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DUTY OF WOMEN. The President Gives Advice to the Congress of Mothers. CURSE OF DIVORCE. The Impornanee of the Family. The Rearing and Training of Children. Woman's Influenee in the Life of the Nation. Every Wo man Should Read It. President Roosevelt delivered an ad dress before the Congress of Mothers in Washington last week, which every woman should read. We give the en tire speech below: In our modern industrial civilization there are many and grave dangers to conterbalance the solendors and the triumphs. It is not a good thing to see cities grow at a disproportionate speed relatively to the country; fur the small land owners, the men who own their little homes, and therefore to a very large extent the men who till farms, the man of the soil, having hitherto made the foundation of lasting nation al life in every State; and, if the foundation becomes either too weak or too narrow, the supzrstructure, no matter how attractive, is in eminent danger of falling. But far more important than the question of the occupation of cur cit iz3ns is the question of how their fam ily life is conducted. No matter what that occupation may be, as long as there is a real home and as long as those who make up that home do their duty to one another, to their neigh bors and to the State, it is of minor consequence whether the man's trade is plied in the country or in the city, whet her it calls for the work of the bands or for the work of the head. VALUE OF THE FAMILY HOME. But the nation is in a bad way if there is no real home, if the family is not of the right kind; if the man is not a good husband and father, if he Is brutally or cowardly or selfish, if the woman has lost her sense of duty, if she is sunk in vapid self -indulgence or has let her nature be twisted so that she prefers a sterile pseudo-intellec tuality to that great and beautAful de velopment of character which comes only to those whose lives know the fullness of duty clone, of effuit made and self-sacnfice undergone. In the last analysis the welfare of the State depends absolutely upon whether or not the average family, the average man and woman and their children, represent the kind of citiz:n ship fit for the foundation of a great nation; and if owe fail to appreciate this we fail to apprt ciate the rcoi morality upon which all health civi lization is based. N~o piled up wealth, no splendor of material growth, no briiliance of art Istic development, wili permanently avail any people unless its home life is healthy, unle-s the average man pos sessses honesty, courage, common sense, and decency, unless he works hard and is willing at need to fight hard; and unless the average woman Is a good wife, a good mother, able and willing to perform the first and greatest duty or womanhood, able and willing to bear, and to bring up as they should be brought up, healthy child ren, sound In body, mind, and char acter, and numerous enough so that the nation shall increase and not de crease MAN~ THE BREADWNNER. There are certain old truths that will be true as long as this world en dures, and which no amount of pro gress can alter. One of these is the truth that the primary duty of the husband is to be home maker, the bread winner for his wife and child dren. and that the primary duty of the woman is to be the helpmeet, the house-wife and mother. The woman should have ample educational advan tages; but save in exceptional cases the man must be and she need not be, and generally ought not to be, train ed as the lifelong career as the family breadwinner; and, therefore, after a certain point the training of the two must normally be different because the dutiesof the two are normally dif ferent. This daes not mean inequality of function, but it does mean that nor mally' there must be dissimilarity of funatIon. On the whole, I think the duty of the woman the more impor tant, the more difficult andI the more honorable of the two; on the whole I respect the woman who does her duty more than I respect the man who does his. No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but every hour of the night. She may have to get up night after night to take care of a sick child, and yet must by day ccntinue to do all her house hold duties as well: and if the x amily means are scant she must usually en joy even her rare holidays taking her whole brood of children with her. Thle birth pangs make all men the debt or. of all won en. A bove all our sym pathy and regard are due to the struggling wives among those vahom Abraham Lincoln called the plain people, and whom he so loved and trusted; for tree lives of these women are often lead on the knely heights of quiet, self sacrificing heroism. DU~TY OF MOTHERHOOD. .Tust as the happa st atid most hon orable and most useful task that can be set ary man is to earn enough for the support of his wife and family, for the bringing up and ?tarting in life of his children, so the a~ost impor tant, the most honorable and desiraba task which can be set any woman is to be a got d and wise mother in a Lome marked by self-respecot and n ur ual forbearance, by wiligness to perf.: m duty, and by refu-al to sink Into self indulgence or avoid that which entails effort and self- eacrifice. Of course there are exceptional men and excep tional women who can do and ought to, do much more than~ this, who can lead and ought to lead great careers of outside usefullness in aodition to not as subsuilutes for-their ho me work, but I am not speaking of excep tions; I am speaking of the primary duties, I am speaking of the average citizen, the average men and women who make up the nation. Inasmuch as I am speaking to an as semblage of mothers I shall have naothing whatever to say in praise of an e life. Yours is the work which is never ended. No mother has an easy time, and most mothers have very hard times; and yet what true mother would barter for experience of joy and sorrow in exchange for a life of c)ld selfishness, which insists upon prepet ual amusement and the avoidance of care, and which often finds its fit dwelling place in some flat designed to furnish with the least possible ex penditure of effort the maximum of comfort and of luxury, but in which there is literally no place for children. NO GRISELDA TYPE. The woman who is a good wife, a good mother, is entitled to our respect as is no one else; but she is entitled to it only because, and so long as, she is worthy of it. Effort and self-sacrifice are the law of worthy life for the man as for the woman; though neither the effort nor the self-sacrifice may be the same for the one as for the other. I do not in the least believe in the pa tient Griselda type of woman, in the woman who submits to gross and long continued ill treatment, any more than 1 believe in a man who tamely submits to wrongful aggression. -No wrong-doing is so abhorrent as wrong doing by a man towards the wife and the children who should arouse every tender feeling in his nature. Selfish ness towards them, lack of tenderness towards them, lack of consideration for them, above all, brutality in any form towards them, should arouse the heartiest scorn and indIgnation in every upright soul. I believe in the woman's keeping her self-respect just as I believe in the man's doing so. I believe in her rights just as much as I believe in the man's and indeed a little more; and I regard marriage as a partnership, in which each partner is in honor bound to think of tbe rights of the other as well as of his or her own. But I think that the duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights necessary though this, too, must often be. Your duty is hard, your respon sibility great; but greatest of all is your reward. I do not pity you in the least. Oa the contrary, I feel respect and admiration for you. DON'T WASTE AFFECTION. Into the woman's keeping is com mitted the destiny of the generations to come after us. In bringing up . our children you mothers must re member that while it 's essential to be loving and tender it is no le-s essential to be wise and firm. Foo. ishness and affection must not be treated as interchangeable term3; and besiries training your sons and daugb ters in the softer and milder vir tues you must seek to give them those .stern and hardy qualities which in after life they will surely need. Some children wil go wrong in spite of the best training; and some will g. rigut even when their surround:Lgs are most unfortunate; nevertlheiessan. im mense amount depends upon the family training. If you mothers through weakness bring up your sons to be selfish and to think only for themselves, you will be responsible for much sadness among the women who are to be teir wives in the fu ture. If you let your daughters grow up idle perhaps under the impression that as you yourselves have had to work hard they shall know only en joymnent, you are preparing them to be useless to others and burdens to themselves. Teach boys and girls alike that they are not to look for ward to lives spent in avoiding diffi culties but to lives spent in overec.m ing dif~culties. reach them that work, for themselves and also for oth ers, is not a curse but a blessing; seek to make them happy, to make them enjoy life, but seek also to make them face life with the steadfast resolution to wrest success from labor and ad versity, and to do their whole duty before God and to man. Surely she who can thus train her sons anad her daughters is thrice fortunate among women. THE BLESSING OF CHILDREN. There are many good people who are denied the supreme blessing of children, and for these we have the respect and sympathy always due to those who, from no fault of their own, are denied any of the other great blessings of life. But the man or woman who deliberately foregoes these blessings, whether from vicious ness, shallow-heartedness, self-indul gence, or mere failure to appreciate aright the difference between the all important and the unimportant why, such a creature merits contempt as hearty as any visited upon the sol dier who runs away in battle, or upon the man who refuses to work for the support of those dependent upon him, and though able-bodied is yet content to eat in Idleness the bread which others provide. The existence of women of this type forms one of the most unpleasant and unwholesome features of modern life. If any one is so dim of vision ai to fail to see what a thoroughly unlovely creature such a wcmnan is I wish they would read Judge Robert Grant's novel "Unleavened Bread." ponder seriously the character of Selma, and think of the fate that would surely overeme any nation which developed its average and typical woman along such lines. Unfortunately it would be untrue to say that this type exists only in American novels. That it only exists in American life is made unpleasantly evident by the statistics as to the dwindling families evident in e qually sinister fashion by the cnstes statistic-i as to divorce, which are fairly appalling; for easy divorce IS now as it ever has been, a bane to~ any nation, a curse to society. a men ace to the home, an incitement to married unhappiness and to 4mm.Jr ality, an evil thing for man and a still more hideous evil foi women. rhese unpleasant tendencies In our American life are made evident by articlefs such as those which I actual ly read not long ago in a certain pa per, where a clergyman was quoted, seemingly with- approval, as express i g the ge-neral American attitude when be said that the ambition of any save a very rich man should be to rear two children only, so as to gi ve his childiren an opportunity "to taste a few of the gooid things of life." A VICIOUS DOCTRINE. This man, whose professIon and calling shouid have maae him a mora teacher, actually set before others he i:leal, not of training children to do their duty, not of sending them forth with stout hearts and ready minds to win triumpths for them selves and their country, not of al owing them the opportunity, and iving them the privilege of making their own place In the world, but-, forsoth, of keeping the number of cuil:To so limited that they m:ght "taste a few good things!" The way to give a cbild a fair chance In life is not to bring it up in luxury, but to see that it has the kind of training that will give it strength of charac tion of national life, and regarding only the individual intErest of the children themstlves, happiness in the true sense is a hundredfold more apt to come to any given member of a healthy family of healthy-minded children, well brought up, well edu cated, but taught that they must win their own way, and by their own exertions make their own positions of usefulness, than it is apt to come to those whose parents themselves have acted on and have trained their chil dren to act on, the selfish sordid theory that the whole end of life is "to taste a few good things." The intelligence of the remark is on a par with its morality, for the most rudimentary mental process would have shown the speaker that if the average family in which there are children contained but two children the nation as a whole would decrease in population so rapidly that in two or three generations it would very de servedly be on the point of extinction, so that the people who had acted on this base and selfish doctrine would be given place t others with braver and more robust ideals. Nor would such a result be in any way regret table; for a race that practiced such doctrine-that is, a race that prac ticed race suicide-would thereby con clusively show that it was unfit to exist, and that it had better give place to people who. had not forgot ten the primrry laws of their being. IT's ALL SIPLE ENOUGH. To sum up, then, the whole matter is simple enough. If either a race or an individual prefers the pleasures or mere effortless ease, of self-indulgence, to the infinitely deeper, the infinite ly inevitably in the end pay the pen alty who know the toil and the weari ness, but also the joy, of hard duty well done, why, that race or that Individual must have higuer pleas ures that come to those lead ing a life both vapid and ignoble. No man and no woman really worthy of the name can care for the life spent solely or chiefly in the avoidance of risk and- trouble and labor. Save in exceptional cases the prizzs worth having in life must be paid for, and the life worth living must be a life of work for a worthy end, and ordinarily of work more for others than for one's self. Tne man is bat a poor creature whose effort is not rath- r for the bet Lerment of his wife and children than for himself; and as for the mither, her very name stands, for loving un selfishness and selr-abnegatiun, and, in any souciety fi. to exist, is fraugut with associations which rencer it holy. The woman's task is not easy-ao task worth doing is easy-but in d ing it. and when she has doie it, there shall come to her the highest and holiest joy known to mankind; and having doue it, she shall have the reward prophesied in Scripture; for her bus and and her coildrn, ye-, and al people wno realize that her work lies at the foundation of all national hap piness and greatness, shall rise up and call her blessed. Stole a Horse and Buggy. Mr. John Ulmer had his horse and buggy stolen from him on Saturday ight. while in Orangeburg. Mr. Uimer lives a few miles from the city, in the East Orange section, and was detained until after dark Saturday night~ In Orangeburg. He had his horse hitched on the street, and a ne gro came along and appropriated the outfit. Tne matter was reported to the police department, and Chief Fischer telephoned to all nearby towns to be on the look out. Sunday afternoon word came that the horse and buggy had been located near Cope, and instructions were issued to arrest a negro by the name of Dykes for the stealhng. Accordingly he was arrested, although against his will, and is now in "limbo." The horse and buggy will be returned to Mr. Ulimer. It is said that Dykes was in Orangeburg Saturday night, and de sired to take a negro woman along with him to the neighborhood of Cope, where Dykes was living. . He did not own a horse and buggy, so simply appropriated Mr. Ulmer's out I ft He told the woman that the team belong to him, evidently desir ous of making an impression on her. The horse and buggy were recognized from descriptions sent out from Or angebnrg, and the apprehension of Dykes resulted. - A Race Rior. A special from Lake Village, Ark., says a pitched battle was fought be tween a sheriff's posse of white men and three negroes suspected of mur der on the shore of the lake near that town, Tuesday afternoon, two of the blacks being killed outright and 0. D. Owens, manager of the Red Leaf plantation, wounded in the arm. The third negro escaped to the woods. Bloodhounds were sent for and put upon the fit-'itive's trail. It is believed that he will be taken before morning. The bodies of the negroes were taken to Lake Village and placed in the county jail where they were viewed by large crowds. Recently two brotb ers named Watson were murdered near Dumas, Ark., and the three ne groes were said to have participated in the crime. ialed by a .n1ob At Long View, Texas, Julius Ste vens, a negro imprisoned in t.he jail cearged with assault up 'n Carl An ler son at a saw mill near that place, was snot to death Tuesday in his cell by a mob. The mob entered the j ail ania forced the jailer to deliver tse irey to the upper compartment. Fron there they called the negro to the front of his cell, telling him their in tention. The negro asked and re ceived permission to write to his mmj ther, returning to tne cell door, w bere be fejl with a 44 calibre pistol bullet through the hear-. Everythingz is quiet there Wednesday. The negro is supposed to be from Birmingham, Ala. Anderson, who it is assert . was struck from behind by the negro, is In a critical conriition. a% bat it W ill Vo. The State says "five years of ten cent cotton, home production or farm supplies and the supply of southern markets with those products which may be produced pr~fitably in the south, and toe mo-nentum f our prosperity will be such that nothing can impede its wonderful progress. Is not the promise of suc'1 result worth serious effort? The associatcion and co operation of southern farmers, bankers and merchants Is the prom ise." Captured American Offiers. Minister Griscom reports to the state department that the Amer ican military attaches who were captured with the Russians at Mukden are Col. Vallery Hnward, of te medical corps, and Captain W. V. Judson, of the engineers. Late reports! to the Griscomn minister are that both are well and receiving ever., SUlt: 10 A1)VAMN . This is the (piuion of a Reliable Ix pert about the South. Prof. W. G. Johnson, Editor of Agri cultural Papers in New England, Enthusiastic Over the South. Prof. W. G. Johnson, managing ed itor of The American Agriculturist, and Mr.' Thomas A. Barrett, the treasurer of the Orange Judd Publish irg company of New York city, weie in Columbia last week. These gentle men are making a tour of the south studying agricultural conditions. Wed nesday Mr. E J. Watson, commission er of agriculture, accompanied them to Ridge Snrings where they locked over that section. Prof. JohnrLson is particularly interested in the peach Industry, and has just completed a beak entitled "The Peach Crop." The State says he expressed much surprise at the excent of the peach in dustry in Saluda county, and stated tbat he did not think one-fifth part of the available area is devoted to or chards. Having visited every peach belt in the United States, Prof. John son thinks farmers could more profit ably plant more peaches and less cot ton in that section. Thusday in company with Commis sioner Watson, Mr. T. B. Thackston of the Southern railroad and Mr. E. B. Clark, secretary of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, Prof. Jonnson and Mr. Barrett were given a look at some of the industries about Colum bia. They visii.ed the power plant, gl-ss factory, Olympia cotton mill: acd ,tter places. Tne dairy farm of Mr. F. H. Hyatt and the government dive rsifie.tlou farm were visited. fhursday afternoon Governor Hey ward accompanied the party to the farm of Mr. R. 0. Jones, about four miles no:the!ast of the ciry. Friday Commissioner Watson and Mr. Thack sten toou the visiting gon:iler.en to Aiken to look over conditions there. Wh-in seen at Tne Columoia Thurs day right by a representative of ehe State, Prof. J-hnson made the follow i.; tatement: "We are greatly inter ested in ruhe agricul;ural development of I :e s.Uth. We belkve the south to r'ay t1 -rs the greatest inducements to men who are looking toward the farm fhu advantages are unsurpassed in this super! climate for men who want to ioca.e on farms. There is no place in this country where such a diversi tication cf crops can be successfully rotared as in the south. "Mr. Barrett and myself have been zasking annual trips through the south rn States for the past five years E wh trip opens up new fielcs for de velopmeut and we are surprised at the many opportunities offered-for capital in commercial enterpeises as well as in agricul:.ure. " Ve have never seen a more com plete power plant than the one visit ed in tnat city Thursday. With the devl bpment of the great commercial centres. the outlying agricultural' dis trict must and will keep pace with them. This means that men who are looking for farms are turning their eyes southward. "I do not believe there is a worn out farm in South Carolina. It is true that there are a great many poor and unimproved farms, but they are capa. ble of being made very productive and profitable. These farms need intelli gent management and nothing else. We have today seen two splendid ex amples of what such careful super vision can do In a short time. The farm of Mr. F. H. Hyatt and that of Mr. R. 0. Jones were types of aban doned farms three years ago. Today they are models that are a credit tc any community. "The largest crop of corn ever rals ed on an acre of land was produced in South Carolina. Some years ago The American Agriculturalist offered a prize of $500 for the largest amount of corn grown on one acre. Capt Z J. Drake of Marlboro county, this State, won the first prize, producing 255 bushels of corn on one acre. The second prise was won by the State of Georgia, while Iowa and iebraska came in for third and forth places. Since this contest the eyes of the north and northeastern States have been turned to the south. "Last year Mr. Barrett and I visit ed Capt. Drake at his home and saw the acre on which this world record corn erop was produced. Perhaps noth ing in the history of agriculture ever happained that turned the attention of the country so closely to South Car olina as this marvelous corn crop. I cite this as an instance of what can be done on these soils when properly handled. "I am satisfied the Southern States will develop agriculturally more rapid ly in the next 10 years than any otner sect on. I have been advising my friends to look southward before pur chasing new farms. We think the S ;uth Carolina department of agricul ture is working along the right lines to develop toe vast agricultural areas. It was your met hods of colonization that first attracted our attention. You are to be co>gra:ulatei in haviag so enthusiastic and earnest an advocate in diver~ified farming as we have found in Commis4ioner B. J. Wats-jn. If other St-. s would model their im migration laws after those of South Carolina t'oe splended lands now un -ccuipied would soon be the centres o' thiousnds of happy and prosperous hnmes. "We are greatly pleased that Goy. Hnyward has d:splayed his personal mttrest in the development of your agricultural resources by the estab ilnsraent (-f a department that is doing o mruch good wosk. In our opinion one of the features of Gov. Hey ward's adminstrat:on that will stand out promimntly in the future will be his persotal interest in the agricultural dvelopment of this State. We are indeedl glad to know from the govern rs wn lips that he has and is giving agric-aiture such close personal atten tion. We predict agreat fu:.ure for South Caralina farmers." Fatal Waterspout. A terrific waterspout at Lark-In, Burnett county, Texas. causing the water to rise in the river and sur rounding creeks 14 feet in five mInu tes, catonilng half a dczen campers in thie bott ims and drowning two of them, four barely escaping with their lives. Considerable stock was swept away. For 30 minutes hail is reported to have fallen to the depth of 1 1-2 inchos, with such force as to wreck many farm houses. Pacd che Penalty. Robert Bowles, a negro, was hanged at Covington, Alleghaney county, Va., Friday for the murder a year ago of J. A. Ruff, a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad fireman. Bowles con fessed the ki liop but claimed self dfne. AN DIVOLUNTARY HERO. How a Captain Won Glory in Battle Which He Didn't Deserve. "Speaking of war incidaits," said a veteran newspaper man "a friend of mine in West Virginia who wore the Union blue in the civil war was the principal actor In an affair that was unique. He was promote' from cap tain to colonel for bravery in the face of the enemy," when as a matter of fact he was brave on the occasion which brought about his promotion because he could not help it. It was a case of bravery being actually forc ed upon him, against his will. "It appears that the Union troops of which the captdin's company was a part had b -come demoralized to some extent by the fire of the confederates, and the soldiers were ca.Ltteted over the battle field In squads. The cap tain had seeured a stray horse, and soon after mounting the strange animal an orderly dasned up to him and said: "The general commands you to charge your men and take those works in front of your line." "'urning to the scattered troops the captain sang out: "Rally, men, the general has or dered us -to capture those wor-s ahead." ''As some of the soldiers were lining up for the advance the captain Lcci dentally touched hs spurs to the flanks of the srrange horse. With a snort the animal, seizing his bit in its to th, sprang forward, and going like a whirlwind, headed straight for the enemy's works. ''Cme on. men,' shouted the cap tain, as he clung on for dear life and trggzed at the bridle in a desperate effort to briug the excited beast to a standstill. But the more he tuggel at tue bit the f ster the horse went towards the enemy. "Bullets were 'z;pping' uncomforta bly close to the captaLin and he ex pec-ed to be punctured oy a minie bail at any instant. He glanced rack ward and sw uis scattered followers far in the rear. He was close upon the earthworks, when gripping the reins and closing his eyes, the mean time yeing 'whoa' at the horse he prepared for the worst. With a mighty bound the animal cleared t-e work s and was on the in s'de. The sole d fender was a gray clad confederate infantryman who had been pegging away with his musket at the Union lne. "Surrender, you scoundrel ' shouted the ctptain, partly in terror and part ly to terrorize the solitary confederate soldier. "You go to Hades, you infernal Yank,' replied the Southerner, as he dashed down a hill and disappeared in a hearoy ticket, leaving the cap tain and his excited prancing steed in sole possession of the works he had captured single-handed and against his will. "I was simply rushed into fame and glory by a crazy runaway horse,' said the captain, but when my promotion came, with a thrilling description of my 'heroic charge and capture,' I simply accepted it as one of the for tunes of war, although it was a mis take and I did not deserve it, I was glad I escaped with my life." Boys Are Watched. When we see the boys on the streets and in public places, we of ten wor der if they know that business men are watching them. In every bank, store and onice there will soon be a place for a boy to fill. Those who have the management of the affasirs of bu:.ness will select one of the boys They will not select him for his abili ty to swear, smoke cigarettes, or tap a beer keg. And the "society swell" who is daft about little sccial func tions and is happy in the conceit that he is "just the article" that young ladies tind indispensable on all occa sions, "given the "glassy stare" quite as often as the beer guzzler or ciga rette smoker. Business men have a few loose habits themselves; but they are looking for boys who are as near gentlemen in every sense of the word as they can find, and they are able to give the character of everybody in the city. They are not looking for row dies. When a boy applies for one of these places and is refused, they may not tell him the reason why they do not want him, but the boy can depend upon it that he's been rated aocord ing to his behavior. Boys cannot af ford to adopt the habits and conver sation of the loafers and rowdies if they ever want to be called to respon sible positions. Empty Cigar Boxes. A dispatch from Washington says John W. Yerkes, commissioner of in ternal revenue, has just sent Out to collectors of internal rsvenue notifica tion that after May 1st next the offe crs of his bureau will strictly enfor:, te law rela ing to t'ie use of empty and bran.ded cigar boxes by cigar and rb ieco dealers. The bixes will be s zd for forreiture and pe -sonal pro ce-dings will be taken against the of fenders. C im-nissioner Yerkes says thai the lasv is pkain in providing pmn. alties for the usang of empty eig er boxes, branded or marked in a'ny ~way purporting to s low that the provislor.s of the internal rever.ue laws have been c:mpied with. Tte' pe naities are so severe, the commissioner states, that his otmce has hesitated to invoke them for the preventionu of the practice or making and uning "dummy," c!gar bcxss for adivertisingr purp ses. a prac tice innocent enough on its face and cot ordinarily resuling i fraud upon rhe government. When the boxes or receptacles are marked or branried with factory numbers andi caution naotcs there can be no doubt of the applicability of the statute to then?, and manufacturers sad dealers are ~arned against tnis in the future. The matter was hr, ught to the atten tion of the commissioner by B. D. Crocker, c,'llecor of Washington, who wrote that empty boxes of the kind decibed were beIng distributed among dealers for advertisements and disp3.y purposes. The commissioner is careful to reiterate that any empty box bearing the indented brand and caution notice come within the pro visions of section 3455, which will hereafter be enforced. Merchants and others who deal In cigars had better give strict attention to the above. Robbed a Bank. The vault in the bank of Peters burg, Tenn., was blown open Thurs day and all the cash taken. The amount stolen is reported to be 84,000. The Bank of Petersburg is a State in stitution. The otticials say that the thieves secured 87,000. The steel vault was blown open with nitroglyc erine and the strong box emptied. The buro-lar meaped. kN AWFUL CRIME. A Eulack Brute Arrested for Assault ing a Little Girl. The Victim, Who Is Only Eight Years of Age, Told All About the Assault. William Johnson, a brutal negro was arrested and lodged in the Or angeburg j il on last Friday charged with a most heinous crime. He is charged with criminally assaulting a little eight-year-old white girl, the daughter of a wi-ow, Mrs. Howell, who lives In Cow Castle Towship, a few miles from the town of Bowman. On Friday morning, about five o'clock, two white men from the neighborhood where the dastardly crirre was committed, went to Sheriff Dukes' house on the outskirt's of this city, and woke him and asked him to go with them and help arrest the scoundrel, who, they thought, was being harbored by the negroes in the c:'mmunity where he lived. They were fea ful of serious trouble with the negroes in case they under took to arrest the brute without a peace utilzer being present, and to av.Ad tro--uble, they thought it best to call on Sheriff Dukes, who they knew was ever ready to respond to the call of duty. Sheriff Dukes left immedi ately for the scene of the outrage, accompained only by his son, Frank. Much to the surprise of the Sheriff and his son they went to within two miles of the Howell home, where the outrage was committf d, before they met any one who knew anything of it. This was somewhat remarkable as the crime had been c mmitted at It ast a week before, and the negro had ,een chased.and shot in the 1-g. When Sieriff Dukes arrived at the Howell home, Mr~s. Howell told him all about the outrage that had been perpetrated on her little daughter by tne black brute, William Johnson Mrs Howell told a straightforward story, which is amply corroborated by the sad conditiun of the innocent little girl, who was the victim of the scoundrel's lust. Mrs. Howell said that on Thursday, March 9, William Johnson and two o0Lher negroi s came to her home to get some oil and other articles. She saw two of the negroes leave, and she thought that Jonnson had gone also, as she did not see him about te place after she sa" the two negroes who came with him leave. On Saturday, March 11, the little girl complained of feeling very badly, and Mrs. Howell says she told her to bathe, not suspecting for a moment, what the real trouble with her little daughter wai. The child continued to comp!ain and Mrs. Howell not knowing what to do to re'leve her sent for Dr. Cara, her family physician. When the truth was realized all were horror stricken. The little girl then told the piti able story of iow the black brute, Johnson, had criminally assaulted her on Thursday, March 9, and that she was afraid to tell about it as Johnson said h- wauld kill her if she did. The recital of the brutal story by the lit tle child was straightforward and truthful, and showed what a demcoa Johnson certainly is. After hearing the awful story from the lips of the little child's mother, Sneriff Dukes went 'out in quest o' the brute, who he found in the cus tedy of three other negroes, who claimed to be holding him until Sherifi Duikes could reach the Econe. The negroes who had the scoundrel in cu.tody said they had no idea of aid ing or abetting him, but was simply holding him for the otfloers of the law. It seems that Johnson attempted to escape and had been shot through the leg. but by whom we did not learn. Tne brute, of course, denies the~crinze, and claims that one of the men who came for Sheriff Dukes shot him. He bears a bad name in the community in which he lives and the general opinion is that he is guilty of the crime charged against him, and that he ought to be swung up, but they want it done legally. Sheriff Dukes acted with a great deal of dis:,retion in the matter and landed his man in jail before any one scarcely knew of the crime. The mad~crel will have a speedy trial, and, it :he tAings charged against him are proven, he will stretch hemp as sure as two and two are four. Such brutal villians should not be allowed to live among honest people.-Times and Democrat. Dead in a Cab. The body of a woman, who had been dead several hours, and a man, unconscious, were found in a cab, which was driven up to the Brooklyn police station on a gallop Wednesday. The man was suff.ring from alcoholism and possibly from the effects of a drug. He may recover. He and the driver of the cab have been detained. Tie man gave the name of Thomas Deegan, and said he lived in Monroe street, one of the better class of residential sections of Brooklyn. The dead woman, he said, was Miss Mary S..vage, thirty years old. The po ice surgeon upon a cur sory examinati -n of Miss Savage's b viy decided that she pr' bably suc cam hed to weak heart, superinduced by alconolism. Wages of sin. The girl, found dead from strang ling at a Newark hmtel Friday night, was identified as Mamle Dennis, of Jersey City, a working girl. Two hotel employees were arrested and held as witnesss. Her man com panion is missing. Miss Dennis was twenty-two years old The missing man had visited the hotel with the wo'man a number of times. A drink icg glass, containing a white sedi ment, is being inv:-stigated. Hanged for Mlurder. At R nre, Ga , Bob Sutherland and Courtney Baker, negroes. were hanged Wene.-:dy for murdor. B:>th negroes made lengthy speeches from the scaf fo:d, admitting their guit. Suther land killed two negroes and wounded three others at a dance last Christ mas. Baker killed his wife. Two U'bousand Killed. Private mail advices from the Cau casus indicate that the situation there has not been exaggerated in earlier reports. According to one let ter the Armenians estimate the num ber of their dead at 2,000. A woman was arrested on Tuesday in New York city for bigamy, who Is only 23 years old and has been mar ried three times, all her husbands be ing alive. Her mistake was in not geeting dIvorces as she went along, THE banging of a white man in South Carolina for murdering a negro will open the eyes of some of our crit-I is at the North. CALL FOR EVIDENXE. Persons Are Urgzed to Come For ward and Tell All. At its meeting last week the eis pensary investigating committee de cided to issue a call for all persons in the State who have evidence against the management of the State dispen sary to come forward with it. The county pipers are requested to copy the following, which is the official call: "All persors in this or any other State are requested to send any infor mation in their possession relating to the affairs of the South Carolina State dispensary which is the cause of any complaint. Tney are also requested to state fully any facts that they have as to irrrgularities, mismanage ment or corruption therein, or of any one connected therewith, with sug gestions as to how the truth of the same may be properly ascertained. "No communication will be con sidered unless signed by the parties sending it, hut the name (f the send er will not be given to the public if such be desired. Communications should be sent to either of the undersigned. "J. T. HAY, Camden, S. C., "C. 1). BLEAsE Newberry, "N. CHRISTENSEN. Jr.. Beaufort, "A. L. GASTON, Chester, "T. B. FRAsER. Sumter, "D. A. SrtTEY. Conway, "J. FRASsR LYoN, Abbeville." A Terribi' Warning. We have fr quently heard persons 4y that they would rather have the smatl-pox that is now in South Caro lina than be vaccinated. It is said that the city of G:eenville bad quite a numtaer of people who took this view of the matter and refused to be vac cinated. Tae death of Policeman Howard from small- pax in that city a sho-rt time ago cbarge-1 all this. Be fore his death, while he was desper ately ill with the horrible disease, a photograph of Mr. Howard was taken by Dr. C. C. Jones and it was shown around town very generally. Persons who before that said they would prefer small pox to vaccInotlon, quickly changed their minds and there was a rush to be vaccinated. Police man Howard and his wife died, and all the other members of the family hat th* disease in a most horrible form. They bad the same moolignant type that has been breiking out all over the State during the past winter. and which has given the State author ities no little trouble to suppress. Some of the cases has been so horrible that the physicians accustomed to meeting all ,orrs of things, have been appalled by its loathsomeness. The mortality has also been very great-at one place in this state two months ago-the mor tality was said to be 80 per cent. It is said that Policeman Howard, men tioned above, was one of these who said he would prefer smallpox to vac cination and declined to be vaccinated. It is therefore no wonder that his ter rible death has been an example- that may do much o d in the end by s .v ijg others from a like -fate. The State very truly says, it has been very diffi cult to impress upon the people that because the type of the disease that has been known hereabouts for the last several years has been mild is no reason to take risks with that which is likely any time to become a loath some and fatal pestilence. It has been about as dimfiult to induce many peo ple to be vaccinated, although under the modern methods this is a harm less precaution and a certain one ap proved by the best medical authority of the world. These facts, however, have been very vividly impressed by the form which the disease has taken the laist few months in South Carolina. And it is said that another thing has been impressed-that the only way to handle this disease is to have in every towmn a smallpox hospital fur whites and another for negroes both comfort able and decent. Isolation is the only safeguard against the spread of such contagious disease as vaccination is ihs only preventive. The Value of Birds. An ornithologist recently asserted that except for the destruction of bird life in Texas, there would have been no cotton boll weevil plague. Tais may or may not be correct; yet it is coming to be generally recognized that the farmer bas no better friends than the birds fi -irg abouit his acres destroying insects and the seeds of noxious weeds. And there is to be noted a movement in several of the States to the end of protecting the birds-game and non game-because of their good offaso to the farmer. It is the nature of birds to feed on in sects and seeds. The investigation of the stomachs of doves, partridges, sparrows and larks bas shown that their food consists almost wholly of bugs, worms and seeds of weeds. In the st inachr of one dove, examined by a scientist, th-ere were found ap pro;ximately 2,500 seeds of weed ; and this was one day's feeding. In the stomachs of several partridges more than 90 per cent of the food was found to be bugs and worms des'ruc tive to veg--table life. Should not these facts be suficient to commend doves and partri g :s to the most dis dinguisne d consideration of the farm er-a and iaw-makers9 One~ little spar r.,w that was killed in a cotton deld had forty armny worms i'n its stom acti. Wasn't that enough t-) make the cotton farmer the friend of the sparrow? Caught Up With. Rev. Beniamin W. Ashley, a minis ter of the Christian church, residing near Newport, Tenn., was given a sentence of lif teen months In the peni tentiary in the federal court Wednes day, for violating the pension laws. In investigating his case, a pension examiner cdiscovered that he was a bigamist. After Ashley had been placed on the pension rolls, a North Carolina woman claiming to be his wife, made application for a division of the pension. Ashley swore she was not his legal wife, but that his wife was a Tennessee woman. In vestigation proved that Ashley mar ried his first wife in 1865 and had never obtained a divorce, but had abandoned her thirty years ago, mar - rying a second time at:er coming to Tennessee ato reside. He pleaded guilty of perjury and may be prose cuted for bigamy when he has served his federal sentence. Must Serve His Sentence. The supreme court Wedncsiay ren. dered a decision in the case of Mor gan Thraikill, convicted in Saluda of manslaughter and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was convicted of killing Van Burton, white, last year. The court affirms the decision and Thraikill must serve his sentence un less executive clemency should inter A GRA FUL COMPLIMJT Paid S. licitor P. T. Elleb..and by the Bar of Chariston. TMi, Na vs an I Courir says at the meeting of the Cbarleton Bar 1:i the County Coart room Wednesday mcrr. ing the following resolution, offered by Mr. W. A. Holman and fittmg.iy seconded by Mr. Simo, Hyde, Cl. A. T. Smythe and the Hon. Duncan J. B Lker, were unanimously adepted: Whereas, at the recent session of the General Assembly the county of Charloston has been put in the 9th judicial circuit, and by reason thereof P. T. Hildebrand, E q ,will no lorger be the solicitor in this cjunty; and Whereas, his offic al labors terni nated with the session of the Court just closed: Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Bar of Charkston in meeting as sembled, That we part wit'i our s licitor with regret, and further, that we express to him our thanks for the very ab'e manner in which he has rep resented the State in the prosecution of cases in the Court of General Set-' siors, and for the many courteiss shown the members of the Bar; and we commend. him to the people and Bar of the new circuit to which he - has been- assigned. Sol!citoi Hildebrand expressed his appreciat'on of the kindnesses showr him here and his regret -at being dus off from Charleston County. In speak ing of the change in the circuits The News and Courier says: "Mr. Hilde brand has been solicitor of the Ist cir cuit, Including Charleston County, for the past four years, and has estab sh ed a record for suacessful prosecutions second to none in the S ate. He has recently been re elected for a four year term and will continus to serva the new 1st circalt, comp-Ping -his home coanty of Oraneeburg, .Dorches ter, Berkeley and Georgetown. An:. able speaker, genial and courteous, he has made many friends in Chzrleston who regret the loss of his sA vices to this county as well as the fact that his visits will neither be so frequent or so prolknged. Bishop Turners Advice. Bishop Turner advises th' negro to leave America. In an interview re ceotly he said "the negro cannot live in the c)uatry with the white pocple for there is no bfnd c f sympathy be tween them, and tneir life is bec'jm ing more and more unibearable everf day. The white people are pleased to consider the negroes competitors when they are mere bubbles on the surface of a great ocean. Under such condi tions the negroes can nft surviye ani - It will be better for them, If -mini grants enter this eaantry and. take their employment from them, compell Ing -the negroee to leave and build a country of their own." When asked if he thought the ne-. groes c pable of building a nation of. their own, Bishop Turner said he did not consider the uegro a nation build lng race, and complete anarchy would rule if they were left- to themselves. .He, however, believed that In time some form of government would to organized which would suit the negro. better than his present surroundings. - "If conditions were to remain as they are now," he said, "it would be possi ble for the negro to-stay and live with the whites, but the prejudice against them is growing stronger every day, - and-has ncreased .000per cent In the last twenty years. There is no hope that the prejudice will diminish, for it is Instilled into the minds of the son by the father, and that son in turn will 'hand it down.'" The Bishop went on to say that be looks upon the negro as an injury to the- white race, and as long as he Iries to live with the whites, there is no ful ture for him, and his ultimate end will be that of the Indian-extinction. He further stated the best thing the white roan could do for the -negro would be to place him back in slavery for then there would be an object in protecting him. "The negroes fare.i better and lived better when slavery existed than they do now. I remem ber a numnber of cases in the old times when the slave owners engaged in duels to the death, caused by one .cf - the parties mistreating a slave. The white man respected and protected the negro as a slave, but he has no use for him as he Is in the present .day. The negro," he said, "has -not the sense to command the respect of the whites. It is an unfortunate race, - and when one acquires the knowledge of how to read and write Instead of employing those great acquirements.' for his better education, he only reads things of a sensational nature. The. heathen negroes of Africa have more business ability and sense than the American negroes and the intellect of the American negro is as that of a baby when co.npared with the Afri can." This is certainly strange talk for a negro b'shop to be talking about his race. He mixes up some truth with a great deal of error. There is no rea -son why the negro should not live in this country and do well in all indus trial lines. He can make money and live as well as any body as long as he behaves himself and is willing to work. Politically, there is no places for the negro in this country, and-in that sense he has no future in competition with whi' e people, but instead of this being an injury to the race it is the very best thing for It. We believe it is true, as Bishop Turner says, that the negroes were better off as a mass as slaves than they are, but this is largely the fault of the negro and not to his being free. We have negroes in this country who are growing rich by their labor and all could improve their condition if they would. HAS the co-untry before had a presi dent who could welcome with equal enthesiasm a crowd of cowboys and a Harvard coflleg club? We almost agree with the Spartanburg Journal that Roosevelt may be a rebublican, but he is the most democratic presi dent we have ever had. THE Japanese has been so success ful in winning viutories from the Bus sians thoat she will be greatly puffed up if peace Is made now, and it wont be many years before she tackles the United States and take from us the Philippine Islands. TE attempt of the lately expired corgress to vote itself $190,000- in "constructive" railroad mileage at forded a stikirg example of the ex. tent to which the graft microbe is at work In American publiz and private life, cays the Atlanta Constitution - THE Newbeary Observer says much - is forgiven a man because he is a mar, and a women is much condemned be caenne h is a women_