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6 AlooD WORDI From a South Carolina College Professor for the STATE DISPENSARY. He Says No Student Has "Been Up" for Intoxication Since the Dispen sary Began Contrast With Con ditions Under Barrooms. Effect Beneficial. The Columbia Record says at cne time the sentiment of Richland coun ty and especially Columbia was over whelmingly against the dispensary, but year by year there has been a steady change until now few people doubt that a majority of the people of Columbia as well as of Richland coun ty favor the dispensary. This was evidenced by this county's election of delegates to the state Damocratic con vention. This change of sentiment has been brought about gridually by a growing conviction that conditions in this town as far as sobriety is con cerned have been greatly improved by the operation of the dispensary system. Not only is it true that those who had already acquired the drink habit drink less than they did in the old barroom days, but it is also true that those who have come to manhood during the thirteen yea;s of the dis pensary's operation in this city are remarkably free from ths drink habit. Advocates of the dispensary have al ways held this out as one of the great est advantages and blessings of that Institution, that it decreased the in ducements to drink and that therefore the longer it was operated the fewer would be the young men of each gen eration who acquired the drink habit. That this has been the case in Colum bia it would be idle to deny. A stead ily increasing realization of this fact has been responsible for'the equally steady change of felling here as to the dispensary. It is true that the revenue to both city and county from the dis sary Is very large and greatly helps in permitting large public improvements without increase of the tax levy, but this fact is by no means respnsible for the change of sentiment, though It has undoubtedly helped. But many former enemies of the dispensary have been converted and among them are scores whose opinioos could not be changed by mere monetary ccnsidera tions. A striking instance of the improve ment of conditions in Columbia as a result of the operation of the dispen sary law was stated in conversation Monday by one of the professors of the South Carolina university, which for more than a hundred years has been engaged in Columbia in the grsat work of educating the young men of South Carolina. It is a -wAll-known face that the graduates of that insti tution have taken a remarkably pro minent part In the politics and gov ernment of this state. Therefore it cannot be denied that what benedits them morally, or physically, that tends to make them better men and citizens, has bent fi~ial results for scores of years after they leave the college. The professor was discussing the al legation that the dispensary was a governmental novelty, practically without precedent. He laughed at this theory and quoted a number of precedents of governmental control of business, even where there was not that chief reason for the dispensary, that is a beneficial exercise of 'the po lice power of the state. Continuing he said In substance. -A remarkable tribute to the dispen sary Is the fact that i ten years the faculty of the South Carolina niver -alty has not had ocessionad to try a student for intoxication. It is un~or tunately true that among the more than three hundred students at the - university there are some who drink but the conditions have been so chang - ed by the'operation of the dispensary that none of them drink so that it is nneesay for the faculty t~o take cog nizance of their indiscretions. It was not so in the days prior to the dispen sary, when there were so many temp tations and inducements to young men to drink. Then many a young student, without intending to do so. drank to the point of intorxcation. He would come up street for one reason or another, meet friends, stop in a bar to take a drink or two, get into a crowd of good fellows, esch of-whom insisted he must have his turn at treating, and take a half dtzmn or more drinks where he had only inten ded taking one. The e ffect of the op eration of the dispensary upon stu dent life in Columbia has been so ben eficial as to have made its substiu-' tion for the barrooms a real blessing. H arribly Maulated. According to a report that has reached cfficers at Spartanburg a hor. rible fate was meted out to a fruit tree salesman by moonshiners in the Drirk Corner. According to the story the unfortunate man, who was selling trees in that territory, was suspected of being a revenue cifil ;er In disguise, and one night last week he was entic ed fzom a house where he boarded and taken into the woods by a party of a dozen or more mountaineers. After tying the man to a log a sharp knife in the hands of one of the number was used in irnflicting Injuries too horrible for publition. It is learned that the victim of the moonshiners' wrath has since died. It later developed that the man was an agent of a fruit tree concern, as he claimed, and that he had no purpose to spy on the business of the residents of the mountainous] section. Another Tragedy. At New York John Kltrovic?, whc represented that he was employed at1 the Metrople house, shot a woman with whom she had been living as1 wife at 457 West 44-h street Friday1 morning and then sent a bullet through his own brain, dying insrant ly. The woman, who gave her name as Cela McGarry, Is pronounced in a 1 serious condition. Jealousy Is given as the cause. ;rerda Boy. A negro whose name is not known Is in jail at Cleveland, Miss., charged, with haviog murdered a seven year old boy, because the boy had refused to perform a certain task required b the negro. The boys body was found several miles from the Ecene of the crime tied in a sack. Consic erable' WORSE THIAN. ElSOYL MAN RELEA9ED FROM WORK HOU.3E THOUGHT BE WAS Free But Finds That Every Yove He Wakes Will be Watched by Petectives. Hounded by spies who will shadow him for life, Alexander B rkman boarded a train for St. L-uis recently following his release from the work house at Pittsburg, Pa., where he has been confined for nearly fourteen years. Two police (imers in the mil lionaire's nay boarded the same train. Rger O'Mara, former Ctief of Po lice and Detec:ives of Pittsburg, who worked up the case against Berkman for Mr. Frick, has been employed by Mr. Frick to keep tab on Brkham so long as he is alive. It will cost him $10.600 a year to maintain the watch but he considers it the same as a life insurance policy. As he walked into the fsee air Berk man's joy was almost hysterical. ' How neauiful is nature!" he ex claimed, stretching his arms as it rousing himself from the lethargic sleep of 'ourteen years imprisonment. T.2e man thought he was frer. In fact he is condemned to a punishmenL the like of which this free country never saw. From this moment until either Mr Frick or Berkman dies, two detectives will watch Berkmnn and report to Mr. Frick every movement Berkman makes, every word he utters as far as possible. The former anar chist will not know it, always, but vberever he gocs he will be under sur veillance; his 1uture life will be a book the detectives will hold open for Mr. Frick to read. Deputy Police Superintendent Johnson, of Ailegheny, and a score of detectives met Berkman at the work bouse door and told him that he would have to make his stay in that citi short. Berkman replied: "I will gladly do as you wish. I have already remained in this v cinity much longer than I wisht a to." There is an old State law whici' allows a suit of cloths to every priso ner discharged from the p3nitrntiary who has cvyr fifty miles to go to reach his deEtination. Bdrkham ap olied for his allowance, but wa-; refus ed on the ground that his workhouse sentence came after his discharg' from the penitentiary. He had v, r' little money. About 8) was h stock ad 85 of this he left at the workhcuie for the benefit of poor pr-soners who were obout to be dis charged penniless. In response to a questien as to why he shot H. C. Frick he said: "Mr. Frick was the head of a syste-a and his removal at that time wculd have been a blessirg to humanity. Times have changee; it would nut be so now. The system he represented is dying of its own corruption. It does not. need -my bullets to help it die. "There is one thing I wa'it to de ny," said Berkman, 'and that is that I am to become a leader of the a ar cdists in this country and take Heer Most's place. There Is notling in that." Private detectives arrested Berk man at the workhouse door. It was a strange birthday party, for Berk man coming into the world aga.in call ed this his "birthday." Again and again in his joy Berk mun apostrop'szed nature until a dis gusted Allegt er y detective declared ostively "the fellow has gone mad." He complained greatly cf the treat ment prisoners aborr to depurt receive from the fflmials, saying; "In effeco, the offcials encourage them to go out and commit again the same crime. When.Berkman bcarded the 4 pt m. Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chica go train at the Union station a num ber of persons were there to bid him good-by. Of them some were "Reds," some Socialists, some only Americans. Berkman will remain in Chicago for a few days. SCATTER Aa8s 02 DEAD On Fa w :r Beds to Enxrich thi Grcw ing Plants.I A dispatch from CincinnatI, Ohic, says out of the deep and lasting love they bore their dead friend, Dr. Ernil Rothe and Joseph Renuer a few days since carried out to the letter a wish that is un'q2ely beautifnW; one that probably has Do parrallel in the ac nals of that city or State. But as a prefix to this there inust needs be a recitation of one aspecn of the life of Captain Henry Meiser. He was a lover of nature; a man whose being was wrapped no in the wonders she unfoids to those who. having eyes, can see. Taat infatuation trok the form of a never-ending love of flowers, and it is in that the key to this story is found. During Captain M:Iser's lite lie reared ar d tende d all sorts of dlowers with a care that made him te m-:us as an amateur borticulturist. His spec~ alty-If, in deed, he had oe-wa, roses, and these he grew in great pro fusion. Captain Meiser died in May of 1694. and his body was cremated. His ashes were placed in an urn, which reposed upon the mantel in Eminl RAthe's home. Sprinrg, with its warm sunshine, and tempered winds, awoke in the minds of these two men the recolle-ction of' what was practically Captain Meiser's last wish. With the recollection came the regret that it had not been done sooner, and, as a balm to this feeling, they decided to accomplish it at once. They acc~rdingly carri--d the urn c~n taining the ashes of the lover of na ture up to Eden Pai k. The dower bed on the bhuff, near the waterwoyk-s pumping station, which overlooks the W..1 R~ver, war c :osen as the one on rhich the ashes of the dead man should be placed. Reyerently, and with the feeling hat they were in the presence of omethng sacred, these t wo scattered ~heir friend's ashes upon that flower ed. And when the "roses b!oom Lgain beside the river" they hoperte et permission from the city auth.i~ es to cull the fi we-rs and fulfill tos e letter the wisices of a gentleman, poet and a lover of nature. Won His Way. William C. Brown, who has justf een chosen first vice president of the I ew York Central lines, with a salary f 75 000, the best paid vice rpresi bent of a railroad in the United C ;ates, was in the early seventies a i eegraph operator and messenger boy | Sioux City, Iowa, receiving mes- c agsano deerngmm thm hmself 1 MRS. VIRGINIA D. YCUNG By Mre. Olive F. Gunby in Barnwell Sentinel. In a New York editor's offee one day, the sanctum of a great news paper that wields Influence, a woman who was doing her little best in the world of letters was introduced to Mr. Wm. Loyd Garrison, son of that Boston man who did things. "You came from South Carolina?" he irquired with a polite interest. "Oh, yes? That is Mrs. Younz's State," said he. "You know Mrs. Young?" Mr. Garrison along with Mr. Curtis, Higginson and other worthy advecates of suffrage for wo man know Mrs. Young as a woman. Suffragist hence it happens that in circles of advanced views Mrs. Young and South Carolina are bracketed together, one and indissoluble. Tne woman's right movement, 'tis said. does poorly in Scuth Carolina. But Mrs. Young is upholding the banner and getting in an enterirg weege wheresover she can. Those who have seen her at home, feel that she is creating the best possible senti ment in favor of her cult by reason of the dainty home atmosphere she maintains, and her genuine devotion to her husband's comfort and interest A most definite characteristic of this woman pioneer is that she elevates the commonplace duties of life into pleasures and contrives that every thing shall be sweet and clean and purely wholesome within her gates. Woman w qrainted with our languor ous climate that invites to a ham. mrck and a bock oftener than to ac tive employment will apprecdate the unremitting personal supervision re. q.nired to keep things fresh and at oractive in a household. "I always strain the milk myself as soon as it comes in," she explains, excusirg herself for this rurpose. &znd next morning if up early enough you will find her working the pats of butter and planning for its accommo. cation in the milk safe. Every par tientar about this milk safe is a poem in purity. Tne sh!lves spread with white.surfaced papers, easily removed and replaced, the tins glistening in the miraing sunshine. Tae cartoonists who depict the wo man's rights advocates In the comic pipe:s as grote que figures, garbed in strange attire, swaggriug forth with hatchets or banner to break down es tablished c"stoms, cught to see Mrs. Yourg working bor tutter, or beating up biscuit, feeding her chickens o gathering eggs, culling roses or set tfIa forth her daintybbreakfast table. rui.n they might get some fresh ideas on female suffrage. She would be sure to talk while they were there, and whatevtr she talks about she en ters into with her whole heart. She believes in herself and that is why you believe in her after you a set her. You may not subscribe to her dcc trines altogether but upon hearing her discourse you are more apt to set the reasonableness of arguments as she puts them. A short-haired freak tamperin'g with theories far beyond her and from whose presence the orderly and beauty-loving flee from boredem per son:fild, this is the accepted idea of the woman suffragist-that is, the old conservative South. But Mrs. Young refu':es this both In appear ance and in manner of daily living. While she talks you listen atnd are glad to listen, which is more than can oe said of a goodly number of the talkers of the earth. She will relate how successfully the women are moving things politically out in Idaho and Colorado and other parts. She will tell of th e young wo man legislator she knows, who "thinks up bills" for public Improve ment the while she nurses her baby and what this, that or the other cele brity she knows is doirg from pulpit, press or platform. There is a j ,ke ini staid old Boston that the folks there stay under dor mant somewhat like a, whale, and have to come "up" every1 now and then in New York to breathe 1 freely. Just so womnen' abidirng Ia the traquil, long established lines of 1 thought get a whiff of a larger, more i charged atmnosphere in Mrs. Youug's talk. Baminiscences of conventions bee, there and yon, of trips to Washington on puiblic mission of 1 resa club confabulations and such. Se will give a vived word-picture of R osevelt"; cordial hearing towards. her when In Charleston, and tell what oter public men say and do as to wo men's affairs. Mrs. -Young edits and prints ai weekly newspaper in her own house and writes essays and articles for the various woman's rights organs. She has written three books, all printed in ston and all -bringing out clearly her views as to wcman's conventional'] status in society. There is a strongi vein of rehigion in her books. And a plea for the beauty of wholesomeness s- portrayed in the love of whatso-i ever Is good, pure and true In human ife. < A woman of small stature and pro portions, she Is evidence that spiriL md not matter count most in aff.iirs. Her first public work began with thei tarting of a Sunday schot at the t ocal country church whben Fairfax I was only a handful of houses. Later i she embarked in the work Mhs WilI lard loved and distinguished. Gradual- J Ly Mrs. Yo.ung was led into larger .1 views of woman's sphere, and the 8 eaders of the suffrage cause gladly 9 elcomed her irnflaence and -her artI. 3 >les. Now in her sunny secluded i Jarolna home she follows zealously a he same line of thought and practice r ibat Mrs. Cady Stanton exampled in f rier New York apartment, the narrow '9 ooms of which so often held groups a >f delightful, intellectual women, II glad to hi ld converse with the high- S ninded dame and her interesting ircle of intimates. A chief charactestic of Mrs. You-g g -nd all snffraglsts, Is that they ex Lmine critically all accepted rules for women's doings before they subicdibe .hereto. "Why should a wife have to be S ~ounger than her husband ? I'm not ;ura that the most good results there rom," one of Mrs. Young's book ho oes is made to say. As all the worldd mows. for a body to so quiestion is outirg the very narrow or accepted beory. It means that in the event the hubband's fallrg, of being leak, the mate could all the better .J uppiant him in heading the house 10ld. It more than Intimates that nere man does not hold the whole arth in the centre of his grasp. It d neans-but I will leave everybody to '. gure out for him or herself what It S ueans, or wbat It leads to. E 01 A Montana man says he laas found b ut how to grow a bushel of potatoes h a a bushel of sawdust in sixty days, t< nd it can be done in the cellar or any ti ther old place. No vines, no bugs, fa troble and it is likely no potatoes. ti MAIL OF XU ERTS. FORMER SENATOR E.MPTIES Hi WINE CELLAR. nvited Friends to His Fome to As sist in the 1estruction of Costly Trinkables. Win.. flowed freely Wednesdav night it Henderson Castle, the handsome icm3 of ex Senator John B Hender ion, surmountirg Sixteenth.street and )verlooking the city at Washington. rhe very gutter outside the splendid mansion ran redolent with the choic -st juices of the grape. There was wine, wine everywhere, but not a drop to drink, not one goblet of the stuff was used to slake the thurst of the company, numbering more than one bundred persons. who saw the spark ling beverages gurgling along the pavement into the open sewer. It was such a scene as vwould have m de Dmar Khayyam weep and any bibu Lous man cry out with sorrow. 'Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, who some time ago became members of the In ependent Order of Rectabites, were empting their spacious wine cellar, stoeked with every drinkable that the palate could wish for. They were breaking the bottle and the jugs and allowing their contents to run into the st-reets and find their way into the murky waters of the Potomac. For years Henderso i Castle, the gorgeous brownstone residence of the former senator from Missouri, has been known as the most hospitable home in Washington. It has been the scene of many receptions and many bountiful repasts, where gathered the listinguished of political and social ife in Washington. Always on these >ccasions the choice3t product of the vineyard was served, and glasses lick..d merrily as tne guest drank to the health of the genial host and hie wi'e. Mr. Henderson car- to Washington as one of Missouri senators during the period following the civil war. He was the last R~publ!can s:nator from tbat state prior to the election of Sen Itor Warner, one of Missouri's present ienators. He was wealthy, and after 2is term of ffice expired concluded to n-.ke his home in Washington, and :reated one of the handsomest resi I-nces in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Hen lerson have entertained 1.vishly. About three years ago a ciange %ame over them. They became con rinced that wine is a m'cker and that trong drink is raging. Both joined ;he Independent Order of Reci.a ities, md an organ-zition known as the [ihn B. HWnderson Tent was named Lif ter the distinguished convert to iemperance. After that the win- cel ar was locked, but it - was not ;brown in the well. Mr. Henderson kept wondering what ie would do with the elaborate sup )ly of wines and liquors which the -ellar containe:. Hit c .nscience dic ated that he should not give it away nd he scorned to sell it, and yet he esolved that he could not keep it. B'nally the decision was reached that ,he costly beverages should be destroy ~d. Accordingly he Invited more than m hundred members of John B. Hen lerson Tent and of Onward Tent, of which Mrs. Henderson is a member, o con e to Henderson Castle Wednes h~y night and assist in the destruction )f these costly drinkabies. As a orelude of the work there was Lmeeting-of the two tents in the par ors of the Henderson home, and a :ommittee was appointed to go into he cellar and bring out ev-ry drop >f intoxicating beverage and pour it nto the street. Case after case of :hampaigne, bottle after bottle of im >orted whiskey, brandies, cordials, iektails, burbon, sherry, port, claret, murgundy and liquors of all sorts were >rought forth. S,>me of the demijohns nd bottles were covered with cob ebs and the dust of many years, tea ifjing to the age of- their contents, >ut none of these was spared. A stalwart Rschabite seiz ed the first ottle and crashed it against a huge oulder on the spacitus lawn. Its parkling contents flowed out npon the ~reensward. Another and another bor le was broken, the destroyers not aking the trouble to pull the corks. bon there was a puddle of wine, and a the breaking of bottles and jugs be ame faster a tiny stream of mixed rinks began to flow out Into the treet. In a little while it became al nost a torrent as it gurgied down the ill past the mmnsion and found its ray into a sewer opening. Still the enemies of strong drick :ept at their work of destruction, and a they did so a rich, tantalizing aro ca arose from the surging rivulet. lut there was no halt in :he proceed cgs until the last decanter had been iroken and its contents added to the tream of royal booze. Tue Rtecha ites wer3 getting revenue good and lenty upon John Barleycorn and all f his relatives. ' Failed to W ork. A car on the electric line between Vite Stone.. hotel and the station ecame unmanageable Friday after on and made a wild run down an .cline half a mile long, and crushing ato a bottling hous3 resulted ini in tring six men, two of them seriously. 'oraman of Piant Donald was most rously injured and may die. A ne ro, L ae Rooinson, also sustained in ries tha~t may result fatally. Othere rose names cannot be learned were ruised. The men were on a car en jute to their homes when the brakes Abied to work, the car running back ard down grade with terrific force ad crashed into the structure which Ssituated at the foot of the grade, cad end of the track. Almost Frtesen. C. D. Boyle of Chester, Pa., arrivedC 1 Atlanta Thursday in a refrigerator ar froma Perry, Fia., comipetely umbed and alm<.st frczen to death.C [e was rescued by pOlice officers and I rnt to the Grady Hospital where hec as worked :. n. to bring him from his i ~upor. He stated to the doctors I iat he was in Perry and crawled in- r >a car to take a nap. While hid en in a dark corner half of the car a as loaded with fruit and vegetables a ed, the doors ]ocked and it was ship ad to Balanta. He is a "Gantleman i Leisure" and Claims to be a pal of Buffalo Bill." The Blind Mlay See. Eferring to the several bills intro- g ced in congress pro;viding for the v moval of the tar'ff for the benefit of a an Francisco, the Chicago ecord a erald says: "The question is not 1j ie of opening the tariff sontroversy, t: it giving the earttquake cities the 11 lp they need." But is ought at least , i serve to open the eyes of some of;1 mose who have been blinded by the (s5 lse plas of republian sandpnt+ | MARRIAGE. :Mca df' criors on the all Iinpor tant Subj-at. God made the man for the woman, and the woman for the man. Each is incomplete without the other. In our experience even those who have married indifferently will have devel oped completer and nobler characters than those who have remained single. Marriage teaches both the man and woman tolerance, patience, tender ness. It lulls the passions and stimu lates the intelligence.' When there are children the noblest virtues and i aspirations are aroused. Father and mother are united in the desire to do their utmost for the helpless little ones who depend upon them alto gether, and make life fiesh and young and beautiful for them. There are certain men no woman should dare to marry. She would not dare to marry a man she does not love, no matter bow cxamplary his character and how attractive his bank account. Happintss in marriage is first and fort mist dependent upon the individual and his power of not simply respect, but the deepest and com pletett devotion. The man who would make one woman divinely happy would make another miser able, because she is not his mate, and the gond Lord ncver meant her to dwell with him. There must be that congeniality, that sympathy, that in expressible somethirg that men call lve, that accepts its mate altogether, ignoring all faults, bearing all things, believing all things, hoping all things, endaring all things, never failing in tenderness and loyalty even though the whole world should turn against the beloved one. Such a love is worth waiting for ai d #orth living for. To most women there is not much else in the world worth living for-and to most men also, since it is the only sure basis for permanent happiness. No matter how much a woman m7 think she loves him, she should not dare to marry a dissipated man. True ILve is rooted and grounded in re spect. A woman may pity profound. ly a man of weak caracter, but she cannot lovs him. Pity is so akin to love that women are deceived by it into the belief that it is a real devo tion. But it will not last. It is no proper foundation fur the married state. Tae more intimate your rela tIons with a dissipated man, the more worthiess he seems. He is like a rotten branch that the first wind will sweep ta the ground. There is no dependence upon him, no pleasure in him, no true love for him. TZE CAXPAlGE ITIB3EARY. WiU Start at St. Ge-orge on the 19,h of June. The special committee of the State executive committe to map out cam paign itinerary for the Democratic pri mary met in COultmoia on Wednesday night and made out the schedule The following was adopted as the itinerary: St. George, Tuesday, June 19 hi. Charleston, Wednesday, June 20th. Walterboro, Tnursday, June 21st. Beaufort, Friday, June 22id. Hampton, Satuarday. Jane 23rd. Barnwell, Monday, June 25 ,h. Bamberg, Tuesday, J mec 26 ih. Aiken, Wednesday,. June 27th.. Eigtfield, Thursday, June 28.1h. Saluda, Friday, June 29.? Ltxington, Saturday, Jane -30th. Columbia, Monday, July 9?h. Orangeburg, Tuesday, July 10th. Samter, Wednesday, J4ly 1.? Manning, Thursday, J aly 12 ix. Monks Corner, Friday. July 13th. Georgetown, Saturday, July 14th. Kitgstree, Monday, July 16.. Fiorence, Tuesday, July 17 in. Marion, Wednesdwa, July 18?. Conway. Friday, July 20th. Darlington, Saturday, July 2ist. Bishopville, Tuesday, July 24th. Bennetisville, Wednesday, July 25th Chesterfield, Thursday, July 26th. Camden, Friday, July 27?5. Lancaster, Saturday, J-x1y 28?h. Cnrester, Monday, July 30th. ] Winnsboro, Tuesday, July 3 1st. ] Yorkville, Wednesday, August 1st] Gaffney, Thursday, Auguss 2i. ] Spartanburg, Friday, August 3rd. ] Uaion, Saturday. August 4th. ] Newberry, Tuesday, August 7th. ] Greenwood, Wednesday, August Bth. Abbeville, Thursday, Augu' 9th. Anderson. Friday, August 10th. Walhxalia, Saturday, August 11th. Pickens, Monday, August 13t.sh Grtenville, Tuesday, August 14'h. L.urens, Wednezsday, August 15.sh. Our Boas'. The fa.mily mag: z'.nes are calling ttention to the fact that it is becom ing a marked feature of ..ur young men to consider it the "right thing' rto be, as one writer expresses It, "sporty, even to tcughness," in de :esnor in the hoire as well as socde DI. Tou many yog men, It is said arry "the maanners of the foot ball field" into the home, where they pride ahemselve~s on being "heavy on their eet, noisy In their movements, lum bering in their actions and bordering i mn boorishness" in their manners. Eany of them are decidedly slangly in their choice of language, rough in ~ heir speech, and none too careful of ~ she feelings of others. This is to be ~ leplored, and a remedy sought for it.g [t is well to be athletic; to be sound ~ n body and strong in limb; but rs s sect fur the amenities of life should ihows, and politeness, urbanity, gen lleness in speech and action, should s] y no means be despied. 0Oar boys S sh(culd, above all things seek to be n ienlemen, in the besa sense of the ti lord , and to cultivate a habit of r ouresy toward their associates, and a unsideration, and respec~s toward $1 v~omer, either young or old.,I10 r ill never make a boy think less , if himself to treat a girl, wvheth- t is sister, or the sister of s >me t ither boy, according to the gentler a nstincts of b better nature, while. i o sho y a deference and a tender b espect toward a woman who Is sort'ody's mother," whether his or .nother's is one of the lovlicst things ,boy can do. KIled a Horned Snak'. e Rev. W. C. Boyd, pastor of the As- se cciate Reformed Presbyterian church ni rought to Tne JDaly Matil cfiloe what ni ust have been a genuine horned al ake. He killed the serpent in SiE er Bcook cemetery. Tue snake had lmost as many colors as the rinbow, D nd at the end of its tail was a horr ke arrangement. There was a con dv nce in the end of a horn resemb. N ng a bee's sting. Some old people rho saw the snake told Mr. Boyd that ca~ Swas poisonous, but The Daily Mail's bc rae editor frankly admitted that e had never seen a serpent like it.- cl - WHAT CAME IN VO POLICY HOLDERS IN THIS STATE FROM Life Insurance Companies. Some thitg Over 'wo Million D1ol lars Paid to '!hem. The Journal, the insurance press, as sent out advance sheets of Its aext issue containing much interest rg information as to life insurance premiums paid during 1905, together with other data of importance from a statistical point of view. The figures ire not comparative. They show what the various companies have paid )ut by counties in various states, for lifferent periods, but there are no igures as to how much was received by the companies. Nevertheless, here are some facts which are fresh and Interesting. Amongst cities receiving Largest payments on account of pre miums New Y.,rk naturally leads wish $26 785,797. Charleston stands ffty-fifth in the list of 198, that city aving received $405,649 In settle ments of life policies of all kinds. Tha city, also, stands fifty-fourth among 100 other cities with New.York t the top, in the amount of life insurance carried, the figures being 940,000,000. New Orleans, Atlanta, E1cbmond, Dallas, Memphis have a few millions ahead of that city, but in proportion to population Charleston is away ahead of any other Southern Dity in the amount of life Insurance arried by her cit z ns. Standing Efftieth she also exceeds in the amount that of many larger Northern cities. According to The Insurance Press fgures South Carolina received I, 1905 $2.123.643 in claims on accouun of life insurance distributed In varl us cities and towns as follows: Abbeville. ........... 3 300 Aiken..... ............ 6 000 Allendale,................4,500 Alvin..................13,000 Anderson . .............. 42 667 Barksdale................ 2,175 Barnwell................. 4 575 Batesburg.......... .... 3 000 Bath. .............. . 2 230 Beaufort......,..... 20,110 Bannettsville............. 88 662 Bethel..................3,250 Bishopville. .. .......... 3 000 Blackstock...............2565 Bonham...... .......... 3,000 Bowman...... ..........5,000 Brunson....... ......... 7,000 ades.................... 5,000 amden ................. 29 104 Catarrb.... .............2 000 Charleston ..............405 649 Cheraw ...-............... 18 00C Chester...... ..........13 06 Chesterfield .............. 2 69u hnon.................6 500 Clover..... ............. 2401 gburn.......... .......3 000 Columbia................. 8)122 Darligton........ ......21 500 Dillon-..................4 375 Dorchester .... ........... 3.000 Dorn.. .............. 3 100 Due West.. .. ... ..... 7 000 E rly Brai.ci1............ . 6500 E Igefleid................. 6 500 Fairfax.... .. ........ ...3 000 Fairview.... .. ..... ..... 4 500 Florence.................4 500 Fork.......... ....... .. .. 4 000 Fontain Inn.. .... .. . .... 4 100 Qarnett..... ............ 11.000 Georgetown........ ... .. 12 150 0ranitevie.. .. .. ........ 4 000 lreenville............. 131,0.74 Grenwich................ 4 i66 reenwood.... .... .. .....4 000 Hampton......... .......4033 Hannah...... .... .. ...... 3 000 Hartsville................ 8 &)0 Heath Springs.. ...... ....4 000 Holly Hill................ 4 000 Hopkins................. 4.500 aapa............ ...... 2,607 ohn's Island.. .. .. .......7.000 Johnston. .... .... .. ..... 3 148 onesville................8 900 Eershaw..... .... ....... 6000 Eingstree................ 4,000 ake City...;............3(52 ancaster.. ............... 15 229 atta......... .......... 3,000 aurens.................. 6 600 [ttle BRok.. ........ .. ..3 820 Gockhart........... ..... . 3 650 EGwndesville.. ......... ...3 000 Gugof................... 3,000 ykesland...... .. ....... 3.528 dannng.......... ......6,955 Kazron........ ......, 8,000 doetng Street ....... 2 000 ddendorf...... .......... -2 000 oultrievlie.. .. .... ......2 100 t. Pleasant.... .... ..... 19 533 ewberry................ 28 500 ewport........ .... 2,248 Rew Z~rjn.............. . 2 000 )lar.. ........ ......... 3,000 ):ngburg.............. 19,995 ~acolet.... ...... ....... 9 000 ~anola.... .............. 4 500 arler........... ........ 3000 1.~.................. 7 6S6 ~icens....... ..........8 970 ~iedmont..... .........3 000 ~oint.................... 2,118 t edy River u actory... 2 000 tiahburg........... .....1,400 tu . . . . . . . . . .. 2 000 ack Hill........ ...... . 6 9)0 Lowesville................ 3,000 suby.................... 3900 t. Matthews.... ...... ...4 000 andy Fiat........... 6 500 carbcro................. 2,000 cotla................... 3,000 eminole................. 2.240 Blames M->ther.'n-Law. Lawrence Carter, the negro' who Lot his wife and himself to death at t. Paul ii Clarendon County, left a ote in wfhich hie left Instructions as the dispo~sition of the money In his ocket. (33 60), and declared that he 'as neither crunk nor crazy, but iD, be possession of all his senses. H . rther stated that his mother-in-law 'as the cause of all of the tronutle be ween himself and his wife. It seems at the real cause of the trouble be een Carter and his wife was the cquent beatings he administered to Five Druwned. Five persons, all connected with 2 of the prominent families or a-mes county, Tennessee, were drown I Saturday afternoon in the Tennes ie river. The catastrophe occurred aar Norman, a village about 12 miles rth of Custtanooga. The dead Mrs. Edgar Miles of Chattanooga. Mrs. Sim Eldridge, Mary lEldridge, esitt Eldridge. Abel McGill. All but Mrs. Edgar Miles are of orman. Jesse Eldridge, a lad of 19 years es ped oy clinging to the overturned IT it now proposed to make suits of othes of paper, which can be thrown vay when soiled. BLOWN TO PIECES. Shot D 'ad by an Intended Victim or a Bomb. R.u .sian bomb throwers are at work a in different parts of the Empire. At I Tiflis while Gov. Gen. Timoseieif and a Chief of Police Martinoff were driving t Sunday, bombs v.ere thrown at them Neitber was injured, but a Cossack belonging to their escort was killed. The crime was attempted in the oe ter of the town a few rods from the sene of the assassination of Gen. 2 Gdlazqtif, chief of staff of the viceroy of the Caucasus, who was killed by a a bomb fexolosion, Jan. 29 last. Gtn. Timosihf E .nd Chief of Police Martin off were riding in separate carriages. They were on their way to attend the coronation anniversary Te Deum at I the cathedral. Two bombs were throan simultaneously, one of them failing io explode. Chief of P 0lice Mirtinoff, who was riding wltn his i revolver In hand, shot and Instantly killed one of the terrorists, Dut the other eqc ped. Gov. Gan. Timoeirff. C coacbman was wounded, ~ At Sebuatopal several bombs weP I thrown SuLday wbile a review of C troops was being held after the Te_ Daum in celebration of the annivar-. sary of the emperor's e ronation. Eleven persons were killed including ive childrea and several wounded. Among the wounded were the cot - mander of the fortress, Gin. INplut ff. who received slight hurts, and the chief of po]ce, who was gravely injur ed. Opher high dignitaries escapea. Vice &dmiral Chouknin, commandng the Black Sea fleet, who is a special subject for terrorist revenge, was no. present. Four of the bomb throwers were arrestr d. At St. Petersburg M. Snata. i, warden of the city prison, was sho.. lour times Sundayand mortally woun did by an 18-year-old youth, who was t xecutlng a social revolutionists sen tece.in revminge for Shatak if s bad treatment of political prisoners. The assassin whos-i name Is Skutiltnin, killed a begger who tried to stop him but afterwards was arrested. Will Not Ro. The State says Mr. J. E Norment I stated Satu day that he had decided n )t to enter the race for secretary of state this year. The announcement will doubtless be as pleasing to the >ther candidates for this office as It .ill be disappointing to Mc. Nor ment's many friends all over S juth Carolina who had fully made up their minds to vote for him, when it was 4"tated some time ago that he wouli dkely bo a oandidate. Mr. Norment -as private secretary to Governor Hey ward since the governor's filst iau gluration has added thousands to his already large circle of personal friends, made In his capacity as a newspaper man. He had received assurance of strong Luport' as a candidate for secretary of state and was generally regarded as the most formidable en try for that cfflce. A Little WhiIe. Such a little while to right the wrong we'vye done, Such a:.little while to finish tasks be Suchia litie while to love and live, and smile. Dear Gcd! ah, such a little while! Such fleeting nights to dream our1 little dreams Such hurrying days to gather stray sun-beams; So many storms and suih a little cairn, And we lean on Death's strong arm. A little time, and yet our hearts are cold Our sweetest story oft' is left untold. We wa' er thorn-trees with our burn irig tears, And life is over, dear God, in such an a-down of years. A little while and countless hearts must break We do so many wrongs just for wrong's sake. We glory not in sin, yet dwell in guile, I And life is o'er dear God, in such a lil tle while( Negro Woman Shot. Friday night a colored woman was C shot by an unkno wn person ac Mar ion, 5. 0. at her home which she owns 11 in a negro quarter in the eastern sub .I urbs of th~e town. She was standing. fI by the window ironing, and was' shot 2 with a shotgun loadet with shall shot C the load taking effect in her left arm and side. The wounds are not con sidered fatal. At 'the time of the shooting she was alone in the house a her married daughter who lives with I her having gone to a neighbor's. H ir s son- In-law, Frank Scruggs, who has e not been living very peaceably wittL a the famly lately, was accused by his, wife of the shooting, and was arrestec b and placed in j til Crushed to D.ath. e A horrible accident ccurred at e J )nesvllle in Union County on SpVur a day morning. Rufus bmith, a e lr- a ed 1iborer in the dye plant of the Jontaville Manufacturing company was caught In the shafting and so a dashed against the ceiling before the engine e >uld be stopp 3d, that many A bones were broken, as a res'.lh of a which he di d five hours later. A N belt had slipped from the pulley at d , Smith was standing on one of the chrome machines attempting to put it back when by a caerless movement he stumbiled and throwing out his pa hand, in which he had a wet stociring, Si caught on the shafting and In an in- st stant It drew him up and was whiri- Cc ing him through the air. b . ABtd Start. At Atlanta, says a dispatch to The fe Augusta Chronicle, a lbride and gro"" at of one day, Mr. ad Mrs. W. R..t Brooks while returning from a pleaa tire trip to the Soldiers h: me Thurs- gi day af,,ernoon and sndu'glng In char b~ acteristic billing and cooing and kiss- 0t lug, were arrested and esred to the poleca station where the charge of "drunk and disorderly " was docketed against their names. They will be s tried b.afore Judge Broyles-.s .R ided a Bank. A band of anarchists at noon Fri day made an attack upon andndus trial savings bank at Warsaw, Poland. re The employes of the institution re- is sisted to loot the bank and there was a d spd.ate fight. Tne anarchit were'forced to retire. They did so covering their retreat by fi :lng their-b revolvers. T so clients who were in in the bank and o te clerk were fatally dil shot and six others wounded. The of inarchists made their escape in cabs. Fatal Runaway. fe At Gadsden, Ala., Rev. J. R. Trot- in ~er, a prominent minister and a form-m ~r Confederate soldier was killed se. ~aturday afternoon in a runaway. His ful iorse became unmanageable and Mr blh L'rotter was thrown out of the vehicle, ,lhu ireaking his neck. He was 70 years iin TIREIBLE TRAGIDY. ightning Kill Five SPretators at Sunday Base Ball Gam 3. A dispatch from Mobile, Ala., says bout three miles from that ciy Sun ay afternoon during the progress of , base ball game in an open field, a hunder storm came up, accompanied y vivid lightning, which struck In the aid5t of the crowd of spectators, in tautly killing five and injuring some wenty-five more or less sariou-ily. The dead are: Donald T muarl; aged 1; S'ephen Touart, ageo 39; sons. of iephen J. Tc uart; Arthiur Moody, ged 19; two negroes, J hhn Green and karles Thomas. Seriously I. jared: John Yockers ad Fied Johnson. Amorg the painfully ilakred were: rred Bureb, Joe Dolbcar and George )leveland. At least fifteen or twenty others were shocked and knocked down by he stroke, who guickly recovered and vere able to leave the field. The field Vas strewn with bits of shots and lothing from those who were killed r seriously injured and -the bodies of he dead presented a terrible specta le, being burned In numerous places k silver dollar Taken from the pocket t one of the victims was -mehed-;on ioth sides. Acreage Estimates. According to an estimate made by he Southern Cott M A.s...cAtin, of. whicn Harvie Jurdan is presidentf-' aere is an Increase In the- cotton icreage of the S uah of 2 76.per cent. ver last yers acreage. It is 1csima ed th*t the acreage planted- in cot n this year is 27 735,870 against - 6 999,642.acres in 3906. -The not In reae of acreage is 736,228 This-s tira*e is based upon reports received w rom 17,000 correspondents. Latham, Llexander & Company, of New York, vzry reliable ani trustaorthy drm, is placed the 1908 acreage at 27 '56 010, which is an Increase of but, oree and a half per cent. over l&A rear. Tnis estimate was made on he strength of 3 482 reportf of ave ge date of May 14. These reports - vould indicate a yield of not m;;re : had eleven million bales under ordi-;2 tary weather donditions and that Ize crop next fl1 will not ba a large ne by any meads under the- condi Ions that will exist next fall. Struck by Meteor. A meteorite struck Andre , Guyso, if Boton Hill, near South Norwalk, ,:nn., so terrible a blow that-he was ound senseless near hls-ho-e. with ruhed and frsctured skull.-The tone is the size of an orangeastr:age y corrugated and marked with ,wid nanstatten or peculiar crystalline ij tres. Mineralogists who--sawIt- de lare it is unquestionably of meteoric irigin. Tae aerolite consists of ietal. ic iron alloyed with a smallpercent. ige of nickel. Its rush through tbe ieavens gave it a nblelsh-bsck color mg. Guyso was removed t0 theSjust gorwalk Hospital and in a moment iry consciousness-declared that as he was walkirg home he isaw afiash In ,he sky and was suddenly struckdown is If by lightning.- Dr.-Jean Dumor ler operat'ed upon Guyso, and it Is> ~lad he may live.' Murder Mystery. A dispatch from New York'says mder co~iditions that Indicate murder ihe body -of a young woman~ was found iuoday on the Bronx shore of the larlem river. The body wasseantily :lad and around the neck was tightly astened a nose or cord.. Aiy autopsy howed that death probabyfwas not Iue to drown'ng but the condition tf ,he body which had evidently beenifn~ he water for several weeks -was such e to make It impossible to determine - he precise cause of death. T'ie body vas that of a woman abou 25 years if age. -_____ Tackled tne Wrong Man. Tohn Brist, a foremnan of construe Ion on the Tidewa er railroad Sati " irday evening shot and keilled. Burrs )reasy near Cambria, Va. Creasy re- - ently was dircharged- from the: post-i Ion Britt now holds. Oreasy and some f his frIends went to where Britt was rork'ng and assaulted him. Brit~t was :nocked down and seriously Injured. Is managed to draw his revolver and red two shots Into Creasy killing him. L. guard is protecting Brlts from fur her attack. Chinese Den. An undergroun"i ('alnese -colony, tmiar to that which exis ted in San 'rancisco, has been - discovered at eattle by the city offioials. By bur awing under buildinga, sidewalks, a i alit ys, the Oh nese have excavated - assageways to ros in whica gamn ug and opium smoking is carried a. Many of the rooms are lighted by kecricty. Some of the passageways rtend for half a block or more, and te many feet belo w subeellars and ad sidewalks. Knit., vi. Puenra.k At Jackson, MIs, In a duel Sunday iternoon, in which Sid H >skins had pite'ifork arnd a man named Mc. .dams had a barlow knife. Hiskins as so badly hurt that he will die. 6adams bad one es eput ,ui and as otherwise lace rated. K diltd by Ball. At H .uston, Texas, wile taking Lrt In an amsteur game of baseball mnkay Stach Wisnoski,.aged 23, was ruck by a thrown ball and after re ivering the ball and 'throwing to a lae tell dead. EVsar man has a right to think r himself, work for his own Interest id do al number of similar selfish uings, but after all the things that ve the most pleasure when looking .ekward is the good we have done hers. THF Japanese strictly enforce a law -bidding boys under twenty years age to use tobacco. Americans ould not be behind Japan. Every ate should e. act laws prohibiting e sale of cigarettes and tobacco as til as for liquor to minors. AMIONG the curious things that. ar at attention on arriving in Moscow the absence of whips among drivers cabs, carriages and all sorts of hicles. Theie is a law prohibiting eir use. There is not a single whip use in Moscow. The excellent con ion of the horses attest the benefit this humane law. ['HE pretty girls at Seaford, Del., t so bad for the p:or sufferers out San Francisco that they decided to 1 kisses at $1 apiece for the banefit 3d. One rosy- cheeketd, dewey-lipped ishing maid actually brought over a ndred dollars into the relief fund the space of two hours, and she said