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Is it W orth While. ill Is it worth utiiie that we jcstle a i iaoher, Bearing lii toad on the 'tt 1 roaa of life': Is it worth while that we jer' tacih other u in blackness of heart -that 'W war to the knife? j God pity us all in our pitiful strie I h God pity us all as we iost Ic each other: God pardon u-. all fur the riumph we d feel t When a fellow goes down: poor heart broken brother Pierced to the heart: words are t keener than steel, And mightier far for woe or for weal. Were it not well in this brief little journey c On over the isthmus down into the tide, We give him a fish instead of a serpent . ' Era folding the hands to ibe and abide For ever and aye in dust at his side' Look at the roses saluting each other: Look at the herds all at peace on the plain-- s Man. and man only. makes war on his brother. And dotes in his heart on his peril a and Shamed by the brutes that go down on the plain. r Why should you envy a moment of f pleasure Some poor fellow-mortal has wrung r from it all Oh,*could you look into his life's broken I measure Look at the dregs-at the wormwood 5 and gall Look at his heart hung with crape like a pall. Look at the skeletons down by his v hearth-stone Look at his cares in their merciless, sway. Know you would go and say tenderly. s lowly. Brother-My brother. for aye and a f day Lo~ Lethe is washing the black- s ness away. c A GILDED SIN. BY CHARLOTTE M. BREAME. t CHAPTER VIII. "What could you mean, Clara?" said t Veronica, when some ten minutes af- t terward. she returned to her room. "Lady Brandon was not even asleep, f and she says that you have never even I touched the door." c "Is it all right, miss?" asked the girl, as though she were in a state of s breathless suspense. "Right! Yes. Lady Brandon never even heard you," said Veronica. s Clara answered that her ladyship a must have been asleep but did not like to say so. Veronica noticed that the girl's s face was flushed and her manner c strange; but she did not think much of it at the time. Presently Clara quitted the room, after saying a great deal more about the fright and relating an anecdote of a lady whom she knew had been found dead of grief soon after her husband's death. Then Veronica ( wondered just a little that she should talk so much. As a rule, the girl was respectful and docile. Left alone again, Veronica would not think of what she had done: that was all forgotten, all past. She was Veronica di Cyntha- C had never been anything else. She c looked into the smoldering fire: the last vestige of the parchment had dis appeared. The papers she had kept: t they could not hurt, and she felt that i she would like to look at them from time to time. She went back to Lady Brandon's room, and clasped her arms I around her. "I have burned it," she said-"it is all destroyed: and I am come to men- a tion it for the last time-to tell you s that you may trust me as you woulu yourself." Lady Brandon fell weeping on her a neck, telling her that she was blessed., thrice blessed, for that she had saved herself and her child from what was far worse than the bitterness even of r death. "You may intrust your future to me. Veronica," said Lady Brandon. "I have two thousand a year of my own, t and I will settle the half of it on you."' So the matter was never mentionedC again by Veronica or her father's I widow. Thel next day they buried 5 him, and his place knew him no more. All England mourned for the dead t statesman, and never wearied of prais- t ing him, whilst the mantle of his great- a ness fell upon Lord Wynleigh- a A year had passed since the death of Sir J'asper. Lady Brandon had spent I it at Queen's Chace. Some had ad- a vised her to go away, to take her t daughter abroad; but the Chace seemed I to have an attraction for her. When ( the year that she had given to seclusion t had passed , their first visitor was Lord Wynleigh. They were delighted to seeS him: it was such a bright, cheerful change. Lord Wynleigh was growing a anxious now about the time of his a probation. He made Veronica his c confidante. I: "I know that I can trust you,'' he said, "because you love Kate so dearly. I have worked hard this last year and ' a half. I have made a position. I E have laid the foundation of future I fame and fortune. I grant that I have s made no money; but that does not e matter-Kate and I understand each 1; other so well. She knows that if she t had not one shilling in the world Is should love her just the same-more. if possible; but we should have to wait ~ for years. As it is, I do not see why c we should not be married at Christ- V mas. Do you, Veronica?' d How she thanked Heaven in her a heart that she had done as she had that she had sacrificed herself! If she had kept her inheritance, then Kathe- V rine could not have been married. r Lord Wynleigh wondered at the light c that came into the girl's beautiful r face. How little Veronica dreamed ati that moment of all that would come to pass before Christmas time: There had not been the least ditlicul~ ty in the settlement of Sir Jasper's af- . fairs, the will that he had made when Katherine Brandon was an infant was U still in the hands of the family solici tor-everything was perfectly straight- I orward. Lady B randon explained that e she understood Miss di Cyntha's atrairs- v and should continue to act as her guar dian. She had loyally kept her word, and had settled one thousand a year, upon Veronica. She showed her grati tude to her in a hundred other ways; she was most kind to hexr: but the one c subject was never ment inned bet ween c them again. Sir Jasper's fair-haired daughter had become Baroness of Hlurstwood: she ~ was called Lady' Katherine at home. and the bright days passed wit hi naught g save pleasant hours. One beautiful August evening, when a the red glow of the western sunset filled the sky, Veronica stood under the shade of the tall lime-trees, watch ing he evening light. A happines had come to her, so great. so sudden, so entrancing, that she was dazed by n i it, bewildered. For Sir Marc Cary11l had asked her to become his wife. She a did not know until then all that slept t in her heart-the love, the passion, t the tenderness-and the waking had startled her. She was lost in wonder ' at herself. The crown and the gloryb of her womanhood had come to her. a She rejoiced in the new and perfect tl happiness: she ope-ned her whole heart ft to it. It was such chivalrous wooing. and he loved her so dearly. No one could ever haw. been so dearly loved b before. She stood there thinking of itb with a smile of perfect content on her face, and as she did so Sir Marc camen I have been wateagin0 ywul o ca." h said. "Iuntil I have grown alou;s vi the sky and the foliage, and rytliiig lse that your beautiful es have rested on!. What have you 'cn tinkig of?" -()f nothing in the wide world but N >.' she replied. i --(f Ie, sweetheart!" he exclaimed { vrulv: and then he told her what he id coime to ask-when would she he 0 s wife. SYou are too kind ever to be cruel. y irling." he said, looking at the beau ful tiushed face. "1 told you long i o who lonely my home is. I want he angel in the house--1 want you t sere. 'You cannot tell how dreary it C 11 seems to inc. Veronica, when will v oLu collie to me?' s! "Not yet." she replied shyly--'it a innot be yet. -Why noty" he asked. e You have only just found out that t u love inc." n "-Nay. Veronica.' lie said, smiling, I found that out long since. I was >ming last July to tell you so. but 14 oor Sir Jasper had just died." She turned her face away lest he t Could see the quiver of pain on it. , "Sir Marc," she said gently, "you n ave never asked me any questions t bout my family, or my home in i enice, or my fortune." -Lady Brandon has explained," he e plied. "Your father was a great e riend of Sir Jaspe'rs, she tells me.' Veronica made no reply. She could ot tell him the truth, but she would b peak no false wordto him-never one. a le continued -1 care nothing about your fortune, 1 veetheart. I am a rich man-s) rich c hat I am troubled at times to know , ow to spend my money. I lay it all i t your feet. You are mistress of very thing that belongs to me. When ill you come to me. my Veronica? 'ou have nothing to wait for. Do not e unkined and send inc away:" li She made no answer. In her heart n he wished to be with him. but the f crv consciousness of it prevented her d oin speaking. "This is July," he said: "shall we a September, Veronica?" She agreed. and Sir Marc was so eterinined to keep her to her word hat he went at once in search of Lady F randon and told her. IHe brought t er back with him to where Veronica till stood under the limes. "I leave my intersts in your hands, .ady Brandon," he said. ""I shall re urn, with your permission, to marry eronica on the twentieth of Septem er. You will promise that she shall f e ready?" Lady Brandon promised. t "I do not think that I can live away c rom her altogether until then, Lady c Crandon. Will you invite me to come t own in August?" s "Come whenever you will, Sir Marc,'" aid Lady Brandon. He pressed the hand of his love. "I have bound you. sweetheart," he aid-"you can never free yourself r gain." 8 And, looking at his handsome face, v is eyes lit with love, she said to her- t elf that separation from him would be eath. [TO BE CONTINUED) I WEEKLY COTTON REPORT. r rops Had to Stand a Week ofTrying Conditions. The following is the weekly bulletin f the condition of the weather and c rops issued Tuesday by Director sauer of the South Carolina section of he climate and crop service of the nited Stlttes weather bureau: t The average temperature for the reek ending Monday, July 7th, was S8 I egrees, which is about 8 degrees ~ bove normal. It was the warmest reek of the season. Maximum temn eratures of 100, or above, were gener- 6 1 over the State from the 4th to the C th, with an extreme maximum of 106 f egrees at Florence on the 4th. Tilev aximum of the week was 65 degrees I t Spartanburg on the 2d. f There was very little cloudiness, and C t he sky was practically cloudless ex ept for short periods each afternoon. t 'resh to brisk, parching winds pre- e ailed, that were injurious to vegeta- t ion. The relative humidity was muchg elow normal, causing crops to wilt ~ nd shrivel. The nights were practic- t 11y dewless. Only six out of over 200 points rep- c esented by correspondents, reported t ny appreciable amount of rain, with t he largest amount in Oconee and r exington counties, making this the t rest as well as the hottest week of t he season. The drought has become u erious over the eastern half of the q tate. where corn has suffered materi- i I injury, while over the western half, t ll crops have so far stood the trying g onditions remarkably well, but are 'j adly in need of rain. e The earliest corn was too far ad- t anced to be greatly hurt, but :ater u lantings suffered from the extreme v .eat, dryness and parching winds,-and s, ome tields were irretrievably damag- 8 d, over the eastern counties. Bottom t md corn, and over the western counl ies generally, it has not yet been ariously injured, but soon will be with continuation of the present weather t nditions. Corn is firing in Orange- i: urg and Barnwell: chinch bugs are I amaging it in Chester, Lancaster c nd York. Cotton withstood the unfavorable eather fairly well, except that in laces it is turning yellow and shed-1 ing its lower leaves, and has stop- a ed growing. Lice are still prevalent d a few localities. It is blooming t rofusely in places, and the plants are - ll of squares. The dry, parching d rind had a deteriorating effect, but e 1 places the crop continues to be un- g sually promising.e Tobacco was hurt somewhat by the 0 ot sun, and curing', that is now gen- s ral, was hastened by the unfavorable ( 'eather that threatened further in- 0 ry. In places the crop is very fine. t Wheat threshing is practically ~ nished, and late reports confirm pre- V >us ones as to the poorness of the e rop, and the uniform fine quality ~ f the grain. Rice is doing well, but, L ke all other crops, needs rain badly. elons are being marketed, but tile 'eather is detrimental. Peas have ood stands. Pastures are poor. A p les are plentiful in York. Gardens re failing. Broke His Neck. The Columbia State says on Wed-e esday a negro named Tolmnd Work ian, while riding on tihe top of a C. .& L. freight train, went to sleep r the train was approaching the sta- ~ on of Sligh's, and rolled off. It was e man's last sleep, for when he was icked up he was dead, hlis neck had cen broken. It was an unusual case, I d merely serves to call attention to b e practice of negro train hands to a ill asleep on the top of cars. o Kerosene will make tin kettles as h right as new. Saturate a woolen a ig and rub with it. It will also re ove stains from the clean varnished Iti SENATOflAL RAC [cox7it'1ED h~ro'i L'A(E 1._ peated for several days that lie se ired the i .w a ppropriat ;o 1 or ewberry Coll ege. I i 1 rut h of 1 lie at ter is an at torneiy was paid 4.50i) ) gettiig lite i1UW!e i l l 11e (o1 ninent, anid tiis amuounit was take;; it of the appropriat ion. yet Latimer claiming it. You can't fool all the, -ople all the time." said Col. John one, and you better stop. Mr. Lati er's attitude with the Republicans aI such that when Post master General I nith wanted a rural route in South; arolina he gave it to his son, and'1 hen he had to remove that son or nd him to another State, Smith hain came to Latimer and said: "Ilave )u not a brother-in-law?" and Clar ice Brown has the job to-day. He )ld Mr. Latimer that he should not lake an enemy out of him, but pro sed to give him a little "tit for tat." t was his loyalty to his people, his ve for their true iterest that corn elled him to reject the absurd sub reasury scheme. and that was why he -as removed from congress, and Lati ier was elected over him purely on hat issue. His heart is as true and >al to them as in the days of yore. [is position on the trusts was clear t, and forcibly expressed. Time was ailed, but t here were cries of "Go on!" Go on!" Col. Johnstone closed amid reat enthusiasm. This finished the Senatorial contest, nd the meeting was turned over to lessrs. McLauchlin and Lever for one our longer. For hours afterward the rowd was gathered on the streets in roups discussing the meeting in their wn peculiar way. Some Mot Air Stories. Every summer is the hottest, at past that is the way it feels to the ian who is sweltering, but the cold icts if such temperature may be so esignated, show that some seasons re hotter than others, and particu rly that the hot weather of last reek was not a record-breaker. The olumbia State says the records of the >al weather bureau otlice indicate hat June, 1599, July, 1887. 1899, and ugust, 1900, all had longer continued eriods of heat and each period had igher temperatures, than during last reek. In June, 1899, the hot weather et in early with 97 degrees on the 6th, allowed by 100, 102, 101, 103, 99, 102, >ut on the 16th the temperature ropped to about 90 degrees. In July f the same year, from the 13th to he 18th, inclusive, the following con ecutive high temperatures were re orded; 98, 102, 105, 101, 103, 96, af er which the temperatures were still a the nineties to the close of the aonth. The July. 1887, period be an on the 14th and ended on the 19th, ith the following consecutive high emperatures; 99, 100, 102, 102, 104, 01. However, August, 1900, gave a 'hot spell" rocord that it is hoped till not soon be broken. The maxi aum temperature during that month ever once fell below 9C degrees, while rom the 8th to the 22d, the record as as follows, on consecutive days; 5, 102, 100, 103, 99, 101, 100, 98, 99, 00, 99, 102, 106, 104, 101, 97, followed from 95 to 98 to the end of the onth. The 106 recorded on the 19th the highest since the establishment f the station in 1887. Compared ith the figures j'ust given we have ist week's record as follosvs, in con ecutive days beginning with the 3d ast.: 95, 101, 101, 101, 1)0, 92. So hat the man who says that las a week -s the hottest weather he ever ex rienced has not lived here very long, r else he was born since August, 1900. Scholarships in Oxford. The Columbia State says Gov. Mc-| weeney has at last received an ofcialj! ommunication in regard to the' cholarships to be established at Ox ord university, England, under the rill of the late Right Hion. Cecil John thodes. There is nothing in the in :rmation received so far that will be f value to any wishing to apply for he two South Carolina scholarships. he letter from Secretary Hay asks he governor to collect from leading ducators in the State recommenda ions as to making regulations with re ard to the method by which quali cations of the candidates are to be scertained and as to the examina ions. "and," says Mr. Hay, "to that nd I request the views of the chief fficials having the control of educa ion in the various States and Terri ories." These views are to be comn unicated by Ambassador Choate to he trustees of the will. One of the rustees, Mr. Boucheier F. Hawksley, nder date of June 16, made this re uest of Mr. Choate, and in conclud 2g his letter said: "It is hoped that he students can be elected in time to o into residence at Oxford in 1903. The governor has received also print d copies of Mr. Rhodes' will relating these scholarships, which will be sed by those from whom suggestions ril be requested, There will be two :holarships for each State. wvorth 1500 a year each, and continuing for hree years. Train Hand Kil'ed. A serious wreek occurred on the he Atlantic Coast Lines at Hlilda, ear Barnwell, Thursday afternoon tte, in which G;eorge Lowering, a lored train hand, was killed and ~ngineer Cannady slightly hurt. T wo 'extra" freight trains were in the] 'reck, which resulted not only in theI ss of one life and the injuring of good engineer, but also in great amage to the railroad property. Bcth] rains, it is said. were bound for ugusta, engineer Needly and Con uctor Edgerton in charge of one, ngineer Cannady and conductor Mor an of the other. It is reported that; ngineer Cannady ran intpo the rear f engineer Neely's train. A bad ash-up was t,he result. Engineer 1 annadys engine was turned over own a deep embankment. Larence. I he train hand, is said to have been< illed instantly. Several freght cars ere demolished by the shock and very one of the crew severel shaken. 'he cause of the wreck has not yet cen ascertained. Tried to Kill His Mother. Herbert Hill1 who lives at Roxberry,< [ass., shot and killed his sister, Mrs. :iley. and seriously wounded his< iother, Mrs. Amelia lill last week.( 'he latter was struck in the back of ]e head apparently with the butt of I revolver. lill is said to be dement 3 and to have been under treatment r mental trouble fromr a specialist r some weeks. Hill was finally ar-( asted Thursday evening at Milton 1 rower Mills. lie had every appearance being insane.t LAST year the crops of Ephraim, I Itah, were almost entirely destroyed x grasshoppers. This year there i ill be no such destruction. A series entertainments has been arranged I which the price of admission is one- I alf hushel of these lively insects. At I dance, the Iirst of the series, the f man at the door"' took in seventy- r e half bushels, which served as a 2 BILL ARP'S LETTER. it Arp's Rcspt":t 'or Iradhir:t. Teil''; the Stor yi of William T1i. Hiow th o (lid people cline t) the toirics and traditions that cii:ared lieir cbildh'otl. Go(Pod old M3other \kin cane to see me and to com'frt ne inl my sickness. She has had her hare of trouble. but is always bright mfd cheerful and brings sunshine with ter. Somehow the story of William Cell came up. and when I remarked .hat it was now generally set down imong the critics as a myth or a )retty fable she said "she would not ead any such heartless scandals nor lid she believe them. The world is full >f these iconoclasts who break up very idol that we have .worshiped. Phe story of William Tell is one that s fit to be believed and handed down rom generation to generation. Vol aire started that fable theory be ause he did not like the Swiss. M ny )ooks have been written on both ides, but the old family traditions ;hat have come down to us for t0 rears are still as much the faith of he Swiss people as is their religion. William Tell is as mnch today their iational hero and the founder of their :epublic as Washington is of ours and ;he little chapel on the lake where he 'as drowned is still preserved to cor nemorate hin:." Well, whether it is a fact or a fable t is one of the prettiest stories ever ,old and ought to be repeated to the hildren of every household. It was n the fourteenth century when Aus ria had overridden and conquered switzerland and had stationed her ty ant bailiffs in every canton to subdue nd humble the people that one Gess er placed the ducal cap upon a pole n the public place and ordered every >ne who passed to uncover his head tnd bow to it. Tell refused and was seized and condemned to death, but as e was known to be the best bow nan in Switzerland he was offered the alternative of shooting an apple from lis son's head. The boy was his idol and he begged for some other alterna tive, but Gessler refused. Sixty yards vas measured off, the boy stationed nd the apple placed. Gessler and his :ohorts looked on while Tell bowed his nees in prayer. Rising he looked to eaven and then let fly the arrow and pierced the apple in its center. The soy ran to his father and leaped into ais arms, and another arrow that had seen concealed fell upon the ground. "What was that arrow fory" said Gessler. "To shoot you, you brute, ad I slain my son." For that he was >ondemned to prison and Gessler took im in a boat on the lake, but a vio lent storm came uo and Tell was un :hained to steer the boat. He made for the shore, leaped to a rock and with a pole shoved the boat back into the stormy waters. Hurrying along the lake he procured a bow and arrows from a countryman and shot Gessler is the boat passed. "Tell's Leap" and Tell's Rock" are still known to every "hild in Switzerland. Later on he Lost his life while savingz a lad from irowning. What is unreasonable about this story? We had a Gessler in Rome at the close of the civil war. is name was de la Mesa, a Spaniard who came over to fight for pay. i~e id not hoist the ducal cap, but he stretched the flag over the sidewalk and our female Tells (some of whom ire living yet) would not walk under it, but crossed over to the other side. T'hen he stretched another across the whole street and they walked around the block. It was not so much of dis respect to the flag as it was contempt for the foreigner who unfurled it. Ile refused to let our wie and daughters receive or mail letters unless they ame b)efore him and took an ironclad >ath of allegiance. lie had ten of our young men and several young ladies irrested for acting in a tableau to raise a little money to replace paws in the churches. The pews had all been taken out and made into troughs to feed their horses in. lie was fore warned that night by a negro that if ae didn't release those girls he would be killed before morning and he would aave been. Yes "Leopard Spots" were all around ere just as they were in North Caro ma. We had Gesslers and we had ells, too. But I was ruminating about Switzer and. that historical and wonderful :ountry. Now, children and young people, listen. It is only a little scrap )f a country about one-fourth the size >f Georgia, and nearly half of that is baken up by lakes and mountains. The nost beautiful lakes in the world. Lake Lucerne (that's Tfell's): Lake 3eneva (Calvin's): Lake Wenner and Weter-and just think of the grand ld mountains--the Alps and the JIura nd the Jur~gfrau. Think of the hospice ~he good St. Bernard. where they kept hat tine, breed of dogs which were rained to go out in the most fearful now storms in search of lost travelers nd carry food and wine to them and ring them safely to the hospice. One >f my lirst books had a picture of two >f these noble dogs digging in the nowv for a man feeding him almort lead. One of the dogs had a bottle trapped around his neck and the >ther a basket of food. In another ictu'e a little boy was on a dog's ack and his arms around his neck nd the dog was barking at the door f the hospice for admission. Those ictures and the stories about themi ,ere a~s dear to me as the story of William Tell. But think of litt'e Switzerland. with ts population of three million people md all at work except the babies. Uout half are shepherds and herds nen on the mountain slopes and >enches. raising sheep and milch cows. Ln in the year 1900O they sold over ten nillion dollars' worth of butter and heese. Down in the valleys and tround the lakes are many towns and ittle cities that hum like bee hives. 'or nimble fingers are making vatches. jewelry, hair wourk. lace, silk Ld cotton fabrics as fine as gossamer md hundreds of other little things yhich, taken all together, make the :ommerce of that little water ec~ered Ld snow capped republic nearly ouble the commerce of any other ountry according to population. All the children from 6; to 12 years ave to go to school part of every year, nd her young men have to be taught art of two years in military tacties. Lhere is no standing army. but ev'ery itizen is a willing and ready soldier o defend his country. Its govern nent is a repubic divided into twenty wo cantons or counties. and to main an this republic they have been ghting all contiguous nations for early six hundred years and have hipped every battle they fought. ustria, Prussia. Maximilian and at ast Bonaparte tried subdue that peo e,. but failed utterly. They never ad an army of over 'Jo,00o, and de ated Prussia with 10.000 in seven itched battles. Austria demanded 0.000 Swiss soldiers to help her fight urkey. Switzerland refused to fur nish them, and that brought on a war. and Sitzcrland whipped it. We see by the New York papers that they )ave c:;:ngleted the new government buildincgs at lierne, and the pictures of them are lovely and the people are pround and had a great festival when they 'yere .pened for business. ;rand country - -great people. .h hu Calvin left his inark upon them. for of all the twenty-two cautons only three have kept allemiance to the Roman Catholic church. lBut all are devoted Chris tians, and on every Christmas day and every Easter morn the young men and maidens come tipping down the moun tain paths singing their Christmas or Easter carols and making the cliTs! and valleys echo with their songs. But it is said that their young men tight for pay and are mercenary sol diers. Yes, but they choose the side N they believe to be right. They would not tight for Austria against the Turks, nor would they tight for 3ona parte, nor for England against the 1o3ers. And now the civilized world has let them alone amfd the little re public has had peace for nearly a hun dred years. McKINLEY'S DOCTOR BILL. The Government Appropriates $45,000 for Their Services. A special from Washington Wednes dlay says. There appears to be an un necessary amount of official mystery surrounding the payment of the sur geons who attended the late President McKinley. In the closing hours of the recent session of Congress a provi sion was inserted in the general deli ciency bill appropriating $45,000 to compensate the McKinley doctors. it was generally understood immedi ately after the death of President McKinley that Congress would be asked to compensate the doators who attended the m-rdered President. Not a word of protest went up from the general public against such a p:cp.sition. for the Government had alreddy set up a precedent after Lin coln and Garfield were assassinated. The universal love and sympathy ex pressed for McKinley would have naturally prevented any opposition to the Government making a reasonable return to the eminent pbysicians who served the nation's chief at Buffalo. Under the circumstances it is not easy to account for the profound sec recy which has attended every step that has so far been taken to secure the $45,000 so readily appropriated by Congress. All efforts to ascertain how the money is to be divided and how much the various doctors are to re ceive are met with a mysterious shake of the head, and the vague statement that nothing is to be said on the sub ject at present. It is an open secret that the trustees of the McKin ley estate, Senator Hanna, Seretary Cortelyou and Judge Day, former Secretary of State, agreed that a lib eral compensation should be paid the doctors who attended President Mc Kinley. That conclusion was reached, notwithstanding a majority if not all of the surgeons in attendance public ly announced that they had no inten tion of- making any claim either upon the McKinley estate or the Govern. ment for services rendered at Buffalo The trustees, however, concluded that a reasonable allowance should be paid to the doctors, and after much correspondence and consultation with those interested Sentor Allison, chair man of the committee on appropria tions in the Senate, was selected to introduce an amendment to the deli ciency bill appropriating $43,000. A provision was inserted excluding Dr. Rixey, of the navy, and the two ar~my surgeons who assisted the corps of civilian surgeons and attendants. The names of the doctors were not in cluded in the bill, nor is there any of ficial record obtainable as to how many doctors are to be paid or the amounts they are to receive respec tively. There was not one word of debate on the subject in the Senate and even "Uncle Joe" ,Cannon, in the House, moved a concurrence with out asking for or volunteering any ex planation of the item. According to the last official bulle tin, issued just after the death of President McKinley, the following doctors were in attendance: Harvey I). Gaylord, Iherman G. MIatsinger, Matthew 1). Mann, Iherman Mynter, Rloswell Park, Eugene Wasden, Charles G. Stockton, Edward G. Janeway, W. WV. Johnson, Charles Cary, Ilarmanus L. Baer, also T. M. Rixey; U. S. N.; William F. Kendal, and Edward L. Munson, U. S. A. The law provides that the Secretary of the Treasury shall disburse the 845,000 thus appropriated after the claims for services have been filed and approved. The claimants are allowed ten months from the passage of the Act in which these claims may be tiled. If none are presented the money will be covered back into the treasury as unexpended. At the ti'easury de partment no traces of any claims on account of medical services or atten dance in connection with the late President MIcKinley, can be located. The tiles of the department do not, at this writing, disclose any informa tion whatever bearing upon this sub ject. Officials who usually are called upon to supply Congress with informa tion bearing upon the appropriation of public morsey c'>nfess to having some unofficial knowledge on the sub ject, but there is no otticial data at hand to show that any treasury esti mate was submitted in behalf of the doctors. The trustees of the MecKin icy estate and other officials who as sisted in securing this legislation simply decline to discuss this subject or any of its details. There is no probability of criticism or censure for those who have acted in this manner, because it is general ly believed that the whole country will feel a personal pride in knowing that the American people indirectly contributed to compensate the sur geons who tried to save President MceKinley's life. It is because of the mystery that has enveloped this sub ject that curiosity has been aroused as to how the distribution of the funds provided is to be made. It is under stood that the compensation of each doctor in attendance will be regulated in accordance witn each man's stand- t ing, l ngth of service, etc. It is be lieved the surgeon who performed the operation will receive the highest I amount, and those who simply signed an occasional bulletin will be allowed sums of one hundred dollars for each consultation. Within the next two months a de tailed statement of the account will be made by the comptroller of the ' treasury, for it is understood that all those who are to be compensated have cquiesced in the allotments made by the trustees. The general rain which visited Texas last wet k came too late to save the corn crop, but in some sections farmers are replanting. Cotton was i not damaged much by the fevere I SPANKED) AN EDITOR J Accourt of Defamatory Communi cation in "The News" d 3F ANONYMOUS CORRESPONDENT \ intimating that Evans Had Profited P f-om iIis Connection with the Dispensary; Characteris- a d tic Encounter. A Special from Greenville to the Zolumbia State says A personal alter- t 3ation took place last week in t ront of The Daily News office be- r tween H. II. Evans of Newberry and a J. K. Blackman, editor of the Green ville News. Mr. Evans came here a this afternoon to make a-pressing de- t rnand upon the editor of The News for the authorship of an article signed, "A Looker on in Vienna," which ap peared in Saturday's issue, and alleged that a member of the State dispen- I nary board living in Newberry had profited largely by his connection therewith-buying farms. wearing liamons, etc. Evans telegrahed the editor of The t News Saturday night asking for the s name of the writer, to which the fol lowing response was made: "We de eline without his consent to give the name of the author of the article to which we presume you refer, and un less you are prepared to deny its truth we do not recognize your right to de mand anything about it. We are re sponsible for the article.-Editor Greenville News." Soon after reaching Greenville Mr. 1 Evans siw the business manager, Mr. I J. F. Richardson, who disclaimed any I responsibility for the publication of or I knowledge of the article before its l publication and at Evan's suggestion he telephoned Mr. Blackman, who < said that he was unwell, to which C Evans replied that he would stay here s until Blackman got well. Between 7 and 8 o'clock Blackman went to the office, Mr. Evans crossed from the Mansion house and accosted him, tel ing him that he had come for the name that he had been refused,to which Blackman replied that he would not give it. Evans then asked if he stood by the telegram and if he was the mnan who sent it, to which an affirmative answer was given, when Evans immediately landed a left hand ed lick upon Blackman's face, 'knock ing him down, beating him severcly and then taking him across the lap 1 and spanking him. No weapons were drawn or used, and Evans was not t armed. Evans was at once arrested by the police, and friends went with him to the residence of Mayor Jones, who re- 9 leased him upon *10 for his appear ance to answer for disorderly conduct. Evans preferred no charge against Blackman, who was carried into The News otiice. Evans disclaims any purpose of en gaging in a tight-with Blackman, and says he only asked in a civil way for the name of the author of the article to which he took exception, as he wase determined to make some one respon-i sible and upon the name being di vulged he would have relieved Black mnn of All blame for its publication. s LATITNER AlNB EVANS. Nearly Came to Blows at the St. Georges' Meeting. The senatorial and congressionalr candidates' meeting was held at St. Georges in the court house Saturday in the presence of about 300 people. A number of ladies occupied seats in the "jury box" and were interested specta tors to all that transpired. The meet-e ing was divided into two session one in the forenoon the other in the after- 1 noon. The morning session was hot with-c out incident. Messrs. Evans and Latimer were at it again and at one I time it looked like it would be a fight within the bar of the court room, but the sheriff of Colleton (an adjoining county) put a stop to the matter. It came about in this way: Mr. Evans was the first speaker and in his speech prodded Mr. Latimer in the same way and on the same matters which 'has been brought out at pre vious meetings. Mr. Latimer made bout the same refutations and said that they (meaning the Refo'rm~ers) ad carried Mr. Evans as long as they v ould and had dropped Evans, and he t lso made some allusion to Evans be- d ing his "'friend" to which Evans re-p plied:b "You never were my friend, you n betrayed me like a dog."v Then Latimer brought up the $13,- a 300 bond deal and said Evans had been t harged with it in the last campaign b md Evans corrected him by saying p Ihat it had only been rumored and a some reference was made to an anony- si nous circular in connection with Mr. o Duncan's name but their meaning was ti lot cleared.p Mr. Evans added that he had de- d ied the accusation at the time: de- n lounced it as a lie: he now denounces b t as such and the man who repeats t is a liar. At this point Mr. Lati nr appeared as if he had reached thea point where endurance ceased to be a irture, hence the enactment of the r ittle tragedy. The meeting proceed- g d without incident until after recess t *ven the party went to the hotel toL et dinner. s Mr. Latimer walked into the hotela md proceed to Mr. Evans' room and I: aid "Mr. Evans, I wish to have a t vord with you.' to which Mr. Evans e eplied. "No sir, you cannot talk to ne," and walked down stairs andI vent out and dined with a friend. [here was excitement, but those who :now both of the men think that mat ers ',will soon reach a crisis. IBothn vidently had friends in the audienceb nd the other four candidates were I erhaps tihe most interested specta-! ors. t Killed by Lightning. of D)uring a terrific thunderstorm " unday afternoon Thomas Roe, a I ratchman at the Ocean steamship I rharves, at Savannah. Ga., and Lizzie Villiams, a small negro girl who had tI rought him his dinner, were instant- (f Skilled by a bolt (of lightning. An- ut ther girl. standing two feet from the 5 'illiamns child was unscratched. b co Don't be a clam, but take yourit ~unty paper like a good. industrious it tizen and keep posted on the happen- th WVe eliI t'. fialI)g from The aturday E ;de of h~ae .ludge :dward1 V. O;unne. ',i ilm icruniaa nurt of Cmiago. 1iasi reu on t:d a decision that is o nest very business nr'zi in the c.luu ry it :as the e:tst of the :state rr. Vi~lliaiu U. Ws-t. unt emi'.l-yl o' f '.be acking iousieOf N elson Morris :1:V.. h1O w;:. ciargc(i by Lit :s 'ithI eml bezz:emneit. West. a young uarrie(i ma :i),at 0 years of age. who was living w id id supp :rtilg a wife and two cni ren. had charge of a meat car for the rn. and each week loaded the car in hicago and then took it to Aurora. Eaking six or eight stops at small owns along the way to make deliverie; o small dealers. West coilected'tlh noney for all his deliveries and twice week made a written report and urned in his money, amounting some imes to as high as $3,000. For doing ,11 this work, and occupying a posi ion of trust in which thousands o1 tollars passed through his hands he as paid $15 per week. The company hat employed him pushed the pro ecution and wanted him sent to tlhe enitentiary, but Judge Dunne foun( tim guilty of embezzling but $15, thuw aving him from the penitentiary, anc entenced him to serve thirty days it ail. In rendering his decision .Judg )unne told the employers of We.; hat when they asked a Man to tak' uch a responsible position at such mall salary and where he is called of n the performance of his duty to coi ect such large amounts of money mowing that he has a wife and tw( ;hildren to care for, 'you are simpl3 nviting him to commit a crime. or i east exposing him to tenptation. at t is wrong." The judge said he believed West, th< )risoner, to be a good man, and thai iad his salary been even as much as S. nore per week he would never have >een exposed to temptation. "If h( iad been paid $25 a week as he shoulk iave been paid, he would have has 1500 in the bank instead of being her( onvicted of embezzlement.". The ecision of Judge Dunne is well worts erious consideration by all who give mployment to others. A Gradual Decrease. According to a bulletin issued b3 he census bureau the farm property f South Carolina is valued in th aggregate at $153,591,159. Of thi! mount $99,805,860 represents the alue of lands; $26,955,670 the value f buildings; $6,629,770 of machinery ,nd $20,199,859 the value of live stock he farm lands of the state cover ar area of 13,985,014 acres. Ninety acres s given as the average size of farms it he state, while in 1850 the average ize was 541 acres. There has been t radual decrease each ten years since he half century mark was passed Che farms now number 155,355 an( f them 85,381 are operated by ne roes. The farm products of the state or 1899 represented a value of $68, 66,912. Cott'n is the principal croj nd the cotton lands constitute 65 pel ent. of the entire farm area. Victims of a Sharper. A dispatch from Shippensburg, P.. ays a number oif Metal Townshil itizens have beeni the victims of harper who sold them what he claim :d was cucumber seed that would pro luce cucumbers two feet long. Hi old the seeds at 25 cents a package. ach package said to conitain five eeds. The directions were to plan1 hem in a barrel nearly filled wit! ood, rich soil. After seveal weeks here being no signs of any vines ome of the purchasers removed th< ,eeds from the barrels and found thal hey were made of wood, cleveri: arved. lie didn't come back, but thi ext agent who struck the town was un out or the village, the farmers nol en stopping to ask questions. A Convict Rewarded.. Gov. McSweeney Wednesday re arded a convict for the saving of ~uard's life near this city, granting im a pardon. The pardon was grant d upon receipt of the following fron upt. Griffith of the State peniten ary: Dear Sir: I respectfully ask on to give Walter Anderson a full ardon for the reason that on the 10tl lay of March, 1900, while on detai: rork on farm, several prisoners over owered and took Mr. Hlarling's gut rom him. (Harling was the guard. ome of the prisoners had H-arling own on the ground when this con ict, Walter Anderson, rushed to his elief, pulled the convicts off of hin ,nd saved him from being killed, foi hich 1 at once made him a "trusty,' ,nd e has ever since, as well as be ore, been a line prisoner, humble. bedient and a good worker. Stole the Melon. Will Slappy, a 16-year-old negrc vrho lived on the P. B. Allen planta ion near Starr, in Anderson County, ied Thursday afternoon under eculiar circumstance. It is thought e died a~sa result of eating a water elon that had been pois'med. Hie las taken violently ill about 120'clock nd died at 4 o'clock. A fter being aken ill he stated that a short while efore he had stolen a melon from the atch or another negro on the place nd had eaten it. A physician was Jmmoned but he reached the boy nly a fewv minutes before he died and >o late to be of any assistanc?. The hysician said the boy might have ied from an acute attack of cholera orbus. or from congestion of the owels. A Fatal Wreck. Two men killed, one fatally injured d several more or less seriously in~ red is the story of a .wreck on the 'oledo, Peoria and Western railway turday. All the injured belonged the construction crew except two, epage and Meyers, who are traveling lesmen. An extra engine and tboose were comning slowly toward eoria and received word to look for le construction, when the two met 1 a curve. The construction train as going at a high rate of speed. A Flood In K~ansas. T he Ilood situation in the valleys of 2e Blue and Kaw rivers is becoming ore serious and many families have en forced to leave their homes for igher ground. The Blue is a raging >rrent 21 feet deep and still rising. is running over the Union Pacific 'acks several feet deep for a distance two miles. taking a short cut to the aw river. The body of a dead man ated past here today on the Kaw. could not be caught. As late as 1870 only 4 per cent of te cotton seed produced in the South rom a crop of 3,012,000 bales) was ilized in the oil business. In 1900 per cent, on a crop of 9.645,974 .les. was so utilized. So that the untry now "crushes" annually for ;oil over 50 per cent more seed than produced thirty years ago. And e demand for the product increases arl. BA ING14 AT 9~H ZO~ The Elephant, the Eik and 64 Chim pamee Afe Very Fond of the Water. The quip of the old author who says that the <4:1ference between civilized anti uneiv:lized men l.ies in the fact that the for;m:cr Mathes and the lat ter de:, has long been disproved t: . if the difference of a bath mvac:th c=":.zd nu, the zoo con tans a imin~br of ai-imials who can .t bttlit of the.distinc .r. it make, tihem civilized -r '.ear. fThere is the elephant, for instance. It rejoices in a !,u.e :a f- sunk in the ground, to which an incline is sunk, and wherein the pachycerm may enjoy itself. There are two elephants at the zoo, but the biggcr doesn't bathe. He's too fierce, wild and untractable to be let out of his cage. So they keep him' securelv ch-ained, and when he needs a bath the hose is turned on him. The female, a quiet beast of pkasant man ners. saun-ters forth every afternoon in sunmer andi bathes in the tank. Her joy is sir. ply unmeasured, says the l'hiladciphia Times. When she does bathe, the trumpet ing. the splashing. the spurting of wa ter out of her trunk on her back and flanks. are simply prodigious. It is the sight of the day-but anyone getting too near may be drenched. That doesn't feaze the elephant. She's there to bathe, and bathe she does. The crowd watchcs in amazement. Elephants, as- is well known, do not lie down, e-en to bathe, and the zoo elcphant is no exception. She stands up and .washes about, acting as her own shower bath, and making the most of her opportunities. The male elk is another bather, on a long and, protracted basis. There is a tank in the elk inclosure into which water constantly flows. It is not a large tank and when the male elk gets into it, there isn't. much room for any thing else, so the females and the little elks are forced to stay out and watch the old one enjoy himself. As lie is liable of a warm day to stay in the tank from dewy morn to dewy' eve, the others get theirs in watch ing. When thus enjoying himself, the elk is frequently submerged, except his horns, which are wide, and his nostrils. They say his object is to avoid the flies, which can't bite his horns very well, and don't hive much of a chance on his nose. The rest of the elk family have to fight the flies as best they may. The chimpanzee, Billy, gets a sponge bath daily. The heat-of July was a few too many for Billy, who had been reared in the comparative chill of Central Africa, and he had to be put on ice to keep him from slipping his earthly moorings alto gether. Nowadays, his keeper, Mur ray, gives him a sponge bath every' afternoon, which is simply Billy's chief delight. When he feels the sponge he closes his eyes and- smiles, and expresses his gratification in low snorts and wlistles. The alligators and crocodiles, being by nature very fond of bathing,d vide their time between lying in the water with their mouths open -and lying on the ground with their mouths open. They ar'e not expres sive of countenance and their. bath-* ing may be by force of habit. The persIstent indulgence in water baths alternated by sun baths may account for their good health, for so far as known they never die a natural death. The pelicans, storks, swans, ducks, cranes, and other like birds are fond of the water, as everyone knows. The pelicans, cranes and storks stand and wade in it knee deep, with one leg drawn up and one eye closed. Just why this one-sided habit is not known, even to naturalists. The polar bear, not having any ice bergs on hand, takes it out in water, which he leaves long enough to eat, and take an occasional nap. His feel -ing during the recent hot spell may be conjectured. Feed the Entire World. The United States is the great bread producing country of the earth, and if our supply of foodstuffs was suddenly cut off half the people of other countries would starve to death. Recently published statistics show that the United States sells~ ap proximately $1,000,000,000 worth of surplus agricultural products in a year. They feed the armies of Boers and English. and a squeeze in prices in America is felt all over the world. England is the best customer of this country in food supplies. In 1900 we sold her $40s,000,000 worth of farm products. Germany spent here $134, 000,000 for agricultural products. -. About half of this was for cotton, the rest was for food. France buys annuially from us about $45,000,000 worth of agricultural products, most ly bread and meat.-Chicago Chron icle. Rilbbon to Be Much Used This Wintew. Ribbon will -be much used for col lars, belts, soft girdles and corsage bows this season. The pouch front corsage is frequently trimmed with a large, full rosette of ribbon placed a little to the left or in the center, or with a bow of several loops and ends of lengthwise effects that i worn on the side of the bodice. A plain albatross or silk waist may be trimmed with stripings of narrow velvet ribbon and finished with a ro sette on the left side. This is an ex cellent way to retrim an old bodice. -Ladies' Home Journal. Warning from Insurance Xen. New Orleans .insurance experts warn the people that the- city .may be burned down any time if the pres ent careless methods of handling oil' are tolerated.-Chicago Chronicle. Has Retired. Theophilus H. Porter, for 46 years a newspaper carrier in Lynn, Fass., retired from business last week, hav ing made enough money to keep him comfortably for the rest ot his life. In all that time he has walked about 15 miles every day but Sunday, when he went to church regularly, as .he does not believe in Sunday papers. -An Old Engineer. The oldest locomotive engineer in the country is Christian Smith, who lives near H~arper's Ferry, Md. He ran the first engine on the Baltimore and Ohio road. The speed was six to eight miles an hour, in'those old times considered swif t running. RICHLAND County is now enjoying the comfortable returns of the money it has invested, with good judgment, in good roads. The Carolina News remarks editorially that the county "has the best "roads of any county in the State, and it "'is worth a visit to any one to go over "themn in order to see how sand beds and "muddy hills can be transformed into roads "as solid and as smooth as Main street in