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he~i~res No i alting r.,at" taio ina's Marc' of Progrs 50EIE INTERESTING TIGUEES 4rati fy iI teports is to the A nt Inve-sted in -sm-all Ban Cotton-- Seed Oil Mills, Et"e As a rule the first quarter of the year is not propitious for the 'ncor poration of new industries and enter- L prises, but this year the voiice of the'T secretary of state has recorded the rganizationl of a very large number of companies which show that the State knows no halting in the forward march on the road of progress. There I have been a great many banking in- i stitutions set on foot-some of them h companies of not very large capitaliza tion, but still in the ield for the up building of small communities. T.e number of small cottton seed v;1 in-s i is increasing so rapidly that the silua-r tion becomes almost alarming. r il L fear that they wili get in eacl thiers 1 way and be able to operate for only a! small part (f th year (in account of the fact that the. supply of totton seed is restricted and the big orzania tions will and must have seed in order: t6 keep their plants runningT is as much abuse of machinery idle as there is in machinery in operatiin, it is said. C There have been a few cotton millsI organized and others ;hich 'have not reported to the secretary of slate are being projected. As a rule these are small mills in sectiuns not- occupied heretofore with , such industries showing thai' the developement of SQ.4t' r-olina is not contined to one tction. The most siknitant t f in connection with the cotton mount expended in the increase of t Wie capitalization of companies which 1 have been operated for some time. The total amount of cotton mill capitalization this year is 84.090.000: in banking institutions, 81045,000; in cotton seed oil mills, S30S,000: in light, power and ice companies, ,$335, 000; and the total amount of al con cerns chartered and commissioned since the first of the year is $7.283, 000. Two other great corporations have filed letters asking for commsiOnS giving them authority to open boo'ks of subscription-the Magnolia 'Mines company of Charleston, 8300,000, and the Columbia and Augusta Railroad company, which shall be chartered at an amount not to exceed -2o.000 per mile. COTrON 'ILLS. Chartered--Gluck mills. Anderson. $500:000: Ilamer mill. Dillon- $100 000: Maple Cot ton milis. Dillon, $100, 000: MIctee 31anufacturing company. Greenville. 8100.000: Istaiuena mth Centtat. 8200.000. Tlotal $1.000.000. The Banna mill at Goldville was or ganized as the sueussor of t be Gold-! ville mill, $100,000: the lBamberg mill was reorganiz'd, $140 000: thej Miarlboro Cotton 3Mil1s ccmpany. capitalization $1 .500,000, was organmz ed with the mills at 31eColl as nuclenes: mill at -lonesville was or ganized with the Alpha and the knitting , mill as nucleus. $250J,000. Total reorganized m~lls (some of which had si~ut down), 81.890,000. Increase of capital stock-C!ear water bleachery, 8300.000 to $4o0.000: Branden mills, S300.000 to 450,000: Liberty mills, 875.000 to 8175.000: Orr mills. 8400.000 to 8800,000: Gainesville (Ga.). $S500,000 to $850, 000. Total. $1,050,000. The Morton Spinning company 0! Clover is being organized $150,000, commission issued. Grand total cotton mills, $4,090.000. BANK~ AN]) TRUsT Co3tPAXNtEs. The amount of money invested in bank and trust companies has also been astonishing. The following were chartered: Home bank, Lexing ton, 830,000; Bank of Hlorry, Conway, $25,000; Bank of Walhalla, $30,000; Farmers bank, Belton, 850,000: Farm ers and Merchants bank, Marion. $100,000: Converse Savings bank, Con verse, $10,000: Bank cf Saluda, $25, 000; Bank of Carlisle; 810,000: Ken nedy Banking company, Blackstoks. $20,000; Bank of Rock Hill, 875,000; Gaffney Savings bank, $30,000: Bow man Loan and Trust company. Pow man, $5,000; Bank of Fountain inn, $15,000 Easley Loan and Trust company, 850,000: total amount oi. in corporated banks--$475,000. Increase in capitalization--Bank of Marion, $25,000 to 850.000: 31 erchants and Planters bank, Galiney, $50,000 to $75,000: Bank of Dillon, $25,000 to $50, 000. Total increase: 835,000.. Comm issions issued to companies be ing organized--William Coleman_ & Co., Columbia, 850)0,000~: Timnmonmvlle Loan and Trust company, S23>000: Bank if Springtield, $2Q,000. 1otai, 8545,000. -Grank total in organized and project ed banking companies. $1,095,0:0 COTTON SEED OIL 31L Ls. The following cotton seed oil mills, have been chartered: Indepenaent Cotton Oil company, the grea t riv 1 of the Virginia-Carolina Chemica com pany. $1,000. 000: Fort 3Iotte.~' 2000 Rowesville , 20; 000: Lydia, 300 A est minister, 820,000, WXiliiamnsburg 7.0-I 000: Clarendonw 8.000: Eisnpvlle. 825000: Allendale,825.00.: Wa hrboro, 25,000: the total being $113.0) out-I side of the consolidation? 0f t he severalI companies into the lInde pendent. In andition to the above the _follow~ ing are in process of organmzat ion:! Prosperity, $20,000; Townvile. $25.0004; Cameron, 820.00:- Edisto: at North. 820,000:. Donalds,~835n.000: Oconee, at Wahalla, 820.000, and Pauline in Spi-r tanburg county, 15.000. Total. $11>. 000 Increase--Kershaw. 825000 to $35. Grand total of new eaita im mnius organized and projectea this year. 308,000. RIEAL ESTATE DEV ELoPN.ENT. Darlinigtoni Hotel comipany. C. g2540: Summerland Hotel comnpa ny, e25.04 0 : Summerland D~evelopment company. 825000: Greenville Inmprovemenn Co. 25,000s:outh End Land Improvement company, 31ullins.810.000: Stone Lane Company. Green ville. 825.00: Bishop vilie Real Estate comny, n 85,Gd00:.Cal houn Fails Investmenti comipany, $3, 040. Tot al. $1t504). The Hall's island farmls. 1:enofort: (in, -ease from * 0.00 to $8;5.00o) 1 3,000: T( morttey plantationrs. I ;eau fort countyI 50.00 l'aiuc rmorea lub (August Belmut- hunting rec servation.) Ham p1-n county. $t;.000. Total. 8125.000. Yorkville Bu:dingz andi L.'n ;s. - 120.000: Ecli pse. Ch a dest'm e l.Th 004: Homefl. Su:mter. 8200.000: Pru dential, Winnirei. $30. 010: Enter prise. tUion. $'5. 000. Totai. $54. 00. 7.9% G atney Brick cornt'any, M9: smhern 11dra'uli 1:Iekhl :aernra o Florenc. 0 500 : t. ' of parln ton. -l''.: Peo - m 1. :r nters of . heraw warehouse. . ; larlboro. ar II io "nettsville, I:LIC Ii!TIEs. ,umter Ice. Light and Power con ny, . tolumbia, Ice and Fuel 1inpany. -30;000: Rock Hill Water, ht and Power com pany~. $50;000 to ,-.;ooo increase: Summerville Ice and )Id Storage company; 30.(000: Marion ght and Power company, 5100.000. tal, 335,0O00. VARIED IN DUSTRIES; Morgan Wood and Iron works, Spar nburg, $10,000: Cummings Iron orks. Walterboro. $10,000: Vulcan ipply company (hardwoods,) Cam -n, 35.000: Sumter Lumber company. 2,000 United Timber company, Darl "aton, $10000: Black River Steain >t t company.85,000: Campman-Mur I' company (hardwoods,) $10.000 zit-ieSton ;ianning comnpany, *1.O000: ranolithie Roofing company. Ander ,n, *1o 0.0: Tannopiline company, alubia 823.00:Omega B4a)y Car ge omupany, Union. ,,000: Buftalo ,le,' s pring.10.(114: St. Georges rele hlone exchange.3000: Carolina and eorgia Mining company. Columbia. 0.0H: Iarris ManuIfactiuming coih mny. coul ing device. 12.0: Brooks eam Valve company. $12,00: Ches rtield Naval Stores company, Che av.813.00.Total. $421,Oprai To which may b.e adde the Ander .n Matt ress and Spring Bed company increa'e from 32,500,) t22,500: Ander n Spool and Bobbin company of arleston (increase from -4.000 to z.0) $16.O0-making a grand total f varied industries o k.459.5o.-Co imbia State. An Honest Confession. Mr. R'. -M. Larner, the Washington uirespondent of The News and Cour :r, says "in a very broad sense it is rue that lavish expenditure of money .as been a powerful factor in deter aining the last four Presidential elec i6ns. Generally the Republican par y has had the sympathy and support it great corporations, able to make >ig campaign contributions. Presi lent Harrison was undoubtedly elect d by the use of money in 1838. Bul *our years later, in 1892, when Mr. .eveland came in on a ground swell, he bulk of campaign funds was witL he Denocratic party. Mr. Cleveland night have been elected without th( oney. but it nevertheless played ar snpurtant part. Had it iot been foi he tremendous campaign fund 01 Nt Mr. McKinley wouId have nevel re the White House as Chief Magis rate."* This is an honest as well as an im 2ortant confession on the part of the orrespondent of a newspaper thal as blindly worshipped at the shrinm Grover Cleveland for many year mnd which has never had any use fit illiam Jcnnings Bryan. It will bi roticedl that the admission is mad hat the bulk of the cam paign fund in 182 was nith Cleveland as~ agains arrison, which indicates beyond oubt that the trusts nanted 'hin dected. In the face of an admis sion of this kind is it anyv wonder tha any people believe the charge mad y Mr. Bryan and others that Cleve land betrayed hi-; party. It will hI nticed also that the admission i; ade that "hrad it not beens ror th< tremendous campaign fund of 1894 Mr. McKinley would have never seen the White Hlouse as Chief Magistrate.' n the face of an admission of thi; kind how can it be maintained tha M1r. Bryan's nomnination in 1896 de featedi the Democratic party th~a vearr Yet every once in a whiht some light headed individual wh< my happen to be editing a trust pa per chirps ou,. t hat Bryan ruined thi Democratic party. As a matter o fact it took all the money the trust ould raise and the desertion of a lo uf so-called Democrats to the plunder ns to keep Bryan out of the Whit [iouse. Under these conditions it i not strange that Grover Clevelan' who was the candidate of the trust in 1892 should support McKinley wh< was the candidate of the . trusts ii 1896. 31r. Larner goes on to say that "il business and tinancial circles therei deep resentment at tbe prosecutior of the trusts and the outcome of th Northern Securities case. This deci sion and a score of kindred matter aae caused a widespread rage agains President Roosevelt's administration iis nomination next year is regardei as a ces tainty, but it is very probable if the Democrats are conservative ii their candidate and their platform that the millions of campaign con tributions next year will go t>t Democratic managers, in which even there will surely be trouble, if not de feat. for the Republicau candidates n spite of all that can be said abou President Roosevelt's unwonted popu 1-trity and the great prosperity of thi ountry." This simply means that if thl Democratic party will nominat' Grover Cleveland or some other candi date wh i is known to be in favor o the trursts, that the millions of dol lars raised by the trusts for compaigi purposes will be turned over to thi Democratic managers instead of th Republican managers. Can the Deme cratic party, afford to do any sue] thing as that? Better for it to b defeted a hundred times than to wi. a hundred victories on any such tern~ if the Democratic party is to vie wiL: the Repuolican party in tryiug ti plese the trusts to secure camnpaig' funds to debauch votes its missioni ended, as there is no use for two par ties aiming at the same thing. Ye this is exactly what Cleveland and hi followers advocate. Some of us ar Democrats, not for the loaves ani tishes, and we would rather see th party defeated in a fight for th masses than to be successful by th aid of the trusts. Tnose so-callc Democrats who believe in winning. victory that way should go inro th R~ubican party. The Democrati party would be better oil withou Disemlbowehed by Mule. A disoatch from Florence Sunda nigh says: Information Of a horrib] accident has been received from Sa, age. in tihe lowver part of this county Swintn Dozier. a well known resider of that co)mmunity, was killed by tre kick of a mule on Sunday af:terrnoor The kick was so strong that the abd< men iof Mr. Dozier wvas cuJt otpen an his liver torn by the hoofs of th amaL 1t. appears from wh-:t ca he earned that the mfule was swk ani M. lozier went up loehind b m an tuned hi-n with a switch to maki irl mo~ ve about and the mnule let 11 I o his heels. striking the man i t:- p~it of the stomach with the abos resut. . Mr. Dozier was a middle age W 0 BhLE 6iUNTET 1r1-.&e 3LuIlfa' hile Cotndin Ct-It. - it is well knowu that thC iumber of letters. words, verses. etc.. contain ed in the Bible have been dount ed. but by whom when or where is not gener ally known, says The Boston flerald. Treat's publication. entit lcd "Curio. ties of the lible, speaks f the o currence as being of Spani1 (riii, and that the Prince of Granada, fear ing usurpation, caused the arrest of the supposed wouldbe usurper and by order of the Spanish crown he wIs thrown into an old prison called the place of skulls, situated in Madrid, where he was contined fur thirty-three P years. with no other companion than w the rats, mice and other vermin that frequented his dismal cell. ti Durirg his confinement he counted the letters, etc, contained in the 01 Bible, and scratched the several num- in bers on the stone walls with a nail- bi Wi-en his work was discovered be was e furnished with writing utensils and ordered to make a copy of the results of his long and tedious, task, and on K its being completed he finaily receiv- l, ed his liberty. The following is a correcet copy o' his great work: 7 The Biblecontains 3,566.48u letters, t< 773,746 words. 31.173 verses, 1,19 5 chapters and 66 books. The word and cc.urs 10.684 times. the word Lord 1.853 times, the word td Jehovah 6.855 tines and the %vord reverend but once, which is in the'N ninth verse of the one huudred and eleventh paslin. I The middle verse is the eighth I verse or the one hundred and eigh- t teenth psalm. The twenty-first verse b of the eleventh chapter of Ezra con a tains all the letters of the alphabet h except the letter j. The tinest chapter to read is the t twenty-sixth chapter of the Acts of in Apostles. The most beautiful chap ter is the twent-third psalm. The l nineteenth chapter of 11 Kings and t the thirty-seventh chapter of Isaiah t are alike. t The four most inspiring promises v are to be found in the sixth chapter f of St. John, thirty-seventh verse, and a fourteenth chapter, second verse; also, t eleventh chapter of St. Matthew, 3 twenty-fifth verse, and the thirty- C seventh psalm, fourth verse. The longest verse is the ninth verse, t eighth chapter of Esther. The shortest verse is the thirty-fifth verse, I eleventh chapter of St. John. There are ten chapters in the book of Est her in which the words LordiC and God do not occur. The eighth, tifteenth. twenty-first and thirty-first verses of the one hundred and.Seventh psalm are alike. All the verses of the one hundred and seventh psalm end alike. The one hundred and seven teenith psalm contains but two verses, the one hundred and nineteenth , psalm contains i76 verses. There are no words or names of more tha) six syllables. It has ako been discovered by some persons unknown that in .bwl,-i t hird chapter. thtird v-erse. the word girl occurs, and in the eighth chapter ul Zichiariah, tifi.h verse, t he word girls s mentioned for the only time in the-1 whole book. The eighth chapter of Esther. ninth verse contains fifty-two ts. The word now appears twenty-four timnes in 1i the Old Testerment and three times 1 4in the New JUSTICE AT LAST. The Remuarkab~le Case of a Woman I sent Up lhr LIfe. Tne Columbia State of last Wed nes day says frorm out or the portals of the state prison will come a woman this morning whose pale and furrowed brow would excite pity in a hart of stone. For the first time in seven long years she will wear the garments that are not striped and breathe the air of freedom. The thoughts that are hers in this new sunlight of 'liber ty may never be known, but if ever woman had cause to curse justice and hold in high ridicule the majesty of Sthe highest law it is Mrs. Plume Hall, whom the- governor has pardoned. In the annals of crime there are few narratives like this woman's and per haps criminal jurisprudence does not record a more signal miscarriage of justice. A little over seven years ago Watson Hall, a well-to-do farmer and machinist, was found dead, shot through his head, in his home near Mars Bluff in this state. He was seated in a chair erect and a gun stood near him, evidently placed there to indicate that he had committed sui cide. The effort to suggest sel f-de struction was futile, however, and the murderer. Aleck Ferrell, was arrested and in due time convicted of the crime and sentenced to life imprison ment. Mrs. Hall, the dead. man's wife, who also sentenced to life im prisonment as an accessory before the fact. There were several witnesses. against her but none of them testified -to any material point that would have more than suggested conviction. The I woman, on~ account of her belief in the doctrine of "'swear not at all,"j -being a member of a holiness society, Srefused to testify in her own behalf and allowed herself to be convicted. Wedded Son's Divorced Wife. I Near Brankford, In Smyth county, Va, lives Wesley Brickley, whose wife died a number of years ago. His sson Samuel recently obtained a - divorce, whereupon the father took Iout a license to marry his son's grass swidow. To perform the ceremony, ethe services of Rev. Winters London Iwere engaged. The minister had been etold by some one th-at it was unlawful efor a man to marry his daughter-in a hes t was with some reluctance tan esd before the contracting parties and paonounced them man and ewife. However, he went through cwith the ceremony and then shifted to tthe other foot and said: "My friends. I have been told that it is unlawful for you to marry, I will keep this lense until 1 learn how that is, and if it is against the law, I will not call eyou married and will return the license to the clerk marked not eXe uted." Brickey was arrested and his ae is now pending in the county of T en Men Killed. STen wor-kmen engaged in making a e tunnel on the Mexica~n Central's ex n tension at Tuxham, in the state of i .alisico, lost their lives in a cave-In icaused by several earthquakes Coming e in rapid succession. The first shock y caused the falling of interior workings, a and when the gang of workmen went e to clear aw-ay the debris they were icaught by a second cav-e-in. which re sultd from fresh shocks. MOR Tim LADIES sonie iNacid A'boi.i ngd#6:uents 'at Will Interest Theni. The longest. engagement on reco rd, says the New York World, is 7-5 years and it took place in Bohemia, where engagemrJIts of 15 and even 20 years are so corn mon as to cause no remark. The namres of the wooer and wooed were respectively Franz Rosner and Anna llenner and they had been courting coLtinUoLudy for 75 years, but had repeatedly deferred the brida] day. At last Franz became fatally ill and was married on his death-bed on the eve of his one hundredth birth day, the age of the bride and widow being 914. In Russia long ergagements are no1 relished by betrothed young men, al though the ladies usually are not al all averse to them. Indeed, thes( latter not infrequently use all sorts o artifices in order to stave off the wee ding day to as distant a date as pos sible. Perhaps the custom whict decrees that the Russian bridegroom elect must send his sweetheart a pres ent every day, no matter whether thi engagement Iast for ten week or tet years, may have something to do wiLl this anomalous state of affairs. I The regularly recognized length o a Siamese engagement is exactly oni (Lontth. For the bride to ask for al extension beyond that limit is hel to savor of reprehensible prudery , Mreover in Siam, old maids are u, known, as all girls marry. The rea son for this is probably to be found ih the low estimation in which unmat ried women are held. They are no only looked down upon; they are at solutely of no account whatever. A soon as the marriage ceremony is per formed, however, the hitlierto neglect ed and despised little female atom be comes distiuctly a "somebody." Pec ple who would not have deigned t even recognize her existence while i the state of single "blessedness," no% admit her willingly to their house and even go out of their way to see her friendship. Still, it is not unt: she has become a mother that she j held to have reached her highes estate. Then she has attained tt pinnacle of honor, can claim as right presentation at court and is at dressed by the coveted titled of ''T Matronly One." In the Argentine Republic an ez gaged man who dallies beyond a re, sonable time ere leading his fiance 1 the altar is heavily fined; that is if 1 is over 2J. Moreover, he is not pe mitted by the State after attainir that age to enjoy tree the pleasur of bao:ielorhood, even although I may not have committed himself far as to have promised marriage 1 any maiden. In other words eve Argentine Jack must choose his Jill, soon as he arrives at years Vf discr tion. If he fails to do so the penal is a payiment by the defauler of $5 month t, the national treasury, at this is increased as the years go byt to no fewer than $30 per nmuntl UOnly when he has cel -.trated i eigi tietnl brithday, if he ever doies so is I held ex..-mpt,, the legislature probah regarding him then as a "hoi'pele; case" so far as the, matrimonial marki is conc:erned. There is. h:,weve evenl as a young man, onec looole ecap-i provided fur him. If tie ca pr')ave that he has proposed and bee e used three times in one year he held to have, as it were. done b bat, and to have earned immunity. -The [Truth Abtnat Tuskegee. To the issue of Thursday last thev Washinglol Pisr., a lawyer M ont gomer y, Ala., Giraou Macdonail 2by name, contributed a long letter which lie doilared that the onus such appointment; to ofii:e of negro 1tat P-resident R >osevelt, has miad lies er:tirely onf theC shoulders, Brooker Washington, who instigatt him in regard to thein: that the who blame for the talked-to-death Wh; House dinner is also due to B ok Washington, who forced himself( the Chief Executive's hospitality wil an eye to his own glori fication: ar lastly that Booker Washington's wo: -at Tuskegee and the influence of th; institution is greatly mnisunderstoo not only by the easily gulled Nort but even by many prominent Southe: newspapers. Mr. Mcdonald declar that dwelling in the adjoining coun to that inwhich Tuskegee is situate he knows whereof he speaks. Tb so far from bestowing an "industri education" upon .the blacks, thei rstitution incites dreams of "sci equality" both by precept and e ample. and turns out ''soft-handi negro dudes and loafers, who earn precarious living by 'craps' and pel larceny or exist on the hard-earne wages of cooks and washerwoni whose affections they have bei enabled tcq~ensnare," and that tl -girls are 'tanught music and pair -ing and ".to rustle in fil dresses in miserable imitations white women." while their poor c mothers labor over tub and cook sto Sto support th~em in idleness. There much more in the letter of an uncor Splimentary natu:-e to Booker Was -ington, but what we have quoted sucient. The Augusta ChroniC sas if Mr. Macdonald's accusatin are well founded they constitute Svery serious matter and it is due Sthe philanthropists of the North al Sthose in the South, who with lip al Spe' have appladed and encouraged tl work being done at Tuskegee, t~h -the exact truth should be given to ti -world1. In view of Mr. Macdonalt Scharges and his standing and reliabi ~-ty, according to the Post, the tru should be made plain. How that is Sbe done thoroughly and satisfactoril Swe do not pretend to say. It is u edoubtedly a dittlcult undertaking, b r Booker Washington owes it to hi: self and his friends and the world large to undertake it. They Get $10,000. e Agent John Peterson, of the Uniti -States E xpress company at Brit t, for - miles west the city, was compelled1 s two Inasked and armed men to op, sthe safe in his oilice Thursday mor sing. and permit the robbers to take f package containing $10,000. Th r als' secured other packages of mone e and after binding and gagging Pete n son, they escaped. Two traveln - medicine men have been arrested, b Peterson was unable to identify ther The $10,000 package was register 'and was to be transferred from tl d Milwaukee to the Minneapolis and S i Paul railway. Mr. Peterson place ff the package in the shipping safe. I e then worked at his desk until a t. n on his shoulder startled him andI s turned to be confronted by two revt - vers. The men, after compelling hi >to open the safe, tied him and gaggi ,I him secure'ly and placed him in a re y room where his son found him hou ater N-1I 3.N K IL t EIR the txplosion of a Powder kil I j Pennsylvania 'WAS FELT FIVE MILES AWAY. tay ,,op - were s#-rtu;)i y in~jured by jii::gC 1own1 Albout fihe lCui'ling in Whieti They Worked. The extensive plant of the Crescent )wder company, at Ganister, Pa., s completely wrecked by a series of ur explosions Friday morning. Of e thirty employes, nine were killed tright ana all the others were badly jured by being blown about the .ildings in which they were employ The dead: Frank MeKernan, Ross nnedy, George Fay, Andrew Garril e. Charles Ross. William Lyons, uiseppi Maleo. Frank Strass, .ohn trovin ki. The ages of the dead ranged from 20 25 years. Seven of them were merians and-two were Italians. The list of injured includes Adam agaart, of lPittbuyrg, the superin ndent of the company, who was und unconsei us in his oMiee by his ife and was dragged :ut of the burn g building by her -.t the peril of her vN life. The first explosion Occurred amoi g ie material in the mixing house. owing that building to atoms and so d(strnying the two punching uses and the office. Nothing was t of the structures. Fire arose in te other buildings. The force of e explosion was felt in towns five tiles away and all houses. in the cality were damaged. The bodies of be dead are unrecognizable. The re at the deserned plant continued iroughout the day and no person entured near the doomed structures, aring additional explosions. There re 2.240 boxes of dynamite stored in he buildings and greater calamities re predicted sh3uld another explosion cur. Terror-stricken farmers and mestone quarrymen have flocked int( le town or Williamsburg for refuge. The Crescent Powder company sup lied the powder and dynamite used n the large limestone quarries of the nited States Corporatioin in this Ou1ty and is ownUd by Pittsburn apalists. T her, were eleven build ngs in the plaut., of which number ve are still standing. The estimated alue of the plant was *35,UO. STATE SUMMER SCHO3. upt. MNartirn Gives S.nu Adilitiona: Iiformatfio inl Re.ard Thereto. The State fr Fridlay says the Statt uperintendent of eduic 1in Ilon. C . Martin. has returnl fd romu Rich nond where lie attenoded the greal ~ducational con ference. Tnu rsda. he aade additional ann~ouncement in re ard toC the State Summer sc.hozil fo eachers, which will he hield at Win hrop college from .June 23rd to .Jul: lst. Winthrop is an excellent plac< or such a school because of th< plendid equipment, accessible libra 'les, reading rooms and extensive ac ~ommodations. Arrangements havy en made for boarding in the collegi n this gives tI:e South Carolini ~ummer school giute an advaniage ver some others becau~e the teachcj re conrveniently locatted and can en y better advantages. Corses of .study have b~een provide< a pda gogy, school super vision, el'cu ion and reading. grammar, literature rhetoric, library work. drawing, sigh ~inging, music, history, georgraphy irithmetic, algebra, geometry, obser dation work, nature study, botany ant chool gardening, manual training an< ~indergarten principles. Some of th< blest teachers of the State and na ion will take parL in this work and .arge attendance is anticipated. A special feature of this school wil e a series of addresses by some of th< nost eliective platform speakers avail ble and some work will be done look~ ng to the educational campaign whici 2as been planned for the summer. .2 neeting of county superintendent Lnd other campaigners will be hel< luring the session of the sum me chool. In addition to the regular courses o 'ork by the teacher students ther 'ill be lectures intended for svoc ;tudents as desire some recreation a 'ell as work. Quite a numer of teach rs after a hard years's work do no esire regular study, hence this ar ~angemen t. The prospectus, giving fu1l an: 2ouncements, will be issued as soon a: ossibe from the otlice of the superin ;endent of education. County board! re rapidly making recommendation: S to instructors for the various coun y summer schools and as soon as thesi irrangements are perfected, the sched iles will be published. The Louisiana Purchase. M1r. Chirk s M. Ilarvey gives in thi 3urrent World's Work, some amazing ~tatistics as to the bigness and valui jf our middle West and South-thi 'Louisiana Purchase" from Napoleon 'he thirteen original stat cover 820, 44 square miles: the purchase cov rs 875,000 square miles. All Europ xcept Russia and Scandinavia is oni 1,237,667 miles. Half a billion do1 lars worth of corn was raised on th purchase in 1902, 48 per cent of th product of the whole country. Mor than half the wheat crop and 3$ pe ent of its oat crop were raised on thi tcrrit) y. Missouri alone has mor< people than had the thirteen colonie that revolted from Britan. Colorado a part or the purchase, alone produc dc last year $28.000,000 in gold, mor than the entire territory of the Unit ed States had produced from the land ig of Cabot to the strike at Sutter mills in 1884. Montana alone ha: added $1,000,000,000 to the world weal h of metals. The corn yield one state. Iowa. for the single yea 1902 v:ould nay six times over th price we paid Napoleon for fourtee tates or parts ot states and terr A Fatal Duel. A fatal clue] with pistols occurre iaross the Tennessee river fror . amb's ferry. Alabama as a result which J1. 11. Meltord and F. Osborn are dead. A quarrel having arise: between the two. Osborne went to hi home nearby and returned with a pis tol when1 he emptie~d. He turned t run, but Mefford, mortally wounded bed at the fleeing man with deadl a efet lRrth died shortly afterward N-ORXIAL BAT, Let tow Rot Fail to Hoioir tne Meniory of Our Dead Heroes. Next Saturday is Memorial Day, and the graves of the dead heroes of South Carolina who died for the Con federacy will be decorated with sweet flowers by our noble women. Once a t year, for the past three decades, says a the Atlanta Journal, the people of the h southern states have observed a day 1 for the decoration of the last resting places of the Confederate heroes, and 0 the recital of their valorous deeds. And now the seasons have again shift ed to springtime and the founts of memory are unsealed on many a green 9 hill. Amid the strains of martial music, thousands make their way to the flowered mounds beneath which lie the heroes of the south. Upon those mounds they place their tributes of affection and reverent regard; and the lonesome grasses are brightened ' with fresh Ilowers. It is fitting, there- C fore, that we should consider for a mo ment what this day means, and why it is observed, especially in reference to the changed conditions of this century, and the lo:g perspective whicti now lies between the present generation S and tLhose who wore the gray. Memorial day. as it is observed in the south, is what its name irnplies a day of memories. It is not designed t to k.ep alive any feud or sectional issue. It is revereit an I retrospective. t The controversy which urged these dead soldiers to lay down their lives for their country has been buried with them: and the silent monoliths which tower heavenwaod wnere they rest are symbols of peace. not of war. Memorial day stands for all that was best, and all that is best, in the south of the past and of the present. The same spirit which impelled Stonewall Jack son, and at whose bidding the sword or Lee flashed from its scabbard, lives in the south today, changed only as to object-the guiding star of that region where patriotism never dies nor falters. 1 The men who come from Appamat tox, and their sons, lifted the south t out of its ruins and rebuilt it into e more than itsancient opulence. This a task was not inferior to the one which - lay before them when they marched e out in 1861. If it was less perilous it was more tedious. It called for all the - resolution, all the moral courage, all L- the faith, hope and energy which 0 could be summoned by the tinest Ango .e Saxon stock which the world has ever r- kno.vn P.Atiently unconplain ngly, g they rebuilt, replanted, and ha'.e since reharvested. O( stc.. fiber were the e I PNople who fought for home ruie ii o the south. Of sucii a forc-: and purity o was thespirit which led forward thst y who sleep tod.ay around the soldier'. monuments. It is this spirit, dev.>id - of sectional strife or issue, which in ,: r.>rm the ob,ervance of Mt-n >rial &Ly. a To remembr, to reverence. and to re d peat -these are the privileges of thos who decorate the s'ldiers' graves and .who gather near them, But in this barying of sectio.ma: stri:e. Memorial day has lost not one a~:toml or its insistaince upon th-: right eous p:itriotism of th"ose whose mn on ry i~ t perpetuates. Not f.>r years and never. we trust-will th- day h' come a memorial of niisguid-ti f inat ic, whol died for an unjust cause. Le~t t.he sphraLse. "l'hey nlie:I f:>r what the3 i houzbjt was right," perish half utter ed upon the feeble lips that would frame it.. Let any suigeston that those who wore the gray were retiels. r led by rebel chie-fs, retnaia locked up r in those distorted sectiomal histories, , where they belong. With the mere i abstract merits of' the controveyv u1 Memorial day and the generation es which n >w observes it has nothing to ,. do. -But that tnis was w as a str..ggle .between sovereign and independlent dstates, is a proposition which those who decorate the graves of .s.uthern esoldiers cad not afford to relinquish for c one moment. -aSnoling onzums and14 ways of 1iv ig. Mr l.uigri VillarI in "Italian Life lu ITown ,and 'utry" reveals a curl ous statte of atrfaiirs. In Italian cities there aire no slum districts. The poor est of the paor may be lodged in the same palace with people whose income runs over $25.000 annually. The poor l are packed away In the garrets or In - the cellars, to be sure, and their mis l ery must be rendered all the more acute by the sight and scent of such lavish living. High class Italians have no objections whatever to dwelling over it shop or place of business. 1 Forgot Eimself. 2n Mrs. Henpeck-We hey bin married a twenty years today, Hiram. Hiram (with a sigh)--Yes, fer twent3 a years we've tought ofMrs. Henpeck (scowling) - What? d You old wretch! e Hiram (quickly)-Life's battle. to a gether, Mirandy.-Juldge. .Too Valuable to Loue. s Mr. Grogan-Sure, Moike, an' what e did yez do wit' yure dorg? s MikeOh, he wuz wort' $10 an' 01 kep' t'inkin' if some wan sh'd stale to um Oi could ill afford th' loss, so 01 3d gve umn away, b'gorra! -Chicago 3 News. at A willy Benighted. iDasherly-Is he so very ignorant? F lashierly-ignorant? Why, actually, b e doesn't even know a cure for coldel -Kansas City Independent. Danger From Eating Unclean Food. -The danger from eating unclean ut vegetables has been emphasized re cently by a number of investigations which tend to show, writes A. S. A t kinson, M. D., in Good Housekeep ing, that typhoid fever and cancer ys are often directly traceable to their continued consumption. An eminent y German physician was recenitly quoted 7y in the Medical Record as saying that 2n there was a close relationship between n- uncleanly raw vegetables and cancer, a and the editor of the journal adds Vy that if it be granted that cancer Is of , parasitic origin the germs of the dis r- ease might be taken into the system ig by the eating of such food. Dr. t Lyons of Buffalo discovered that can n cer was most frequent where the pop ulation were notorious consumers in ~large quantities of uncooked *t.vegetables. Raw vegetables are dangerous because they carry the elving germs of the disease directly ~into the system. The harm is done IC through lack of cleanliness, and not -through the consumption of the fruits. 1From ti me to time attempts have been made to prove that cancer was ar icaused by eating raw tomatoes and s watercress, but it is generally believed nthat the point has heen estab AMIONAl PHATOM& HOS filAY HAUNT THP. UNITED 1 STATES CAPITOL Story of Specters That Stalk At .Night When the Halls of Legisla tion Are Gloomy and Deserted, as Told by One of the Old Guards. Like most repositories of good stories. 3 2e ancient man who has spent dec les as a guard in the capitol In Wash- 9 gton did not yield up the fullness of is narratory riches without a struggle. "It's unpleasant to be made a mock r by the skeptical," he protested. "Do on believe in ghosts, young man?" "If answering in the affirmative be ets an interesting tale, I do." returned :e writer. "Well, starting on the premise that ou do believe to some extent in the pernatural, I will admit.you to my onfidence," resumed the old guard, nd here goes for the authentic yarn f the spooks that haunt the nation's apitol: "In the long, monotonous watches of tie night Innumerable are the spooks, obgoblins and the eerie, vapory ings which glide from the shadowy ooks and crannies of the intangible owhere to people the capitol's vast tretches of darkness. Of course you now of the extraordinary acoustic reaks which obtain in many parts of be great building-bow a whisper, a reathed word at one particular point ; audible at another scores of feet dis ant? Yes. Now, at night these acous ic spirits simply go mad. Where they y day were pygmies they expand into :ants, and a whistle. a sudden sound, footfall,. resolves itself into a pan emonium. "Weird. terrifying noises beat upon he eardrums of the watchmen as they ursue their lonely patrols through the eeming miles of corridors, and then e spooks, the shades of the nation's reat. the astral bodies of those that oiled in obscurity for the nation's good, lodge the watchmen's step, some rand and awful In their speechless lignity, some creeping humbly about n apologetic silence, some laughing, ;ome sobbing, but all of them horrible -horrible." The old man paused to muse. "Do you know," he said, Wreaking nto his own reverie explosively. "Feb. M is a date dreaded by many of the :apitol night guards?' It was on this lay, in 1848, that John Quincy Adams lied in- the chamber of the house of epresentatives. now Statuary hall, where the exact spot is marked by a rass tablet. Promptly at midnight yn every anniversary of his death the shade of John Quincy Adams appears n a sort of phosphorescent glow over hs brass tablet. Oh. dozens of guards bave seen it from time to time as well as . and I can refer you to niany of them for affirmation of my assertions. "Once over the spot the shade begins to gesticulate. after the manner of a member addressing the house. Then. ll of a sudden. the fine face becomes listorted and agonized. the gracefully wviing arms fall convulsively, and down sinks the shade with all the movements of an expiring man. Then the phosphorescent glow fades away. ad the ethereal effigy dIssolves. "But although lost sight of, its pres enee is still made known by the 'clump, flop clump, flop.' of invisible foot falls departing down one of the long vacant corridors. -Stranger-than this is the ghost of the entire congress of 1848. which .p pears in vigorous if spooky 'session. ev ery once in awhile in Statuary hal' the old all of representatives, as I .iave previously remarked. Inaudible, but spirited, are the debates; energetic to the bursting point of vehemence are the silent political dissensions. Pro voked by a doubting Thomas, a mem ber of the capitol night watch several years ago made affidavit that he had seen this ghostly congress in session. Yes, be was a sober man and true. "The shade of General John A. Lo gan is a frequent visitor at the capitol. Almost every alternate night at half past 12 o'clock this ghost materializes at the door of the room occupied by the senate committee on military and militia. Silently the door swings open. and out steps -the looming and lumi nous presence, to stalk in stately dig nity away Into the swallowing gloom, This is a favorite phautom with the guards. Its conduct is eremplary. "Then there is the shade of Vice President Wilson. who died in his room in the senate end of the capitol, you will recall. Its peregrinations are few and desultory. When it does come, there is always an expression of con cern anad sellf absorption In the ghostly face. The movements of the vapory body are restless and hurried. "All of the older members of the night watch are well acquainted with' Vice President Wilson's apparition and never fail to salute it, although, truth to tell, the shade remains haughtily in different to their deference. This spook rarely fails to put in an appearance wvhen the body of a dead legislator or statesman of national renown is lying in state in the capitol. "Deep in the subcellar vaults spooks of lesser magnitude revel in hordes. Immediately beneath the hall of rep resentatives every night is to be found a tall, erect, gaunt specter, whose iden tity has remained a mystery for years in spite of._ensing efforts on the part of the night watch to uncover the secret of Its origin and anteced ents. Its hands are clasped behind Its transparent -back in a convulsive clutch, and the face evinces a condi tion of emotions prodigiously wrought upon. Many attempts have been made by guards with rubber sole on their shoes to catch this wraith unawares, but failure is the invariable result Presto! It as blown Into thin air be fore the sleuthing watchman Is within forty feet of it."-New York Herald. lished. But the large use of either of these vegetables is dangerous unless the consumer is exceptionally neat and clean in handling them. More typhoid fever has been carried about in the leaves of lettuce, raddishes, cress, tomatoes, and similar raw vege tables, than in any other way, except by drinking water. is the rather alarming assertion of Bonn of Ger many; but this statement is modified by the explanation that it is in the water used to cleanse the vegetables of the dirt and grit rather than in the leaves. Our table water is filtered and boiled for table use when we have any suspicion that typhoid lurks in the neighborhood, but the servant is allowed to wash the raw vegetables with the suspected water. We eat thus with our lettuce or tomatoes a few thousand ty phoid germs, and then wonder how we ever got typhoid. It is not wonderful that we get it, hut it is strange that it does not spread more generally. Cooking vegetables will destroy all typhyoid germs, and' one is safe in using suspected water in this way. If cancer be of parasi tic origin, ~the spread of the disease by vegetables would likewise be pre vent ed hnoiing. HER SK4ATING U ON'e&M eertainly thought her a beautff I thought that she must be my fate Intil, more for pleasure than duty, I said I'd Instruct her to skate. )h, sad was the hour when I told be I'd make for some morning a. date! 1he came. I endeavored to hold her And teach her the way she should skatd. Iy neck. in a manner most frantic, She clutched. I feel called on to state t might have seemed very romantic Had she not been learning to skate. he fell, with a scream most despairing; I know to a fraction her weight. know, too, what hose she was wearing The day that I taught her to skate. WVe rose, and she said she would try It Again-that she thought it was great. myself was disposed to deny It, - But she seemed determined to skate. Mhe next time together we tumbled The ice nearly fractured my pate he meekest of saints would have grUm bled At teaching that damsel to skate. think for her subsequent lesson A mighty long time she will wait. hadn't a well bustled dress On; It hurt me, that learning to skate. -Chicago News. He settled. "Do you think," asks Willie Rabrah, "that a college education will pay?' "No." answers Freddie Rushmore. "but I know my father will."-Chicago Tribune. Not Borrowing Trouble. "Remember," said the college presi dent, who was trying to raise funds, "that the man who dies rich dies dis graced." "What of it?" answered the man who ws trylug to reach the $200,000,000 mark. "The public always forgives a man after he's dead. anyway."-Chi cago Record-Herald. His Sort. "What kind of tobacco do you smoke Rivers?" asked the- friend who had dropped in. Rivers hesitated a moment. "As a rule," said Brooks, coming to his relief, "he smokes cut plug, except when I run out of It and happen to have some other kind In my desk." Scranton Republican. An Easy Mark. Willie Softeleigh-I was quite ill aft1. er that polker game last night; very ill, in fact. But I feel much easier this morning. - Jack Sharpe-You're mistaken, my boy. It is simply impossible for you to be any easier than you were'last night -Philadelphia Ledger. The Reason Why. Church-What In the world are they building so many tunnels under the North river for? Gotham-Oh, those are to accommo date the Kentuc'kians when they come to New York. it giehves them to see so fuh wa':tr.- Yonker's S a te'sman. Youthful Fetterer. Mr. l~righton has a faint streak of down onU his upper lip. "Whn get to be.a man, papa," said his little four-year-o!. -I'm going to have a great big mustachsp like yours." That boy has been feeding on candy ever since.-Chicago Tribune. Had to Salute Her. Mrs. Right-It Isn't necessary to raise your hat to the housemaid. Mr. Right-Well, I can wink at her If you prefer it.-Elizabeth Journal. Wedding .Favors. "What wus de trubble at Jim's wed "Why, de only rice dey cud dind to. row atter de happey couple wus made up n croquettes-an' dey frowed dem!" -New York .Tournal. Three Suicides in a Day. Three perso'ns committed suicide in Washington on Wednesday. All used carbolic acid as a medium of ending lie. The three suicides were Leonard H. Mangum, a former clerk in the census office, Guy E. Padgett, a real estate and insurance agent, and Mrs. Sadie iPlummer, a young woman, whose husband keeps a lunch room on ensylvania avenue. Mr. Mangum was a native of North Carolina, but lived for many years in Arkansas. It is said that be at one time was wealthy but lost his money an 3 was compelled t come to this city to seek employ ment. He lost his position in the census ottice last July and since then had been unemployed. His body was found beneath a tree in the reserva ion south of the White House RiotIng Sailors Killed. t is reported that 15 of the crew of the British second-class cruiser Pllas were killed and a number in jured during the rioting at Port of Spain, Trinidad on Tuesdaiy. Tne ollcials at the admiralty refused to cofrm or dhe the reports.