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WILL BE HELD. A Conference of the Friends of the State Dispensary MAY BE CALLED SOON To Organize For Next Summer's Fight in the Democratic Primary. All Canidates Are to be Com peled to State Where They"Stand. Tae Columbia Record says it is ex tremely probable that the dispensary leaders in this State will call a con vention or conferenes at a reasonably early date to outline a prcgramme for the coming campaign. The information that this Is being seriously considered comes from an i; side source that is high enough up LO know what is being talked of and what is likely to be done lt is uncerstood to be the intention of homne of the leaders to scon arrange a call and send it to promineat men for thur signatures. The call, which will name a date and arrange the ce tails for the conventiCn, will then be promulgated. Tne chief obj.c- of the convention will be to LuLliue a plan of campaign and to effect Fn organ. zttion for push Ing the campaign vigorously. TLB or ganfzation may or may not Drovide a permanent head to Girec the cam paign, all that being a matter or de tail for the leaders to decide upon. Such a call, it is believed, would create a sensation In the state and give notice to the enEmies of the cis peary that they were going up against a much stiffer propobition than they had contemplated. The conference does not contem plate the suggestion of any man for governor or any thing or that sort, as did the famous March convention o, 1890 that put foAard Bat jamin R. Tniman as the reform canidate for governor of the state. The fact, how ever, that nearly all of the governatorial caniaates now in the field are regarden a, openly or se cretly hostile to the continuation of the dispensary system would undoubt edly lead, it is behaved, to informal consideration of men who would prob ably command the support of tne pe.c ple of the state. This wouro have an important bearing on the campaign. Dispensary advocates who are thinking of a conventioD want to do one thing: That Is to proxide a se ries of direct questions lor cinidates to answer as to their attitude to the dispensary and their willingnnss tv amend the laws with the oLtjct of strengthenirg and making popular the institution. It Is real z d that of the principal objects of the enemies of the dispensary system will .be to place in the fiela a large number of canidates who will dea[ In generali ties, and, If elected do all in their power to knife the system later on. It Is desired to make every man show his real colors andi to announce wha. he propose s to do.. 'lhe man who is afraid to state his position will non receive any suppor from the dispensary -lem~nn and will have to depend for his eleciCOn on toe oppcsite elemr-. Tae Issue Is to be so clery drawn that there can not be any dodging or trimming and none will be tolerated. Every time andi every where a cinidaite shows his he-aa he is to be assud diuect questicna and judged by the atswer he gives. Editorially The Record eays the announcemernt made in Th~e Rrcoro that there will oe teld sc. n In tnis city a conference of fnienos of toe dispeasary Is or much importance In connection with the rortocoming campaign. The issue as to the als penarysystem ha beern beclouded by so maay uasuipparted sta-ements ana direct iirepresentations than it k neceary that some orgar.z.:d riffort. be inade to cle.rr the sntuatin so tnat the people may clearly ur~dera;-ano the Issue. We do not believe prohibition wiL' e auch of an issue-that is we ce not thirk anyetLing ]mke dear a ma jority c4 the pepple fa'vor itLch a plan o handling the i.q'.or tratti. Nioher do we believe toe uoense system w.:n cut a.ny considerable agure, 'out that the main issue wilh be between a state dipensary anid ca.ueoy o.speusaries. The nmonstrous evils of toe lauier were clearly, unmistakably and ur. questiotiy shown aurin toe last ig Iblaue. K.t withstandir g that s> evident was it that the intention of anu~ das pensaryites was to destry ana not re for m tnat not:Amg else would be lis tened tO. So mf tfne coming cam pagn tha-t same elemnent wiA work first to destroy, whatever t.2e const qu nes may oe. Tot y are not psr Leuary ctca~nid acc.ut a p'oper cot ci of u Le .;quor bulsin .ss an1 coa sumLon of I qu ire, but the onis objcL is to desaroy the state disper. - sary. Toat tt ere was an unterstandin~g or an alira-cs of some sort betweer proobioists, hga iic oe aord ant: dsesa.:y re gl geteraiiy In the last iey~isiature is tiu piais to nteu. any substanation. Tuat tis same understanitg and organ-zLLon widl contmue during the rest campaigo nobony wiil seniously quotion. If the dispensary is to be r'reserv ed there must be organ.z.:d eff :rt Lo destroy it an-i sLbatiute some other system whicm wilh relax restrictions on th< sale, iucrease :h- opportunities for corruotion and re duce tate, O~un ty and city revenue Oerivea from the operatin, f T ei dIepensary. Burite te Wrona Man. At Caicago on Tbu'sday Mlrs Annie McGreevy cau'wd consternation In the ourt :o ,m f Justice Callahan, when she rushed in scr amnit g at top of ber vice that she haa j isi met on the street her husband whom she had buried 13 yearsagoi. "Ij-t mst him." she burtd. "l thougait ce was dead. I buried a man 13 S tars ago and I tught it was him. I want him back. He bas $300 of my money." When the woman b~came quiet enoug h for the v Ace of the j-Istics to be heard, be suggasted thas she take out a writ of rep>vin for the $300 and this Mrs. McGreevy did. "He~ told me that he has been living wIth another woman." she setid, "acd un der the naeme of Thawles. Ttme idea! Lvng vith anotheir woman and cagirg h-is riame frcm Irish to Dutch! I 1 rex nimc!" and Mrs. Mc IANHOOD STILL ABOVE MONEY IN THE SOUTEH. And Eer raughters Are Etill Taught the Practical Iuties of Kak ing a Happy Fome. Thousands of young women nowa days, especially in our cities, are taught that money coversevery defect in character. Ambitious mothers seek for money. It matters not how much wanting in manly attributes the husband rqay be, it he is able to furnish hors6s and carriages, fine at tire and splendid manSions and ,%ro vide the means of travel he is pre ferred to the man of mental culture, moral weight and bushiess athiLy. Mrs. Margaret A. Mather, in a recent addreas before tne ininOis State Fed eration of Women's Clubs, iterates twe same setiments when the says: "o ulonger i a ytung woman will ing to m.arry a man witE a moderate inc: me. Tue love in-L-cottage idta nas been ruthlesly destroyed by the onrubh towaras social ambitions Cnaracter, ability and intellectuaitA no loLgar weigh mucn in the social scales, and wnen one mother asks an ouner if her dat guter married well, ti.e usual answer is afflrmative or negative, according to the size of the check the happy bridegroom can sign. Our ideals rave been powdered with gold dust. Wcman's measu:e is taken in diamonds and jewe.s, instead of worth, womanliness and cultuze. Tae complelity of modern life has re duced the j3y of living to a n:iuimum. Taere are disagreeaole truths, but, says Col. J. B. Kuiebrew in tr e 'Soutu ern Farm Magazin, the South is to be congratulatta that with all its prog. ress it has not gone so fast that money stands higher tuan characeer, or wealth than happiness. Southern wo men have net yet cescenced so low as to make themselves simple racks to hang rich jswels and fine fabrics uPon; nor are they ready to be put up at auction to the highest bidaer. Taere is something s> exceedingly debasir g In the thought ef woman prostituing all the swee grzcss, affections ana generous impulhes or ner neart, all ner gtntle refnement and courtesies and kindly deeds that should make her character ealred, all wne lotoy ideals of her nature that have illuminated tle moral sense of the world for thousands of years-there is some taing so debasing in the thought of misu-ing all these charms and virtues to pose as a gilced butterfly. In Sne absence of experience no sane mind would believe these things to be poesi ble in the S:uth and i our cay and generaiuen. The writer has a peculiar admira tion for S.;uther-bomn women. Taey are the guardians of our homes, the mothers of our children, the living exampies of the highest human vir tues. We are unwilling and loath to believe anything disparaging to them Yet wuen we see so many hundreas that have no other occupation but tc ransack mercantila houses for new ap parel for thleir adornment, asten theatres almost every day or night in the vseek, spend their most pr cious moments at card parties ann disik. to disonarge any nousehold auties whatever, we fear there is, especiali) in the cities, a class growing up tnat is destined to reduce she high snd ard ann sum total of womanly vir-u.ss A. woman may so live as to become t cy nosure of all eyet ; sne may pleas. ny her graces ann attract t-y her wi; her accomplishments in music, poeir. ann tee floe arts, and even i so:1c itaruing, mray bes great at~d ner beau ty unnivaitc; ner pathway may be se oriilxant as that of a meinor and als as uiseless, un~ess she ri gares a kno I1 rdge of those dumestic b~rLs and d uti ana ple-sing way s tuat make husba'.o and home and cAidren. happy. Tuls knowieage is or more value in lift Lhban all other knowledge, for withou' t their lhves would be miserable fail ures. A true woman is the hvorg soul of come, and to be a true woman she n-ust acqioire thse habits atao pnctice ithose comestic vir;.ues witt uut *flch there is no Loare. A little more than fi.Ly years ag cue o.f the wealthiest men in the south manied a girl who had beot Laista in i.11 tue dudles of htousewifej ry. Her home was a model of turif. aid Leatness. Five caughters were. born to tuis couple, ana as soon as they rei c- d an age in whictt they could be made useful, their mother eaugmt the m all the outies incumueni. upon the housewife. Toey were tsaugat to sew, tidy up the nouse. at t~eu to the dining-room, c ok anti make swee,.meats. Tuey were alst Lat grnt to muik, ciurn atd even to van erd isut~dry tue clost:ing. T: e theory of tnis practical mother was tat tecugh her caugniters might over be c.mielhed to perform anis. uties, yet :hey would be the b- ttrrn able t;> instruct tnexr servants in tld >rk if they snew oow to p rform it temselves. it will be interesrir g tu our reacers to know that ali five 0 eese naugaters made model h< us ives. They mairied men not for weir wealbn, but for their aoility, in teigetce ano worth. N'ot o~e of theie girls raas fatred to meet all toe demanc~s of society, and their hum-s re among the must hospitable and ue best kept in thne Souiiu. Tatir en ~..rtanmtnts are f:equent, and it :s casidered gqite a pnrvilege to os it. vited to one of them. The practi cal teachnrgs of the mother made ll her d.augniers model housekee; ers. Toere is no slovenness,.no wait or eatness or comfort about the n use. Ever) thing Is well ordered& and well administered. Another thing galte as impor tant is there is selaom any troule about hou~seervants. The trained wife of such homes being fully a( g iainted with and able to per fim household duroes, is never un reaonable or exactiug with her ser vants. She knows what they ought to da and how to do it. Tee same is us of the kiicaen. E ira one of the girls of this fami~y served an appren tceship in a private cook-room in the basement of parenta-l dwe~ling under the mo;ther's instruc tion. T aere 1s no wno can make bette& bread or cook a beefsteak more perfectly or make a better pot of o-cff.: or prepare more dainty desserts tuan the girls of this ramily. It folligws naturally that a gIn so taught in the formative p .iCd of her litf -: isitted to become the hon-; ored wite, mother.and mistress of a. family. ,'She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is tbhe law or kindness. She locketa well to the ways of her housholi, and eateth not the tGread of idleness. Hei childlrenl arise up and call her blesse; her hu: blrd also, and he praiseth her." Tne nxm3ue of the prudent Southern motur i er egiven is uot rare in the i :urtry plac-:s. Tcere are thou~ad.. - suc,, horns, rat ly to the rcrrei ot Southern women. There is a ten dency, however, in the town to ape the manners of the mone-loving vlc men of the cities. True, bome-lov ing wives, like the most solia buSi-. ness men of the cities must in a large dcgree czme from the intelligent country homes. Taev are the nur series of the suhszantial virtues that bear womankind on to a higher and brighter rptinv. PREPARa1N FOR iaPAIGN. Gen. Wiite Jones Aenounces Datces :-2 ror Meetin g or Clubs The Columbia State says Gan. Wilie Jones, chairman of the state demc cratic ex-cutive cammittee, stater 3esterday tlat the campaign inci~en: to the party primaries will soron com mer ce. He expects to ca.11 the exec. comm:ttte toge:her about the 4 h (f April in order to take up any matters which may r, quire the atten;:oa o" the committee before the meeting c, tbe dem craiic clubs. Toe mi eticg of th" clurs will bt held on the last Saturcay in April. the 28th, and the cunty canv- ati us tace up (.f celegates elected at th club meetirgs, will a',emble on thi, 7Lh of May to Elect delegates to tb, state cor venti n, a c uuty ex cutiv committee and a m. mb r from eac county to the state democ-atic ex c Live; cmmittee. Oa acc unt of tnt lack of iac::ihnalism in the last fe7 years there has not been much inter est la organ-zng party machinery. but it L probable that there will be more car,, onserved than usual is se lecting cticers o. the party for tue next two years. The state dem'cratc conventilr: xill be held on tte 16 :! of May, that being the third Tuesday. It is no known what matters will come befor mne con.ention this year. Af eer the meeting of the convention the new state ex( cutive conrrittee will mtk arrangements for the state campaIgz along lines decided upon in the con vention. Tne itinerary will be ma.p ped out by the execu ive com:m:tee. Tne party constitution say,% that there shall be one or more aiuos it each ward or township and that the .lubs shall meet on wie fourth Satur day in April In state ekction years, bhe county ocnventions the first Mon iay in Mv and the state cnvention the th:rd Wednesdy In May. T1-e q-ial:ficatio..s fur voting in the state pnimar.es are that the person who atbires z) vote must have been a r sident of the state 12 months and of the ccu:ty 60 days, who must pledgZe h-imself to ablde by the result of the primaries, and his name must be on the club lists at least five days before the firs5 primary. PLBNJY OF BOUZ. The Jug rrade Very Liv ly in City ol Sparta burg. We clip the following from the Spartanturg Herald of last Su: day: "How is the jug trade h.oidirg cu, ?" sked the Herald reporter of a mem ber of the clerical force of the South ern E:press company late Monda ifternoon, as tbe latter was ruobirg he perspiration from his brow with a ady's sized handkerchief. "How? In he anguage of the Red Ravn. 'Ask he Main.' He pointed to an enclosure *'n tne rigut side of the big store room where an employee sat bent ver a book and heaps and stacks of *tl s tiuring awsay :n t he temi gloom og cf a premature spring day. A step across the zoom and to the railing was a mattEr of a re N morrenth edr ar er a regu ar exchange of gree t r'g, the expre S maa sa i "' he jt. mali bouidig iZs own al) r gi. I nr.uld say, es a safe esumge, to at ot .n av. rage si vent; five ga ita. <cf kbiskey per d-y are itiped inic Spartanburg. Tuis dJo sn't mean that -eery train comong i--o this tow'n is wavily laden witai bxzr; tui it em haizas that there is a grsat deal uf ar d vwork here. It isn't a case of rural frce dellvzr-. ether .P rsons urceritg whiskey arc not so medest or cuo:ce as to w att at nome fcr their jugs or bottles to r e -eat there. Tr.ey come I ere fcr themi. Tiey come in hosts arc drov-ts, at d f er the arrivals of ':e t:aias, the y nicatraies esp- c:&.ly, tiere Is somehinig doing atbout tiis encio ute 1. Lave a :time keepirg tim outsi d .e railing. If bl~sture, p cks up, I'm f trse opion LihaL the .oc.l exr - B~ will remind the re u e a~tn S atd the divis-on tupermi~encents cf toe bu za :r. ffB~ f some gafat C t) whichisuadenl-, aLd unexpectedly went dry." RVS&Bs BY B.)LL W.aVIL. L:s c H as Destroy, d Ten Million Dltars Worth of C-jtton. A e pcial dispatch fram Washing on to thbe C :arleston P ast s:5s fisures 'Mve been laid befora ttne H um com m ttee on agriculture by which it Is s imated that 200A000 bales of cotton have been destroye.' to care by the b .11 w eevi, a sum t qual to $10,000 000, and that the pait Is going eat ward at the rate of fifty miles per year. Last year $85.000 was appronriated ~to e bureau of entomology, an~d $C5 000 to ' he bureau of plantintus try. An e ff ,rt has been made recent ly in tfle c.,nnittee on agriculrure to cut down t~he first item by $20.000, but Representatives Bowie, of Ala bima, arid L -ver, of South Carcl:na, have secu-eQ tne c.'nsent cf the com mittee for it to remain withcut enage for the next year. Mr. L aver haralso secured a small addiion to the fund to be used in the growing of medicinal herbs. The gov ernent has a small farm cf this na ture in Florence epunty, and the peo ple of that section have been hopefal that enough mnoney-Nould be secured to exteid its operations . Secretary Wilsn asked for 83.000 additional for this purpose, and .tnere were some members of the committee oppsed to metking the addition. Mr. L ver, however, suc~eeded in securing $4 000 in sre for the work and~ a. part of this he hopes to have used on tae Florence farm. He is injferested at this time in the veotif seguring an appropriation sufliuienty large to wafrnt the gov er~m:nt i-n m,akiog e~xperiments in draio g-3 and shiowidgthe farmers of :he South. how to use their h-tds tof the best'advantave- where they are crce of water. Hei telieves that the1 Southern Stat-:s are as much ceserv ing of help akfg. this lirne as any otner part or :he coun-try. T weVe Deaa. A dispatch from Bringuhain, Ala., says passeng~ers arrivir g from points near the Piper mines, whe~e a gas xposion occurred laie yesterday af ernon. report that twelve miner are dhadl, seven fatally hurt and half T.1LiMLY .I.SOLVIS, WHICH SHOULD BE READ AND ACTED ON BY ALL. They. Will Bring Better and Hap pier Times to Any Farmer Who Observes Them. I will have a money crop, but I will not go wild tver any one staple. I will as nearly as possible keep an accurate at c-unt of my recedipts and my eXp--nces. I -ill s udy the experiences of other farmners and the ccasel of agricul ture.1 scientists, ana will profit by these labors. I wiil give my ebl Iren the best edu citinil advantages I can affcrd, aLd I wil:i ry to miike that educition bear direct y on itir life work. I r:ll try to get my neighbors to .tart a muvtmmrut for tetter ruads, und will t'-e i.at our present laws art r'gi ly enforced. Ir p asible, I will organize s-me kind of fa- m rs' ciob at my soao0 - aouse, to tuat the farmers and tneir families may m-.et every t*o weeks for social and intellecbual improve ment I will eo-:xperate with my brother farmeris as much as possiole in the purchase of supplies and In .11 other matters whicu reward united action. I will stuly the fertiliz.r problem, and see if I caanoi expend my guano loncy more economically. I will look into the matter of im proving my breeds of borses, cattle, iogs arnd poultry, and co operate with my nzignbors to this end. - I1wi try to get the best mail ser vice possible for our rural districts. I will see if the town nearest me weuld .ot purchase certain supplies mhich I can raise, and pay me a larger p.rc fit than I get from staple crops. I will tend for catalogues of farm ad verw seis, and make better tools and machinery do some of the work that w..uid otnerwise rEq-iire high-priced .abor. Sering that my health is my capt tal, I will look to its preservation by living temperately and according to the common laws of hoaltb, and not by dosing with patent nostrums whose ingrt dients I know nothing of. I will encourage the study of agri culture in tue schools. Besides trying to have the best farm I will try to have the happiest home n the neigrtborhood, and will try to get the help of my wife and children Lo this end. I wiLl improve and beautify the bome buildings and grounds. I will get the best books and papers for my f.,mily to read. I will take a short vacation with my wife after the crops are laid by. I will try to lighten the housework, as well as the farm work, by improved implements and app iances, and I will have the water supply as convenient as pessible. I w.il not let slick-tongued agents pertuade~me into buy ing articles I do cot need, or into paying two prices for thcse I co need. I will not be humbugged into paylrg two prices for fctd for my stock mere 1, b ciuse it is put up in gayly-color ed pr~ckages and boosted with hign ~outdlng testimonials. 1 will not waste money for finery, but I will not h- lp the comic cartoon ists by being boorih or careless in my dr. ss. I wili visit my neighbor and try to m ke the cozamualty an attra~tive s c al cen'ter. I v-il put my brain as weil as my m1s 1; into evzry thing that I do. NLt tnly will I try to use the mes' prr grcssive fa mong metnods, but I -iii also enotavur to interest my ar m I. borers in better methods by navingz them read good literature. I witi ratse aS many vt getables in hie garden as tihe family can u-e, and tr. us save the buying of high-priced .;rec-.ri s. 1 will take an interest in politics and will try to get my party to sup pors tne best men and the best poli o es, atod I w~ll not abuse those who :ff r winh me. I. will get as many of my neighbors SI Cm~ u rea-1 ttae farmner's bulietios :.d tarm papert so that they may co p -raLe wnnt ma in bdinging about oet er ta:ming meihods. I will investigate the profits my wife a akes cn poultry, ar d see if the n.u.:ry culd not be profitably ex tnded. I will rtry to keep plenty of fruit, ai ik and e ggs, for family use and will enlarge my orchard. I will encourage the planting of fi "ers abcut the house, and every reasonable effkrt to make home beau tiful. As a farm's best crop, after all, is its crop or strong, sturdy men, and pure, sweet women, I will do all Ican onth by precept and example, to rain my cnildren for useful, happy av s. L ist~y, I will not worry. If any iv. can be reme died, I will remedy it 0eieg no time in worrying: if it can. not be remedied, I wil not make it dosly evil by worrying about ft. T:ie above from the Raleigh Prog ressve Farmer and Cotton Piant is full of many gccd iuggestions, which will be tsefvl to farmers if followed. Senator Tallman, The Washington correspondent of the Charleston Post says: "Ben Till man's incrersing prominence in the Senate, where for the next month or more he will be the strom center of railroad legislation; his growing popu arity in the country at large, des Ito his rough and tumbel habits; the pros pects that he may be a big factor in the future politics of the United States, make the question of his re election a most interesting one. Prominent men of Soush Oarolina, even many who dislike Tlllman and would like to see him defeated, seri ously doubt whether any man can he brought out who can hope to prevent his return to the body he now sits Blown to Pieces. Emmett Brooks, aged 24, of Girard Ala., is dead and Tom Potts, of the same placs, is seriously injared as the reult of an explosion in an iron works at Columbus, Ga., on Wednesday. The accident was caused by a cilinder that was being prepared for a steam cat. Tney neglected to take the water out of it before heatieg caus ing t to explode when filled with steam. Brooks was blown to pieces. Murder and Suicide. -- At liew York Thomas Dottman shot and ki'led his brother-in-law, Tomas Fennen, during a quarrel ovr the death of Fennen's young wife, Dattmnan's sister, whose body at the~ time of tbe shooting lay awaiting uriai in an afj irting room. Dit ,man then shnhrsef dyng Instant FAVORS A JR5TING. Senator Tillman Thinks the Diepen sary Should Get Together. Senator Tillman, who was in Co lumbia for a few hours Thursday, thinks that the dispensary people should get together and organ'z3 on the same basis as the anti-dispensary people are supposed to be organized on. Senator TII'man Eaid that he had given but little thought to the pr. posed conferetca. He favo.red it b - cauge he thon-g ;t that the dhp. n;ry people shoull o gixn.zi. "Tae oth--r side was organzo.d." he said, "and prolbitinists, high Pcense and 1( c %I option plople in the 1-gislature v.)red for the bill to do away with the State dtapersary. I think that it Li noth Ing but fair that the dispetsLry peo pie hold a conference. I would not suggest the time or place and I do no knoa who wculd call it, but I think the Idea a good one I have been tco busy to think aiont it, how ever, and the coming fgbt on tie railroad blil will call for my entire I time during the n- x i ten days. My restimony before tne lovestigating committee shows exactly how I stand and there is nothing to add to that." Senator Tillman expects to call up the railroad rate bill as soon as a vote has been taken in the senate on the s'ttehood bill. This is scbedul-d f.r March 9th and it is possib;e that he widl call up his bill before them, al though not probable. The railrcaC rate bill is now on the calendar. "The bill will probably pass," said the senator, "and the principal fight will be on the proposed amendment for court supervision of rates. This means that the courts would be given the power of injnction to prevent the enforcement of rates before revised by them. The supporters of the bill, how ever, do not favor this, but wish to give the railroad commission power to put rates into effect af Der 30 days' no tice. The bill will pass the senate without amendments, I think. I ex pect to fight for it and expect the support of all of the Democrats and a large number of the Rpublicans." The senator did not care to discuss State issues on account of his severe cold, but he paused long enough in his remarks on the railroad bill to say that he was opposed to biennial ses sious and that be thought the legisla ture acted wisely in killing the pro posed amendment Droviding for ses sions once every two years. "Such ac tion put the people to seep and they are then more easily led into error. 'E-ernal vigilance is the price of lib erty' and the people In some of the New England States are so j alous of thEse rights that they hold elections every year." MISS WEBSTER AT HONE. She Was Met In Spartanburg by Her Brother. Pauline Webster, the ycnag South Carolna woman who created a sensa tion out West by masquerading in male attire and who feli in love with a pretty young woman employed as cashier in a restaurant and married her, and who was arrested by oclieers when her sex was discovered, was in Spartant.urg Tuesday night en route to her old home at Cowpens. The Spartanburg Journal says she was j ined in that city by her brother, W. E. Webster of Cowpens. The brother and sister had not seen each other for thIrteen years. M ss Webster is the only South Carolina women who ever married a woman. Her mar ied career was very short, for scou after she accepted the a ractive K msas City restaurant girl as her wife, her sex was dh closed. Complaint was made to the pol 08 authorities of Kansas City and she wasarrested thoug'h after a legal battle of several days Miss Webster secred he. release. Tue much written about young wo man attracted a great deal of atten ti n when she alighted from the train from Ashevlile. A large crowd of cu ricus people gathered in the waiting room and craned their necks to get a glimpse of the young woman. The lady paid little or no attention to the crowd. Miss Webster has been away from her home for about thirteen years Is Is said that she qiarreled with her relatives after the neath of her father and left her home. Her brothei' be lieved her to be dead, for af ter leav ing her home nothing was heard of her* until her arrest in 1nsas City. So confident were her brothers that she was dead tnrat at first they doubt ed if the young woman .gas In reality their -sister. In order to determine the matte-r W.- E. Webster made a trip to Ksnsas City fcr the puz'pose of Identifying the ycuag womar'. Miss' Webster, it is Eaid, will fall into possession cf valuable property at Gsffaiey. TO SPOT 0OT TON HOLD)ERS. They Are Advised to Hold for Fifteen Cents. Mr-. Harvie Jordan, President of the Southern Cotton Association, Is confident that cotton will go up a little later, and in consequence he ad vises all spot holders of cotson to hold on. Here Is what he says: About the middle of last Ncvember thie Southern Cotton Association advised all spot holders to demand fifteen cents per pound, basis middling, for tha balance of the unsold portion of the present crop and pledges were asked for nine ty days. The Mammouth Cotton Con vention held at New Orleans, La., January llth-13th, 1906. passed a resolution unanimously endorsing the holding movement for fifteen cents, and advocated the continued holding of the unsold portion of the crop for that price independent of the 90 day pledging. The Executive Committee of the Association subsequently en doed the action of the Convention and all Epot holders were earnestly asked to stand firm until a maxinmum price of fifteen cents was offered. By member one year ago cotton sold at seven cents per pound in Februsry and advanced to over ten cents early in July in the face of a 14,000 000 bale crop. This year the crop is 3.500,000 bales less. Consumption is far greater this year than last, and prices of all lines of cotton goods abnormally high. If the small balance of the cotton now held be sold for fifteen cents, the whole crop will not average over 11}~ cents per pound. Receipts will soon :lrop cf heavily and a stronger mar ket will be had. Do not rush your otton on the market, but hold it ano win Out in the great struggle that Is n between the spot holders on the ne side and speculators, spinners and bues on the other. A BLOODY B 0D. COLORADO'S A S MASSINS ABOUT THE WORST ON hECORD. Organzed Labor Not Bespor sible-for the Cutrages in the West of la e Years. A d!spatcn from D nver, Coorado, says Jamef Meel.afid, gener meni. ger of the wtstern division of the PiL k-rton ag: ney, og a wunte raper; t e oim-rs oh ie :tan Fadration of Miners were ;. :est d., e.arged with teing implicated in the murder o! ex Gjve:nor Sricuuburg, makes Vie most swceping cna;-gs against the men under arris, acuiug them of thir y murd.ers v':ich hive cecurred in Weslein states.turing the past fi;e year-. "Yvu can -ay for me that an at tempt to kl.1 JuTie Godcard of the stare supreme c urt was made last May. We dug up the boamb Laat was to have b:en the instrumsat of d - struction at tVe gate :f nis res!d -nc. he der~la ed in reply ! o "Le s tnO0a! report from Id:,o trat Harry 0 - cbard, acting tor the W. s'err Fade a Eion of Miners had endeavorac to put an end to the j stice. "I will no; say who the man was who was to d t.Ae work or why tne plans failed st this tim i, bat the at tempt was made during the m-!eting of the Western Federation of Miners 'exectve committee at Salt L .ke l.ast "When Merritt B Walley was kil ed by an explosion of dynamite En a vacant lot at the corner tf Emerson and Colfax avenues list summer te saved anotber juatice of the c.iurt. A bomb killed Walley, but It was not intended for him. Who it was in tended for will all come out in due time. "When I make these statcments d, not think that I am theorizing, for ] am not. I have absolute evidence to p ove every assertion that I make anc I make no assertions until I nave the evidence. "Beginning with the mirder of Ar thur Collins, superinter.dznt of the Smugglers Union in Telluride. the as szssznation of Martin Gleason of the Wild borse In Cripple Creek, the kill ing cf Smith and Barn. s in Telluride the heartiess destruction of fourteer men at the Independence depot in Cripple Creek, the baxtal assault o old man Stewart at Goldfield, the killing of Lyte Gregory in West Den ver two years ago, the death of Wal ley and the murder of other men Ii this state and Idaho, who had 11cai red their enmity-all of thrse crimei can be, and will be, if necessary, laid at doors of men we all know, bu1 they will never be punished for them "Tieir last work, the assassinatiot of the popular ex executive of Idaho, proved their undoing, and when the have accounted for this deed it wil be impossible to punish them for wha1 they have d m.e in Colorado and fox the reign of terror that they have cre ated among the honest and la:-abid ing people of this state. "When the full his'tory of these Colorado c:Imes w-ll be given to ti-e world I cannot state, but it will bt just as soon as we possibly can do it I iwill shock the people cf this state but they must know about It. Fw the preisent, only the story of the Sseunenberg assamination can be made public and this will be divulged as san as the men we have already arrested arnd those that we are aboul to arrest are pleaced cn trial fcr tLeii crimes. "There are just as goo~d men in the Western Federation of Miners as eva lived, bus they could n'ot asp them selves after they :curad cut the kInc of men that Lad got c ntrol ovei them. Every member. etoe Westerr Federation of Mmn rs who dar.ed tt oppose the wishes of tihess men stoocc in fear of his life, and there will be many signs of relief wien these mer are removed and the sun fioally sets on the day -of dynamiters in the West and the strong arm of the law metes out justice. "I bay ucQUaldedly that the crimes and operatioos of tnese men are une mast horrible that I1 have ever hear d of. As I said before, tue Molly Ma guires were nothing compareo. witt3 these men. "Organized labor Is not respcnsible for the ouiragcs in the West of latt years, but the clique cf evil-.ninded men at the head 01 the Western Fed eration of Miners, who were deter mioed to run things in the West tc suit themselves by lawless tactics whenever ycessary. "We-ha-ve not made all of our ar rests, but I think we have done yern well for the present. The man ] wanted the most-Steve Adams, aliae Steve Dickson-bas j ust been ciptur ed in Bakef-Oity, Ore. "Harry denard, the man first ar rested for the murder of furmer Gov ernor StEunenberg, may have or may have not icade a confession. I WIl] not say whether or noo he did m?.ac such a confession. as attributed to nim. I was compelled in working up my case touissome of his siatements as well as the.. statements of others, but I did not call upon him for a con fessoa implicating Moyer, Haywood and Pettibune. Nnmerous efforts were made to intimidate the man Into say ig things ag'aist himself, but I re fused to allowthis. "I certain1ghave not dropoed this case. even thon&i~he principal malc fators are in cuef.dy; I .have got nearly all of my casnt ges, all of It but I am not going ?.dstop her6, I am going to get every detail of the opera tions of these men anpdthey will fur nisha some surois' s205o." Icrected Pork BiLd S.ven. Rufus Woods of Collins, Ga , the survivor of the wholesale poisoning of posonlng of people fromjating pork in which trichlinae existed, end who has been In a hospital at Siyannah uhder treatment for savetal days, has so far recovered as to be able to talk. He says that in addition to the five already reported as having died from eating the infected meat, there were two others who met similar fates from the same carse. They all eat at the poisoned substance befocre Carlstmas, and died a few days before or after the holhdays. Tir~y all expired on varying dates. Tne two not before reprted were Mrs. Lena Smnith of E .anuel counry, and Mra Fred Bl~ackwell of Szomesboro. Tney were sisters of Mrs. Woods, who also died and were visiting their parents at Collins when the poisoned stuff was eaten. FEW tears will be shed la the Souts over the defeat of Grosvenor for renomination for a seat in Can ress. He was a constanut abuser of the South and ucr peopia. We are gad tnat he has ben retired. People who strain at_ a gnat will man mwluW Ilattery. MANY PERISH. Fearful Loss of Life in the So ciety Islands. RESULT OF A CYCLONE It is Reported that at Least Ten Thousand Peopl- Were K-led and M.ilions of Dollars Worth of Properiy Was Wiped Out. A cablegram frcm Papeete, Tahiti, says the most destructive cyclione ever E xperienced in the S iciety and Tuimotu islands occurred on Febru ary 7 and 8 The damage in Tahiti is estimated at $1,000,000 and pre sumably a similiar amount of proper ty was destroyed on she Taamotu islands. The city of Papeete wa inundsted and abcu 75 buldings d .a troyed, including the Amei.c'.n con sulate and the Frenca government building. Tae schooner Papeete was submer ged for an hour near Araa, Tuamotu. Her n3ti-Ma, Pnilip Michaelli, esti mated that the waves were 65 feet high. It was imipossble to see 20 feet away. At 3 o'clcck in the day time the sailors had to be lashed t, the vessel. X. Marcadl, a FreDclb resident at Faharan, Tuamotu islands abandoned the place in a smsll cutter after all the gernment buildigs and dwellirg houses and the Catholic church were swept away. Many of the natives climbed in cocoanut trees and others-put out to sea in small bcats. Tne schooner Ina, which was anchored in the lagoon at Makemo, successfully rode cut of the.storm. The cyc'one, or hurricane, rerche the velocity of 120 miles an hour. It struck the islands about midnight on February 7 and continued until about 4 o'clock on the next afternoon. The island of Anaa, Tuamotu group is be lieved to have teen the centre of tne storm. At Papeete about 7 o'clock on the evening of Feb. 7, the sea be gan to break heavily over the reef, the waves in the harbor washing ovei the quay. There was no perceptible wind. Toward 10 o'clock people dwelling in the vicinity of the water front were compelled to abandon their homes, saviag as a rule only a :mail portion of 'their balongings. The mirchants.axid clerks went to the warehouses only to discover tha1 it was q ite impossible to save the goods on the lower floors. An hour later high seas broke, corr - pletely demolishing the governmen1 slip and buildings, beside causing great damage to the coal abeds. The gnardian of the arsenal, T. if r Adami an expert swimmer, was in vae water for ma:ay hours and assisted in warn ing and rescuing others. The village of Tarona near the arsenal, was com pletely swept away. It consisted oi the isson buildings and homes 01 natie covert ofthe recognized Latter Day Saints mission, formerly under the direction of Capt. Jasepl: Burton of California. The mission house andi a great many houses were carried J. i to a distance of many hun dre ds of yards and demolished. Of the church edifica not a vestige remains. A settlement about ar eigtu of a mile distant, comprised 01 d weilings of several hundred Cook Is landers (British subjects) was com p;etcly destroyed. Oae American named Stefieid, living near that comn munit-, had to take an adjacent svemp, vhich became Inundated, and tie was compelled to battle with the waves fur many hours. Further east on the beach road all the houses were swept away for about half a mile. About 8 o'clock in the morning the Americe. consulate. the oldest struc ture in Pipeete, having been built about 1836, collapsed. In the absence of the American consul, his mother, Mirs. Doty, supervised the removal o1 the a.rchives, aided by several mission aries. Mrs. Doty was in serious jec pardy several times. The records were temp:raily stoeel at the Latter Day Saints mission house. Mr. Dtty's family also accepted their hospitaity. Bayond the American consulate several government bull, dings, including the treasury and store hcuses, sustained great dam rge. The San Fran'seo Evening Post says that ten thousand persons per ishe d duriugg the storm on Tahiti and a- jacene isla ads, several of which its account says, have disappeared. L. paces the damige st 85,000,000. Toese reports have not been confirm ed by the offiers of the steamer Marlposa, which brought the news of the disaster from Papeete. The Old Home, An old lane, and old gate, an old house by a tree, A wild wood, a wild'brook-they will not let me be: In boyhood I. knew them, and still th.ey dali to me. Down deep in my heart's core I hear them, and my-eyes Through tear mists behold them be neath the old-time skies, 'Mid bee bloom and rose bloom and or chard lands arise. I hear them; and heartsick with long -ing in my soul, Toi walk there, to dream there, be neath the sky's-blue bowl; Around me, within me, the weary wofld made wh'ole. To talk with the'fild brook of all the long ago;- - To wt~isper- the wood wind of things we used to know When we were'old confpanions, before .my heart knew Moe. To talk wittthe monrning, and wat'ch its-rose unfold: To drowse with -fhe noontide, lulled on its heart of gold; To lie..with t he night ti-me and dream the dreams.of old. To tell tttjilfeoid trees and to each listeni;'~eif. The longing, .the yearning, as in my bos hood br-ief 'he old nope, the old love, would ease my heart of grief. The old lane, the old gate, the old house by the tree, he wild wood, the wild brook-they will not let me bs: n boyhood I knew them and still they call to me. -Madison Cawien, in the Criterion. Ms. Lillie Davia, of Chicago, has recovered $4,00)0 from a real estate dealer who stole a bunch of kisses rrom her. The Washington Post thinks ~ the incident opens great possibilitiesf for a handsome woman to get rica i dposnt ocuptin. nThat dependsLj A FIEND HANGE. A Brate Pays PenaIty on Gallows f >r R volting CAm . Andrew Thompson. colorO I waS nanged at Greenville S. C., on Fri. !ay. After the trp was sprung only a few convulsive movements of Thom ion's body was noticed and he was oronounced dead in rxctly fourteen ninutes by County Pa sicffin Hext H. Perry. The crime for which Thoms:.n's .ife paid the penalty was probably the miest revolting In the annals or criminal court history in Greenville COunty. The lIke of it Is oot parallelled anywhere in the state. On nDcember 18, 1905, amorg about iurdopn, Taomson in a half drunken frertzy committed a cnminal assault upon the per, on of Mrs. Frank Jsme, wife of a well known farmer living wo-mll-s sou'th of Taylor's on the main line of the S.outhern R%;lway. Tne crime was henous. Tte helpless woman was at home alor~e on the eve ning (f the assault. T.aomp:on rap ped at the front door tf the J:,m-es home :nd asked f r Mr James When told he was awny from nome the ne gro at:empted to enter the house. Ur. James ran out of her home in the dirtction of a n ighbor's but was csught and overpowek a s'iort dis tance away from her house, where the bra e aceowplished his purpose. Mrs James ta4 never recovered from the eff-cts cf the assault. She is twent' -three years cf age and be lorgs to one (f the best families of the crunty. Following the assault the negro escaped but was captured late in the nignt. M tgIstrate James spirited him away fro.m an angry mob .orirging him safely to Gcenv lle j:il wherr he was kept for two days. Sher:f, Gilreath fearing mob violence removed ehe priwer to Anderson, where he was kept until the trial at the Jamuuy term of the general ses sions ccuct, where he was convicted after a fair and impartial trial before the court. He was sentenced by the court to be banged Fziday and no tff frt was made to stay the sentence ny his attorney, John J. McSwain, who was appointed by the court. The banging of Thompson Friday Is the. Erso execution in Greenville county's history for the crime of rape. There have been few legal executions else where in the state. An Andersonville Monument. The work of securing funds for the erection of a mcnument at Anderson ville, Gi., "as a protest against the slaners and falsehoods already: dis played in bror z and marble at that place," is being energetically pushed by the G orgia division of the Uaited Daughters of the C rnfederacy. At a convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy held in Macon, Ga., ast October a resolution was adopted which reads, in part, as follows: "Whereas, Captain Henry Wirz, commandant of the stockade prison Iat Andersonvi;1e, Ga.., was jndicially murdered 7n'der false cliarges of cruel ty to prisoners. And, whereas, after an interval of forty years these false cnarges are reiterated on sign boards in public places, from the pulpit and on' monuments. 'Tnerefore te It resolved, That the United Di.ughters of the Confederacy in Georgii use their influence to ob tain the necessary funds to place a sitable memorial to C.aptain Wirz at: Andcrsonville, Ga., upon which a srnatement of facts shall to engraved in enduring brass or marble, showing that the federal government was solio ly responible f ,r the condition of af fairs at Andersonville."' As the Atlanta Journal points out the records of the federal war depart ment themselves show that tbe charges to the effect that the South maltreated prisoners of war are un founded. T welve per cent of all Con federate prisionercs died in prison, while less than 9 per cent of the union pris oners held in the South succumbed. It was the policy of the union leaders to refuse to exonar ge prisoners in spite of the souti's anxiemy to do so: Genei al Grant himself advised the United States Government not to exchange prisoners with the Confederates. In justification of this position, he said that if the Federal's turned loose the one hundred and eighty tho"nnd Con federate prisoners they held and al lowed them to come South and rejoin the army, that Sberman's army In ront of Atlanta would be disastrous 17 defeated in thirty days and that his own position in Virginia would be greatly jeopardized. It will thus be seen that''even Gen. Grant vas not willing for an exchange of prisoners, although he knew the South was una ble to properly feed and clothe the two hundred thousand Fede-al prison ers the Confederates had captured in battle. The south considered it "cheaper to fight the enemy than to feed him;" the North had plenty of men, plenty of money, plenty of sup plies, and considered it cheaper to al low her men to lie in southern prisons than to release an eqal number of southerners. No otherj.nterpretation can be put on the position taken by Gen. Grant. Towards the close of the war the hospital supplies of thedSouth having baome quite exhausted the South of ered to buy hospital tupplies from he North, and pay for sem In gold or cotton, for exclusive use of northern prisoners held in the South, pledging nersef that none of the supplies thus purchased should be used for Confed sae soldiera, but this off .r was de ined. Numierous similar instances in which the South undertook, in spite of the miseries her own soldiers suf zered, to alleviate the condition cf the northern prisoners, in this same spirit, might be added. The Fideral gov.rn nent turned down these prceposals. And yet three per cent more southerners ted in northern orisons than there were northerners who died in south ern prisons, which should be a suffi ient answer to the charge c f cruelty on the part of the South. Tnere were ndoubtedly hundreds cf instances of >ersonal cruelty on both sides, which do not evidence intentional malignity on the part of either government, and - he probability is that they will about balance. We agree with the Journal that the clearing of the r ame of the commander: of Andersonville from the falset.charges which have been made, and are still made, against im, is a most worthy and commend ble work on thelpart of the Daugh rers of the Confederasy, and hope that they.will receive the financial as daince which they dsse vs. Stabbed to Death. Charlie Emersoo, a f armar wa ;tabed to death on the stree-ts of Eamar, Darlington county, on Satur iay nght. It is not known who did t, but two nogroes are suspected and