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VOL. ~*MANNING, . C., WE N SA ,JANUARY 2, 190._____________ ___ EULR 'OTTUN MILLS. A Splendid Record Made by This State Last Year. ALL PAST RECORDS BROKEN Nearly Fifteen Million Dollars Put Into Cotton Mills In the Last Two Years Fine Showing. No State in the union will be able to keep up with South Carolina's record last year in the matter of building cot ton mills. Including the increases and the charters grantei last year covering of course, actual subscriptions of stook ur:d organizations the total is $7,795,000 To this for the year must be added the 4cmpanies commissioned, but which have not managed (n ale their returns and get their charters in time for the anrual report. This adds $1,495,000, which makes the bandsome total for 1 he year of 1900 $9,290 000. There -vas 31 cotton mills actually chartered last year, while 14 have made increases and enlargements. With, charters granted in 1899 this makes the magnifi cent showing of $13 499,000 actually subscribed and invested in cotton mills in a period of only two years. Then there are the mills commissioned this year which have not sent in their re turns yet, but will doubtless do so ag gregating in capital $1,495,900, making a grand total of capital trajected in new cotton mills in South Carolina in two years of $14,994,000. The figures speak volumes for the smallest of the southern States. Here are the names, location and capitalization of each of the new mills for the year 1900: THE CHARTERS. Charters were krsnted to the follow ing: Ttte Clear Water Bleachery and Mfg. Co., Aiken... .$ 300,000 Anderson Yarn and Knit ting Mills, Anderson.... 200,000 Cox Manufacturing Com pany, Anderson .... .... 50,000 Williamson Mills, Anderson 100,000 tosemary Knitting Mills, Barnwell ............. .30,000 Blacksburg Spinning and Knitting Mill, Cherokee. 15 000 Limestone Mills, Cherokee. 200,000 Wylie Mills, Chester...... 100,000 Hartsville Cotton Mill, Dar lington .............. . 250,000 Fork Shoals Cotton Mill, Greenville ............. 25 000 The Carolina Mills, Green ville .. .. .. ..... .. 50 000 Franklin Mills, Greenville. 45,000 Monaghan Mills, Greenville 500.000 DeKalb Cotton Mills, Ker shaw .. .. .......... .. 200,000 Goldville Manufacturing Co. Laurens................ 150,000 Dillon Cotton Mills, Marion 150.000 loeman Mills, Marlboro... 200,000 Octoraro Mills, Marlboro . . 30,000 -lenn-Lowery Mfg. Co., Newberry............... 30,000 ~Newberry Knitting Mills, Newberry-..-....-..--..-.. 25,000 Or&ngeburg Mfg. Co., Or angeburg.-.............200,000 Orangeburg Knitting Mills, Orangeburg-............-10,000 Easley Cotton Mills, Pickens 200,00C Liberty Cotton Mills, Piok ens-......-.. .......... 100,000 Capital City Mills, Richland 100)000 WoodrufE Cotton Mills, Spar tanburg................250.000 Saxon Mills, Spartanburg.. 200,000 Monarch Cotton Mills, Union.................200.000 Alpha Cotton Mills, UToion. 100.000 Buffalo Cotton Mills, Union.- 600,000 Sutro Cotton Mill., York..- 50,000~ Total (31) ... .... . ...4 50,000 INCREASE OF CA PITAL STOCE' The following sho ;s the net incresse of capital stock in cotton mills: Anderson Cotton Mills, An derson........ ........ 100,000 Cox Mfg. Co., Anderson. . 150,000 Riverside Mfg. Co., Ander son.......... ......... 1 0,000 Beaumont Mfg. Co., Spar tanburg-.........-..-.... 70,000 The Courteney Mfg. Co., Oconee-................150,000 F. W. Poe Mfg. Co., Green ville-....-.......-.....250,000 The Greenwood cotton Mill, Greenwood.... .. ...... 300,000 Manchester Cotton Mill, York......... 50,000 Williamston Mills, Ander son........ ........... 100,000 rairfield Cotton Mills, Fair fild......-... ..-...... 135,000 Olymphia Cotton Mills, Richland-.......-...... 250,000 Lancaster Cotton Mills, Lan caster-....-... ......... 8 0,000 Gl~enn-Lowery Cotton Mills, Newberry..-..-..-....-.. 200,000 Eureka Cotton Mills, Ches ter-....--------- ---.--90,000 Total (14).... .. -.. ... $2,945,000 Charters as above........ 4,850,000 Total. .. --------...... $7,795,000 FORMdER FIOUREs. Capital Number. Stock. 189(including Olm- 1,0 phia)..... 11 3,275,000 1900.... ... 31 4,850,000 This refers only to new charters granted'and loes not take into consid eration corporations commissioned or increases of capital stock. THE COMisSIONs. During 1900 commissions were issued to corporators of the following projected mills, which have not as yet nled their returns and secured charters: The Crof t Mfg. Co., Aiken $ 200,000 The Winona Mills, Aiken. 100,003 Wilmont Mills, Anderson 200,000 Barnwell County Cotton 1000 Mill, Bsarnwell...-.-.-.-100,00 Cheraw Cotton Mills, Ches- 10,0 terfield .. ....-.-.-.-.- -0-0 Blacksburg Cotton Mill Co, 10,0 Cherokee .....-.-.- - - - 1000 Johnston Cetton Mills, . Edgefield ............ 0,000 Verdery Cotton Mills Green wood-..-..... ....-.-.. 100,000 Kershaw Cotton Mill, Lan caster...........-......125,000 .shby Cotton Mimls Ma,.ion 100,000 St Matthews Cotton 3il, Orangeburg ...... ...... 00,000 Inman Mills, Spartanburg.. 200,000 Totalhi2) .. .. .. .. $1.495.000 Reported above. . . . . 7,795,000 Total .. ........ . . $9,290,000 Atd among these mills could be in cPuded two others which are assured. 11.e is the mill at Carlisle for which the money has been raised, and the other ii a Union mill now under con struotion; yet neither have been asked for commissions.-The S-ate. A Foul Murder A dispatch from Winnsboro to the C'lumbia State says the night before Christmas about nine o'clock while the noise of cannon crackers was deafening all over the town, Win Rosbsrouch, colored, was fcully assassinated. The homicide occurred withia 100 yards of the colored Baptist church where Rosborough had been attending a busi ness meeting of the deacons. While in the church a person came to the door and told Win. Smith, the sexton, to inform Rsborough that some one want ed to see him across the street. Ros borough went out, and while crossing the street the assassin fired at him the fatal shot with a shot gun heavily cbarg ed with squirrel shot. The load penet rated to Rosborough's heart. Ros borough was a highly respected and prominent colored citizen of the town. He was the leading butcher and also kept a restaurant, and was making money. It was known that he bad about $100 on his person before he went to the church. As he did not return it was thought he had gone home. Search was begun for him and his body was found in a cornfield near the church about three o'clock Christmas morning. The corpse was terribly lacerated-his watch and money gone and all his pockets turned inside out. White and colored people here are much worked up over the homicide. Several negroes have been arrested charged with the crime. Big Fire in Marion. A fire occurred on Main street in the business part of Marion not long after the middle of Christmas night, and des troyed four stores with all theircontents except in the case of Mr. W. S. Fox worth, who saved his b oks and papers. The origin of the fire is not known, but is attributed to the careless discharge of fireworks by late Christmas revelers. It was dicovered between 2 and 3 o'clock in the building owned by Joseph Harrell All of the structures were of wood and very combustible, and the flames made rapid and for a time irresistible head way. Our town is not provided with an engine or any organization for combat ting fire; but thanks to the usual good fortune that seems to befriend the town in such an emergency, the wind was moderate and blew from a favorable quarter. The buildings teat lay in the path of the conflagration were com paratively isolated, and there was enough space between Foxworth's and J. E. Middleton's stores to enable the citizens, by dint of strenuous and untir ing exertions, to save the Middleton building and check the progress of the devouring element. Prevalence of Leprosy. An appended report to Gen. Mac Arthur's review of the civil affairs of the Philippines for the past fiscal year, gives somas rather startling facts regard ing the instruction and prevalence of leprosy in the islands. According to the estimation of the Franciscan fathers, says Major Guy L. Edie, the writer of the report," there are no less than 30, 000 lepers in the archipelago, the major portion of these being in the Visoayas. Leprosy was introduced in 1633 when the emperor of Japan sent a ship with 150 lepers on board to the Philippines, a present to be cared for by the Cath olc priests. Thus the seed was plant ed, and as no practical methods were ever adopted to eradicate the disease or prevent its spread, it has taken firm root, and spread into its present for midable phase. A house to house in spection inaugurated last January found more than a hundred lepers con ealed in dwellings. These were sent to San Lazaro hospital in Manila, but many others escaped into the surround ing country. A commission is now engaged in the work of selecting a suitable island or islands for the pur pose of isolating all the lepers in the archipelago. Spending Money on a Dream. The Standard Oil Company is spend ing $1,000 to s,3certaiii what stuff the dream of Thomas Clevenger, a farmer, who lives near Nottingham, Wells county, Indiana, is made of. Two weeks ago Clevenger dreamed that on a cer tain spot on his farm there was a rich pool of oil. Around Nottingham there is much good oil territory that the Standard and other companies have de veloped, but Clevenger's place is off the line, but he went to the Standard and told them of his vis.iin and invited them to erect rig thereoe ud verify his, dream. Clevenger went away dis appointed at the indifference of trhe boses, but two nights more in succes sion he had the same dream and he once more went to the Standard men and mad~e such a strong appeal that they ordered a dri~ll trted on the spot pointed out by the farmer. Clevenger is closely watchiaig the downward pro gress of the tools and the latter part of the week will tell the story. That Car Service Matter. The Columbia State says Thursday Mr. Haskell, of the oar service associ.. tion, was in the city. He called on t de railroad commissioners, and, it is said, assured them that practically all of the new demurrege rules were satisfactory to the railroads. There are a few, how ever, upon which the roads desire a hearing. The cmmnission, it in under stood, will decline to approve the as sociation's rule as to storage of paekages and stand to any refusing to pay such charges. Aged Couple Assaulted. Abraham Johnston and wife, both over 80) years old were bound, tortured and robned about midnight at their home a short distance below Marietta, O, on the West Virginia side. Their as sailant, a giganiic negro, gained en trance to the house to steal. After se cring all valuables he left the victims still bound- Mrs. Johnston is almost totally paralyzed from the shock and he husband is badly injured. BRYAN CONFI1)ENT That We Shall Ultimately Win the Fight. WILL ADVOCATE OR EXECUTE He Declares That Destiny Alone Can Tell Whether He Will Offer for Public Po sition The annual banquet of the Jeffer sonian club of Lincoln, Neb , Wednes nesday night at the Lincoln hotel brought together nearly three hundred representative men of the Democratic and Populist parties of Nebraska, to gether with a number of leaders from other States. Wm. J. Bryan made his first ap pearance at a public gathering since the election and the greeting accorded him in his home city was never more hearty and spontaneous. The speech of John W. Kern, de feated Demycratio candidate for gover nor of Indiana, arcu ed the banqueters to a high pitch of enthusiasm by his laudation of Bryan and his outspoken criticism of those Democrats whom he accused of contributing to his (Bry an's) defeat. His denunciation of Democrats who offered "gratuitous counsel to Democracy," though he mentioned no names, was accepted by the crowd as a reference to farmer President Cleveland Mr. Bryan, whose subject was "prin iples live," said in part: "At this banquet, surrounded by neighbors who have been my friends for 10 years, I may be pardoned for saying a word of personal na'ure. Five times you have voted for me for public cffi-e-twice for congress, once far the Uaited States Senate and twice for the presidercy and no candidate ever received more loyal support than you have given. "Whether I shall ever be a candi date for office again is a question which must be determined by events. One's destiny is not known until his life's work is complete I shall be content if it is my lot to aid in the triumph of the principles while others enjoy the honors and bear the responsibility of office. "The holding of public office should be an incident and not the extreme aim of the citizen. It should not be an end, but the means for the accomplish ment of a purpose. "Tae presidency seemed -desirable be cause it would have enabled me to give effective aid to certain reforms which I believe to be necsssary to the public welfare, but defeat-even a second de feat-does not lessen my interest in this reform, and time may prove that my work is to advocate rather than to execute. "I'he Commoner will give me an op portunity to participate in public dis cussions, and I am sure that an edi torial pursuit will furnish as much in tellectual enjoyment as I could have found in the White House and in ad dition thereto will give me more time for home pleasures. "I'he principles for which we con tended in the last campaign still live -md we who believe in them must con tinue to fight for them. An election does not change principles; it only de termines what principles shall be for the time being applied. "The believers in tariff reform did not abandon their faith when the high tariff doctrine was endorsed at the polls, neither did protectionists when their cause suffered loss. The advo cates of the gold standard continued the fight for monomentalism for 25 years in spite of the platform declara tions of all parties in iavor of a double standard. Sall we who believe in bi mealism lose courage because our op ponents have profited by an increased volume cf money, thus admitting the economic prino~ivie for which we have been centending? "Defenders of trusts did not lose heart when all parties denounced com binations in restraint of trade. Shall we give up the fight because monopoly has triumphed by stealth? Must we now advocate an imperial policy be cuse our opponents have won a victory by aenying they are imperialists? "A coljnial system involves a sur render of our theory of government and the people will understand this as Boon as the system is put into corpora tion. If we were to consult our imme diate convenience and comfort we wold never oppose wrong ef any kind, for all warfare involves a temporary sacrifice, but this is our government and must be transmitted unimpaired to posterity. We have no choice, there fore, but to stand steadfast, come what may. "If we are successful in diverting present tendencies and in carrying the government to its old fanndations we shall rejoice in the victory and profit by the reforms secured. I am cotfi dent that we shall ultimately win. But if the trend toward plutocracy can not be checked, it is stili. better that we should be defeated in a righteous un dertaking than that we should j in hands with those who are ignoring the inalienable rights of man." Chinese Burn Christians. A dispatch from Pekin says the Rev. Mr. Kelly, the Pres byterian missionary, has reported to Minister Conger the burning by Boxers of 19 Catholic Chris tians, and now says he has received further confirmation of the burning of native Christians. He says the number burned is 2i and that thousands of arm ed Chinese have been seen in the San ho country. Mr. Kelly in firet rer orting the occurrence aditted his information was from Chinese sources and said that the Japanese, who have jurisdiction over the territory 30J miles north in which, it is alleged, the outrage occur ed, would investigate the report. Terrilble Accident. A dispatch from .Les Moines, Iowa, says telephone messages from What Cheer via Ottumwa confirm the report ed drowning of forty-nine school chil dren. They were skating on the ice when it gave way. .The accident occur dat 9 in the evening. ASSASSINATION OF RULERS. Many Were Slain by Cranks and Anar chist During the Last Century During the century now coming to a close no less than 17 heads of states and one empress died by a violent death, says the New York Tribune. The first victim was Czar Paul I, of Russia, strangled by nobles at St. Petersburg in the night of March 23-24, 1801. He was followed by Sultan Selim I11., who, after being deposed, was thrown in prison, and by order of Mus tapha IV. also strangled on May 8, 1808. in 1831 Count Capo d'Istria, president of Greece, was assassinated, and in 1854 Dike Charles of Parma was murdered. Danilo I., first prince of Montenegro, had occupied the throne only a week when he fell a victim to blood ven geance' on August 13, 1860 O April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the six teenth president of the United States, was shot by the actor, John Wilkes Booth at Ford's theater, Washington, and died the fil hwing day. Three years later, in 1868, Micbael Obreno vitch. prince of Servia, was murdered near Belgrade. The year 1870 record ed the assassination of the president of Hayti, Salnave, and the year 1878 that of the president of Ecuador, Dr. Gar cia Moreno The thirty-second sultan, Abdul Aziz Chan, after being forced to abdicate in favor of his nephew, Maho mot Murad, died in prison on June 4, 1876, presumably a natural death, but an investigation instituted in 1831 against several of the highest officials rroved, by the hands of assassins. Gar fiold, the twentieth president of the United States, was shot by Guitean at Washington on July 2, 1881, and died from his wcunds at Elberon. N. J., on September 19 of the sime year. Alex ander II. of Russia, after many at tempts against his life, was finally killed by the explosion of a bomb ttiro en by a nihilist, who himself was killed at St Petersburg on March 13, 1831. In 1890 President Merendez, of San Salvador, was murdered, and en July 24, 1894, President Carnot was stabbed raortally by the Italian anar chist Caserio Santo. The anarchist Lucoheni stabbed Empress Elizibeth of Austria at Geneva on September 10, 189S President Heureaux, of San D - mingo was assassinated on July 26, 1S9, and this year recorded the assas siation of King Humbert of Italy by Anarchist Bresei, which is still in every one's memory. Altogether nine presi dents, two emperors, one king, two princes, two sultans and one empress perished by the hands of assassins. Soldiers Sick of It. Gen. MacArthur is confronted by the fact that the term of enlistment for most of the soldiers in the Philippines will cxpire on June 30th next, and they are nearly all eager to q lit the service. It is true the war ended a year or so ago, according to Gen. Otis, but then a general doesn't like to be that far away from home without an army, and Gen. MacArthur knows that the 60, 000 men under his command have no idea of continuing in the service beyond the time of their enlistment. Hence it is that he has reconnmnded the of fering of a bonus of $250 to each man who will re-enlist. As the Augusta Chronicle says "how could there be a severer commentary on the wars that are being waged in the Philippines and South Africa? In the latter case the British are offering $1.23 a day for volunteers to subjugate the Boers, nearly four times the regular pay, and Gen. Mac Arthur is proposing a bouncy eq'ial to nearly two years' pay to in duce American soldiers to re-enlist. We cannot doubt that the men i South Africa are as loyal to Great B:itain as her average subjects, or that the men in the Philippines pos sess courage and the love of country. Their first enlistment establishes this Then why are they about to lay down their arms and retire from the war when their services are still needed? In our ju-igment the answer is to be found in the fact that they are dis gusted with the war they are waging It does not have the approval of their consciences or enlist their patriotism; but must have the appearance of cross ing the ocean to subjugate a people with whom we have nothing in com mon, and who are bravely battling in defense of their native land to the best of their ability and equipment. It is natural ihat the gorge of the Ameri can soldier should rise against such warfare, and that having unwittingly gotten into it, he shoull hail with sat isfaction the expiration of his enlist ment, and the chance to get out." Fire Proof Eggs According to a statement in the New York Herald hens fed by a Pennsyl vania fancier on asbestos siftings laid eggs that were unaffected by fire and hence would not cook satisfactorily. The shell, it appears, is asbestos and fireproof, though the contents are nor mal. Chickens hatched from these eggs are said to have no feathers but a dwny covering resembling asbestos. The chickens are much lhked, but there is no market for the fireproof eggs. The asbestos enrs recalls tbo India-rubber fish described some time since in the New York Sun. An angler, having aught two sucke:s of one size, put a rubber band about the two to see whether they c aul I swim Siamesetwins fashion. They swam off all right and were lost to view. IlAurniog two years later to fish at the same place the vera clos agle caghteevralfish each of which had two hesds and two tails with onc body. When they were cut open for cooking two backbones were found, but they were bound close to gether by a ligament, and a disagree able rubber fh~vor rendered the fihsh unpaatable. Shoes smeared with the blod were waterprodr. These two yarns entide the spinners to the head of the cl ass Marriage by Force. Magistrate Strokteeker, of Red Top, a notorious negro settlement, near Char: leston, gave orders Wednesday that all negroes living there would have to mar ry. Since the notice was made several days ago that such orders would beissu ed magistrate, seventy- five ocuples, it is said, have been married. Magistrate Stroheeker maintains that a man will fight quicker for his paramour than for his wi:e, and to stop the run of crime in that locality has directed the negroes to become legally man and wife. A STRANGE STORY About the R ,bbery of the Kings tree Dispensary. THE DISPENSER HELD UP By Four Masked Men and Robbed of Eighteen Hundred Dol lars. He Had No Bond The Kingstree cerrespondent of The State says early Thursday morning, as business people were entering upon their duties for the day, it was whisper ed around that the dispensary had again been robbed and that Dispenser F. M Player had been "held up" and relieved of over $1,800 in cash jist be fore daylight. Mr. Piayer, it appears, had related full partinulars to Mr. R. R. Stutts, town marshal. Mr. Stutts says he and Mr. Lemon were in the dis pensary Wednesday night with Mr. Player until nearly midnight, counting up Monday's sales of liquor; that he went to bed about midnight, and was aroused by Mr. Player about 5 o'clock the morning, who stated that he had been robbed, and gave the following particulars: Player stated that he heard some one calling him from the outside, at the back door of the dispen sary; that he opened the door and was immediately covered by two guns, in hands of masked men, who demanded his money or his life, and, being un armed and unprepared for any such emergency, he was powerless, and offer ed no resistance, simply saying: "Gen tlemens, I is in your power." Two others, making four men in all, then came forward and entered the dispen sary, and took all the contents of the safe and two bags of liquors, and de liberately walked off, telling Mr. Player to be careful and not give any alarm for at least 30 minutes, or his life would be in danger. As soon as Player thought they had left he ran to Stutts' house, which is directly in front of the dispensary. Mr. Stutts says that after being aroused he distinctly heard the buggies going across Black river bridge, which is on the west side of Kingstree, nearly half a mile distant from the dispen sary. Mr. Stutts says he went on to awake Mr. H. 0. Britton, the county jailer and also clerk of the board of control of this county. Stutts recited everything to him, and then went on to arouse Mr. Lemon, whom he found drunk in bed, and being unable to arouse him, he then went back home, and he and Mr. Player stayed there until daylight, when Mr. Britton came and ordered dispensary locked up. Mr. Player has always been looked upoa as a straight man, and the busi ness people all seem to have confidence in him. He had not deposited any money for about two weeks, and up to a short time ggo he had been deposit ing his money in the safe of Messrs. Heller & Co., which made it perfectly safe. The county treasurer states that Mr. Player's bond expired about the 15th of December, and he promptly notified H. 0. Britton, clerk of the board, and Mr. Britton states that he promptly notified the State board of control, that Mr. Player was without bond, and they paid no attention. The county board, knowing Mr. Player to be without bond, quietly let him go on acting dispenser, in the full discharge of his duties. To say the least of this, is amounts to almost criminal careless ness, and the sentiment of the people demand at lest the prompt removal of the board, as by this act alone they have shown their unfitness for filling any such important business position. Mr. Stutta says that he is confident that he knows the four men who robbed the dispensary; that he has no proof, but that one of the men wore a peculiar kind of mackintosh coat that gave him dead away. If this wholesale robbery is allowed to pass unnoticed as'as been done in the case of every other robbery connected with the dispensary here, the people will vote to put it out of town. The graded school is almost wholly run by the profits of the dispensary at this place, and if the town were to lose this money it would cause the school to be closed one year or longer. Capt. W. H. Kennedy, mayor of Kingstree, has tried time after time to get Mr. Player to deposit the dispen sary money, as the law requires, once a week, with the county treasury, but without avail, as it seems that he de posited when he pleased. Mayor Ken nedy further states that he appealed to Mr. Britton, who is manager for the board, to help him to get Player to de posit the money, but was given no sat isfaction. The county treasurer, R D. Rollins states that he also advised Mr. Piaver to be more reguiar in deposit ing money. Mr. Player had deposited only $285 during the month of Decem ber. It is not known how much -the shortage will aggregate, probably $1,800 or may be as much as $3,000. Piayer has been dispenser about a year and in that time has had three robberies, the last time being a complete cleaning up. Every dispenser who has been connect ed with it here has been robbed. In the Financial Soup. The Dallas Texas Times-Herald re marks that the people in the south who gamble in cotton are now in the finan ial soup for several million dollars, unless they are able to margin up and hold futures later than January. The farmer who raised the cotton and is able to hold it will not he hurt, as he will get the high spring prices. It is easy for eastern financial centers to shake out the weak southern gamblers in futures. This lost money in home in dustry stocks and bonds would do bet ter. ___________ Our Turn Will Come. United States Consul Albert, station ed &t Brunswick, Germany, officially reports great business depression in that empire. Compared with the sum mer of 1899 building ente:prises have fallen away by 37 per ent, railroad projects 53 per cent, and electrical and street railway enterprises 63 per cent. Projected electric lighting and gas plants are a third less; while in such. spheres of activity as mining, smelting, metal manufacture, stone work, and the production of chemicals and textiles, th decline is some 27 per cent. MORE SOLDIERS NEEDED. Men Wanted to fill up Regiments in the Philippine Service. Do you want to go to the Philippines to fight? Uncle Sam needs more sol diers to take the place of those who have been killed, died of disease, gone crazy or whose time expries next June, and already the recruiting offieers are looking out for new men. The Colum bia Record says Sergeant Banner, from one of Charleston ports, and several privates were in Columbia Wednesday, but whether to es j >y Columbia's Christ mas festivities they did not say. At any rate the sergeant exhibited a copy of an order, which is as follows: To All Recruiting Officers: Make active canvases at your station and surrounding towns for white men, especially those fitted for the Philip pine service. Endeavor to largely in crease enlistment of desirable men, and where necessary send members of party to surrounding towns, to canvass and distribute circulars, posters, and hand bills." The order is signed by Col. Hodge, in charge of this territory. In speaking of the order S rgeant Benner said: "That this would prove an unusally desirable service, as a large number of entirely new regiments will be organised, and young men can join these and remain with comrades and friends, much as in the organiza tion of volunteer regiments. It is un derstood that about 35,000 men are to be enlisted. As many as possible will be accepted at all recruiting offices; and they will be forwarded to some point designated as a rendezvous, probably San Francisco, whence, after some preliminary drlling, they will be sent on transports to the Philippines. An order to establish a recruiting office in Columbia will probably be the result of this visit. A Good Road Law. The Philadelphia Times has been invcstigating the effects and defects of the New Jersey good roads law and that paper is so well pleased with its operations and so well assured that its good effects outnumber its defects it does not hesitate to advise the Legis lature of Pennsylvania to adopt the New Jersey law. As we gather from the Times the Legislature of New Jersey passed a permanent road law which went into effact in 1893. The law permitted the State to aid in the building of a limited mileage of per manent roads each year the State to pay one-third and the county and the municipality in which the road should be located two-thirds. The cost of con structing such roads per mile has va ried from $4,000 to $5,384, the cost for 1900. The total number of miles of stone and gravel roads constructed since the law went into effect is 588, the in crease for the past year being 148 miles. The total State outlay for the entire periods wa. $950,000. The cost to the localities has been twice that amount. The local communities are so well pleased with the operation of the law that demand for State aid always out runs the appropriations made by the Legislature for this purpose. In other words, there are more communities willing to spend two dollars for per manent roads in order to get the adan tages of good roads at reduced cost than were expected. This plan to get good roads is a most admirable one, it seems to us, and we believe it would work well in South Carolina. It would be well for the Legislature to envesigate this law with a view of adapting it or a similar one. Smallpox in the state. The State says Dr. James Evans has made a preliminary report to Gov. Mc Sweeney in regard to the condition of smallpox in this State, which gives a omplete review of the situation and the conditions existing at both the pening and close of the year. The re port shows that there is not as much smallpox now prevailing as would be generally supposed. There is more or less of the disease in the counties of Fairfield, Union, Spartanburg, Barn well, Beaufrt and Orangeburg. For a while during the summer it was confined almost entirely to Union county, which had not been free from it during the year, and which county has baen the focus from which the ad joining counties have been infected with one or two ex eptions, where it came from North Carolina. There are at present a few cses on certain sea islands, the origin of which has not yet been traced. The lack of power to enforce general vacci nation is one of the greatest drawbacks to the work of the State board of health. The dasease now prevailing is of a more virulent type than heretofore. A Timely Rebuke. Commenting on the Colorado lynch ing the Springeld Mass., Republican says: "We shall not hear anything said by the north against the south on this score for some time to come. Indeed, the nerthern mouth has been closed ever since the anti-outbreaks in New York lass summer and the 'kill-any gr' riot at Akron. We have hers given some little detail of the Colerado affair, in the hope that it may disturb a trifie, the complacency of current church con gressses and conferences with their snug talk of our superior Christian civiliza tion and its missions of armad conquest and benevolent assimilation of inferior peoples througout the world.' The Chicken Crop. Here is an estimate of the chicken crop: There are about 350,000,300 chickens in the United Btates. They produce each year about 14,000.000 eggs, which represents $175,000,000. Besides, $130,000,000 worth of poultry is eaten in the country during the year, and the value of the living hens, at 30' cents apiece, is' figured at $150,000.000. Thus, the hen stands for about $4aa, 000,000 in the yearly economics of the United States. A White Partridge. The Columbia State says Thursday afternoon Cadet Bernie Kennedy, of the Citadel, passed through the city en route to Charleston. He had with him something of an unusual character-a, white partridge killed by him while on a hunt during the holidays near Jones ville. It was the first bird of the kind ever seen in tis part of the country so r a known. OUR RAILROADS. Record of Building for the Past Year a Splendid One. South Carolina has made a splendid record during the past year in the mat ter of railroad building though last year's record was thought to be an ex cellent one. She is keeping up in this as in other lines of industrial improve ment. Here is what the annual report of the State railroad commission on this line will say this year on the sub ject of new roads: "Daring the fiscal year the following new roads have been completed: "The Seaboard Air Line from Cheraw to Cayce, a distance of 91 miles, which links the South Bound railroad with the Palmetto and gives the Seaboard Air Line a through line from Rich mond to Tampa and other Florida points. Besides it opens up a vast ter ritory between Cheraw and Columbia hitherto isolated from the markets of the State. This new line also material ly reduces passenger and freight rates between Columbia and territory about the city of Camden and Cheraw. "The Northwestern railroad from Sumter to Camden, distance of 27 miles, constructed and own by its presi dent and manager, Col. Thomas Wil son. This- road materially reduces rates between Sumter and Camden, and consequently between Camden and Charleston. "The Lockhart railroad from Lock hart Mills on the B3ard river, a dis tance of 13 81 miles. This road was built to accomodate the extensive cot ton milling interests on the Broad river and will doubtless facilitate the fur ther use and development of the un surpassed water power at that point on the river. "The Conway and Seashore railroad from Conway, S. C., to the seashore, a distance of 15 miles, giving the country through which it passes direct com munication with the Atlantic Coast Line system of railroads and the Wac camaw Line of steamers. Mr. D. T. McNeill is the general manager, and the management of the road is active in further development of the com munity through which this road passes. "A new road in under construction from Union to Glenn Springs, called the Union and Glr. wir"s, railroad. It has been completed a distance of four miles from the city of Union to the Baffalo Cotton mills, and is under the management of the Hon. T. C. Duncan. "The Southern railway extension from Allendale to Hardeeville, a dis tance of 52 miles, connects the South ern railway with the Plant railroads over which it makes through connec tion from Washington to Florida points. "All these new roads are carefully in spected by the commission before au thority was given for passenger traffic, except the Conway and Seashore, which has since been inspected and pronunced absolutely bafe. The Southern and Seaboard Air Line links are marvels of sound railroad construction, being es pecially designed and built for heavy through traffi3. "The total new mileage constructed since the last annual report amounts to 203.81 miles. DOCTOR VACCINATES HIS NOSE. While Administering to Others "He Got it in the Neck." Serious as the present smallpox out break has appeared at various times, it has not been without its humerous features, though some of the episodes which have caused many smiles have seemed anything but funny te the principal actors in them. One physician in this city hid a* slight scratch on his right thumb, and while he was vaccinating a number of his patients just a little of the virus touched it unnoticed. He knew about it 48 hours later, when it "took." If he has beon out of practice for a week or two, he has at least the satisfaction of knowing that according to accepted theories he is immune from smallpox. His experience, however, is as noth ing to that of one of the vaccinators on the staff of Dr. Alonso Blauvelt, chief inspector of the bureau of contagious diseases. This doctor had a slight pimple on his nose, and while he was at work with needles and tooth-picks it itched and ho absentmindedly scratch ed it. This "took," too, and in a few days the unhappy man was in seclusion nursing the huge red, purle, sad blue probosics which would cause to fade into insignificance the greatest effects of the wildest western "nose-paint" if brought near it. It is a trying situa tion for a model of sobriety. . In striking contrast of these cases is an old story in connection with them to show that the infection is not always so easily passed along from one to the other. It was in the height of the great bhiz zard that a man walked into the de partment offices, then in the police headquarters building, with a severe case right in the slougthing stage, when contagion is supposed to be almost un avoidable for all unvaccinated who come in contact with the patient. The stranger said ho had been refused ad mission to an up town hospital, where his trouble was recognized, and that as cabs could not get around he had come down town on the Sixth avenue elevated road, only to be stalled for three hours in a car so crowded that the passengers were standing on the sats and it was necessary from time to time to open the windows to let out some of the heat from their wet and steaming forms. This, too, was a con dition most favorable for the spread of the disease. The man was sent to the pesthouse as quickly as he could be got there, with out resorting to any other public con veyance, and the ofiiials had every thing in readiness when the prescrined two weeks had gone by to receive the majority, if not all of his fellow pas sengers, none of whom, however, came under their care. Still, the doctors conclude every story of these days with the remark: "The only way to be safe is to be vaccinated."-Ne w York Times. Peace Maker Killed. Louis Moore shot killed his brother Af Moore and John Williams Wednes day in the Mountain Hill district of Harris county, Georgia. Louis Moore and Williams were fighting and Alf Moore tried to separate them. All the patia re negroes. A MEMORIAL Of the South Carolina Inter-State and West INOIAN EXPOSITION CO. To The Members of the Ceneral Assembly of South Car olina for an Appro priaticn. To The General Assembly of-the State of South Carolina: The Memorial of the South Carolina Inter. State and West Indian Exposi tion Company, a corporation duly Chartered under the laws of the State of South Carolina, respectfully shows: That heretofore the General Assembly of this State by a concurrent resolution adopted on the 9th January, 1900, Re solved, "that the projected Exposition in the fall of 1901, at the State's Metro polis, of all the industries and resources of the whole State, material and other wise, demands and deserves the en couragement and endorsement, and also the active co-operation of each and every citizen of the State who has the welfare of the Commonwealth at heart." Your memorialist farther shows, that this encouraging declaration made as above stated by the Legislative Depart ment of our State Government, gave an immense impetus to the project of hold ing, within the limits of South Caro lina, an Inter-State Exposition, and the important enterprise was soon thereafter inaugurated under most aus picious circumstances. From eyery portion of the State came cheering .* words of endorsement and the promise of co-operation and substantial aid. The enterprise was heralded at home and abroad as a supreme effort of our people to place the State upon the high est industrial plane and develop its im mense dormant resources. The Exposition Company was char tered with an authorized Capital Stock of two hundred and fifty thousand dol lars of which amount nearly two hun dreg thousand dollars have already been subscribd. - Strong assurances have been given that thi Udtd. te - Government will appropriate in aid of the enterprise the sum of two hundred and Ifty thousand dollars, and that the City Council of Charleston will add fifty thousand dollars to that amount; and now, in this Memorial, your Honor able Body is respectfully asked, to ap propriate the sum of fifty thousand dol lars for the construction of a State building on the Exposition site. and to aid in a proper exhibit of the Agricul tural and Mechanical Industries and the Material Resources of the State. It is quite unnecessary to do more than allude to the great benefits which will be derived by every portion of our State from such a display of our re sources as will be made. Visitors are expected not only from every State in the American Union, but from the West Indies, from South America and from elsewhere abroad. Capital will be induced to invest with us and im portant accessions will be made to our population. Your memorialist further shows that the project has been successfully brought to the point of active construe tion, and requires at this juncture the fostering care and substantial help of the State Government. Its full work annot be accomplished nor can the best results be attained without such help. The necessity for State aid in such undertakings has been recognized in every State in which Expositions have been held. In the South we find among other instances that in 1885, the Sr~ate of Louisiana appropriated one hundred thousand dollars, for the New Orleans Exposition, and that in 1897 the State of Tennessee appropriated fifty thousand dollars, for the Nashville Exposition and for the purpose of erecting a building and displaying therein the resources of that State. So great has been the appreciation of such opportunities by South Carolina in the past that her Legislature in 1883 cheer fully voted ten thousand dollars, for the purpose of making an exhibit at the Nw Orleans Exposition, and again in 1896 the sum of six thousand dollars, for the purpose of meeting the cost, of a State exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition. The knowledge of this commendable action in behalf of our Sister State, gives assurance that your Honorable Body will now extend its beneficent aid to our own State enterprise. Wherefore. Your memorialist re spectfully prays that your Honorable Body will appropriate in aid of the pro posed Exposition the sum of fifty thou sand dollars, to be expended under such supervision as may be regarded proper and expedient. And your Memorialist will ever pray and so forth. The Southi Carolina inter-State and West Indian Exposition Company, By F, W. WAGENER, President, Found Dead in Bed. J. I. Braswell of Everett, Fla., was found dead in his bed at a boarding house in Charleston Wednesday morn ing. Braswell has been in the city for some days. He was found drunk in the streets and sent to the city hos pital to be treated for alcoholism. He left a letter to his wife, Mrs. N. E. Braswell, and another to the hospital authorities, giving his right name and asking them to send his body home. Braswell had been a dealer in turpen tine at Tampa, Fia. He lay down aross the bed with his head leaning over a vessel, and fired a bullet into his brain. _________ Value of Cottonseed. It has been decided by the Memphis Cotton Exchange that hereafter the dealing and prices affecting cotton seed and cotton seed products shall receive more attention than has been the rule in the past. Complete quotations re epeting the product are to be given. The New Orleans Cotton Exchange has appointed a committee on cotton seed and the probabilities are that arrange ments will be made shortly for quota tion regularly of that product. Grad ually the exchanges are coming to recognize the real value of this com modity, which for years was regarded a. a hindance amd a waste product.