the vestments of the piiests and the robes of the sing ers $10,050.000), and the value of the trumpets of gold was $1,000,000. Right Then, Wrong Now. Gen. Wheeler's eagerness to join in the conquest of the Filipinos does not command much applause in South Caro lina. The reason is given in the follow ing extract from the Anderson People's Advocate: "Hie is going there to fight a people who arc fighting for the very same principle that he gave four of the best years of his life to maintain, and he must fcel when he :jts there that he is occupying a very anomalous position. it is impossible to reconcile the two. If what he fought for in l 635 was right, then what he is fighting for now is wrong. These people only claim the right to govern their own country in their own way, just what we claimed the right to do 38 years aro. If Gen. Wheeler keeps on it might have been fortunate for his history if he had stoppe a ser bullet at IEl Caney." STICKS TO BRYAN. Ex-Senator Pugh, of Alabama, Dis agrees with Senator Morgan, WANTS SILVER DROPPED. Must Renew the Fight of 1896. Party Cannot be Harmon ized by Dodging the Great Issue. While in Washington Thursday Ex Senator Pugh, of Alabama, was asked if be had read the interview of his old :olleague, Senator John T. Morgan, on the question of what sort of man the Democratic convention should nomi nate and what sort of platform it should adopt next year to increase the strength of the Democratic party in the election of a president. "I have read the interview and was greatly surprised and mortified," said the ex scnator. 'Senator Morgan says no man cau question his fidelity to the free coinage of silver, or deny the ne. cessity for its restoration in -ur money system. "The question he asks and answers is: 'Iiow is thi- most important result to be accomplished?' He answers that the first and indispensable thing to be done is to unite-bring together and solidify the divided and antagonistic elements of the Democratic party now existing in the East, South and West on the money question-and, secondly, that such union can best be effected by nominating a man who has no 'ex treme' views and has expressed no 'ex treme' opiLions on the coinage ques tion. "I do not question the sincerity or honesty of Senator Mergan's convic tions, but I feel constrained by my ense of duty to the Democratic party, and the country to enter my earnest protest against and condemnation of Morgan's interview. "What are we to understand by an extreme position na the money or coinage question?" Is that part of the Chicago platform extreme? Does an indorsement of the Chicago platform put a Democrat in an extreme position? What shall the next Democratic con vention do after it shelves Bryan? To be consistent the convention should amend the platform of 1896 so as to get the party out of its so-called present extreme' position on the coinage ques tion and place it in harmony with the onflicting elements, and especially so as to accommodate itself to the elastic and broad gauge position of the new nominee on the coinage question. How is such a feat to be accomplish ed? "My conviction is," said ex-Senator Pugh, "that if the conflicting elements of the Democratic party can be united and brought into harmonious action on the coinage question, which is a mani fest impossibility, by shelving Bryan and- making a new platform, broad enough te take on and satisfy all gold standard advocates, and be endorsed by any nominee who may have to renounce his life-long opinions against free coin ge and pledge himself to approve any bill on that subject the Democrats ight pass through both houses of con ress, the party cannot be very much ivided, and can certainly be very easily united, as it would show itself without any fixed principles on any subj ect. --f the Democratic party would se ure more strength by trusuing a nomi e who had been a lifelong enemy of free silver coinage on his pledge to waive the veto power and approve such bill if passed by the party that elected him, it would be a spectacle unprece ented in history, but it would prove here would never be any free coinage f silver if such a president were elected. " What influence would a Democratic president with gold standard convic tions that he had waived to insure his election exercise in his great office? Would he be silent pending a free coin age bill in congress? Hoav would he distribute his appointments? How many Democrats who had urged Bryans nmination and favored the Chicago platform would receive appointment? "No, si;r it is a grave mistake of my old colleague. I have had much polit ical experience. I have watched parties nd know their history. M1y political career has ended, but I am as much as ever devoted to 'the Democratic party and itr principles as declared in the Chicago platform. "I believe that William J. Bryan is the best organized anel wisest and most reliable Democratic statesman now liv ing, and he is now better established in h confidence of the American people as such a statesman, and is now strong er than he ever was. and can be elected when nominated, as he will surely by the next Demoerotic national conven " As to the next Democratic plat form, with additional declarations against the manifolfi trusts growing out of the existence of the gold standard nd prohibitory tariff duties: also in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the existing war in the Philippine Islands until peace and order is established and the governing power and jurisdiction of the U'nited States is fully recognized throughout the archipelago, also that peace and order and the governing power of the U'nited States is to be es tablished, not for territorial expansion or dominion of the United States, but for the sole purpose of securing to the people of those islands better and_ more stable government, with all the rights, liberty and privileges they show them selves by trial to be capable of exercis ing and ~enjoying in a condition of inde pendent self etn'rnmt-lft No Danger. Thle Columbia Record say's: "There will be a session ot congress before the next national tplatfornms are made by the great parties. The Republicans will have a clear working majority in that session. If the Republicans are in earnest in their anti-trust protesta tions, they need not wait until the time of their convention to inaugurate an anti truist crusade; they can start the bal a-rolling in congress." The trusts need not fear. Thcre is no danger of COUNTRYS CROP CONDITIONS. The Weather Bureau's Week1 Sum mary. Texas Cotton. The weather bureau has issued the following summary of ciop conditions for last week: The weather conditions of the week ending 8 a. m., July 10, 1899, were for the most part favorable for farming operations and crop growth in the dis tricts east of the Rocky Mountains, be ing especially i o in the States of the upper Mississippi and Missouri.valleys and in the Atlantic coast districts. The week has been marked by the absence of high temperatures east of the Rocky Mountains. Excessive rains of the past week have caused some damage to grain in shock in Kansas, and similar damage is reported from Texas as a re sult of the unprecedented rainfall of the previous week. Drought continues in the central Gulf States, Tennessee, portions of the Ohio valley and southern Michigan, be ing very severe in central Tennessee; rains are also needed generally through out the Rocky Mountain districts, but on the Pacific coast the conditions have been seasonable. While rainfalls amounting to one half or three-fourths of an inch are re ported over a considerable portion of drainage basin of the Brazos river in Texas. the conditions of the whole have been favorable to the subsidence of wa ters in the inundated digtricts. This has been another favorable week for corn in the principal corn States, and the corn has generally made rapid growth. Heavy rains and high winds have blown down corn over a consider able area in Iowa. slight damage from chinch bugs is reported from Missouri and drought has checked growth in portions >f Ohio and Kentucky, and caused serious damage in central Ten nessee. Cultivation has been delayed by rains in portions of Michigan and Wisconsin; but on the whole the crop is clean and is largely laid by in the States of the central valleys. Winter wheat harvest is finished, ex cept in the extreme northerly sections, where it is well advanced, although de layed by rains in portions of Wiscon sin and Michigan. In Kansas and Texas some damage has resulted from sprouting in shock. In California harvesting is nearly finished and wheat is ripening in Oregon. N) unfavorable reports respecting spring wheat have been received from the spring wheat region, except from the central and eastern portions of South Dakota. A good crop of oats is being harvest ed in Indiana and Illinois, and the out look in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylva nia is promising. Lodging is reported from rust in Missouri and drought in South Dakota. In the central and eastern portions of the cotton belt cotton has made good progress, although injured to some ex tent by insects in portions of Mississip pi and Georgia. In the Caroiinas it is reported as small but healthy. In South Carolina the Sea Island crop was never better. Outside the flooded re gion in Texas cotton is doing well and fruiting nicely, except in scattered lo ealities, where too rank growth and some complaints of insects are report ed. It will be two weeks yet before the damage to cotton in the flooded dis trict of Texas can be determined, or to the extent which cotton wil' be re planted. In 13 counties in .the south erm half of the Brazos drainage basin the loss resulting from the flood is esti mated at from one-third to one-half the crop. Osving to drought, the tobiceo acre age in Tennessee is much reduced, and the prospects for this crop in that State are poor. In portions of Kentucky and Ohio the growth of tobacco has also been checked by dronght, butgenerally the crop is doing well in that section. In the Carolinas, middle Atlantic States and Ne v England the general outlook for tobacco is improved, the crop being in fine condition in Maryland. Wont Retire Under Fire. Secretary Alger Wednesday made to a representative of the Associated Press his first personal statement concerning the reports that he is about to resign from the cabinet. When asked as to the truth of the rumors, the secretary said: "What do you mean, exactly?" "I mean to ask whether or not the stories that you are to retire from the cabinet in the near future are true. There is nothing in these reports but air," replied the secretary. "I shall not retire this year certainly, and can not say as to the future. My private business and the state of my health will govern my future course. These constant assaults and repeated baseless reports nre, of course, very annoying to me and extremely distressing to my family, but I have never yet retired un der fire and do not propose to do so now. Nothing that I have ever heard or know of has been so cruel as these attacks upon me. If my critics can point to one thing in my official career I have done that I ought not to have done, or I have not done that I should have done, I shall be very glad to sur render my official duties.. To Honor Dewey. It is proposed to erect in New Or leans a monument commemorative of the valor and achievmnents of Admiral Dewey, and a committee consisting of Associate Justice Monroe of the Louis iana supreme court, and ot -er civil and military officials of the state has beeD formed to carry out the design. Popu ar collections of 25 cents arc request ed. In their request for subscriptions the citizens having the matter in charge say: "In thus honoring the son of Ver mont in Louisiana, the sentiment of rich and poor from all parts of the country may be concentrated in the Southland. Who Was He? In The State Thursday morning there is a telegram telling of the doings of a "leading" state officer in Charleston, who had to be put out of a street car on account of drunkenness. State house officials would like to know who was referred to. Those at home and otherwise accounted for are naturally somewhat indignant, as most any state ofiial may be denominated "leading," and innocent ones don't desire any sus picion to be cast upon their behavior or conduct at home or abroad, unless there is justification for it. State house officials are very much interested Iin this matter.-Columnbia Record. RECRUITS SCARCE. Very Few Have Been Accepted in This State So Far. ALL FOR THE REGULARS. Some of the Qualifications for Becoming a Soldier. The Composition of a Reg iment. The recruiting station in the Kendall building is not packed and crowded with young men eager to offer their services to their country. Perhaps the would-be volunteers are waiting for the late First regiment to volunteer as a whole. There have been nine recruits accepted within the past ten days, all for the regular army. All but two of these were colored. Under the new call for volunteers there are to be ten regiments. Re cruiting offices have been established all over the country, and when a volun teer passes the medical examination and is accepted, he is sent to the near est regular army post, headquarters for the regiment being organized. South Carolina is in the department of the Gulf, with headquarters at Atlanta, or Fort McPherson. Ga. When a recruit is accepted here, he is sent to Fort Mc Pherson to join his regiment, the Twenty-ninth. North Carolinians are sent to Camp Meade, Pennsylvania, Georgians, Alabamians, South Caroli nians, etc., will compose the Twenty ninth. While Uncle Sam wants men, and wants them bad, still he affects a lordly air and demands that the men to be sacrificed in the Philippines must not be yagabonds. When a youth applies for admission to the army, the first question put to him is "Are you a minor?" If the young man is not 21 years old his parents or guardian are re quired to make certificate that they do not object to his enlistment. The cer tificate reads in part, "I do hereby fully give my consent to his enlistment as a soldier in the volunteer army of the United States for the period June 30, 1901." This permission having been obtained, the boy is free to enlist. The next-step is to get a recommen dation of character. Uncle Sam claims that he doesn't want dissolute and worthless characters in his army. The character gauntlet having been run, the relentless physician gets in his work, and the physical examination is not as "easy" as one might imagine. Except in special cases none but unmarried men will be enlisted for this service. ORGANIZATION. Each of these regiments will consist of 1,359 men, of whom 50 will he com missioned officers. The following is the make-up of an infantry regiment: One colonel, one lieutenant colonel, three majors, one surgeon with the rank of major, two assistant surgeons, one of whom shall have the rank of captain and one that of first lieutenant, fourteen captains, two of whom shall be available for detail as adjutant and quartermaster, sixteen first lieutenants, of whom one shall be available for de tail as commissary and three for detail as battalion adjutants, twelve second lieutenants, one sergeant major,.one quarter master sergeant, one commissa ry sergeant, who shall have the ranR, pay and allowances of a regimental quartermaster sergeant of infantry, three hospital stewards. three battalion sergeant majors, who shall be senior to and have the pay and allowances of a first sergeant, one baud, and twelye companies, organized into three battal ions of four companies each. Each infantry band shall consist of one chief musician, one principal mu sician, one drum major, who shall have the rank, pay and allowances of a first sergeant, four sergeants, eight corporals, one cook, and twelve pri vates. QUALIFICATIONS FOR RECRUITS. The term of service will be for the period ending Tune 30, 1901, and, as provided in section 12 of the act of March 2, 1899, these enlistments may be made "without restrictions as to citizenship or educational qualifica tions." Applicants for origina enlistment must be bdtween the ages of 18 and 35 years, of good character and habits, able-bodied, free from disease, and must be able to speak the English lan guage. No person under 18 years of ago will be enlisted or re-enlisted, and minors between the ages of 18 and 21 must not be enlisted or reenlisted without the written consent of father, only surviv ing parent, or legally appointed guar dian. Married men will not be enlisted or reenlisted without special authority from a regimental commander or from the adjutant general of tae army. in the absence of a regimental organmza tion. Applicants will be required to satisfy the recruiting offier regarding age and character. They must defray their own expenses to the place of enlistment; their fitness for the military service can determined only upon an examination at a recruiting station. For infantry the height should be not less than five feet four inches, and weight not less than one hundred and twenty pounds and not more than one hundred and ninety pounds. Recruiting offcers are however, au thorized in their discretion to accept desirable applicants who are ten pounds or less averweight or underweight, or who vary not more than a fraction of an inch from the required height or chest measures, if they meet all other re quirements, and their enlistment is recommended by the medical examiner. In every such case the variation from the normal standard should be carefully noted on the enlistments papcr.-The State. Goes to Manila Miss Annie Wheeler has been ap pointed a nurse by the war department and assigned to duty in the Philippines. She will accompany her father, Gen. Joseph Wheeler, to Manila. Miss Wheeler accompanied her father through the Santiago campaign and rendered valuable services to the sick vA wounded. THE TEXAS DISASTER. An Earnest Appeal to the People for Help. Representative R. B. Hawley of Texas, who is now in Washington, Wednesday made public the following statement with reference to the flood situation in that State: "The disaster which has overtaken the. communities in Southern Texas is without parallel in our country. At some points the precipitation was three and a half feet in 60 hours, resulting in a flood of enor mous proportions, covering an area of many square miles to a depth of from 5 to 20 feet, and a loss of from $25,000, 000 to $40,000,000. "No less than 20 populous towns have been inundated as well as thousands of well established and well ordered farms, which today are in a complete state of desolation. Practically every work animal-every milk cow, together with all stock cattle and every vestige of vegetation have been swept away, leaving the country completely devas tated. Withid the influence of this aw ful disaster resided over 100,000 people, almost half of whom are in a state of helplessness tcday, except as they may be provided for by those who are gen erous and able to assist them. "The State of Texas is doing its utmost to relieve the suffering. It is, however, impossible for the State alone, within the time necessary, to succor these people and come to their relief. "When the great Johnstown flood oc curred Pennsylvania could have easily taken care of their own if given time, but as time was, as it is now, the es sential factor, they were obliged to ap peal to a generous public in every part of the Union, and at every quarter the relief was immediate on a scale com mensurate with the disaster. "To the public the flood district of Texas appeals today to supply the necessities of life until the horrors of the flood shall have passed, and the people shall be in position to again ad dress themselves to the task of reestab lishing their homes. "For this purpose it is urged through the press, the different commercial au thorities of every city of the Union that this appeal be answered. "For the distribution of this relief a system is being organized throughout the flooded district immediately under the dire tion of the governor of Texas, to whom all contributions should be addressed at Austin, Tex., and under whose care every dollar will be judi eiously and effectively expended." HAY FOR THE SOUTH. Beggar Weed a Fine Crep In South Atlantic and Gulf States. The south buys $100,000,000 worth of products each year from the north that could be produced at home. Hay is no small item of this $100,000,000, and we wish to see every reader cease paying triubte to the north this year, so far as hay or foraze is concerned at least, says'The Southern Ruralist. We stated some eight years ago that we believed beggar weed to be the best hay crop for Florida. We believe it more firmly today than ever, not only for Florida, but for all the south At lantic and gulf states, wherever there is a considerable percentage of sand in the soil. In nutritive value it is not excelled by any of the northern hay plants, and all animals are eager for it. either green or cured. It is easily grown, in most parts of the gulf states giving two crops and at tbe same time leaves your soil more fertile and in better mechanical condition than before. It has suc ceeded as a hay crop as far north as the northern line of Arkansas and a num er of our correspondents are increasinz their acreage every year in that section, convinced by experience of its value. Most failures wth beggar weed come from attempting to sow it too early. For a good stand it requires heat and moisture. The summer rainy season of Florida furnishes the best conditions for successful germination. In the states north of us we should advise sowing in May or June. Use only cleaned seed, sow broadcast at rate of eight to tea pounds per acre, harrow in to a depth of two inches and let nature do the rest. The soil) especially if it has clods, should be well broken up and worked down fine with a harrow before seed is sown, A ton of beggar weed hay can be made at one-third the cost of a ton of corn fodder, and your stock will relish it far better. If you do not want hay, it is well worth your while to plant it for soil improvement. This is especial ly true of orange groves where the owvn ers do not wish to run the risk of rav ages of the pumpkin bug and danger from fire which comes with velvet bean planting in orange groves. It is hardly worth while to say a word to Florida people as to its value. They know it. It is the readers of The Ruralist in other states that we wish to impress with its value. A Big Damage Suit. The only business transacted in the court of common pleas Thursday was the conclusion of the damage suit of McCabe, the brakeman, against the Southern railway, for $25,000, on ac count of injuries received in an acci dent. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for $12,500. Mr. John P. Thomas, Jr., counsel for defendant, gave notice of appeal. An act of the legislature denies the right of domesti cated corporations to transfer such cases from the State to the United States courts. Judge Simonton of the federal court has held that corporations possess such right, and that cases can be transferred. The supreme court of South Carolina. per contra. has affirm ed the act of the legislature in question and decided that cases cannot be so trasferred. In accordance with the decision of the State supreme court Judge Buchanan denied the motion of the Southern railway to have the Mc Cabe case transferred to the Federal court. H~ence the appeal. -The State. According to history Alger began running some time in the sixties, which reminds the World that he who fights an ...n, awa will live to run another THE CROPS AND WEATHER. What the Department of Agriculture Says About Them. There were a few very hot days dur ing the week ending July 10th, but the average temperature was slightly below the normal. The range of termperature was between 53 and 100 degrees. There were frequent showers during the week, especially over the central and eastern counties, where in places the ground is too wet. Over the north central and western counties the show ers were very few, light and local, and many places are suffering for rain. Rain which began falling after most of the reports were mailed, may have af forded relief. Over the greater portion of the State the moisture conditions are now very favorable. Some damage was caused by hail and high winds, but it was confined to small areas. Reports on cotton, while not wholly favorable, are very promising. The crop is small, healthy, clean and bloom ing freely; lice continue to infect it, in places, but are doing no serious injury. A few report the plant growing too much to weed, others as not growing at all, especially on red land in the west ern counties. Sea island cotton never looked better. The corn crop continues to suffer from bud worms and the larger corn stalk-borer. Drought has also affected the crop seriously over large areas, but on the contrary, in places the crop is very fine. Old corn is practically all laid by. Tobacco improved somewhat during the week, although in places more rain is needed to develop the upper leaves. Cutting and curing has become quite general. In Marion county the crop is turning out very well. Rice is doing well, although cater pillars still infest it at a few points. The early rice is receiving its last flood ing. On some plantations water for flooding is not yet available. Sweet potato slips continue to be set out, peas to be sown and the second crop of Irish potatoes to be planted. Sugar cane and sorghum vary in con dition, but generally look promising. Haying continues on the coast mead ows. Little or no fruit, save a few apples, anywhere in the State, except grapes, which are plentiful in the west ern counties, but are rotting badly. Melons are being shipped in large quan tities to the northern markets. J. W. Bauer, Section Director. It Was Everywhere. Georgia and North Carolina have been holding up their hands in horror because of a case or two of -smallpox said to have been introdueedf4ro South Carolina into those States. It is a well known fact that the first case of small pox in South Carolina in the recent epi demic was brought from Georgia into this State in December, 1897. The "Puolie Health Reports" issued June 23d by the treasury department, United States marine hospital service, show that South Carolina has had few er cases of smallpox than some of her sister States. During the period De emeer 31, 1898, to June 23, 1899. there were in Alabama 140 cases and 2 deaths reported; in Florida 225 cases and no deaths; in Georgia 360 cases and no deaths; in Kansas 213 cases and 22 deaths; in Kentucky 513 cases and deaths; in Louisiana 243 cases and de tths; in Mississippi 23 cases and 3 daths; in North Carolina 174 cases and 1 death; in South Carolina 140 cases and 10 deaths; in Virginia 2,179 cases and 33 deaths. The States above men tioned are in the southern group, but the statistics show that the disease is in every Stat e in the Union. In Maine there were 165 cases; in California 98 eases and 17 deaths; in Ohio 1,018 cases and 21 deaths; in Pennsylvania 660 cases and 17 deaths. So South Carolina is not such a pest hole after all.-The State. A Novel Question. Quaite a novel question was submit ted to the attorney general this morning from the governor's office. It appears that a Negro in Anderson county was convicted and fined for not working the roads. The fine was paid and the Ne gr asks pardon in order that he may have the fine refunded, giving as his reason why pardon should be granted that it has since been established be yond doubt that he is above the age by several years which exempts citizens from road duty. His statement of the fact is admitted to be true, but there is no precedent to show that a pardon will act to return the line 'to him. As sistant Attorney General Gunter is to file the opinion, but he has already come to the conclusion that there is no law whereby the fine can be returned, even though it is proven that the Negro had paid it wrongfully. It seems hard but law is law and the Negro can't get his money back.-Columbia Record. Killed by a Wall. A dispatch to The State from Pied mont, S. C., says: "G. W. Shelton was killed here this morning. Joseph Austin and WV. B. Bryant were proba bly fatally in jured. R. A. Porter had his leg broken. Robt. Freeman had his shoulder dislocated and arm broken. Calaway Smith, N. P. Fleming and Jack West -were painfulhy injured. They were all at work on a warehouse being built for the Piedmont Manufac turing company when at about 11 o'clock the centre brick wall, which was fully 30 fees high, suddenly caved in. buring Shelton, who was instantly killed, and inflicting injuries on the the others as above stated. All that medical skill can do is being done for the injured. The verdict of the coro ner's jury was that G. WV. Shelton came to his death by the accidental falling of the fire wall. Blown Over a Fence. A cyclone struck New York State near Glens Falls Wednesday afternoon. Large trees were up-rooted and other damage was done. James Nesbitt, a farmer living east of Lake George was driving, was blown, with his horse and buggy from the road over a fence and into a field. He was injured so severel that he died. TRIED TO KILL HI. A Greenville Farmer Shot and Seriously Wounded. VOICE SAID, "SHOOT HIM" Followed by the Report of a Gun. Shot Was Fired Through a Window. He May Lose His Arm. The Greenville News, of July 13, says: G. B. Van Patton, a farmer and storekeeper living two miles southeast of this city on the Augusta road, was fired upon by unknown Negroes at 1 o'clock -yesterday morning in his home and wounded in the right hand and-, right forearm and right hip. Twelve No. 7 shot entered the hp, but it is the opinion of Dr. J. B. Earle who at tended Mr. Van Patton, that these wounds are not at all serious. About fifty of the same number of shot en tered the hand and forearm. Some passed out but many of them lodged'. among the small bones of the hand and wrist, and not being able io get them out otherwise Dr. Earle considered it best not to cut open the hand. He strongly suspects that the arm will have to be amputated between the wrist and the elbow. Some four months ago Mr. Van Pat 2 ton had a difficulty in his store with a. Negro named Silas Wilson, who got be hind Mr. Van Patton's counter and - drew a revolver upon him. Wilson is known as a worthless loafer in that - section, but he says he works on the Birnie place near there. Several burg laries have been committed in that see tion lately. Wilson was arrested yes terday, and at his relative's, where he was found, there was a shot gan, but it evidently had not been recently fired. He was released on a $200 bond, which was signed by a Negro by the name of B. T. Harris. The charge against him was assault with a deadly weapon, this being based on the affair happening four months ago, when he threatened the life of Mr. Van Patton at the tim& he drew a revolver upon him and told him on leaving that he "would git him. About 10 o'clock Tuesday night Mr. Van Patton says he heard some one "fooling about" in front of his store, which fronts on the road. He went out and saw Wilson move off rapidly. Wilson says he was just passing the place. At 1 o'clock yesterday Mr. Van Patton was aroused by the breaking of a pane of glass in his kitchen window. He arose, went into the kitchen with his pistol and fired through the window. Then he went back into his bedroom, slipped on his shoes, obtained a light and started out for the kitchen door, with the light in the left hand and the revolver in his right. As he got to the centre of the room heard a voice just outside the window through which he had shot say "Shoot him; damn it, shoot him." Ne was in the act of rrs ing his revolver to shoot through the window again, but was not quick enough. There was a terrible report, the glass was shivered~ and Mr. Van Patton's revolver dropped upon the floor. Mr. Van Patton yelled for help, which came to him quickly from his neighbors. By this time the assailants -, had made good their escape. The Negroes had evidently made up a plot to murder Mr. Van Patton, who was alone in the house at the time; his wife and only child were visiting in the city. The assailants had made no at tempt to enter the store, and from this it is surmised that they did not intend steal but murder. They broke into a bedroom, but this was locked off from the one Mr. Van Patton was occupying. The kitchen window where they broke the pane could easily have been raised, so it is thought that the breaking of the pane was for no other purpose than to attract Mr. Van Patton into the room so as to get a fair cannce to shoot at him. The assailants could hardly hope to com mit robbery after shooting Mr. Van Pat ton, because there are several houses in the immediate neighborhood and the re port could not fail to be heard. Several barefoot tracks were found in the yard, but they were not distinct enough to give a clue of any value The escape of the Negroes again ill ustrates the great need the county has of a pair of good blood hounds. Money Can't Buy Them. An offer from a prominent firm of ship brokers, doing a large foreign busi ness, to purchase the Reina Mercedes and any and all of the other war craft captured during the late war, has aroused a suspicion that Spain is trying this indirect manner to obtain posses sin of the vessels and thus remove the ofense to Spanish pride caused by the floating of the American flag over her ships. The navy department will not sell any of these vessels and that an swer will be returned to the writer of the letter. Secretary Long has decided that it will not pay to attempt to reno vate the Mercedes anda use her as a warship. She will be left as a show ship, like the old Constitution, to grat ify the patriotism of the American peo The Hampton Home. The central committee which has had in charge the erection of a house for Gen. Hampton has for that purpose purchased a lot at the cornor of .Barn well and Pendleton streets containing one-third of an acre. The lot was bought for $1,500. The plans for the house have not been adopted, nor is it known when work will commence, but, there will be no more delay than is ab soutely necessary. The site purchased is near the home of Mr. John P. Thomas, Jr., in the extreme eastern part of the city.-The State. At a church meeting in one of the suburbs of Chicago, the inquiry was made whether a certain member of the congregation, whose financial affairs were somewhat involved, had "got re ligion." To which a lawyer present re sponded: "No, I think not, unless it's in his wife' s name." We fear that