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XANN ING, S. C., WEDNESD)AY, DECEMER 10.1902. NO. 19. THE MESSAGE R.A. The President Gives Congress His Views on Public Matters. CONGPESS IS NOW IN SESSON. There Is Nothing Stariling in W:ant the President Says. And Even Wall Street Will Feel Safe. Both flouses .f Congress reasse tn bled last Tuesday for ivhat is known as the short session. A fter the dis patch of routine business. in the Sen ate, Messrs. Platt and Jones the committee appointed by the senate to join a similar committee froml 11l; house to notify president that eo gress had assembled. repo rted that they had performed this duty, where upon Mr. Barnes. assistant secretary to the president. delivered the presi dent's message to congress. Printed copies had been furnished each sena tor and they closely followed the read ing of the document. But few Demo crats -were in their seats when the reading of the message begun. Upon the conclusion of the readin-z of the message. which oceupied an hour and fifteen minutes. it was ordered to lie on the table and be printed. IN THE HOUSE. After the House had transaeted routine business. Mr. Barnes. assis tant secretary to the president. an nounced the 'president's message which, by the direction of the speaker, was immediately read by the clerk. The members displayed great inter est in its coutents, many of them fol lowing the reading in the printed copies which were distributed by the pages. The reading of the message was listened to attentively, especially those portions relating to the regula tion of trusts, the tariff and the isth mian canal bill. There were no de monstrations until the reading was concluded, when there was a general outburst of approval on the Rlepubli can side. The reading consumed ex actly an hour and at its conclusion it was referred to the committee of the whole house on the state ol the union without objection. THE MESSAGE. The message consists of about 10. 00. words. and is shorter than the average president's message in recent years. It is not startling in any of its recommendations and if Wall Street shies at it they will do the un expected. The principal points touched on are these: The trusts. which the president urges should be regulated by con gress under power to regulate inter state commerce with a view to de stroying only the evil in them. If this power does not exist then he wants a constitutional amendment. The tariff, which he thinks has a bearing -n the evils of the trusts and which should be modified in the main by reciprocity treaties, the prin ciples of protection being ainays kept in view. The currency system. which he thinks should be changed, he does not say how, to give the country an ade quate supply of currency. Labor and its right to organize. which he recognizes but which he says must be kept from doing evil just as capital organized into socalled trusts should be prevented from doing evil. The army, which he compliments highly for its work in the Philippines. He recommends the passage oft the general staff and re-organization of militia bills by congress. The navy, which he says must be increased as to ships and personnel as a guarantee of peace and as a weapon ;to enforce the principles which we :have already laid down. -Reciprocity with Cuba as the duty of the strong to the weak and as an implied obligation assumed by us by reason of the Platt amend ment. The creation of a secretary of com merce to sit in the cabinet. The passage of an immigration law similar to that which passed the house at its last session. 31inor recommendations are brief. Hie wants no halting in building the navy. He says rural free delivery is now a success. Arid lands should be reclaimed by irrigation. Alaska laws are a discredit to the nation. Indians are to be absorbed ultimate ly. Scientific aid should be given the farmers. Brave Captain Bohn. Capt. Bohn, master of the German steamer Barcelona. was granted an audience at the White Ihouse with President Rloosevelt oin Wednesday. Early last spring during a gale Capt. Bohn caved the lives of H men near the entrance to New York harbor. Two small tugs each with a crew of seven men were ttoundering about on the ocean av the mercy of the waves - svhen the Barcelona have in sight. At the risk of his own vessel and the lives . of his own crew he took oif the crews -within a scant hundred yards of the . breakers on Long Island shore. F'or .this act of bravery Capt. lHohn was promised a memorial. and he will be presented with this by the president. Volcano Victims. F-romi the Guatemnalan coast the 'Pacitic steamer City of Sydney. brinus news of deaths resulting from recent eruptions of Santo MAaria volcano to the number oif about 1.000. This esti mate is based upon the latest informa tion received at San Jlose. Gunatemala, previous to the Sydneuy's departure for this port. but it is acconspanied byia statement of (;uatemalans that re liable information is sti!! diticult to obtain. This death list is coinsder ably smaller than that previousl re ported._________ sized H im Up. The Dayton Ohio .Journal say any white man would be honrwd by si.. ting at dinner with sonse ne ir' es. Atlanta .Journal sizes up tneom editor when it says "it is moreof truth to say that some white mci would ibe honordivb sitting at (mel with any negro - and the D aytoni wri ter s eviriently one of ith;ind SIZI OF COTTON CROP. Lares~t Fiures Ever Given Out By Agrxicultrural D~epart ment. The statistican (f the department of agriculture estimates the actual growth of cut ton in the nited States in b year 1902 03 as 10,417.000 Ie , tl an average net weight f Thev area picked or .1 be picked is es im dt 2. 114.10: acres. a reclue In oft 64.22, acres. or 2.:4 per cent. flr m the acreage plantedl. 1.1w total product ion of lint cttln is estimated it .111.8 0,028 pounds. an avera.rL of 1. pounds p r acre. The est i nated prod nct ion by St ate S in pounrds. of lint cttt..n per acre is r as follows: r Virginia 21l : North Carolina 26: South Car 1 lina 19!: Georgia 1 ) rida120: Alabama 14-k: Ml;ssissippi 220: Louisana 262: Texas 14S: Ar-.an .sas 268: Tennessee 252: Missouri 252: Oklahoma 282: Indian Territory 244. The phenomenally favorable weather that has prevailed almost co ntinu iusly for some weeks past throughout a large:, portion of the cotton belt has inade a: substantial addition to the cotton cro p C as indicated on Oct. 3. All the eight States which at that date reported higher than at the corresponding date t last. year have still further improAd v thei r positions, while two (Louisiana and Nli:sissippi) of the live States tlhiat compared unfavorably with the year, 1901. now ieport slightly higher aver age yields per acre than a year a" leaving only Texas. Georgia and Ala hama with an unfavOrable showing. s The commercial crop will consist of 1 the above nent ii tned 10.41 7.010 bales. tgether with 15.592 bales brought I forward froni last year. about. 250,000 hales of linters and sample cottin. a id so much of the crop of 1903-04 as may be marketed before Sept. 1. 190:3. less 198,190 bales of the present crop marketed before Sept. 1. 1902 and so much of this same crop as may be car ried forward to the year 1903-04. A Fiend's Work. P A lynching was avoided only by the exercise of abundant precautionary I measures by city and county authori ties. Monday morning a negro boy, IS years old. was: caught attemptinr to assault the 6 year-old daughter of a prominent Broad street merchant. but a cloak of darkness was so closely v about the crime that not the faintest suspicion of it lebked v out until the negro, Miles a Johnson. had been spirited out of a the city. City Detective Williams d was near the scene at the time and took the negro to the barracks in a hack. Fearing that the story might possibly leak out Chief Norris im mediately turned the prisoner over to Judge Eve, to be sent to Savannah for safe keeping. Four hours the b negro was contined in jail but the secret was so closelv guarded that not even the members of the police force knew of the crime until the criminal was well out of the city. t Terrific Storm, U .During the heavy wind that blew V over New Orleans just before daylight r Wedesday the home of Prof. John a Denier. ou 31etarie Ridge. was blown down. Prof. D~enier was fatally hurt and his wife dangerously, Ihis 16-year-i old daughter and his aged mother had v miraculous escapes. The house was a built on stilts and all the inmates i were in bed when the clash came. e Prof. Denier is well known in athletic 3 circles and was at one time one of the best known clowns in Am~erica. The wind prostrated trees and fences ini various parts of the city. Telegraph c and telephone wires are down on the outskirts of the city. A swindle. The secretary of state has come s across a paper indicating that certain a Icolored men have perpetrated or aret about to perpetrate a gross fraud on the colored race. It is a scheme sign ed by Rt. Rev. Jas. Polite and one or two other negroes claiming to repre- t sent the Second Advent church in a this state. The paper is in the shape of a subscription list and hleaded by a Biblical quotation and winds up witht a promise that 5 1.50 is subscribed by twenty people in any community a school to run six months would be es-E tablished. It is not known whether J the swindle has yet worked.t Horse Sense. The Atlanta Journal says " any man who has sense enough to tindl his way to the legislature after being elected to it ought to be able to un derstand that he cant solve the stat's tinancial problem and relieve its pressing burdens by cutting ott the appropriation for a few~ clerks or port-y es at the capital. What's neederi is Imoe revenue. ,And there is an e asy way. a lust way and a right wvay to gt it-by taxing franchises. Gen tleen, you must stop this tool isnss o. saving at the spigot and looig at the bung." The Best Solution. The A tanta Jaural says - probably fter all the best solution of thec negro problem would not be. as Bishop Turner lds, to ship them t.o A frica but to 'ship them north of the Masoni and Dixonl line. Then. probal. after a ew years we wouiln't hear (f the nero prolem at all: or if we~ did. then peope wh lo make a specialty ef agitat ing it would sing an entirely diifernt tune. 1 ( remated in a Cabinz. A dis.pateh from Albuquerque. N. 31.. ss of the cremation of Mirs. Charli-es Lucii anci her- child reni in the )r ghom in the reCes5ss of the Joe mou-~ntains lhas reached t hat ci t. The i cabin too1k lire fromi a stove an the fran' i mther ii atte mpted to fire the chi 9ren, the eldest 15 years of ace. throgh a window, but the roo fell in. lined suddenly. The J1apaneese minister called at the -tat dIpar t ment at Washington in haste Thuir~sday to comniicate toI Secretry !!ay ai ablegram lie had re. ti fro th iister o forein ing. tat whl Mr.'liuk. the I 'nited -*ae alstr to . Japan wa:s ona huniting tr1ip Thursday morning he 'TEA JkR BIU WN t P. twelve Men are Killed and a Score Are Seriously Hurt. . BIG TANK OF OIL EXPLODED. Ireaki the Ship in Two and: spe:.gthe Flaintes All Over the suroiund ing Water. A dispatch from California says hile the steamer Progresso was lying t the wharf of the Fulton Iron Vorks at Harbor View Wednesday ioruing. an explosion occurred. As a esult 12 men are missing. A score ere more or less seriously injured id property valued at $)010.000 was estroved. The disaster occurred at 94:4 5 o'clock hile 40 inech:nics of the iron works nd 20 enpioyes of the ship were on oard. The machinists were busy com leting the work of changing the ves cl from a coal burning career to an il burning carrier, when suddenly one I tile tanks blew up. 3en were urled against the steel wall and a iet of flame came sweeping intoi heir faces. On the upper deck men :ere hurled into the air or thrown Ito the water. Three sailors engage( i nashing paint outside the pilot oIuse. disa ppeared as the cloud of la-k sinoke came up from the ship ni were scen no more. Following tile explosion the ship igged in the centre. showinr that she ad broken in two. In the oGtice of he iron works. 20 feet away, every indow was shattered and in ing glass at the faces and hands of many of ie otticials and clerks. WAVES OF FIRE. As hey rushed out into the open. irvivors.who were able to help them lves. were leaping from the ship. A reat crowd of mechanics came run in, out of the works. As soon as the anic had subsided these men set to -rk to rescue men from the burning essel. A stream of burning oil. run ing from the tanks. spread out until be ship lay on waves of tire. The ames crept under the wharf and soon he timbers were blazing. adding to. e difliculty of the work or rescue. .s the ship was built of steel the fire -as nearly all below the deck. There I ere fourteen oil tanks containing bout four hundred barrels of oil in 1. and despite the efforts of the fire epartment, this continued to burn ercely for hours after the explosion. everal minor explosions. due to the ames going from tank to tank.occur d at short intervals, but all the in iry and loss of life was caused by the rst one. One peculiarity of the ex losion was that several men whio were the other side of the bulkhead from Ihere it occurred. were uninjured bile others farther away were badly urt. Several men in the yards were jured by flying debris. The loss to; e Fulton company by the wrecking f the building and the burning of the harf will exceed $20.000. It is esti .ated that the Progresso wa:: worth bout .$17.O0. FELT A NILE AWAY. gs at H-arbor View and the shoek as felt a mile away. In a few in tances windows were broken several locks away. James Spiers, Jr.. gen ral manager of the Fulton Iron Vorks, is positive that the explosion las due to the oil and not to the ursting of the boiler. Ilis theory is that gas was generated in one of the il tanks. *It was certainly the ex 'losion of a tank," he said. "if it ad been a boiler explosion, a cloud of team would have arisen, but there as no steam. Instead, it was black moke from the oil. There was only small pressure of steam at the ime." A Traina For Millionaires. Chicago is to have a millionaire's rain between that city, Jacksonville nd other Florida resorts, which will 'e as tine in equipment and as fast in ime as the famous train running over he Atlantic Coast Line from New Cork to Florida point. The new train il be placed in service by the East rn llinois soon after the first of the ear and will make the trip from here to Jacksonville in thirty hours nstead of thirty-one as heretofore. kll the equipment to be used is to be rew, and, and is now in course of con truction by the Pullman Company. [he cost of the necessary equipment vi be between $700,000 and $1,000, '00. This elegant ne w train f rom the ,est will be operated via Evansville, Kashvile. Atlanta, Albany, and the tlantic Coast Line to Jacksonville, hence to Augustine. Fla. it will be een that tie Atlantic Coast Line will naintain its reputation for the perfect assener service from the West as vell as fromn the East. A Fatal Accident. An unusual and fatal accident oc u rred at WVoid rufif Wednesday. Three hildren of J1. T. Roach were playing vith a railroad torpedo arnd one of ,hem suggested that the object be pened. Acting oni this idea. a ham nr was secured and the dangerous >bject struck a blow. which exploded t. The !.ing parts of metal struck e ildiren, inju ring all thliree, the ldest fatally. Tis child died Wed lesday night at 8 ('clock of its injur es. The others wvill recover. The 'athe r founad the torpedlo several weeks (go an not knowing its dlangerous uture took it home with him, where t was carelessly left within the chil lren's reach. A StraLnge CaseC. .1 (n L. Sta rus. a North Carolina 'armer. saxvs lhe found a four-ounce ogget of LOidl and other lumps byV iggig inst Tuesday at a place on is farm. in consequence of instrue ions given by the spirit of his dlead xie, who came and stoodl by his hed An An~iul D~eath. lbokon M l;aI 'ws .ank i in a cuageire : mud. and in spite f all ellforts at - ked to death. ie showed heroic :ourage as he sank beneath the slime. mai died with a song on his lips. TROUBLE AT FURXAN. The StudentsThreateu to Resign Un less Trustees ltescind Action. A dispatch from Greenville to The State says the trustees of Furman unIiversity Thursday evening passed a resolution. by a majority vote. ask ing the r(.tigIation of Dr. Gordon B. Moorv. professor of p.hilosophy and The board pre!sented this request upon the ground that there was dis satisfaction in the State on account of Dr. Moore. but they did not call into question his orthorloxy or his teaching: simply as a matter of pnlicy it was deemed best to ask for his res igliation. The action of the trustees has aroused Dr. Moore's friends,. and it js said that lie will be urged not to c)m11ply with the request. A later dispatch to The State says the situation at Furman university is growing critical. The student body held a meeting Thursday evening in Montague hall and passed resolutions, unaninously, that unless the trustees rescinded their action with reference to Dr. Moore they would leave the in stitution at once. The students ap pear to be united in this action and Thursday sent, resolutotis to tl)e trus tees endorsing Dr. Moore and plead ing for iis retention. A con ference of Dr. Moore's friends in the convention will be held to de cide upon the course to pursqre when the convention considers the report from the trustees Saturday at noon. There is no excitement among the students or members of the conference, but it is aareed on all sideg that the situation is exceedingly grave, which may lead to a protracted and unpleas ant debate in the convention. The prpositiOn1 wis been made to renuest the resignation of the trustees who constitute the majority present. nine out of fifteen. HAPPILY SETTLED. The trustees of Furman University Friday morning agreed to accord a hearing to Col. J. A. Hoyt on behalf of 50 members of the convention ask ing the board to reconsider their ac tion itn requesting the rersignation of Dr. G. M. oore as a professor in the university. Col. Hoyt made a 'br'ef and succinct statement to the trus tees, saying lie was actin? not for himself but at the request of other bretnren in making an appeal for re consideration and, if possible, a revo cation of Thvrsday's action as it was believed by those he represented that a majority of the convention was not in accord with the majority of the trustees, Ile also urged this course becau.se of the apparent crisis at hand with the students proposing to leave the institution unless the request for r)r. Moore's resignation is withdrawn. Subsequently Dr. 1). M. Ramsey. chairman of the board, reported to the convention that the trustees had agreed to a reconsideration, but would not go any further at this time. 1t. MOORE SPEZAKs. Just bcfore the close of the services Dr. Moore appeared upon the platform and asked for the privilege of address ing the convention, which was readi ly granted. He desIred to express his appreciation of the brethren in de claring their contioence in him as a Christian and a minister. He..has spent 20 years of his life in South Carolina and thie brethren have a right to know somett ing about him. He appreciates their kindness, gene rosity and brotherly affection. For some unaccountable reason lhe has assailed, but he has no disposition to complain of it. The Gospel has taught him the spirit of forgiveness and lie has no feelng of revenge, bitterness or retaliation, This is the last time he expects to appear before the convyen tion of South Carolina Baptists and his resignation will be tendered at a proper time. In conformity with the wishes of the trustees it will take effect at the end of the ses sion. The board deemed it best to ask his resignation and he has no criticism to make upon their action or utter harsh words againt the brethren who voted for the resolution. He thanked thenm for a reconsidera tion which made the way open for him to speak in his own~ behalf and to appear before brethren of the conven tion in all love and forbearance. He wvas deeply concerned for prosperity of Furman university, for which lie had labored to the best of his ability, Hie was a servant of his brethrea for Christ Jesus, but he was not the slave of any man. lie closed with an ear nest appeal for the endowment of the university as proposed, and his voice rang in stroig endorsement of the plan adopted. D~r. Moorer made a profound impression upon his hearers and his clear, vigorous enunciation of his position met with hearty endorse ment from hundreds in the audience. lls statement ends the controversy and no more will be heard of the danger that threatened the university. She Pulled. The State says Solomon Carlisle. a negro laborer at the plant of the Ca tawber Powver company, at Rock l ill, was shot and instantly killed Wednes clay afternoon by a negro named Mary Eeson. The woman claimed acci dent. Hier story is that they were fooling with the gun and that she had already shot it out of the w~ndow and that. Carlisle took hold of the barrel placed it against his head and told her to pull the triggrer: that there was no load ini it. She did as directed andl the result was the blowing nif of the man's head. A Rich Baby. A son was born to the wife of W. A. Clark. .Jr.. Wednesday night, win nin the $1,.000Oii gift which Sena tor W. A. Clark ofiered to his sons and daughters a year ago for the first grandson presented to him. says a special to the Chicago Rtecord-Hlerald from Butts. Mont. is youngest daughter, Mrs. Morris. in New York. rcently gave birth to a daughter. Senator Clark. who is in Paris. has een not i lied by cable of the arrival of the prize winner. Woodeni Legs. By order of t he .Japanese empress wOrlen legZs have just been distributed to the seven maimed survivors of the Amori disaster, when 200 Japanese A SCORE PERISH. Caught in a Death Trap With Little Chance of Escape. FIRE HORROR IN CHICAGO. Some Desperate Attempts at Escape and Many Fall From Fire Escapes to Death in the Streets. Twenty-three persons met death in a fire at the Lincoln Ilotel at 176') Madison Street. Chicago, at 6 o'clock Thursday morning. Nineteen bodies have been recovered. Little damage was done to the hotel, but the smoke was so dense that the persons were overcome and died. 'Many jumped from the fourth story windows, or tried to save themselves by climbing to the fire escapes in the front of tlie builiing. ooly to lose their gr4sps of the cold i'rj bus ard fgil to the streets. Persons in the rear of the building on the top floors had no chance. The narrow stairway was afire and the es cape of the lodger4 in tile rol: of the building was cut off. Firomen and po licemen, in speaking of what they witnessed, condemned the building as a lire trap. Ambulances and patrol wagons were called and the de4d .1nd injured were qlckiy attended. All but fourteen at the hotel were out of town persons. Most of them eme to Chicago to attend the international live stock show, The hotel was filled. A large number of stock men and their faimilies were ttined away. Sihortly arter the tire broke out, the firemen rushed up the stairway and began the rescue. Men, women and chillren were carrlod down the lad ders, the fire escapes, and smoke filled t.e halls. In one instance a tireman of- an engine company saved a woman running from the rear end of the building to certain death, only to be forced to drop her from the third floor roof of a building adjoining. The woman held her seven-year old son in her arms. She was a Mrs. Sheppard. She was carried from the roof of the building to the Brevoort House, where a physician found that their injuries were slight. The building was constructed of brick, but there was only one stair way to the floors and the fire escape was in the front. E. C. Weber, the night clerk. first discovered smoke on the second flor. le believes th~e fire began in this section. Weber refused to make a statement, and after he se cured the register was taken to the centsal police station. where he is be ing detained. Mrs. Sheppard's son was first awakened by the presence of smoke. He awakened his mother and both began screaming. Many people were thus warned of the danger. It appears that the lire was acci dentally started, probably by the drop ping of a lighted cigar on the carpet in the hallway on the second floor. The smouldering fire tilled the build ing with heavy smoke, and several were suffocated. Many bodies were found in the beds in positions oi' slum ber. Some were found in the hallway face downwards. The positions mute ly portrayed how vainly they endeav ored to save their lives. Some were half clad and others wore night cloth ing. ________ _ Quick IBnsiness. John Dent and Cohen Law, two negroes, who went into a store at Spartanbumg bent upon theiving Wed nesday evening, While one of them engaged the attention of the clerk the other proceeded to stack up on his arm five or six pairs of pants, the very best in the stock. The thier endeav ored to escape, followed by his com panion. The negroes were hotly pur sued, however, and dropped the stolen goods, but made their escape. Later on in the night both were arrested. Thursday morning they were carried before Magistrate Kirby, and bound over to the present term of sessions court for grand larceny. Later on in the day they were tried in sessions court, plead guilty, and were given the following sentences: John Dent two years and three months at hard labor in the State Penitentiary; Coh-. en Law, two years at hard labor in the State penitentiary. Nearer Jail than Congress. A. P. Prioleau. thecolored Republi can candidate for Congress, who re cently filed with the State board of canvassers a protest against the decla ration of the returns, showing the Hon. George S. Legare to have been elected to Congress from the First district, was indicted Wednesday in the United States District Court at Charleston on the charge of detaining, delaying and opening mail matter. when he was running on the Atlantic Coast Line as a railway mail clerk. The case is made out against Prio leau of his intercepting a letter, ad dressed to Peter Gailard, of Elutaw yille, S. C., who is, by the way, a magistratLe. showing that Prioleau was no respecter of persons, when it camne to swiping mail matter. The act. it is alleged, was committed on the Fourth of Ju ly last. Tit for Trat. Secretary Moody tried to have inn with President Roosevelt over his failure to kill a bear during his recent hunt in Mississippi. "I may not have killed a bear. but I did no mistake a coloreu woman for a wild turkey," re torted the president. "I can have just as much fun with you as you can have with me," Mr. Roosevelt con Itinued. and he spoke vei'y loud as he told how the secretary while on his recent hunting trip in South Carolina illed a colored wvoman full of shot. mistaking her for a turkey. The president put a few fine touches on the story and before he had tinished it he had the secretary buying a tiock of chickens at a fancy price in order to pacify the angry negroes. Fatal Fali. .ruhn Grey Boyd, a well known law yer' and one of the best known citizens Iof F"ordham. N. Y.. having fallen fronm a step ladder' to tihe cellar at his home, fractured his skull from the ef fects of which he died. THE PAYMENT OF DEBTS. Whant a Country Editor Thin!:s Aboutt the Suliject. Among the subjects treated by Rev. L. M. Roper during a recent meeting lie conducted in Newberry was that of debt paying. le laid great stress ir on the importance of the restitution of mone.v or other property secured wrongfully and up in the paying of debts. le insisted that. .ne can ex- ri pect to have his sins forgiven and si thus get to heaven ' io does not pay m his honest debts. In commenting on the sermon the, Newberry Observer says it seems that ir this is plain enougl: and that tie very commonest of common sense woui as- A sent to it. It can hardly. be expected i that religion is less exacting than SC common honesty. And yet there are people, it must be confessed, who re fuse to pay their debts and yet make very strong pretensions to piety. Mr. ca Roper qualified his statement on this bc subject by saying that there are per- ti sons who have been unfortunate and Y are not able to pay their debts, and V that he did not wish to lay a burden te upon the consciengies (if such. Ah, thre's the rub. There is where a so many escape the condemnation-or ea try to escape it-that is launched h against people who do not pay their Just debts-tiley hug thTe delusion to dc their Ureasts that they cannot pay su them. What they mean in theiX o.vu minds by not being able to pay tihir debts varies with diferent p'ersons as so much is on. 3haracter differ from an- kr other. One man means that he can- a not pay his debts and have all the gr luxuries and cOriveniences that he has th been accustomed to. Another mea sh that he cannot pay his debts and con- re tinue to moe in. the socIal circle in ci, which he now moves, as There are men worth tloisands hc who live in tino hoises, who clothe be thems!lves and their families in the lie in-st fabrics and who fare sumptu- re ously, but who will not pay their ru debts, and their miserable subterfuge ne of an excuse is that they cannot. By ea which they mean that they cannot and continue to live as they now live- pa They need the money to keep up style Ti and to maintain what th'y consider a re necessary "respectabilit-y." Some of ri them owe mouiey to poor men who , need it to live on; and yet they flatter TI themselves that they are honest and a would pay their debts if they could. th There are persons who cannot pay ce; their debts, and no doubt the preach- f er was right in not laying upon their Fi consciences a burden that might lead al them to despair of forgiveness; but fo where there is one such person there dL are scores trying to hide behind this ba excuse of not being able, who make no real sacrifice to rpeet their just ob- av ligations, and yet claim to be honest , and even religious. IBeal downright th honesty is the rearest of all virtues, hi geavy Damages. r 4 verdict for $100,000 given against the New York Central railway is said to be the largest on record in a suit r for damages because of death. The at plantiff is Mrs. Jennie Leys who sued to the road on account of the death of to her husband in the celebrated Park y avenue tunnel wreck nearly a year ago. The $100,000 carries interest from the nc date of the accident, and to that is to a be added 82.000 for counsel fees, h amounting in all to about $t09,000 hi One of the attorneys for Mrs. Leys1 stated that "the only other verdict that compared with this one was that rendered by an FEanglish jury in favor of the heirs of a Dr, Philips, who was a skilled in an accident and whose fami ly got ?14,000. Not long ago a west ern jury in this -country gate tbe vic tim of severe injuries $73,000 and often victims appearing in the British fri courts have received large damages er for their own hurts, but it is unpre- di cedeted for the heirs of a dead man tL to get so much," in this case the te railroad company ad mitted its liability re and the only question was as to the bI amount. The New York Times says re that "up to the present time the Park avenue tunnel disaster has re- se suted in verdicts aggregating more IR than $400,000 against the New York RI Central railroad. Among the amounts J. awarded were $60,000 to Henry G3. vi Dimon, $40,000 to E. C. ilinsaale, be $28, 500 to Winifred Stutz, $20,000 to re Oscar Meyrowitz, $18,500 to Peter st Murpy, and lesser sums to Minnie ir Rice, William E. Howard, Mabel as Newman, Sadie Scott, Arthur White! st cy, A. E. Mills, Frank Crosby, and fc Dr. Arthur Dudley. in addition to m the above, there have been several tl settlements out of court.'' fc Who Will Go? Secretary Martin of the National e Live Stock association has sent the governor a copy of the call for the 0! sixth annual convention of the associ-t ation, which wvill convene in Kansas b City on Jan. 13 next, and has written the governor requesting the appoint- cc ment of delegates to represent this T~ State. This convention it is said will g be of great importance to the live sy stock industry of all the States. and bi as large a representation as can be u secured Is desired. The governor Ic would like to hear from those who tE will undertake to be present before C, appointing the delegates.w Sout h Georgia Flooded. Heavy rains fell throughouit South Georgia for four days. last week. Re-m ports from Bainbridge, Brunsiel''IT Vadosta and Waycross say water courses are out of they banks, and houses in towns are flooded and A bridges washed away. Bainbridge re ports a rainfall of ab le thirteen inces in the four days. At Valdosta Thursday a small boy was struck and killed by lightning. Railroan schedulest are being interrupted by high water. shermnan's Grave. i An exchange says: "'John Sherman' grave, In the Mansfield. 0.. cemetery. has just been marked by a handsome granite block. The name "John Sher-j man" is the only legend that relieves c the plainness of the huge monolith. hl We move to add under the name ''the h barn burner." Took Too aluch. Johin W. Norris died at Newberry on Wednesday from an overdose of t laudanum which he took. Hie was ai clrk in a store and had beeni sick for d several days. No cause is known for t the tragedy. lie is survived by his g SCALDED ER HUSBAND. hile Asef p a Man is Ducked With Hot Water. With a stream of boiling water flow g into his right ear and a flood -)f it >uring over his face, around bis neck id down his chest, Albert Fitzpat k of Macon, Ga., sprang from his ep at an early hour Wednesday orning. and screaming and dancing ith pain. Beside his bed stood s wife. smiling like a demob, holding her hands a. halt gallon vessel from bich the steam was still rising hgh. 11 the water had been poured on r sleeping husband. Fitzpatrick's reams only broadened the smile up the woman's face, until it gave iy to a hearty laugh. "Now," she said, as Fitzpatrick lied louder for help, "I guess you'll have yourself. I guess you'll leave at woman alone. I have spoiled ur beauty and I guess that'll hold u for a while." The pain was in nse. Bolding his hand to his head tzpatrick made a break for the door, d into the rain and dark plunged, Ch step calling louder and harder for lp. His cries aroused the neighbor od, and in a few minutes a half zen neighobors gathered about the flering man. At first he could do thing but scream for help. He was led back into his house by .ne of hiq friends, none of them owing the cause of his outbreak. it as they entered the house his wife eeted them at the door, forbidding eir entranoe: Then, in a few words, e told what she had done, and, in ating it, showed herself, in the re tal of her wrongs. Pushing her de, the men led Fitzpatrick into the use. and, p'acing him upon the bed, an doing what they could -t re ve his agony. Lard, oil and other :nedies, laudanum incleued. were bbed over the scalded. portion of his k and chest and poured down his But there was no relief. One of the rty hurried for a physician, and Dr. nkle responded. When the doctor iched the home he found Fitzpat k almost in convulsions, so great ts the torture be was undergoing. ie ear had begun to-swell, and was nost closed.. It was with difficulty at Dr. Hinkle was able to find ac is to the wounded portion, but he ally succeeded, and in a short time tzpatrick was easy, His burns were bad, and it will be several days be -e he can get out to resume his ties as janitor at the Commercial nk. Fitzpatrick's home is on Third enue, at Pleasant Hill. Today he Ls unable to do any talking, and ere is more than a possibility that s burns may prove fatal. His wife mained sullen until it was found at his condition was desperate. 1en, apparently forgetting her an r, she became the most attentive d devoted of nurse. The skin' on tzpatrick's face was cooked almost a turn, and is peeling off. Both es are injured by the boiling water, d it may be that his sight will ver be good again. The woman has not been arrested, d will be allowed to remain with r husband as long as she cares for COL UEBIA FEMALTE COLLEGE. Eter Discussion the Conference Re tuses to Move It. The removal of the female college >m Columbia wa's up in the confer ce at Newberry on Friday and after scussion it was decided not to move e college from Columbia. The mat r was placed before conference by a solution offered by Revs. A. 0. Dar and H. W. Boys that the college main in Columbia. After speeches by Rev. E. 0. Wat n, C. C. Featherstone, Esq., and av. R.. A. Childs, for removal and vs. J. W. Daniel, M. L. Carlisle and A. Clifton against removal the pre ous question was called for, and a llot was ordered. The resolution ad, the effect of the vote was clearly ated and the roll call began, result g: Yeas 120; Nays 94. Mr. Hyatt ked the privilege of saying a word, ating that Columbia would do well r the college. Rev. E. 0. Watson ade a final statement to the effect tat Columbia's lead would be gladly lowed. Rev. R. A. Childs moved at the vote be made unanimous. C. . eatherstone seconded, and it was ithusiastically made. Greenwood and Laurens were the ily two places considered in connec on with the removal of the college Sthe trustees. and they unanimous recomnmended the removal of the llege from Columbia to Greenwood. hat little city had offered $42,000 in sh and a good site if the conference uld move the college to that place, it the conference as stated above iought it advisable to leave the col ge at Columbia. This ends the mat r. and the college will remain at )umbia, where it has done excellent ork for many years. A Fatal Joke. Har ry Rult. an employe of a loco otive works in Paterson, N. J., died hursday as a result of a practical ke played on him by tive of his fel w workmen. They were arrested arged with causing his death. It alleged, that they "blew up'' Ruit ith a pneumatic air pump having a ressure of 110 pounds to the inch. he boy's stomach became greatly ex nded and after several hours of reat suffering he died. When the en accused of having caused Ruit's fath wEre arraigned in court in aterson, the dead boy's father rushed one of them, named Dorn, knocked im down and started to kick him. he father was restrained by the >urt officers. The accused men were ld without bail on a charge of man aughter. Killed by a Train. Mr. G. Hugh Salesbee. an old gen eman of Spatrtanburg county, drove i front of a passenger train Wednes y and was killed instantly, as the rain was making fast time. His randson. a small boy. jumped and es nper. A NARROW ESCAPE. Was Shot at Three Times-by Burglars in a Store. MANAGER WINGO THE TARGET. He Went In the Saxon Miles Stoe and Was Fired ~on by-' Burglars, But Wa Not Hit. The Spartanbu g Evening Journal says J. S.' Wingo who is manager of I the company store at the Saxon Mills is congratulating himself that he is alive. He had a narrow escape Tues day night about midnight when two burglars opened fire upon him at a distanec ol about five feet firing three shots. About 12 o'clock Tuesday night Mr. Wingo went to the company store at the Saxon Mills. The dstance from Mr. Wirigo's home to the nill was not great and he arrived at the store in a few moments time. As he ap proached the door he took out his keys to unlock the store door, desiring to use the telephone in the store to call t physician. Mr. Wingo noticed nothing wrong and entered as usual, starting over to a show case on the side of the store to procure.- some matches and strike a light before us ing the telephone. "I was in front of the show, cases" says Mr. Wingo in telling 6f t . urrence, "and was just starting be hind the case to get a match, when two men standing, 1 suppose, behind the show case, opened fire on me, fir ing twice, I then -retreated to the - door and went outside. As r reached the outside I saw two men come out of store door close together and as they: - reached the outside one of them drew . his pistol and fired at me again., The two men - then disappeared In..tie darkness over in the direction of.Fair mont where all trace of them, wa lost." - Mr. Wingo fortunately was not struck by any of the balls fired by-Dbe s burglars. It was so dark in the store, that he could not identify his assail ants and it is perhaps due to the great 5 darkness that the burglars ware un able to take deadly aim when they. fired upon Mr. Wingo. The men had been in the store pre sumably for some time as they had succeeded in opening the cash drawer, which was examined later, wheni it was ascertained that twenty dollars in cash had been taken. Further in vestigation also developed the fact that a pistol lying in the store and three or four pocket knives had also been taken. Mr. Wingo is -unable to describe the men and cannot say whether they were white or black. They made good their escape. The police have the matter in hand and will use every means at command to bring the criminals'to justice. Wants Kissing Stopped. Kissing'fill be roade a misdemeanor . in Virginia punishable -with a fine, if a bill offered in the house of delegates Thursday, becomes a law. The uni que measure of which Dr. R. B. Ware, the member from Amherst, who is a physician of splendid reputation, .is the patron, is designed to prevent promiscuous kissing, but it might easily be constructed to stand as a barrier between husband and wife, or even lover and sweetheart. In order to enjoy the right to kiss one must prove by his family physician that he has no contagious or infectious disease. The interesting inquiry is, who will inform (in the kisser. It is not thought for a moment that any chivalrous Virgin ian will take the liberty of be stowing a kiss where there-is real ob jection, or in the presence of one who.. would give away the sect enc the law would be inoperative, if en acted. Lights His Nose. A letter from Paris says a man with a celluloid nose has created intense excitement on the Boulevard Saint Michel. Hie was lighting a cigarette when his nose became suddenly ignit ed, and it and his beard were soon on fire. The man jumped about the bou evard in pain, and was carried through a horrified crowd to a chemi ist's shop, where the extraordinary confagration was extinguished. It was then found that the man had a celluloid nose. His real nasal organ had gone under- in a street row, and he went to a flesh-patcher for an arti ficial nose. He had been supplied with a celluloid instead of a horn proboscis, and hence his mishap. Shocked Him to Death. John McLaughlin was Instantly killed b:: an express train on the Ninth Elevated road in New Yorkc Saturday night. About 31. persons were standing on the platform of the Seventy-second street station when the accident occurred and among them was Emanuel Dreyfus, a clerk at po lice headquarters. The sight of the sudden death affected him violently and he fell, dying almost instantly. McLaughlin was a laborer and lived in Brooklyn. He Confessed. A dispatch from Ironton, Ohio, says William Glasson, the negro assailant of Miss Maloney, who narrowly escap ed lynching Saturday morning, was brought there from Gallipolis Wednes day and entered a plea of guilty be fore Mayor Mountain to a charge of assault with intent to kill and was jailed before the public knew of his presence. The authorities anticipate no trouble. but the muttering of the past few days make Glassco's position dangerous. Killed by a Train. A. G. Waite, a merchant at Seneca was killed Sunday night by train No. 38 at West minster. Hie attempted to cross the track in front of the train. His heaid was crushed and he died in stantly. His remains were buried from Westminster at South Union. in the lower part of the county. The coro ner's jury exonerates the railroad. He lavre a wife nnd ne child.