Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GOOD LIBR1ARI FREF. An Cpportunity That Yo Farmu Should Let Pass Eim. now Every Progressive Reader o: This Papcr Can Get Good Reading Matter Absolutely Free. The Bulletins named below are of fered to the farmers everywhere fro of charge by the Natiousi D-partmen of Agriculture. These Bulletins ar published at an expense of thousand and thousands of dollars; and the big gest and most enterprising farmers the ablest and most experienced scien tist, have co-operated in making ther as accurate, helpful and up to-date a money and brains can make them. I these publications were issued there fore by some private publishing house they could not be sold for less than 5 cents each; and at this price undoubt edly some good agent could sell you Mr. Reader, not a few copies bearini on subjects in which you are interest ed. And that would be all iight, toc you would get your money's worth But now these Bulletins are offeret free, and the long winter nights ar coming when farmers should hav plenty of reading matter on hand. We urge every farmer to make a lis of those he wishes-those relating t, the crops and subjects in which he i especially interested to his Represent ative or Senator in Congress, or tothi Secretary of Agriculture, Washington D. C. The copies asked for will then bi promptly forwarded, free of cost t< him. Some of the Bulletins relatini to gardening, flower-growing an( household work, your wife may nee< for herself; get them also. Here is thi list from which ycu can make you selection: No. 22. The Feeding of Farm Ani mals. No. 24. Hog Cholera and S win Plague. No. 25. Peanuts: Cuilure and Uses No. 27. Flax for Seed and Fiber. No. 28. Weeds: And How to Kil Then. No. 29. Souring and Other Change in Milk. No. 30. Grape Diseases on the Pa cific Coast. No. 31. Alfalfa or Lucerne. No. 32. Silos and Silage. No. 33. Peach Growinig for Market No. 34. Meats: Composition an< Cooking. No. 35. Potato Culture. No. 36. Cottonseed and Its Products No. 37. Kaffr Corn: Culture an Uses. No. 38. Spraying for Fruit Diseas es. No. 39. Onion Culture. No. 41. Fowls: Care and Feeding. No. 42. Facts About Miik. No. 43. Sewerage Disposal on thi Farm. No. 44, Commercial Fertilizers. No. 45. Insects Injurious to Store( Grain. No. 46. Irrigation in Humid Cli mates. No. 47. Insects Affecting the Cat ton Plant. No. 48. The Manuring of Cotton. No. 49. Sheep Feeding. No. 50. Sorghum as a Forage Crop No. 51. Standard Varieties of Chick ens. No. 52. The Sugar Beet. No. 54. Some Common Birds. No. 55. The Daily Herd. No. 56. Experiment Station Worn -I. No. 57. Butter Making on the Farm No. 58. The Soy Bean as a Forag< Crop. * No. 59. Bee Keeping. No. 60. Methods ol' Curing Tobacco No. 61. Asparagus Culture. No. 62. Marketing Farm Produce. No. 63. Care of Milk on the Farm. No. 64. Ducks and Geese. No. 65. Experiment Station Wor] -II. No. 66. Meadows and Pastures. No. 68. The Black Rot of the Cat bags No. '69. Experiment Station Wor] -III. No. '70. Insect Eaemies of thi Grape. No. 71. Essentials in Beef Produc tion. * No. 72. Cattle Ranges of the South west. No. '73. ExperIment Station Wor] -IV. No. '74. Milk as Focd. No. '75. The Grain Smuts. No. 77. The Liming of Soils. No. 78. Experiment Station Worn -V. No. '79. Experiment Station Worn -VI. No. 80. The Peach Twig-borer. No. 81. Corn Culture in the South. No. 82. The Culture of Tobacco. No. 83. Tubacco Soils. No. 84. Experiment Station Word -VII. No. 85. Fish as Food. :No. 86. Thirty Poisonous Plants. No. 87. Experiment Station Worn -VIII. No, 88. Alkali Lands. No. 89. Cowpeas. No. 91. Potato Diseases and Treat ment. No. 92. Experiment Station Worn -IX. No. 93. Sugar as Food. No. 94. The Vegetable Garden. No. 95. Good Roads for Farmers. No. 96. Raising Sheep for Mutton. No. 97. Experiment Station Worn -X. No. 98. Suggestions to Southern Farmers. No. 99. Insect EnemIes of Shade Trees. No. 100. Hog Raising In the South No. 101. Millets. No. 102. Southern Forage Plants. No. 103. Experiment Station Wor] -XI. No. 104. Notes on Frost. No. 105. Experiment Station Wor] -XII. No. 106. Breeds of Dairy Cattle. No. 107. Experiment Station Wor] -XIII. No. 108 Saltbushes. No. 109. Farmers' Reading Courses No. 110. Rice Culture mn the Unit ed States. No. 111. Farmers' Interest is Goo< Seed. No. 112. Bread and Bread Making No. 113. The Apple and Hlow t< Grow It. No. 114. ExperimentiStation Worn -XIV. No. 115. Hop Culture in California No. 116. Irrigation in Fruit Grow No. 118. Grape Growing in the South. No. 119. Experiment Station Worn --XV. No. 120. Insects A thating Tobacco No. 121. Beans, Peas, and Othe Legumes as Food. No. 122. Experment Station Word -XVI. No. 123. Red Clover Seed: Informa tion for Purchasers. No. 124. Experiment Station, Work -XVUi. No. 125. Protection of Food Prod -UstfreM: jUizious Temperatures. No. 126 Practical Suggestions for Farm Buildings. No. 127. Important Insecticides. No. 128. Ergs and Their Uses as Food. No. 129. Sweet Potatoes. No. 131. Household Tests for De tection of Oleomargarine and Reno vatEd Butter. No. 132. Insect Enemies of Grow inz Wheat, No- 133. Experiment Station work. --X viii. No. 134. Tree Planting in Rural Schol) Grounds. INo. 135. Sorghum Syrup Manu facture. No. 136. Earth Roads. No. 137. The Angora Goat. 5 No. 138. Irrigation in Field and f Garden. No. 139. Emmer: A Grain for the Standard Regions. No. 140. Pineapple Growing. No. 141. Poultry Raising on the Farm. - No. 142. Principles of Nutrition and Nutritive Value of Food. No. 143. Conformation of Beef and Dairy Cattle. No. 144. Expe:iment Station Work -XIX. No. 145 Carbon Bisulphid as an Insecticide. i No. 146. Insecticides and Fangi ci'des. No. 147. Winter Forage Crops for the South. No. 148. Celery Culture. No. 149. Experiment Station Work --XX. > No. 150. Clearing New Land. No. 151. Dairying in the South. No. 152. Scabies in Cattle. No' 153. Orchard Enemies in the Pacific Northwest. No. 154. The Home Fruit Garden: Preparation and Care. No. 155. How Insects &ffect Health in Rural Districts. No. 156. The Home Vineyard. No. 157. The Propagation of Plants No. 158 How to Build Small Irri gation Ditches. No. 159. Scab in Sheep. 161. Practical Suggestions for Fruit Growers. No. 162. Experiment Station Work -XXI. No. 164. Rape as a Forage Crop. No. 165. Culture of the Silkworm No. 166. Cheese Making on the Farm. No. 167. Cassava. No. 168. Pearl Millet. N). 169, Experiment Station Work -XXII. t No. 170. Principles of Hrse Feed ing. No. 171. Tae Control of the Cod ling Moth. No. 172 Scile Insects and Mites on Citrus Trees. No. 173. Primer of Forestry. N>. 174. Broom Corn. No. 175. Home Manufact-re and use of Unfermented Grape Juice. No. 176. Cranberry Culture. No. 177. Squab Riising. No. 178. Insects Injurious in Cr.n berry Culture. No. 179. Horse-shoeing. No. 181. Pruning. No. 182. Poultry as Food. N.>. 183. Meat on the Farm-Butch. ering, Curing, Etc. No. 184. Marketing Live Stock. No. 185. Baautifying the Home Grrounds. No. 186. Experiment Station Work -XXIIL. No. 187. Drainage of Farm Lands No. 188. Weeds Used in Medicine No. 189. Information Concerning the Mexican .otton Boil Weevil. No 190 E'teriment Station Work -XXIV. No. 191. Tne Cotton Ball Worm 190~3. N". 192. Barnyard Manure. No. 193. ExperIment Station Work -XXV. No. 194. Alfalfa Sead. No. 195. Annual Flowering Plants No. 196. Usefulness of the Ameri can Tcoad. No. 197. Importation of Gami Birds and Eggs for Propagation. No. 198. Sarawberries. No. 199. Corn Growing. No. 200. Turkeys. No. 201. Cream Seperator on Wes tern Farms. No. 202. Experiment Station Work -XXVL. No.. 203. Canned Fruits, Preserver and Jellies. No. 204. The Cultivation of Mush rooms. No: 205. Pig Management.. No. 206. Miik Fever and Its Treat mnent. No. 207. Game Laws for 1904. No. 208. Varieties of Fruits Bec ommnended for Pianting. N-. 209. Controlling the Boll Wee vil in Cottonseed and at Gineries. No. 210. Experiment Station Work -XXVII No. 211. The Use of Pars n in controllng the Cotton Boll -11 No. 212. The Cotton Boll Worm 1904. No. 213. Raspberries. N)>. 214. R aneficial Bacteria for Leumninous Crops. No. 215. Alfalfa in the Eastern Sta-tes. N). 216. Control of the Cotton Boll Weevil. No. 217. Essential Steps In Secur ing and Early Crop of Cotton No. 218 The School Garden No. 219, Lesson Taught by the Grain-Rust Epidemic of 1904. No. 221. Fungus Diseases of the Cranberry No. 222. ExperIment Staticn Work -XXVIII No. 223. MIscellaneous Cotton In sects in Texas. -No. 224. Canadian Field Peas N-- 225. Expetiment Station Work -XXlX No.. 226. Relation cof Coyotes to Stock Raising in the West. N-- 227. Experiment Station Work -XXX No. 228. Fo.rest Planting and Farm Management. Three Living Wives. John W. Chasteeri, who had been a resident of Live O.ak, Fla., for several years, has been arrested and lodged in jail here charged with bigamy. It is alleged Chasteen has three living wives. At the outbreak of the Span Ish-American war Ohasteen ]eft his second wife, who now lives in Califor za, and enlisted in the army. Bec ently he applied for a penslon from the Federal government. His second wife, believing him to have died while n the army, had likewise applied for a pension as a widow of a soldier. By a comparison of notes at the pension bureau, his second wife was Informed of his whereabouts. The outcome was his arrest. -Bur-ned Wire and Children. At Madison, Ind., Geo. Ford, a far mer, set fire to his house Thursday morning, burning his wife and three jchildren to death. Ford in under ar SHOOL LIBRAMES. Mny Bequisitions Coming in Every Day for Them, Interesting Circular Letter Issued by the Scate Superintendent of Education-Number by Counties. The state superEAtend.t of educa tion Is sending out the following cir cular letter: To County Superintendents and Teachers: Tl:is cifice is receiving library re- e quisitions at the rate of one a day. s Now is the tsme to push this work. I think that the state appropriation c will -hold out until the end of the c year, but It will bs impossible to get i the state money during January and February, as we have to wait for the c approprlation bill. Let us hear from s every first-class teacher on this im- e portant matter. Surely every one of t this class can raise S10 in order to so- s cure a $40 library During the past I eighteen months libraries have been t established and increased as follows: 1 Estab- Increas lished ed. Abbeville.......... 10 . C Aiken............. 12 . - Anderson.......... 16 3 Bamberg ........ 8 -- Barnwell .......... 12 1 Beaufort 3 Berkeley ......... 8 1 Charleston....... 10 3 Cherokee.......... -- Chester .......... 9 Chesterfield...... 6 .. Clarendon ......... 12 3 Colleton.- .. 11 Darlington ...-... 12 . Dorchester-........1 - - Edgtfield.......... 13 2 Fairfield .......... 14 2 1 Florence ......... 17 - - Georgetown........ 2 . Greenville ......... 19 1 . Greenwood ......"14 2 Hampton ......... 9 - Horry............. 12 . - Kershaw .. ..... 11 C Lancaster.... . 9 - Laurens........... 18 1 Lee.......... .... 13 . Lixiogton......... 9 -- Marion....... . 22 2 Marlboro.......... 15 2 Newberry ......... 13 -- Ooonee............ 14 - Orangeburg ....... 19 a PIckens ......... 10 1 6ichland....... . 30 10 Saluda........... 13 .. Spartanburg....... 23 .. Sumter ........... 12 1 Union ............ 8 . Williamsburg...... 8 . - York ........... 25 . Total. ....251 51 We have received notice of The I building of quite a number of new I -chool houses under the act of the last session of the legislature to en courage adequate school buildings. C The comptroller general will, in a few lays, send out another apportionment >f dispensary funds. The law pro vides that some of this money may be C used for this purpose. This is a great apportu-'lty for a community which aeeds a new school buildinlg, It gives a good opportunity also for several communities to consolidate their E schools Please let yOur trustees anderstand khat local or special taxe3 may be vot ed after January 1st. There ought :o be a great many such taxes voted t for next year. This Is the only plan1 under the law to replace the dispen. sary fund~s in those counties which nave or may vote out the dispensaries. For the last two or three years the schools have been receiving from 3200 000 to $250,000 from dispensary pro fts. This amount exceeds either the1 poll tax or local taxes Local tax ation is one of the best ways to raise school revenues, because it rcq-iires iccal interest and enthusiasm. Most of the states raise the great part of their school funds by local taxatin. While some districts have voted all the constitution allows them to vote, yet less than 20 per cent. of our school revenures are raised in this way. Let s agitate this question now so that the people may be ready to vote by January. Allow me again to call the atten ion of teachers to the Teachers' Reading circle. Progressive teachers snould keep studying, and it will give renewed zeal to study with other such teachers in the township or county. Wishing you a most successful ses son, I am, Sincerely yours, 0. B. MARTIN, State Supt. E ducation. Robbers Killed. The four robbers who took four - undred dollars from the postcffice at Wild Rose, Wis., and then rfltbd the bank withoub getting booty, ear ly Thursday morning, were overtaken by a posse of citizens late Thursday. 1 A. battle in which more than two hun dred shots were fired, raged for near- C ly two hours. Oie of the robbers was killed, one wa's murtally wounded, and the fourth surrended. None of the a robbers have been identified. They ~ ref uje to talk. Although the robbers kept up a valiant running tire, but one member of the possee was wound ed. The posse originally included t ten constables, but as the fight waxed warm it was constantly recruited, un- a ill at the finish one hundred citlz 'ns ij were filling wlth smoke the valley in i which the robbers cornered, three d miles from Wild Rose. Ends His Own Lire. At New York, William R. Travers, t millionaire man of leisure, son of 2 the celebrated wit and Wall street a operator, William R. Travers, coin- .. mitted suicide Friday b; shooting I himself through the head In his apart ments in Madison avenue. The sui cide is inexplicable, Mr. Travers be ig In the prime of life, in fair healthC and the poesessor of a large fortune. 1 Mr. Tr-avers na.-rried Miss Lily Barri 0 man, a sister of Mrs. W. K. Vander- 1 bi, Jr. The couple separated three years ago, Mrs. Travers going to Paris s o live. i' Won't Reinstate Him. Gov. Heyward has declined to rein-a state Treasurer Whetseli, of Darches- h te, in spite of the fact that the dele- c gation requested It arnd Whetsell plac ed on deposit the amount of his al leged shortage. He expressed his be lief in Whetsell's innocence of inten national wrong doing, but felt he C could not act as he did in the case of ~ the Edge field treasurer for the reas on that the corptroller general char ged that there was evidence against ~ Whetsell of fictitious entries and ir- 9 regular cashing of warrants. TuE police in Greenville have noti- 9 1fled the gamblers of that city that eya must shut up shop.a WBAT ;R AND CROPS. Aast Report for the Bureau for the Year Issued. The weather bureau in charge of section Director Bauer issued Wed iesday the final crop report for the ,ear as follows: The week ending donday, October 2nd, bad a mean emperature about four d-grees above kormal in the central and western arts and about normal on the coast. The extremes were . "r.aximum of. '4 at Blackville on September 25th, I Lud a minimum of 56 at Florence and xreenville on September 28th. There was considerable cloudiness over the astern part, but almost continuous unshine over the western parts. [here were no high winds or other :obditions that were damaging to rops or that interfered with farm vork. With the exception of :race of rain ver the eastern half of the state, the week was without precipitation. The trouth has become intensified over he central and western counties where the ground is too hard and dry or fall plowing and seeding opera 1 ions, and wher-, in many localities, water is scarce, with wells and small treams rapidly drying up. The eather conditihns wereentirely fav rable for haying operations and for rathering corn and cotton, There has been no change in condi Ion of cotton, except that there con inues to be some premature opening. Che entire crop has opened unusually ast and picking will be finished ear ier than usual with continued favora le weather. L n a few localities there s a small top crop. but for the crop n general and on sandy lands In par icular, t .e top crop is unimportant, ind the occurence of eitrier an early >r a very late killing frost will not rary the yield materially. The aver Lge of the actual figures from a ful1 re )ort on the peicentage of the crop al -eady picked, indicate that for the astern division of the state 71 per :ent. has been picked; in the central livision 76 per cent., and in the west irn division 59 per cent. Reports on ea-island indicate that about 30 per :ent has been picked. At least two iirds af the unpicked cotton is ready o pick, and picking will be practical y finished, with continued favorable weather, by the end of October. All late food and forage crops are uffering for rain. Corn is being )used I -many localities. Weather deal for saving pea-vine hay and for xaying generally, but has been unfa. rorable on truck along the coast, and or sowing fall oats. Helpless :to Save .Him, At New York notwithstanding a esperate struggle of his wife and son o hold him by the feet after he had ainted and toppled over the sill of an pen window, Geooge F. Krapp, cash er of the Cooper Exchange Bank, fell ;o the st: eet from the fourth floor of is home at No 209 West 97th street oday and was killed. Mrs. Krapp md her son, Herbert, saw Mr! Krapp I who was in ill health, suddenly fall >ver backwards. BAth mother and on jnmped to the window in time to meize the falling man by the feet. Lhey held him safely for a few sec nds, screaming for help, but the as istance was slow in coming, and Mr. ~rapp's weight began to slip awai rom his rescuers. The realization of his terrible fact caused the wife'a trength to leave her completely and he son, with his mother helpless at 31s side, compelled to hold his father done, was too light for his father's uperor weight. Exhausted and on she point of being dragged over the indow sill himse~f, the boy lost his rip and Mr. Kravp fell to the street. le died soon afterwards. Bov Would Succeed. If a by is to succeed in life's battle or bread and position among those at he top he must be alive, says an ex hange. If he is a cigarette fiend he vill never be anything or any body but .common dradge. Success tells what . ytung man mazst do to win: No young an can hope to advance rapidly who acks an enterprising progressive spir t. ndeed, enterprise is a rEquisit to :mployment. No one wants to employ Syouth who lacks push. He must be .live to and in touah with the spirit >f the hour, or he Is not wanted any here. The enterprising employer ants every employe to share his spir I. The unenterprising business man eels all the more keenly the need of asistance from those who can make ip for his falling. Force, push, dyns nc qualities are everywhere in eager lemand, while the dawing, incompe ent, unprogressive wait in vain for a tart or for promotion. Proved a Pest. The mosquito unintentionally im orted from America, bas been making rich havoc with the Ha,waiian Island rs' Idea of personal comfort that the overnment has been vainly looking or outside assistance to cope with it. he introduction of the mocquito-eat rg African frog has done something. ut the mosquito still sings and the nce happy islanders are now hoping hat more complete results will follow he coming of Alvin Scale of Leland tanford University, and his proposed .ttempt to acclimatize a certain mos uitoeating American fish. Corrects Teddy. The Columbia States takes ce~asion o correct Teddy as follows: "Mr. Loosevelt claims to be an historian, nd it is well known that he is also a terator. He should, then, be more athful to history and to literary tra tition then he shows himself in his zimicking of the scutherners who Lave invited him to ride the best horse r the country, sir.' According to his ory--as written in New England ad according to literary tradition preserved in the same sacred region -this must acessarily be the best OSS in the country, by gad, suh." Got Off Light. The president of one insurafice ompany borrows $100,000 from Mr. ~Ic~all's company at the interest rate f 1 1 2 per cent. per annum; then I fr. McCall borrows $75,000 from the ther president's company, at thee ame rate. Of course, both compan-< es lost money, but why complain? I he Columbia State says the policy oldrrs should commend these gentle. a en for their moderation; they might e tave taken the money and made the 1 ompanies pay them the interest. t Missing From Rome. C Nothing has been heard of Edward teeman, a bookkeeper of a Jumber oncern near Charleston, who disap eared from there about three weeks go. His disappearace Is a mystery. le is known to have had about 8300 n his person when he left there and Sis thought he boarded a train and Ssome distance from Charleston, robably at or en route to Oregon, rhere he has relatives, He has a rife and one child. He was married I LINCOLN'S TACT. low the President Won a Hand sbake From an Antagonist. In the spring of 1861 George D. Wise of Virginia and two other young ;outherners, one of whom stood six leet four, were attending school in ashington. The morning the news of he firing on Fort Sumter reached :bem they decided that it was their luty to return at once to Richmond, heir home, and enlist in the southern :anse. As Mr. Lincoln wn.e to give a ublic receptio:n that ifpit, yumg 6ise proposed that they attend, to see shat sort of man the president really tvas. "No," said the tall fellow. "I for one on't go near the rascal." "But," urged the thirsi youth, who at nee fell In with the suggestion, "there .s going to be war, and Mr. Lincoln vill undoubtedly rise to great promi ience. We really owe It to ourselves :o know something about the man." More abuse followed from the tall e.llow. "Now look here," broke In young ise, after the argument had gone on 'or a spell, "Fred and I here are going :o that reception tonight, and you are ;oIng with us." The upshot of the matter was that he three young men went to the re :eption and lined up with several hun red others to greet President Lincoln. f the three friends the tall fellow tood first In line, with his hands held esolutely behind his back. "I'll go," he had finally said, "but I'll ever shake hands with him." Slowly the three southerners passed p with the line until the tall fellow tood opposite the president. His two riends waited breathlessly for the pected or the unexpected, they carcely know which. The president reached out his hand. he tall fellow, with his hands still be iind him, looked the president straight n the eye and with a proud toss of :he head passed on without taking the >utstretched hand. Across the sad face of the president lashed a look of surprise and Inquiry, md then a merry twinkle leaped to his yes, as he had divined the cause of the ;light. "Just a moment, young man," he ;aid, as the tall fellow.was passing on. 'How tall are you?" "I-I-I'm six -feet four," stammered e youth, utterly astonished at the iuestion. "I believe I can match you," returned he president. And then and there, yefore the assembled throng, he turned >ack to back with the southerner to de :ermine which of the two was the tall r. The southerner outmatched the resdent "Young man, I can't match you," the >resident was forced to admit, "but," e added, putting out his hand again md smiling kindly into the eyes of the roung fellow, "I never let anybody tall r than I am get by me without shak ng hands." And the southerner, completely over :ome, took the extended hand. Nor did ie ever again speak ill of Mr. Lincoln. The Great City. It never misses; it can never miss my one. It loves nobody; it needs no ody; it tolerates all the types of man kind. It has palaces for the great >f the earth; It has crannies for all the ~arth's vermin. Palace and cranny acated for a moment find new ten mts as equally as the hole one makes n a stream-for as a critic London is vonderfully open minded. On succes ive days It welcomes its king going o be crowned. its general who has ;iven It a province, its enemies who ave fought against it for years, its potentate guest from Teheran-It will welcome each with identically raptur >us cheers. This is not so much be ause of a fickle mindedness as be :ause,,since it is so vast, It has au liences for all players. It forgets very oon, because it knows so well that In he scale of things any human achieve nent sulks very small.-Huepfer's "Soul of London." The Chevron. "Did you ever notice," Inquired an >d veteran, "that the sergeants and orporals of the army now wear their :hevrons with the point up? It's only yeen in late years that they've done so. [he marines always did, but the army Eor years had the points down. It's mnly lately that the chevron has been nderstood. The chevron Is inherited 'rom the feudal days and meant a roof. & man who had rank enough to be a aoncommissioned officer was required be a freeholder, a man who owned he roof over his head. The chevron represented a gabled roof. The pri rates owned no home. The increase in ank for different grades of noncom nissioned officers was measured by idditional roofs, the eergeant, for in ;tance, having three chevrons against >e for the lance corporal. You'll find hat nearly all of these military devices iave some origin of historical Interest." -San Francisco Chronicle. Rings From shishaltin. What a queer old earth it is! Down [ Martinique we have a safety valve n wicked old Mont Pelee, which elches out death to thousands as the pirit moves her, and away up In Alas ~a there Is another on Unimak Island, alled Shlshaldln, striving with might md main to melt some of the Ice of St @llas and warm the gold hunters of the londike and Nome. Shishaldin is the nost remarkable volcano in the world. En addition to a continuous emission of iense white smoke or steam, cireular -ings apparently several hundred feet diameter and of wonderful sym netry and whiteness emerge In puffs mt short Intervals from the very top of :he mountain. It causes one to think of :he possibility of old Pluto of Pandalon moking a elgarette.-New York Press. Big Fire in Bamberg. A dispatch from Bamberg to the iews and.Courier says at nine o'clock riday night fire, started probably by ats, among the freight stored In the outhern Railway depot, and await g delivery, destroyed the depot and ntents, and platform, six cars, load. d with merchandise and cotton, and otton on the platform, in all 210 tales of cotton, and damaged the tore of H. C. Folk about $700; the ales and livery stable of .Tones Broth r about $200 and their stock of ye dles about $300. The losses on cot on are estimated at $11,000; mer handise in cars and depot at $20,000, rhich includes cotton mll supplies a the cars, worth 83,000, the depot nd platform at $10,000. Mr. Folk as fully insured, as was probably 'ones Brothers, and the railroad and otton losses are doubtless covered. 'he total loss is from $40,000 to $50,. 00. The town has no fire depart ient, and the flames could oniy be ?ght by a bucket brigade. A seven-year-old colored boy at onalds killed his live-year-old broth. r. n lidaly writh a shntgnn. CHEAP X,1RSION RATES TO Columbia, S. C , And Return, Via Southern Railway. The Southern Railway will sell ex cursion tickets to Columbia, S. C., and return, from all points within the State of South Carolina. and from Charlotte, N. C., Asheville, N. C., Wilmington, N. C., Augusta, Ga., Savannah, Ga., and intermediate points, account STATE A GRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL FAIR, OCTOMF.R 24t-27TGh, 1905, daily October 22ad to 265h Inclusive, and for morning trains scheduled to arrive in Columbia before Noon, Otober 27.b, at rate of one first class fare plus 25 cents plus 50 cents for round trip, the fifty cents covering one admission - to Fair Grounds. For Miitary Companies and Brass Bands in Uniform, 20 or more on one ticket, one cent per mile traveled In each direction pluss arbitraries per capita. Dates of sale same as for Civil ians as shown above. FINAL LI.IT ALL TICKETS CCTOBER 29 h, 1905. Southern Riilway, in addition to the regular passenger trains running on convenient schedules to Cclumbia, will operate special trains October 25th aLd 26th between following points: Between Branchville, Camden, Sum ter and Columbia. Spartanburg and Columbia and Intermediate pointe. Anderson, B.lton and intermeadiate points to Columbia. For further information, apply Do any ticket agent, or write R. W. HUNT, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. To CHICAGO, ILL , AND RETURN Account National Baptist Conven tion (Colored), October, 25th 31st. 1905. Jae fare for the round trip Tickets on sale October 23rd and 24th limited to return leaving Chicago not later than November 5th, 1905. FEr fiartber information as to rates schedules, etc., caill on any Southern Railway Agent or address, R. W. E uT, D P. A. Ch2arleston, S. C. ERooxs MORGAN, A. G. P. A. Atlanta Ga. Leaps from a Window. In New York, rather than face trial on the indictments charging him with'fraudulently taking money from the Weissel estate, Armitage Math ews, lawyer and secretary of the coun. ty Ri;ublican committee, c)mmitted suicide today by jumping frcm a win dow in his apartment to a stonepaved courtyard. He struck on his head. fracturing his skull, and died in a short time. Mathewo, who was a young man, had advanced rapidly, both in the practiee of his profession and in politics. He was a friend of Former Governor Black and of Abra ham G.uber and they were loyal to im in his trouble, acting as legal ad visers and eoing all they ccu'd to a'd him to obtain the change of venue from his ccunty, for which he appeal ed. The change of venue was denied Wednesday ar d the trial of the case was set for T ursday before Justci Davy in the criminal branch of th. supreme court. Early Wednesda3 mornirg Mathews received a specIal] delivery letter. After reading it his 'orsekeeper heard him go to a bath room and open a window. A few sec onds later he jumped to his death. Several tenants in a house in the rear of Mathews' apartment saw him jump. A doctor was hurriedly ium moned, but could do nothing and Mathews died in a few minutes. Big Cannal L'rojected. President John S. Shaw and the board of directors of the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal Company, accompanied by a number of engineers and other advisors, started from Pitts burg, Pa., Friday on a two days' trip to examine the two routes proposed for a ship canal connecting the Etie Lake with the Ohio river. At Ashta bula, Ohio, the Pittsburg party will be joined by the cffiers of thA Ohio and Pennsylvania Ship canal Comp any, of whichi Joseph H. Cassidy, of leveland, is president, and the two organizatots will continue the trip to gether. One of the two routes is from Ashtabula, Oaio, to Pittsturg, the other from Erie to Pittsburg. Each route is about 105 miles long, and the cost of either would be about 830,000, 000. President Shaw Is of the opinior that the work could be completed and the canal opened to traffi In the sum mer of 1911. Refneed a Boom.. William S. Brown, of Wakefield, N, J., filed in the United States cir cuit court at New York a suit for 810, 000 damages against William C. Mus cenelm, proprietor of 'the New As tr hotel. Browns says that on the night of August 6 he attended the theater In New York with his wife and was delayed so that he missed his last train home. He went to the hotel and applied for a room, but it was re fused to him. The hotel clerk, he says, intimated ti at Brown was with a lady not his lawful wife and refused him accommodations in the presence of a nunber of guests in the hotel lobby in such a manner as to cause him 810, 000 worth of damage to the feelings of his wife and himself. Carpentors Wanted. The government is in qu 'st cf car pentors to go to Panama to work. Transpotation will be furnished and a steamer sails every five days frcm New York City. It takes seven days to make the trip and wages are paid enroute. Men work but eight hours per day and 56 cents per hour is the schedule paid. The examination of applicants has been suppended for a short time. All that is required is for a man to qualify as a good carpentor. POsTMAsTERs throughout the coun try mun pay their debts or retire from the public service. Worried be yond endurance by the army of c'llec tors seeking the payments of debts contracted by clerks in the depart ment, the postmaster general last Saturday issued an order in which he announcs that he "will not harbor anyone who contracts a debt on the strength of his offc~al position and then, whithout suffcient excuse neg ects to make payment." This Is taken to apply to postmasters as well. TERE has been considerable influ nce brought to bear upon Atlanta's city council, urging a suspension of the ordinance against pool selling at the coming state fair. The council refused, and it is claimed that theI fair will be a failure in consequence. f fairs cannot be conducted success fully without allowing these gambling features they had better not be held at al. THE governor has restored Treasur er Patterson of Edgefield to his offce, tie having made a deposit to cover fully his shortae THE POWER TO PLEAS. A Potent Factor For Success In Any Career You May Adopt. The power to please is a tremendous asset. What can be more -aluabjg than a personality which always at tracts, never repels? It is not only valuable in business, but also in every field of life. It makes statesmen and politicians; it brings clients to the law yer and patients to the physician; it is worth everything to the clergyman. No matter what career you enter, you can not overestimate the importance of cul tivating that charm of manner, those personal qualities, which attract people to you. They will take the place of capital or influence; they are often a substitute for a large amount of hard work. Some men attract business, custom ers, clients, patients, as naturally as magnets attract particles of steel. Ev erything seems to point their way, for the same reason that the steel particles point toward the magnet-because they are attracted. Such men are business magnets. Business moves toward them even when they do not apparently make half so much effort to get it as the less suc cessful. Their friends call them "lucky dogs." But if we analyze these men closely .we find that they have attrac tive qualities. There is usually some charm of personality about them that wins all hearts.-Success. THE MAGICIAN'S THUMB. It Is His Worst Enemy In Sleight of Hand Tricks. In every sort of magic the magician's thumb Is his worst enemy, says Nina Carter Marbourg in Leslie's Weekly. If he could strike off that thumb and still have its assistance when neces sary he would be a happy man. In closing the hand the 'thumb usually bends toward the palm in advance of the fingers. In this way it many times Is much in the way, and practice Is necessary to get a magician's thumb In perfect tralnin& But when he has practiced in the school of magic for some time the thumb becomes so flexi ble that It will bend nearly to the back of the hand. Cards are invariably the beghming of a magician's education. In handling cards the thumb Is especially in the way, and this Is the reason why this trickery with the pasteboards Is se lected for the beginner. To change one card for another in front of one's very eyes and still to have made no percep tible movement of the hand Is a trick that beginners learn to perform before they have been in the school for any great length of time. This, as may be imagined, is a difficult piece of work to become proficient in, and here is just the place where determination plays a great part In success. BISMARCK CONSENTED. He Was the Final Arbiter of an Eng Ush Love Match. When the third son of the Duke of Argyle bestowed his affections upon an untitled woman he felt bound to ask the old gentleman's consent The duke answered that personally he had no objections to the match, but In view of i s fact that his eldest son hadl es poused a daughter of the queen he thought It right to Inquire her majes ty's pleasure on the subject before ex pressing his formal approval.. Her malesty, thus appealed' to, ob served that since the death of the prince consort she had been in th'e habit of consulting the Duke of Saxe Coburg on all family affairs. The matter was therefore referred to Duke Ernest, who replied that since the unification of Germany he had made It a rule to ask the emperor's opinion on all Important questions. The case now came before the kaiser, who decided that, as a constitutional sovereign, he was bound to ascertain the views of his prime minister. Happily for the now anxious pair of lovers the "Iron Chancellor." who was then In office, had no wish to consult anybody and decided that the marriage might take place, and It did. Knife Blades. Pocketknife blades are very unevenly tempered. Even in so called standard cutlery some blades are hard and some are soft For the latter there Is no remedy, but the temper of hard blades can easily be drawn slightly. Take a kitchen poker and heat It red hot, have the blade that is to be drwn bright and hold It on the poker for a moment When the color runs down to violet blue, stick the blade Into a piece of tal low or beef suet until cold. A change. Two neighbors were conversing the other day when one said to the other: "By the way, how Is Mrs. Hogg, the invalid, going on?" "Oh," replied the other, "they do not eall her Mrs. Hogg now." "Why, what do they call her? "Oh, they call her Mrs. Bacon now. She's cured." How to Express It. "I'm so sorry supper Isn't ready," sai Mrs. Dinsmore to her husband when he came in. "I attended the meeting of the sewing circle this after noon, and I couldn't get away." "Hemmed In, were you2" asked her husband. 'What Ireitates Hisn. Mother-Willie, you must stop asking your father questions. 'Don't you see they annoy him? Willie-No'm: It ain't my questions that annoy him, It's the answers he can't give that make him mad.-Phladelphla Ledger. Vainglorious men are the scorn of the wise, the amiration of fools, the idol of parasites and the slaves of their own vaunts.-Bacon. Scwn, the steel magnate, has Or dered himself a 8150,000 silver dinner servie. -Even with that, however, says the Chicago Record, he will find it Impossible to take more than one mouthful at a time. Gov. Heyward has offered five hun dred dollars reward for the arrest of the thugs who recently murdered Mr. McDowall on one of the streets af Camden. It Is to be hoped that the assassin will be caught.. 'TE Marion county farmers are standing out, for 11 cents for cotton. Only two bales were sold in Marion on Friday and none on Saturday. THE Chicago Journal suggests that the life insurance companies get out a new form of policy Insuring reputa tions against suffering from exposure. IF ou have in mind anything that will help the town to grow and pros er let It be known that those inter sted in pushing tihe town to the ront me..y have the benefit of your judme In the work they have had. TEN THOUSAND M Fearfal Work of the Typhoon on the Coast of China. The steamer Tartar, wh'ch arrivad at Victoria, B. C , on last Wednesday night from the Orient, brought news from Shanghai that the loss of life among the native of tne Island at the mouth of the Yangtse Biver as a re sult of the typhoon at the beginning of September was tremendous. The North China Dairy News, of Sbang lhai, says: "To the east of Tamagming, two islands, one calling Yaweshwa, the other Shihiousha, distant about twen ty miles from Woosubf, have suffered much froal the typhoon, nearly all the inhabitants having been swept away. The islands have only been inhabited for a short time, comparatively speak ing, as they are of recent formation and are not much above high wa'r mark. It is reported that nearly 10, 000 per ple have been drownpd on these two islands and the smaller islands adjacent. Tamagming itself has not sufered much, being wEll above the high water making." The Shanhal papers say that the damage to the Canadian Pacific Liner Empress of ,apan by the typhoon will necessitate the expenditure of $100,000 for repairs. During the stom the steam er Pechill, formerly the Rio Grande du S-1, foundered near the mouth of the Yangtse. Her crew of 54 were sav ed by the German steamer Albengo. Own Your Owa Humi. It is surprising the amount of rent a man will pay, if he stopslong enough to figure it on. Many young men who marry and "settle down" and begin to pay rent will be far better <11 in ten yearslif they begin purchai n property this year than if they continus to pay rent. Many of them do not stop long enough in their daily work to think of a possible rainy day and years of old age, but go on spending the fruit of their toil until the time comes when they have to step down and out to make room for the young men of the future. Then comes the old, old ques tion. They *are not prepared for an emergency of this kind, and they'wiSh that they had bought when they were young and have a home of their own when the the time of acqiirihg it is pissed. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred the property purchased in creas s Pi value. Why not f1gne this out to your own satisfaction, make up your mind and start at once to pre pare a home, Where were you six, eight, ten, or fifteen years ago and what did ycu hav%. If you have paid rent all these. years youhave your rent recelpts to show where Your money has gone, but where is the-home you might.have owned if ycu had been paying y our money towards a home of ye ur own. What will you have them? Will it be a home of your own or a bundle of rent receipts. All real es tate has a value, and if purchased at this value the buyer cannnt possibly lose. L-. k arouad you, if you are an old resident of this city, you know about what certain pieces of property sold for ten or fifteen years ago. What are they worth today? We do not need to answer. In the history of the past you have many models, and all bafore you is an almost absolute cer tainty that real estate valures -will continue to rise, with the increase of population and the natural demands f or residential and business locations. Which do you prefer, the comfort of y-ur own home or a package of rent receipts, and live In the other fellow's house. Why longer pay tribute to Caesa! ? Why not be independent? A Canadian farmer, noted for his absent- mindedness, went to town one day and transacted his business with the utmost precision- He started back; on his way horre, however, with the firm convictior that he had for gotten somethi g-what it was he could not recall, try how he would. As he nearaa home the conviction in creased and three times he stopped his ba se and went carefully through hi- pocketbook in a vain endeavor to ascover what he had forgetten. In due course he reached home, and was met hy his daughter, who looked at him surprise, and exclaimed, "Why, father, where have you left mother?" Boat Lost. Major General Cor bin, cabling to the war department regarding the re cent typhoon in Manila, says that all of the cfflcers and six passengers on oard the Leyte, the government coast guard boat, were lost. The dispatch adds that temporary shelter posts at six points were destroyed. Wml stop rt. A Kansas City judge has well nigh broken up carrying concealed weapons in his district by Irmposing $500 fines or an alternative of 500 days on the gang. Same Immigration of the sort of this judge would be acceptable down this way. Struck a Mine. A dispatch from Tokio, Japan, says the British steamer L aho struck a floating mine ninety miles east of Shatung lighthouse on September 30 and fifteen of her crew and passen gers are reported missing, among them two foreign engineers. Girls, just because a young. man has a carriage and a horse that can go fast, do not conclude that he is just the man you must have for a hus oand. Takes something more than that to mare a sensible girl happy. Look for a man. Don't be ina hur ry. There are lots of them In the world, only It takes a little time tio find them. IN Spartanburg the gamblers have threatened to give out the names of scme of their patrons If the authori ties persist in their purpose of closing up the dens in that city. The men who visit gambling dens should be ex posed. We know of no more effective way of breaking up the gamblinghab it than that. Acconm~io to the census of 1900 the wholesale value of the 'patent medicines, consumsd in the United States during the census year was about $60,000,000. Adding to this one-third for the retailer's profit, we get the enormous sum of about $80, 000,000 annually spent by the people for patent medicines. THE Philadelphia Press says holders of policies in the big life companies are at least finding out that they have been paying too much for their in surance. That is their part of the rev elations. THE Augusta Herald says: "Caro lna's graft Is not confined to the dis pesry alone, no matter how wicked folks would have us believe it." That