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Waiting. Will the slow weeks ne ver go Hark: nhe curfew rlngeth low: Into twilight soft and gray Melts at last the weary dV: Once uavin the night is here: Aare you thinking of me. Dea? All day long miy heart has hoard just one sojtly whispered word: All day long your nznn has -o:e To am thrOugh t-he btun hot: III the faces f th rw -o '.,d: 111 the cries lha eco ludI. All throughout 1 he hur<-vi ne All amid the szrife of tongues. Nothing have I heard or seen Save your voice. your fae: my Que: Other women come and go Other voices whisoer low. Other eves grew d'iin or bright Shed or'veil their changeful light; But I stand anart: alone: Waiting still for y:ou. my ( wn: All that waiting. DO you et,! Darling. as the slow days stea: Silent, one by one, away. How my heart must yearn and pray For the touch of lips and hand? Darling, do you understand? In the daily strife andstress: Do you see the foes that press Close and hard within, without? All the dread and all the doubt. All the fears that clasp and cling, All the bitter questioning? Fast, though with no clash of swords, Gather all those phantom horaes: And my soul, as falls the night. Seems to loose her wonted might, Shrinks before that dusky crew. Prays and longs and yearns for you. Must I always watch and wait. Exiled, famished, at your gate? Will You not be brave and cone Ere the pleading lips be dumb? Ere within the weary eves Hope's last. glimmer fades and (die? Ab! dear heart. be strong: he true: See, a kingdom waits for you: High above all stain or scathe Float love's bannershines love's faith, Enter on your reign serene Come! my own: my love: my queen. SLAVE PIRATES Who Stole Negroes from Their Owners and Sold Them. A STORY OF ANTE BELLUM DAYS. Many Slaves Were Stolen from Our Coast Country and Carried to the West and Sold. The foll wing interesting story we ' the Columbia State: Some years prior to the Civil war there was a considerable amount of emigration from the southern coast States, most of such emigrants going to the then unsettled country of the Wississippi and its tributary valleys. In most instances these imigrants had some~means, and they carried their slaves along with them. Consequently they were in a position to accumulate wealth from the rich, alluvial soils -0f the river bottoms more rapidly than their less fortunate neighbors who had no slave labor to help them. Tbis led to much jealously and discontent or part of the large class of self-working whites, who after some years spent mt seeing their better equipped neighbors getting richer and they poorer. banded themselves together in a certain dlis trict in the lower section of Louisiana for the purpose of running oIr slaves from the Carolinas and Virginia and selling them or keeping them for thi own uses, as needed, preferably dis tributing them among themselves, as this avoided inquiry. They had as their leader a man who became prom Inent in the political affairs of Louis iana in the days of Reconstruction af ter the Civil war. This man went to Virginia, where he bought a small coast trading schooner. She wyas taken to Mobile, where a false skin was built in her. leaving a space between her sides and this skin of about two feet, room enough for a negro to stand sideways therein. It was so cunningly devised that the most careful search of the vessel never divulged its existence. It was divided into compartments, each holding four or five negroes, and ii these compartments many an unac counted for slave (supposed to have escaped to the north) was conveyed tc a much warmer climate (of course 2 mean Louisiana). For six years this trade went on and no one ever sus pected its existence, as the slave pi rates were careful to take only one 0r two slaves from any one owner, and -then only from those having large numbers. Occasionally they ran offa large block of city negroes. but the --plantation hands, which they pre ferred, were more carefully selected from a large area. It was only on the deathbed of the mate of the vessel that the facts be came known, although this boat, at one time and onther, ran cargoes of negroes from every Atlantic and Gull State. A description of one of the voyages will explain the methods em ployed to capture their cargoes: One afternoon just before tue sun set .on one of tbe most perfect days that had ever been seen in South Car olina a small schooner was seen tc crc ? the bar at the entrance of the Stono river, some 12 miles below the city of Charleston, a brisk "sou'eas ter" filling her swelling sails (which showed clearly against the background of trees on the island at the mouth of the river) brought her quickly up the river to a point opposite the little -summer village known as Legareville, where just at dusk she dropped an chor. The next morning two or three of the crew came ashore, osten sibly for the purpose of buying wood from the planters on John's island. which lay to the southwest of the river, and succeeded in making ar rangements for a cargo. This gave *them an opportunity to visit the dif ferent .plantations and to estimate the number of negroes on each. Having thoroughly posted them selves and picked out the negroes they liked best they formed means of talking to them and persuaded themr to sneak off during the night, appoint ing a place of meeting and promising a jug of whiskey, which in those days was a rather rare treat to negroes. The unsuspecting negro of course showed up. Instead of whiskey, gags and the rope was his portion. HIE was then conveyed aboard the vessel and hidden in oneC of the comnpart ments. Of course a "biue and cry was raised for the missing negr'ies. but the boat. although searched. was found to be empty. andi of course no suspicion entertaiined that she was --other than as represented. The ne oes were, of course. supp(:ed to have Zaken to the swamp, a trick of whici: n no than one was frequently guiity. These pirates obtained on this voyage some 20 negroes from that section, and in clue oeurse put to sea the way they bad come. The word being. of course. oniv a bluo.il it was thrown overboard a p.sble% To lihten the bnat and gv-e her more qpeed, ThC*se ne After t1h- Cic wvair one of the le .,: la;wn away on that occasion re end t' .John's isiand and gave an .int or his adv entures. No one, wetvver. bielcved his tale until it was crrObrateri by the mate's confession, whien care duly to the knowledge of the writer The captain was arrested upon the mates confession. but being i f( proninent in the corrupt political r( deals of those times nothing ever came of it and eventually he went to Cali- q fornia and was lost sight of. L Many hundreds of slaves were car ried off by these pirates and it is sur- n prising how successfully they eluded i all suspicion. Had they attempted to sell all of the negroes thus stolen they would surely have been caught, but w the leading spirit of it all was too it shrewd for that. W. B. Holmes, C Charleston, July 14. h COMING HOME TO ROOST. J( si The North Be-inning to Get Back b p Their Lost Chickens. PI ti We do not want the people of the North and West to judge the negroes of the South by the Vagabonds who y V are committing all manner of crimes amo'ng them. There are plenty of grood negroes in the South, and the oUes who commit the crimes of rape n and assassination are the vicious ones among us. and we feel sure the same f( is true everywhere. A writer in the t] A ugusta Chronicle says: The recent brutal outrages per petrated by the negro in Indiana. Illinois, Delaware and other northern localities furnish happy illustrations of his marvelous progress in moral culture during forty years freedom and would seem to suggest this as an ap propriate time for our brethren across the line to pass around the hat for another monument to John Brown. 0 While the collection is being taken the chair might stimrulate their righteous zeal by singing. b b "As we go lynching on," to a shot gun accompaniment by the orchestra. t "The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine," and in the tide of time the chickens turned b loose by bayonet suffrage, political a recognition and wite house hospital ity are coming back to roost in north ern homes. "They're coming Fatner Abram A hundred thousand strong:" They're coming home to roost Where they rightfully belong. a The writer is neither a prophet nor a pessimist, and yet as the "black hor- a ror" casts the shadow of its brutal menace farther and farher into north ern hearthstones, it may be that even ~under the pale of Faneuil Hall therea will come some day a dim regret that Stonewall .Jackson fell ere Gettsburg was fought. OLD SorTH. The Race Question. r The race question is attracting con- 'I siderable attention at the North, and t it is being discussed by the papers of C that section in a w.ty that it has never been discussed before. The Indiana- ? polis Sentind. says: "The situation t is serious. It is likely to get worse, r before it gets better: the race problem t has become an Indian problem; men of all parties may as well look the f facts in tbe face and bethink them- 1 selves how they are to be dealt with." 2 In speaking of the conflict between k the races in Evansville, Ind., in which r several people were killed, the Sen- c tinel says: "Behind all these manifes- ' tations of lawlessness are conditions t which may well give pause to thought- ( ful men. The fact is that the cam munity has been debauched and cor- r rupted by politicians who have im- t ported hordes of the most ignorant, a most worthless and vilest negroes, causing an enormous increase in t pauperism, vice and crime, and reduc- t ing materially the average intelligence C and virtue of the people.'' c This is a serious indictment and i sets forth a condition of thirngs that t communities in the south can fully t understand and appreciate. While t the original trouble grew out of the s act of a lawless negro, the Sentinel d declares that he had been removed from the city and the only apparent ~ motive of the rioters has been to make trouble in order to give vent to their lawless feelings. The Courier, of Evansville, Ind., says: The cause of the present reign of trror in this city can be directly ~ traced to the vitiation of the negro for political purposes. Before election tion time the advertisements are sent up and down the river among the shiftless negroes, stating that they can get money for their votes at Evansville. The idea, ignorant and vicious flock here; they are colonized in saloons: they are gathered in herds1 the night before election, even in the custom house and the temple of jus tice, debauched with free beer and orrupted with free dollars, when they are properly ready to be used on elec tion day. Commenting on this the Indiana-e polis Sentinel says: "There is noth ing to be said in behalf of the mob or g any of its members. But there is just ~ as little to be said for those who have deliberately debauched and demoraliz ed the community by introducing for political purposes a dangerous and vicious element and practicing methods which whenever tolerated s are certain to produce disastrous con-r seuences. The wind has been sown, the whirlwind isbeing reaped." Thle Auguste' Chronicle says we are ac- ~ customed to this sort of preaching from the Northern newspapers to Southern communities, but it sounds V r strangely addressed by an Indiana polis paper to an~ Indiana audience. A Routing Fool. f One brave man has developed in lli-9 nois. To the Chicago Chronicle he c says, speaking of the negro: "I think b that one who is industrious, honest s and true to his croan try is a thoiusand 1e times better and more to be esteemed 1< thn a million of rebels whose claim I to superiority is bottomed only upon il the possession of a white hide." The hi Coumbia State says "at latest ac- S couts th~is man had not been lynched. ti Of course he meant to say a "half s5 million rebels," for it was that num- u er which kept tihe two million of the ' ~true to his country" and "hot for a n bounty" interested for four years. The survivors have been endeavoring even since to keep the surplus in the n treasury red uced. But the Illinois 0 water is not a survivor: at least 1,300 51 miles separated him from the nearest TEWS FROM LIBERIA. rhat a Wemat Who Lived There Thirty Years Says of It. VI'G THERE SAME AS HERE. ie Says Sonme or theo vtstWh Wenr from the souit i Are Doing Well aud Some Bad. The Augusta Herald piblishes the llowing, which will be interesting to ading those who are interested in lestion of colonizing the negroes to iberia or any other locality: The stnry that Rosa Crawford, a gro woman, just returned from Lib ia, Africa, has a touch of local color, that she was married in Augusta hile enroute to the Dark Continent 1865. The woman has returned to olumbus, Ga., and the following are er experiences: 'The young woman ined the first colonizing party that ft Columbus after the war. In 1865 ie ran away from her parents and ined a party of some two or three undred negroes that left for the romised Land of the newly-freed aves. She had been a house girl at ie home of the late Colonel Mott, on [ott's green, and in the course of a ar or two would have been cooking. hile en route to her new home, she tarried in Augusta, her husband be ig one of the colonists. At Charles n the negroes were placed aboard a w ship and after a long voyage they tund themselves in the old home of eir race-Africa. The colonists set ed in the seaport Monrovia, which is e capital of the co.ntry . The Crawford woman gives an inter ;ting account of her experiences in frica. She is intelligent, and noted icidents more closely than the aver ge negro. She said that those who ent over went to work in pretty inch the same stations as at home me cooking, others laundering, hers keeping hous:, etc. She her lf is a laundress and says that she tade a good living there- about the tme living she could have made at ome. She spent practically all the me in Monrovia, not going into the iterior except on rare occasions, and en not far from town. She says the atives around Monrovia are peaceable t further back in the interior they re dangerous. Agriculture is actively irried on near the coast, corn, grain ad all the vegetables ordinarily raised i Georgia being successfully grown. o cotton is grown in the colony. She Lys that health conditions there are t so very different from what they re in this county-the climate suits >me and disagrees with others just as t home, where some are healthy and thers unhealthy. She says that when e first went to Liberia all the sugar, olasses, etc., consumed in Monrovia nd the other towns was made up in his country, but that in later years his industry has declined so that most f such articles are now iLnported. 'ormerly the settlers in the upper part f Lineria sawed much lumber. but ow the lumber is imported, she says. ~he original settlers bad much energy, ut the present generation is not in lined to develop these industries. The Crawford woman says that hen she first went to Liberia two or bree American ships touched at Mon via every week. Now sometimes wo or three years pass without an Lmerican ship visiting the port. The >reign trade is in the hands of Eng shmen, Germans. Dutchmen and orweigians, the American interest aving steily declined. Many of the etail stores in Monrovia are kept by olored people. There are but few hite people in Monrovia. She says hat Monrovia is hardly as large as olumbus. While a good many of American egroes there are dissatisfied with eir lot and wish to return to A merica nd would do so if they could pay their assage, yet many are content with eir surroundings and intend to spend e rest of their lives in A frica. The !rawford woman says that the Ameri an negroes are exercising a civilizing aluence over the native Americans; bat they bring the children of the na ives into the towns, teach them, and hat the colony has churches and hools just as the negroes in America Fifteen years ago her husband died. n 1898, she moved to Sierra Loane, be English colony just north of Li eria. Here she found many rich rhite families who were willing to ay well for Fne laundry work, and be says that she was able in the ourse of a year or so to save the 2oney with which to buy her pas age home. She landed in Florida ort, from which she afterwards pro eeded by steamer to Brunswick. 'rom there she went to Atlanta,. ieeting her brother, and also her sis e, Matilda Dawson, of Columbus. rho had been wired to come to At nta. They had not seen each other 1 thirty-eight years. and made such a enonstration that an A tlanta police ian came near locking both up. he is now with her sister at I818 'ird avenue. She says she enjoyed recellent health during her entire ay in Africa. Of the Columbus ne roes .who wvent to Liberia in 1866, as than half dorzen have returned to hiis city. A Fatal Tornado. At Streaton, Ill.. on Friday a tor ado killed five persons, injured a :ore of others and caused a heavy roperty loss. The dead are: Harry )oyle, 'N. H. Bivens, R. Purcell, harles Snyder and an unknown ne ro. All except Purcell were killed t the race track. A new bLiilding ad just been erected and the races rere to have been given week after ext. Not a building is left stand ig. All of the buildings at Case lectric park were destroyed and tihe ance and amphitheatre of the ball ark were blown away. Stauber's [othing factory, a two-story brick uilding, was blown down and all the yck was ruined. T1he \'ulcain West rn company's plant suffered heavy >ss. Purcell was killed there. The linois, Indiana and Iowa bridge cost ig 1,000,000, is nearly half gone, the oisting works and buildings at pring Alley, four miles west of Strea >r were blown down and several per yns were injured. Many houses were nroofed and otherwise damaged. elephone and telegraph lines are early all down and details are mnea re. Four persons were killed and n others seriously injured b~y a tor ado which struck the northern part Mendola, Ill. The path of the orm was about eight miles in length. verything in the storm's track was 1eas lvdt the grond. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST Gathered and Condensed by the New berry Observer ir PRusy Readers. Three men r dr'iwned by "''! i h;iJg boat of! Peliza cola. Fla., on MIonday. Theh sa f@ in. tihe Southrrn -ail wa y of M40o0 on Sunday night. Mrs. Lliza Stick, aged 70. of Nuank, Conn.. drowned herself on .\linday night in Mystic river. An explosion in a powder mill near Wilkesbarre. Pa.. on Monday killed three meen and seriously injury sevr eral others. 1aude Jordine. aged IT. of Bloom-: ipgton. Ill., was arrested on MNonday on the charge of having killed her tw'-year-old sister. A freight train ran away on Mon day down the steep grade near Saluda, N. C., and 17 cars loaded with coal were smashed to pieces. The New England cotton mills have agreed that they will close down until some time in October rather than buy cotton at present prices. Frank Long, a Macon, Ga.. grocer, has made this seasun. according to the Atlanta Journal, upwards of 85,000 on 40 acres of canteloupes. Adnah Rogers and his wife, aged 75 and 74, of East Brewston. 'Mass., were run over and killed by a train on Mon day while they were driving in a buggy. Gov. Lanham of Texas has issued a proclamation offering $50.000 to any person who will discover and furnish a pratical remedy for cotton bull wevil in Texas. Mary MJcDonald. described by the Journal as a "a pretty young woman, was tined $25.75 by the recorder of Atlanta on Tuesday for "cussing'' a young man over the phone. Geo. B. Hiss of Charlotte, N. C., president of the American Cotton Manufacturers association, thinkc there will be 30,000,000 idle spindkl by the first of September. J. T. Cato, a well-known buther o: Fort Valley, Ga.. committed. suici& on Monday by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. le left a wife an six children. No cause for the ded is known. Georgians are evidently fond of children. There was a rush of off3rs in Atlanta the other day to adopt a 13-year-old kid who declared that ik mother was in the asylum and hi father on the chaingang for cow stealing. Gen. Clement A. Evans of Georgia says there are sutlicient funds in hat d to begin the erection of the "Battlt Abbey" at Richmand, Va. The fund of the Confederate Memorial associa tion for this object are now stated t( be $204.470. Mrs. Minnie Cummigs, on trial foi killing her fourth husband in Apri last, was convicted in St. Louis. Mo., on Monday ani was sentenced to ter years in the penitentiary. She is to b tried next week for killing~ her thirc husban, EdIward Harris. in 1901. G~en. Nelson A. Miles rode horse back from Fort Hill. 1. T., to Rteno Ol.. a distance of 90 miles on Tues, day in nine hours and ten minutes changing horses several times aloni the route. The general took the ridt to prove that though nearly 05 he i still hale and hearty. Mrs. Carrie Luce is suing F. W Wood worth & Co., proprietors of a 10 cent store in IRichmond, Va., fo: $5,000 damages for getting her Iei broken in a crowd while attending "bargain sale" in their store. She con tends that the proprietors should noi have permitted such a large crowd t< come in. HOW CROPS FARED. Heat Not Excessive at Any Tim D~uring the Past Week. Section Direction J. W. Bauer ha< issued the following report of the crop; and weather for the past week: The week ending S a. in., Monday July 13th, had a mean temperature o 80 degrees, which is practically nor mal. The heat was not excessive a any time, nor was there a wide dail range between the day and the nigh temperatures. These conditions wer favorable on crops, but there was deficiency in sunshine over the east ern and central parts that was harm. ful to a slight extent. HEAVY RAINS IN SOME COUNTIEs. Locally, there was excessive precipi tation in Edgeiield, Mfarion. MIarlbor< and Saluda counties and almost daily excessive rains from the Savannah val ley in Barnwell and IHampton north ward to southern Clarendon and WVil liamsburg counties, and in western Sumter. In this part of the State the rainfail amounted to from :3 to over( inches. This area includes the regior of heaviest rainfall during June wher it amounted to from 10 to 18 inches. The rains in other parts were beneti cial, and some places in the northerr parts are in need of more rain. The week's averagefor the State was 2.01 inches. Thie week's weatheir was favorale for crop growth and development, wit! the above exception, and for farm work, cultivation having made consid~ erable progress. especially in the west ern counties. With the exception of a number o1 localities that report the contrary. ele corn is-a fair crop and is about laid by in clean condition. M1uch corn v-as destroyed on low lands where the rains were excessive. Young corn has a good color and looks promising. COTTON GENERALLY IP~coVED. There was a general improvement ir cotton, though some sections failed tc share in it. but reports from most sec tions indicate that the olants are mak ing rapid growth, too rapid for proper fruitage in the Pee D~ee counties, though they are still smaill and late in blooming. Blooms are more crnamon~ than last week. Lice remains on very young cotton, in spots, but they no longer threaten injury. In the western counties most fields are clean. but grassy fields is the prevailing condi tion in tihe eastern ones. Cotton is poorest, and yellow, on sandy lands, but most of it has a healthy color, es pecially sea island cotton. Tobacco curing continues and the crop as a whole has i mproved. Melon shipment are not heavy, as the crop is light as yet. Planting fall truck~ crops is underway. Mino0 crops con tinue to thrive. Peaches still rotting. Other fruits fairly plentiful. Pastures are excellent. Farm laborers are scarce in many parts of the State. Edwins D. Phelps, a millionaire resident of New York city, committed suicide by inhaling illuminating gas n Mondry. Ill health was the cause. A SPLENDID TRIBUTE Of the Pr-es. Association to the Late VdAitor of The Star.e. The followng reolution.'s were pre sented and adopted at the cession of the Press association at White Stone Sprinhgs the evening before adjourn ment: Your committee on the death of Mr. N. G. Gonzales would offer the following as its report: In view of the sudden and lament able death of our brother journalist, Mr. Narcisso Gener Gonzales, on January 19. 1903. let us add tribute to his work and to his memory. In him we recognize a man of the highest type. le was a man of true principle. He hated the low and mean with an extreme hatred Ile exacted from his fellow men, especially those in public position, the same irreproachable conduct he re quired from himself. He was a man of decided conviction. He thought I clearly and logically and always knew s what he believed. If he made mis takes at times in the application of principles to conditions and actions of others, so that he was judged to be unfair and even unjust, yet his positiveness and firmness in convic tions, as to what he thought would be right, won for him the respect of thbse who did not agree with him. le was an independent thinker, and often advocated movements and policies in advance of those above him, which, of course, meant frequent differences of opinion and opposition to his views. He was a careful and accurate man, and yet his was a quick and penetratiug mind. His position was always positive ana clearly defin ed. These q.ualities won for him suc cess and eminence as a journalist. He was the founder of the Columbia State in 1891, and soon made it one of the best newspapers in the whole south. His services to Columbia, South Caro lina, and to the soath, cannot now be measured. He was a patriot of the truest type and a worthy public ser vant. in him we have lost one of the most brilliant and successful editors of the new south, and this association has lost an active, efficient and loyal member. Let us emulate his virtues. J. C. Mace, W. H. Greever, H1. H. Watkins. Committee. A WILD GOOSE CHASE. Seeking a Buried Treasure Near the City of Savannah. W. H. Haslip, of Philadelphia, Pa., is in Savannah, Ga., to dig for buried treasure on an adjacent set island. It is not a wild, Captain Kidd kind of an adventure he is on, however. The treasure he is after was buried on Warshaw island in 1869 by a Confede rate soldier of the name of Amos Berien, who died in Philadelphia last week. Berien, who had been in the employ of Mr. Haslip for the past ten years, often told that gentleman that he had treasure buried on the Georgia coast. Shortly before his death he told Mr. Haslip that in his trunk would be found certain papers and parch ments tt at would be of value to him, and that the property was all to be Mr. Haslip's after Berien died. Mr. Haslip investigated the trunk. ~Among other things he found an old piece of sheepskin parchment, which had evidently done duty as a drum head. The parchment contained a map of Warsaw island, locating a cer tain spot. Accompanying it was a statement to the effect that Berien was first mate on the Confederate blockade runner, Lucy Verne, out of Baltimore. On one trip when a rich Virginia family named Starke was aboard the Verne was chased by a federal war vessel. Finding themselves overhauled it was determined to buy ashore all the treasure aboard. Berien was one of the party assigned to bury the treas ure, Hie made a map of the location on a drumhead, which he kept. Sever al times, Berien - says, he attempted to recover the treasure, but some thing interferred. Mr. Haslip is posi tive of the correctness of the story and says he will devote a month if necessary to locating the treasure, which, according to Berien's mem orandum, consists of gold coin and silver plate. Forty Days of Fair Weather. Last Wednesday was St. Swithin's day and according to an old legend if the day is clear, forty days of cloud less weather will ensue. The old legend runs as follows. Swithin was the bishop of Winchester and a most devout man. His death Look place in I1832, and, in accordance with his wishes, he was buried in the church yard where the "sweetrain of heaven" cudfall on his grave. Whenth bishop was canonized an attempt was made by the clergy to remove the body from the church yard to the choir of the cathedral as a mark of much greater honor, July 15 was set for the removal but when the day came it rained in such torrents that the plan could not be carried into ef fect. it continued to rain for -10 days arterward by which time the clergy were fully convinced that the good bishop, now the sainted Swithin, was satisfied to have his bones remain where they were, and they let them rest there. C onvo POULTRY-Corn is one of the staples as poultry food, and yr t we can trace a large per cent. of the fail ures to its obuse. If given to fowls daily it will produce fat and this in time completely ruins the fowl so far as laying is concerned, but if fed in moderation, as a change from oats, wheat and peas, it makes an almost indispensable supply. It is excelent also for growing chickens, but these, as| with the old fowl, it must be fed sparingly. During very cold weather without corn it is well nigh impossi ble to keep the hens laying, but even then best results are obtained by par tially roasting it. For fattening poul try or mrketmeal take~s first place, adtewrk can be accomplised sev eral days (juicker than when other is used. When preparing poultry for market feed all they will eat' but when feeding hens for eggs let corn be only an occasional feed, or only a par tia raionifgiven daily. Oats should betepicipal grain food for laying hens, the corn being used simply as a change. When thus fed it produced most excellent results. Trhe Supreme court of Florida has conirmed the Sentence of death against William Sylvester. who was convicted of murdering Edward Bur ton. master mechanic of the S. A. L. shops at Fernandina, for discharging him. Unless pardoned he will be hnged. IN TEE STATE. . pe he Pappenings in Various Sections R of ofrSouth Caralina Briefy Told. tr A new $25,000 oil mill has boan th aganized at Jonesville, d James H. Tillman was takcn to M [jexington jail on Monday. o! The State Farmers Alilancer will ti neet In Columbia on Wednesday the ti Julius C. Smith. a prominent re pected citizen of Greenville, died on donday, -aged 74. Rev. John Attaway. an aged Metho list minister, died at his home at di ffilliamston on Tuesday. ax Plans are maturing for adding a o( ;50,000 building to the plant of the le )olumbia Female college. fa The people of Winnsboro ha' et roted down a proposition to establish ec beer dispensary in that town. ti The Anderson Mail says: "A suc esstul farmer who lives near the city ias sold $600 worth of cabbages from ix acres this year." The work of paving the streets of o Lnderson began on Tuesday and will sl ye completed in four months at a is ost of about $25,000. w Eddie Smith, a white boy of 13, do vas killed In Charleston on Sunday by t< alling from a tree which be had fi limbed in order to rob a bird's nest. to The Pacolet mill stockholders met rr n Spartanburg on Tuesday and voted P o increase the capital stock from one t nillion to two and to rebuild at once. 0 J. Walker Mauldin of Pickens coun- i w y was shot and killed on Monday . iight while trying to get his friend t 3urt Moore out of a house of ill re ute. Moore is accused of doing the hooting. Will Holland, a young man of re pectable parents, was shot and killed arly Tuesday morning in a house of 11 repute in Columbia by J. W. Burk alter. formerly of Waycross, Ga., t( 2ow a telegraph operator in- Colum >a. ol Judge Dantzler at Laurens on tl Wednesday granted bail to Jno. H. c Wham, th slayer of Fayette Ramage, E n the sum of $4,000. The defendant it was represented by Ferguson & r( Featherstone and W. R. Ricbey, the t tate by Solicitor Sease and 0. L. di Schumpert. W Changing Their Tune. The Augusta Chronicle says nothing a more notable has occuored in the last i ear than the radical change in the S reatment of the negro question by Northern newspapers. For years past The Chronicle has urged the going >f negroes to Northern states, believ ing that these v'ery changes that have n zome about would result, and that Northern communities having this ne ?ro problem to deal with to face among bemself, and not simply to preach to outhern audience would see things in b i new light. The following are some is >f the recent expressions by Northern t] men and newspapers based on the race rouble and lynching in Delaware, in it Illinois, or Indiana: n The St. Paul Pioneer-Press says We g are tired of negroes and the negro A problem, and we are outraged with c negro preachers denouncing lynching f3 without a word of condemnation for s1 the negro brutes that cause them. 1: The Kansas City Jonrnal says The is negro race is but one generation out of e; slavery, and but a few generations out si of barbarism. When he reverts to o barbarism and .commits a crime b against womankind the punishment 'I will be fully as swift and horrible in p the north as in the south. o The Mmneapolis Tribune says: The b wave of black horror that is creeping over the country will soon or late be o met and topped and overwhelmed by d a waye of horror that will leave the t superior race rid of everything of the t inferior but the brutal barbarous a passions and bibit the conflict has t bred. The daric horror that hangs over the south is oreeping across the I Potomac, the Ohio-, the Mississippi t and menacing the north as well. f Dr. Lorimner, the famous pulpit ora- c tor and platform lecturer, declares: u Instead of- holding meetings to de- b nounce lynching, we should hold meet- t ing with a view of forever stopping r barbarous assult on the women of cur land. They are too frequent, and c what wonder human nature boils i over before such bloody deeds? we r should make it plain that white men c will not tolerate attacks upon their 0 wives and daughters. This is the im- t perative duty of the hour, and I trust it may not be overlooked by our t colored citizens in their talk about s racial prejudice. The lynching is a il regrettable affair, but the wanton a murder of a defenseless woman is more so. This butchery of our wo- p men must be blotted out some way or p other.a We reproduce these statements by c staunch Northern and Republican e journals especially for the benefit of li the negroes, and that our readers, 1 generally, may see what a change has come over Northern sentiment on this c negro question. b A Bold Burglar. i A dispatch from Red Bank, N. J1., is say~s the home of mayor Davis was burglarized early Wednesday morning by Thomas Thomas, alias Thomas Dunn, a negro ex-convict, who also a,ttempted an assnlt on Miss Grace Davis, the mayor's daughter. The1 negro later was caught with an ac complice in the barn. Both were committed to the country jail at Free bold. There was talk of lynching Thomas, but the prompt action of the1 police in hurrying the negroes out of town averted trouble. A Tough Story. A Columbia, Mo., dispatch to the New York Sun says: 'The Missouri river flood has given P. C. Nuckles of Rocheport a new house, completely furnished. The high water drove Mr. Nuckles away from his farm, and whenI ~e returned to it hie found on his land i comparatively new house, which was in good condition, despite its water journey. There is nothing about it :o indicate who the owner is." TWENTY-F1VE thousand men labor d fromearly morning tilliate at night ' n the Kansas wheat belt Sunday. In I 0 counties where the harvest is ready shousands of reapers were in action. Jhurch services in many rural dis ~rits- were wholly abandoned. Many r ,omen helped the men and others tl arried water to the fields for the aarvesters. THE Macon Tel egraph says the edi-1 or of the New I ork Evening Post rites as though he were "a profes ional negro," and, as every one has bserved, the professional negro re uses to see any wrong on his own side f the fence, he accuses the whole vhite race as responsible for mob viol- w ~ne, and is disposed to make martyrs, TJ f not heroes, out of particularly vile ti :riminals. This not only does no good si "The Curse of Eve." In an interesting and ingenious pa r published in the North American !view under the title of "The Curse Eve," Margaret Bisland essays to,! ace what she terms "the decline of| clal stamina of the American" to e emiarncipation (if woman from ties soiely domestic. She ;um arites the rtisties of the decrease 1 the native American race. recalling i e prediction of Thomas Jetierson f a-. by 1875 the p(pUlatiUn of the: nited States must number no less 1 an 80.010.000, an estimate basedi1 )on the repro)ductivity of the native inerican at the beginning of the last ntury and takinu no account of the .000.000 immi rLnts and their chit- 1 co or of the 10,000,000 negroes who I 'e included in our last census of 76.- 1 W,000. From this fact the writer' aps to the proposition that this ilure in natural increase "is due > nothing more or less than the over lucation and abnormal public activi es so ardently encouraged among our omen since the close of the civil ar." It is claimed that the law of nature to "deprive intellectually developed oman of her fecundity." which can 21y be preserved through domestic ielter. The origin of this discovery traced to the legend of Eden, hence the race in Asia, checked in -velopment and hurled back almost > savagery because Eve tasted the -uit of the tree of knowledge, learned > fear "false ambition, calling wo ian away from her appointed and rimordial task." The writer traces iis theory through the ri-e and fall Roman civilization, where the ear er matron was the life of the hearth, hose emancipation marked degenera on. With the participation of wo en in the affairs of the Roman >rum came the period when men ere forced to seek heirs by adoption. hen ladies reckoned years by divorces 2d when empresses left only crimes >r their memories. The conclusion drawn by the writer at if the United States should cease > be nourished by Europe "with the arm bloom of her vast maternity" ir western race would fail because of e "constitutional fragility and >nsequent vic." that destroyed the oman empire is perhaps too sweep g. but it must be admitted, however luctantly we may wish to d t, that ere exist here two tende ies-the iminution of the family and the eakening of the the mar..age tie iat bode no good to the future of the public. It is a question for the vanced women to consider whether, ke the Roman empire, the United bates is becoming, "defeminized.' LOOKOUT FOR THE COMET. Is Nearly Overhead at Eleven O'clock in the Evening. B'relli's comet is now plainly visi le to the naked eye, and as the moon later every night the conditions for e visibility of the comet improve. The comet itself is rapidly brighten ig and observers should experience o dtliculty in detecting it several de rees southwset of the bright star .1pba Cygni. Just now the position f the comet 'is such that lines drawn com it to the north star and the fixed ar Vega would form clmost an equi teral triangle. At p. in., the comet ;nea.rly overhead, where the naked ye catches sight of it at oncb by rea >l of its peculiar appearance-that f a hazy patch of light, or, as it has een described, that of a hairy star. he nucleus is visible as a bright oint, and the haze surrounding it is ontinually extending and now resem les a very large bright nebula. With an opera glass the denser part f the tail near the head can be easily istinguished, but a telescope is needed show the bifurcation of the comet's a1, which is several degrees in length nd growing as the comet continues o approach the sun. A dispatch to the St. Louis Globe )emocrat from San Jose, Cal., states ba Prof. W. WV. Campbell, of the amous Lick Observatory, has seen the omet and that it promises to be an nusually interesting object. its rightness has increased so rapidly bat it is now as visible as a fourth 2agnitude star. Prof. Campbell says: "The orbit oQf the comet has been omputed by Prof. Perrine. It is now a a parabole in such a way that its earest approach to the sun will occur n August 27 at a distance of 31,000, 00 miles. its present distance from e earth is about 20,000,000 miles. "The recent discoveries concerning he con stitution of matter and the ub-division of atoms lend particular ferest to the phenomena connected rith this comet. "The tail and other nebulous ap endages of comets are probably comn osed of matter iinally divided and in highly electritied condition, so that r~metary nucleus throwing off these manations may in some respects be kened to a bit of radium giving off 3 streams of disintegrated atoms. "The comet will continue to in rease in brightness, but it cannot yet e said how bright it will become. it ;at present moving rapidly, so that is change of place from night to night ;very noticeable. Jiolaases and salt fe=aK-o. What is said to be an infallible emedy for sprains and bruises attend d with painful inflammation is a pouil ice of hot molasses and salt. Stir the nolasses so stiff with salt that the oultice ean be held in place by a nuslin bandage and wrap the affected arts well, so as to retain the heat as ong as possible. This Is good for ieasts as well as human beings. Very Nice Indeed.. Mrs. Gadd--Wouldn't it he grand if cence should discover the moon to be ihabited and hit on some way to talk rith our lunar neighbors? Mrs. Gabb-Indeed it would. They rould be near enough to talk to, yet .ot near enough to be runming in at ali ours of the day, you know. The One Thing Free. "He took some fine views with his3 amera." "Yes. There was nothing else be ould take without having it charged .p extra in the hotel bili."-Chicago The Main Point. Therese-It must have been a ter ible shock for you when you heard of e death of your aunt, was it not? Helene-Oh no; I had still my new lack silk dress.-Lustige Blatter. Just Begun. Pleasant Old Gentleman-Have you ved here all your life, my little man? Arthur (aged six)-Not yet. IT Is stated that the Cincinnati hiskey combine has been smashed. his may be taken as another i'lustra on of ~the fact that whiskey will nash any combination into which THE EVANSVILLE TEOUBLE. 'orrupt Republican Politics at The Botwmn of the Race Riots. A private letter to the editor of The entinel from one of the leading men f Evansville, a gentlemen of long 'esidence and of the highest character, ays. among other things: "The situation in Evansville is truly hat which was described in an edi orial in The Sentinel recently, headed An Indiana Problem.' and, in my ndgment, too much stress cannot be aid upon the fact that all of this law essness is the direct result of the im >ortation of the vicious and lawless iegro of the south by the Republican "lticians for political. purposes. "The spirit which has prompted the iction of the municipal and county au ,horities in this county has been, and tow is. to hold the negro vote. Their rearfulness is that they will lose one housand negro voters in the courityj nd every effort and energy has been ised and expended for the purpose of ;atisfying the negroes that they will not be molested, in order to get them to remain here for the sole purpose of usir.g their elective franchise. "I do not write you this letter for publication, but to apprise you, in so, far as I can, of the situation here. "The truth is thatothere is neither reason nor excuse for ordering out the militia for Evansville. There never was, nor has been, any mob spirit here. There were acts of violence committed by drunken rioters, both white and black, which was the after clap of a Fourth of July celebration. The dives and saloons in the city were open all day the Fourth of July, all night Saturday night and all day Sun day, the 5th, and the real trouble oc curred on the night of Sunday, the 5th, and had no militia been ordered out here there would have been no loss of life. "Politics, as practiced by the Re publican managers in this locality, is the cause of the trouble here." These statements come from a source which entitles them to the full est weight and consideration. As the Evansville situation clears up it is becoming more and more ap parent that the root- of the trouble lies in the fostering of vicious ele ments for political purposes, and the immediate cause of the recent dis graceful occurrences was the ineffici ency and cowardice of the local au thorities. What Evansville needs is a thorough municipal housecleaning. A LADY RE CUED From a Most Perilous Position In the Yasemite Valley. Mrs. A. E. Johns, of New York City, who has been staying in the Yasemite valley fcr a few days, was found Tuesday morning in a steep crevasse back of Sentinel Dome. Mon day Mrs. Johns started from Glacier Point hotel to walk to Fissures, 1o cated some tw'o miles from the hotel, and did not return Monday night. Early Tuesday morning Mr. Potter, a hotel clerk, who was a member of one of the searching bodies who started out to look for her, discovered her al most lifeless form on a ledge that jut ted out from the-steep side of the Sen tinel fissure. Her rescue from the perilous posi tion was attended with great difilcul ty. A rope was securely tied around' Mrs. Johns' waist and an effort made to help'her to the rim above. This. attempt proved futile because of Mrs.. Johns' weight. By leaning over te abrupt precipice Mr. Potter could dis cern another and larger ledge a hun dred feet below from which was a. sheer drop of hundreds of feet. He: determined to try this plan of rescue.: Giving the order to those above to. lower the rope air. Potter swung the inanimate form ->f Mrs. Johna out from: the tiny strip of rock upon which she had braced herself for fifteen hours. and by swinging the rope to and f-ro. Mr. Potter was able to lodge the bod3y: of Mrs. Johns on the larger ledge.. He then descended himself. Calling: to one of the mountain guides above: Mr. Potter had him drop the rope to. the ledge upon which all three were: now resting. Then the two picked: up Mrs. Johns and together they made: their difficult way around dangerous. ledges and over preciprces beneath un til, almost worn out, they finally: reached the rim above once more. Mrs. Johns is suffering much fromu nervous shock, but as no bones were fractured she will recover. She is a. woman of prominence in New Yoric and expected soon to start for Japan.. Attempted Assassiniations. The St. Georges Eagle says: H'enry Summers, colored, was shot by some unknown assassin on Saturday night. about 10 o'clock. and at first was. thought to be in a dying condition, but, he has recovered and is getting alli right. The -shooting occurred in a senant house on the place known as - thie iKeller house, and was indeed a. cowardly act. A shot gun wa~s used for the work. The Sneriff telephonedi to Charleston for blood hounds, but through some misunderstanding they were delayed and could not be used on the trail. The barefooted coward was; ti'acked, however. by a posse for some distance through the field in which he passed to commit the deed, but noth ing could be done in the way of detec tion. Sheriff Vernedoe arrested and locked up about a half dozen negroes,. but at the preliminary on Monday all were released but two, Julius Dollison and Andrew Bailey, who will have to answer for -the crime in the circuit court. Sberiff Varnedoe wishes to thank all the young men of the town for their prompt and valuable assist ance in the endeavor to capture the guilty paity." We hope the guilty parties have been caught. Assassina tion is one of the foulest crimes known t~o the law, and it is a pity that every scoundrel guilty of it could not be caught and punished. A Young Lady Drowned. A dispatch from Anderson to The State says: News reached the city Friday night that Miss Ethel Harr son was drowned Thursday while visit :ng friends in Florida. Particulars of Ihe distressing accident were not riven. Miss Uarrison was a sister of Srs. George Baker and of Mr. Walter Elarrison. who at one time was in the amploy of the Hill-Orr drug store in this city but who now lives at Pied nont. She formerly resided at Pied niont and had many friends through )ut the county who will be shocked to earn of her tragic death. A N Indiana man has been discovered .vho thinks he is an ox. It is ditticult ~o believe that any Indiana man could possibly think he could be anything but a statesman, an air ship inventor