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The Two Mlysteries. We know not what it i;, dear, this sleep so deep and stiii. The folded hands. the awful calm. the cheek so pale and Cei1. The lids that will nc1 iit again. though we may car ard cull. The strange, white solitude of peace that settles over all. We know not what it means, dear. this desolate heart pain, T This dread to take our daily way and walk in it again: We know not to what other sphere the lov ed who leave us go, Nor why we're left to w(onder 'tilh nor why we do not know. But this we know: Our love n e if they should comae ti day. Should come and ask us -0 life?" not one of us - Life is a mystery deep, s eL C' det can be, Yet oh, how sweet is - we live and see. Then might ti by say i- isd ones-and blessed is t "So death is sweet to . though we may el ye a We may not te it to t mystery of dcath Ye may not tell us, if ye would, the mystery or breath. The child who enters life comes not with knowledge or intent. So those who enter death must go as little children sent: Nothing is known. But 1 believe that t God is overhead. And as life is to the living. so dvat 1 is to the dead. Wuait W hit man. A SPRINGTIME M-ESSAGE To Those Who Have Laid Loved Dear r Ones Away. Did you ever st-p to think that God hides away so many secrets under 1 the snows of wint - r? WLo cau tell s what mysteries are buri -d reneath the white cover, so deep, so dazzlinz in its purity when it drst falls on the brown a leaves and withered grassy it is true S to its trust and nev, r whispers (.f the possibilit-iis that are be'n sheltered and nourished by its enfolding. The flowers are only sleeping, their tiny pulses are thropping with life down t! in the darkness, and after they an ake, rested and refreshed they will bud and blossom more beautifully thane before. The bare branches of the tre-s bend 0 -lovingly down in a feeble attempt to a protect the little sleepirg blossoms and the wind, we say. sighs mour2 fully as its rocks them to and fro, but C it is only chanting a lulaby that is! known to natore's childen alone. All is quiet and peace under the snow j awaiting the sound of -p:ing's trux- I. pet" to awaken to a larger life and greater loveliness. So whcn "life's winter is past" and the snow has mel ed at the call of God's et- rnal spring C what wonderful surpri-e await us Life, full, free, throbbing life that, 0 F will never need to s'eep again under the winter's sorrow, for "Behind the dim unknown * Standeth God within the undouw, keeping - Watch above his owni." And what seemed death to the nlat- t< ral sense was only a hidi: g a way of r< the germ immortal with Goi staindiig h guard, ready to bring it forth in good le time. The king wh~o comes and oj spreads his robe of ermine over all, al treads, oh so gently, because of the -w >sleeping buds and tender blossoms be- w neath his feet in their earthly cradle. ui *The awakening time is not yet and se they will sleep more sweetly under r the ermine robe. Why do we not 0: think of this when our hea:ts are t4 heavy laden because of what has been oj bidden away from us, remembering t. that there lives one who never loses sight of our flowers, even though they b wither here in the cold blasts that come from the sea of rain and the si * valley of the shadow. H e knows they di are only resting for a momevnt, to it come to a more marvelous growth in - l the gardens that are suckissed etern 13 ally, and whose flowers know no win- 01 ter time for sleep. The earth Ilowers t0 come back to us from under the C winter's snow-and we are of more n value than they. Thre little birds a: that build their homes in the hieighits al and hide in the clouds come back, al when they hear of the spring's new p: birth or resuriection-and we are of (2 more value than they. We. too, w illti awaken from the sleep that cle ses th' e weary eyes just long enough for the C angel in aaiting to bear us over the u; bar into the eternal summer of th~at pl "Morning Land" of which it is said. a: "and there shall be no night there'' ai neither any snow, or piiess ra~n is si needed to kill and make alive. From es the depths will come forth the hidden h3 treasures. Dead, we said of them. aj but not so. Like a gem that refuses :l to sparkle is hidden for a time from e the light until it regains its brril- y; liancy, so our jewels have been hidden Y from us, to be given back perfected si and a setting that glows w ith immor- tl tality, and our flowers will bloom b3 again when the anger's whisper awak- El ens them to a vision of skies fairer A than outs, bretzes softtr, and sun shine that never is hiddEn. From C under the snow of earth into the eter- w nal summer of hs aven.2 This is our springti me message to 0 you, and amid the sorrows of the u days past that still bear heavy upon you, may you te l d out frcom under t the shadow into that glorious sunlight, tC and be so inspired with hope that sor rt rowing and sighing shall flee away. I and a quiet peace mant el your hori- 13 zon, so calm and s rece, perfect r est al will come unto you and f rever abide EI with you. CU Child Suspended in Well. After having hung suspended by tU her clothing for an hour sixty feet 13 down in a weU, tive-year-old Annie w Thomas, of Omaha, Neb., was Wed- le nesday afternoon fished from her dan gerous positicon with g-appling hooks w and returned to her mother's arms d without the least injury. Returaing from a neighbor's. Mrs. Thomas was b jest in time to see the little girl stunm- si: ble into the mouth of the well. She al fainted, but not before her screams a had attracted the atten ion of work- i w! men on a near by house. T tese quick- f 1y responded and Ifound th- t th e child. is was hanging from a pre jectin'g he u forty feet above the water. A lter an t hour's work the hoojks were securey v caught in her dress and the child was!w drawn to the surface. w Nine Persons Drowned. The high waterlhas caused t e death of nine persons in the India-n Terri tory. All the tributarihs of thie Was hita are out of their bantks and cotton hi and other crops have been destroy ed. Railroad service is seriously delayed by washouts. er NORTH Carolina negroes hed cc lynching of the'r own and( in~ the s me ri week took charge of a lIepublican dis- e trict convention anid elected all neg ro ar delegats to the Roosevelt convention. 1 Yet there are some who uuestion the: tC nmores of the colored race. j er OKS LIKE MURDER.I Fatal Shoottig Scrape in Yasell Street, Charleston. S. C. BULLET IN VICTIM'S BACK. 1e Dead MnV Was Formerly a Dspensary Constable and the Killer Ran a Blind Tiger. In Charestou George M. Caultield as killed and JosepLi G. Myers and unter Sharp were wounded by J. P. .rroll on Ilasell street near the car er of Maiden lane Monday night. u:e (. about 10 o'lock. as a result (if ditflcultv previously had by Caulield nd Carroll on King street. in front of he Acaden y of Music. Caulti.:d was shot in the back. er he had turncd to run away from ;arroil. who was approachIng hirm ith a pistol. and My.ers and Sharp ere pro'>ably wounded by the stray )ullets which Carroll continued to hroot at Caultieid who did not fall to be pavement until several minutes iter he had received the tirst bullet ired by Carroll. although 3Myers said ondav night that be thought that arroll meant to kill him also. Myers as shot in the left arm. just below he elbow and Sharp was shot in the >Ut leg, midway between the knee ad the top of his shoe. The wounds Myers and Sharp were both ilesh Vunds, -nich were dressed by Dr. .S. athcart, immediately after the ooting. The trouble probably had its origin 2 the reporting of Carroll for violat ig the dispensary law. Carroll runs place on Archdale street, and it is id that some time ago, Caultield, ho was once on the dispensary con abulary force. and who is said to ave since been an "informer." in the ploy of the constables, bad given )formation against Carroll, causing ae enmity which existed and which sulted in the shLoting. At all vents, while Myers and Cauldeld ere s-anding in fronE of the Academy f Music talking, Carroll came up d almost immediately the two men agaged in a tisticuff. finally clinch g and fallirg to the pavement. aulitleld (n top. The exact words hich brought on the difticulty can t be learned. Myers said that the iing happen-d so quickly and with ie more serious trouble which fol wed, further confusing his mind, iat he can not positivey say just bat provocation was given for the :ht. Myers pulled Caultield off rroll and - just then, Hunter arp, John Murphy, Capt. James iatley and Capt. J. B. Francis, who ad previously been along with Caul ed and Myers, rushLd up and gave iyers their assistance in trying to ep the men apartand to stop the trou . Caulfield seemed disposed to listen the advice of his friends and on the ~quest of Myers, he started for his me, on Anson street. Carroll was ft behind. as Caulfield and the rest the parry wa'ked up King street d turned into Hasell street. Itj s said Monday night by one of the itnss~s that just after the party rnd into Hasell street, Carroll was en to be following and was heard to' mark, "I got him now where I want m." The party was walking slowly rough Hasell street, and discussion the affair had in fact ceased, when e mcn crossed Meetiug street. The re .t is particularly dark in this Lock. Caulfield was walking ahead his tive friends and when within a lort distance of Maiden lane, Caul-' eld, suddenly stopped. probably see g Carroll icom up before him with e pistol, and tpok a step or two* ck towards the party, when Carroll ened fire. None of the party seemed have been paying any attention to rroli. and it was suggested Monday ight that he had probably walked round the block, bounded by MIeeting d Prnckey streets andl Maiden lane d in this way gotten ahead of the trty and come face to face with ulield. However this may be, Caul id was shot in the back, as he was ~tracing his steps from Carrol!. and arrol continued to shoor, until he d emptied the tive cartridges of his stol. The party naturally separated the .bullets began to ly, backing up ~ainst the buildings on the south e of the street. Caulfield was near t to Murphy. He remarked that had been shot, a moment or two ter the fire, and a little later, when e firing which had been done at ose range, probat ly within a few ~rds, bad ceased, Caulfield fell into ~urpy's arms and was laid on the ewak. He had a convulsion and ren expired, before a physician could summoned, dying probably within aree minutes from the time that he as shot. No attempt was made then to stop arroll who walked away quietly, and s arrested later by Sergt Quinn at place on Market street, who had en ordered by Chief Boyle to follow Carroll and arrest him. The news of the shooting spread pl&y and on account of the parties the affair being all well known en, the shooting soon became a gee a topic of conv.:rsation and several mdred people assembled in the street out the dead man who was lying on e sidewalk, awaiting the verdict of . coroner. Every body was asking estios and eagerly gathering infor ation about the shooting. After ie wour ds of Myers and Sharp had en dressed by Dr. Cathcart, all the itness were arrested, being later re ased until the inquest Tuesday. As stated above, the parties are all ll known. Carroll's place en Arch le street is well known. Caulfield 1 leaves a widow and two children, sid s an aged fither, mother and ;tcr, was a well known character iout the city being a printer by trade Ld for some time he was connected th the dispensary constabulary roe. H a had many f rinds. Myers the engineer on the towboat Protec r Capt. Flatley is the master of the w boat Wa ban and Capt. Francis and' urphy are also engaged in maritime jrk. Hlunt -r Sharp is connected th a transer concern.-Charleston, A F-oolish Man. Because he believes that some o sproperty in Omaha, N eh., has been ~justy taxed, George U. Joslyn e miiooaire presidentoi the West 2 Newspaper Tnion, has be arded the windows of the mansion he re tly built there at a ctost of several udred thousand dellars, turning his ws into the grourd which landscape. tists from New York were brought beautify and gone with his family: THE SCHOOL LAW. Au Important Change Made By the bri Late Legislature. are There was an important change br made in the school law last year which ing escaped the atteetion of a majority of sw those interested in education and 10 which is now being called to the at- an tention of the county superintendents ga of education by Superintendent Mar- sb tin. The law has changed the time tb for the appointment of trustees by the ta county superintendents from the tI even to the odd years. Under the other D law the appointments were usually m made in a political year and fro-n a lat political standpoint this was bad as Pr many of them were made with a view sac to re eletion and those that were 10 made on merit sometimes made others m( mad s, that a good officer was some- C times defeated. The following letter by is being sent out. b To county superintendents of educa- as tion: Gentlemen: -I desire to call your an he Sattenitin to the amendment to See- he taxn 1210 of the Code, 1902, found on Ou page 528 of the acts of 1904. It says in Each County Board of Education on av the first Tuesday of July 1905 and on af the first Tuesday in July two years ca thereafter, shall appoint for each ba school district in their county three re schcol trustees, from the qualified tir electors and taxpayers residing in the kn district" etc. As you kncw, the old se law read 1896 instead of 1905; so in k appointing trustees this year, allow ha me to suggest that you commission hc tem bfor one year only so as to be th ready for the new law next year. If wO you simply allow the present trustees sil to hold over, it will have the same an effect. to Sincerely yours, I I 0. B. MARTIN, cr * Superintendent. wi _I Be Kind in the Rome. WC The habit of treating those who are be near(st and dearest to us with dis- to courtesy, is one that clouds the sun- Se shine of too many homes. If you are an young and looking for your prince, W just test his bome conduct. Do not Cb be guided in your choice by what a he young man is in the parlor; find out w( what be is in his mother's sitting th room. Do not judge him by the way G( be can tip his hat, but by the way he us treats the old, especially his parents. The home where mutual consideration rules is always a happy one, if it be the top fat of a cheap tt nement or an He abode but on the prairies. There should be a certain respect observed in the most intimate relationships. Wives have no more right to search ph their husband's pozkets than they rui have to take the same libetry with I an acquaintance. We have no more right to rob the baby's bank than to eit force the vault of the national bank. We may'hurt the feelings of a society sin acquaintance and there is no great rat harm done, beyond an estrange meni 4 of two people who care but little for dai each other; but when we stab the fond hol mother's heart, that loved us with a love next in tenderness to heaven's, or eit wound the sensitive feelings of a ( brother <r a sister, life is not long an enough to extract the sting from memory. Love's opportunity will soon vanish forever and out through in the sunset of life, the ones we love lei: dearest and best have flown away like isi birds to a summer land and our words f endearment are thrust back like tic voices that beat against a wall of rock. Y oung Men Wanted ! on Every young man in this town and ounty is wanted: Wanted from the h street corners, from the loafer's ren- coi ezvous, from the idler's promenade; turn your steps into the nighway of m noble aim and earnest work. There are prizes enough for every successful has worker, crowns enough for every me honorable head that goes through the air smoke of cornflict to victory. There is within the young man an upspring- w ing of lofty sentiment which contri-an butes to his elevation, and though anm there are obstacles to be surmounted- a and difficulties to be vanquished, yet der with truth for his watchword, 'and the leaning on his own noble purposes and xertions, he may crown his brow with cre onors. He may never wear the war- tic rier's crimson wreath, the poet's chap- am et of bays, or the statesman's laurelsco though no grand universal truth may th at his bidding be confessed to the be world, though it may never be his to bring to a successful issue a great sa political resolution-to be the founder f a republic whose name shall be "a tha istinguished star in the constellation f nations,"-yea, more, though his 1 ame may never be heard beyond the imits of his own neighborhood, yet is ma is mission none the less a high and wh oly one. But why do so few young imi men of earvy promise, whose wise tor opes, purposes, and resolves were tor radiant as the colors of the rainbow, suf ail to distinguish then~salves' The and answer is obviors They are not will- and og to devote themselves to the toil- ter, ome culture which is the price of grc uccess. Whatever aptitude for par- are icular pursuits nature may donate to are er favorite children, she conducts side one but the liborious and the studi- sou us to distinction, ties exc Filed Their Pledges. The State says among the candi- vat ates who tiled their pledges Thursday con with Gen. Jones were D. C. Heyward Car for governor, U. X. Gunter, Jr., for fini attorney general, 0. B. Martin for In State superintendent of education, isa no. D. Frost for adjutant general, but A. W. Jones for comptroller general Oh! he candidates have only until June St 0 to file their pledges and are a little so ackward this year. pin Enrgineer Killed. cro Southern railway mail and pa.ssen zer train No. 40, north bound, ran ] into an open switch near Salisbury N. ten ., Wednesday night. Engineer Tyler arri . Haynes, of Charlotte, and his for tireman, J.m Wadkins, colored, were hell illed and an unknown fireman, who mal was riding on the engine, was serious to:, y burt. No pasrgers were injured. app he engine and mail car left the onl track. __________urg Correspondent Killed. edt Private telegrams received from ers bankaikwan say that Lewis Etisel, wh ~rcspondent of The London Daily the elegaph, and Ernest Brindle of The i ondon Daily Mail, were fired upon gro w Chinese soldiers in a junk near ~rike. Etsel was killed but Brin ie is believed to be safe. Etsel was F . native of Butler, Pa., and his father ives in the West. * C Took Her Life.c Mrs. N. V. Collier, of Talbotton, E 3a.. cmmxitted suicide at noon Wed- y esday. She was visitirng Mrs. Finley G een, five miles in the country. At 20. iinnr she complained of being G ii. went to an adjining room and L ihot herself through the heart with a pistol. She was cheerful and seemed iappy. She wa~s 21 years osd and had S een married 18 months. She leaves Remember Mother. Boys. low the chirp of that lonely cricket ngs to mind the dear old home, years and 3 ears and years ago, we afraid to say bow many--when the ezes crept in under the low haDg branches and the graceful elm pt the roof of the old home a lov embrace, when the odor of phlox I tuberoses was wafted In from the rden. We remember the deep dark Ldow under the rough old oak, and ruddy lights through the rEd cur ned windows; the pleasant rooms, books, the music, and-mother. you remember mother? It is your ither we mean. The mother who Lghed over our baby antics, grew )ud of our boyish triumphs, bid her I heart beats when we left the home d to win our way in the world, the >ther whose hair grew gray in her -e for us, whose tears grew humble the multitude of her prayers in our alf: whose face gre-. more tender the years marked their progress on her cheecks, whose steps faltered d who3e hands trembled because r bouyancy bad been given frEely in r tehalf. The mother who staid the old home while we were far ay. The muther bird in the nest er the tkdgling had flown. There me at last a letter to us in another ud, and dear old mother was at t. Then we went home but the old ne home was gone f, r.ever. Ah, we ow, how trivial everything then =med beside mother's love. We ow how a kind word of old would ye cheered her heart. We know w the business cares crowded out - home letters; ani how mo her .tched and waited for the tardy mis e. We know how her heart bled for old time caress, and how she went rest with a prayer on her lips for u. And now it is too late, and : be ckets play their lonesome melociy, ile a white stone in "God's Acre" rks where mother rests after her ik is done. Remember mother, boys, ore it is too late-we have yet time show our appreciation of her love. e her hair, it is as white as snow, d it has beon bleached by care of us. 3tch her steps hnw they falter. erish her. Show her your love. Court r as you would a sweetheart, if you uld make her happy. All too soon is mother will be gone, and then d grant the cricket song will bring naught but kind memrie;. WOULD YOU LIVE TO BE 100. re Are the Rules a French Scient ist Prescribes Therefor. o live one hurdred years a French ysician bas laid down the following es for human beings to observe: L. Breathe fresh air day and night .. Take outdoor exercise each day her by working or walking. . Eat and drink moderately and 2ply. Choose water, milk and fruit her than alcohol. . Fortify yourself by washing ly in cold water and by taking a , bath once a week. . Do nut wear clothes which are her by working or walking. . Live in a house that is spacious I dry. .Work regularly. . After work do not seek repose exciting distractions. The hours of ure bel ng to the family; the night or sleep. . Ennoble your life by good ac ns. ECo those who are desirous of living . hundred years we can see noth objectionable in the above sugges-1 ns. So far as they apply to local , we presume none of our citizens ld te worse off for following them. n fact, our present daily life is deled much after the same lines.1 are not all fortunate enough to re roof gardens for sleeping apart-: nts, but the tendency to seek pure is in evidence among the lowliest.1 we can't get abundsant exercise in king, we get about as much in bal-1 ~ing ourselves in overcrowded trains I trolly cars, and we eat moder ly enough because, with the ten cy toward increased prices for focd,1 re is no other alternative. ublic and private baths are in asing everywhere at an unusual ra ,and the tendency of the age, even1 ong the fair sex, is to combine afort with fashion in such a way .t. beauty or "the mode" shall noti the price of physicial fortune. ; he French physician's doctrine Is| ~ply that of rationality, and evolu- 'I n seems to be following exactly on t tbcory. on t mprovemnent in the Cotton Belt.! he weather bureau's weekly sum ry of crop c~nditions says: As a ole there has been quite a decided provement in the condition of cot over nearly the whole of the cot belt. The crop has, however, ered some damage in Oklahoma 1 Indian territories from ove. flows from irsuflient mo'sture in scat ed localities in Louisiana. Rapid wth and a good state of cultivation generally indicated. Boll weevils increasing rapidly and doing con rable damage in a number of thwestern and south central coun-r in Texas. The week has been eptionally favorable for trasplant tobacco, and this work has ad. ced satisfactorily, having been pleted in Tennessee and Northt olina and about three-fourths shed in Kentucky and Virginia.t the extreme northern States there .n encouraging cutlook for apples, a in the central Mississippi andt o valleys and middle Atlantict tes the prospects appear to be e iewhat impaired by extensive drop g. In the southern States a good p of peaches is indicated. Smnmer School for Negroes. Ion. 0. B. Martin, State. superin dent of education, has completed angements for the summer sahools negroes. These schools will be I in 17 places. In speaking of the ter Mr. Martin says: "In order ~each the greater number we have ointed more schools and, as a rule, one instructor to the school. I ed the county superintendents of cation to advise their negro teach to attend any of these schools h may be most convenient." Fol- C t lng are the places and dates for county summer schools for ne bbevile-E. W. Williams, July 18. arnwell-Geo. Butler, July 18. r aufort-Geo. W. Pegues, July 18. n *ennettsville-D. W. DavIs, July 4. 31 amden-J. C. Whittaker, July 18. a harleston-J. E. Wallace, July 4. V olubia-J. B. Beck, August 1. r< ;getield-F. A. Peters, July 18. h lorence-Wm. F. Holmes, June 20. si eorgetown-N. J. Frederick, June tl retnville-JT. C. Martin, July 25. si ancaster-M. C. Lee, July 18. v ewberry---Tuios. Sanders, July 13. 'rageburg--J. B. Taylor, Aug. 1. d eneca-A. RobInson, June 20. v ion-R. M. Alexander, July 25. ti mrville.-_ L. Ca in, Jnne 13. NAVAL HEROES F dc rell of Their Weiid Night Forty Feet le tt Under Water al [N SUBMARINE EOAT FULTON, St C Which Lavs Twelve Hours on the D Bottom of the O c e a n of With Nine Men ] In Her. At Newport, R. I., gallant navy ic men spent twelve hours Wednesday t( night and Thursday morning in the w tiny living room of the submarine tE torpedo boat Fulton, as she rested nl forty feet below the surface of n Narragansett Bay. It was a test of B the splendid nerve of the naval tight- C ing man, as well as the supreme test B of the deep-under-the-sea war engine, t] and both emerged triumphant. t< All communication with the land was cut off. The roof of the conning n tower was bolted in, and silently the 0C waters of the bay closed over the grim- C( looking craft at a quarter past eleven t Wednesday night, and she slowly sank t1 below the surface, having on board C nine oticers and men, who had vol- t( unteered for the test. From that hour until a few minutes after eleven Thursday morning the venturesome nine experienced, wide- e( open eyes, the fanciful dream of Jules t Verne. Dawn appeared, and showed b an absolutely unruflied suraface where t] the Fulton had gone down. For all t, the interested Jack Tars at the New- b port Torpedo station knew, their mates had met the fate of the sub- al marine crew that went down to death i recently off the coast of England. - A NIGHT WITH DEEP- SEA FISH. Ij And for that matter, for all that t( the tars aboard the Fulton knew,they d had taken their last look at daylight a and had gone down in a living tomb. All the life that remained to them t< was contained in a cup-shaped steel 0 tube. Tons of water encompa-sed q them. The breaking of a valve the, C loosening of a bolt, the slightest dis- v arrangement of the machinery, such as frequently happens wherever w machinerv is used, might mean death w to them in one or its most horrible tl forms. Deep down there in the sea, sur rounded by entirely new and hidden tl perils, it might be supposed that the Jack Tars sat in silence, each one t] busy with his prayers, but they did SE not. Some read magazines, others t( played chess with improvised pawn's and others slept, while still others kept watch and stared at the fish that gazed at them through the bull's- v eyes as curiously as the fish stared at them. "It was just like the forecastle of a man-of-war," said one of the officers. ol Science triumphed over death. A fC few minutes past 11 Thursday morn- w ing the surface of the bay just off the torpedo station began showing air bubbles on a scale slightly larger than those thrown by a porpoise. There was an interval of five minutes, and then slowly from the depths rose aa great mass of gray iron. It looked like a whale rising for a sunning.c "HOW's THE WEATHER?" CABLE AsEs. al Gradually it shook tle water from ' tself and tcok definite shape. A " group of a hundred Jack Tars on the wharf let loose a cheer, and the Ful *( ton was floating on the surface of the l bay. si Captain F. T. Cable was the first to I appear. "Good morning," he said W 3heerly. "How's the weather?" g Cable has made about two thousand ~ rips below, in European as well is the American waters. He con-w esss a preference for deep-sea life, b~ with an occasional breathlng s~ ell, 3 shlike, above the surface.z Naval Constructor Woodward fol- al owed to the deck. sl' "Splendid!" he cried, with the air ~ f a scientific man. fr One by one they crawled up through se he conning tower, and as fast as they ot out in tt-e clear, lighted cigars W md pipes. The navy man thus far 0 aas found only one grave objection to she submarine boat. He cannot o~ imoke under the water. The men were as fresh looking as. hough they had spent the night in i >arracks, or swinging comfortably in 7 2ammocks aboard a battleship. They ' iad breakfasted comfortably off cann- Ut id goods and coffee, cooked on an elec- or ,ric stove, and fruit. They seemed oath to leave the Fulton and step at ack on dry land. of. In every detail the test had been a "J upreme succ ss. A t no time was any nc 'scomfort felt by any of the men. hi ncomprehensble as the statement hi nay appear, for eleven hours and a ca ialf of the twelve that they passed at ha he bottom of the bay, the men lived >n the air that the boat contained te vhen It was taken below the surface. TI Ss TEST A sUPREEME SUCCEsS. th Captain Cable says they could have lal ived with the same supply for several be ours more; but they drew, on their- sli; eserve supply in order to test the bo iumps and satisfy Constructor Wood yard as to the perfect working condi- wl ion of the apparatus. fir In naval circles here the success of 9 he Fulton's test is regarded as of the JoJ ttmost iniportance. Naval Construc- ca] or Woodward says that the Fulton m<~ rent through every test splendidly, ,d as a result of the trial the impor ant fact has been demonstrated that g he Fulton, or any boat of her type, p an make a cruise of 300 miles and re-e cain submerged for ten days. va The dominating part that the tor-ti ledo has played in the war in the Far ac' last has turned our navy men's at-T ention to this field of warfare, and th' aily experiments are being made at shi he station, in every detail of the an raft-.O While the Fulton still lay at the th; ottom of the bay Thursday prac- an ice drills were had in the launching , f Whiteheads from the end of thefa rharf, and every day the Porpoise, ef hark and Plunger, three more sub-te arine fighters, are taken out and iven runs beneath the surface, inse rder to drill the otticers and crews in If be management of the formidable thi sAFETY IS ASSURED. wa The success of the Fulton in Wed- cai esday's tests, when she engaged In yo1 1mic warfare and sent two battle wt bips to the bottom while beneath the all rater, and in Thursday's manoeuvre, coi rhen she demonstrated her ability to an; est with perfect safety for twelve we ours beneath the water, give the zin abarine torpedo boat rank as one of ab< e certain agencies in war, and in all doi mars of the future, naval men here in my, she will have to be reckoned del rith. der E xcept for a speed run home Thurs- exl ay afternoon, the results of which I rill be held secret until reported to dol e Secretary of the Navy, Thursday nig inin's test completes the trial of thy alton. The Naval Board, under the presi ney of Captain Charles A. Train, ft here Thursday, delighted with e new boat. [hursday's test was called the habit jility test. It was made under the pervisicn of the Navy Board of In ection and Survey, consisting of iptain T. J. Train, Captain J. H. ayton, Captain J. J. Woodward, )mmander Walter C. Cowles; brother the commander of the battle ship issouri, and Lieutenant-Commander aac S. K. Reeves. The men who actually participated the test, in addition to Construe r Woo3ward and Captain Cable, ere Lieutenant H. R. Morrell, Lieu nant Charles P. Nelson, Chief Engi er P. V. Rehill, Assisrant Engi er Henry Kirby, Gunner Charles -cbtold, Boatswain Charles Bergh, tief Engineer H. W. Noblit and atswain W. Lindeman. These are ie men who went down in the Ful in. After returning to the station Wed !sday night from the mimic attack r Point Judith the boat was put in ndition for the test, stores were ken aboard, and at 10:45 p. m., all ie crew having gone aboard, Captain able let down the lid of the conning wer, and two minutes later the Ful in began sinking. SHIP SEEN FROM SURFACE. In two minutes she had disappear I. Rain began to fall, and the crowd iat had witnessed the sinking of the >at retreated to barracks, leaving ie Fulton and her crew -to their velve-hour vigil at the bottom of the ly. The rain fell constantly all night, Ad at dawn showed no sign of abat g. Through the clear wateTs of arragansett Bay one looking direct down over the spot where the Ful ) had been submerged could dimly iscern the little ship, resting easily j the bottom. At nine o'clock the crowd began ) gather and speculate as to the fate the boat, but it was not until a aarter before eleven that any hint me from below as to how she had ithstood the test. There was a furious spurting of ater over her like the blowing of a hale, it was then, for the first time, iat Captain Cable made a draft on ie supply of air. Fifteen minutes more clapsed, and ien the Fulton came to the surface. L. Y. Spears, general manager of ie Holland Company, expressed him If as perfectly satisfied with the ~st. GIVE THR EXPERIENCES. hat the Crew of the Fulton Say of Their Trip. The following experience of the crew the submarine boat Fulton while rty feet under water will be read ith interest: WHAT CAPT. CABLE SAYS. Having been down in submarine yats about two thousand times, the *nsation was not new to me. But ere is no particular sensation. The r was just as gooi below, as it is up ~re. I slept comfortable. I know that ptain Woodward is very particular yout the air in his sleeping room, and hen he was satisfied there is nothing ore to be said. For eleven hours and a half we liv I on the free air in the boat. We real did not have to draw on the reserve ipply,. but I thought it well to test Le apparatus to see that it was in rking order. There Is no more dan r in one of these boats than there .'s any other kind of boat. We sank to the bottom easily, and a were pretty well tired out from the rd work of the previous day, and yet me of us played cards or read maga es and the papers of the day until out 10 o'clock, when we all went to rep, save une, who stood watch for r hours and then called his relief 3m time to time. We could hear yes Is with propellers passing by. We bad cooked some of the food, ich was relished. Our stay below of elve hours was nothing new for me d for our men, as we have on mainy casions remained below and without ing compressed air at all. Sleeping under the water in submar e boats is easy acquired by men who )ik with these types of boats, and ere is no more to fear in them, like r trip just ended, than in sleeping board a water vessel of any kind. Everything in the boat worked well d we simply carried out the orders the trial board and were happy and lling to lay down and sleep. Tnere is reason why the Fulton could not e stayed down twice as long, for we d food and water, reading materials, rds and checker boards to keep us ppy for that length of time. Some of the boys had writing ma ial on board, and when they awoke mrsday for breakfast:, which con ted of eggs, milk, coffee and bread, ey wrote letters to some of their re ives, and while these letters were ing written there was hardly the gtest perceptible movement of the We bad breakfast at 8 o'clock, ich Lieutenant H. H. Morrell, my at officer, cooked like one of our ~wport cottage chefs, and we all en red it, for we were hungry. It re led the story of the "pies which ~ther used to make." WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT IT. )onstructor Woodward says: We b along splendidly. There is no rticular sensation about sinking ept that of descending in an ele or. After we got down the sena n, if one closed 'one's eyes, was ex ly the same as it Is on the surface. ere was no difficulty in breathing, air was pare and wholesome, and rtly after going down I turned In I went to sleep. I slept soundly. ers slept also, but I am informed Lt some of the men read magazines played cards. But they all got a portionate amount of sleep, and so as I am aware, feel now no ill ats from their experience. The t was In every respect a success. R. H. Morrell says: "Its a peculiar sation when you begin to go down. you have any fear at all, then is time it strikes you. You know t you are shut in that there is ter all around you, and it sort of hes your breath, but after a while 1 become accustomed to being ere you are and it doesn't seem at strange. It is very quiet, of irse, and there is no movement of kind. I had a sleep, and I slept 1 and ate well. We read maga es and played chess and talked >ut our strange position, but I i't believe there was a scared man the ship. We had perfect confi ice in the b2at and absolute confi ice in our officers. It was a great rience." L W. Nablit says: It's like beingi qn in a cellar with a Can'dle at mid-1 ht. We were comfortable all 'a.uh Maybe it was a littlet crowded, but not any more than on one of the regular torpedo boats or the old monitors. It Isn't any warm er than the water, and the air was all right. I hadn't any particular sensations. It was rather depressing going down, and naturally it was gratifying to see the light of day again after twelve hours of solitude. Charles W. Beechlold says: During the night, while I was on watch, I was looking out of one of the bull's eyes and a big fish swam along, stopp ed short and stared at me in amaze ment. It was a most peculiar look ing thing, seen through the thick glass. His eyes glared right into mine, and then he darted away suddenly, as though scared half to death. I think I should like to serve regularly on one of these boats. Henry Kuley says: The worst thing about it is that you can't smoke below. Mr. Cable says you might do that, for all the harm it probably would do, but there always is danger or a spark strikibg the gasoline, which wouldn't be good even with the water all around you. Next Season's Cotton Price. The Augu ta Chronicle says the New York Commercial insists that it is authoritatively stated that the cotton crop for 1904 05 will not great lv exceed the 11,000,000 mark, beyond which it hgs gone only twice before, namely, in 1898 and 1899. It also takes into consideration the amount produced elseviiere-the E ist Inies, for example, having raised a crop of 1,500,000 bales this year, when in 1899 they c~ntributed only 375,000 to the world's supply. Bat allowing for an all around increase, the Cammer cial is still of the opinion that "the day is a long way off w'ien we shall again see nine and ten cent cotton." In other words, inspite of enlarged acreage due to prevalent high prices, the staple, in its opinion, will for some time to come be quoted consid erably above ten cents per pound. It is true that the Commercial admits that the crop outlo~k under normal circumstances would mean a material ly lower price. But It proceeds im mediately to give its reasons for as suming that the :onditibns will not be normal. "ONing," it says, "to the recent high price of cotton, mny cotton mills, b') h in this country and on the other side of the Atlantic, have considerably curtailed their output, and as the consumption of 'cottou goods is constantly increasing, it would be only natural that there should be an unusually large demand for such goods in the near future. This increased demand for c(tton goods would undoubt3dly be reflected in an increased consumrption of raw cotton-a fact that would operate to keep up, or at least to preveat a heavy fall in the price of that staple." The Chronicle, in commenting on the prediction of the C)mmercial says: "Estimating the cotton crop, it is true, is not altogether the easiest of propositions, but if any papers are entitled to do so with somethivg like authority, the N~ew York Commercial is one of them. We may trust, there fore, that there is some reliance to l1e placed In this published opinion, which means so much to the South." 'Col. Bryan's Joke on His Foes. A subscriber writes at length to give h's reasons for believing that the reorganizers will capture the St. Louis convention. He is earnestly advised to search for the moral' in the following story: A resident of a M'n nesota swamp district heard that frogs' legs were commanding a high price in Chicago. "How much will you pay for legs?" was the question he wrote to a Chicago cammission house. "We'll pay .$1.50 per dozen; how many can you farnish?" replied the commissiou house. "Ten thous and dozen," replied the resident. A week later the commission house re ceived the follcwing: "I ship to day three d..'zen frog legs-all I could get. I was misled by their hollering." The Commoner. A !Remarkable Cure. A dispatch from Savannah to the Augusta Chronicle says: Friday after noon during a severe thunderstorm a bolt of lightning struck the chimney and descended into a room of the home of Mrs. W. T. Leopold, widow of the late W., T. Leopold, grand keeper of records and seals of the Knights of Phythias of Georgia. Several brick in the fireplace were sent flying. Mrs. Leopold and two of her children were] sitting in the room. All three felt the shock, Mrs. Leopold getting much of its force. Just at that time Mrs. Leo pold was suffering greatly from Inflam matory rheumatism, which had seldom lefta her during seven years. Strange to say, almost immediately she found hat her rheumatism had disappeared. she bas not felt it since, and her phy sician thinks it may have disappeared permanently. A Woman's Frantic Act. At New York. frantic with fear at a fire in a six-story tenement house on Stanton street, Mrs. Benjiamin Apfel hrew her only child, a babe four onths old, from a window of her partment to death on the pavement, hree stories below. Mrs. Apfel was] revented from leaping to the street fter her child by firemen, who had imbed to the third story on scaling adders, and whose arrival an instant erlier would have saved the child from eath. More than a score of persons ere rescured by the firemen. Choked to Death. Carroll, the 8-year-old son of Mr. J. A. Clark, a well known farmer of the annon Camp ground section, Spartan urg County, swallowed a small iron olt, about three-eights of an inch in ircumference, and died within a few inutes Saturday afternoon. The iece of iron lodged in the boy's wind ipe, preventing his breathing. Every hing possible was done to save the oy's life, but these attempts were futile. After death efforts were made, o resuscitate him but to no purpose. Bomb in Palace. -11 The London Daily Mail says: "T wo C nfernal machines were found on the ] ight of June 7, concealed in tobacco I bxes in the Tsarkoye Selo palace, S here the Russian emperor is now re iding. One of the machines was in he dining room, the other in the udience chamber. The mechanism n each was working when discovered. [he strictest secrecy is observed and his statement, although true in every r ~etail, is sure to be categorica'ly de ied."a Bandits Hold Up Train. ii A Denver and Rio Grande w>m f< ound passenger train was beld up b ear Palisade, Col , early Wednesday. iu wo bandits seriou'ly wounded a h rakeman, ditched the engine and n xpress cars from the train and blew t: he safe after running some distance xi p the track. It Is not known how rti such was secured. The robbers es- Iai ~anpA-dS THE CANADA LOST. is the Dawn Broke the Steamer Sank Out of Sight. FIVE PERSONS WERB LOST. Drew Behaved Well, and One Hun dred and Five Out of One Hun dred and Ten On Board Were saved. A dispatch from Montreal says the Richilicu and Oatario Navigation :ompany's steamer, Canada, bound from Quebec for Montreal came into :ollision with the Dominion Coal com pany's collier, Cape Breton, six miles below Sorel early Sunday. Twenty minutes later the Canada went to the bottom. At the time of the collision bhere were 110 people on board the Canada. Five were lost; the others were rescued. The collision occurred just as dawn was breaking. The Cape Breton -lay at the entrance of the Lake St.-Peter .hannel waiting for daylight so as to ind her way through. She was get ting under way when -the Canada, making for Sorel at full speed, came into view. Just what the collision was due to and who is responsible for it has not been determined, for the offlicers of the Canada decline to talk, but from the statements given out it would ap pear. that the Cape Breton had not got head way on enough to answer her rudder and that she swerved across the path of the passenger bcat, her bow striking the Canada just forward of the paddle box on the starboard side and teaiing its way halt through. Then the Cape Breton swung clear ard the two steamers came along side one another. The shock of the collision aroused the sleeping passengers. The Canada at once bagan to settle and as the Cape Breton did not appear to be seriously damaged the passengers were hurriedly transferred to this steamer. In the excitement some of the pas sengers jumped overboard and were picked up by .boats from the Canada and the Cape Breton, but a great ma jority of those on board did not be come excited, while the discipline shown by the crew of the Canada was excellent. ~ Twenty minutes later when the Canada went down alongside the Cape Breton, resting on her side in the mud, all the passengers who could be found hsd been transferred. At least two of 'hose lost were killed in the collision. Killed His Father. Word was received Sunday of a bare fi-t fight during the night at Glace Bay, C. B., in which a father was lit erally pounded' to deatb by his son. Toe principals, "Bully" McRae and his son Jack are men of giant physique and known throughout the cape for their fighting abilities. Both are over six feet in height and weigh 225 ponns. They met in a barroom and quarrelled over mooey matters. When interference was attempted the Scotch men dove the cther occupants of the saloon from the place and, locking the doors, fousrht for an hour and until the elder Mc~ae was dead. The po lice finally effected an en'rance to the barroom and placei Jack McRae un der arrest. The dead man's face had been battered to a jelly, his ribs broken and .chest crushed in.' The younger McRae was frightfully in-~ jured. Wi Leave Texas. A dispatch from Houston, Tieras, says Vice-President and .general Manager William T. Eldridge of the Cane Belt railway has resigned be cause, he says, there is a determina tion on the part of a combination of persons to assisanate him. He has disposed of his extensive land holdings and other interests and will leave not only the road, but the Cane Belt coun try as well. A week ago Eldridge was shot through the body by a man in an ambush as he was entering the general offices. The wound at first was thought to be fatal, but haa proved otherwise, and he is recovering. I'he trouble is due to Eldridge's posi hive official policy. A mortal enmity arose between Eldridge and Capt. William Dunovant, a leading stock 2older, and resulted In Eldridge's kill ng him. Since then the latter's life 2as been twice sought by would-be Lssassins. Fought A bout a School. As a result of friction over the selection of a teacher for a pub ic school at E'k, a small town ten niles north of Waco, Texas, a' aloody street duel was fought at Waco n Saturday by B. B. Torrence, his on, River Torrence, and J. McAden, son-in-law, on one side and Dr. Hol xmn, his son and Prof. G. W. Perkins n the other. Bad feeling had existed or some time over the matter and fir og began when the men met Satur lay. The elder Torrence was killed Limost instantly, his body being rid iled with bullets. Dr. Holton and his on received dangerous wounds and ?rof. Perkins and Rivers Torrence vere seriously injured, McAden escap d uninjured. Shotguns and revolvers vere the weapons used by the partici iants all of whom are prominent. A Russian Offcial Shot. The Russian minister at Berne, switzerland Mv. V' V. Jadoviski, was hot In a street there Friday afternoon nd seriously injured in the head. His roald-be asin was arrested. He s a Russian named Ilnitzki. He had een in Bern for some weeks and coin lained that the Russian authorities ad 'confiscated an estate belonging t3 Lim. M. Jadoviski's wound, although t at first appeared to be dangerous, not dangerous. Ilnitzki is an en ineer and was formerly a Russian meier, but now is a Turkish subject rith a Turkish passport. The Russian. rinuister received several threatening ~tters from Ilnitzki which he turned ver to the police. Friday morning~ lnitzki questioned the minister re arding his claim, but obtaining no atisfactory reply shot him. Race Warin Ohio. Clifford Boylan, 24 years old, is be eved to be dying at the hospital and Vm. H. Harrier and Daniel Fitzgerald rere shot and cut and bruised as the asult of a fight between negroes and hire men after a bail game Sunday t. Canton, Ohio. Seventeen negroes ere arrested, their confinement be ig necessary, the authorities believe, r the suppression of possible violence y BofJan's friends who are greatly icensed over his injuries. Policemen ave been instructed to arrest every agro that appears on the scene of the ouble. Should Boylan die his death ay be avenged by his friends but e city offcials have prepared for iy possible outbreak of the mob