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VOL. xvm. MAN.NLNGq S. C. WEDNASDAY. JANUA FOR BETTER ROADS. The Meeting in Columbia Was Well Attended last Week. SENATOR LATIMER'S ADDRESS, In Which He Explained His Plan of Working Up a Federal Appro priat ion for the Pu rpose of Better IRoads. The Good Ibads Convention met in Columbia on Tuesday, 19th instant. and was calkd to order by President F. H. Hyatt. After pr.ayer by Rev. M. L. Carlisl-, the roll was called, and it was found that thirty curunties were represented. The address of welcome was then delivered by Gov. Heyward, wLo declared that the two most im portant questions before the people now are imprAving the highways and bringirg immigration into the State. Gov. Jeyward was present when this orgarization was formed and he has atteuded every meeting since. He has seen the good accomplished by the movement. H1e is glad that this meeting is held while the legislature is in session. The supervisors know from experievce what is needed and the association can suggast to the legislature what is needed. The roads must be improved and must be im-1 proved with the use of money. He believes that wise legislation will be enacted at this session and be pledged his support to every measure and any movement of the proper kind. He had not attended as many good roads meetings in the summer as he had wished for the duties of his otfice had not permitted it. The following account of the proceedings is from The State: Senator Latimer was then present-: ed by Mr. Hyatt who said that the senator had broken two important en gagements in the north in order to make this appointment. THE HERiTAGE OF BAD ROADs. In explaining his interest in the! improved roads movement Mr. Lati mer said that no question is more im portant, and none more neglected. The system of road making here is banded down from Great Britain, where the roads were poor until the government took up the matter of road building. All history shows that good roads are built by the govern ment. Individuals cannot do it; rural communities cannot do it for they feel; too keenly the burden of taxation. If ever we better our conditions, it will be by the aid of the federal gov ernment. . Under the proposed law it will be necessary for the people whose inter ests are affected to raise one-half be fore the government will help. It costs 25 cents per mile for every ton hauled over the dirt roads. If the cost of transportation is doubled, the consumer pays that increased cost. The government is asked to make an appropriation which will help every citizen. ie then suggested three ways in which the farmers can raise half the money in order to get the: federal appropriation, by direct taxa tion, by comnz:utation tax and issuing bonds. THE TAX OF BAD ROADs. He then endeavored to show that. the farmer who pays $20 additional taxes to secure good roads will get back $50 a year in the saving of time and cost of transportation. It will give employm-ent to negroes in the summer and will increase the value of a farm $5 an acre to have a macad am road through it. -This would take money out of the federal tieasury and will give it circulation in the rural districts. It will improve the rural conditions and- will keep the young men and young women in the country arnd will help even seb ols and churches. But it is useless t o multiply examples of good effects which would result. What is neede~d is a practical way to get at paying for these roads. Jeffer son himself r. commended federal ap propriations ror good roads. Mr. Lat imer suggested that there be a direct tax, the revenue to be obtained tO be doubled by an equivalent from the federal treasury. The farmers will be required to *maintain the highways and to give the rights of way. Tnis will elimi nate all ques:ion of eminent domamn and federal juirisdiction. The city of New York pays taxes on more money than any three southern States com bined, and the pro rata which would be paid into this State from a federal road fund would be greater than the amount paid in, for Newv York uses so much imported material that her pro rata tax is heavy. ALL GOES TO NATI0NAL BANKs. Mr. Latimer declared that while there is S300.000,000 lying idle in the federal treasury, and millions are be ing spent in the colonies and on rivers and harbors, nothing is done for pub lic roads. In the next few years there will be $500,000,000 more in the treasury. What is being done with it? It is being loaned to national banks at n-,, interest, taxing the masses of the people that a few may become immensely rich, It would prove'a blessing to the people to put it in the rural communities, whereas it is wellnigh a curse now. The cost of the canal. if the canal is ever built, will be but a small part of. the sur plus. Hie declared that to give this to good roads is no more local legislation than to build dy kes on thbe Mississippi, to irrigate the arid lands in the west. $3,000,000 for good roads in the Phil ippines and other millions for open ing rivers and harbors. This surplus will be wasted or squandered, why not put it among the people? He declared that he had made a canvass of the senate and that two thirds of the senators are in favor of it, and all but three members ol the agricultural committee favor it. In the house two-thirds of the mem bers are said to favor it. but it will be ditticult to get a bill through the house at this ses-sion, as Speaker Can non will try to hOld it up. lIe wants to tack a rider on the agricultural bill and get it through the conference commmittees- 'We want this le-gis lation, and we will have it.- he said. mis principal object in coming here i: to get the legislature to endorse his! plan. SENATOR LATINER's PLANS. On r quest, Mr. Latimer explained that the appropriation of $24.000,000 would give South Carolina $421,000. 1 10 He prpo;es to have the appropriation made in three annual payments. His idea is to get $50.000.000 appropriated 1 at the expiration of three years. He claims that it is Democratic in every way. He claimed that the fund to be I raised in a county is in lieu of com mutation tax, and he declared that the amount now paid tor roads andi bri dges is more than enough to obtain a federal appropriation. Mr. Hyatt, in making his annaal repourt, referred briefly to the work of t the past year. The court house was cold and the dinner hour was ap :b proaching. He had been in the move ment since it had started live or) six years ago. It was slow work at I tirst, the roads were so long and so muddy. But the work was started a little at a time, radiating from the I coart house. and now in some counties 1b there are 25 miles of permanent im- d provements annually with repairs on I 500 miles additional. In only a few si counties was there a special levy of one fi mill last year. This great movement w is here to stay, he declared, and even s: now the annual expenditure an roads (e and bridges is $300,000, and the State 8 does not feel it. C( SENATOR LAIDIER THANKED. y At the afternoon session the com mittee on resolutions submitted a-re- P oort in which the efforts of Mr. Lati-e mer were commended very warmly a and his plan endorsed. There was a lot of complaint be- f cause the railroads bad failed to no- 9 tifv agents of the reduced rates to r the convention. Mr. Hyatt will en deavor Tuesday to have the reductiona made on the return coupons. 01 Mr. Hyatt, Senator Latimer, Mr. t J. A. Banks of St. Matthews, Mr. i Meiver Williamson of Darlington and q Mr. . H. McCalla of Abbeville were I P appointed a committee to attend the ai meeting of the national association in d: Washington next Monday to meet the congressional committees now in charge of Senator Latimer's bill. i Mr. F. H. Hyatt was elected presi dent and Mr. Earl Sloan secretary of the State convention. Mr. J. M. Ma- r jor of Greenwood was elected treas- ti urer. The convention will not meet until . 11 'clock Wednesday in order that, the members may witness the work E of roadbuilding machines at Hyatt park. ai Nearly two-thirds of the county su- ti pervisors of the State were presentI and the meeting in the afternoon con sisted principaily in the exchange of br experiences, comparing notes as to tl the cost of feeding convicts'and as to b the relative merits of free labor and I b convict labor. NAMES OF DELEGATES. The following delegates were pre- ti sent. ei Abbeville -G. N. Nickels, I. H. p McCalla, R. Sondley, S. A. Shannon, 01 W. D. Mann. Anderson-J. N. Vandiver, A. C. Latimer, Oliver Bolt, G. P. Browne, M. L. Bonham, H. H. Watkins, W. ei C. Latimer, W. P. Wright, E. M. 33 Rucker, Jr., J. B. Leveritt, S. N. i Pearman, Geo. E. Prince, J. T. Ash:- pl ley, H. F. Celey, T. T. Wakefield, J. E. G. Ashley and S. N. Browne. si Beaufort-Jos. S. Claghorn. e Berkley-J. H. Harvey, J. W. S. al Breeland, L St. Clair White, 1). M. heke-.V. Welchell. - I Chester-John 0. Darby, J. T. Brigham, Paul Hemphill, J. S. Mc- v Keown, P. L. Hardin.c Chesterield-Smith Oliver, G. K. 1 Laey, W. P. Pollock, Edward Mc- t lver. Clarendn-T. C. Owens, J. C. Lan ham. k Colleton-J. E. Moore, Johr' Black, D. L. Smith. Darlington-W. A. Dowling, E. M. Williamson. i Dorchester-Cyrus Mims. I Edgefield-T, S. Rainsford. I F,:irield-J. Q. Davis, Jano. D. Har-'a rison. Flrence-R. P. Byrd, A. H. Gas-b que, W. B. Gause. r Georgetown-J. H. Read. i. Greenville- J.1 E. Speegle, T. P. t Neves, J. H. Gaines, C. D. Smith, J. a W. King, A. C oksey, G. H. Mahon, T. L. Becknell, J. B. Marshall. Greenwod-J. M. Major, Geo. E. Dorn, Capt. J. H. Brooks. Horry--J. L. Boyd, G. F. Stalvey,t W. L. Mishoe. D. A. Spivey, F. A. Burroughs, Jeremiah Smith. I Kershaw -J. W. Floyd, W. K. a Thompson. Lancaster-L. J. Perry. ti Marion-J. P. Stackhouse, Dr. J. c I. David, E. L. Moore, A. B. Jordan. s Marlboro-i). D). McColl, Jr., C. F. f Moore. R. M. Pegues, A. J. Mathe- s Newbrry-J, T. Perry and E. H. t Aull. Orangeburg-O. M. Dantz'ler, D). M. Westberry, A. F. Fairey, J1. A. Banks. E. C. Hoover, Dr. W. T. C. Bat s. Manly Hungerpiller, J. A. Sal Riclan-S.H. Owens. W. A. V Dougass, A. P. Haskell, W. D. Caugh man, E. C. Tonchberry, WV. H. Sligh,t D. H. Goble. i Saluda-B. Matthews, D. B. Peuri- r Spartanburg-K. D. Edivards, F. C. B3tes, 1. C. Blackwood, D. M. Miles. Sumter-W. 1]. Seale, F. E. Tiiom as. E. W. Dabbs, J. M. Woodley. Union-T. J. Bendenbaugh, J. M. Mobley, W. F. Bobo, A. C. Lyles, J. T. Douglass. Williamsburg-J. J. Graham. K. D. Blomliey, S. J. Singletary, P. S. Wal. York-T. W. Boyd, F. H. Barber. .J. B. Johnson, J1. Edgar Poag, J. E. B~eamguard, WX. B. Moore, P. D). Bar Lee-.J. 0. Durant. J. A. Rhamne, W. McD). Green, J. P. Kilgore. Edwin Wilson. T. J. Bell, Dr. L. A. Peebles, P. W. McKenzie. The Good Roads convention con cluded its work Wednesday and ad-; iurned. There were reports which show that in each county the work last year was double that of the year before. and the prospect is that the; year 1904 will witness even greater prgrss Mcre machinery is being ought and the supervisors are giving 2ore attention to the proper use of haingang lator. A resolution was assed favoring the sale of the State arms. There was complaint in the 1ectiog that the salaries of supervis rs are too meagre. There was also iscussion of a ieed :f a change in the :mmutation tax law. The meeting ras one which will bear fruit, 1or the change of ideas broadcns .rd er )urages. THE DISPENSARY REPORT. Vbat the Institution Faidl the Coun ties and Schoo's Last Y. ar. In its report to the governor Friday I ie State board of dispensary Control ives the following statement of the usiness for the fiscal year euding ov. 30th last: 'o His Excellency D. C. Heyward, Governor of South Carolina: We have the honor to submit here ith a statement as the business done 7 the State and county dispensaries aring the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, )03. By referring to the several atements attached hereto you will ad that the total cost of liquors, ines, beer, etc. for the year has been ,997,559.47, and that the total sales xculsive of fresh beer) have been $2, 17,998.77. The net earnings for ac >unt of the school fund for tiscal ar, which have been placed to its -edit amount to $126,266.00. The net rotits that have accured to, and ually divided between the counties id towns amount to 8512.216.35. rand total of earnings for the year r school Tund and counties and wns $638,482. 35. Increase over earn gs of last year S71,584.02. Two years ago the school fund nounted to $611,354.38, and the act Feb. 26, 1902, requires us to reduce is sum to 8400.000.00, and within a w days we will have met this re iirment. As we said in our last re rt $400,000.00 is an insuiicient nount to conduct the business of the spensary on a cash basis. An Object Lesson. The Columbia State says 3anitoba a province in Canada not a great al larger than South Carolina. It Ls few railways and poor wagon >ads. It is frozen up six months of ie year, the temperature going to 50 low zero. Yet the commissioner of amigration of the Dominion govern enti reports that 122.141 immigrants ttled in Manitoba during the nine onths ending September 30th last. id that 41,0o of these were from e United States. During the same onths the previous year 54.490 im igrants settled in 31anitoba, 23,000 ing from this country. That was ie result of "very energetic work" r the Canadian government to induce amigration. She secured the best ass: people who had some money and ho expect to work. What could not ie south accomplish if the laws were fo::ced and active effort made to ople the waste places with industri is whites: Settlers Ir Alabama. Seven thousand acres of land situat in Washington county, Alabama, iles from MIobile, on the main e of the Southern railway, has been irchased for coloni::ation purposes. be tract will be subdivided into nal farms and sold to Italian farm ' The heads of 23 families have ready reached the property and corn .nced the erection of butldings. arms will be opened up at once. he settlers will engage in general ~rming, the growing of fruits and ~getables. From reports alreadly re ~ived, the indications are that fully 000 colonists will settle in Washing )n county during the current year. Fatal Hunting Accidt ni. At Savannah. Ga., Henry G arwes. eper of the city cemeter::. died 'hursay morning from a uunshot ound in the abdomen, imlicted on uesday morning accidentally by a ~iend, W. II. Kidweli, during a deer unting expedition on Saint Catherine ~land. Garwe~i had left his stand nd was making his way out of the 'oods. Kidwelk shot at a deer. One ucksbot glanced] on a board fence and cocheted forty feet, striking Garwes the abdomen. He was brought t e city on a tugz and died Thursday. fter much suffering. Murder on a Train. A special fr. rn Graham, Va., says at. in a row ox a Norfolk an:i Wes arn passengzer train, near Blietield. V. Va, Thuu ;day nigzht, Themas eedy. a merchant of Gra ba-n, shot nd, it is beiieved. fatally nounxded Valter Ilarris, a Norfolk and We.stern reman, who was riding in tihe day ach. Leedy 3ad no ticket and re isted the cond ictor's demand for his ire. e drew a revolver and fired veral shots, one of them taking ef act near Ilarriks heart and passing brough his body. Leedy was ar Negroe~s on .Juries. In the case of Rogers versus the tate of Alabanma, the suprenme court f te Uninted States sustained the ight of a negro to serve as a juror in riminial cases. Rogers was tried for aurder. Negroes were not allowed o sit on the jury, for no reason1, it s alleged then that of race and color. 'he supreme court of the United tates holds tils to be a denial of qual rights u1nder the fourteent h .mendment. Thue decision of the labama supreme court against tihe egro, Rogers, was, for the reason tated, reversed. Sixty Perso~ns Drowned. It is now estimated that 50 perscus vere drowned as a result of the burst n of a reservoir at Bloemfonlteing. ;outh Africa, Sunday, which also de troyed 176 hiouses anld three hotels. ['here was a public funeral and inlter nent Ionday of 23 of the bodies al -eady recovered. Tile ceremonies vere attended by all the local otlicials nd 2,000 of tile inhlabitanlts. Tile hps were closed and the town is il nourmnxg. Suing a Preacher. 3iss Agnes Justice of Venls gzrove. . J., is suinlg Rev. .J. W. D~avis. >aster of thle Batptist, chlurch at Ped icktown, for $10.000 damlages for >reach of pronuse of marriage. She THE LE(ISLATURE. What Has Been Done During thi Past Week. SEVERAL BILLS ARE PASSER The Leaislature Has Just Gt.er: Down to Work in Good Ernest Since the Electi.>n. After an adjcurnment since Satur day Jan. 16. the house of representa tives convened at 12 o'clock Wednes day and spent an hour in session. At I o'clock Hon. A C L'atimer, junior United States senator from this S ate, was accorded the privileges of thE hall in accordance with the invitation sent him last week, and for a quarter of an hour he presented to the mem bers of the general assembly strong arguments in favor of his bill to have government aid in behalf of good roads. There was only one third reading bill on the calandar-Mr. Eiird's to grant the Lexington Water Power company the right to erect dams at Dreber's and Rauch's shoals in Lex ington county. This was passed and sent to the senate. Mr. T. F. Stackhouse introduced the memorial from the State Temper ance, Law and Order Lea:rue. Tbis document was :-eceived as unformation and was spread on the journal. Unfavorable reports were made on the following: Mr. Ford's marriage license bill; Mr. Dorroh's garnishee bill; bill to change the time for cOn vening the general assembly until the second Tuesday in May, and the bill tc curtail the hunting season. Mr. Sinkler's resolution to extend the use of the hall to the State bar association this afternoon and tomor row afternoon and night was adopt ed. in making up the list of offices to be filled by election Wednesday, two vacancies in the Citadel board were overlooked. This omission was correct ed Wednesday by Mr. D. 0. Herbert's resolution. WORK OF THE SENATE. The senate session was short, Wed nesday the body adjourning within the hour and little being transacted other than the introduction of several new bills and the reading of the cal endar. Senator Brice introduced two peti tions, asking that they be placed on the calendar without reading. One was from the State Law and Temper ance league and the other from the women of Yorkville and both were along the line of changing the dispen sary law so that, a dispensary might be removed by popular vote. Immediate consideration was asked by Senator Hardin for his concurrent resolution relating to the Columbia Female college. It included a c' ange f the name to the Columbia college and also empowers the trustees to dis pose of the present property if desired. It was passed and sent to the house. A concurrent resolution sent up by Senator McCall proposing to grant a special charter to the South Carolina [mmigration society was also passed. Senator liutler's bill to exempt Con. federate soldiers from peddlers' and awkers' licenses was sent to the ouse as was Senator Douglass' bil] pportioning a part of Union's share f the dispensary funds for maintain ing a public library. The Lanham ex ess bagga~ge bill and Senator Ray sors Orangeburg school election bill were also given third reading. The ose resolution of Mr. Lanbam to rive Clarendon's couunty treasurer cer ain funds in repayment was in einitely postponed. The Gause bill to prevent shipping shad out of the State was made a special order for Wednesday. Rev. .John Lake who made the -pening prayer for Recv. Walter I 11er bert was once a page in the senate HeI is a South Carolinian and is nowa missionary lately returned fron China. FARM LABORERS CONTRACT. There was a long debate on the bill providing punishment for violatior of labor contracts. This was a most important measure, the object of thi friends of the bill being to protect thb armers form merchants as well as from the laborers who violate con tracts. It was argued that merch ants swoop down on the laborers it the mi-ldie of the year witl:out gis ina notice to the farmner whose work sil: be disconcerted by having 1:is laborer. taken away. TLh-e bill as passed oro vides that an.; laborer w:rlking 0r shares of crop, or for wages in money or other valuable considerat ion, uc del a verbal or wriuten contrat ton f;arr lands, who shall receive ad van :es either in money or supp~lies. and thereafter, wilfully and wirthout jus1 cause fail to perfomn the reasonable service required of him by tbe' termi of the said contract, shall be liable t< prosecution for a misdeme anor: n nd provided, the prosecutio;n shall b< commenced within forty days aftel the alleged violation. and, Ion convic tion, shall be punised by imprison ment of 30 days, or to be tined in th< sum of not less than $50, nor more than $100, in the discretion of the court: provided, the verbal contrac herein referred to shall be witnes.se< by at least t wo disinterested witnesses provide ihat the contract shall b valid on1t between the original partie thereto and any attempted transfer o as.ignme'3t of any rights thercunide shall be r ull and void. TO PUBLIsH BANK REPORTs. The house gave second reading t Mr. Little's bill requiring privat banking institutions to have thei Istatements published as other banks The old law requires all banks to pu lish in a newspaper every quarter report of the condition and busines of the institution, the report to con tan a statement under oath from th president and the cashier of th deposits, liabilities, discounts. capit~ stock and property of the institution ths to be veritied by three directors 1r. Little's bill applies this law t al private banking institutions whether chartered or not, and to an. person, lirm or partnership doini business of lending money, and re ceiving deposits. Failure to com p1 wil be reardend as a misdemeano] and upon conviction in any court of competcnt jurisdiction shall be fined 1 not less than .100 nor more than $1, 00o, or imprisonment for not less than E3 three months or more than one year. No LICENSE ON CERTAIXVETERANS. Mr. Tribble's bill to exempt Confed erate soldiers and'sailors from paying 01 license. which had received an unfa I vorable report, came up fur discussion. w Mr. Mauldin moved to strike out tle 1tenlacting w'rds. Mr. Tribble explained that tire is a law exempting veter an, froin lic.2nse in the counties, but t.his dc-s not apply to towns. He ap pealed for the old Con federate soldiers. Mr. I nan and Mr. Barron appealed 1 Th to the seitiment of the house in re- I gard to the penniless Confederate Sol.. gr diers trying to make a living by ped- of dling, but Mr. Muses rather embar riszed the members from York by av suggesting that the bill would exempt foL from license tax the two richest men 19( in Rock 1Ull. Mr. Mauldin disavowed th, any unfrieedly spirit toward the Con- da federate soldiers; he was one himself, ch and would go as far as any other man do toward helping them, but the bill mc does not discriminate between rich ha and por, and there are .x-Confeder ates who are wealthy merehants. The shi bill was amended to meet Mr. Maul- pr( din's objections and was pissed to col third reading. of TIIS WAS KILLED. The house Friday killed M. Webb's ye bill to authorize and require * oe direc th tors of the State penitentiar; to erect bu and equip f rtilizer plants a~id ware- of houses for dhe manufacture .nd sale ma of commercial fertilizers. sta A very imp->rtant matter among mO the new bills was the presentation of a memorial from the State Immigr.- 00 tion association. This was accom- ye: panied by a bill presented by Mr. D. 19' D. McColl. Jr., to have a bureau of S commerce and immigration. Another new bill wh:ch will attract attention ye was presentrd by Mr. Wo. L. Maui- th Oin of Greenville, which provides for qm the establ shment of distilleries, o breweries and blending plants in cities ab of 10,000 inhabitants. as yez THE DORCHESTER LYNCHING. 18 th th The Man Fung Had Been Guilty of Former Attempt. re] po in regard to the recent lynching at de Reevesville Sheriff Varnadoe of Dor chester county has written Gov. Hey- 18 ward in detail. The letter was re- po ceived Wednesday, although the crime 00 was committed last Thursday. th "Hearing that there had been a cel lyuching near Reevesville," said the tu letter, "I immediately took such steps as I deemed wise to apprehend the cu: parties who participated in it. I went va to Reevesville and interviewed both Ki the white people and the negroes to $1 accomplish this purpose. I found the of good white people of the town and ye community, apparently willing to as- Us sist me in discovering the guilty par- 00 ties,but none of these could give me any to information leading to the arrest of $4 any party who took part in the lynch- Ri ing. The negroes appeared indiffer- $8 ent and I could get no information 85 nor assistance from them. E "It seems that 'General' Lee, the negro lynched, was in bad standing ial with the people of his own color, some pr of them actually expressing surprise th that he had not been dealt with like th manner several years ago for attempt- bu ed similar offenises. Notwithstanding pu the fact that this negro has attempt- pr ed several other assaults at different times on white women of this county va and has evaded the law, yet the white ye people of Dorchester deeply regret St this lynching. su "O course I will do my duty in this th case and will appreciate any sugges- co tion from you. in this I have the: ne moral support of our best citizens who m: wish to make an example of the law- do less. tb "The history of the case is this: A ha widow living in Reevesville, who has wl several little children to support, is 19 running a small store. For several nights this negro had been hanging in around her place of business act-ing in in a suspicious manner. -She had noti- gi lied some of her neighbors of his actions A) and they were on the lookout for him. th Last Sunday night he endeavored to ti enter her home but was frightened of away by her cries for help. Hie drop- 00 ped a pair of home-made knucks in which were identified as those which $1 he had been carrying. There were rit several other piecs of evidence against in Lee, one of which was a paiir of legg- p,* ing~s which lhe wyore wvhiich left a pect:- ar Iar mark, to wit: a buckle fromi one of ti< the straps marked every step of one di of his feet. re "~A warrant was sworn ot at the co instanice of the iunjuredi lady. a con- cl' stable wvas s-mit to arrest Lee. and af- Ct ter lhe had secutred him and was oni to his way to jail with his prisoner. lie Ipc wvas held up by unknowvn parties who forcibly too!: the prisoner. The con- St stable was ordered to move on. which p he did to save his owvn life, lHe had in jproceeded some distance when lie heard the shots which undoubtedly re- ti sulted in thue death of the prisoner. tl This arrest anid lynching took place on 10i the night following the attempted as- m sault." to A Good Bill. O The Columbia-: State says "r Bomar's bill to empower mayors and dc Imagistrates in cit ies of over 5,000 in- sa habitants to issue warrants author- tl: izing police or constables to break b~i opnadenter any closed doors or di roomswherein it is suspected gaml- A rbling is going on is a measure which C the legislature shiould pass without $:. dlelay. It seems that some such legisla- st tion is necessary to break up gai.. an -bling in our towns and cities. Gaml- ti Ibiing is already outlawed and gami- in rbiers also. but it is not now possible, in under the law. to raid gambuirg dens of unless it is suspected that whiskey is m sold therein." p<~~aabe C1At IBarbourisviile. W. Va., Green a CChilders, aged 71. is dead after a few. w 1hours illness. One week ago his b brother, Lewis, 73, passed away. The 2 had been inseparable companions is 0from infancy, fought side by side in o1 the Confederacy. and, coming home' .: from war, married the same day and es lieved within a few yards of eaich di other. On the death of Lewis, Green Vremarked that his days on carth were f '1fw. a' COTTON'S RECORD. :ports Last Year Greatest Ever Xade in One Year. E MILLION DOLLARS A DAY ith a Continuous increase Dur ing the Last Five Months or the Year Ending December 31. rhe Wasbiagton correspondent of e State sa3 s King Cotten made his atest record in the export figures the calendt r year 1903. F'rom 1883 to 1903 cotton exports eraged a little more than three rths of a million dollars a day. In )3, however, they averaged more mn one million dullars in value per F: in the last three months of 1903 y averaged more than two million lars per day, and in the closing nth of the year nearly two and a f million dollars per day. Exports of cotton in December )w a greater value than in any ceding month in the history of ton exportation, the total being r 872,000,000. rhe total cotton exports for the tr was $378,000,000. These are preliminary figures on filt: at the reau of statistics of th3 department commerce, but they will not be .terially changed by the revised tement to be issued later in the 'nth. rhis total is an increase cf $64, ),000 over the preceding record 0r, 1900. In but three years, 1900,1 )1 and 1903 did the total exceed the )0,000,000 mark. ut while the total value of the rs's exports of cotton was greater tn in any preceding year, the ntity exported was not so great as 1898. That year there was sent :oad a total of 4,178,000,000 pounds, against 3,620,000,000 pounds last r. The value of cotton exports in )8 was, however, only about two rds that of the past year, although quantity was 13 per (ent. greater. some idea of the value of cotton in ation to the total agi icultural ex ts is shown by this statement in a >artment of commerce bulletin: I During the entire period from 33 to 1903, the value f cotton ex- i rted has aggregated over $5,000, ),000, and averaged 25 per cent, of total exports, and about 38 per it. of the total exports of agricul -al products." rhe United Kingdom is the largest tomer for our cotton. The total ue of cotton sent to the United ngdom in 1903 was, in round terms, 7,000,000, which was 39 per cent. our total cotton exports for the tr. Germany stood second on the, of cotton consumers, btiying $111, ),000 of cotton from us. The sales other countries were: To France, 7,000,000; to Italy, $21,000,000; to issia, about $9,000,000; to Belgium, 000,000; to British North America, 000,000; to Japan, $4,500,000; to xico, a little over 83,000,000. While the United Ki:.gdom is the gest purctaser, her increase 'over ~ceding yer rs is much less than t of Germoany. The increase of a United Kingdom over 1900 was e about $5,000,000. while Germany's rchase was $23,000,000 over th~e vious recori year. Dspite the marked increase in the tue of raw cotton exported in recent irs, the cotton mills of the United Ltes have iuring that time con med a larger quantity of our cotton in ever before. Prior to 1898 the iton mills cf the United States had ver in a single year consumed so ich as three million ba.les of the mestic crop: since the beginning of at year, the annual cnsumption s ranged fr om 3,500,000 bales up .r~d, exceeding 4,000,000 bales in 02 and 1903. Some facts bearing upon the coin rcial features of Corea, particularly beresting in the light of the promise ren by the emperor to Minister en to open to foreign commerce e port of Wiju, in the Yalu valley. e been prepared by the statistican the department of commerce. A c. rding to his statement, the comn tre of Corea amounts to about 5,000,000 annually, im ports mate lly exceed exports, the imports be about $10,000,000, while the ex rts are approximately balt that 1unt. It is stated in this connec >n that the conditions in Corea ler from tho~e in China in this pct: While in China the foreign mmerce is carried on almst ex sively through the treaty p )rts, in *rea only about one-third of the tal commerce goes through. those rts formally opened by treaty. The direct trade of the United ates with Corea is small, but a fair oportion of American goods gces to the country by way of China and pan, and American goodls are rela ely popular. The figures show at the direct trade with Coirea for 03 as approximately .'400,000, not ch in itself, but even this small tal shows a good proportionate in ease, the A merican expirts direct to prean ports in 1897 being only $509. This, it must be borne in mind, es not begin to represent the entire le of American goods in the Land of e Morning Calm-a "calm" which, -tue way, is being vi ry seriously sturbed these days. 'I he value of erican petroleum consumed in irea in 1901 is stated to be over 00000. Amnericar: m: chi nery and pplies $250,000, and elcetrical goods Ld lumber $236,000. It~ is presumed at there has been a steady increase these items during the two succeed g years, due largely to the presence Americans who have important ining concessions in the northern irtion of the empire. T[he imports are chieily cotton and Dolen goods, metals, kerosene, silk, id machinery for the railways and ines. The chief exports are rice, :ans. hides, ginseng and copper. The total cuirency of the country stated as aggregating $22,000,000, which $6.000,000 is copper cash, 4,000,000 nickle, $1 ,550,.00 Japan coins, and $530,000 Corean silver Eight ports of Corea are open to reign commerce, and are now known treaty ports. These are Chemulpo, Fusan, Wunsan, Seoul, Chinampo, Mokpo, Songehin, Masanpo and Kun san. The trade between Corea and Japan is growing more rapidly than that with any other country, the importa tion of cotton goods from Japan amounting from two to three million yen annually, the yen being approxi mately half an American dollar. Cot ton goods form the largest singler article in the value of importations into Corea, amounting t between 6, 000,000 and 7,000,000 yen a year. Silk goods amount to about one and a half million yen. Rice leads the export list, approximating four and a half million yen. Ber ns, hides and ginseng follow in the order given. The minerals 3f Corea are of consid erable value. Copper, iron and coal are reported to be abundant, and gold and silver mines are being successful ly operated. The most valuable gold concession is held by an American company headed by Leigh Hunt; con cessions have also been granted to Russian, German, Japanese and French subjects. Railroad, telegraph, telephones and a postal system have been recently in troduced into Corea. A' railway from Cbemulpo to Seoul, the capital a dis tance of 26 miles, was built by Ameri can contractors. but is controlled by the Japanese. The run is made in one and three-quarter hours. The Seoul Electric company, organized chiefly by Americans an& with Ameri can capital, has built and ope.rated an electric railway in and near Seoul which is much used by the natives, who, like other Asiatics, delight in travel. This is said to be the largest single electrical plant in Asia. The machinery is imported from the United States, and the consulting en gineer, a Japarese, is a graduate of the Massachusetts School of Tech nology. The Japanese are pushing forward a railroad from Seoul to Fusan, on the southern coast. Not very much work is being done on this, but the Japa nese government recently appropriated liberally for the completion of con struction, and has, it is understood, taken over the work itself. Other lines are projected, but the line from the I capital to Che:nulpo is the only one 1 completed. -1 ransportation in the interior is I chiefly carried on by porters, pack horses and oxea, though small river I steamers, owned principally by Japa nese, run on such of the. streams as are of sufficient size to justify this mode of transportation. Corea is about the size of the State of Kansas. The population is various ly estimated at from 8,000,C00 to 16,-- 1 000,000. The last figures show the for eign population to consisb cf about 1 30,000 Japs, 5,000 Chinese, 300 Ameri cans, 100 British, 100 French, 100 1 Russians, 50 Germans and about 5 of various other nationalities. The postal service is under French directors, and has in addition to the I central bureau at Seoul, 37 postal sta tions in full operation and 326 substa tions for registered correspondence. - Beheaded Her Son. Mrs. Arthur Oswald of Oakland in a sudden fit of insanity beheaded her four-year-old boy and pet dog, which had defended him from the attack from his m other with an axe. The head of the son was completely sever-* ed from the body and was carried from the kitchen to the dining room where it was placed in the center of the floor beside which the woman laid the dog's head. Arthur Oswald, hus band of the woman and father of the boy, upon returning home from work Wednesday nlignt discovered the horrible crime. He called to his wife bt received no answer and going to the upper part of the house he found his wife. lying in bed fully clothed with her dress besmeared with blood. Beside her lay their six-months-Old baby sleeping peacefully. In another room adjoining Oswald found two other children unharmed. An~ier the Bo1l Wteeil. Secretary Wilson is arranging the details of the campaign authorized by congress to be waged against the cot ton boll weevil. A number of gov ernment entomologists and scientists are already en route to the ravaged Texas fields and to the Sabine river valley in Louisiana. the -pest having been reported from three places in that section. There will be 30 or 40 scientists at wvork against the pest be fore long. They will organize the farmers to tight the weevil and will educate them in the best methods of attack. Secretary Wilson expects to make another trip to the districts in volved while the fight is on and Drs. Gallaway and Howard of the entomo logical division will keep in close1 touch with the situation. Advice to Farmers. The Columbia State says: "With cotton selling fcor 14 cents a pound there is no use arguing against a tre mendous acreage being planted this spring: nor with a fair season is there likelihood of the ,ield being less than 12000,000 bales. The South Carolina farmer's wisest course is to plant as early as is reasonably safe; to plant the earliest maturing varieties of seed obtainable and to use economy, mak ing the greatest quantity with the least outlay. Whatever the size of the crop, high prices will be coin manded by the Srst half million bales' o~ the new crop that are put on the markt.'' Dr. Crawford Declines. The State say s Dr. T. A. Crawford has declined el.ection to the board of trustees of Winthrop college. This action on his part is regarded as more than liberal, it is looked upon by some as magnanimous, becuse Dr. Crawford himself was legislated off of the board about three years ago. It appears that Di-. Crawford was elected Thurs day night to fill the vacancy caused by the expiration of the term of Sena tor Tillmnan. Having declined, Dr. Crawford leaves an opening for Sen a Itor Tillman to be elected.I Too Much Booze. The Newberry Observer says a man who has been in Columbia a good por tion of the time since the session of the legislature began says he has seen more drunken members this time than ever before. T wo members have especially distinguished themselves in that line. DEATH IN THE WIND. rhirty-seven People Killed at und vi le,- Ala., by Cyclone. COWN COMPLETELY WIPED OUT. Che Wind Monster Came- in the Darkness. Several Have Thril ling Escapes. Details of the Disaster. A dispatch from Tuscaloosa, Ala., ays the most disastrous cyclone that ver swept over that section visited Ioundville, Ala., a town of 300 in iabitants, 15 miles south of Tusca oosa, Friday morning at 1 o'clock ind as a result 37 persons were killed ind more than 100 injured, and every )usiness house with the exception of a ;mall drug store completely destroyed. The cyclone struck the city from he southwest, dealing death . and lestruction as it made its path, a luarter of a rrile wide, through the :own' The following is a list of the hite persons who. were killed: E. P. Seymour of Nashville, Tenn. Wvho accepted his position as operator it the railroad station last evening. A. W. Warren of Birmingham, em ployed by the Alabama Grocery com pany. J. H. Redmond, superintendent pumping station,'from Nashville. Robert Powers of Tuscaloosa. Miss Hettie Farley. The negro dead are: W. N. Miles, wife and six children. Albert Holston, wife and three bhildren. Ike Holston, wife -nd threc chil Iren . e .. .................. Nine other negroes, yet unid led. The following is a partial list o he seriously wounded: Mrs. W. A. Grubbs of Kentaeky lislocated hip; R. L. Griffin, spran ack; Mrs. R. L. Griffin, armb ee Griffin, badly bruised; A. Yriffin, eyes torn out; Mrs. Farley' 'ace cut and ankle broken; Mrs. Gaf ey, badly cut; Mrs. F. T. Galley, >adly lacerated; Mr. Farley, blinded; k. B. Taylor, leg broken; Mrs. Mc ,aney, chest crushed. The names of the injured negroes iave not yet been procured. Surgeons were rushed to Moundville rom Greensboro and Tuscaloosa, and 1 poessible was done to alleviate the ufferings of the injured. By the force of the storm persons ere blown hundreds of feet from heir beds in the blackness of night. Chrough terror, a father, m5ther and iree children fled from their home t eek refuge and in their excitement_-.-s eft a five year old boy in bed. This norning he *as pulled from beneath ome timber anad thus far Itisimpos ible to find any other member of the amily. Bedding, carpets and wearing appa el are scattered a distance of ten niles through what was a forest, but vhich is now as clear as if it had beef ut by the woodman's axe. Freight cars are torn to splinters, he trucks from them being. burled - indreds of feet from the tradk. The depot, the hotel, warehouses rins, 30 homes, the store hofs'es ceca ied by R. L. (Griffin, A. W. Wiggins k Son, W. J. Dominick, A."D. Griffan Ld W. P. Phifer, together with their ~tocks, were completely destroyed. Where they stood it is impossible to Ed even the pillars upon which these structures rested. Bales Of cotton, which were stored in warehouses were torn to atomsi, he fragments of lint together with he debris lod ging in trees making it lppear as if that section bad been visited- by a snow storm. Heavy lrca safes were carried by the storm, the doors being torn from their hinges. A young clerk employed by W.P. Phifer, hearing thie terrible roaring of the cyclone, let himself down Into a well in the centre of the store. He had no sooner found his place of saf ty than the store was completely de molished. Friday morning he was drawn out uninjured. An agrienltaal Hall. The corner stone of the Hall of Ag riculture was laid at Clemson College on Tuesday, Jan. 19. Senator Till man made an earnest address, giving he history of causes that led up to the founding of the college and a his tory of the college since. He showed how the college had been turned from its intended course into a mechanical direction by force of circumstances and the demand of the people. He aid it was a sad fact that the young men were leaving the State to fnd po iti""s. He hoped that the founding of .s building would lead to giving the ons of farmers an education that would help them make an honorable iving on the farm. Col. Newman followed in an eloquent speech, deal ing with the long'struggle for such a building and expressing high hopes of what this, the first agricultural hall in the south, would do for South carolina. An Awful Fate. The Columbia State says Mr. B. Meddaugh, an engineer for the Phoe- - nix Bridge company, which Is putting in a bridge for the Southern at Broad river, near Shelton, was brought to Columbia hospital Wednesday and died Thursday night from injuries re ceived in the shafting of an air comn pressing machine. Mr. Meddaugh was standing near the fly wheel of the machine when his coat wascaught by a key on the fly wheel shaft, and was instantly wound up in the shafting, whirling his body over and over. The machine was stopped as quickly as could be, and the mangled form ex tricated. Th'e Republicans. The Republicans are getting to work early. The state convention will be held on the 24th of February on the call of the executive commitee which met last week. The commit tee endorsed Roosevelt, and- said they - wanted him for four years-more. On Short Time. Eight large cotton mills at Con cord, N. 0., operating 88,000 spIndles and 3,300 looms, have cub down their running time to four days a week on account of the scarcity of cotton. Two thousand hands are affected, by the shorter time