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i~'ft re l-j rt! f:.!p 1V r~ Zz L Anti hits to s, if push ag.i'be ciod TrUdt ie in God3. Ther i5 no umbelief! Whoever says the' e oute arE iii U6 sky, "Be patient, hlert. iigh t Bika'eth bN and by," Trusts the Most High. There is no unbelief' Whoever sees 'neatft winter's tield o snow The silent harvest of the future grow God's p6wer must know. There is no unbeiief: Whoever lies down on his couch ti sleep. tIitent to lock each sense in sliumbe! deep. Knows God will keep There is no unbelief: Whoever says. "Tomorrow," "the un known." "The future," trusts that power alon( Ile dares disown. There is no unbelief: The heart that looks on when dear eye lids close, And dares to live when life has onl. woes, G6d's comfort knows. There is no unbelief' For thus by day and night uncon sciously, The heart lives by that faith the lip: deny, God knoweth why, -Lizzie York Case. BEGGARS DESCRIPTION. Corpees in the Street Being Eaten b: Dogs and Hogs. The once beautiful city of Krus chevo is a heap of ruins. The womer and children are homeless, exposed t< the weather and famine. The town i! rendered uninhabitable by the odor o corpses which are being gnawed b3 dogs and pigs, the Turkish authoritie refusing to allow them to be rescuec under the pretext that an inquest wil be held. Aug. 2, the day fixed for the Bul garian attack on Kruschevo, a band o: 300 insurgents, headed by Patroff, en tered the town, discharging thei: ritles. The territied inhabitants re mained in door. The band first burn ed the residence of the mudir an< massacred the garrison of Turkishsol diers and the otficials of the town, bu the invaders spared the Turkisl harems. On the following morning the*6m itajis established a provisionakgovern ment and established 'ee and , municipality. The -illed 10 Chris tians who they eved had betrayet the plans of t committee. The no tables of e towns were compelled t< coatri $10,000 to the revolution ary fund. The Turks, informed of the captur of the town, sent from Perlepe threi squadrons of. calvary which were at tacked en route and compelled to re tire with a loss of 100 killed. O Aug. 13 the Turks concentrated sevet battalions and one battery at Kuc ev.They made an offer to the Kom itajis to allow the women and cili dren to have the town. This pro posal was-declined and the bombard ment began. Th~e Komitajis quickly abandone< the town and escaped to the neigh boring forest, where pursuit was im possible. The Turks entered tb town, and guided by Turkish villager: from the neighborhood. attacked thi houses of the Greek notables and or dered the inmates to be searched an< stripped. They seized the money an< jewels and ravished the women, thos who resisted being immediately killed A Greek priest who sought to protec his daughter was killed. The girl'; ear rings were torn out and her han< was chopped off to secure a bracelet. When .the houses had been pillage< the Turkish peasants loaded thei horses with whatever the soldiers lef and the residences were burned. Th sack of Krushchevo lasted three days * during which time the women and children remained without food an< shelter and at the mercy of the sol diers and the bashi bazouks. Pointed Paragraphs. Male gossips are the worst of th< breed. Dirty streets ad dirty politics ar4 twain evils. The thread of a love story usualll winds up with a tie. ~Shads should be pretty sure of any thing they feel in their bones. Mustard plasters come under thi head of drawing instruments. A man dosen't necessarily lead dog's life because his wife pets him. -When an individul minds his owr business he is one kind of monopolist. Too many men waste valuable tim( talking about the things they are go ng to do. Occasionally women make fools o1 men, but they are not responsible foi all the fools. Don't think because a man is tak ing lessons on the harp that he doesn'1 expect to live much longer. A hen's teeth are almost as scarc< as are the people who worry them selves to death because they are shs of wisdom. When a rich old man marries a young wife and expects her to keel hisi memory green later on he is th< viccim of a homemade green-goods *game. A ilstressing Accident. A dispatch from Greenville to The State says while alighting from th< down Southern train here Friday at noon Prof. Frank T. Dargadn of Green ville fell and had his right foot s< badly crushed that it had to be ampu tated. He was on his way here ti visit his sister, Mrs. H. L. Watson and also his mother, who lives witi Mrs. Watson. In a few day he ex pected to go to Cornell university Ithaca, N. Y., where he had just beet elected to an important position as at assistant professor of physics. Foi some time he has been a member os the Clemson faculty, but had decidec to give that up and had accepted the position offered him at Cornell. Im mediately after the accident he waf removed to the bonae of his sister or Church street, where the crushed lint was ambutated below the knee. Be side a flesh wound on his face there was no other injury. A Funny Case. Count Fraz Joseph Maria Vor Larisch-Monnich of Berlin. Germany bas been sued for $50,000 by a firm o1 marriage brokers. These brokers fur nished the count with money to pay his addresses to Miss Faber, daughtc of the millionaire pencil-muanufact, he giving his note for $50,000 if hi married her. Hie did not get her, but got another rich American, Miss Marie Satterlas, of Titusville. Pa. Wall gtiei Geiators fi'on SiCRvTARV WILSON'S ATTACK. T ,he <pe atto' s iiave Done More ror the Produicers thani the De partiient ot' Agriculture C Ever Did. n While in New York recently Gen- V eral 1. C. Butler, of this State; was1 asked by a Sun reporter if he had seen 1 a statement from Secretary Wilson of s 1 the agricultural department concern- d ing the advance in the price of cotton and containing some severe criticisms is upon the men who lately have been operating in the cotton market. The secretary of agriculture aid not besi- 0 tate to characterize them as gamblers s and t severely criticise them as such. "Yes. I have seen what was said to n have been the expression of Secretary a Wilson," said Gen. Butler, "and I N must think that he spoke without c correct information. Indeed I am il bound to say that he seemed not to N know what he was talking about. The gentlemen to whom he refers as gam- c blers, Messrs. Brown and Hayne, are t not only among the most reputable u business men in the country, but are t gentlemen of the highest character. ii One of them. Mr. layne, is from my own State. and I think he will stand t fair comparis-m. as will Mr. Brown p from Mississippi, with Secretary Wil- e son or anybody in olicial or business s life. I must say I was surprised at S what appeared to me to be a very t reekless charge, one which was not i: justified by the facts. a "Tbe fact is that Messrs. Brown t and Hayne have done more for the f producers of cotton, the farmers, in a few months than the department of agriculture has done in 10 years., s was somewhat surprised at Secretary i: Wilson, for he did not appear to get t into a frenzy of indignation when cer- c tain other gentlemen in the west were o making a 'corne on wheat and corn, 0 which. enhanced the value of these V two commodities, and from which the 0 -armners got the benefit. c "The secretary seems to be particu larly concerned about the operators and the cotton mills; that the cotton mills have had to shut down and put out of employment a large number of employes. and that therefore it's a great wrong upon the cotton mills. S Now in regard to that, Messrs. Brown and Hayne simply bought cotton from a the bears in the cotton market and re quired them to deliver the cotton. y and, of course, the prices went up. & "As a rule the managers of the cot ton mills ali over the country are e bears and sympathize with the bear s -operators. Very naturally, their in terest is to lower the price of the raw material, and they heeded the repre sentations made by the bear opera -tors, exaggerated the last crop of cot ton and failed to provide themselves - Iwith the raw materal to keep their mills going. That is all there is in -that." "Can you say anything with refer ence to the profits in manufacturing 1, cotton cloth fro~n the raw cotton'?" r "Well, only in a very general way. A friend of mine who is largely inter ested in the manufacture of cotton inv the south gave me some statistics at one time of the protits from say a a pound of raw cottonl converted into the finished product, and I am to.ld ~ that in many instances that profit has been anywhere from 10 per cent. to 20 per cent., which of course is very -gratifying to me, for I didn't want to see the cotton mills of the north, orC the south either, crippled in any way. e But they have not paid a fair price g for cotton in the last 10 years, and if a the law of supply apd demand is to cut any ilgure now raw cotton ought a to be worth 15 cents a pound. r "And if, as I understand, the mills s state they cannot manufacture cot- c ton at the present prices and make t any money out of it, the simple a remedy for that is to buy the cotton a at the ruling price and put up thle price of the manufactured goods, for I think we may safely expect that we ? will in a v'ery few months find a famine of cotton manufactured goodsr in this country."d "What is the visible supply of raw cotton on the market, and about how long would it last?" "My information, and I think it is pretty accurate, is that the visible supply of cotton today is about 580,- r 000 bales, which would give about c three weeks' supply for the cotton ~ mills. This is my information." "And how long before the new crop t will begin to come into the market?" s1 "Well, they are picking cotton now in the extreme south, but as a rule cotton ought to be rushed in in October or November, and then of course the ' mills can buy what cotton they want.r And I think I ought to make another ~ statement, which I believe to be cer- P rect, that we are. now having the s' greatest cotton famine in this countryb since the Cival war. I want to repeat that cotton should beselling today for s 15 cents a pound, if the rule of supply and demand is to cut any figure." ~ "What is your information as to the c number of bales of cotton in the last h crop?" "Well, I understrand the bears sent t circulars all over this country and Eu- ti rope representing that the crop would b be 11,500.000 bales or thereabouts, li whereas, if I am correctly informed it, si was only about 11,250,000 bales, and it if the cotton factories were better in- ir ornied they would have laid in a sup- t ply to keep their factories in opera- e tion."j "In other words. Messrs. Brown si and Hayne had better information as o Fto the actual crop than the manufac- t: tures of cotton?" s "Unquestionably." . (0 "And they took advantage of this?" hi "They simply took advantage of it w and acted upon it, and they required al the bears to deliver the cotton that d they bought, and that is all there is C init." t. Secretary Wilson takes an alarmist n view of the foreign competition in the it growing of cotton, referring to the ri possible increase of the cotton area in Egypt after the completion of the Nile dam. th Vh teu "The German, th ngish, thet French and the Russian governmentsg have for years been trying to find a \ locality suitable for the production of it cotton, and so far they do not seem to ri have made much progress. Ten or o: 12 years ago-perhaps longer than y that-the Russian government em- d ployed a very intelligent young cotton l i.,.r,: t :, vrr, h.at -t wii iIlre2. anr I am iiclir1 to ithink mt Mr .n . Calhoii was riht hen he sad that cotton to be sue ss'1!ily !rown in acv 6untry must aye frost. "lu view oF the increasin world L iad for cotton. do you tiink I i i- A e in this country have miy c mst: A' -ar foreign competition?" "Not the sligltes.: . )I the e m ary, I think we will go on increa ig the crop. The demand is incrrea's ig every year. The enormous in rease of cutton factcries in the south absorbing a great deal of the crop lade in that section. aUd it's going continue for these cotton mills, herever properly managed. have iade enormous prof ts. That is one f the reasons why it was so impor int for the cott->n planter of the 0I ,uth to have what they call an open di oor in China, and this is going to C e one of the principal markets for ianufactured cotton goods in the 3uth. SECRETARY WILSoN'S iErLY. n Secretary Wilson of the department is f agriculture gave a Star reporter a it atement in reply t0 the criticism of r-Senator Butler of South Carolina, 0 ublished in the New York Sun Wed sday morning. Senator Butler's re- v, arks had refererce to Secretary c( ilson's interview on the cotton n1 Drner, printed last week in The Even- Ct wg Star. In his rejoinder Secretary W Vilson said: Y "I bave read ex-Senator Butler's d, riticism on my interview regarding U he corner in cotton, and its ~effect C< pon the country generally and a be cotton growing and manufactur- n 1g industries particularly. u "I hope the 'business men' of whom ft e speaks will see to it that these st rices continue untii the cotton grow r sells the camingz crop. If that 0 bould be done I will make a trip to t uth Carolina, find Gen. Butler, if sl e should be there, take off my hat to t1 im and say to him that I regard him a! s a great public benefactor who has t een able to see furt her ahead into the P ature than we poor fellows of the de- r( artment of agriculture. 1 "But if, on the other hand, it it hotdd-occur that the price of cotton h ; dropped when th: farmer gets ready b L market his new crop, down to 8 C ents or 7, instead of 15 or 12, then, f course, I shall still adhere to my pinion that the manipulation of the a resent cotton corner by the gamblers n f whom I spoke is doing infinite mis- r hief." The Law's Delay and Lynching. n In a significant utterance on the e( larming prevalence of mob rule and ti inching and the remedy therefore fE ustice Brewer of the United States 01 upreme court renews his suggestion ei iade some years ago for the doing c way with appeals in crimminal cases. h le points out that for a hundred V ears there was no arpeal from judg- w 2ent of conviction in criminal cases c 3 our federal courts and no review a xcept in a few cases, two justices e itting. A difference of opinion on a uestion of law was certitied to the a upreme court. in England, he ob- b erves, there is no appeal in criminal e~ ases, although a question of law d 2ay be reserved by the prestding V udge for the consideration his co'- si eagues. As the Spartanburg .Journai t ays ",Justic 13rewer's recomomedation I ;a tacit recognition of the fact that ct he courts 'are ini p;Lrt to blame for f' be spread and prevalence 01' the t .nching mania. The constitutional U ight to 'a speedy trial' which is ri uaranteed to the accused by the con- E itution inheres also to the public, dJ hich is the accuser. Courts are o0 ametimes overruled and brushed Ih side by mobs for the reason that peedy trials are not granted. Fre- fl uently judges show too much tender- P! ess for the criminal, even when his bi uilt is clear, and too little for the di ublic which has been wronged in the io ersn of the criminal's victim. 0r riminal prosecutions fail in their el ain purpose and are comparative T1 allures whren judges regard the courts.o s agencies for the punishments of s1 riminals and not for the prevention a. f crime. Justice, to have any deter- of ing effect, must be swift as well as ti re. The present administration 01' tC riminal law gives too much scope to t( be skilled criminal lawyer. It is ost difficult and expensive to convict criminal who can raise the money to a ay the cost of carrying on a long and dious legal controversy over the points"which a criminal lawyer of the rst rank can always discover and Lse in his client's favor, although in ependent of the question of his guilt.s It is hardly probable that appeals h< criminal cases will ever be alto ether abolished, nor is it clear that aey ought to be, since judges are Llible, but appeals should be greatly ~stricted and made very much lessd >mmon. It is apparent that there is r rgently needed a dudicial reform that -l1 permit the machinery of justice . > move with greater celebrity and ireness._________ _ui A Timely Warning. Right Rev. Charles H. Colton fto as consecrated bishop of Buffalo it ~cently in St. Patrick's Cathedral, to here he had been rector until ap- bi inted to the S3ee of Buffalo. The if ~rmon for the occasion was delivered wi y Bishop John A. McFaul. of Tren- w. >n. n his sermon Bishop McFaul mt id: "Public schools as at present ac nstituted are detrimental to the gr urch and the state. - Eminent non- be atholic educators are gradually per- as iving that intellectual cultivation N as no effect in arresting the sources be evil in the human heart: that it al- to rs the source of evil in human heart: a 'at it alters the direction of crime, w at not its amount. Teaching re- st gion in the church and home is not A itticient; the absence of such teach- pi ig in the schools is leading the youth ito indifference and thus dechris anizing A merica. Divorce is an 0 vil we must endeavar to extermin , root and branch. It is the de- e ~royer of home and family, c-orrupt cc morals, cause and disgrace of d 2e nation. Socialism has made great 5k ,rides among the laboring classes b w'ing partly to the brazen display of1t xury and extravagance by th'.c ealty,and the conflict between laborta d capital. The bishop mu-i con-a act his flock along the lines of hristian socialism, show impossibili- ti rof the panacea for ills of life. The n ost modern evils spring from man's t thumanity to man. They can be medied only by return to the primci- e 1s of Christianity. The rich and U :or, capitalist and laborer, must doo nto the others as they would that 'ey should do to them." There is a 0 reat deal of truth in what Biishop bi eFaul says. Of course he is speak- jut igof large communities, where no gard is paidl to the religious training pupils in the common schools. r rhat he says about socialism and vorce is true to the letter, and on ss a halt is called along these lhnes I. TH E TRST E Didly Tackled by the A-iiricah1 2ar Associatior Conmittee Rc'iort STRING PAPER PRESENTIEB. he (ow'tht of th *rus-;ts I h-:nands Efrf-ctive Action. Seveiral leite lie9 Are Sng ested. Action Causes SZun1sa.t uon. The American Bar Assiciation met annual session at Ilot Springs. Va., 1 last Thursday. The annual ad ress was delivered by Leflaron B. Alt of Rhode Island, United States idge from the First circuit. .Judge ,At's subject was the Reasonable ss of the Law.- "The common law nothing but reason." was an open ig sentence which was the keynote the paper. Walter Logan of New York made a arbal report from the committee on )mmercial law. Cie commended the ational bankrupt law and then dis issed the trust question. Ile said it ould have to be settled by ibe law ,rs. le said, if they did not the magogues would. If combinations mntinue competition would cease, and )mmercial jurisprudence will eventu ly be entirely changed. The com ittee. he said. had reached the nanimoust conclusion that modern idustrial combinations should be :-ayed. I on. Charles F. Manderson of Ne raska said the report of the commit e had tilled hi n with amazement-, Irprise and indigna*ion. Iie said ie report was calcuiated to rend the ;sociation as under and he resented )e attempt to turn the body into a )litical hustings. Ile asked that tbe port be read. There was opposition ) the motion and considerable con ision. The convention agreed to ear the report at once. It was read Y Chairman Logan and was fully dis ussed. SOME LAIN TALK. On the subjects of trusts the report Lys this is tlh: important question w before the American bar. The port adds: - "The modern combination's pri ary objects is to control trade and )mmerce in plain articles of produc on and substitute a more or less per ct monopoly in the place of a more less free competition. It changes itirely the basic principle of commer al relations between man and man they are to continue to grow and de ,lop in the future as in the past they ill render necessary most important ianges in the principles of our com ercial laws. Combinations as an xoomic force is as fast coming to Lke the place of competition. We re now having eombinations of conm inations. The United States Steel rporation is a cjmbination of a izen heretofore comnpeti ng prordutcers. ho themselves were combinations of ill other proJducers, and these in rn of ten combinations of still others. is estimated that the Standard Oil >mpany has taken. by contract or rce, the business of 10.000 corpora ons and merchants in all parts of the nion. T1he few present great rail >ad lines of the country have been ade up by the combination of hun ~es of smnaller lines, somec extensions one another, and other competing nes. "No one know but that within the xt 10 years a greater than .J. Pier nt Morgan will arise who will comn ne into one organization all the in stries of the land, so that the work an who works for wages can find but ie possible employer, and the pur iaser of wares but one possible seller. be steps toward the .formation of ie industrial corporation, which iall crowd out all other corporations d assume to itself all the industries the land, have been already more ian half taken. It is not so far to go now to that end as wve had to go reach present industrial conditions. DESIRtABL--FOR MONOPLTST. "A monopoly is economically desir >e; that is, for the monopolist. The nited States Steel corporpation can ~oduqe, no matter what it sells them r, its goods cheaper than the ele ents out of which the combination composed ever produced them. The andard Oil company is economically )ly for it pays 40 per cent. dividends. he sugar trust is economically cor ot, for whereas the individual sugar finers lost money on small capitaliza on. the sugar trus.t pays big divi ~nds on a large capitalization. The ilroad combinations are economically pregnable, for they pay. If Mr. organ's shipping trust .ind Mr. hwab's shipbuildin~g trusts are fail es they are exceptions to the rule. e cannot, therefore, rely on natural rces, on the laws of supply and de and or on economic considerations limit the growth of modern comn nations. If they are undesirable, the people of the American nation uld be better off without them or ith limitations put to them, they ust put those limitations on by the tion of their legislatures. their con -ess and their courts. The American tr must act and tie American Bar sociation must take the lead. If the orthern Securities corporation had en allowed to go on, the next thing follow it would naturally have been United States Securities comnpany. ich would hold the majority of the ock f every railroad where the merican Ilag flies. The report pro ised the following remedies: TIIE FoLLOw NG; R~E3IEDIs: "First: We can tax them to decath, , if that is too radical a remedy, we .n tax them until their growth and largment is impeded. There are institutional provisions requiring rect taxations to be uniform, and view of these provisions, it is pro Lbly impossible to discriminate in le matter of direct taxation against irporations holding large amounts of xable property. There is, however, franchise tax impossed by most of ie States upon corporations ait the me of their incorporation and an ially thereafter. This franchise ,x is in almost all States in some wvay aded so as to tax the small corpora on at a higher rate than the large i. The lirst million pays a higher te than subsequent millions. In ir judgment the degradation should continued, but it should be grading Sinstead of down. We would leave ~raps, the irst- hundred thousand e, and the tirst million cheap. and ise the rate with each succeeding illion. The United States Steel rporation now has a catpitalization somethung over one thousand mil In0 W Paa~r e' 6-, p t vrt ~ICi! V)-: U~niI-i-d stnf~ Ste?.! C), 'Acnd. \We can compst:.he to rnde 1lI-tter and cheaper service If :ht, coinitioni (if I he N rl hriin I i c~..and the Great Nort'i-rn rail ri-is is I grew'. enough punlie disas ter ti have warranted the attention wiich it has attracted. it could have been prevented much easier than by a hundred Sherman anti-trust laws by a 1 single United States statute that re- i qjuired any co'rporation engaged in Inter-State commerce to reduce its rates -50 per cent to and from every i point wiere competition has been i prevented by combination. merger 1 comion control or agreement. Con- I gress can enact that any corporation I or individual who engages in Inter- I State commerce must furnish its ser- I vices or supply its goods at lower rate.s wherever by any combination compe tion is prevented then where competi tion if left free. "Third. If necessary the State it self can enter the industrial field as a producer and restore the force of competion to its former supremacy by becoming itself a competitor of the great trusts." The report is signed by all the members of the committee, consisting of Walter S. Logan. Henry Budd. Gardiner Lathrop, George Whitelock and John Morris, Jr. T11E REPORT APPLAUDED. There was applause when Judge Logan concluded the reading of the report. .Judge Ketcham. of Indiana. re quested that Judge Hammond, of Georgia. be asked to speak. A resolution was offered by Mr. Bushy, of North Carolina, providing i that the report be received and tilled, accompanied by a note that it did not express the views of the Association. 1 Judge Hammond spoke briety en- I dorsing the report, saying that it was a most encouraging thing that a body J like the commerce committee had i seen fit to grapple with such a great i (uestion as industrial combinations. William I. Royall, of Richmond, Va.. offered as a substitute for the report a paper, the essential ideas of which were that the injury done the public by trusts was through unreal competition, that is, the giving away of goods to destroy weak rivals, or by selling goods below cost for the same purpose. Stop this. he said, and the trusts' power for evil is ended. Iis remedy was that Congr !ss pass a law, establishing a corporation commission in each State or Territory, having complete authority, on c:mplaint of 'ny person that his rival is trading dishonestly by giving away his goods, or selling them b'ulow cost, for the pur pose of destroying the complainant, to fine the offendibg corporation to such an extetit as will make it offer its goods for sale, in fact, instead of in pretence, if it chooses to enter into trade. ilie found authority for this I act in the commerce clause. and the i fourteenth amendment, but he re commended an amendment to the< Constitution, giving Congress power i by appropriate legislation to suppress and prevent hishonest competition in trade. There was very warm discussion over a motion to table the report. 4 There was great excitement on the toor and finally it was agreed the re-4 port should be taken up at the night session. At the night session William A. Glasgow of Ruanoke, Va., read a pa per entitled "AP D~angerous Tendency of Legislation." The paper endeavor ed to show that State legislation had a tendencey towards paternalism and cited many instances in support of this position. VICTORY FOR ANTI-TRUsT. At the conclusion of the paper, dis-2 cussion of the report of the committeei on commercial law was resumed. F.' H. Busbee of North Carolina offered a1 resolution providing that the report be recommitted so' far as that portion referring to combinations was con- * cerned and that a committee be ap pointed with instructions to report re. 'edies for trust evils alleged to< exW:. The resolution was seconded by George Whitiock of Baltimore, a mem ber of tbe committee, and it was though there would be no debate, but1 Seymore D. Thompson of New York offered a resolution similar to the one proposed by Mr. Busbee, with tbe ex ception that it proposed to refer the report back to the committee on com mercial law, with instructions to re port also on labor monoplies, "muscle trusts," as the speaker termed the labor unions. Over two hours were spent in parliamentary wrangling over the resolution. Finally a resolution offered by F. N. Judson of Missouri, directing that the report be recommitted with instruc tion to the committee to report rem edies for illegial combinations, which threaten commercial intercourse, was adopted. This action is regarded as a victory of the party which contended that the subject of trusts is an appro- - priate one for the American Bar asso ciation to consider.1 All the Same.t The State says "it doesnt mattert much whether the governor generali of the .tuilippines be a Democrat or a Republican. In ruling a foreign pro- f cence, taxed without its consent, the< governor general is violating the fun damental principles of both parties. He is a satrap sent out by a president ad rules by extra constitutional au thority. Hie is, so far as the Philip pines arec concerned, neither Demo crat nor Republican but Imperialist. However, Gen. Luke Wright is doubt less as goud an Imperialist as any otheir." Two Womien Drowned. In a gale at New York Wednesday afternoon two women lost their livesa in Jamaca iny. They were Mrs. .John Hlolm and her sister, Miss Ragne. Rasmussen, of Brooklyn. They wentc sailing in a catboat with Mr. Hlolm g and tue boat upset about half a mi-le ~ off shore. H~olm was picked up by a . sail boat. The two women were tak- 2' en from the water by a party in a steam launch, but they died withoutA regaining consciousness. Butrned to Death. hi Between 40 and 50 persons lost their live by the burning of a four story building in Budapest, Hungary. on Tuesday night. Thirteen were killed in jumping from windows; the i h others were burned to death-.t Itis id l Resign. Iti adthat Elihu Root. secretary di; of war. will resign in JIanuary and t that .Judgc Win. R. Taft, governor el general of the Philippines, will sue- ai ceed him. If soi. Gen. Luke E. tl Wriht, a Tennessee Democrat, will w K. QANTIC CARERI geniat~ an ubad of 'UtlheS2 i" En Up a Marine. . L. nwyer, iWorner Chicago Million,* nire, Anxious to Secure His Re lease fronm the Navy in Order to Begina Life Over Again. Edward L. Dwy.r. once a millionaire e nine owner, prointer ani hold specu ator in wheat, w h, start d even Chi ago by his cari.ng. andi%% who later mar. led a itche. worlh m1:0ns of do- i ars. sailed into the Brt-klyn navy Yt 'ard tht other day a iiarine on the 7nited States transport Calg-a. )ressed in his'natty ,xilor suit, his ace bro::zed by the Philippie sul, is miuset-es hardened by work. Dwver ooked liite like a dashing specukitvr Id husband of a duchess. Ihvyer has beei in'the service of the niteri States since Julv 31. 1900, when enniless. diitnherited by his aged wife. tired of wandering. h:e went to arrisburg ati enlisterd in :he marine orps. The term of enlistment is three ears, but I)wver has influences at rork in the navy department, and here is little doubt that his early diX :harge will be st-cured. Dwvr tirst attracted attention in 880. thi-n a nimier of the Chicago xnard of r-ade, bv purchasing 1,000.000 mshels of wheat for future delivery vit hout depositiing margins. While in 'ew York in 1594. representing west -rn mining interests, he met the )uchess de Castelluccia, whose hus >aad had died only a short while be ore. leaving, her a fortune estimated t $7.000.00(). She was more than 40 -ears oider than Dwyer. but he woi ier. and the two were married at Rock ,idge. Fla.. January 29. 1S95. The duchess died soon after the wed lng leaving the bulk of her fortune o her two children. Dwyer received 10.000. Dwyer then started on the road to nancial ruin through speculation, nd in May. 199. he found himself pen iless. He filed a petition in bankrupt in New York. withaii lies of 252055 and no vis;ble asse is. But )wyer within a year had organized a >ompany with a capital of $100.000 :. develop silver mines in Zacatvcas. exico. Apparently this scheme was iot successful. and a yea-r lattr he was iain penniless. It was then that he snlisted and was assigned to servioe n the Philippines. While Dwyer was in the Philippines te looked about him for favorable in pstments and he thinks enterprise ;here will opt-n the way to fortune. It s said that the hronzed marine will -go >ack to the is'ands immediately upon 'eceiving his discharge. EMAINS OF MONSTER BIRD. 'aluable Discovery Made in Sonthernu Part of Argentine Republie Larger Than the Dodo. Brief information of the discovery n Patagonia, or rather, of the south rn part of the Argentine troublic, t f part of the remtains of an extinct I >ird that, in size, outrivals any of 'the: orms known to science, either living r' extinct, has just reached the chief >rnithologilst of the Smithsonian in titution, who regdrds the discovery L one of the first importance. The let-ails thus far received are to the1 :feet that a scientific party explor ng along the eastern foothills of the kndes range unearthed from the1 trata of the tertiary age the skull ofj hat they at first took to be a gigan ic bird of prey, but on subsequent1 xamination they unearthed other1 arts that caused them to change heir first view and reach the conclu ion that the bird must have been a< vater fowl. The size of this extinct ird, which the discoverers named the 'phorarachis," is, according to the 'eports, something amazing.'it having een at least a fourth larger than the 'dodo" of Madagascar. a bird now ex- 1 inct, but which until the finding of his Patagonian monster held first >ace for size in the list of birds liv ng and extinct. The government or ithologists are anxiously awaiting urther details of this interesting di- 1 overy., American Cotton Output. The census bureau report issued o-day on the cotton ginned in the Inited States shows the crop of 1900 o have been 10,486,148 commercial ales (bales as marketed) equi-valent o 10,123,027 bales of the 500 pound tandard or to 5,061.513.294 pouinds. 'his is an increase of 840,174 com- 1 aercial bales, or more than eight 4c cent. in excess of the 1899 crop. texas grew 34 per cent. of the en ire crop of 1900 and one-fourth ofd he world's crop of that year. Its rop increased 33 per cent. over 1s99, he 1900 crop being 3,536,506 commer ial bales and the 1899 crop 2,658,555. I ast of the Mississippi productionC ecreased. Students Sorry They Signed. I Columbia university students are ebelling against the resolutions in egard to hazing they were made to ig by the faculty last spring, says he New York World. During the eek, the various classes have met and ecided to place stringent rules over he freshman body because of the cur- 1 ailment of the upper classmien's priv leges. President Seth Lo-w, in an effort t~o orestall a repetition of last season'2 currences, has addressed a note to 'ach of the undergraduate body in~1 rhich he calls atteraion to the spirit ,ution Iiey signed and ask. anuedt cooneration. Improvement of the Rhine. a Germany is spending $3,000,000 om a he improvement of the Plhine river be- n aw Strasburg, t On~The Rlight Line. fl More than 2,000 arrests have been a C Lade in Georgia during the past two eks for vagrancy. Ali wvhite people n id negroes who cannot tell the C >lice exactly their occupations are rrestedi and sent immediately to the ' main gangs. Many negro women are I tting married to escape the law. as arried women ar-e not arrested if P ley can show husban ds who are work- 9 ig for them. Tihe campaign against grancy was ibegun in the small iwns and bands of idlers ilocked toC tlanta thinking they wouild escape -rest. Friday night the police forceo are began to make arrests anid over 'ty negroes and wbite persons werea eked up. Gold Dust Stolen. Four masked tmen Monday night ld up Watchman Fe'atherstonte at e augh mines at Atlas anid stole ar-l 20.000t in gold dust which hatd vi llted in the sluices during toe j y. Twenty workmen had just gone ki supper leaving t-he watchman in e marge. lie was caught from behind id gagged and in twenty minutes e big clean up was in canvas bags!a Iich the robbers brought for the~ er ,,., s-a I 0 ft m: 'uz0 Me'c1 koi ti'ft '.& rose demonds." are yoly to ,%xplode nubjected oIr to wh: t woni scOm a ery ordinary degree of he.at. such a3 troUg rays from the sun. eto. It is ow believed that the explosions are be result of the rapid expansion of ertain volatile likilids inclosed in cavi. [es near the center of these precious tones. A great mnany diamonds. even ough cut, mounted and worn as gemu f perfection. are still in an unfinished ondition-that is. the liquid drop frow rhich the stone is being formed ha: ot as yet deposited all of its "purE rystals of carbon." These movabli rops may occasionally be seen witi he naked eye. When this is the case, a strong mi roscope will give the drop the appear .nee of a bubble in the fluid of a car >enter's level. It is also highly prol, ble that besides the liquid mentione< hese cavities may contain gases unde reat tension. This being the case ne may readily comprehend how S ery small vmount of heat wouli ause the liquid ind gas to expand t( uch a degree that the diamond wou4 ive way with ill the cliaracteristic f a miniature explosion. Sometbing He Had Forgotten. "So you enjoyed your continenta rip. did you?" inquired the simple ol ecntleman. "I haven't been over it ifty years. but my recollections ar( itill vivid. I remember once standinc n Mont Blanc. watching the sun sini yehind the blue waters of the lMediter -anean, while to my right the nobl Ihine rushed onward to the Black set tnd the Pyrenees, still holding th ;ows of winter, were on tre left. 'emember while standing there" "But. Mr. Grey." feebly interrupte iis listener, "I was on Mont Blan nyself, and really-you'll excuse me yut you really must be mistaken h rour geography." "Mistaken?". returned the old ma: Ightly. "Not a bit of it. But I foi ot; it's different now. You know, m; lear boy, that since my day the entir nap of Europe has been changed b, :hese-awful wars, and so of course yo !an't appreciate what it was fifty year A Clever French Captive. A person who was supposed to be tb French General Mouton, count de LA )au, was once captured by an Englis ressel. but after a time the captain dlE overed that his prisoner was th ,ount de Montrond. "Why did you dc eive me?" he demanded angrily of th :ount "I did not deceive you." replie Iontrond; "not at all. You thought vas General Mouton. You told me sc Eou have a fifty gun frigate. Was I ,or me. who have only a pocket pisto :o contradict you?" The captain did not forgive Montron ind took every opportunity to trea 2im rudely. One evening at dinne some one proposed the health of tbl rench. As Montrond rose to acknow dge it the captain cried: "They are a owards! I make no exceptions: Vhen Montrond's turn came he gav his sentiment: "The English-they ar lgentlemen. but i make exceptions. Hlow Creen Turtles Feed. The green turtles of southern Floi da live in deep water and feed on se lants, mostly the kind called "turtl rass." which they cut off near th *oots, eating the lower parts and lens ng the tops floating so that it collect n great fields and marks the spot There the animals are to be hunte< 'or by the fishermen. After browsin; n such ocean pastures the green tnt :les go to the mouths of rivers to )aths of fresh water, which they seer o need from time to time. The Floi da-fishermen say the reptiles enter th ~reeks and roll together masses c rass, cementing them into balls witi lay. When the turn of the tide take :he balls out to sea they follow then: Lhe fishermen watch for such ball oating down the creeks, and whe1 hey see them they stretch nets acros he mouths of the streams and alway: !atch the turtles. Pausanius. the. Greek generld, die< >y self administered poison. Whe1 iotly pursued by those sent to appre iend him on a charge of treason an< acrilege he took refuge in the sanc nary of a temple. Unable to remov< iim by force and also unwilling t< iolate the sanctuary, the officer: aled up the entrance and began ti mroof the building. When he couli e seen they noticed that he was chew ng something which proved to be: luillfilled 'with poison. By the timnt he work had sufficiently advanced t< dmit of their entrance he was in ying condition. The Anger Fish. The anger fish, half fish, half crab s the terror of all vessels but iron lads that use the south seas. This reature, which. Is not bigger than ai 1mond, has a proboscis like an en arge gnat sting that can bore througl veu sheet iron. Anger fish frequen nany of the lagoons of the cora slands and burrow holes: for them elves n the coral, but they have serverse habit of doing the same thing o ships lying at anchor. and the dam .ge generally shows itself when nex he vessel is at sea In bad weather T)> Keep Negroes Out. A. J. Bower, editor of the Chester >n, Ind., Tribune, clerk of the stat gislature and a well known Republi in of Indiana, has started a move 3ent for the exclusion of negroes l'ron ortland county of that state. B~owse cimits that he has always enter taine deep-rooted antipathy toward th egro race and declares that it is th' me for communities having fey groesto protect themselves agains ny further increase from the south ri states. Hie says: "The settle ient of negroes from the south in thi: >unty means that fear would ente: e home of every farmer in the coun and our wives. daughter and sweet earts would be exposed toa fate mnore rrible than death in any form. roperty values would go down anc~ 'nchings woUld follow." In comn tenting on the above the Charlestor ost says in Indiana. the state 01 rumpacker, governed by Durbi n d the movement of a Republicat ad otlicer' of tihe legislature to clos< m door of opportunity and lock il id bolt it and stand iruard by ii ranst the entrance of the negro et us plunge into the cold waters o0 yster Bay. Negro Against Negro. There were four negres killed on onday within 24 hours in thc inity of Barnesville, Ga., the slayer each case being a negro, and each lng was because of son.c trivial rcumstance. ind a man whol has acca.mplished iything in life and you have discoy' d one who attends strickly to his W i3n Wont anngy Becaue Negroe : Was Given Right of Way. Toe Aflanta Journal says United States St-nator A. 0. Bacon and a 1 party of prmirnewnt Atlanta people went wi hour. hrealkfaist recent morn ing ate-t Homer, N. C.. while liooker T. Washmigton) and a number of ne ,ro(-s were feasted in the dining room in the dcpot. The main dining room was riven entirely over to the colored delegation. while a small table in the side rearing room was cleared of the books and a few plates laid where the white gentienen were invited to par take of their morning meal. Some e sented to eat at the little side table. Senator Bacon and the mem . hers of the Atlanta party refused to .satisfy their hunger under the circum Istanices. lHamlet Is the regular station where the Ser board Air Line train stops for breakfast. Just before the train which left Atlanta Saturday night at S: 10 o'clock reached Hamlet Sunday ;orriong a man went through -the c:aches and recei ved the orders for breakrast. Senator Blcon, who was on his way t, Wilington, and the train ordered their meals prepared. When the station was reached they alighted and walked leisurely to the dining room, which they found to their 'astonishment, was occuried ex clusively by Bo ker and his friends. The senator and others of the late pat ty were invited to be seated in the little side room which had been temporarily improvised. A few, it is said, consented, but the others pre [ ferred t> leave their appetites un a i i-d. 1During the meal. it is reported, a number of the local negroes of Hmalet - gathered around the windows of the irding room and watc ed with much delght theo m vement; of Washington Sarid his friends as they ate the dainty morsels that had b-ovt prepared for them. When they had tinished their meal- the negroes walked out, seated themselves, lighted cigars and cigar 2 ettes, and waited for the train to de part. Tne Atlanta people walked up and down the tracks and nursed their hunger. A Deep rbinkiagoi' Woman. e Ef some uals could put the same bubblin' enthusiasm into rubbin' b clothes over the washb.)ard that they kin into dancin' ai! night there'd be a e sight less tired mothers' round the cnd o' wash day. e An' ef some buys could feel it was in' em to strain as hard t> make the old farm pay as they strain for six. dollars a week an' a little hall bed room in one of the big cities, the law yers'd have a sight less.v or k for fore closin' mortgages. t Ef some of the people that pray r the hardest and sing the loudest in e church do seem a little bit worldly in their dealin's durin' the week, most 1 likely it's because they use up their. seven days' supply f) Christianity on, , Sunday. e Seems to me, bringin' up-children is a good deal like firin' one o' the old fashioned shot guns: er you don't keep a good, firm grip on 'em they're dred - ful ligely to -kick back in a surprisin' Sand painful mardner. 3 Ef the average man spent as little a time thinkin' about layin' up riches~on - earth as he does about layin' up riches a in Iheaven, there would be no end of ; spendin' money flying about among I the women folks. Mebbe if some women tried as hard to make their talk to their husbands as soit and sweet as they do their pre serves, there'd be fewer jars-and I -don't mean preserve, jars neither. SEf everybody that tells all about the fine things they did last year, and intend to do next year, was doin' the same sort o' thing this year, they'd never have a minute to spend talkin' and telling' us about 'em. Woren Rememiibermng. Don't be afraid to blush. It is be coming. A sudden ilush accomplishes more in a moment than the sustained Iefforts of the statuesque beauty. Don't be -jealous of the beauty, youth and success of others. Jeal ousy plants ugly lines in the face. Don't think it enough to be a. beauty; in order to approach- perte-. tion, a woman should tr-y to improve. herself morally and intellectually as: well as physicaliy. Don't imagine that in order to be a. belle you must be a great beauty.. Charm of manner. a beautiful voice or -- accomplishment turns many a plain. woman into a belle. -Don't gush if you want to be at tracti've. You may not be beautiful, but if good tempered, possessed of the - gif t of looking on the golden side of. things and never given to gushing you may be more attractive than many - girls who can boast of their beauty.. Don't think that women are less: beautiful than formerly. Taere is. greater beauty now, and more of it. than at any time in the woild's his tory. We may congratulate ourselves that we live in the most beautiful age of the world. Don't fail to, appreciate the fact that while beauty may not~ bring happiness, it is nevertheless a. power. It is to a woman what capi-- - tal is to a merchant.. Its absence may - not be a misfortune, but its culture is. wise and proper. A Democrat or Democrats. The Hon. T'om L. JYohnson, Mayor a of Cleveland. Ohio, who has just been. -nominated by thxe Democrats of Ohio - for Governor of that Stat2, is looming: up as a national digure in politics. rOhio is a strong Republican state, that party's majority in the last eled tion being upwards of 90,000, and it is <mfly the most sanguine who can hope for the Cleveland mayor's elec tion. Hie will give the Republicans a hard fight, however, and may pull - through enough members of the legislature to make that body Demo- - cratic and hav-e a Democrat sent to the United States senate to succeed. M1ark Hlann:f. This would be the blow that killed father, but it is not beyond the realm of possibilities. We agree with the Sp-artanburg Journal that "fin the event of Johnson's elec tion he would be a strong candidate for the presidential nomination. He is a real Democratic Democrat and is -not a, dodgper. tri mmer or straddler and dos nt sektoc~nfscate the Re publcanplatorm Hesays things that can be plainly understood and does things that count for something for the benetit of the people. He does not deal in meaningless plati tudes nor run with the hare and hunt w'ith the hounds. He lights his ene 'mies straight from the shoulder and is an honest, manl'y man. Hie is an ideal ty~pe. of the American politician and the country wohild be better oti with m nore like him. We wish' him suc cess. The mnan who has the least charac ter is the one who is continually try ing to have it vindicated.