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Sixty-Eigfht Thousand Dollars in Fraudulent Bonds. CULPRIT IS UNDER ARREST. The Forger Gets Big Loans from a New York Banker ard Bank on the SDuri ous Bonds. Julius Schroeter, of Forest Hill, N. J., was arrested in New York Thurs day on a warrant charging him ith forgery on complaint of Ladenburg, Thalman & Co., bai kers, w ho charge Se uroeter with fori:g boids of the Et&Le of Virginia. Upon these ateged forged Virginia bond, amounti- to about $10000', it i, charged that Schroeter SUecede in obaulet loans amounting to $668,001) !rum tht 1ulp-Tt ers' and Traders' Nazional JBank and Ladenberg, Tha imau & C. Accordog to the my as given cut by Captain McCluaky, Senrocter L0 tained an iutroduatia to .ono of the presidents of the Importer.' and Trad ers' National Bank in Septeinaer last, and negotiated a loan of $30,000, giv ing as security -50.50000 worth cf Vir ginia bonds. The folBing month he brought to the bank $45,000 more of these bonds, on which he asked for a loan of $20,000, but there being some suspicion he was put off for a time. Some of the bonds were sent to Vir ginia for verification when it was found that they were forgeries. They then demanded that Schroeter put tp good collateral. On November 17 Schroeter called on Ladenberg, Thalman & Co., and nego tiated for a loan of $3S,000. He offered $56,000 of these Virginia state bonds. He failed to get the amount that day, and the next day returned with $16,000 of bonds which he offered for a loan of $10,000. This he got in two checks for $5,000 each. Schroeter then took one of the checks to the Importers' and Traders' National Bank awd paid that amount on his first loan there. redue ing the idebtedness to $25,000. He also gave the' bank 450 ,hares of stock in a manufacturing cowpaoy in which he was interested and received back for them $45,000 of the Virginia bonds. As he had alreadJy given the firm of La denburg, Thaiman & Co. $16,000 of the $56,000 offered, he took $40,000 of the returned bonds to them and received the $28,000 promised him on the $38,000 loans. Later the Ladenberg, Thalman firm investigited the transaction and found that the bonds were bogus and imme diately informed the chief of detectives. Captain McClusky said Schroeter had als been successful in negotiating a loan with the Seaboard National Bank. Bere he put up $30,000 of the bonds and received $20,000 on them. In negotiating the loans, Schroeter is quoted by Captain MeClubky as say ing that the bonds were not his but be longed to Mrs. Emma Emeline Turner, formerly of Mt. Vernon, but now living in London, England. He is also said to have shown a power of attorney which authorized him to dispose of her property. Captain McClusky said he thought there was no doubt the power of attorney was also a forgery. It is said that the bonds were issued in 1882 by the Kendall Bank Note c->mpany of New York city on order of the State of Virginia. Previous to the full issue, the amount of which is not known by the police, 500 of the bonds were issued and sent t'o Virginia. The order was unsatisfactory to the Virginia officials and the rest of the order was cancelled. The 500 bonds which has been made and shipped to Virginia were afterward sold at public auction in an express of fioe in Virginia as curiosities and mere ly as pieces of common paper. Schroeter was arraigned in police court and held in $5,000 bail for fur ther examination. He was unable to furnish bail and was sent to the tombs. Schroeter refused to say anything at all either about himself or about the finan cial transaction. The woman, Emeline Turner, whom Schroeter is quoted as having said to have owned the bonds, is believed by the polhce to be in the neighborhood of New York instead of in London. The police say that she has been indimately~ acquainted with Schroeter for some years and a party to his dealnes. A Sketch of dioebel. William E. Goebel, who was an sited in Frankfort, Ky., L.ssL w.eek, is about thirty- five years old and single. He has been a prominent figure in Kentucky politics a number of years -and was recognized as the democratic leader of that state. By many he was called the democratic dictator, but it is answered that the party follows his lead but with slight disaffection heie and there. Senator Geebel was the author of the famous Goebel election law, which brougt about the present state of affairs in that state. The senator was noininated for governor last fall by the Democratic convention at Louisville, and then followed a cam paign of great bitterness and recrinii nation. He was opposed by John Young Brown, Democrat, and W. S. Taylor, Republican. The Kentucky state board of canvassers decleared Taylor elected after a hard contest, and he was given the certificate and iniaugu rated governor, but the Democrats served notice of contest and the legis lattire decided in favor of Goebel, the day after he was shot. TJhere has be',n much feeling between Goebel and his opponents and the attempt at assassina tion is 'iot so surprising as might be e-pected. Goebel shot and kaled a man in Covington, KZy., several years ago.. John Sanford, a banker, was the victim. Duane Burned to Death. Mrs. Mary JDuane was burnt to death Thursday night in ther room at No. 2 Washington street, Charleston, 5. C. Passer'. by discovered the place to be are and the alarm was turned in. When the door was forced the woman's body, burned to a ciip, was found, in removing the effects of the room $700 in paper and .$300 in coin was found seured between the mattresses of the bed. In building the fire in the chimi ney Mrs. Duane's clothing probably be. came ignited and falling in a faint to the floor the room caught fire and she was burned before assistance could be summoned-Columbia State. Mr. Douthit's Place. Since the announcement of the resig nation of Commissioner Douthit the names of several have been mentioned in connection with the comm issioner shp. Among thosa talked of are Col. . W. Vance, who was put out to give Mr. Douthit the place, and Represcn tatives Crum, Ly les and Etird. If the senate bill passes the h2(use the com missioner will be elected by the general To the FolloWing Most Exellent:Ad vice from the Cotton Plant. There is no doubt that the farmers of the South are standing just now at the parting of the ways, and upon their decision will depend to a great extent the policy and plans of a generation. Cotton has given them more money per pound than for any year in a decade, because the crop of last year was raised for less cost per pound, and hence there was more clear money realized. Be sides the average farmer was in a bet ter financial plight than he has been for ten years, because he has been practicing economy and raising his own food crops for man and beast. The money brought by his cotton crop has been more nearly a surplus than any year since the inflated prices that pre vailed just after the war, when every I thing was booming along that line, and the contagion of going into debt took hold of the farming class and held it in a frm grip fo twenty years. Conditio..S are changed for the better, and nearly every farmer will admit that the best plan is to raise supplies on the farm, make as few obligations as possi ble, and cultivate only enough cotton to call it a surplus crop. The large acreage in wheat would indicate that the fa-mers are determined to stick to the policy which has in a large measure brought them out of debt aud planted their feet on solid ground, but there are signs that many of them arce weaken ing and vacillating at the resent time, which would forebode a retura to past conditions and restore the ruinous man agement of affairs in the South. One of these signs is that the fertilizer com panies and agents are generally report ing larger sales than usual, and the in ference is that the fertilizers will be used on the cotton crop. This may not be true in every instance, but the large majority of farmers are not yet adetas in the use of commercial fertili zers for any other purpose than raising cotton. On the threshold of another year the farmers in the South should make haste slowly about putting their trust too much in cotton. What guarantee is there that prices such as are now prevailing will be realized next fall? A craze on planting cotton this spring will inevitably lower the price in Sep tember, and already the speculators are beginning to use the increased purchase of fertilizers to depress the price of cot ton futures. Will wo never learn that the world is conibined against the Southern farmer to get his cotton for the least money, and that every factor which indicates a larger crop is used to our disadvantage? The sensible and pointed remarks of Mr. R. T. Nesbitt, of Georgia, which we print in another column, gives needed information and advice, which ought to be taken by all the farmers of the South. His coun sel in regard to the farmer putting him self into a position whereby he will not be forced to sell cotton early in the sea son is worthy of careful study. The bonded warehouses may not be accessi ble to every community, but there are few towns in the South where the farm ers cannot make arrangements with lo cal banks and merchants to get ad vances upon cotton after it has been baled, and thereby prevent the rash of the crop to the interior markets early in the fall. There is no doubt that the advice given last fall to hold back cotton aided to a great extent in rais ing the price in October and November, but concert of action among the farm ers through banks and merchants where bonded warehouses do not exist will have a like effect another season. Let no one be deceived by the pres ent prices of cotton, which would not yield near the profit this year than was realized from the crop of 1899. Not only will the farmer have to pay more for his fertilizers, but as prices have advanced all along the line, his labor will cost him more than last year, and he cannot buy a mule for anything like the price paid one year ago. His plows will cost nearly a hundred per cent. more than they did last year, and all machinery used on the farm has advanced not less than fifty per cent. Agricnu ural implements and all else bought from the stores will cost more this year, and it is a matter of impossiblity that cottoR can be grown as cheaply as last year, or in fact that any kind of farming can be done in 1900 at the same cost as in 1899. Far mers who are so unfortunate as to buy provisions this year will feel the effect keenly every time they enter a store to gt their supplies. Will the farmers listen to the warn ings of their best and most reliable counsellors? Or will they ignore the facts staring them in the face, and plunge headlong into a course which cannot end in any other way than dis appintment and disaster? The Cot ton Plant to the full measure of its Iinfluence wishes to avert the calamity Ithat is lying just ahead, and- recognizes with intense satisfaction that somne of the farmers in South Carolina are pre paring to fight t be trusts by organizing their forces in due season. Still the great masses of our people are supinely yielding to what they consider the de cree of fate against them, when by in telligent and earnest effort they might teach a lesson to the fertilizer trust that would benefit them for many years to come. A Good Bill Killed. The bill to provide for the sale of the governoi 's mansion came up in she House of Representatives Thursday. Mr. Rogers moved to strike out the enacting words. Mr. Gantt spoke in favor of the bill. The governor's man sion can be sold for $30,000. Half of that money can trect a handsome mod ern home for the governor. The pres ent mansion is almost a disgrace. It was never intended for a residence, but was an arsenal. The hill would turn into the treasury $15,000 in addi tion of the erection of a nice home on property now the State's. The vote was 42 to 42 and the speaker decided aaint striking out the enacting words. 'he vote was clinched on motion of Mr. Gantt. Mr. Richards moved to in definitely postpone the bill. This was carried by a vote of 55 to 42 and subse quently clinched. A New Device A Chicago man is applying for a patent for a "nickel-in-the slot" device that will be appreciated by the users of electric motor vehicles. He proposes to establish small storage stations, sup plied from a central point, at which "dead" motors may, on the dropping Iin the slot by their owners of a coin or coins, be sufficiently charged to carry ~them home. The device is automatic Ithroughout. The supplemental lists'obf casualties fill two columns in non;>arell type in he London papers, making 1,200 re >orted thus far in Gen. Buller's opera tions north of the Tugela river. The Daily Chronicle estimates that the total exceeds two thousand. The forty per cent. loss at Spion Kop is greater than any British force ever suffered, except mesibl atsra Spain, in 1811. England Has Two Hundred and Thirteen Thousand Trocps IN AFRICA TO FIGHT BOERS. It is Beyond Comparison the Largest Body of 1roops Great Britain Ever In the Field. A dispatch from London says Mr. Wyndham's remarkable declaraon in the house of commons Thursday that Great Britain wili have in a fertniglt a total of 213,0K) troom in South Ifrica with 452 guns, is received with wonder went. All are now there. eXc.-t about 18,000 that are afloat. Beyo:-d com parison this is the largest force Gr-at Britain has ever put into the tiebi. At the end of the Crimean war sie nad craped together eighty thousami meu. Wellington at WVaterloo had 25,000. Roughly siaking ouly eighty th iand men are at the front. Teu thou-and others have been !ost and 10,10t are shut up at Ladymith. Excluding these there are severty thousand troops who have not yet been in action in additio i to those at sea. Why so many have not .et been en gaged is explained by the lack of land transport and the origin of supplies to which Lord Roberts is devoting his ex perience and Lord Kitchener his genius for details. It seems as though the weight of these masses must destroy the equilibrium which now holds the British forces stationary wherever they are in contact with the Boer army. Lack of transports and organization will not explain adequately why, when generals at the front request reinforce ments, they get them in rather small numbers. Knowledge is slowly pene trating to London that large garrisons must be kept in Cape Colony to hold down the Cape Dutch who, asevery one knows, outnumber the British residents three to one. Old Hens for Mothers. While the chit f uze of the hen is to lay eggs and to furnith poultry for the table, it mubt not be forgotten that this is on-ly a part of the original de sign which must not be entirely super ceded by inventions like the incubator. This latter may do where thousands of young fowls have to be grown for broilers. Not en->ugh hens could be secured in brooding condition to meet this demand, especially as it is the largest when the natural impulse of every hen is to lay more eggs and not to become a mother, so says t writter in Massachusetts Plowman. Hence the incubator is, and will always be, a ne cessity. But we hate to tbink of the life of an incubator hatched chieken that it is to grow up and live for ycaia. perhaps, and never hear the sound of the ben's familiar "cluck." It will practically grow up without ary rela tions, the most desolate kind of an or phan. There are thousands of farmers who keep hens who do not care to grow more chickens than their own hens can hatch. We would advise all such, in thinning off their flocks of poultry, to save a few old hens to batch out the chickens needed for next year. The old hens will not lay many eggs. Prob ably their egg supply has been mostly exhausted. But they will bie all the more interminable sitters because of this. Gtve them the eggs of the most prolific egg producers of the flock, for these will make the best layers. Most people encourage the brooding habit among their flocks by allowing hens that are nearly past laying to steal a nest, lay ten or a dozen eggs and hatch them out. Of course, the old hen is awfully proud of these chicks, which she knows are all her own, as only her own eggs are in the nest. IBut the chikeus of these old hens will take after their mother in laying few eggs, and then quickly becoming broody. It is by the contrary policy, breeding from eggs laid by fowls that have little inclination to set, that the best breeds of egg producers were probably orig inally produced. The same policy con tinued will largely increase egg produc tion. A Criminal Assault. John Wade, a colored hack driver of Spartanburg, was arrested in that city Thursday on the charge of criminally assaulting a 'lored w~man named Lily Summey, who came down on the train from Hendersonville, bound for Ne . York city, where she was going to cook for the family of Mr. John L Elliott, on Wednesday evening. The woman had a ticket through to New York, and failing to make connection with the northbound train on account of some delay of the Asheville train, she bad to spend the night in Spartan burg. W ade saw the woman, who is about 25 ys: r, of age and of comely appearance, ue, under pretext of taking her to a board ing house nearby, enticed her to take a walk with him, and accomplished his purpose. He was arrested and is in jail, where he will remain until the next term of court. Friday night the colored people of the city held an in dignation meeting at the court house and some red hot resolutions were passed denouncing the act of the hack man. The colored people are much exercised over the matter. Goebel Like the Maine. The New York Sun'sFrcank fort, Ky., correspondent, in the course of his re port of the attempted assassination of Goebel, says that the day before the tragedy, Congressman John Hen/ricks, a warm personal friend of Goebel, said to him: "Senator, I have reason to believe that there is a plot on foot to assassi nate you. For the sake of the party, if you will not be careful for your own sake, don't go near the State house." Goebel rep'ied: "Why. Jonn, I never go unaccom panied." "But what good will the men with you do, if you are shot from ambush?" "If [ am shot from ambush," replied Senator Goebel, "my death will be to the Democracy of Kentucky, what the blowing up the Maine was to Cub " With that he aie uissed thle subject, and it is the only instance kon o his giving it a moment's reogaition, even to his most intimate friends. A Centenarian. Fannie Blaton, colored, aged one hundred and eleven years, died on the 30th inst., on Dr. Jesse Cleveland's place, near Spartanburg. The old wo man was raised by Mr. Blanton, of Union county, and has been living near this city since the close of the Confed erate War, with her daughter, who was the wife of Bob Bomar, both of whom died several years ago.-Spartanburg Hrad. What Re Says About a Conference in His Office. In view of the question of Senator Manning on the floor of the senate in regard to the alleged caucus on the dis pensary, said to have been held in the governor's office, Gov. M3Sweeney has made a statement in regard to the mat ter. He says he certainly has no ob jection to the facts being_ known. He says: "There was rotning private or secret about it. I saw that there were a number of bills relating to the liquor question being offered in the general assembly, nearly all of which pointed to the abolition of the state board of control, and the conference was held simply to try to get the friends of the dispensary to agree o.; some plan and present it, and avoid long and useless discussion and thus help to shorten the session. I had no administration bill to present and have had none. My po sition was clearly and positively stated in my niess e. I insisted in the cn furelne that I did not wantto be on the board of control, ind so far as wanting p.ver to appoint the board, I never thought of that, and knew nothing of Senator Hlenderrn's amendment until I heard it read in the senate. "At the conference, which was held, it was distinctly understood that it was not biaing on anyone, and the only purpose was to try to get the friends of the dispeusary, holding divergent views, together and agree on some plan anid thus save the time of the legisla ture. I have not assumed to dictate to the members of the legislature, nor have 1 tried to get them to place more power in my hands. Neither have I tried to shirk any responsibility that was properly mine. "I do not conceive it improper for members of the legislature to confer about important legislation and for ef forts to be made to get those who are seeking the same end together on a plan to accomplish that end and thus save time and money for the people. That is all there w-ts in it. I have not edeavored to influence legislation fur ther than to make suggestions, as I am commwanded by the constitution in my annual and special messages. My aim has been and shall be to execute the laws as made by the law-making power." LENGTH 0? THE SESSIONS, 'P Will Hardly Last Over the Forty' Days Limit. The Columbia Record says "the joint meeting of the judiciary com mittees of the two houses held Wednes day afternoon failed to decide as to the constitutional limit of this session :f the legislature. The committee divided even on the question. Eleven members believed that the session can not last over forty days with pay for the members, while the other eleven hold just the opposite view. The question arises over an interpretation of the constitution. That instrument provided that four sessions after the adoption of the constitution the general assembly might sit over forty days with pay. As the constitution was adopted in 1895 it would seem plain that the session of 1899 was the last of the unlimited sessions. It is con tended on the other hand that the con stitution refers to four legislatures elected after the ccnstitution went into operation. The sessson of 1895 was elected before the constitution was adopted, but its meeting was post poned by the constitutional con vention from the fall to January of the next year. It is held by one side that this legislature does not* count and con sequently the present session is the last of the four. Since there is some doubt about the matter, it is safe to say that the legislature will not be in ssion over forty days." To County Auditors. Comptroller General Derham is send ing the following circular letter to county auditors: Dear Sir: In writing up your dupli ate for 1900, please. observe the fol lowing: First. Require a tax return in due form from all taxpayers. Do not ac cept a return that says "same as last year, or no change in property." Where the party desires to send return by mail, let him make return under oath before a magistrate or notary pablic and transmit by mail. Second. Befere entering a name on your duplicate, check the returns by the duplicate of 1899 and see who have failed to make return, or if they are in another school district, cr township. Be carful in this work and do not en ter property twice on your duplicate. Never charge a piece of land to anyone until y ou know the source from whence acquired, and then deduct the same number of acres from the acreage of the former owner, as~shown on the tax duplicate. Submit to the township board of as sessors the names of all taxpayess who were on your duplicate in 1899 and who do not make return for 1900. An osevance of these instructions will prevent mia~y errors and the necessity Ifor this departeont to conbider peti tions looking to the corrections of er rors which should have never been made. Please acknowledge receipts of this lcttcr. Yours truly, J. P. Derhamn, Comptroller General. The Eise In Paper. The rise in paper is really getting very serious for the newspapers of the country and one by one they are announcing that they have found it necessary to raise the price of their papets to $1.50 or $2. One thing is certain. The papers cannot affo.'d to send out copies to people who are care less about pay ing for it. As the price is now, many papers are sending out over a dollar's worth of paper, not counting the cost of anything connect ed with the printing or the mailing for the price of one dollar and it is said that the pri,:e is still rising. We are inclined to think that this is a Repub lican trust scheme to throttle the inde pendent country press that stands as such a menace to their supremacy. Florence Times. Pats Washington Aflame. Thle shooting of Senator Goebel in Frakfort, Ky., created the wildest exciteent in Washington. Several members of the Kentucky delegation in in the house, including Wheeler, who was one of Goebel's ablest lieutenants, will leave for Frankfort at once, and it is freely predicted here that the shooting of Goebel is only the first of a series of tragedies that will inevitably follow. The fact that Goebel was shot from the executive building adds to the flame. A kingdom for a cure ! You need not pay so much. A twenty-five cent bottle of L. L. & K. Will drive all ills away. Wen't Liten to It. The Spartanbuirg Herald inU discussing the resignation of Dr. Carlisle from the presidency of Wofford College, which he has tendered to take effect on the first of June, says "we have nev er for one moment entertained the thought that Dr. Carlisle's resignation as President of Wofford College could be ac cepted. Even if the trustees under some mental aberration should accept it, the whole state from the mcuntains to the ,ea, the whole South, the friends of education and the intelligent and appreciative sentiment of the whole country would cry' out against it. Dr. James H. Carlisle is the most conspicuous figure in the South today identi fied with christian education. He is one of the few men who can be set down as great-great in mind, in heart in force of character such as leaves an im press upon humanity. We can not believe that any sane man would willingly consent to ac cept his resignation. Certainly no friend of Wofford College would allow it if by any means it could be averted. Dr. Carlisle is not old. He is in the prime of his power, his mind is as vig orous and his influence upon this community as strong as it ever was. He is indeed a man whose place cannot be filled. We feel assured that when the time comes and he sees the need for his continued labors at the head of Wofford's faculty, he will reconsider or else some means will be employed to av ert such a blow as would inevit ably follow his retirement from the Presidency. There is not a college in this or any other coun try but would honor itself 1n electing Dr. Carlisle as its head, even though he was enfeebled, which he is not. Even with old age, with bad health, though he should be decrepid and blind, he would still occupy a place that no other man could occupy. We cannot believe that the Methodist of South Carolina will allow such a man to leave his post, at least without exhaust ing every resource to keep him there. The influence of James H. Carlisle at the head of Wof ford is incalcuable in dollars and cents." This is a splendid tribute to Dr. Carlisle, but he deserves it all. We join the Spartanburg Herald in protest ing against his retirement from Wofford College as its head. If need be give him an assistant who could lighten his work, but by all means let the grand, hum ble christian scholar remain at the head of old Wofford. Homicides in South Carolina. No more generally inetresting information could be given than that contained in compilation of figures from annual report of the solicitors in the several cir cuits showing the number of men slain by their fellow men during the past year in South Carolina, to what extent the slayers have punished and how. Acording to these reports there were two hundred and twenty one murders in South Carolina last year. In these cases the parties were tried for murder. Iaddition there were six other homicides for which the parties were tried for manslaughter only. All six of the man slaughter cases resulted in con victions There were ninety seven convictions for murder and eighty-three acquittals, the others being disposed of by "no bills" and dismissal of the cases. A search of the records as to the disposition of the cases shows only eight death penalties and twenty-nine life sentences. The other sentences were only terms sentences. Think of it. Two hundred and twenty-one cases of murder, and only eight exe cutions. Is it any wonder that human life is cheaper in South Carolina? According to these figures it is safer to kill a man than to steal a pig, far as one's personal convenience is con cerned. A Regular Bonanza. Mr. W, J. Thackston, of Greenville, who is in the city in the interest of the Pikens cotton mill, Boon te be estab lished, made a statement about cotton mill investments yesterday which shows their value. "In 1884," said alr. Thack ston, "a young man in this city was giveli $10,000 by a relative. The fath er of the young man was an intimate friend of Capt. Ellison Smyth and the entire amount was invested in stock of the Pelzer Manufacturing company. It was never taken out. The accumulated dividends were left with the first in vestment. Late in December the Soung owner of the stock 'oecame of age and he called to see Capt. Smyth for a settlement. *Tbe stock had risen in value from $10,000 to $17 000 and he accumul~ated dividends amounted to $11,000, making a total of $2S,000, a clear profit of $18 000 on the invest ment. The man was so well pleased with cotton mill stock that he immedi ately put' his money out in other mill securities. "-News and Courier. That Spanish Cennon. The captured Spanish cannon given to the city of Columbia. by the United Saes government arrived here Friday and is at the Columbia, Newberry and Lrens deot The cannon is a very arg'e brass one about 14 feet in lengh th rnd is not mounted, the city having to loot to that. It is evidently a gun used only for siege or defense purposes. It weighs 6,600 pounds. It is proposed to mount the gun and place it in the State capitol grounds. It will be one of the most interesting sights to visi tors to Columbia henceforth.-Colum bia State. He Was Absent Minded. An absent-minded Western Repre sentative was seen to hurry up to a par. eel mail box in Washington the other day and carefully deposit therein a scrap of paper which he carried in one hand. In the other hand was a bundle of papers ready for mailing, and these he hastily threw into a garbage barrel which happened to be standing on the curb nearthe arel box. Scientist! and Alleged Wise Voiks Figure Out the Date. Scientists do queer things sometimes. One of them has attempted to calculate In cold mathematics how soon we may expect the Judgment Day; and he has prepared a paper on the subject. Starting with the total amount of energy stored in the sun and the fact that the orb of day is continuously dis tributing energy equivalent to the work of seven men for each area of the earth's surface of the size of the human body, our statistician calculates that it will require 3.375.000.000 years of outpouring before a sensible diminu tion of the quantity of energy given out can be detected. Up to this distant period mountains will stand, rivers will run, plants will grow and animal life will exist much as it does to-day. If you realize that solar energy as soon as used reasserts itself in some other form, either as sound, electricity or simple motion, it is easy to see that this estimate is too small rather than too great. At any rate, the world is not liable to stop going for a few years yet. according to his reasoning. Some idea of the vastness of the force that Is meted out to us from the physical sotirce of earthly life may be gained, he says, by considering that if the energy that the sun gives to earth In a single day could be bottled up and directed against Niagara Falls i would cause that great body of water to dash back again up hill for 4.000 years. If turned into a single blast of heat it would cause every living creature in stantaneously to blight and wiiher: the Ice around the poles would be melted in one and three-quarter minutes and In another eleven seconds all the oceans would be turned into steam. If transmuted into electricity a spark would flash from the earth as far as the planet Jupiter. If collected into a single sound the vibration thereof would not only break every ear drum in the world, but would uproot the giant trees of the forest. amd even level niountains. If changed Into a momen tary flash of light its burst would be so blinding as to penetrate the walls of the deep dungeon and destroy the sight of every living creature. In bril lianey this flash would exceed the brightness of the sun itself over a mil lion times. For one man to expend an amount of energy equivalent to that which the earth receives from the sun in the tenth part of a second it would have to work hard continuously for 57,000,000 years. This calculation Is remarkaTe in that it differs by more than 3.374.000. 000 years from the period which scien tists generally believe that the world will come to an end. Such experts as Darwin and Huxley believed that it could not sustain life two million years hence. FREE BLOOD CURE. An Offer Providing Fait' to Sufferers Eating Sores, Tumors, Ulcers, are all curatde by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm,) which is made especially to cure all terribie Blood Diseases. 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Beard, Town alarshall of Tifton, Ga., is now evading a warrant in the hands of the sheriff, who is nmak ing a diligent search for the fugitive. saturday nicht an overcoat was mtissed from the hote!, and Sunday morrning three unknown Negroes, who had come in the previous day. were arrested on suspicion. As no evidence eould be obtained against them, the marshal and several men took them off in the woods to make them confess. The marshall beat one until he was tired and then made him beat the other two As the Ncgroes still denied the theft, the beating was kept up nearly all day. until late in the evening one of the Negroes died, and in a few hours later another one died. The are said to have been mutilated besides the beating. The third Negro is still alive. A coro ner's jury was summoned, and afc~r in vestigation returned a verdict that the deceased "came to their death at the hands of W. WV. Beard, the marshal. and others. and that th~e same~ was il ful murder." A warrent was issued for Beard's arrests, but he has left for parts unknow. Enrned His Infidel Library. Marshall 0. Wag-'oner, the convert from it fidelity to C~hri-timnity has at last burned his infidel library, which, was one of the fiuest in the wold. Hie has suent thousands of collars and travelled far and wide to collect it His first idea was to have a publie bonfire, but decided, in viewv of the fact that many tmight doubt his sin erity, to burn the books in the fur nace of the Memorial Umted Brethr& n church, enroner of Ltvrence avenue ano Hieks street, whieb was done iast night in the presence of the Rev. E. P. Rosselot, the pastor, and a few inti mate friends. Along with the boo~ks went a number of etchings and engrav ings of an atheistic nature. lie ap peared to be the har'piest man in Toledo as he saw the flimes gradiually dstroy ing hxa collee: ion. Hie delayed the burning so long bocause he had lent many oooks and was desirio-is of securing them and destroying all at the same time.-Toledo Dispat ch. Died of Acid Poisoning. Jessee Jones. colored, died i'hursday from a.-id poisoning while working in the acid chamber of the C2hicora Fer tilizer Works. The death of Jones has been reported to the coroner and an investigation will be held as it is alleged that after Jones was taken sick in the acid chamber he was placed in the blacksmith shop where he was allowed allowed to remain Ior six hours and that he died without attention or medi al aid. Jones has been an employc of the Chicora works for a number of years, always working in the acid chamber. Wednesday morning he went to work as usual mixing aeid in the acid chamber. lHe had r~ot been at work long when he was suddenly over eome from inhailing the fumes and gases, and in an unconsciouds condition he was taken out and placed in the blacksmith shop, where he died. after six hours.-Charleston Post. His Neck Broken. Ned Harris, a colored emiploye at the Georgia Chemical works. Augusta Ga., was instantly killed Thursday morning.1 He was rolling a~ car along an elevated track and fell to the ground, a distance of 30 feet, fall brang his neck. dB$0@LTELY % Makes tie food more del ROYAL &%Xft PM' THE DRYEST STATE RAIN FALL VARIES FROM THREE TO TWENTY-FIVE !NCHES A YEAR. The People Do Not Concern Them selves Much About the Rain, But They Have a Fine System of Irri gation, Ari7ona has some timber in the moulntains and grass in the valleys, but these grow in spite of the fact that Arizona is in the dryest part of the United States. Even within the bound aries of this one territory, however, the rainfall varies from over twenty-five inches a year at Camp Goodwin in the mountains to three inches a year at Yuma on the desert. Twenty-five inch es of rainfall a year means, perhaps, a possible crop. Three inches a year means no water at all. The people of Arizona do not, therefore, concern themselves much with rain. Tliey talk about it once in a while, and on occa sions an inch or two comes down in a solid chun. and is called a cloud burst. but such a rainfal has little re lation to the possibilities of the soil from a productive point of view. The settler in Arizona first seeks run ning water. and then, with confidence, settles himself upon the land and straightway proceeds to get rich, for running water upon Arizona soil is like unto a gold mine-it produces wealth. This has been the system ever since the memory of man, for there are Ari zona ditches which are nearly 400 years old, and the present generation Is not quite sure what manner of people dug them. It is within the memory of man, how ever. when Arizona was almost a trackles desert. overrun with fierce and warlike Indians, and it is within the memory of even the children of Arl zona that all this has changed; deserts have been made to bloom and all war like Indians have either been sent to the happy hunting grounds or are used for exhibition purposes in wild west shows and Eastern expositions. All this has been (lone by ignoring the usual way of watering the earth and by utilizing the me.ting snowbanks as their waters raced toward the sea. Fifteen hundred miles of artificial wa ter courses. or ditches, have these am bitions and industrious Arizona people dug, and 500.000 acres of this wonder ful valley lands grow rich with green things of the earth in response to the water from these ditches. It is not all fun to settle on these arid lands, and it is no easy task to have. dug these ditches, but the results have paid ten fold to those who dared the -task. Great mining camps are always near by. Miners always have money to spend They want the best the earth can give them, and the Irrigated lands of Ar! zona have been paid for with the money dug from the bowels of the vol canie hills. The running streams of Arizona are now doing all they can and still more water is wanted. To get this the peo ple of the valleys not so favored with: preparing to store the little that falls from the clouds at some seasons of the year. In the mouths of rugged can ns they will place great rock dams. The melting snow and the winter rains will here mingle and lie quiet until the drought strikes the valley below and the parched vegetation calls for their use. Then the stored water will be loosed, to add more greenery, hence more wealth, to the dryest place In America. An East Side Doll. "I wish." said a young lawyer, who has an oitiee in New York and a home In P.rooklyn, "that I had kept account of the queer incidents I have noticed in the course of my walks through the east side on my way to the ferry. One of these ineidents-it happened one rainy day last week-made a particu larly strong impression on me. I was hurring along Cherry street, holding my 'umbrella between me anu' a fine driving rain, when I noticed a little girl ahead of me. She was a very little girl, not more than 5 or 6 years old, poorly dressed and quite unprotected from the rain, so far as an umbrella went. "I hurried along, vaguely thinking about how wet and cold and miserable the child mus~t be. and reiterating In my mind a determination, to which I often come, not to go home by the fer ry. but to take the bridge for~he ex pess purpose of escaping the sight of the children down there. When I camte quite up to the child she turned sudenly atnd faced me. She looked up with the most engagring smile and said quite simply but pleasantly: "'3Iy dollys n'seep.' "I looked dIown and discovered she was nursing in her little arms a whis key bottle, quart sized and unadorned, save for a white label discolored by the rain. What did I do? Oh, I ac quieseed in the dolly theory and ex pressed a few of the adult idiocies usu al undler under those circumstances. Then I took a good look at the shining eyes in the child's rain-wet face and went on. But in spite of any care In impessinlg on my mind the fact that her eyes were happy, I haven't been aie to get rid1 of the recollection of that dolly"-New York Sun. Dog Leaves H ome to LIve With Foxes. Casnde Township, Lycoming coun ty. ha~s a dog that was stolen by foxes, and which now lives in the woods with the sly animals that stole It. N. J. Maloney, a farmer of the township, had had several chickens stolen by the foxes. Mr. Maloney was not the only person who missed some of his chick ens. There were others. Some of the neihors waited with shotguns for the thieves, and four or five foxes were killed. Instead of doing that Mr. Maloney put a six-menth-old pup in a kennel near the chicken coop. He thought the doz wvouldl frighten the foxes away; but he was mistaken. The first night that the pup wais put on guard the foxes madei a raid. and. besides one or two chickens. stole the dlog. It was thought thait the foxes had killed the dog: but s -veral nights ago the dog was seenl going along the edge of the out:ins with two, foxes. 'Tlhe dog has assumed the slyness cf a fox and can run nearly as f>:st as the foxes. "We have walked eleven miles this morning without stopping." said one Filipino soldier, disententedly. "That's so." answered the other. 'We taigbt as well join a golf club and be done with it."--Washington Star. Why Cows Dry Up. Cows go dry from mismanagemen more than from any other cause. Ir regularity of milking and failure to "strip" will cause any cow to dry off. The richest milk is last drawn from the udder, and for that reason alone the dairymen should strip closely. Changes of food, when -nade suddenly,, will also cause the cows to fall of in ield; but in wintea the cause may also b due to extreme cold and insufficient shelter, while in summer the use of netting in the windows to prevent the enrance of flies and other insects, will serve to prolong the milking period. arm and Field. %ME icious and wholesome Li HUNG CHANG. How He Dealt With Three Men Who Tried to Poison Him. Of Li Hung Chang numberless stor ies are told in Chinese society. On one occasion, when the rremier was hav ing a bitter light with some of the more conservative members of the Tsung Li Yamen, he received as a present a magnificent cake which he had reason to suspect contained poi son. He put the cake aside and set all his powerful machinery to work to find out who was at the bottom of the plot. The Investigation was partly s6ecessful, the crime being traced to three men, one of whom, at least, was absolutely guilty. Li had the trio ar rested and brought to his yamen. When they arrived they were ush ered into his presence and were re ceived in his courtliest manner. The cake was produced, with the remark that "politeness forbade his tasting it until the three generous donors had an opportunity to enjoy its excel lence." Li cut the cake and one of his servitors handed it to the unwilling guests. Each took a piece and ate, or pretended to eat, it. One crumbled the pieces and let them fall upon the floor, but the other two ate calmly, without manifesting any emotion. Ten min utes and the two men began to show symptoms of suffering. Li smiled be nignantly, and said to the man who had not eaten: "Your wisdom is so great that I am compelled to preserve your head as a souvenir of transcen dent genius." The man was removed and prompt ly decapitated. To the other two the Premier remarked: "The cake that you are eating is not the one you sent, but one which I had my cook inLtate. The poison from which you are suf fering exists only in your imagination. I know of no way to cure your pres ent pain except by letting you share the same fate as your friend who has just left the room." As they were led away the states man said to his retinue: "It is a pity that a man who can eat a deadly cor rosive poisoning, with an unmoved countenance should so misapply the. talent wherewith heaven has endowed him."-Philadelphia Post. DROMIO BURGLARS. The Justice Didn't Know Which Was Which. General Sessions had a peculiar tan-., gle before it in New York city recent ly. Two men were before the court at noon, and were so much alike that the only way to distinguish them apart was that one John wore his hair pom padour, while the other John had his locks plastered down flat. One is the real John Woods, while - the other goes-under the name of Mc Mann. Each is a hobo. John Woods, the first, was called up for sentence. He pleaded guilty to vagrancy. A po liceman testified that John Woods had served two terms for a similar of fence. John Woods No. 1 exclaimed: "Yer Hon'r, dis 'ere cop is dead wrong, see? I never was in dis court before. It's me partner in de cooler dat's de bloke he means, not me, see?" The policeman who made the origI nal arrest came in with the other John. The cop was puzzled, but made a selection, and the other John spoke up: "D~e cop Is dead wrong," he said. "It was me he pinched t'ree years ago. Didn't I tell yer where the stuff was, and de udder two blokes is on de dealI wid me?" The judge was perplexed, and he sent for a deputy sheriff, who takes the prisoners to Blackwell's. After a' close investigation he satisfied the court by recognizing Woods. who was McMann, as his former prisoner. Both prisoners were sent back to the same cell once more. WORKING GIRL'S RICHES. Dropped a-,Job in a Hotel to Sell a Claim for $45,000. Miss Abbie Eastman, of Phoenix, At., fought with genuine American pluck against straitened circumstances but she is now financially independent The other day at a Denver hotel, where she was a guest, she told the story of how 10 days ago one of her copper claims netted her $45,000. Miss Eastman is only 28 years old. She has. always worked for a living. When, three years ago, her uncle left her five copper claims in Arizona, not far from Phoenix, she visited her claims to learn the value of her inheritance. She consulted a lawyer. "He told me," she said, "that the claims looked promising, but that, in order to hold them, a certain sum of money would be required every moth. Then I considered where that money was to come from, as I had none of my own. So, after falling to find any other solution, I resolved to get employment in a hotel. When I told the lawyer what I intended doing, and how I meant to set aside every cent that could be spared from my wages, in order to develop the claims he said he admired my determination, but wondered whether I should stick to it. But It has finally come out all right, and I guess now I shall be able to live without workin.; so hard." Af. ter the conference with her lawyer, Miss Eastman lost no time in getting a position and spent her savings to hold her claims. The money came a little at a time, but the work pro gressed slowy. Her plans for the win ter are Dot yet announced, except on one point-she will not have to work as she did last winter. Frank Garland died from bullet wonds inflicted by Officer Camp for resisting arrest at Swanton, Vt "Rot" House, a noted Ohio jail breaker, has escaped from the bastile at Wheeling. W. Va. A Sad Accident An inquest was held over the body of Willie Robinson, who di -d at the city hospital Thursday formn a wound in the head received by an axe in the hands of his father, Willham Rbinson, about two weeks ago. William Robinion, who lives at Mt. Pleasant, was cutting wood in his back yard. His 4-year-old child was play ing near by. when the axe camne off the handle, striking the child in the head. e was brought to the city by his father and seut to the hospital. The jury returned a verdict that death was oaused from a blow in the head by an axe, and that the said blow was 'the ,,ilt fan anident.-Charlaston PQS#Z