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STAND PAT!" Hon. John L. McLaurin on the Issues of the Day. INVITED TO SPEAK. lie Advises the Farmers of the South to Stand Together and Thus Protect Their Interests and Tells How They Can Do If They Will Only "Stand Pat." The following is the full text of a speech delivered by Hon. John L. Me Laurin at Sumter last Monday by in vitation of the people of that county: Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: I thank you for this invitation to address the people of Sumter county on the issues of the day. It was here that the mimorable campaign of 1897 opened and some of you remember when the town bell pealed out the hour, how John Irby dramatically turned and pointed his finger at me, said, "Yonder bell has just tolled the death knell of John L. McLaurin," and none present will ever forget the scene that followed when I replied, "Hark from the todb a doleful sound." Well, I eidn't die just then, but the old bell has since rung out a dirge for myself and many another. It is pretty hard on the corpse, but I am bound to admit as a general propositicn funerals are a good thing, especially political funerals. You can't have too many of them in South Carolina. "Oh death where is thy sting, oh grave where is thy victory,'' was not written for any politician that I ever knew, nor Is there any hope held out to him of resurrection and life everlasting be yond the grave. There used to be a young German named Weild who made his headquarters in Bennetts ville. I knew him pretty well. He hadn'd been in this country long and spoke Er glish very imperfectly. Weild had a favorite horse named Zeb Vance. One cold morning he led Z 'b Vance out of the stable with a halter, and Zeb felt so good that he got to snort ing, rearing around and standlng on his hind feet until Weil' gave the halter a sudden jerk ana Z.b Vance fell over and catching his head under his body broke his neck. I met Wei d coming up the street, blubbering and crying like his mother-in-law wa dead. I asked him ,?hat was the mat ter, and he said "Mein Gott, Zeb Vance, he feel so goct, tie- rear, n jllii'pU'6felldown, he break he's dam neck. Oh mein Gutt, Z b Vance, he dead, he dead as hell." Taar i; about the way with the politician He snort, he rear, he jump, and-whea he fal down, he break his neck ann when 'he dead, he dead, he dead as hell." Fortunate is the man who can look back to the past without bitterness and vain regrets, and feel that In spite of seLf, tie has struck some blow for truth, done something for coun try, and planted some seed that must bear got d fruit H can cog ole him self with the thoug a that unsound seed do not lhve long anyway, and toat he is always sure to harvest that crop. Popular applause is cheap, it is T he property of arny demagogue, big or little, who can succesfully pander to tLce passing whim or caprice, but to the man wnio has no higher aim it brings its o &n pun s ment, fur I; is, as uncertain as the soft south wind sighing in the pine tops, changed In a moment into a hurricane's blast; ifris like -the wavy, tremulous light of the moonbeams, tipping the waters with silver, and making tbe dew-drops shine like diamonds. The strong, hining sun comes out, and shows only a muddy, stagnant pool, filled with hideous reptiles arnd choked with poi sonous weeds and vines. Truth Is the clear, bright, shining sun of God, blotting out the shadows, lighting up the dark places, and mak ing men and things stand out clear and distinct as they are. The true philosopher is one who laughs at mans frailties and weaknesses, and yet loves him for that little bit of God, in the worst man, which redeems and sanc tifies human nature. LooK TE TEUTH IN THE FACE. It is a pleasure to me to address a strictly non political body of my fel low citizens. It is a good thing for a man or peo ple to look the truth squarely in the face, see things as they are, not as pictured by vanity, ambition or a dis ordered Imagination. When Jesus Christ came on this earth, he dip not come with a mes sage to any particular race or religious creed, tut proclaiming the truth to Jew and Gentile. You cannot get at a truth from a partisan standpoint; truth is strictly non part'san; it is the property of no one political party or religious creed, it is there for them all. We live In a day of combination and organization. Every business in the United States is organized, except the cotton planter, and now In self-de fense, we are being forced to act in concert. Here Mr. McLaurin went over the ground covered in his speech in New Orleans, and drew an arnaiogy between' wheat and cotton. ''sTAND PAT.". I do not believe there Is any over production. if there were proper meth ods of distribution. The balance of the world is a consumer of cur raw cotton and is therefore combined to get our product as cheap as possible You can only meet organizition with organization. All o'.ber indu'ties through combination fix the price o' their products. This coat that I have on lay on the shelf of some m-ar chant's store until I paid nis price f .r it, he fixed the price without consult ing me. The beef tru-r fix.ed the price of my meat, the coa' trust of my fuel, the flour trust of m' bread, the coffee trust o.f my coffee, and so on of everything that I us .. I may 4ta ye, I may fre ze <r go naked. bu- I pay their price or go with-'ut. When I bring my product cotttn into tow'n to sell, I do not tell the buyer what I will take as all these othe r indu-triles do me. I humbly ask "what will you give me for my cott. n?" The buyer says "wait until Liver-, pool comes in," then he says I will give you six cents or whate ver some man in Liverp >ol s ays is t::e price. Gentlemen, do what all rhe others do; put y( ur cotton in a warehouse; don't ask any bod v what they will give, but tell the world what you will take. It Is in your own hands. All you have to do is to "stand pat."I enlo ciinsn let us "stand pat" ith the action of the New Orleans lonventinn. "Stard oat. "Let it be understt.ood that from ow henceft.rtkh and forever we, the r:ducars of the material that lothes the world, in-end to have voice is dxing, the price of the pro lucts of our labor. FokiEIGN TRADE. I have said before and say again ,hat the only permanent solution of he ctton prob'em lihs in the exten ion of present and tue creati-.n or iew xarkets for c tton co n. There s room in tois world for a larger crop :han has yet been produced. We are -xporti- g too much raw and too little m.nufac ured c tton. The cotton zoods trade of the world is in the bacds of the nations of the earth who p:oduce no raw c tton and who are therefore the enemies of high prices. These nations do ntt wish to exten'i the demand for'cotton goods in such a way as to stimulate a demaad for raw cotton a: d therefore increase its price. They are fighting us at every point. We control the raw cotton, my friends, but we do not control the world's trade in cotton goods. The Uaited States must c)ntrol the cot ton trade of the world; nothing short of that will give you a fair price for the products of your labor. Toe export trade in cotton goods is showing a steady increase; because of the great demand from China, it has been the greatst In its history for the past seven months, but it is not because of any special effort on our part The truth is that we were on the very edge of a cotton famine, and the demand for goods is so great that Earope is unable to supply its custom ers, and the overflow has come to the United States. For seven months, ending in Jan uary, 1905, our exports were about 25 million dollars against 12J million for the same period in 1904. This is good, but it didn't come from the right cause. It only came because it could not go anywhere else. The right policy is to put the whole cotton trade on a stable basis. We do not want prices too high. This cripple, the mills and decreases consumption and reac:s on the producers. I be ieve our cotton is worth ten cents a pcu-id, I believe the world is willing tc take goods on that basis, but they wish to feel safe. You can't have riw cotton one year 17 ccrts a pouno and the next six cents, without de moralizing the whole indu-try. Raw cotton is a staple product. Ameri can prcducers and manufacturers must unite to give it a stanle, stan dard value, and work tegether to con trol the co ton trade of the world in allof its brancues The general public has an ilea that the United States is doina a wonder (ul work in cotton mwflreataring. Outsiie of the developnent of the home mark-. t. our record is one no5 to be ashm.Ded ,f. In spite of the fact that we pro duce 75 p r cent. of toe cotton, we are tWe sm tlilet exp rters am- ng the leading na-ions of tne manufacturea articie. We do not compare with G-rmany in exporting cotton good.-; even the little country of S vit z.-rlanc is anead of ttmis country so far as the value of cotton exports Is concerned. G -ntlemen, just lis-.en at these fig ure s, r cen ly given out by the De prtment of Comnmerce, and reprinted in the 'nott n Manufacturer of Char Tne total exports of cotton good. for the whole warld lhst year was 650 million doilars; of this the Unitee States only sent abroad $22,500,000. In other words, last year we made 75 per cent, of tue raw cotton, but we only sold the world 4 per cent. or ue gcois it consumred. But my friends, that is not all; we actually imparted about $50.000,000 worth of c s.toon goods last year, nearly tu ice what we exported. Ju-t think of it-we exported last year 400 mIllion dollars worth of raw cotton. England took her share and after clothing her own people sent abroad for sale about 360 million dol lars; Germany 80) million; France, Sitzerland and other countres near ly 200 million more. These people bought their cotton here freighted it across the ocean and then sent fifty million dollars of it back here and sold it where the cotton was grown, at a prodt, after paying freight and tariff charges. The ability of these foreign nations to control the cotton trade of the world Is due largely to the unceas ing efforts of their respective govern ments in developing an export trade. TRANsPORTATION MIoNOFOLY. These countries control the ocean transportation of the world, and there is no factor in comm-rce so potent as the control of transportation. You can let the railroads discriminate ever so little in favor of Florence or Co lumba and they can dry your town p. Your magnificent stores would close and grass grow in your beautiful streets. The man who controls transpor tation stands between the producer and the consumer. He not only levys tribute upon the products, but he can turn the stream of trade this way or that at will Last year only three per cent of our products went abroad in American ships. We paid a tribute to these foreign steamship lines of one million dollars. Every dollar of this was car ried abroad and distributed there, and no industry contributed, as muo as the producers of raw cotton. You paid more of that tribute than any other class in the United States. Ab..ut one halt of all the agricul tural exports went from thie South and this was chiefly cotton. Sixty per cent of the vessels is shown by the re ports of tne Treasury Department that. came into Soutn A tlantic and Glf ports entered in ballast, while only six per cent that enterea the North Atlantic ports came in ballast. That srmoly means that the vesselN e mi g into Southern parts must charge enough one way :0 pay the expen-es of the voyage. Taat addi ti al freight came out of the man who grew that cotton. If you want t know wriat a monoply of transpor tati n can do to had markets either f r or asanst a country look at the S urm A mn ric n trar'e, a country right at our veri 'o r That trade is con rolkd bv Engia- d an~d Germany The Ame'ic- mere ant flag by th forigjr sysr m .f suol id-e, or subven ti is ha- b.. u driven frcrm the high seas. A saip loais in S'uth Amer'cs with goods for Mobile or Crsarleston S 'e c mes there and unloads. One ::f our m 1k cortigns g yods, we will say :o Rode Jtr erio. The ship instead of gong there sails direct for Earope and t:,en back toRo, crossing~ the ocan twice completitg the circuit of a triangle, and thus holding at a dis advanrae the American exporter. I can find numer- us in~tances in our con ular rep arts where the Am rican go d were taken 'ff and European go'ds subs-ituted so as to keep the yres;,ion that the only place to buy :oton go, ds is in Europe. The c'-nstructi-n of the Isthmian anal is going to remedy this to some extent. THE ISTHMIAN CANAL. When God fashioned this country, be run its great rivers and mountain ranges north and south and placed its natural gate says on the S )uth At lantic and Gulf coast. When man took a hand in the development of the c-ntinent, he attempted to change this and the greatest monopoly on earth isoar trans- cont inen tial railroad system. It has for years been forcing freight east and west. Tae products from our mills going to China, instead of going the nearest route to deep water, travel up the continent near ly a thousand miles to one of these trans-continental lines and then acresW the continent 3000 more before they reach a ship. You may be sure that the man who grew that cottan pay. his share of the added freight. This powerful monopoly has alwayS defeated every projact looking to tuE building of a merchant marine thal would develop South Atlantic anc Gulf ports, just as it postponed for 2 third of a century the construction o: an Istbmian canal. I do not believ that Congress has ever passed an3 measure of as great industrial impor tance to the south as the canal bil and I do not believe that it could havE been passed had it not been for thE Spanish war. When that great war ship, the Oce gon, went ploughing down the coasi on her ten thousand mile voyago around the cape, it demonstrated tA the whole country the absolute nec essity of the canal as a war measure and this will be worth to the south 2i times the cost of the war. Wath thi canal imports and exports will movi north and south, not east and west, and Charleston, Mobile, Galveston an( New O:leans will be the greas distri buting points for the food and cloth supply of the world CHINA TRADE. What we need in our section befor that time c.)mes is to manufactur mjre of our cottin at ho-nm an' sen the flished artile abroad. S. Ia our best markets have b -en in Ciilna and it is there we must lok just now for a market for the ;urplis we sh >ul be satiglied widh no'hing less, but thi whole w >rld is our fie'd. Coas:ierini tat there are four hunired millio: peop'e in Chna who would uidertak to put a limit to the amouot of cottui ro>.is wn.c 1 Coina alone can consum One difficulty lies in the lim ited information which we hav of Cuina. Th ciuntry is so vast aw the interior so litie exp!ored tha even now trave!ers return and tell u of great cities doing an enormous in ternal - business, tuat are not evei own on the map. Since I was i New Orleans I have been receivin t tters from various p -rts of ti world telling of tne great opportuni ties that are open to the A n- r:cv manufacturer. I was particula-1 struck with a communication f a om firm doing business in tae Persia Gulf regio.n telling me of the grra demand that exinted in that regia for cotton clot-1. and sayinge that hi firm was absolutely unable to get Lb goods. Toat it was not so much question of price, as to know how an' *"nere to obtain tile class and style o zo&s d:'man& d by the people of tha region How can there be overpra ducti >n wnen there are millions c:am orog for cotton goeds, ready to pa f~r them and yet unable to ohtals them. I say that we are confronted wit] under distribution, not over-produc tion. 0. all the ru'ers of the world, no one is showing more saga city in help ing his people than the Emperor Wii im. He recognizes that the grea contest In this world Is among thi nations for commercial supremacy He is fostering and encouraging great German merchant marine an< aiding and developing the expor trade in every way that he can. The present trade in the Orient was opened up at first by tile Lyons ani Blackburn commission, one French the other English. Our government has never helpec us in the Orient, but now the New Orleans convention has requestec Congress to create a commission foi that purpose. The President har given me his personal assurance that he will recommend such action to thi next congress, and assist the cottor interests of the south in every waj that he can. THE PROMISED LAND. There is no decadence in my fore cast of the future of the south. Goc paced his time lock on these shore: of ours, but it is opened now, and ou: development, great as it is, hal scarcely begun. Ours is the "prom ised land," the country favored ha God and nature, with a monopoly o: the only great agricultural p:oduc1 wich is used by civilized man every where. It is inevitable, as inexorabli as the laws of life and death, tthi mills must come to the cotton. Thern are those In the sound of my voice who will live to see the time whez the south will enjoy as complete monoply in the manuf acture as shn now does in the production or rav cotton. When Instead of ten cents, we wil draw from the balance of thle workc 20. 30 and 40 cents per pound for th: finished article, making tIhe souti rich beyor d our wildest dreams. When life's fierce battle is d:one and I find the rest that the grave fin ally gives to us all, I ask no pronde: eoitapil at the hands of my felloiw man tban, "He saw the light and dit all be could to speed its c imirig " THE soUTH TO SAVE THE NATION. As a nation, fello e citizens, w hav -devel--ped a c ntinent. creat ad a vast national wealth and today thE United St~ates stanis as the mas: potent factor of the world's progress. The center of the fiacial w. rl in ten years has been transferred from the banks oft the Hague, 10 to' banks of tnme Hud~son, but fellow citi zens, other nations, ti", hav'e occupiec this proud position' f wealth and in. fl:ence; notthing muc'1 remains of 'hE civiliz tti n of Greece and R :me sa~v t'e rent ga1rmenuts and whir ened bone that ma-k the nieilway where t'i' trod. They f.ound It easy to create wealth, we fi:.d it easy to cre'ate wealth, but the porblem of its just d s ribution over;'belined them th-n, and its solution wi 1 tax to the utter most tile Chriktian virture and pa trtic courage of this republic. The great issues of this country de nmt lie between the platforms of the two great p .litical parties, the real divisions are the relati 'us of labor and capital, the monopoly of public franchses for plyvate gain, t he transportation and kindred problems On one extreme stand the trusts huge, grim and unrelenting in their greed; on the other stands organized istic. On one side a plutocracy, on the other a s:cialism. If this coun country is to be saved it must be by the farmer's vote, and the wel-to do, midrile classes holding tne balance cf power and sticking to the principles upon which the government is found Sd. There must be some pcwer midway between these extremes,stroeg enough to hold the old ship to its constitu tional moorings, or she will break in pieces upon th : rocks on one side or founder in the quicksands on the other. I have little faith in any political party; my faith lies in the manhood, the exceptional manhood, of this re public, which has always risen to ev ery emergency. A political party spends half the time building a plat form to get in on, and then after it is in. spends the other half dodging is su s trying to stay in. In the great industrial war dividing each year more sharply the masses and the clas es in the Nrth and West, the South alone remairs intact, serene and confident. I have some times thought that in the wisdam of God, like Israel of old, the South has. been held in po'i!.ical and industrial bandage, to educate and prepare her for the great work of savingf the re public of Washington and of Jefferson. I admire the people of other sec tions, but I never go among them, without instinctively feelirg that thre is a certain fineness of fioer, an exalted love of country, a reverence for religion and the sanctity of home, that Is peculiar to the men and wo men of the S uth. The solid South with one-third of the electoral yote is without influence and po er in perf ecting national poli ces, but I think I can see the time coming when she will hold the bal ance of power, and become the rally ing p- int for the conservative and I preservative forces in this nation. Before slavery cast its dark shadow over our land, the South gave the na tion its presidents and sh-.ped its pol icies. Washington gave it freedom, Jd ferson gave it the policy of 'expan sion, M.nr. e, the ' Monros D.c trin," the very foundation of its for eign po'icy, Madison was introdu -ingt r a tar.ff bili in tne Housa at the ver iour when the Senate was counting hre votes which made George Wash inton its first President. The fi-st ttriff bill for pro'ctien to home indu -tri-s was introiuc d by [Lowndes, of S :uth C ir ina, in 1816, - and advocated- bv Ca!noun, C ev s an-i C'av, Danicl Webster and other N w E -gland -enat. rs opposing it. Er p Lnson. pr t etion and the early p -licies of this gove n-ien5 were th+ p-uducts of Sout-ern genius and -atesm.nsip G 'd sp ed the day when & non sectional p striotism, will - gve our c -untrv a b cad non-paraisan statesruanship, w. ica will again make - tie South the potent factor in guid ing anti shaping tue destnies of this repub'ic A SOUTHERN MIAN FOR PRESIDENT. It is time fur the people to make a p atf- rm; the politicians have written rocm long e iough. Make one in ac cord witn tne ccnmcroial spirit of the ag-; that will appeal to every patri atic American citizen, North, South. sEa .t and West, who doesn't want a Sp1 ut cracy ron one side or a socialism on the '-ther, put a s'>uthern man on it, not bs::ause he is a Southern man, but beciuse he is a b g broad A mern -can, call it democracy or wnat you pl -as', I tell you that you can elect him, where you will fail with a West ern socialist or an Eastern monopolist, on a plastform tinkered and doe tored up, with a view solely to catch ing votes. A POLITICAI. FRANKENSTEIN. Wnen I was a boy, I remnember r ading a fantastic story, of a great G rman sci antist, who conceived that he could cr-ate life. He dug in the grave yards, sat by the dying and watched the lingering spark expire; Lcut up the bodies of the newly dead and - studied life and death in every shpe and form, until he finally discovered the secret. Then he con structed a great giant form in the likeness of man and gave life to this mass of inanimate matter. It was a monster: It had list, cun ning and im Imense strength3, b-ut it had no soul. It wandered the earth a fiend incarnate and finally tortured Its creater to death. Let us not devel up a politi cal Frankenstein In this country In the shape of a party, that wi.1 murded1 tziromte free thought, free speech a1A independence of action and bee me master, not the servant, of its creator, the people A representative is not responsible now to the people who elect him, he is responsible to a party. He can vote for the most iniquitous measure on the calendar and say, "Oh, it was a party measure," and that is sufficient. Let him advocate any measure or dis cuss any doctrine and the enly argu. ment needed to forever damn both man and measure is, "Hush, or you'll split the party." Trust and socialism are both the outgrowth of a to partisan spirit in this country, for both parties want suc:ess before all else, and each one flirts with socialism for its votes, and caters at the sa ne time to the trusta for their campaign contributions. The only remeay Is agitation and discus sion, freedom of thought and indepen dance of action on the part of the in divinual voter. More th-n 200 years ago, the hum ble men of Euro'pe sougtht this cent.1 nent hutrbly feeling tha God had .set it apart as a refuge for the down trod den and oppres-ed. The common tnen of the peo~sle, your ancestors and n-ine, how braveiy Lhey fLught a'd and how oroudly they d;ed at Cowpens and K-ngs Moun:aln, taat the young re public might jive, a natil>n consecrat to liberty and man's inalienable own ership of himsef. Fi-low citzens-we are in this country free -ocday fr m every species of tyranny, save the- fetters forged by uur own perverted wil's. Col. Watterson is relling the read ers of toe C.>urier-Jurnal very inter .soting stories of life 'n Ezr.:pe. Tne Colonel feels c nfli.nn tnat the re ports about p r-ons waking big win nings at M )nte Carlo are baseless y'irns. Too gentlemen conducting th- ga-nbling est:-.blishment are, re sisys, eutirely too) wise to permit any tining of that sort. Toe State sa:.s the C-olonel speaks as one possessing the au:hority of experience. It Mak-s UN S,gi3. The State says: "If tuose Confed erate flags which have been received by the governor could talk, what a -tory of high hop s, of heroic endeav or and of final bitter despair they might tell. It wiould be such a drama as the lire of so brief a nation has never held ." THE war. In the East seems to be about over, with Russia coming out second best It is predicted that peace 1will be coneunded in six weeks. WHY RUSSIA LOST Actual Figures Create Sensation in St. Petersburg. RUSIA J UPRIEPARED. Less Than 60.000 Russian Soldiers Were in the Orient When the Hostilities Were Opened and Reinforce. ments Could Not Be Sent to Port Arthur. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says Gen. Linevitch continues the retire ment of the bulk of his army north ward. The general staff declares that it is certain that Field Marshal Oyama has been compelled to relnnquish the idea of pursuit in force for the pres ent. The Japanese forces on the Ras sian flanks are too light to constitute a serious danger and a lull in heavy fighting for several weeks, if not months, is predicted. Stung by the wholesale criticism heaped upon the war offies for Its un preparedness and incapacity in provid ing the Manchurian army with men, guns and munitions, the army organ lays bare what has been done since the opening cf hostilities, giving exact fig ures which show that up to'March 12, the war offia bad dispatched 13,087 officers, 761,467 men, 146,408 horses, 1,521 guns and 316.321 tons of muni tions and supplies to the front, declar. inz that traasportation strained the Siberian railroad to the utmost capa city. The army organ admits that the army in the far East when the war opened was hardiy worth the name (no figures birg ziven, but it is known t, at the troops did not exceed 60, 000), df fending this on the ground that Emperor Nicholas desired to avoid war and therefore refrained from sending reinforcements which surely would have provoked it Criticism of tie war cfflse's failure adequately to supoly Port Arthur i met by a statrment that it, was pro visioned for a g-rrison of t svelve bat talions, the ec:s1on to put thirty bat taltons be! r taken so late that the original caculations could not be rem edied. While affirming that the quick fir ing and field guns of the Ruimans are Iuperior to the Japanese the war office explains that the misfortune in the insuffm':ency of mountain guns Is due to the fact that when -the war br.,ke out Russia was just adopting a new pattern. It is denied that the war office was deceived in rega.rd to the available strenwth of the Japanese army or or ganization of Japanese reserves, but the army organ frankly admits that the talents of the cifcers and wonder ful spirit of the soidiers were miscal culated. The publication of this article has created a sensation among military men and in public circles, many of the former censuring the general staff for disclosing valuable military secrets and the latter finding from the figures a practical admission that the war has cost almost a half million men, killed and wounded, prisoners and sick. As a whole the army in the far East is now b::lieved not to exceed 300,000. YERTILIZE B~ ATXS. An Important Circuzlar Issued by the Rail Road Commission. The railroad commission, as a re sult of a conference Wednesday, is sued an important circr1ar as regards rates on fertilizars. The largest quantities of fertilizer is shipped from Columbia and Charleston and the rates given below apply to car lots with 2,000 pounds to the ton. The minimum load to the car is placed at 20,000 pounds. The rate is Interesting in view of the fact that the state fertilizer board Wednesday night decided to place In the hands of the solicitors a number of cases for prosecution for shortiless In standard and weights. The rates are as follows, the figures representing the price per ton: 12 miles and under.......... 0.80 20 miles and over 30.........1.10 30 miles and over 20.........1.20 40 mIles and over 30...... ..1.30 50 miles and over 40........1.40 60 rAles and over 50........1.50 70 miles and over 60.........1.60 80 miles and over 70.........1.70) 90 miles and over 80... .....1.80 100 miles and over 90........1.90 110 mIles and over 100.......2.00 120 mIles and over 110.......2.10 130 miles and over 120........2.20 140 miles and over 130.......2.30 150 miles and over 140 ....... 2.40 180 miles and over 150.......2.50 170 mIles and over 160.......2 55 180 miles and over 170.......2.60 190 miles and over 180.......2.70 200 miles and over 190.......2.75 210 miles and over 190.......2.75 220 mills and over 210.......2 75 230 miles and over 220 .... .. 2 75 240 miles and over 230).......2 75 250 miles and over 240.......2.75 260 miles and over 250....... 275 270 miles and over 260......2.75 280 miles and over 270.. ....2 75 290 miles an, over 280...... 2.75 300 miles and over 290.......2.75 310 miles and o.v~-r 3u0.......2.75 J. H. WHARTON, Chairman, B. L. CAUGaNAN, Com missioners. Bodi. w F.ound. A dispatch from Rock Ledge, Fla., says toe bzdies of the four pers..ns wh ere drowvned last Friday night in the B nana river were found Sunday. Three were found near the place where their b -at overturned; the fourrh was some distance away. A. A. Baldwin's remains will be buried there. The oters will be sent north Monday to the following de~tinaTlo:ns: W. 0 Moore and daugrhte- Editn, to Hol yoke, Mass., Mrs. Henry G. Miller, to Amawalk, N. Y. Mr. Miller was so seriously injured by his fight for life that he will be unable to accompany the remains of his wife. Found in a Swamp. Attract ed by the buzzards, the dead bdy of Mrs. Mary L. Lott of Grace ville, Fla., was found on the edge of a swamp Wednesnay morning 13 miles from Yellow Pine, Ala., where he was visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. L. Ray, Mrs. Lott wandered away from her daughters borne ten days ago. While suffering from dementia. She was 71 RUSSIAN CiEFS LOST. The Game of War Played Bad Havoc With Russian Officers. Remarkable Number orGeneralsand Admira!s Killcd. Recalled or Captured. The New York Evening Mail says one of the remarkable features if the present situation in regard to the Russo-Japanese war is the davastation -it can be called by no other term that has been wrought in the ranks of Russia's commanders, both naval and military, writes H. 0. Wilson in the London Express. Since the begin ning of the conflict over a d.zen Rus. sian generals and nearly as many ad mirals have been placed out of action -killed, captured, severely wounded or disgraced. It is the number of men of commanding rank who fall under the last named heading that gives the matter its most serious as pect. Nothing has been more noticeable of late than the dissensions, the b ck erings and the quirrels between the Russian commanders in the fie'd. Gen. Smyrncff, himself a prisoner, bitterly criticises Gen. Stoessel; Gen. Gripenbirg roundly scuses Gen. Ku ropatkin of being the cause of his de feat and downfall; the military offl cers who defended P. rt Arthur blame the naval camn ande-rs for their lack of success, and the admiral. pass the blame aloag to Viceroy AI-xhff. What has become G: the flower of the Russian commanding officers? 0. 2E men of the rank of g neral with . hose names t'e war has made us familiar, more than half are now out of action O 15 admirals, three have been kill-d, four are recalled and in disgrace, and four are prisoners of the Japanese. Tne remaining four are of alm-st aE little account. O.;e, Admiral Jesser commands the sole remnant of tot Russian Pacific fleet at Vladivostok, and the other three are loitering about at sea with the various setiori of the discredited Baltic fleet. Hov are the mighty fallen! The followins list shows what has happened to 2 generals and 14 admiral since the be ginning of the war. - GENERALS. Stoessel-Prisoner on parole. Gripenberg-Recalled in disgrace. Orli(ff-Rocalled, in disgrace. Trus, ff-Rcalled, in di.grace. K-ler-Kilk-d at Motienling. Kondretchenko-Killed at Port Ar thur. Tserpitry-Killed at Part Arthur. Rialinkin-Killed at Shaho. Smolensky-Killed at Shaho. Rou kovsky-Killed at Liao Yang Smyrnoff-Prisoner in Jipan. Rashtalinsky-Prisoner in Japnn. Pflug-Prisoner in Japan. Bieli-Prisoner in Japan. Gorbatkovsky--Prisoner in Japan. Nikitin-Prisoner in Japan. Fock-Prisoner in Japan. Kondratovitch-Wounded, in hos pital. Kashtalinsky-Wounded, in hos pital. Sassulitch-Superseded, but re sumed command. Stakelberg-Wounded, but resumec command. Rennenkampff-Wounded, but re surmed command. Mistchenko-Wonoded. Linevitch-Reported to have quar reled with Kuropatkin. Bllderling-Reported to have quar reled with Kuropatkin. Sakbaroff-Still holds a command. Kanibars-Still holds a command. Kuropatkin-Dsmissed and dis graced. ADMIRALs. Alexief-Recalled. Starck-Recalled. Skrydloif-Recalled. Besobrazoff-Recalled.. Makharoff-Killed at Port Arthur Molas-Killed at Port Arthur. Witgeft-Klled at Port Arthur. Ulkhtomnsky-Prisoner in Japan. Wiren-Prisorer in Japan. Lostchinsky-Prisoner in Japan. Grigorievitch-Prisorer In Japan Jessen-Commading at Viadivos tok. Rojestvensky-Near Madagascar. Folkersahm-L.oitering at sea. Botorvosky-Loitering at sea. It is a distressing list, and but lit tle comforting to Russian pride. I; Is even more terrible by comparisor with the almost complete immunitl of the Japanese. So far as can be ascertained, the Japanese have los1 but one officer of the rank of general killed in action at Port Arthus, anc two of the rank of admiral, both c~ whom were drowned in the s'nking oi the battleship Hatsuse. Not one ha~ been captured by the Riisians and none have been recalled. A striking contrast, Indeed. Port Arthur was, of course, respon sible for a large proportion of the Russian losses. Admiral Makhar' fi and Molas were drowned in the sink Ing of the battleship Petropavlovsk or April 13; Admiral Wirgeft met his dearh in the fatal sortie of Au~gust~ 10 which was also the cause of Prince Ukhomky's disgrace; and four ad mrls fell into the hands of the Jan. anese with the surre, der of P -rt Ar thur. Admiral Starck was n~ called soon iafter the b'gizning of the war for incomp ten2cy, it was stted. Skryrl: ff.-nd Be-onraz if were failures at Vked vostok, ta- uga the former was credit, d-rongly, as is now be lievd-wit~h the suc.'ssful ra;ds on r-be Jananese trausp~orts. Vioeroy Alexieff has fallen into disgrace not nly with the governmenla, but a'so th the people, for his general con duct of affairs. 0! the fallen generals, ten are vic tims' of Port Arthus, t wo of them Kondratchenko and Tseriptsy-find g a grave there and the rest sur rendering. Two--Rialinsky and Smo lenky-were killed in the bat.tle on the Shakhe; Count Keller lost his life In the desperate attempt to retake the M otianling past, R utkovsky fell a Liao Y.ang, and Ko.htalins~ky and Kndratovtch were sever.iy wounded beore the Japanese occupied that stronghold. Of the three generals in disgrace, Gripenterf(s offense was in hringlg about disaster at H ikoutai, Orloff's at Liao Yang and Truse.ff's at Kiienceng. It is still pcssible that this list may be increased by the recall of Line vitch, Bilderling, or even Kuropatkin himself. The command of the vast armies which are vainly seeking for victory over the Japanese seems to have devolved upon some half dozen generals of no particuar note, with the exception of Kuropatkin, who, it must be admitted, has done very lit tle to maintain his great reputation. To such straits are the legions of his Majesty Nicholas II reduced in 12 months of warfare with the dispised Japanese! "An army has sometimes been comaned with sucess by a fool or a coward,"' said Macaulay on oue occasion, "but never by a debat ing saciety." And tha, seems to be a fitting descripti on of the remnant of Russia's commanding cders. INFORCEENT OF LAW. Everythirg Now Work!ng Smoothly and Prospects for Better Results,. Chief Constable Hammet, in his quarterly report Wled with the gover nor Wednesday, calls attention to the fact that the enforcement of the law in this State is progressirg niclV and that he hopes to have it enforced even oetter in a short time. Ttie report is quite interesting and is as follows: "Governor D. C. Heyward: "Dear Sir, Hereto attached I band you a report of the affairs Of the con stabulary department for the first quarter of the present fiscal year. "Inasmuch as you are entirely fa miliar qith occurrences affecting us which have transpired during the quarter I deem it unnecessarY to offer comment, except to say that every thing Is working smoothly, and I feel encouraged at the prospects of even a better enforcement of the law in the fuure. "Yours truly, "U. B. Hammet, "Chief Con3table." The report giv. s the expense of the constabluery for the months of De cember, January and February at $15,909 11. O this the supplemea tary accounts and the salaries of con stables form the greater part, The seizures ia value for the month are as follows: Wh!skey-D.cPmber, $1,821; num '-er of gallons, 1 216; January, $1. 383.50; gallons 909; February, $358. 12; gallons, 238. Beer-Decexber, value $44.66; ';ozzn, 89 1 3; January, $32 91; duzan, 65 5 6; Fcbruary, $29.08; . doz::n, 58 1 6. In addition to the above there were isezed 31 stills, 3 teams. 756 gallons of beer in kegs, which are of no value. The convictions for December were 24; fies, $560; paid. $280; chaingang, 5. January convictions, 28; fines, $I, 175; paid, 8530; .haingang, 9. Febru ary convicuAoLs 27; files, $1,282.50; paid, $442 50; cnaingang, 7. There are severai appeals pending. TAiB COTTON CROP Of Last Year Amounts to Over Thir teen Million Bales. The census bureau on Tuesday of last week I- sued a bulletin showing the total crop of c3tton ginned in 1904 to be 13,597,782 bales. ~These figures include limers and round bales, and the total is Equivalent to 13,584,457 bales of 500 pounds. The summary of bales is as follows: Square bales............. 13,103,447 Round bales............. 297,151 Sea island cotton..-..... 104;317 Linters.....-........ 241,942 Total running bales, In cluding Unters.. .. ... 13,745,857 Included in this are 192,275 run nIng bales, estimated by ginners re maining to be ginned. The total running crop bales for 1903 was 10,399,558, The distribution of the cotton crop, -according to character of bales and cotton is as follows: Square bales, upland cot ton, reported from gin -neries............-...13,103,447l Rund bales, upland crop. 296,151 Biles of sea island cotton. 104,317 Linters reported from cot ton seed oil mills........-241,942 The figures from the various states on the running bales are as follows: Alabama...........-....1,458,966 Arkansas-.........-..... 883967 Florida-..-.-.-..-.-.....-.. 86642 Georgia-................ 1,960.151 Indian Territory-.....-..-.. 47.984 Kansas..................-14 Kentucky-..-..-...-..-...-.. 1 922 Louisiana-...............1,105,466 &ississippil.....-.....-...1,738 638 Msaouri-.................48 447 North Carolina-...........743,404 Oklahoma................341 497 South Carolina-..........1,189.134 Tennessee..-.-..-.-....-.-.. 316.790 Texas - . .... .. -. .. .. 3,124,677 Virginia-....-.-..-..-.-..-. 17,216 Cannot be Found. William A. Pre~tdergast, formerly of Charleston, but recently of Birm ingham, has suddenly disappeared at Dallas, Texas, where he went to take a position in a department store. The man has been missing since March 2, on which night he left his boarding housa to mail a letter to a Charleston lady. He was to report to work on the following day and no trace of his whereabouts can be learned and his relatives and friends are fearful that he has been foully dealt with. The detectives and others have been at w ork on the case, but the disappear ance is as complete as It was sudden and all efforts to locate him have proven futile. He was a fine sales man. He left there two years ago to engage in business in Birmingham. He was in good health and mental truole cannot account for his sudde-n disappearance which has so batfl.:d the authorities. He was 35 years o' age, u-imarriezi and a man of exempl ary habits. D. atti or Jalt-s V -ne. A dispatch fromn Am~ient, F:vEce, .ays Jules Varae died a:, 3 10 p. m ., Friday. Hle family was at his bed side Mf. Verne had been subject to enronic diabetes but it did not as sume a critical aspe-ct until March 10. Since then he gradually failed and the end was hastened by a stroke of paralsis covering his righit side until the tongue was affected. The sick man retained conscoioi'sness until shortly before his deat'o, his brain be ing the last organ to fail. He calm ly foresaw death, called the members of his family to his bedside and dis cussed his departure. Following the announcement of Mf. Verne's death telegrams were received from many quarters, including distinguished au thors. An~other Forgery Case. D. C. Jackson, superintendent of the recently established McIally Brick works, at Union. was arrested Wednesday morning charged with forgery and obtaining money under false pretenses and taken to Hender sonville, N. C., by Chief of Police N. B. Jackson of that place. It is said that the forgeries were committed about six months ago, the chief of police being among those to cash fraudulent checks and even had his own name forged. Jackson, who nas <een giving his initials as J. M., had been here some three months working on the new Baptist church before taking charge of the bricksplant. He was apprehended on account of some on frm Hrandersoniville recognizing GOOD POSITIONS Inthe Govelnment Serv's Can Ve Had by Txaminations. Civil Service Commission writcs Con gressman Lever Concerning Chances of Southern Applicants. Congressman Lever has received the following letter which will be of in terest to ambitions young men throughout South Carolina and he says if those Interested will write the commissioner at Washington full in tructions will be furnished: Hon. A. F. Lever, House of Represen tatives. Sir: The commission has the honor to acknowledge receipt of yoar letter of March 22, in which you staze you notice announcements to the effect that the commission will hold exami nations at many points in the south for the purpose of securing eligibles to fill vacancies as bookkeeper as they occur in the departmental service and inquire whether there Is a probability of appointments being made from-the Soutn of those who become eligible as the result of such examinations. Iu reply you are informed that at present tnere are 23 States and terri tories which have received less than.. 100 percent. of the proportionate saare of appointments made in the departments at Washington, D. O. Of these Stetes and territories South Carolina is number 23 The follow ing States of the south and southwest. are a'si in this list: Alabama, Arkan- - bas, Fiorida, Georgia, Indian Territo ry, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, M.siouri, New Mexico, North Caroli as, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas In order that the appointments 'in Washington may be distributed as nearly as possible among the States according to population. the commils sion deemed it advisable to announce and hold especially in the States which are farthest in arrers examina Gions for clerk and bookkeeper in the departmental service. The boo k-eper examination will be held .cn April 26 and the clerk examination on May 3. Announcements of then ex aminations are herewith inclosed During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, 168 appointments were made - from the male clerk registar, 92 ap pointments were made from the mile bookkeeper register, and 267 appoint ments were made from the male stenographer and typewriting regis ter. In filling vacancies in the depart ments at Wasiangton certification. Is, made from the-registers of the States and territories .which have recelved the lowest percentage of. appoint ments in proportion to their popul tion; and it is believed that if resi dents of the States which are. farthest in arrears will compete In the exami nations for clerk, bookkeeper, and stenographer and typewriter which are being held this spring, It will be possible for the commissson more nearly to approximate and equal dis tribution of appointments among the States. Tne commission wlil appre ciate any assistance you can render in the securing of applicants fQy-heS* exammnations, especially for men ste negraphers. Few calls are made for womsn under the clerk examinatins. A manual of the examinations Is sent herewith. John C. Black, President. NEW TRIAL GRINTED ADAMS. Daughtor or the Deceased Swears She Swore Falsely ae Trial. A special dispatch from Walterboro to The State says that B. A. Adams who was convicted two years ago of the murder of H. M. Jaques, was brought to WalJterboro Wednesday night from Columbia, where hehad been imprisoned In the penitentiary since his recent arrest. His attorneys, Howell & presented a motion Tudam nig for a new trial, upovn ~runds of' after-discovered4vI~dence. Afmdavits were presented from Mrs. Ruth Adams, daughter of deceased and wife af defendant's brother, Ben Hughes, Mrs. Mary E. Adams and Mrs. Ella .Dandridge In support of the motion. The affidavit of Mrs. Ruth Adams was ~o the effect that-her testimony given at the t:ial of the case was false, she having been Induced to tes tify to the same by Martin Jaquet and Hogan Dadd. The other ai~dav its related to threats alleged to have been r~ade by Henry Jaques against Adams. This motion was resisted by Solici tor Davis, Griffin & Padgett and Penri foy Bros After hearing the argu ments, Judge Townsend granted the. motion and Adams will be given a new trial. The cese wili probably come up at the next term of court in July. _________ iug Him Tw~e. At Pittsburg, Pa., two men were hanged Taursday and the first unsuc cessful haoging was recorded In Ale gueny county. Beno Dardata was nanged first, and his neck was broken. Wiamn J Byers followed. The loop of the noose was pulled away, precipi tating him to the ground. He was. not badly burt, the rope was again adjusted. This time there were no mishaps. Death rsulted from stran gulation. Byers was convicted of kilirg August J. Layton at Turtle Crek on June 3, 1901. He implcated Layton's wife and John McWlllam ." They were acquitted. McWilliants afterward married Mrs. Layton. Dan data killed Thomas Sinclair at Im perial on September 20. 1903, during a quarrel over a drink of whiskey and a dollar. About Mo. A man is either a "fool or a physl clan at forty," and a wuman becomnes at least a "beauty doctor" early In ben fouirth decade. The Spartan Journal says this is all the resulti of experience born of suffering and fail ures. If the young people would look ahead and take warning there would be less need for doctoring and tinker- - inig up as life advances. Health, strength and beauty are recklensly squandered In the twenties. Bull Swims East River. A big gray bull running wild Wed nesday made a streak of excitement and panic across New York City from west to east on the line of Forty second street. He sprang into public notice at Forty-second street and Eghth avenue by knocking down a bicycle rider and he ended his per formances by jumping into East river and swimming out to a reef south of Blackwell's Island, where he was las