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\ Tich Shill VI ale' 'A rich man who had no children. proposed to his poor nrghbor who had seven, to t-ike one o: them, and promised, if the parents would con sent, thi.t he wud i"'ve them prop erty enough to make themselves and their other Six chil cmotb for life.] Which shall it be? Which shal it be I looked at John-John looked at me. And when I found that 1 must speak. My voice seemed strangely low aud weak. "Tell me again what Ilobert said: And then I listeniner. heart my heau. This is his letter: "I wil! give A house and land while .wu shall live, If. in return, frina out your seven, One child to me for aye is given. I looked at John's old garments worn: I thought of all that he had borne. Of pcverty. and work. and care. Which 1, though willing. coula not share: I thcught of seven 'Ling mouths to feed, Of seven little children's need, And then of this. "Come, John," said I. "We'll choose among them as they lie Asleep," So, walking hand in hand. Dear John and I surveyed our band. First to the cradle lightly stepped, Where Lillian, the baby, slept. Softly the father stooped to lay His rough hand down in a loving way. When dream or whisper made her stir, And huskily he said: Not her" We stooped beside the trundle bed. And one long ray of lamplight shed Athwart the boyish faces there, In sleep so beautiful and fair. I saw on James' rough red cheek, A tear undried. Ere John could speak. '.He's but a baby, too." said I. And kissed him as we hurried by; Pale, patient Robbie's angel face, Still in his sleep bore suffering's trace. "No, for a thousand crowns not him." He whispered, while our eyes were dim. Poor Dick: bad Dick! our wayward son Turbulent, restless, idle one Could he be spared? Nay. He who gave, Bid us befriend him to the grave: Only a mother's heart could be . Patient enough for such as he: "And so," said John, "1 would not dare To take him from her bedside prayer. Then stole we softly up above, And knelt by Mary, child of love. "Perhaps for her 'twould better .be. I said to John. Quite silently He lifted up a curl that lav Across her cheek in wilful way, And shook his head; "Nay, Love, not thee." The while m - eart beat audibly. Only o ore, our eldest lad y and truthful, good and glad. So like his father. "No, John, no: I cannot, will not, let him go." And so we wrote in courteous way, We could not give one child away. And afterward toil lighter seemed, Thinking 'of that of which we dreamed. Happy in truth that not one face 'Was missed from its accustomed place: Thankfnl to work for all the seven, - Trusting the rest to One in Heaven. THE COTTON OUTLOOK. High Prices are Predicted Even With a Large Crop. In conversation on Thursday with a Reporter of The State Mr. T. H. Wannamaker, one of the largest cot con dealers in tils State made the fol lowing prediction in reference to the cotton outlook: "One peculiarity about the cotton business is that by mutual consent all the men who are en gaged in it, are permitted to enter tain positive convictions and to ex press their views quite emphatically on all occasions, and should one's judgment prove wrong ten times to one that it is right, everybody 1s ex *pected to see the correct guess, and never mention the prophecies that failed to materalize. "You have of course forgotten those bearish views expressed by me list fall, and I now rise to remark that the developments in the cotton trade the present season have aston ished everyone.I "Had it been admitted in the early part of the season that the crop wrould approximate 11,000,000 bales, it would have been conceded without argument, that 9 cents would be a -full price for cotton. We know that the crop will fall very little short of '11,000,000, if it does not exceed it, yet the consumption has been on such an enormous scale that we practi cally have a famine, and strict mid dling cotton is easily worth 13 1-2 cents, in spite of the fact that mil lions of spindles are idle, as the re sult of short supplies. This condition makes the progress of the growing ci-op of supreme interest to dealers and'spinners alike. There must be a fileld of eleven and a half million bales of cotton in the minimum, or a con - inued curtailment of consumption.1 *ift prices are to be kept within reason able bound's the coming season. '"The acreage is the largest on re cord by probably, 3 to 4 per cent. and the consumption of fertilizers is also greater than ever before. Abnor mally low temperature and excessive . rains throughout the belt, were very unfavorable for cotton up to about the middle of June. Since that time hiowever, the conditions have been quite favorable, and with continued good seasons and a late fail, a large crop mnay reasonably be expected. The crop however is one to three weeks late through the entire belt. and the chances rather favor .a mod erate yield. The crop is now passing through a most critical period, and the next six weeks will largely deter mine the yield. We must have plen kV of moisture through the month of August, and should drought develop over any extensive area, there would b3 a sensational advance in the newt crop months." A conressed Murderer. Harman Truman Coates, who was committed to jail at Richmond, Va.,~ for 10 days for drunkenness and who h is been wandering in the south for over a year, has confessed to the po lice authorities that he Is a murderer. The crime, according to his confession was committed at Spring Valley. N. Y., May 19, 1902, and the victim was Louis Hull of that town. A telegram from Spring Vailey received today e .niirms the story. Coates says h w s born in Patterson. N. .J. H e posed a~s an umbreiia mender while here. Lightning struck S..i. Walters aw, mill near Grand Bay. Ala.. Tuesday~ afternoon, causing the ) siler to ex plode. William Carter. Alfred W~ashi ington and Lewi:; Johnson, negroes, were killed. Calvin Forte. wvhite was~ badly scalded anid will die. T( wo ther white men were less seriously injured. T HE STATE FAIR. Let Ev'rybody Heip to Make it . A GNi- a Snt a tre'k hatve beent in S *. T he farmers of the a ~:t-- are ta:diio a aret interest in *I' -rock a:;d poult rv exhibitions and i :ll wlint l be ~ a fll one. t he r:i l colitte is determined ti at hIr. trC at tLhe Fair will not )' the ea.'- Colm[bia is particula: e: v interl eted in horse ilesh just no- it in1 the autoek at the Fair grounds o :.sre to be full tiIs year when the a >nies are ready to run. Lo There will be no carnival this year s ;v the Elks, as the rule of the great ii rder now forbids such festivity, but h!e Chamber of Commerce will en- il liavor to arrange an attraction and ;treet show that will eclipse the (ne of t ast year. There will be side shows. v tree band concerts. a floral parade. a f onfetti battle, and a handsome ball. i: rhe State ball will be of course, the oremier social event of the week, but c there are already proposed several pri- t ate entertainments of an extensive c nature. The students of the South i Carolina College will give a german s nd there will he a cotillion also. ' The secretary will open his ofice in a Columbia on the first Monday preced- h ing the Fair and will he ready to re- s cord all entries. This year the gates a ill be opened at 9 a. m. and the 1 uilding will h closed at 5 in the af ternoon, thus diverting the attention c f the crowds to the street shows in i he heart of the city.1 All exhibits must be on the grounds An or before the 2th of Octoner. The f society will refund all freight charges e paid by exhibitors living in the State, I )n exhibits raised or produced in South p Carolina, provided such exhibits are t ;hipped at the lowest reduced rate t tnd prepaid. t The Southern Express company, i: from points within its territory, will t :harge for fancy poultry and pet stock v :ouble merchandise rates, which must v be prepaid. If the certificate of the r secretary is obtained that the same has been on exhibition. no charge will a be made for return to original ship- o ping paint. All exhibits sent by freight or ex- t press must be prepaid and plainly i. marked "Secretary St-ate Fair, Columi- p bia, S. C.," and in addition must have c the shipper's name and address on j them to insure their return. Unless c :hese instructions are compiled with f :he society will not undertake to re turn the exhibits. Immediately after T ;hipping the exnibits notify the secre Jary and send him the bill of lading r express receipts, that all exhibits I nay be looked after with the transpor :ation companies. The otlicers of the Fair association 'or 1903 are: P 'residYnt--R. P. Ilamner, Jr.. Ila- S ner. I President Pro Tem--.J. Wash Watts, f Iountville Vice Presidents-A.T. Smy'the. Firsta ongressional district, Charleston: It. t B. Watson, Second congressional dis- c ~rict~tidge Spring:T. S. Kinard, Third lj :ongressional district, Ninety-Six: .J. ~ash Watts. Fourth congressional cant, Fif1th conigrressional distriet, hester: B. F. Williamson, Sixth con rressional district, Darli ngton: G. A.a ~uignard, Seventh congressional dis ~rict, Columbia. i Executive Committee- -M. L. Don Ldson. Greenville: A. Porter Hlaskell, - Clumbia: John D. W. Watts, Lau-S ens: J. E. Wannamaker. St. Mat thews; J. F. Mobley, Winnsboro; 1re ill Jones. Rock Hill: W. G. Hlinson, Charleston: J. J. Browning, Sedalia; R. M. Pegues, Cheraw: C. F. Moore, Bennettsville: JI. II. Wharton, Water- e oo: D. F. Eiird, Lexington; J. W. S Dreher, Lewiedale. Secretary-A. W. Love, Chester. Assistant Secretary-J. M. Cantey,I Columbia. Treasurer-A. Gamewell LaMotte, Columbia. General Superintendent. - D. F. c fird, Lexington.-The State. g HERE'S HOW TO KISS. u t t An Alleged Expert's Instruction to 1 Those of Less Practice. t Thousands upon thousands of welli educated people go through life and t never learn the art of kissing, an ac- e complishment in our experience worth c more than all the learning of the s .reat Sanhedrim. Very true, people d so extract some pleasure out of a kiss, e but they never feel that blissful rap-i ure that tingles and dances along t very nerve from the medulla oblon- t ata to the very terminal of the great c sciatic. t Every son of fallen humanityshouldi c feel and know the ecstatic joy. The s following rule is freely given to all those who have blundered over a sim- r plc little kiss. It is absurd to think how few people perform kissing correctly. t All men of sentiment read carefully: j: It makes not a particle of dill'erence vheter your girl is young or old, r: Lomely or beautiful. low or tall, thick i Jr thin, the only absolute requisite is c ove. To make the kiss a success she a must lend a helping hand and noti odge, or squeal as if she objected.i Not a word must be spok-en. Nevery e in a- hurry-haste mars everything. i Put your right arm over her-left houder and clasp her right hand with your left. The right arm must iow slide slowly down her back to aer waiste-but don't be in a hurry. Send a little thrill down your arm, mrtd press her closs to your heart. c Look lovingly into her eyes and bend ~ our head till your lips almost touch jI1 :is-till you feel her soft balmy d breath. Let your mustache sweep ( lightly across her lips by way of pre- t liminary-but do not hurry'. Aim I fairly and hit squarely. Let the four l lips come softly together and smack, so to speak, into the sweetest homo - r geneousness. Look terlervy into her 1: uptured eyes while everyv tend~on,. s muscle and uerve quivers with delight t ad fancy bathes her plumage ini a 1 sea of bliss and soars through an at - misphere redolent If joy where every passion and appetite inheriited in A dam's fail is retined and puritied and all is swallowed up in love-and y'ou a are a natural horn idiot if vou hurry c now. -Johnnie (G., in The Athenian. I A wvell wisher is (Inc wihl invests s his c'oi o in o1li Ianrds. The less wit a man has the more thers many appreciate it. t The wil i the people disinherits a good mny candidat-s. Eve's fondness for apples was a mighty good thing for tailors and t A BOY LED ASTRAY. te Sa! Srcry of Young South; Caro rian in Georala. A man named Cleveland :ci- from this state lies in the jail ;p)tal in Atlanta dan t:iy n as a' result of :U! a to b a drug store ,:ay or s a. rod and a professitnal er'ok namecd chifldt were seen to enter the store rd the proprietor tired upon them, ounding Wood severely. Schmidt rid Wood were both taken to ,jail and .e latter':; father, who lives in Edge eCld. read ef the affair in the papers. ir. Wood is a poor man, having even children, and has a hard time making ends meet, but the ladies Atlanta hearing of his condition, ad feeling sorry for the boy who has een led a;:rav, have interested them lves and will endeavor to keep the uy out of the penitentiary. The .tanta Constitution of Wednesday i speaking of Mr. Wood's visit says: When the story of L. E. Wood's rip to Atlanta to see his burglar son as read sympathy for the distressed Itlier caused several ladies to take an iterest in the case and they will assist Food in his elforts to get his son out f trouble and take him back to his ome in South Carolina. The ladies alled at the tower Wednesday morn ig and were present when father and n met. The jailor states that when ood saw his son, wounoed and ill nd lying across a cot in the Tower ospital, and knew that he had been lot down as a criminal and was held s a felon, he broke down and wept ke a child. "My son, my poor boy." he cried ut. "was it for this that I held you a my arms when you were a babe and )oked after you all these years?" The prisoner turned his face away rom his grief-stricken parent, and his yes, too, were filled with tears. The idies who went to the Tower and romised Wood to do what they could D help bim keep his son from a long rm in the penitentiary, stated that hey did not wish to be placed in the ght of persons trying to thwart jus ice.but believing young Wood was the ictim of an outlaw and a crook, they anted him to be given a chance to eform. "It is for the sake of his old father nd mother that we have interested urselves in the case," they said, "and re believe that boy, if given a chance return home, will never be caught i such a scrape again." Wood is a oor man and has a family of eleven hildren. He has very little money, ut says lie will spend the last cent he an raise on earth to keep his son _om becoming a convict. BACCO FARMERS DESPONDENT niess Prices Improve Many Will Drop Its Cultivation. The Florence Limes says the pre mt condition in the tobacco market as greatly depressed the tobacco Lrers, and it is not to be wondered t. If reports from other towns are > be relied on few if any market ex pt Florence has more than one uyer, the representative of the .mericani Tobacco company. Flor. ce has her usual crops, but prices ere are nothing like what they were ist year, which wvas a phenominal ear. Last year, when tobacco was t the h'ighest it had ever been known ithis section speculators laid in large ocks which they cannot now unload. 'le pric~es this year really offer peculators a good chance, but having en burned last year they keep their ngers off of it. The Dillion '.orres endent of the Columbia State writ ag his paper says: The St?4'p'.. stalt orrespondent in a letter fron.Mullins uhocs the sentiment oQ. this entire action. Tobacco growgrs are simply aralyzed. A single, instance will Istrate: A gentlemen who was in arested in three barns of tobacco that ere -sold by his tenants here on last 'uesday told your correspondent that he harvesting, curing and marketing the lot of tobacco cost $30. The et proceeds from the sale were $27, iving notuing for land rent, guano or time and labor expended during ie long hot days and nights required > make and harvest the crop. The igh prices of last season induced any experienced farmers to try a ar or two: others increased their creage'. a few, very few secretly let severely alone, when they saw that he market would practically be under ontrol the next season of the A meri an Tooacco company and it will be ery hard if not impossible to in c such men to plant another hill f tobacoo. One such lesson as is now 2 evidence is enough. With prices hat wo'uld pay for the cultivation or baco had become an important in ustry, it gave protitable employment thousand besides putting into cir ula-tion a large volume or cash at a ason when without it money has *een conspicuous for its absence. The sult will be a return to the old tand by-cotton-which snaps its gers at trusts and combines and as so far defeated every attempt to corner it," and besides it's the lazy ian's crop. IIe can plant it any time rom March to June, go in the field casionally and look at it promising working next week go fishing, hunt ag or frolicing then knocked about Sa little and in spite of it all, it elds more than lhe generally gathers by Christ mas. The Toy Pistol Pest. Chicago has taken up in earnest the ery important question of toy pistols. Ln ordinance is pending in the coun il of that city which is intended to lop the use and sale of the pestiferous ttle weapon by means of which hun reds of boys are killed every year. In hicago about 15 deaths caused by y pistols have taken place since the 'ourth of July, and others will doubt ss follow in Pittsburg about half as 1anv victims have perished in this ian'nr In the small city of Wilkes arre, in the anthracite coal regior, ix fatal cases of lockjaw have beert raced to this summer's crop.-af toy istl wounds. Cincinnati an:l Cleve md have had the same expeerice., nd sc. it goes through the country. s the toy pistols do no good any dere. there oughtt to be- no doubt out the passage of the pending Chii ago ordinance or the enactment of ke legislation in other places. .At est the pistols are a publtie nuisance, ~d at worst they cause terrible de trueon of life. Hoys who die of 'ckjaw are in agony long before the id of the deadly disease. Many of hem are bright and promising lads, nd their lives are well worth saving. Harsh measures are not always best -as the woman who m?arries a man u reform him is apt to. discover to A Financial Problem. It is stated that the President wi' call an early session of congress in Nc vember to discuss and if p'.ssible sc tle the inancial question. The Presi dent has been confabbing -with the uromvinient mermbers of h party for 'ths seeking a lution for a 2eS- i ton. hic i wet have been told thous andis of times was settled by the last 1 two presidential elections. When Mr. W. J.. Uryan declared that the coun- V try needed more money to conduct 1 the business of the country, the Re- 1 publican party and their allies, the gold bug Democrats, insisted that the 1 country was abundantly supplied with s money for all needful purposes. Now ii President Roosevelt and the leading b Republican politicians and papers aie a clamoring for a more elastic currency t to conduct the business of the coun- ? try. The main question to be de cided is whether the government or d the banks shall issue the new curren- ti cy. Those who seem to be posted on b Republican politics says there will be a a great battle over the matter, but we f will wager a last year's bird's nest t that the banks will win, and will be t given the right of managing the finan- c ces of this great country. 0 In commenting on this demand on the part of Republican politicians for s more money, Mr. Bryan in The Com- 1 moner well says: "It is less than seven r years since we were told, in the cam- 1 paign of 1896, that we had plenty of f money in the country and did not t need any more. Since that time the a volume o1 money has been increased a over five hundred millions, and yet money is still so scarce that the finan- f ciers insist upon the loaning of all sur- t plus money to the banks in order to a keep business going-this, in addition V to the asset currency defended by the same arguments." S Speaking on the same line a Ne- 1 braska banker says: "The silver dol- if lar which we condemned had nearly 9 fifty cents' worth of silver in it, but a the asset currency which they pro pose may be absolutely worthless. I1 left the Democratic party to protect 1 the country from bad money. Is the t Republican party going to reward me e with an asset currency, which is in- c finitely worse than silver?" This y banker evidently thinks that he has a been the victim of misplaced confi- t dence, and is honest enough to confess t it. The Augusta Chronicle says: Mean- t while, the undigested and indigestible t securities are in dry dock and the t shrinkage of Wall street securities is estimated at over one billion of dol lars, on the stock exchange. The New York merchants, hotel-keepers, champagne dealers, jewelers, art sa loon proprietors and captains of lu3-. ury are bewailing the forced economy of brokers' speculations and the s e~ly bitten rich, who spend freely whenlthe I goose honks high. The money qpes tion evidently is never settled.. Like 1 the poor, it is always with us.. Presi dent Roosevelt may be monkeying with a buzz-saw." Stick to the Doctors: Medical Talk, a monthly publica tion of Columbus, Ohio, is inaking a hot fight on the doctors. We do not know what the. circulation of the journal is but ithas every appearance of enjoying -Marge patronage and in ruence. Its~object, as stated in cin editorial ima recent issu~e is to give1 the peope-instruction in hygiene ald medicine and keep them from allow ing the doctors to make victims of thr:in experimental ways. It seems tha~ the object is also . to encourage: thie use of patent medicines and dis-1 iourage the employment of physici ans. Hecre is an extract from one of its editorials: "There are many urgent ]~ reasons why the people ought to know what the doctors are doing. 4 They ought to know all about it. U.n like the lawyers and artists and chem-1 ists, the doctors are asking for legis lation that vitally affects the home. I The day is past when the people can 1 afford to ignore what the doctors arei talking about and trying to do. The doctors are asking for laws which will give them authority to enter the home andi compel the people to submit to1 surgical operations to take medicine that they are unwilling to use. The doctors are asking for laws whicb would refuse burial to people who died < ander the treatmentiof certain schools 4 or physicians until the services of the] coroner have been called upon. The doctors are asking for Jaws which i make it ditlicult, if not impossible for people to obtain proprietory remedies in which they have learned to have confidence. In fact the doctor has entered the home forcibly and is un dertaking to do by legislative enact ment what he has found himself un abe to accomplish by winning the couidence of the people. The regular college made doctor has failed to con vince the people that he is any better able to combat diseases than many peoble who have not been to college." The Florence Timies says: "there can be nothing in the world more vi cious or dangerous than people trying to doctor themselves and their fami lies with drugs the composition of which they know nothing and the af feet of which is the riskiest experi meit that could be tried. We do not condemn patent or proprietory medi cines, but we do think that they should be used with caution and only when somebody else in whom one can have confidence has experimented with them and learned their effects. Te country is tiooded with proprie tory medicines of all sorts. Those which establish themselves and win the confidence of the people have doz ens of immitations which are often pahned off orn the unwary. It would surprise the average citizen to know ow many patent medicine tiends there were through the country, peo pie who rui their health by pouring all kinds of new drugs into their sys temi. There is but one safe way to fuse drugs and that is under the di rection of som~ebody who knows." If you are sick mhe surest and only safe way is to stiek to the. doctors. They have been with us for Io these many years., -aud while, like the balance of us, they da not know everything, they are mighty handy to have about when our loved ones are sick. IMills Shut Down. A dispatch from Whittinsville. Mass., says a large part of the cotton1 mnufrcturing industry in that see tion will suspend operations on Aug. t for one week with the cutlook point ing to further gradual curtailment in several mills after resumption of vw.ori on Aug. 10. Notices announcingth :sbut-down wore posted by four of the largest companies Thursday. It is thought the decision to close was in accordance with an agreement among ~certain of the New EnTgland mills treasurers to decrease the production during August on account of the KILLS mESELF. Prominent Aliken County Fae Takes His Own Life. A dispatch from Aiken to The State .ys. Mr. Arthur W. Uushmian shot rid killed himself at his houn, eight iles nortneast of Aiken, 'ri lay orning at 3 o'clock. Mr. Cushmnan .as one of the most prominent men Aiken county and had hosts of lends throughout the State. He ,as a member of the legislature from 698 to 1900 and was a candidate for ierifi of Aiken county in 1900. Be ig defeated in this race he moved is family to Texas, where he lived bout. nine months and then returned > his home county, where he has been Irming ever since. Mr. Cushman has been very despon ent for some time owing to several nancial reverses. He was very am itious and could not bear defeat in ny manner. His family have known r some time that he was continually rooding over either real or imaginary roubles and they have watched him lsely and kept all tire arms, etc., t of his way. Thursday one of Mr. Cushman's >ns went hunting and on returning ft his gun in his room. Friday corning Mr. Cuslanan locked himself l the room and wrote a note to his imily, giving instructions as o his urial, and placi.ng the shotgun gainst his heart pulled the trigger nd killed himself' instantly. Mr. Cushman has been very success 1 with his farm and all thought iat his worries would case. He was man 51 pears of age, liked by all rho knew him, and by his death .iken county has lost one of her Launchest citizens. Mr. Cushman ayes a wife, three daughters and >ur sons, who axe all prostrated with rief at the trag c death of the kind nd loving husband and father. Mr. Cushman had threatened to kill imself two weeks ago. At this time e stated that there was nothing else > do. His contidant and friend talk d to him at.the time and tried to en ourage him, telling him that there as no need to do violence to himself s he was doing well and could get all he financial aid he needed. - It was bought then that Mr. Cushman had een dissuaded from his purpose, but he result Friday morning shows that he idea of self-destruction had taken >oo. rm a hold upon his mind. LIQUOR SEIZED. ar Woad of Stufr Taken Charge of by Officers. A special from Columbia to the Au sta Chronicle says: revenue ofticers ere seized a carload of corn whiskey aturday afternoon believed to have een assigned to, a local dealer. The izure was made on request of the ollector of internal revenue of Geor ia and will be held until an investi ation now being made is completed. 'he .stutt passed through here some ime ago being consigned from Spen er, N. C., to Savannah, Ga., which is he way local dealers work, making he shipment interstate and safe from he hands of the constables. The con tables, however, got busy with the nternal revenue otlice in Georgia and when. the car came back Saturday the evenuie ollice here was requested by :he Georgia otlice to -hold the car. 'he dealer here finding the ear vratched so closely had it billed to marlotte, N. C., but the t rain was ;topped at Blanding street station and be car seized. It contained 165 kegs ~ach holding 4 ~7-8 gallons of corn thiskey valued at about $1.50 a gal on. The revenue otticers here will old: it until- the ollicers at Spencer, . C., where the car originated, as erain whether the government tax s paid or not and if not it will be con iscated. If it has been paid the stuff ,ill be released, as the government ias nothing to~ do with the state's w. Meanwhile the constables will t lose sight of the car a-s long as it in this state and the local dealer is iimpy out a carload of whiskey, onstable Careton this morning re ,orted to Chief Hammett that he had eized the distillery run by .. D. Stan el in Pickens county and about 600 allons of whiskey. Stansell was ~aught taking whiskey from the gov ~rnment warehouse for illegal pur oses and as the government gauger iolated the law in letting him have t, he will be prosecuted by the United tates government. JNCINGS NIORTE ANTD SDUT H tatistics that~ Show the H~abit Is Spreading in the North. The New York World prints statis ics which sho)w an increase of lynch ngs in the North and a decrease in he South. Lynchings for seven months of 1803: 3-white 6, colored 47: .North 9, south 44. Lynchings in 1902: 96-white 9, ~olored 87 (1 woman): North 9, South The Northern lynchtings of [903 are: January 1-Andy Clark, colored, Ueeper, Mo. A pril 15-Thomas Gilyard, colored, Foplin, Mo. A pril 26-Unknown colored, Thebs May 3i-W. J. Moneyham, white, ~arruthers, Mo. May 3-D. M. Malone. white Car unthers, Mo. June 6-D~avid F. Wyatt, colored, Belville, Ill. June 19-John ]Brown, white, Bad Uands, Mo. July 25--John Metcalf, colored, Danville. 1ll. .July 25-Jamies Wilson, colored, Danville. Ill. LYNCHIN~s IN TEN YEAI1s. S93.......................200 ~94....................... 194 85........ .............. 191 S97.................. . 8........ ................107 [900.............. ........ J15 90 (seven months)... .......... 52 Killed by Liahtningm. A special dispatch to Tue :state from ipaitanburg says: During a violent hiuner storm here Tuesday evenilg buut 8.30 o'clock Mr. Tillmnan D~uncan vas instantly killed by a stroke of ighting. Mr. Duncan was at his, ome in the western part of the city. Ie had just finished eating supper,. nd had started to rise from the table.. ven thxe lightning struck the window tud he was hurled to the lioor, i~e vas dead when he was reached by Drs. eonard and Cudid. Mr. Duncan's nother, who was at the table with. m was terribly shocked, but escaped vithout serious injury. Mr. D~uncanl GEINERAL NEWS NOTES. ten Gathered from Various Saurces by the Newbery Observer. A specialist, after examining him, leclares that the oldest son of King Eter of Servia is a degenerate. Mrs. Sylvia Landon Dunham of southington, Conn., celebrated her 103d birthday with a party on Mon Jay. Three boys and a girl were drowned by the upsetting of a boat in the aileghany river near Pittsburg, Pa., )n Tuesday. One hundred and twelve new cases >f typhoid fever have been orlicially reported to the health bureau at Pittsburg, Pa., in a week. Martin Ebelt of Mouut Vernon, nd., was arrested on Monday on the charge of murdering his wife. He has confessed. Thirteen persons were killed and a score were injured in a railroad acci dent at Glasgow, Scotland, on Mon day. It was an excursion train. Mrs. Prince Odum of Hattiesburg, Miss., shot her brother John Rich four times on Monday, killing him. The tragedy grew out of a family feud. A coroner's jury in Chicago on Sun day rendered a verdict that Miss Della Ackerman came to her death as the result of too tight lacing, causing blood poisoning. Mrs. Chas. H. Delauney of Sharps burg, Md,, was burned to death on Sunday in trying to start a fire in the stove with kerosene oil, pouring it from a can. Joshua Butler and his wife and baby were struck by the Black Diamond express while crossing the Lehigh Valley railroad near Wilkesbarre, Pa., on Sunday and all were instantly kill ed. Two more men have pleaded guilty of peonage in the United States court at Montgomery, Ala. James H. Todd and Anderson Hardy were sentenced on Monday to fines of $1,000 each for this offense. Kansas city, Mo., is suffering from an epidemic of typhoid fever. There are 300 cases in the city, 79 of them being in hospital, and there have been 20 deaths. The epidemic is attribut ed to the effects of the recent floods in the city. Dr. H. Nelson Jackson and his chauffeur reach New York city Sun day morning in an automobile from San Francisco, Cal., having crossed the continent in it since the 23d of May-the trip taking 63 days for the 6,000 miles, resting 19 days by the way Thirty-three women laborers in the district of Don, Russia, were burned to death on Saturday in a barn, where they had rested and locked themselves in to escape the molesta tion of the men. So says a St. Peters burg dispatch to the London Daily Mail. A cigarette manufacturing com pany of Woonsocket, R. I., has award ed a prize for 10,000 coupons to a 16 years-old boy, who smoked that num ber of cigarettes. The company in sending him the prize remarkel: "If you smoke 10,000 more you will win a coffin." The aged chief Geronimo and a doz en of his Apache warriors were bap tized at Guthrie, Okla., on Sunday by a Methodist minister. Geronimo was considered the most bloodthirsty Indian of his time when be was cap tured twenty years-ago by Gen. Miles ad Gen. Law ton. Augus.t for 32 Years. The following datascovering a peri od of 32 years, have been compiled from the Weather Bureau records at Charleston, South Carolina, month of August for 32 years. TEMPERATUEE. Mean or normal temperature, 81 de grees. The warmest month was that of 1900, with an average of 86 degrees. The coldest month was that of 1874, with an average of 78 degrees. The highest temperature was 100 degrees on August 4th, 1899. The lowest temperature was 62 de grees on August 10th, 1879. Average date on which first "kill ing" frost occurred in autum, Novem ber 30th. Average date on which last "kill ing" frost occurred in spring, March Average for the month, 7.22 inches. Average number of days with' .01 of an inch or more, 13. The greatest monthly precipitation was 19.18 inches in 1885. The least montly precipitation was 0.40 inches in 1900. The greatest amount of precipita tion recorded In any 24 consecutive hours was 5.89 inches on August 30th and 31st, 1885. CLOUDS AND WEATHER. Average number clear days, 8; part l cloudy days, 16; cloudy days, 7. The prevailing winds have been from the Southwest, 20 per cent. The highest velocity of the wind was 96 miles from the East on August 28th, 1893. Station: Charleston, S. 0. Date of issue: July 23, 19)3. L. N. Jesunofsky, ~.ocal Forecaster, Weather Bureau. A New Remedy. At Pasadena, Cal., Miss Alice Dane apparently a helpless cripple and de prisved of perfect speech for many years, has suddenly had the use of her imbs and vocal powers restored as the result of an accident. Miss Dane had s uffered from spinal trouble and had o bobble about on crutches and could carcely speak above a whisper. While ascending the stairs at her homei he fell and the last step struck against her chest. Immediately the pains from which she had suffered for many years left and being taken to a cuch and lying there for a while she got up and to the surprise of every one walked about without the aid of crutches. Many physicians had treat. ed the case unsuccessfully for years. Deadly Lightning Flash. At 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon three persons were killed and more than asc~ore injured by lightning at New Iope Church, Appomator Coun t, Va. The dead are: Paul Gowen, Charles Austin and Aubrey Winglield; while among the more seriously injur e arc: Eugene Turner, Nathaniel Morris, Tom Coleman and Napoleon Patterson. A meeting of the James Rver Baptist Association was in pro gess. and a large number of men too refuge under an awning, near the blding, when the storm came on. Ligbt~ning struck a tree in front of thh:awning, causing the disaster, and tiroing the great crowd on the gouds in to a pnic. That was a brutal murder over in Aikenst week. The man who com mitted it should have a speedy trial a nngingr SOME TRADE EACTS. Proportion of South American Com merce Held by United States. While Trade with Countries on Car ibbean Sea Is Fairly Satisfactory That with Countries Farther South Is Very Poor Indeed. The recent departure from Wash ingon of the special train carrying the United States and numerous other delegates to the approaching Pan-American conference to be heiu at the City of Mexico lends especial interest to some figures on the con merce of the United States with the territory at the south. which the treasury bureau of statistics has com piled for the convenience of the United States members of that con gress. The importance of develop ment of our commerce in this partie ular direction is pointed out by this publication, which shows that our exports have shown less growth to the countries of Central and South America than to any other parts oi the world. '"'he commerce of the United States with the American countrie2 lying south of her borders," say' the opening page of this discussiun "'has long been an object of solicitude to her statesmen, economists and business men. With the English speaking people of American terri tory lying upon the north her corn mercial relations have rapidly grown and proven mutually satisfactory With those of another language, oc cupying the contiguous territory at the south, the growth has been slow er and less satisfactory, and as the distance increases the growth de creases. To British North Americs the United States supplies 52 per cent of the total imports for consumption; to Mexico, equally adjacent, but speaking another language than ou own, 40 per cent.; to the Centra' American states, next removed by distance, though readily reached by water and now being tapped by rail ways, 35 per cent.; to Colombia, a trifle father removed, but equally ac cessible by direct water communica tion, 33 per cent.; to Venezuela equally accessible, 27 per cent.; t< the West Indies, which lie in close proximity, but whiich have been ul to the pesent time controlled b commercial nations whose policy it many cases has been to retain thei commerce fer their own people, 2t per cent.; to the Guianas, also readi ly reached by water, 25 per cent. o the imports of British Guiana, 1 per cent. of those of Dutch Guian: and but less than 6 per cent. of thos of French Guiana. "Up to this point the study of th, growth of commerce between th United States and other Americal countrie-s is fairly satisfactory. Be ginning with 52 per cent. of the im port trade of Canada, 40 per cent of that of Mlexico, and ranging down ward along the Gulf of Mexico an< Caribbean sea, a fairly satisfactor; share of the commerce of those coun tries is enjoyed by the people of th United States; though it will be con ceded that her people have a righ to expect a larger share of the com merce of thecountries lying so nea at hand. especially in view of the fac that our purchases from them ar much larurer than our sales to thenr Even this somewhat unsatisfactor; condition of trade with the countrie bordering upon t'he Gulf of Mexic and the Caribbean sea is, howeve: gratifying when compared with th traffic relations of the United State with the countries of South Americ bordering upon the Atlantic and Ps cific oceans. Of the total imports c all South America, 87 per cent. taken by the countries borderin upon the two oceans,. and but 13 pe cent. by those upon the Caribbear On t'he eastern coast of South Ame: ica we find Brazil importing in 189 goods to the. value-of over $105,000,00& of which the United States supplie about 10 per cent.; Uruguay and Pai agay, $26,000,000, of which our shar was less than 7 per. cent.; and A: gentine. $112,000,000, of which abou 10 per cent. was from the Unite States; while a tour of the Pacifi coast shows imports into Chili of $38 000,000, Peru $8,500,000, Bolivia S11 600,000 and Ecuador $7,000,000; th proportion from the United State averaging about 10 per cent.. Tht the northern coast of South Amerie: fronting on the Caribbean sea, in ports goods to the value of $'26,000 000. of which we supply an average< 25 per cent.; the eastern coast, fron ing upon the Atlantic, S275,000,00 and the Pacific coast, $80,000,000;< which our proportion is in each Cal about 10 per cent. Automobile Against a BulL The Biarritz, France, corresponi et of the New York Herald sayi Next Sunday there is to be a bu fight such as has never been see before. It will be a fight of an ai toobile against a bull. Mr. Henry Deutsch, whose Damei conncted with the prize for aerii navgati on, will prsd.Mr. Deutsc when interriewed concerning thi latest novel plan for demonstratin the merits of the automobile said "My opinion is that an automobil can be used instead of a mounte picador and if the picador is place on a swiftly revolving automobi] the sport might be immense. "I hold that with a capable chat feur the automobile could avoid th charges of the bull. My idea inall thi Is that as the revolting feature c bull fighting is the mutilation of th horse, this could be avoided by th use of an automobile " A PLUCKY WOMAN. Mrs. Sanders will Carry Out Railros contract of' Her Husband. The Spartanburg Journal say: Perhaps thbe pluckiest woman in this section is Mrs. Sanders, wife the railroad contractor, Earle Sande who was killed by an explosion whi excavating for a new railroad near I Follette, Tenn, last week. 31 Sanders, at the time of his death, w: at work upon a railroad contractC considerable importance, grading an excavating for a new line in Ea Tennessee. When the sad news of his deal reached the home near Cuoens tl young wife was almost prostrated, hi after the shock was over she began'1 regain herself and finally her wonde ful pluck has manifested itself in h determination to go to Tennessee at take up her husband's work whe he left it. Contractor Sanders, course, was under contract with ti railroad authorities to perform a ce tai amount of work and his plucl< wie wili nlow updertake to carry oi the contract. Mrs. Sanders le Wednesa fur Tennessee. TI !'Doing" Europe in Your Mind. According to a Cairo contemporary, persons who wish to let their friends know that they are "doing" Europe on a princely scale the while they are liv ing in retirement for a time need only apply to an agency in Paris, which Will undertake to send your letters to prac tically any place in Europe you may s: leet and there to have them posted for you on a: date you may choose. The demand for such an institution arose out of the absolute horror the Parisian of "high life" has of being suspected of remaining in Paris or its environs in the bathing season. One feature of thy, joke is that you can not only get your letters posted from some distant spot, but you can get answers received for you and reposted to your temporary hid ing place. There are great possibilities for American travelers in this. Why not stay in America and "do" Europe? -New York Tribune. Insurance Har Its Humor. An enterprising insurance agent in duced an Irishman to take out an acci dent policy for his wife. A few days later while conversing with a friend in his otice he was startled to see the Irishman rush in, brandishing fiercely . a stout cane. "Ye rascal!" he yelled, springing to ward the agent "Ye wanter cheat me?" Fortunately the enraged man was disarmed and held fast by the agent's friend, who was a powerfully built man. The Irishman, struggling to get free, shouted: "Let me git at the spalpeen! Think ov it, chargin' me foive dollars fer an aeshident ticket fer me ole woman, an' she jest broke her leg a-fallin' down shtairs! Wot's the good of the ticket anyhow?' Male Blashers. One- of the most ill founded of all popular delusions is that blushing is the special characteristic of the fenmal' sex. As a matter of fact. except in th., case of very young girls, men blush far more readily than women. The well bred woman never blushes at all, while it is a matter of everyday experience that in the excitement of business or political discussions men's cheeks red den with very little provocation- What ever may have been the case a hun dred years ago, the modern- woman shows her emotion not by blushing, but by turning pale.-Londou Tatler. Mathematics of Love. "Margaret," he began, "I have $3,750 in the -bank. I own half interest in a patent churn company that clears $1, 700 a year. My salary is $20 a week, with prospects of a raise to $22. I have an aunt who will leave me twenty-sev en shares of a railway stock now quot ed at 53. Tell me, Margaret, will yoU be mine?" "Wait," she replied, "till I get a pen For she never had been good at men tal arithmetic.-Newark News. The Baths of Caraala. The Romans appear to nave been well off in the matter of bathing places. In the first and second centuries. In the baths of Caracalla 1,600 bathers could be accommodated at one time. The inclosed area was 360 squate tyards, but It included a course for foot racing. The bathing establishment was' S240 yards In length by 124 wide. The' remains of the walsre 8andl10feet ethick and in some places as much as 50' feet high. _______ N ot Borrowing Trouble. S"Remember," said the college presi Sdent, who was trying to raise funds,. ,"that the man who dies rich dies dis egraced." s"What of It?" answered the man who' awas trying to reach the $200,000,000 mark. "The public always forgives a: fman .after he's dead. anyway."-Chi cago Record-Herald. r His Sort. ~"What kind of tobacco do you smoke Rivers?" asked the friend who ha& dropped in. )Rivers hesitated a moment d"As a rule," said Brooks, coming to' his relief, "he smokes cut plug, except ewhen I run out of it and. happen to. have some other kind in my desk." t Scranton Republican. C An Easy Mark. Willie Softeleigh-I was quite Ill aft-. er that -poker game last night; very Ill, in fact. But I feel much easier this Smorning. SJack Sharpe-You're mistaken, my boy. It is simply impossible for you to be any easi'er 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 thie Kentuekians when they come to New York. It grieves them to see so much water.:-Yonkers Statesman. LI Youthful Flatterer. Mr. Brighton has a faint streak of down on his upper lip. "When I get to be a man, papa," said. his little four-year-old. "I'm going to have a great big mustache 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. Bad Literature. CPhilanthropist-You say bad litera ture brought you here? What made you read It? eConvict--I didn't-I wrote It I wuz a poet an' had ter steal ter keep from starvin'.-Judge. family is well known in the Cowpens. section where they have lived for dquiet awhile. The pluck of the young widow, however, is something :remarkable and with the indomitable' 1will which she has already shown she' will surely succeed in her work. rsReflections of a Bacnelor. IReady-made love is soldom ever a good fit. rThe consuming passing of numnanity ISif self indulgence. ~fWhen we say we believe in a good, oldfashioned hell, we mean for other people. No man's income is ever big enough: to satisfy his relatives and friends. C who want to spend it for him. iA woman likes to have her husband >o sick abed. so he will be glad he is mar r- ied to some one who loves him enough r to make things fur him to eat that he i hates. re All is not shape that squeezes. Lii The woman who plays with fire at C twenty is kept busy putting salve on. r- her burns at forty. :Most men could earn more money t by driving a street car than they ex tpect to get waiting for rich relatives