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GOOD ADVICE. Mr. Mixscn Tells Farmers to Market Their Cotton Slowly And 'Then Planters Win Get Good Prices. Wants Figures on Con sumption by the Spinners. The following letter which we take from the Augusta Chronicle will be read with interest: Dear Sir: The convention of the Southern Cotton Asscciation, held in Asheville, N. C., on the 6;h. has ad journed, and passes down into history as a most important meeting. While I was in hopes that this meeting would fix twelve cents as the minimum price for cotton during this season, which price, when the size of the crop is taken Into consideration, is cheap, they thought differently-eleven cents minimum was agreed upon as the cor rect figure, and so, from now on, eleven cents is the minimum price to be demanded by all loyal farmers for their cotton during this season. When ten cents per pound was fixed last February by the convention in New Orleans and demanded by the farmers, all manner of fun was made of the far mers,and their association,by the Wall Street gang,but not so now;tbey know by experience what the farmers mean and how well they will carry out their agreements. If the farmers will prove loyal, and I believe they will, you will see cotton selling from eleven cents per pound inside of two weeks. Don't rush your cotton on the market too rapidly, fellow farmers. Market it slowly. I believe we have the short est crop we have had in years. And, if sufficient labor can be gotten, the crop in Georgia. and South Carolina will be gathered by October firt, and, from the best information I can get, the remiinder of the cotton belt is in the same fix. As soon as it dawns on the spinners and speculators how short this crcp is you will see a rush for the for the staple, and up will go prices. Keep your cotton, draw enough money on it to pay your debts so as not to block the wheels Qf commerce and trade, pay your merchants, that they may in turn pay the wholesale mer chants from whom they bought the goods sold you. When you do this no - one has a right to question your right to hold your cotton and demand a fair price for it. The rapid marketing of cotton during the last ten days is re sponsible for the decline in price ; be patient; market slowly and you will make money by it. I expect to see cotton sell for fifteen cents by Jan uary 15th; therefore in my judgment to rush cotton on the market means a loss of money to you; but as before advised, while demanding justice for yourselves accord justice to others; draw sufficient money on your cotton and pay your debts so that the man you owe can pay his debts and busi ness will go along smoothly. I no tice that the census bureau is out with a report of cotton ginned up to September 1st showing that 469,500 bales of the present crop was ginned up to said date. This Is a bid show ing for the crop and demonstrates be yond question that the crop Is In poorer condition than recognized and claimed by experts. No such an amount of cotton would have been opened in August If the crop was in a healthy condition. More than halt of the cotton opened in August was forced open by the dry, het winds we had. Lots of the bolls were unma tured. Opened because the plant had lost all of its vitality. Such corndi tions foreshadow a short season and a short crop. I expected to see a full report Ifrom Mr. North at this time. I expected to see a report giving information on both sides of this question, but I am disappointed. Mr. North, It seems, Ignores the instructions of congress and continues to give all the informa tion he can gire from the farmers' side of the question, but remains mum as to information from the spin ners side. He gives us only a partial report. If you will refer, Mr. Editor, to the records of congress of date January 16th. 1905, you will find the following viz: "Fifty-eighth congress, third session, House joint resolution No. 18s, In the senate of the United States, JTanuary 17th, 1905. 'Read twice and referred to the committee on the census. JOrDT RzsoLUTION Authorizing and directing the director of the census to collect and publish additional statistics relating to cotton. "Besolved, by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America In congress assem bled: That the director of the census be,.and he Is hereby authorizad and directed to collect and publish on the same date and at the same time he makes publication of ginners' report for cotton production provided for in section nine of "An act of congress entithkd an act to provide for a per manent . census office. Approved March 6th, 1902." Statistics of the consumption of cotton, the surplus of cotton held by the Manufacturers and the quanity of cotton exported, the statistics to be nummarized as of Sep tember 1st, each year, so as to show the cotton production and consump tion of the preceeding year. P'assed the house of representatives .Tanuary 16th, 1905. Attest: A. McDOWELL. From the above we see that Mr. North Is not only "authorized" but "directed" to give this additional In formation, but he, for some unexplain ed reason falls to do so. His duties are made very p!aln. N~o discretion Is left him. He is "authoized and directed" to publish this additional Information, yet he does not do It. We do not ob jecti to the publication of Information on our side of the question provided it Is correct, and provided further that we are given the information which we are entitled to expect from Mr. North under the law to be given at the same time. But we do object to in formation concerning one side being given to the world while information which we are entitled to under the law, giving us some insight into the other side of the question Is suppress ed. We are willing to accord justice to other, and we intend to demand jus tice for ourselves. Will Mr. North please explain why he has not complied with his instruc tions from the congress of the United States? Very truly, R. M. Mixsos. Burned to Death. The summer home of William Thompson at Harmony Grove, N. H., was burned Tuesday morning. Two, persons were burned to death. The victims are Mrs. Lidia Thurston and W. M. Thompson. The origin of the fiman.mystery. A FATAL FALL rhrough the Dome of the State Capitol at Columbia. At the State 11) vse in Columbia on Tuesday or last %-eek while scribbling his name on cne of the iron girders between the bases of the inner and cuter shells of the cipitol dome, Wan ren H. Sc:ujgs, Jr., the fifteen year cld son of a well known traveling clothing saksman, stepped into one of the two foot 2quares of the cAlling urotected only by tin, and fell fortz feet headforemost on to the marble floor cf the outer lobby between the two houses of the lagislature, dashing out his brains and killing himself in stantly. With him was a companion, P. W. Bull, who had just finished writing his name in the adjoiuing panel. These two names and that of C. S. Rents are scribled in large white let ters all over that section of the dome. When he fell through Scruggs was just reaching the first -g" in his name, a long white mark extending down the girder in the direction of the punctured square. Tnis is a dangerous ceiling, but it seems impossible to prevent a mizcal laneous assortment of people from streaming into the dome, though this accident will likely result in some ac tion being taken along this iine- On the day of the adjournment of the last legislature the little daughter of W. H. Moackton, a Columbia mer chant, fell shrough one of these squares, but was saved by the bal cony, and though she fell 25 feet she was uninjured. W. W. Price, now a well known Wasington newspaper correspondent several years auo while working on a Columbia nevwspaper fell pr-rtially through one of these squares while spying on a political convention in session in the hall of the House of Representatives, Shot by a Burglar. Burglars that have aroused the vicinity of Greenwich, Conn., for the past few weeks reached a climax Wednesday morning, when Mrs. A. C. Morrill, daughter of E. C. Converse, chairman of the finance committee of the United States Steel corporation, was hit by a bullet fired by a burglar and seriously if not fatally jnjured. About 3 o'clock Wednesday morning Mrs. Morrill's nurse was awakened by the flash of a burglar's lantern in her face. She screamed and her cries at tracted Mrs. Morrill and as she en tered the room the burglar fired, the bullet striking her in the chin, glanc ing down, landing in the shoulder. The burglar also beat the nurse over the head and shoulders with his re volver. After the shooting he made his escape. The police found that an entrance was effected by forcing the front door. A man claiming New York as his home was arrested. The police believe he is the burglar. He gave his name as John Brown and said that he came to Greenwich to call on a friend employed at the home of Mrs. Morrill. Distmtssed. As a result of the court martial proceedings against Commander Ber nard 0. Scott, who several weeks ago ran the cruiser Detroit aground at Pueta Plata, Santo Domingo, that officer has been dismissed from the service, the President having approv ed the proceedings, findings and sen tence of the court. Among the speci fications against Commander Scott was that of drunkeness, and it was also alleged that he wa~ Toilty of a number of indiscretion: nGuatana mo, Cuba. The D.r t. althougb disbled by the loss of .-ce of her pro peller blades, was not mziausly dam aged. Commander Scott was appoint ed to the Naval Academy from Ala bama in June, 1870, and received his present commlision of commander in August, 1903. Good school System. -- A development of the school sys tem in New York unheard of and un thought of ntil about sixteen years ago is the system of free lectures to adults. These free lzctures were be gun in six school houses in the winter of 189. At the present time they are given in 140 centres in New York, the ma jority of whch are In school buildings. Last year 4,665 lecture! were attended by the astounding total of 1,134,000 persons. Lectures on travel, history sociology, literature and art are illustrated by stereopticon views. Lectures In electricity, phy sics, metallurgy, etc, are illustrated by experments and lectures in music by vocal and instrumental selections. Paid A Just Penalty Henry W. Manseer, the Oswego county farmer hand, who murdered pretty 12-year-old Cora Sweet, was executed in Audubon, N. Y., prison at 6:15 o'clock Tuesday morning. Mansers crime was the most brutali nauseating in the criminal history of Oswego county. His victim was a child of a well-to do farmer in the town of Scriba, a few miles from the city of Oswego. On May 28 Manseer met the girl en her way to Sunday scool, lured her into the woods and then killed her by pounding her side into a shapeless mass witn a stone. Killed by Cotton. A very sad accident occured near Vances on Monday week ago, which re sulted in the death of Arthur, the five-year-old son of Mr. Julius A. Mur ray. Mr. Murray's children were play ing in his cotton on about two bales or newly gathered seed cotton. They had dug a hole In the midst of the pile of cotton, down to the floor, when Ar thur got down into it, probably to make the hole larger, when the cotton fell on him, suffocating him. He was gotten out as speedily as possible, and everything possible done to save him. All proved unavailing. For snake Bite. As Farmer Arthur L. Mitchell, of North Woodbury, Conn., was cutting fodder corn in a lowland lot a big red adder bit his left wrist. Mr. Mitchell tore the reptile off, ran for the house and drank a quart of whiskey, which neighbors brought him. He suffered terribly all night, but the liquor is having the desired eff act, physicians say, and he may recover. Electrocated. At Waterbury, Conn., on Tuesday of last week one man was electrocuted and one is dying at a hospital and a third is seriously burned as a result of coming Into contact with a live wire atthe Schsville manufacturing plant. Death fro-n coming in contact with live electric wires are becoming almost an every day occurrence. Hanged imslf. Frederick Mercer, a negro 47 years old, hanged hi-uself to a door-knob in Booklyn, N. Y., on Monday. When found his body was in an almost hor izontal positon with his head only a fot frm the floor. SENSA UIONAL STORY. Thirty-live Americans Rported L-st on Togo's Ship. A dispatch from New Orleans to the Atlanta Constitution Eays from nformation received here it is believ ed that a number of American gun ners went down in the explosion which sank Admiral Togo's flgship, the Mikasa, and at the same time threw light upon the cause for the remrkato: marksmanship whicla de vasted the Ru-ian Baltic fl.et in the battle of the Sea of Japan. Joseph Morgan, of this city, brother of Charles Morgan, formerly gunner on Admiral Sampson's flagship, New York, states that the American gun I jined the Japanese navy and was a member of the crew of the Mikasa. Gunner Charles Morgan is said to be one of the thirty-Efve American man o'-warmen who deserted at Manila and Ii ned the Japanese navy. It was he who fired the trat shot at San Juan. Porto Rico. and suba-quent ly obtained notoriety through Admir al Ssmpeon's opposition to his receiv ing the rank of commissionod offleer in the United States ravy. Morgan's skill as a gunner was cele brated in the navy, and his brother states that Captain Merrill, formerly Itationed at the United States navy yard at New Orleans, told,him his brother deserted at Manila, and, with thirty-five comrades, joined the Jap anese forces, receiving a salary of 35 00 a month, with a promise of a bonus at the end of the year. Heretofore it has been claimed that the Japsnese have employed no for eign filghters, ard the fact that Joseph Morgan has heard nothing from his brother for over a year, afser a fomer regular zorrespondence, bears out the belief that American gunners were secured under bond of srcrecy. A BJLD ROBB"IR. A Lone Highwaymen Hed-Up and R.bbed a Coach A dispath from Lounder, Wyoming, says a typical Western stage robbery by a lone highwaymen took place bs tween Myersville and Rengis, on the Rocky Mountain Stage Company's run, last week. Tae highwayman zook all the valuables from the ex press box, robbed the mail sacks, and took the cash from the three passengers and the driver down the trail, w i a Z-tructions to keep going without looking back on pain of be ing shot. The stage with its three passengers was bowling along aa a good rate when suddenly the command to halt rang out and a masked man arose from behind a boulder, two guns in his hands, covering the driver. With a curt remark that "the first man who attempts to resist will be shot," the highwayman forced the passen gers and driver to alight and range hemselves with their backs to him and their hands above their heads. "If any mn looks round I'll kill him," said the robber. After busying himself a few minu tes with the mail and express, the robber forced each man to step back of the lined-up people and took their pocket-books one at a time. He re fused wataches, but took all the pis tols in sight. All were ordered into the stage and went on their way. Reveals Awral secrete, A dipatch from Kinat, N. D., says the dead body of Charles Herzig, who left a written confession that he was guilty of a murder committed near Youngstown, Ohio, over thirty years ago, has been found by a posse of searchers- The body was hanging to a tree in a secluded ravine in the county of Wallace. Pinned to his breast was a piece of wrapping paper, on which was written a confession of his crime. Around his neck was a shred of thin green stuff such as wo men use for face veils. It is recalled by a former Youngstown man there that Lizzie Grombacher wore such a veil when murdered and that part of it was used to strangle her. The piece fond about Herzig's neck is supposed to be the remainder of the veil, as he showed such a piece to a fellow ranch man to whom he told the story of his crm, declaring that he had kept It all these years to use in ending his own life some day. Found Foriune. An iron pot cantaining $50,000 In gold coin, the newest of which was 115 years old, was found on the farm of James Rivers, near OtLaterfield, S. C., by Tyler Teal, a white laborer, and Will Edwards, a negro, while en gaged recently mn digging a ditch. The pot was carried to a point 2 miles away ar~d buried near a creek bank When, two days later the finders went after the pot It had mys teriouly disappeared. The negro charges the white man with having appropriated the money and hidden it from him, while Teal declares the story is all a j-oke and no pot was un earthed. Ed ward sticks to his story and has produced proof of its genuine ness. Detective J. D. Evans, who has associated with him one of the best detectives In the south, who were employed by the negro, and who have since been working on the ease, have secured evideros confi-ming the discovery of the hidden, wealth, but thus far no trace of the gold has been Killed by Blind Tigers. A dispatch from Jackson, Miss. says Governor Vardamnan received a letter from District Attorney Brewer f the eleventh district notifying him that a negro named James Wills, liv ing In the Interior of Tallahassee ounty was taken to the woods by three white men and shot to death, he was burned. The negro, it seems, had buht some whiskey from one of the white men and afterwards in formed on him. The district attor ney asked the governor to take action in the case. Frost at the N orth. Reports from New England state that that section was visited by frost Wednesday night. Much damage was done to crops. In New York state frost was reported in several sections. At Lane, Pa., and in northern Ver mont snow fell. The freezing point was reched at Concord, N. H., and Augusta, Maine. A high wind saved he orauberry crop in the Cape Cod Generous Woman. Mrs. Harriett Murohison Beckwith has subscribed $20,000 toward the fund raised by Bennettsville to induce tbe Prsbyterian college, now at Clinton, to locate . at Bennettsville. She is he wmn who presented the town of Bennettsvlle with a thirty thous Sanddnllr schoolhCuse a few years BRYANS BOOM STARTS. But the Great Demccratic Leader A Declines the Honor. "I want to make my position per Lectly clear, I want to say to you that b aot only am I not announcing a can 1: lidacy, but I am not permitting a h ancidacy." b In these words William Jennings Bryan administered a check to the nthusiasm which, at the Jtfferson t club banquet, givce in Mr. Bryan's i honor at Chicago, greated the speect- 1 es advocating his nominatiou for the third time for president. "1 am not now" said Bryan, "a can didate for any ffce. I have never said that I would never again be a candidate for office but I want to say now that talk of candidacy for ofice does not affect me as it once did. I believe that my place in history will be determined not by what the peo ple are able to do for me but by what I am able to do fcr the people (ap plause and cheers.) I think it Is now too soon to choose a candidate fur president to make the race three years from now; it is too early to pledge ourselves to any one man. I tiust that before the time comes to name a man for the next presidential race light may be thrown upon our pathway and that a man may be chosen who will be able to do for the party more than I have been able to do. At the banquet alladed to above Mayor Dunne, of Chicago, was cor dially greeted as he arose to speak on "The Progress of Municipal Owner ship." He euloglzed Bryan and pre dicted the ultimate briumph of the principal of municipal ownership. Ollie M. James, of Kentucky, brought out rouad after round of ap plause by the eulogy of Bryan and the plea for Democratic harmony with which he closed a speech in which he declared that Bryan had long ago declared in favor of crushing the trusts, reforming the tariff and bringing to arbitration all internation al disputes. QIn a brief address Judge J. B. Tar vin, of Covington, Ky., declared for Mr. Bryan as the standard bearer of Democracy in 1908. Mr. Bryan then rose to speak. He was greeted with an enthusiastic demorstration and it was some min utes before the applause subsided suficiently to allow him to proceed. He spoke on "Democracy vs Centrali zation.'g TOO MUCa WHISKSY In Certain Patent Medicines to be Sold Without License. A dispztch from Washington says the commiasioner of internal revenue Thursday rendered a decision that will seriously affect a number of pa tent medicinea composed largely of distilled lquors. He has reversed a ruleing of his department made many years ago and now decides that the manufacturers of these medicines must take out license as rectifiers and liquor dealers and that druggists and others handling them will have to pay the usual retail llquor dealers' llcer s: The commissioner, in a letter of in struction to collectors of internal reve nue, says that there are a number of compounds on the market going un der the name of medicines that are composed chiefly of distilled sprits, without the addition of drugs cr medicines in suffl.-ient quantities to change the character of the whiskey. While no statement is made by the commissioner as to the medicines that will be affected, It is beileved that several prominent and highly adver thed medicines will be afecoted by the decision. In some instances the medicines have been found to contain as high as 45 per cent. of alcohol, and there are many on the market, it is said, that contain 25 per cent. of alcohol. These medicines are said to have immense sales in prohibition communities, fig ures collected in Massiaehusetts recent ly showing, it is said, that one much advertised compound with a high per centage of whiskey had been bought to the extent of 300,000 bottles in one year In prohibition communities of one N~ew England State. Many Persons Baptized. The Greenville news says eighty nine persons were baptized in Green-* ville county Sunday and by only two ministers. The number of converted must be gratifying to those good peo ple who are disturbed nowadays by statistics showing that even N~ew York cannoi be called a Christian city, and many other things equally alarming. The Rev. Jones presided at Enoree, where 47 persons, both men and women, were placed under the waters of the stream. At Reedy river, in the Union Bleaching company's reservoir, the Rev. Seago and an as sstant were also engaged in the good work, and no less than 42 young men and women confessed the faith there Sunday morning and were gently dip ped beneath the clear, cool waters of the stream. At both places hundreds of people had gathered from miles around and they must have been im pressed with what they saw. Such de monstrations for the sake of religion are not so frequent as they once were. T wo such as those of Sunday can hard ly fail to stir up religious enthusiasm and bring about great and lasting re suts. Sixty injured. Sixty passengers were injured, nine seriously, by the overturning of a trailer attached to a traction car on the Homestead division of the Pitts burg, Pa., Railway company near the Glenwood bridge early Wednerday. The accident was caused by the failure of the brakes to work. The car and1 trailer were crowded to their fullest I capacity. There is a steep grade from the Glenwood bridge to Hays Junc-1 tion, whiere cars branch off for sur rounding points, and great caution Is used by motormen. The brakes refus ed to act properly Wednesday, how ever, and the cars descended the grade with unusual speed. At Hays Junc tion there is a sharp curve. The first car managed to round the curve, but the trailer, carrying 50 passengers, was thrown from the track. A scene of almost Indescribable confusion fol lowed as the upset trailer was dragged along a considerable distance before the motor car could be stopped. Every1 one of the passengers was bruised and injured. It is expected that all of the injured will ultimately recover. Must Remain Closed. Associate Justice Gary, to whom Lawyer Boyd Evaus applied in the hope of keeping th:e Union dispensa ries open pending his appeal to the supreme court, has sustained -Judge Townsend. The case can still go be fore the full supreme court: but mean while the dispenraries must remain - closed STEEPED IN CRIrZ. Boy Goes to the Penitentiary for S Eighteen Ye.ws. The Greenville News says though is attorneys pleaded long and earnest- r r for acquittal on the ground that Irs. Brothers had failed to identify ? er assailant, it took the jury in the eneral sessions court Wednesfay less ban an hour to declare Rufus Jack >n, colored, guilty of attempted orim 2al assault. The crime was committed in a cot- r on field near Grove Station a year % go. Mrs. Brothers was picking c2n- I on at the time; and though she suc- I ceded In shaking the negro cf2, he aade good his escape and for several i ays the bay's whereabouts, for he E was only eighteen years old, were a i ystery. It was not long before one I >iece of circumstantial evidenca after : nother led to Jackson's arrest, and I ben the deputy sher!ff brought him | efore Mrs. Brothers she identified iim moat positively, and he was 1 rought to jail. A month or two later the negro was 1 dmitted to bail by some magistrate, d it was only a short time ago that is lost one eye and came near losing us life in an attempt to enter the oom of a negro wonan In the night ime. It is also said on reliable au hority that this same Rufus Jackson, while out of jail under bond wrote an nsulting note to a white woman in Uurens county, and also actually as aulted a half-witted negro girl at the oint of a pistol. These latter facts were not allowed o come into the case for they had no onnection with it, but they are no ecrets and go a long way toward mak. ng up Jackson's character. The star .ute fixes the punishment for attempt d criminal assault at not more than )0 years in the penitentiary, and Judge antzler gave him the full limit. Dead Man at ReIm. A dead man held the wheel of the ichooner Chas. Levy Woodbury dur ng several hours of the night of Au rust 8 on her trip to Honolulu from Uysan Island. He was Japanesemem >er of the crew, and died clutching )he wheel. He was found still holding t, and the vessel, though greatly dam Lged by a hurricane, which is suppos d to have caused his death from over mertion, reached port in safety. Cap min Harris, who was in command, mays that his vessel was swept along it the rate of nine knots an hour with Jut a stitch of canvas on her. He gave p hope of saving her, and said good by to Captain Schlemar, of Layson, who was a passenger. Bulwarks were kracked away to keep the decks clear )f water and oil was poured on the waves. The schooner ran for five days ind nights helpless in the gale with >ut the captain being able to take an >bservation by either sun, moon or itars. The Japanese who died com plained of feeling sick when he took is place as steersman, and he asked ? ccmpanion to stand by him for a time. Na one saw him die. He was round dead and stilff and holding the wheel as when alive. He had fallen orward. but his hands held on, and the vessel was holding her course fair! ly well. Big Match Fire. The Greenville News says fire de troyed a carload of matches at the Southern railway depot at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning. The fire de prtment had to be called to put Out the flames which were bursting through the roof when so-ne of the yard crew discovered what had hap pened. The car was standing near the old freight depot at the time, but it was immediately coupled to an en pine and rolled down the yard to the Reedy river embankment, where the fireman began to work with the flames. For half an hour they poured a stream of water into the bursting matcaes before the flames were entire ly out. The matches were a total loss and the carload was valued at $1.500. The damage to the car was considerable. Most of the root and woodwork on one end will have to be replaced and the expense will reach $100. Why the matches should have taken fire is not known. It is sup posed that they were jolted in some way and the flames resulted. Fired Into the Crowd. At Tiflis many Social D)emocrats were killed or wounded at 10 o'clock Tuesday night in a cornflict with Cos sacks at the town hall and many were trampled to death in a subsequent panic. Two thousand Social Demo crats had forced an entrance into the town hail, which was closed owing to the celebration of a religious holi day, the beheading of John the Bap ist. Revolutionary speeches were made and the chief of polica ordered the meeting to disperse. Part of those present obeyed but the remain er remained and some revolvers were fred. A large force of Cossacks irawn up outside the building then fired a volley into the crowd, time and time again killing 30 and wounding apwards of 79. in the ensusing pan Lo many persons fell and were tram pled to death by their comrades and he pursuing Cossacks, A Holy War. A dispatch from St. Petersburg iays a holy war has been proclaimed n the Caucasian districts af Zan izur and Jebralal, where Tartars are nassacreing the Armenians without , distinction of sex or age. The ountry is swarming with bands of artars under the leadership of their ~hiefs. Many thousand of Tartar lorsemen have crossed the Perso ~ussian frontier and joined the in iurgents in destroying Armenian rillages. At the village of Minkend, ihree hundred Armenians were laughtered. Dispatches say that nutilated children were thrown to ihe dogs and that the few survivors were forced to submit to Isiamism in >rder to save their lives. Murder And Suicide. A special from Tarpon Springs says Lt 6 o'clook Wednesday evening G. E. ?aul, a well known contractor, walk d into the boarding house of Hiram Pent of that place, and as his wife1 :ame to meet him at the dining room Paul shot her down with a double-. arreled shotgun and then ran into de back yard, shooting himself with: she contents of the other barrel. Paul 1 was instantly killed but his wife lived [ minutes. Paul had been drinking eavily, it is said, for several weeks. 1 5 statements were made by either< ,arty as to the cause of the shooting. Nothing to Say, The state board of control met on Iuesday in Columbia. There was ine expectations that they would is-i .ue a statement in reply to Senator '1 CIiman's charges, but they say now -that they will answer the senator 1 wen they thinir it is proper to dln o. 'i SENTIMNT CR"AGING. outh Carolina for Prohibition and Maine Turning Against It. The Washington Post says it is a ther remarkable fact that, although he Democracy, as a national organiz tion, has always been opp)sed, to 'fumptuary laws," such as statutory rohibition of the liquor tratfi:, the ost and the best kind of prohioition s now found in the few States that ,re solidly planted in the Democratic olumns. The Boston Globe notes with terest that while Maine is growing aore and more uneasy about the sis em of prohibition, and getting read; or a campaign of resubmission to the ieople of the whole question, Gourgia ,nd South Carolina ar- earnestly ta'k ng prohibition. The Globe states that ready in Georgla 103 ccunties hc.ve o license, 28 have dispenaries, and 6 iave high hense. The effort now is, ays the Globe, to have the legislature rovide a system of "State option" inder which the six counties erjoy ould be wiped out. O.r Boston cun iemporary adds that: "In South Carolina there is a re nark ,ble movement to close up the lispensaries, and Sanator Tillman pro oses to leave the question to the Democratic primary. Tue prohibition sts In South Carolina, as well as in lecrgia, are conldent that their cause ill win if presented to the people. "At the same time it is curious that he opponents of prohibition in Maine Lnd Kansas, where the system has een tried, are as confident that the people are ready to vote against a con Anuance of the present regime as the xeorgia and South Carolinan prohibi 'ionists are that their case needs only o be pres9nted to find acceptance at he hands of the people." The Post is in receipt of a very long nd intensely earnest commuafcation rom a South Carolina Democrat who, ifter applying to the liquor trade in is State all the epithets that used to be hurled at the rumsellers and their places of businees in Maine sixty years ago, closes by quoting this stanzi from song that was sung at temperance meetings in New England by the grandparents of the present genera tion: "Tell me I hate the bowl? Hate is a feeble word; I loathe, abbor, my very soul, With strong disgust is stilled When I see, or hear, or tell Of the dark beverage of hell!" EIDDLN TE&ASURE Is Found in Michigan by Two Men Lzst Week. Excitement prevails at Northport owing to the reported finding of a treasure of $150,000, suppose to be the booty of two roobers who committed theft in Chicago about the time of the great fire. Last week two aged strangers ap peared in Northport and hired a boat to take them to North Fox Island, some miles in the bay. Later they re turned to Nortbport and secured a quantity of supplies. It was learned that they were provided with map and charts. When the strangers started to re turn to the islao d it is reported that Jay Spangel, a barber, and Joe Gag non a blacksmith, followed in a launcl: and watched their movements. So after the man who carried the strang ers to the Island returned after tool.s. In the meantime it is reporte d that Spangel and Gagnon located the trea sure and got it. Telephone communi cation with the island was cut off and the story as reported from Northport by one of the men is believed to be correct. In the late 60's or early '10s a great robbery took place in Chicago. Ic I!. stated by some that the robbery tooli place during the great Chicago fire. A~ large amount of money was stolen by two men, who escaped by a smal) schooner, but were pursued by offieers. They eluded the vigilance of thei: pursuers and after several days out sighted South Fox Island. It is believed they buried the trea sure on North Fox Island, then unin habited. A number of years afterward a mar in a Canadian prison died. But be!for he died he imparted information of the robbery and the location of the treas ure. While in prison he made a chart of the island, showing the exact loa tion of the gold. Berore he died he sent the chart to his wife. The Wid ow married again and to her husband confided the secret. The husban'd did not believe the story and the chart was lost. In later years the husband in mak ing a trip from Mackinaw to Traverse CIty passed the Fox Islands and relat ed the story of the buried treasure to the sailors. It is believed that the sailors. who heard the story, in some way came poEsessed of the chart and that they sought to unearth the tres Denounces Societ y. "Modern Eociety is as corrupt as bell." These were the words of B:shop Bowman, the venerable member of the E vangelical Association, who arose like a patriarch at the meeting of the Ohio onference In Columbus, OhIo, Wed nesda, in the midst of a heated dis nssion of the temperance question and the hold that the saloon and ocx lement has on the Republican party )f the State. "Modern society is as cor rupt as hell.' Yes, I said i'; I will say i again." declared the Bishop af ter ward. ~1 mean by that card playing, beer drinking, gambling, dancing, acrse racing. These things are the leachings of the devil, and what else, Ghen, than the corruption of hell. I ion't mean exactly that all classes of society are corrupt, but what. is popu aly termed as society where the wealthy and the moderately wealthy 'ollow the glare of amusements and pend their time in riotous living when 2t engaged in making money to dis Hello Girls to Go. A dispatch fronm Allentown. Pa., lays deciding to spend $200 000 in in. italling girless telephone piants here mud in Hdzeton, the manwaement of he Codsolidated Telephone comoany eprived more than 100 telephone irls of their jobs. They will be out ws soon as the new plants are ready, December 1. The 60 girls got so gross about it that many left instanta y and the service is greatly impared. lhe directors of the syndicate say hey are sorry for the girls, but they slculate on running each girlless ex hange at a saving of $20,000 a year. f the trial plants are as successful u? it is believed they will be, the girless system will be installed in the ntire Consolidated territory, which nludes Scranton, Wilklesbarre and he ten other largest cities of Penn lyvania east of the Susquehanna riv . More than 400 girls are employed n the xchanges. POISON IN OUR FOOD. Kills Dogs, R..bblts and Other Ani mais in Expzrt Test. To demoustrate the effect or im pure foods on the human system, Professor Eigene Glrard, one of the chief chemists of the International Stewards Association, which is in session at the Hotel Rudolf, Atlantic City, startled the delegates and a large number of the cutsiders by showing tne effects of a remaruable experiment he has been making on ani.als fed with impurities found in facd sold throughcut the country. Prof Girard had on band a callec tion of rabbits, guinea pigs and dogs. Professor Girard extracted the color ing matter used in breadstuffs and fed a healthy New Foundland dog from day to day on this substance, mixing it with his food. To- day the dog is thin and emaciated and it wil have to be killed on Thursday. Other coloring matter that Pro fessor Girard fed to guinea pigs and rabbits killed the animals in a sher. time. The tissues and every organ was found to be poisioned and dis colored. Profesor Girard stated that the adulterations in the foods sold to- Jay are having the same ifct on thous ands of persons. There is a b!g exhibit of pure and and impure foods in the grotto of the Hotel Rudolf, and PRofessor Girard explains the methods used in analy zing the various products. Tne Stew ards' Association has become so strong that many corporations dealing in food stuff-s make no attempt to place their goods on the market un less they are first subjected to an anaylsis by its chemists. BOUND AND TORTUREP. Wealthy Illinois Famers Badly Treated by Three Bandits. A dispatch to the Chicago REcord Herald from Elgin, Ill., says: Bound, gaged and tortured by fire by three bandits who sought to make them reveal the hiding place of a trea sure they thought concealed In the house, Andrew and John Fahren, old and wealthy farmers living near Spring Ltke, twelve miles north of there, are in a serious condition and it is feared that the shock and injuries may prove fatal to Andrew, the elder of the two brothers. Andrew, after the robbers had searched the house and taken $360. managed to free himself from the thongs which bound him and started across the fields to secure help. The soles of his feet were blistered, how ever, and before he had gone far he fainted and fell into a ditch, where he lay until after daylight. Finally he revived and made his way to a cheese factory, where he gave the alarm, but the bandits had gained a start of sev eral hours and could not be found. The bandits appeared Tuesday night and when refused admittance battered in the door and overpowered the old men . after a brief struggle. They searched the house, and inding only $360, concluded that a larger sum was concealed somewhere. They beat and choked their victims and fially ap pled lighted papers to the sole of their feet to mare them tell where the sup posed treature was hidden. After half an hour of excruciating torture John Fohren fainted from pain and the robbers left. John was uncon scious when assistance arrived, but re vived and is in a less serious condition than his elder brothber. SOME GOOD AD VICE. Given the Farmers by the S ,athern Zotton Association. The first annual convention of the Southern Catton Association clcsed Saturday night at eight o'clock with a bouquet tendered to the executive committee by Kniilworth Inn. The afternoon and night sessions were cor flied chi~fiy to the passing of various nrselutions, chief of which was ne looking to a raise in membership dues from 25 cents to $1 a year. CJol. J. McDartin's resolution, which was adopted, recommended that great er l ublicity be given to artiele 1, sec ton 1. of the constitution, which calls attention to the fact that the South erni Cotton Association is an organiza tion composed not only of growers, but also of manufacturers. Mr. McMartin's resolution further states that the chief object of the as socaton is "the industrial develop ?ent and supremacy of the cotton States," and to this end the govern men should be urged to build better Southern harbors. An important feature of the after noon session was the adoption of a mo tion made by E D. Smith, of South Carolina, to the effect that all members of the association be urged to market their cotton, even at the minimum price, as slowly as possible, so as to distribute the sale of the staple over the entire year, Instead of marketing the crop in ninety days, as has been the custom. In this way the highest price possible above the minimum could be secured. After some discussion as to the next meeting place of the association's ex cutive committee, Hot Springs, Ark., was chosen. This was effected by a compromise made between the advo cates of Asheville and Hot Springs, by the terms of which the winter meeting convenes at the latter place, while Asheville gets the summer mneet ing. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Divides His Fee. W. J. Bryan has divided all of the fee allowed him for services as execu tor of the will of Philo S. Bennett, according to a letter by him to a friend at Hardford among interest-s not personal. He was allowedf$27500 out of which he had expended about $800 to meet the inheritance tax, $800 for a bust of Mr. .Bnnett to be placed in the Salem,;..Ill., Public Li b-ary and about *460 will be sent to Rev. Alexander E. Irvine for the edu Ication of his two sons. The remaind 'er went for lawyers' fees. Mr. Irvine conducted the funeral services of Mr. Bennett and was his friend in life. Must be Numbered. The postoulce department has is sued an order which will go Into ef fct on September 30th requiring all rural houses to be numbered the same as the houses in the city. The orders state that all of the boxes must bear the number instead of the names of ccupants of the houses to better facilitate the rural delivery work. The carriers have a certain route to go every day, and he goes the same way daily, and the order states that he will have to number the first box on his route "No. 1," and so on to1 the endl of his route. MILL WIPED OUT. Eineteeu of the Tmployes Were Kill ed by the yxplos'on. k Train On the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Had a Narrow Escape from Destruction. The Rsrd Powder mills at Fair :bance, six miles south of Uniontown, Pa , were entirely wiped out by an ex plosion at 9.05 o'clock Saturday. Of .,he 32 men who went to work in the mill Saturday morning, 19 are known to be dead.. of these 13 have been ident fed. Nine men, including C. X. Rand, manager of the plant, were seriously injured. Scores of people in the town of Fairchance, within half a mile of the powder mills, were more or less pain fully injared. The shock of the ex plosion was distinctly felt in Connells ville, 20 miles away, buildings being rocked on their foundation. At Un iontown bundrcdi of plnes of glass were broken. In the town of Fair chance there is scarcely a house that did not suffer damage. Train No. 52 on the Baltimore and 0 .io had a narrow escape from annt hilation. It had just.passed the Rand mills when the exph.sion occurred. rhewLdows in the passenger coaches were shattcred and passengers thrown into a panic Had the train been a rew seconds late it would have been blown up as the mills were in a few rods of the tracks. A street car on the West Pennsylvania railroad had also passed just a few seconds before the explosion ani was far enough to escape damage, though it was derail ed. There were seven explosions in all. Every one of the ten buildings was totally demolished. Not a vestiageof them remain Satuidty night. The debris that was strewn over the ten acres of ground were the plant was located took fire soon after the. explo sion and added its terrors to the dis aster. The dismembered parts of the dead were burned in many instances. Identification of many was made by parts of clothing alone. The first three explosions were not as serious as the last four. Then the packing house, pressing room and magazine blew up, followed by two carsof dyna mite standing on a nearby railroad siding which were set of by the con cussion from the powder mill explo sions. --Two other cars remained intact and it was with difficulty that they were moved to a place of safety after the explosion. When the bodies were re covered the work of identiecation was very diffMoult. Small pieces of bodies were picked up all over the place. These were not collected together and many sections of bodies were thrown back into the debris where they were found. Almost a half mile mountain ward from the plant an office ever sleeve, wet with blood was picked up. This is the third explosion at the Band plant within the past two years. Three men were killed in the first ex plosion. Two were hurt in the seo ond, which was only slight. A few months ago the citizens of Faircneo had an injunction served on the Rand powder firm asking the court that the firm be compelled to move their works from that vicinity. They claimed the town of Fairchance and the safety of its citi'zens were jeopardized by the locatin of the p'ant so close to the town. T als injunction is .still pend ing in the superior coirt. Wbiiky Wins. After trying prohibition two years Danville, Vsa, on Thursday voted to license barrooms by a majority of 18. The drys claim that they will contest the election on grounds of illegal vot lug. The drys had a majority of judges at every precinct in the city and the wets contend that nearly one hundred of their votes were rejected. Tais action was taken by .the judges under the ruling of Attorney General Anderson, but in the face of the strongest legal opinion in the city.~ The total vote cast was 672. It is not generally believed that the drys. have good grounds on which to con test, owing to the fact that they had the majority of the judges at the vot ing places, who conducted the election under rulings favorable to their s~de 5 The city voted dry by more than two hundred majority two years ago. Only One Returned. A dlispatch from Mobile Ala., says: Willim Hiburn, a former resident of that city, arrived there Wednesday after three adventurous years spent in the wilds of Africa with sixteen others in response to glowing offers by agents of a construction company bulding.. the Cape to Cairo railroad. Hilburn Is the only one of the sixteen to return alive. Hilburn and his fifteen compan ions accepted terms to work on the railroad as engineers and trestle build era. They left Pensacola, Fla., on Au gust 22, 1902, under a promise of big wages and other flattering induce ments. The party embarked for the Z imbesi River district, north of the Transvaal, where the Cape to Cairo railroad was under construction. In due time they arrived. At this time Hilburn states their hardships began. What was expected to be scene of ac tivity and wealth turned out to be a desolate railroad camp in the jungles. Blew Up Ship. On Sunday morning a boat belong ing to the Russian customs service dis covered a 300.ton steamer twenty miles outside yakobstad. The captain, who spoke in Eaglish declared that the steamer was loaded with rifles and cartridges, and thereupon the customs oficials ordered the captain to take his vessels into port. Suddenly several explosions were heard from the steam er, and the Customs officers, on return ing, found the vessel sinking and her crew in lifeboats disappearing hurried ly toward the south. The steame grounded in shoal water. Her name was painted over, only the letters "John Bash Fton" being "iible. Amer lan ac d German flags were found on the vessel. He Shot to Kill. Two men dead and a woman serious ly injured, was the result of a shoot ing affair Tuesday night In southeast Washington. The dead are George T. Morgan and Charles Souder and Lillian J. Souder, wife of the latter, wounded. Souder and his wife were not living together and the woman was living at the place where Morgan boarded. Souder met his wife as she was coming home from her work and icompanied her home. Loud talk was heard by the neighbors, followed by the shooting, and when the first persons arrived the men were dead md the woman wounded. She was removed to Providence hospital, but was too weak to make a statement. The police theory is that Souder shot md killed Morgan, shot his wife and.