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Goodby, Old Year. Old year. the parting time has come, The time when we must say "Goodbv" to you. and shake your hand, And speed y4Oun your wnV. We'd like to see y-our stay prolon'ged, But all too well we know Your time is up, the limit reached, And therefore you must go. You've been a very friendly year, Considering all thinuts: You've journeyed with us, hand in hand, In all vour wander!igs. Through days of storm and days of calm You ve always wit h us gone. And oft at night you've with us watched For coming of the dawn. With vou we've seen a winter -o And heard the robins sing: With you we'% e fondly gazed upon The beauties of the spring. With vou we've seen the suummer come. In all its wealth of bloom. And with vou we have wandered through The garlens of perfune. With you we saw the autuun -mIt The'leaves in colors bright:. And vou-were with us when the trust Spread wide i:s deadly blight. And when the winter cunie acin It found vou st ili our triend. Though weary. faint and tottering, And waiting for the end. Twelve months ago we welcomed you, When you were young andfair, But now your once straight form is bowed, And whitened is your hair. The time has come for you to go, And we can only sigh And shake your hand, and sadly say, "Goodby,:Old Year, goodby!" The Nev Year. A friend stands at the door, In either tight closed hand Biding rich gifts, three hundredand threescore; Waiting to strew them daily o'er the land Even as seed the sower. Each drop he treads it in and passes by; It cannot be fruhtful till it die. Oh, good New Year, we clasp This warm shut hand of thine! Loosing forever with half sigh. hal fgrasp. That which from ours falls like dead ingers - twine; Av, whetherfierce its grasp 1s1 been or gentle, having been. we know That it was blessed; let the old year go. O New Year, teach us faith! e road of life is hard: When our feet bleed and scourging winds us scathe, Point thou to Him whose vissage was more marred Than any man's; who saith: "Maki straight paths for your feet"-and to the opprest: 'Come ye to me, and I will give you rest." Yet hang some lamp-like hope Above tae unknown way, Kind yerr, to give our spirits freer scope And our hands strength to work while it is day. But if that way must slope Tombward, oh. bring before our fading eyes The lamp of life, the hope that never dies. Comfort our souls with love Love of all human kind; Love, special, close-in which like sheltered dove Each weary heart its own safe nest may fid And love that turns above Adoringly, contented to re s'f D All loves, if need be .. tne Love Divine. Friend, come thoi-like a friend, And wh.Tdir bright thy face Or di rith clouds we cannot comprehend. &gl hold our patient hands, each in his d trust thee to the end, Knowing thou leadest onward to those apheres Where there are neither days nor months nor years. PROFIT IN BROOM CORN. A Crop That Can .Be Made a Steady Money Getter. * Occasionally broom-corn commands the price of $170 the-ton. In some *parts of the United Statesithree acres will produce this amount of standard broom corn, and when demand ex ceeds supply and prices go up many farmers are induced to put in a crop. The ensuing season's harvest being unusually'. large, and the quality~ of brush, grown frequently as an experi mm~t, inferior, there follows a marked decline in market value. Then there is an abandonment of the industry, and again the prices soar. This condition has led the depart mentiof~ agriculture, to make a careful study di -the possibilities and the re quirements of broom-corn cultivation. As a result, the scientific advice to farmers who live where soil, and es pecially climate, are adapted to this crop, is to plant a tield of broomn-corn every year, 'regardless of speculative fluctuation of prices. "The ease," said Dr. Charles P. Hartley, of the bureau of plant indus try, '-'with which broom-corn can be grown. A-crop is a third of a ton an acre, makes th'e industry apparently a lucrative one even at the ordinary price, which is about 880 a ton." From two to three (months of good weather is all that is needed to ma ture a crop. Any soil that will yield good grades of ordinary corn will pro duce the broom species, but the warm er climates of the United States are best adapted to this crop. One bushel of good seedis sufdcient to sow twenty acres. Everything de pends on the quality of the seed sown, and therefore the government, experts admonish farmers to test it. To do this It is not necessary to send it-to a seed-testing laboratory, for one can be constructed and operated at home. The process isthe acmeof simplicity. -Two dimier plates'and a heavy piece of flannel cloth complete the labora tory equipment,. .One hundred seeds should be placed between the folds of the dampened e cloth and set in one .of the plates, with the other plate in verted over it, and the whole placed where the tem perature, in the daytime will be from 60 to .80. degrees, and at night not much below 50 degrees. The good seed will begin to sprout in three or four days: -- Storms of Old England. England's recent htrricane was a mere teacup affair campared w .h storms of historic recor d. In the year 944 in London alone-1.500 houses were blown down. In October, 1901, a great number"O.f churches and' 500 houses were destroyed. In 1255 it thundered for til teen consecutive days. The dreariful nights during, which Crom well's spirit passed has formed a theme for. poets and partisans. And tile great-storm that "o'er pale Brit annia passed" in November 1703-the most terrible in British annals-also has its enduring record in poetry. It did darnage in London to'the amount of ?2,0'00,000, over 8,000 people were drowned~ - in floods in various parts of the country, twelve men-of-war with over 1,800 men on board, went. down in sight of land, and the Eddystono lighthouse, along with Winstanley, its inventor, was swept away. Free Once More. At Siuox City, Ellsworth P. De franc Wednesday stepped from the state penitentiary a frce man, after having sers'ed.a -term of fif teen. years. for the- theffV of two cent po'stage stamps. His case is the most remark able in the history of the -western! courts. Defranc was convicted in United States district court of Ne braska for holding up amaii car. II secured only postage statmps/w'as tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life. The matter was brought to the attention of Presildent McKinley. He commuged .the sen.tence to.ffte - ears i-nrmonmebt. HIGH FINANCE. L New York Trust Lawyer Tells How Fakes Are Flor-ted. 1OW THE LAMBS ARE SIARED. ;hipyard (ounsel Says Wall Street High Financiers Shout "All Stock Sold," Then They Go Out and Peddle It. "I told Baron Rogniat that it was a eneral custom among high tinanciers n America when disposing of a bcnd ssue first to announce the issue a rreat success, then to peddle the >onds." The statement was made on Whe witness stand in New York by . Alexander. head of the law firm >f Alexander & Green, general coun ;el for the Shipyard Trust in the bearing of the suit to make the re >eivership of the United States Ship building Company permanent. Mr. Alexander said be gave the inforiaa ion to the French millicnaire in Ix planation of a message the Baron had received from John W. Young, the: formal promoter of the trust. in wh ich Young had said that the bond issue was a success in America. BRIBE FOR FRENCH PREsS. That the men responsible for the French underwriting understood not: ynly American methods, but those in vogue in Europe was proved by Mr. Alexander's admission that $200,000 >f the bonds had been set aside to ribe the Paris newspapers. He was tsked whether he had not seen the hipyard securities quoted above par. Ele refused to give satisfactory answer o* that question. Mr. Alexander also estified to the eflicacy of the cable essage which George W. Perkins ad nitted he sent to the Paris house of 4organ, Haries & Co., asking the iouse to give more cordial support to he bond issue. He said that under riters had received scant courtesy rom Morgan, Haries & Co. before hat, but afterward they were treated ore pleasantly when they called. He aid that house had been designated: s receiver of the underwriting n'oney: n a cable from New York, but hare used to say who sent the-cable. THE FRENOI. KICKED. Alexander id that Baron Calvet le Rogoiet bad signed the underwrit ng agreement for a million in bonds and secured sub-underwriting for 600000. Mr. Alexander would not admit that ae knew the Oppenheims in Paris were soliciting underwriting on com mission. They had given him a great leal of information, however, in re ard to the underwriters, and one of: he Oppenheims had accompanied him to the Bank de Roma when be filed be securities. "I had an impression." he finally i aid after repeated questions, "that Baron Rogniat had been interested by the Oppenheims, but there was noth ing definite said to me on the subject by anybody." Q. Did Rogniat complain of the way he had been deceived by Young? A. Yes. Q. Did he say that Young tele graphed that the matter was a suc cess, and he took Young'~s representa tion of Colonel A. J. McCook? A. E e said that. Q. Did he say that relying upon that statement he had notified his underwriters that they were relieved af their obligation? A. Yes. Q. Did he say he understood that all they now had to do was to collect their underwriting commission? A. Yes. Q. Did you then say to him that the word "success" did not mean the sale ot all the bonds, but the sale of such a number as encouraged the Trust Company of the Republic to feel that the rest would be sold in time? A. Yes, that is a condensa tion of what I said. Q. Did you also say it was the gen eral custom in New York to declare an enterprise a success and then ped de the bonds afterward? A. I be lieve I did say so. Q. Is that the custom among high fnanciers? 'A. I believe it is. Q. What did be say to that state ment-did he express himself as sur prised? A. He didn't say anything n the subject. Q. That was the excuse you gave bii for the French underwritersY A. It was atheorylIadvanced. Q-Did you tell him he had been made: ridiculous in the eyes of his sub nderwriters? A. Yes. Q. Did you ask him if a .call wras made on the underwriters, would he de prepared to pay his part? A. I HIS MEN WOULD "KICx." Q Did -he tell you he was afraid taa some of his sub-underwriters, when he. told the true situation to hem, would kick? A.. In substance. Q. Did you tell him you did not think that affected the legal relation > the transaction? A. Yes. Q. Did be say that legal relations were one thing and doing things ~ourageously and in a businesslike tanner was another? A. "Accurate .y" would be more correct-otherwise :he statement is correct. Q. Did you then discuss the pres mt prospects of the combination and' :he character of the men in it? A. I Q. .Did you give him a line tribute in regard to the future~of the com any? A. I did, expressing my opin Q. How were you able, in the ab ence of any knowledge of the capital .f the c~mpany, or its assets in money, ts protits or debts, to enlighten any 2nderwriter? A. I knew in a gen ral way about the combination from. Tohn W. Young. Q. Did -Baron Rogniat, before you ot through, express himself as de ighted, and that he had a good thing y A. Yes. Q. He never took the bonds up. did be? A. Yes, $23,000 of the $1,600,000. Q. That is the extent to which he thought it was a good thing? A. Q. Attempts were made to induce him to make good his agreementy A. Q. The question of importance to. these underwriters was as to the, merits of the securities as well as the property. You spoke of the merits of: the property in connection with the meritsof the securities, did you nct: A. I spoke well of thie propecrty. but at of..the.securities. Q. Did you say in the presence of M~r. Oppenheim to Mr. Yoiung that 3e must make his peace with Riogniat nd eat humble pie:- A. I refuse to inswer. EXCITED THlE FRIENCII. Q. Did you tell them Mr. Morgan 2ad taken some of the bonds? A. I Nlr. Morgan bad taken some of the shipbuidmng bjnds, and that greatly :sited them--that is, it encouraged Q. it assisted you in getting under writingKy A. Well, they knew the Morgans. Q. What promise was made to the French press in regard to the under writings? A. I don't know. Q. Do you know for what the French press was to get 8200,000 of these bounds? A. I did hear that there had been a remittance made for press purposes, but for what purpose I do not know. Q. Did you ever learn that the securities of the United Stttes Ship building Company were quoted in New York at a premium? A. I decline to I answer on the ground that it was privileged. Q. How was it privileged? A. I learned it in a privileged way. Q. Is it not a fact that such 'news" was sent to and published in the Paris edition of a New York paper? A. I decline to answer. Q. Do you remember Baron Rogniat coming to you and saying he had been to see Harjes with a man who spoke English. and that Harjes told him there were no actual quotations in New York for the Shipbuilding busi ness? A. Yes, that was about July 68. Q. And about July 30 they began to talk well-about it? A. I think it was said that those who went there were treated in a pleasant manner. Q. Mr. Harjes showed you a cable he received from New York about July 30? A. Ile sent me a cable. The cablegram sent by Morgan & Company on July 2S. bespeaking ,or dial terms for the Shipbuilding busi ness was shown to the witness who said it was the cable young larjes had shown him. Q. Didn't, Ilarjes tell you be had been prejudiced against the whole affair by Young, knowing Y oung as be did. he thought the whole busine-s bad. and didn't you in reply say you had not introduced Young. that lu was a mere promoter such as or gan constantly used in Ne'w York. and that Rogniat j. you he would pay the entir-dll? A. He did say be would..py the entire call. I don't recal--that I said Mr. Young was such apromoter as you name. These questions by Mr. Untermyer proved to be based on suppressed let ters and cablegrams between New York and Paris. Mr. Guthrie ob jected to this method of getting these matters before the public. Q. Did you say to Mr. lHarjes that you knew Young had made an ass of imself-you didn't say that in the presence of Mr. Young. did you? A. I don't remember. Q. Didn't you say to Baron Oppen heim that you could get even a worse report of the Shipbuilding Company than Seligman had given if they would ask the Huntington Shipyards and other people angry at being left out what they thought about it? A. I may have said that. but do not re member to whom. I may have said it to Oppenheim. OVERTURES TO ITALIANs. Q. Did you know Alexander Odero? A. Yes 'he represented a group of Italian underwriters. Q. Did Udero ask you to explain the "Republicus" telegram, saying the whole matter we~ a success, and did you tell him what~ success meant according to the New York theory? A. I do't remember. Q. Do you recall an interview with Shreyer, Sr.. in which you told him that the entire million dollars of his son's underwriting ought to be paid. and you said that la-.t week you had people who would have taken up bis underwriting, but you had allowed him to remain because of his high character and positive statements? At that time did you have a person or persons ready to take a million of un derwriting? A. TAe information I have on that subject is-privileged. 1 ad a reasonable reason for believing that it would be possible to get the underwriting done. I had no detinite offer, however. Q. Did your inv-estigation lead you to believe that the Baron Rogniat was able to respond with *1,600,000? A. Rlogniat convinced me that he had $800,000. Q. Was he able to pay the entire underwriting? A. I think he could have paid it. 'Q. Shreyer, Jr.. took a million of the underwriting. Did he have a million? A. No, I think not. Anything for s;ensat ion. Rt. W. Gaston arnd Miss Belle Wof ford, of Woodruff, Spirtanburg coun ty, were married Wednesday after noon on the train between Woodruff and Spartanburg, by Rev. B. L. Wof ford, a cousin of the bride. They are members of prominent Woodruff fami lies, the groom being a merchant of that place, of considerable means. The bride is a~member of the old Wof ford family, related to Rev. Benjamin Wofford, founder of Wofford college. They stated tha't their only object in choosing this plan for their marriage was to have a unique and romantic affair. The couple left Thursday night for Atlanta, where they will spend several days before returning to Woodruff, where the'y will make their home. A C1NcIxxATm preacher is going to have a parlor in his *church building where courting couples may come and enjoy company of one another--this in view of the fact that many girls are so situated at their homes that they c-annot receive company there. The idea is a philanthropic one, and was doubtless conceived in the good ness of the preacher's heart. Yet, it is a fact that young people who are courting do not like to have their af fairs advertised. Usually they may be depended upon to find some way in which to do their spooning with out having resources to a general court shop. SENATOR 1-anna has been in New York and it is said that he has been informed that if Roosevelt is the can didate there will be nothing -doing sc far as campaign contributions are con cerned, but if Hlanna is the candidate gold will flow into 'the coffers like water. The Columbia Record says ..it is said to be an open secret in Wash ington that Hanna wants the nomina tion. lie denies that he is a candi date. but he is expected to dJo that: but at the same time it is said that he is nit practicing dodging nomina tion lightning should it strike his way. TrlE Washin:.tou I'st. referIrinlg to the outrageous conduct of Chicauo strikers in preventing the buriai of the dead unkcss union drivers m-re em-. ployed, says: " Legitore. anid worthy labor oirganizatiins will strengthen their cause by rc pudiating such ojrgen izatons as the C.:icago livery drivers, and uniting in seeing that they re eive the punishment that they so richly deserve for their unexampled in lenew " A STREET TRAUDY. I)2. 0. 1. Sally Shot by Dr. Joseph Durr in Atgusta, Ga. The Augusta Chronicle says Dr. 0. 1;. Sally, a well known physician re S1diau in West End. was shot through the apex of the right lung Saturday afternoon shortly after 3 o'clock and dangerously wounded, by Dr. J. E. Durr, also a physician residing in that section of the city. The scene of the shootinr was at the side gate of Dr. Sally's residence, at the corner of Greene and Milledge streets. The -ide gate opens on to Milledge street, ju-t back of the east end of the rear piazza. The back yard, into which the (ate leads is inclosed by a high, whitewashed fence. An ordinary man has to stand on tip-toes to see over the fence. It was just at this gate that Dr. Sally was shot. When Dr. Durr walked up to the gate Dr. Sally was on his rear piazza, having just entered it from the back yard. Dr. Durr .ooked over the fence, saw Dr. Sally, and called to him to come to the gate, that he bad some thing to show him. Dr. Sally de clares that not expecting any trouble with Dr. Durr and so far as he knew having no reason to expect any, promptly answered the summon. le went down the steps and walked over to the gate. He opened the gate and stepped just outside of it, on to the sidenalk. le was bareheaded. As he stepped out Dr. Durr, with an oath, declared: "'Now Ive got you. dam you, and I'm going to kill you." Dr Sally advised Dr. Durr to go on and behave himself. Dr. Sa.ly de clares that at this moment he recog nized for the first time that Dr. Durr was under the influence of liquor. Dr. Durr again cursed Dr. Sally vilely and repeated his threats. Dr. Sally again asked him to go on, that he did no- wish to have any trouble with him, or any other man. Dr. _Durr then drew his pistol. Dr. Sally still thought that he could send the man off without further trouble. "You G-d-s--b, I am going tc make you have trouble with me," de clared Dr. Durr, according to Dr. Sally and the other witnesses whc were near enough to hear what passed, and leveled his pistol. His hand was unsteady and the pistol wabbled. With his left hand he held the right hand steady as he pulled the trigger. At'the report Dr. Sally staggered back to the gate, and a relative stand ing on the back porch rushed to his side. Mrs. Sally and her children, whc had heard the -shot, rushed out on the porch screaming. Others in the neigh borhood quickly gathered. Dr. Sally was led into the house and physicians telephoned for. In a few minutes several were at the bedside of the wounded man. Dr. Durr made nc effort to fire but the one shot. He used a 38 calibre Smith-Wesson. After iring the shot he turned and started towards Broad street. Witnesses say be staggered and as he seemed careless with the pistol, which he still bad in is hand, they gave him a wide berth. Fireman J. D. Williamson, stationed at Engine Co. No. 4, at the corner of Ellis and Milledge streets, less than a hundred y ards from the scene of the shootini, started across the street, in tending to intercept Dr. Dnrr anc stop him. Dr. Durr saw his in tention, and leveling his pistol at Mr. Williamson, said. "Wbat in the h have you to do with it?" Mr. Wil liamson confessed that he had little to do with it. and backed out of the way of the pistol. At the corner 01 Ellis and Milledge streets Dr. Durn stopped and told Capt. Starnes, of En. gle Co. No. 4, "I shot that fellos D~r. Sally, damn him." Some onE begged that a physician be telephonec for, and Capt. Starnes rushed to the telephane. Dr. Durr passed on. Reach: ing Broad street Dr. Durr turnec east. In the meantime some one telephon. ed to the drug store of Dr. J. P Smith, and asked that the policemar on the beat be notifled. Officer J. It -Wilkins was standing near, as was al so officer Holtzlaw, who was not or duty. The two otticers rushed toward: the scene of the shooting, going ut Ells street. When they reached the engine house they were notified thai Dr. D~urr had just t.urned down Broac Street. They followed quickly,- over taking Dr. Durr midway the square in front of the old Welsh house. He made no resistance when uaulted anc willingly threw up his hands to be searched. IHe made no statemen1 further than to say that he had sho1 Dr. Sally. The officers say he wai drunk or under the iniluence of some. thing, what they could not say. At the police barracks D~r. Durr re fused to make a statement to the newspaper reporters present. The ottcers on duty there, also declare that he was either under t;he infiuence of liquor or a drug. For this reasor they made no etfort to talk to hirr about the shooting, and shortly aftei he was sent to jail, on the charge o1 assault witn intent to murder. Sc far as can be learned Dr. Durr made no statement to any one as tc why he siot Dr. Sally. There is a report current in West E-ad that sometime earlier in the day D~r. Dnr declared Aat it was his intention tc shoot Dr. Sally, alleging that Dr. Sally had used underhand methods tc injure him with his patients, and tc secure his dismissal as attending physi can. Dr. Durr is said to have made such statem.ents to a Mr. Ware and a Mr. Swearingame. These gentlemen could not be located for a confirma tion of the~e reporte. It was also gathered from indefinite reports that the immedia.te cause of the shooting was the fact that Dr. Salley had been called in to attend a case in the .Fuller family, who occupy a house owned by Dr. Durr and next door to Dr. Durr's home. Dr. Durn had either been informed or conceived the idea, so it is reported, that Dr. Sally used unfair methods to root him out as family physician. Beyond these replorts, there is no motive de velopd for the shooting.-. The bullet from Dr. Durr's pistol struck D~r. Sally just above the collar bone, and so near the median line that his collar button was struck and broken. The shot was at close range, and the wound is powder marked. That one of the larger blood vessels of the neck was not struck. causing instantaneous eath. is lookced upon as remarkable by te attending phyiscians. As yet the bullet has n t been located, and ts xact range cannot be ;old. 'The outcomel of the wound depends, o curse. on the amount of internal i jury done hr the bullet. It may be bours before' this can be detinitely e-tted. Althoughm sulferingr a great eal f pain. no unfdavorable symptoms have appeared and the physicians are encouraged. 'The wound is a serious ne, usually, and for this reason the prognosis is guarded. If s.ome of the blood vessels~ were injured and only the apex of the lungs touched, Dr. Sally has a good chance to roe ver. There-i evern hone that the hullet was deflected by striking the collar bone and that it glanced entirely around the deeper structures of the neck, doing little dama;.re. Every thing possible is being dune for the injurcd man. Dr. Sally is one of the best known physicians of the city, and bighly re spected throughout the state. There is general regret over the occurrence, and a universal hope among the peou ple of the city that he is not seriously wounded Ile is one of the city's most substantial citizens and a successful practitioner of medicine. He is also known as a quiet and peaceable man. Dr. Sally is married and has several children. They are greatly wrought up by the shooting. Troughout all of Saturday afternoon and night leading citizens, both of West End and other sections of the city, called at the residence to learn the particulars of the shooting and latest as to the wounded man's condi tion. About the corner a morbid crowd of the curious stood through out the remainder of the afternaon, discussing the details of the shooting. The residence was guarded by a po liceman and only those wished by the family were permitted to enter the premises. - At a late hour Saturday night Dr. Sally was reported resting quietly and no unfavorable symptoms had devel oped. With the passage of each hour the physicians grow more hopeful that the wound is not of a fatal na ture. Dr. 0. B. Salley is a son of the late Dr. Nathan Salley, who use to live near Norway in this county. He has many friends in Orangeburg County, who will be pleased to learn that the physicians attending him are hopeful that the wound will not be fatal. PUBLICITY *HE REMEDY. D. J. Sully & Co. Sagcst a Novel Solution of the Cotton Problem. Daniel J. Sully & Co., well known bankers and brokers of New York, and influential factors in the cotton mar ket, propose an entirely new-and novel scheme for improving the price of cotton goods. Their plan is to ed ucate the public up to the point of paying higher prices for goods, and in carrying on this campaign it is pro posed to spend 8275,000 during the coming year. The proposers of this scheme offer to donate $10,000 for this purpose, and they call on the cotton manufacturers of the United States to provide the remainder. Cotton mill men received lengthy letters from Daniel J. Sully & Co., giving the details of their proposed scheme and enclosing copies of a pro spectus they are issuing. The prospectus submits that the real problem confronting the spinner is to re-awaken this temporarily stalled consuming power, the solution of which lies in educating public sen timent by convincing the consumer that high-priced cotton has come to stay. It is stated that this is essential to an early resumption f normal trade activity. Accordingly it is held out to be the interest of the spinner to prompt ly take up the educational work. The idea advanced by Messrs. Sully & Co. contemplates the establishment of a b'ureau of publicity for spreading public knowledge of cotton as a high priced- commodity. It is proposed to operate through the following chan nels: (1.) Semi-advertising "write-u p s" in magazines of large circulation and influence. (2.) Associated Press services of au thoritativye personal interviews, ann timely and pertinent information. (:3.) Co-operative advertising (4.) Direct trade argument on the dealer. The argument is held out that, with the expenditure of so large a sum of money as $275,000 in one year, it would be possible to bring the pub lic to atrue understaniding of the exact condition of affairs in the c'jtton world. THE FIRST CHIRSTXAS From the Gospel According to St. ILuke, Chapter , Verse 7-20. And she brought forth her first born son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, be cause there was no room for them in the inn. And there was in the same country sheperds abiding in the field, keep ing watch over their flock by nigh. And, 1o, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them: "Fear not,for,behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. "For unto you is born this day in the city of Daid a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. "And this shall be a sign unto you, ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a man ger." And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." And it came to pass as the angels were gone away from them in heaven the shepherds said one to another: "Let us now go even unto Bethel hem and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath .made known unto us." And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe 1 ing in the manger. And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept these things and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorify ing and praising God for all the things1 that they had heard and seen as it was told unto them. Corrox passed the fourteen mark in speculation in New York last week. The Columbia Record says "we now expect to see in the papers what a vast sum of money the farmers of the South have received from this rise in price, when as a matter of fact practi Icaly all of the cotton has been out of their hands weeks ago. The high-, es rcsseem always to come just befre he ropis picked or just after all of it is sold by the farmers. PhoFEssoR Langley will continue to expjeriment with that airship as the newspapers give him free adver tising. WE need a gcod merchant marine, but we don't need to subsidize a lot f rich ship ownes A GOOD SUGGESTION. The Formation of a Farmers Protec tive Association Adv c ited. The following letter. which we take from the Greenville Mountaineer. ex plain itself. The author. Mr. Smith, is the same gentleman, who ran for Congress in this district a few years since: Here is the letter and we hope every farmer will read it: You gave some notice of my plan to control the sale ind price of cotton in a recent issue of your paper. So in terested am I and yet was so fearful that my plan would not work that be fore I said anything about it, I got some farmers together, to prove it. This proof of it I now wish to give along with the plan. All attempts to organiz- the farmers have proven futile, and I think one reason is that there was no money for the farmers in any of them. The best sticking plaster in the world is a dollar, as it will stick a beautiful woman to a m'serable old "cuss" of a man. It will stick the farmers together, and is the best sign, password and pledge on God's earth, and is the basis, the spring and inspiration of all effort, both individual and corporate. Therefore if my plan makes money for the farmers they will stick. It is as follows: In place of each farmer carrying his cotton to his local market and selling it to the local store-keeper or export agent, let all in a neighbor comiine themselves into an ograniza tion and pledge themseves to sell only through their-agent. Every man who handles our cotton makes sopnething out of it, and the greater number who handle it the less there is in it for the man who sells it. Therefore, my plan is to eliminate as many of these middle-men as possible and bring the farmer as near as possible to those who are the last to handle it. At Lynchburg, Sumter County, where I live and where I tried my plan we were able to get from one eighth to one-fourth cent per pound more than surrounding markets were giving. Our pledge was as follows: "We, the undersigned, pledge our selves to sell our cotton through our agent." We then contributed enough to enable our agent to take the New York report and use the telegraph. Ffteen minutes from the time I went on the cotton platform we were able to get 3 8 of a cent per pound more than was offered us by the buyers in our town. It *ill b. seen that by this plan our agent's business is to get all hc can for our cotton, while it is the local buyer's business to get it for as little as possible. Our agent can communicate with any exporter, and having cotton in lots can command the best prices. Another great advant age is that the farmer who has but one bale gets as much as the man who has one bundred. I acted as their agent this year at Lynchburg and each day the farmers would bring from 10 to 40 or 100 bales. By careful weighing and grading I .oon built up a reputation fLr fair dealing, and handling the cotton in such lots got better prices than any market in that part of the country. The farmers gave me 25 cents per bale as a commission, and according to the prices which prevailed at the markets just live miles away on the same railroad and nearer the seaport where our cotton was shipped ~they made from $1.50 to $2 per bale by the operation. So much for the local plan. Now, I want every shipping point in this State to have its farmers' selling agent. What is the use for us to allow other men to make from $1..50 to $2 per bale on our cotton, when by a 'little effort and concert of action we can save it. We make in South Caro lina about 800,000 bales of cotton annually. By saving $1 per bale would make $800,000, which would enable us to put a man in every seaport town within reach of this State. This would enable our local agents to have a correspondent at the water front who could deal directly with the exporters and .handle the cotton from as many points as was most convenient.- This sea-port agent could be on the ground to see that we were protected in weights and grades. This last is one item where we are "dug up." Oui cotton is graded by those who wish to make money out of it and of course it is graded as many points off as con science and circumstances allow them to do. wn oha Now, Mr. Editor, Iwn oha from as many farmers as possible as soon as possible, so that, if they ap prove my plan, we may get as many organizations as possible before anoth er season. The figures proving our success could be given, but these I will reserve for a later letter. I want to discuss this question of organiza tion with them. All the minute de tails as to handling the cash for cot ton, that is as to the loca.l agent get ting the cash to pay for cotton--the methods of shipping, invoicing, etc., can be told later. In a word, I want us to get together and use the methods God had given to mankind to enrich them to enrich us. I want us to mix more brain with our muscle and enjoy the greater returns from the higher forms of business. One other item is that we handle our cotton seed. What in the name of reason is the use for us to give some local mill agent, a merchant or some loafer $1.15 per ton to handle our cot ton seed, and when we exchange for mealS1 per ton on meal, making $2.15 per ton on meal and se.ed just to see some one balance the scales and we do the loading. Now, my plan is to turn all this over to our selling agent and give him a certain per cent., and we get the $1.15 or $2.15 as the case may I havent time for more now, Mr. Editor, but do hope that this subject will be taken up and that we may be able to do something for each other. In another article I want to disuss the buying feature. E. D. S31T11. A Christmas Card W1orth Millions. The most expensive Christmas card ever made was prepared by an Eng lish tirm in Calcutta some years ago for the native ruler of Baroda, in the East Indies, and intended as a gift for a European lady of rank with whom the great man was in love. This card was a foot in length by ten inches in width and of Ilawless ivory, to obtain which over forty elephants were kill ed. Four of the most skillful carvers to be found were at work for six months on this magnificent present. When it was finished the eyesight of three of them were injured and the fourth man became blind. The en graving and carving they did were the representing of 10.000 of the stagzes of~ existence of Buddha. Tne card was ornamented around the edges like a frame with forty-rour diamonds of the purest water, and each the size of a bazenut. The cost was estimated at half a million pounds sterling. The lady never got her present, for the potentate was arrested for trying to poison the English resident, and the crd disappeared. THE COLLEGE BOY HARVESTER. And His Adventure with the Hardy, Free-Handed Milkmaid. One of the college boys who went to, the western Kansas harvest fields writes to a friend an account of his experiences, saying: "Well, this isn't what it is cracked up to be, and Harold would have con fessed himself all In and come home to mamma inside of two days after' starting if he hadn't been worse afraid of the joshing of you devils than of blistered paws. Speaking of blistered paws, it's no joke. Before night the first day I had puffs all over my hands, and that night the fat dame of this' household stuck needles into 'em and I tapped me until I ran water like a hydrant. But the old boy was good to me, and for two days he kept me at choring around, hauling water, helping the fat dame cook and playing the baby generally. Then I tackled the header boxes again for ten straight days and I really got to liking it. But say, Willie, don't you blieve that story about a shortage in the world's bread crop. I know better, for I pitched enough of the blamed stuff to make two crops of world's breadstuff. "And, Willie, there is another thing you can disabuse your festering intel lect of. You can't spoon with these country girls with the joyous freedom that you read about. We have a roly poly girl here who doesn't wear cor sets and who don't care how much sock she displays when she kicks at the cat. I kissed her the other night. I won't do it any more. If I want ex ercise of a rapid kind I will go out and ground an electric light wire through my handsome person. She whacked me on the side of the head with a fist like a ham, and don't you doubt it, Willie, she meant every word of it. "I get $2 a day and 'found.' 'Found' means that the old man comes to your downy couch at 3 o'clock in the morn ing and finding you asleep, whoops you out to feed the horses. By the time the horses are fed we are called to breakfast. Did you ever eat pie at breakfast? Well, we have pie for breakfast. every other morning. It seems to be the idea out here if you have pie you can't complain at any other indignity. And every pie we have had so far is made out of raisins. Now, don't get it into your head that raisins won't make good pie. They do. "After breakfast we hie us away to the field and cut wheat until the fat dame waves a tablecloth out of the window to tell us that dinner is ready. Then we eat and go out and cut more wheat, and the old boy keeps us at it until it gets too dark to see. But, Willie, the way you can sleep after you have had a day like that! You go dead-that's all about it. "I figure that I will get home with about $30 to the clear. The old boy says he will give me $25 a month to stay and plough, and a thresher man offers $1.50 a day and 'found' if I will work for him. But $30 is . capital enough for Harold. I am not grasping or sordid. "P. S.-I had a heart-to-heart talk with the roly-poly girl last evening. She said I ought to be ashamed of my self for kissing her in the house where the fat dame might see. If "It wasn't for school taking up I believe I'd tackle that job of ploughing." Kansas CIty Journal. Why He Was Patient. A German clergyman, on a journey, stopped at a hotel much frequented by wags and jokers. The guests used all their artillery of wit upon him, but he ate his dinner quietly, without seem ing to observe their jibes and sneers. One of them at last. in despair at his forbearance, said to him: "Well, I wonder at your patience! Have you not heard all that has been said to you?' '"Oh, yes; but I am used to it. Do you know who I am?' "No. sir." "Well, I will inform you. I-am chap' lain of a lunatic asylum."-Exchanlge. Now He Guesseth. Cholly-Will you think of me wheif r'm Sne? -., Alice (with an unfortunate snigger) -Who could help it! Forgetful Father-in-Law. "I've had another quarrel with my son-in-law, Count Fuscads," said Mr. Cumrox gloomily. "Have you refused him money?' "Certainly not. But I forgot to'take my hat off and address him by his ttle when I handed him the check." Washington Evening Star. A Prophecy. Critic-That actor doesn't seem at home in his work. Theatrical Manager-No, he Isn't, but he will be unless business gets better pretty soon. But It Wasn't His Fault. Henry-Did the murderer keep cool when he went to the block? George-No; he lost his head entire ly.-Princeton Tiger. Although a lady's husband .hould neglect to give her a good dress, she should not seek revenge by giving him a good dressing. January Weather. The following data, covering a period of 16 years, have been compled from the weather bureau records at Columbia for the month of January: TEMPERATURE. Mean or normal temperature, 46 de grees. ~The warmest month was that of 190. with an average of 54 degrees. The coldest month was that of 1893, with an average o 8dges Tehgest temperature was 78 de grees on January 15, 1898. The lowest temperature was 10 de ~rees on January 28, 1897. A verage date on which first "kill Ving"' frost occurred in autumn, Novem b3r 5th. Average date on which last "kill in" frost occurred in spring, IMarcih 23d. PRECIPITATION. Average for the month, 3.80 inches. Average number of days with .01 of 'an inch or more, 10. The greatest monthly precipitation was 7 63 inches in 1892.I The least monthly precipitation was.' 1.07 inches in 1890. The greatest amount of precipita DAY DREAMS. She was such a nice girl. And only twenty. She bad a heart, locked. She carried the key in her hand. She looked out on a world that was just the same world as you see from a London 'bus, or from the box-seat of IL country coach. But to her the world was different. She dreamed by day with wide-open eyes and laughing lips. She peopled the world with strange folk and strange sentiments. It was full of noble women and brave men. There were no old peoile with gout and rheumatism. Nor babies with colic or croup. All the people were young and fair and brave. The ladies were graceful and true and tender. They never used curling pins. The men were gallant, gay- dashing. They never had faceache or went three days without shaving. There was no prating of politics, no babbling of work, no labor of the arts. The only topic was love. All the fine men spoke of it and all the fair women listened. But no gallant had spoken o! it to her, and in the gay throng her- * was empty. So she looked out on this strange. world, and, on the whole, was happy. But in such happiness at times she would become unspeakably unhappy. And she would cry, and keep on cry Ing for days. When her father, who was on the Stock Exchange, said it was silly, she had to agree. She didn't know what she was crying for. Her brothers laughed-coarse are the male young-and went on shooting rabbits. But her mother, who had once been i girl, stroked her hair and kissed her. It Is only mothers who understand the girl-child. The girl still lived in her own world, while her father went to the Stock Exchange, her brothers shot rabbits, and her mother disciplined the servants. So she grew to know that of all the throng in her world she was alone and lonely. And she knew it was not good. When she was very unhappy, she did not cry so often. Instead, she began to think of a presence which would make her life brighter, of a voice that would make echo in her heart, of the touch of'a hand that would makelife radiant. Then .she put her hair up. She spent days combing it, and each day she dressed It a different way. It made the heart of the old stock broker glow-when he took her to the, theatre-with pride. It made the boys wonder, and they, allowed that "Nellwas stunning. And it turned men's heads. It turned one man's head so badly that he never looked away. again. In hjs glance there was something she had not seen in the eyes of any man, and his vaice sent funny little tingling music through her heart. And when h'e took her hand in his big brown one, she dropped the key, even without knowing- it. And he kept it After that the world became very real She didn't cry so often. When she did, it was when John grumbled at the cooking. Or came home late from the club. Overwhelmiing Evidence. Judge-You deny persistenly that you committed the act, and yet the . descripion fits you exactly-a beauti ful face, youthful appearance, pretty little foot. Woman Defendant-Judge, I con fess all.-Tit-Bits. A Student of Natural History. Flory-Oh, Tommy! Didn't mamm% tell you not to take any of these pre serves because father likes them so well for his breakfast?! Tommy-I didn't take any. I only wanted to find out whether the fly) was still alive that I dropped in yes terday.-Brooklyn Life. Superfluous Implement. "Here, madam," said the peddler at the back door, "I have a mest useful little household instrument. It is a combined screw driver, buttonhook can opener, latch key, lamp cleaner, letter opener, paper cutter, -pipe fixer. and penknife. Can I sell you one?" "Sell me one?" repeated the house keeper. "What do I want with one? Can't you see that I wear hairpins " Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. He Didn't Get Licked. "What's that you're hiding behini. your back?" "Please, sir, it's a apple ma told mg o give you." "My good gracious!" said Mrs. Part ngton, "I wonder what they'll mann facture next out of grain. Here's an, account of making a wry face, and of another making a flowery speech; and - men a whole column about the corn laws." Trhe man who "saw the joke;- it ,Is said, used a spy-glass. tion recorded in any 24 consecutIve bours was 2.93 inches in January, 1902. The greatest amount of snowfall in any 24 consecutive hours (record ex tending to winter of 1884-85 only) was 5.0 inches on January 18, 1893. CLOUDS AND WEATHEE. Average number of clear days, 11; partly cloudy days, 8; cloudy days, 12. WIND. The prevailing winds have been from the northeast. - The bigbest velocity of the wind. was 38 miles from the southeast on January 7, 1903. First Day of Winter. It is now winter, according to the almanacs, which specify December 22 as the day on which the autumn takes its leave. Not until March 21 is win ter is shoved out of the lap of Spring. Tuesday was the shortest day in the year, there being just 9 hours and 59 minutes of daylight. This is a contrast to June 21 when the day lasts for over 15 hours. IF any troops are to be sent to the isthmus it might be well to send the colored regiments. There are worse thingse tha n a harrnym in colorm.