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WEALTH M ISJSED 440 Trust Control One-fifth of Country's Wealth. WE . Our Millionaires are Kings Indeed. In 1855 There Were Ony Twentyeight Millionaires in New York While To-day' It Boast Over Two Hundred. The article below is a collection of paragraphs from an article by Cleve land Moffett entitled "The Sharcfai Misuse of Wealth," and published in Success Magazine. It will prove in teresting to many as a comparison of figures in the growth of the country's wealth. It is admitted that we are the rich est people in the warl today,---a richest people the world has ever seen. The vaunted weal:h of Crcesus is es timated at only eight million dolars but there are seventy Amercan es tates that averae thirty five millions each. New York is toeyond compari son the richest city in existence; the New Ycrk Herald estimateaits wealth at thirteen thousand million collars. And to tie country at large the last annual report of the controller of the currency shows that the stock of gola in the United States, ($1,320,400,000): is greater than that of any uuer lana, while our tankmg power aggregates nearly fourteen biuiolns as again t less than twenty billions fur all foreign countries. We procuce one third cf the world's coal, one-tnird of its grain, one-fifth of its wheat and turee fourth of its cotton. We produce more steel and iron than England and Germany together and our manufac tures are nearly dunlie those of Great Britain and lielar-d combined. Our railroads carry twice as n.ucn mer chanaise every year as is carried oy all the railroads of all the other na tions. James Bryce in "The American Ccmmonweaith," observes that up to 1830 or 1840 there ware no great fur tunes in Anrbiica, lew large rcrtunes and no pcerty. But, wrating of tL later eighties, he says: ''N'w there is some poverty, many large fortunes, and a greater nur er of gig .ntic oir tunes than in any other country in the world." Tnat was twenty 5 earn ago! What would Mr. Bryce say to day if he could read statist.cs showing that there are three million cfialiy recognized paupers in the Unite States? That a million and a hair chiloren between the ages of ten anu fifteen are employea in our mites anu factories? Tnat one person in everj twelve who aies in New York city is buried in the potter's field? As showing the rapid growth Cf in dividual fortunes in this country there is interest in a hst of ricn mnen print ed by the New York Sun in 1855 ac cordmng to w'icau New York city at that time boasted onliy tweaty-eight millionaires. And a pamphlet pub lished some years earhier says that in 1845 Pniiadelphia could show only ten estates vamuediat a millicn or more, the richest bemng that of Stephen Girard which reachen seven millions. in contraai to which im 1892. accora ing to tne New Ycrk Tnbaune, mnere were then over two hundrea miln aires in Pbir.delphia. 6s to Ne w York city the number of its millionaires, accorcing to the best infurmation, 1s over tno thous ani 'while the number of millionaires in the United stitts is al. least tive thousana or half th~e o.-tai number in the world. We snan presently see what a huge part of thle national wealth is pussessed and ca.nirolled by these five thousand mnoivmcuais. There Is one family aiorne, at tue head of which stands the riest at d most powerfui man in the world, John D. Rockefeller, and the wealth of this family is est-imated at a thousana urrn lion dollars, a sum so uge Lnat tne human mmnd quite fails tu grasp in, a sum so huge trhat it at the birth of Christ Mr. Rockefeiler head begun Imaking a cochar a mnuue and hen les all these dollars accumulate day nc *night for all these centurIes he would not yet, in 19C6, have amassed a thousand milhion dollars. Ann if Mr. * Rockefeller snould today turn this wealth into gola czin arnd take it out, of the country, say into Canada, he would carry across the border three times as much gold as would then re main in the United States. Nor would he carry it himself for the weight of .t would te one tuousana seven hundred and fifty tons. And if he loaced it on the backs of porters, each man tearing his own weight in sohd gold, (say 150 peun~ds,) it would require twenty-three shousand men to move it. And If they 'walked ten feet apart the lineC of them 'wuud reaca forty-feur miles and woula cccupi tirteen hours in pass ing a given poiran. None of which takes any account oI the daily interest on this fortune which interest if paid in gold would require the strength of seven men to carry it. Continuing our list of multi-mill jonaires and taking the nine richest Artericans after Mr. Rockefeller, it is easy to s.e that these nin~e must have - a hiihon bery-een them: since Andrew Carnegie alone has more than a thiro of a biflion, and the other eight in clude Marshall Field, W. K. Vander bilt, John Jacob Astor, J. P. Morgan, Russell Sage, J. J. Hill, Senator Win. A. Clark and William Rockefeher. This gives us ti-o tuousand million dollars for ten meni And, without mentioning further names, I tffor the following estimate of the five thouand leading fortur-es in the United States; it is coly an ap proximation but it has tecn r-pprove d as reasonable by the statistical expert of R. G-. Dunn & Co, and by Byron W. Holt, editor of "Moody's Maga zine," a monthly review for investcrs, bankers and men of ztIairs. Also by several financial authorities in Ne a York City to whcm 1 nave submitted it. I have seen higher estimates, but, after careful consideration, I believe that this one may be accepted as weht within t:ne truth: 1EO. OF FoRTUNEs .AMOUET 10 aggregst-ng $ 2.000 000,000.00 490 agreganrng 3 000.O00,000.00 4500 aggregatIng 1.0 000,000,000.00 5000 Eggregating 15.000,000,000 00 So tat five thusan:.1 men in tn is country actually own (w'ithout count ing what they coctrol,) nearly one sixth Cf our ennire national wer-ith. It is interesting toj consider how nray remark here that there is no iced to -. q..ire hxw much poorer the .ocr will . If th8y are to live at ._". they can pat much poorer. WLat ;reater bu'rder of rovertycan we put n the I'ur million Amer:can fami ies w'o oday with their best tail car; %ather less than four hundred dollars yea.? What more can we take from them than we have already take' ' The Massachustt s Bureau of L-thr has collected statis.ics showi'g how the pcor families spend heir pitiful incomes. It appears that 83 8 eacs week goes for food. Sh li we cut that domt? Or shall we cu- dosa t?,=e $2.91 a mouth t"ey sle'd or ciot- I iog? Jr the $7 50 a Sear t.esy spenC for furniture and hmusel~ad furoish ing ? 0: the $7 a month they pay for foul, dark rooms in a tainted ten emem ? And these are not the prorest of the poor, these are self.res-pecting la borers, producers of the national wealth; there are millions of others 'hose lot is worse than theirs,-ten million, R ert Hunter estimates, in helpless poverty, out of work, out of health, out of heart with the world, breken driftwcOd, vagrants, tramps what shall we take from them? Sixteen years ago Tuomas G. Shear man, a distinguished corporation law yer and brilliant writer on economic questions. proph?si d t.at "within ;narty years the Ucited S:a es will b substantially owned by less than one in five hundred of the male popula tion!" In the United States today there are 440 larg,. industrial, franchise and transportation trusts with a capita ization of over twenty thou'and mil lion dollars. Whicb, says the "Wal Street Journal," is "one-flth of the wealth in the country and the maot powerful part of it for it is wealth under such coucentrated control tha: it practically sways the whole." It may be objected that the chil dren of millioraire lhes have a per fect right to dispose as they piea :e f their fortunes and their lives, if they choose to follow the unprofitable ways of steam yachts and motor cars, why after all, this is a free country. To which we might reply that no man has a moral right to squander mi lions on show and selfish pleasures while thousands of his fellow men are parishing of want, while tens of tacussnds by their utmcst labor ano pam can barely secure the necssiie of life. Remember the va;t toiling army enslaved in our f: o:ories an,: miues, men, women and children. millions of them, giving the strength of their bodies and the hope cf their souls that a f :w thousand rich men may draw handsome dividends on in vestments, dividends which they hav' dne nothirg to earn and which iL be rss them to spend. Extraordinary happenings are a ways unexpected yet once in a cen tury or so, like the advent of a mighty conqueror or reformer, they do come to pass. And if there should arise in this land a man of thirty or f rty who, starting with two or three bil lions (;wned or controlled by him,) shculd ;e great enough to brush as de the tramels of indolence and tempta tion, great enough to see that never in modern times has there been cfbr ed to a man, not even to Napoleon, so stupendous a chance as this to wield absolute despotic power, great enoughJ finally to use his two or three bli lions to its full potentiality tien, well there would burely be interest ing history made in that mar.'s life time!i We have had our iron kings. railroad kings, copper kings, eugar kings and others, but the.re is one kind of king we have not bad yet. A real king? Yea, for how long, pray, wuld this republic stand against the aggressions o.f such a man, a great minded despot w::bout conscience or bounds to his ambition, onn in com parison to whom our Rocafellers and Carnegies would seem like blundering beginners? Already our millonaire magnates have begun to buy our curts and legislatures, to corrupt ur cities, to de.bauch the public con science; he would finish the work and do it thoroughly, he would make the laws, own the newspapers, subsidize churches and colleges, mculd public opinion, direct the machinery of justice, control the industries, the banks, the insurance compnnies, the conditions of labor, regulate supply and demand, fix prices, absorb pro fite, centraliza everything, be every thing. ________ TO PR&TECT WILD BEASTS. Mrovment in England to Restrict Big Hunting in Africa. A dispatch from London says: A plea for the protection of wild ani mals has been made by a deputation which waited on Lord Elgin at the ccionial ctice on behalf of the So ciety fer tne Preservation of the Wild Funa of the Empire. Tue depuca ion was headed by Lord Curzon of Kendleston. It pointed out to Lord E gin that many of the most interest ing species of wild ani~nals in the var ous colonies and-African protectorat es were In danger of extinction by pot-hunters atud sportsmen, and sub mitted the following recommenda tion to him: 'That the returns of all game ani mas killed should consinue to be in cluded in the annual reports or eaich protectorate or colony. That a map suculd be prepared showing the present game reserves in Africa. Tha the sale of hides, horns, etc., of game animals in the British domib os- in Africa and at Aden should be prohibted. Toat the sale of elephaal tusks weighing 'ess than t wenty-five pounds snoul be prohibited. That no shooting wvhatssever, ex cpt for administrativt reasons, should Ibe permitted in a reservo. Holds Up F'ive Sage CJosches. At Wawona, Cal., five Yosemite Valey stage coaches were hel Up iast week the entrarce to the National Park by a lone high wayman, weo ob Itaiced a considerable amount of man y and jewelry. Toe conveyanes were bialted in rapid succession at a curve in the road near Awahinee, at the Identical spot where a bandIt a ye:.r ago ,tobbed several wealthy tourists o their valuabies. The stages were traveling sutficiently fsr apart to avoid each other's dust and wuen the first vehicle reached the turn in the road, the highwayman, whese f.eatur es were hidden by a duster thrown ver his head, steppad out, pointed a gu at the driver and commanded him to hait. Sorme of the women passen gers scre:amed while others began' widy to secret their valuables. "I think that's the funniest joke I I ever wrote. Everybody laughs the first time they read it; yvu're the only exception," sad Y. ue Scriibks, dis gustaly. 'Why, I 1-iu..hed," replied 0:dum. "You diw? .i as I could notice it. Nz;: ycu wernt born at he time."-Pniiadrind.a Press fHROU THE STATE' 5BOR - NEWS ITEM1S F'RO l ALL OVER 3sOUr3 CAROLINA. A Batch of Information in Condensed Form for Busy Readers. The Lutheran Synod will establish a. large publishing house in Columbia. Scuthern train No. 29 ran over and killed an unknown negro at Winns boro, S. C , Sunday night. The Bank of Mayesville, a small in stitution, has been closed by order of State Bank Examiner Holleman. De positors will get their money in full. The town of Belton is to have an - pera house. W. K. Stringer, bank president, has already let the contract .Cr builciue it. J. H Sloan. president of the Ameri cn National Bank, of Spartanburg, and also of the Southern Trust Co., dfi that city, died last Thursday. Sixty-five personsons attended the state campaign meeting in George town on Saturday. Dick Watson was killed with a rr z :r by Willie Bull-both colored in Darlington on Saturday. Reuben Ford, a negro section hand, was run over and killed by a train at Uaon on Saturday. Tue total stealings by Treasurer Hughes of the Union Building and Loan association amount to $60,008. E:vin Crane, aged 18, of Pine Mountain, Ga., was run over by a train in Walhalla and died from his injuries on Friday. Rv. J. S. Moffatt of Chester is prominently mentioned as the proba able successor of Dr. F. Y. Pressley as president of Erskine college. A negro was run over and killed near Winnshoro by the Southern's fast mail on Sunday night. He had fallen asleep on the track. The grand jury of Spartanburg have presented the conductor and .en gineer of a freight train on the South er for running the train on Sunday, and they will be prosecuted. C :mmissloner Tatum has sppcint ed Lucu ueL Bultnau of Columbia until recently a beer dispenser-to succeed the late Jas. T. Parks as a clerk at the state dispensary. Aaron P. Prioleau, cclored, late contestant for a seat in congress, was cmmitteed to jail in Charleston on Fijay to serve a sentence of three months for tampering with the mails e ru-ning as a postal clerk on the A miuuc Coast Line. According to a story in The State of Tuesday, a negro woman named Nottie Brooks, said to be from Green wood, was guilty of the most inhu man of crimes, infanticide, having scalded a new born babe to death in her cabin in Columbia Sunday night. Mr. S. A. Pces3ley, of Due West, has only recently accepted a professor ship in an Egyption colJkge, the Col lege of &ssut, at Assut, Eiypt and is now cn his way to begin work in that institution. The town of Assut has about 40,000 inhabitants. The co! lege has an encliment of about 850 students and has a high st~ndard of instruction. OWINGi THOUSAND~S Bcker Alexander skips Out. from Augusta, Ca. Revelation of the financial embar rassment of the firm of cotton fac tors of Alexander & Alexander, at Au gusta, Ga., one of the largest in the state. develcp discreparcies of about $145.000, following the disappearance of Thomas W. Alexander, head of the frm. Mr. Alexander left Augusta ,Tuly 7th, after borrowing 8200 from a friend, saying he was going to New York. The following night his broth er, Bishop Alexander, the lunior member of the firm, received a tele gram from him asking that his office desk bs opened and three letters found there be delivered. One of the letters was to his partner, in which a state meut was made of the financial em barrassmnent of the firm, and saying that if Mr. Alexander was not back in Augusta by Wednesday he would never be seen again. Another letter was addressed to a local mill presi dent, and a third to Mr. Alexander's wife. The manner in which the money was secured has not been matie known by the three banks who are the los ers, except that it was in the shape of loans. The Georgia Railroaid bank sustains a loss of $115,000, which was marked off its books Thursday, and harged to the surplus and undivided profits accounts. The National Banks of Augusta loses $7,000, and the Na tional Exchange bank $2.000. The available assets of the firm amount to about $80,000, while the personal lia bilities of T. W. Alexander, in addi ton f o the amount of loans, is about $26 000. In his letters T. W. Alexander states that he alone is responsible, that his brother knew nothing of the financial end of the business, and had nothing to do with it. Mutch sympathy is expressed for his broth Want Stossel Shot. The commission appointed to in vestgate the surrender of Port Arthur has finished its labors and re c'mmends that Lieut. G-en. Stoessel, ee formter commander of the Russian forces at Port Arthur, be dismissed from the army and shot, that Lieut. Gen. Fcck, who commanded the 4th E u.t Siberian division at Port Ar ~tur, be dismissed from the army and undergo a year's hard labor; that Gen. Reiss, chief of staff of Gen. Seessel, be dismissed and banished, :d that Admiral Alexieff, former vceroy in the Far East; Lient. Gen. zSminoff, commander of the Port Arthur fortress, and Gan. Vernand. r be reprimanded. The formal trial Af these officials will take place ;hcrtly. Miothe-r F'orgets Her Child. Terrified by fire on a Long Island electric train at Atlantic avenue and Lincln pliace, Woodhaven Sunday a woman left her baby behind to join the crowd rushing panic-stricken from the cars. Passengers among whom were women, tried to escape by doors and windows. The cries of the child attracted a physician, who rescued it from the W~ames. Hereafter the "opened by mistake" excuse will be a mistake that will cost $200. The postvImce depart met has ruled that mail must be looked over before leaving the o1mee, and that any letter put in your box by mistakO must be returned before eavng the postoffice under a penalty of $200 for failure to do so, TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY. Accidentilly Shot And Killed By His Uncle. By an accidental discharge of a Sun, a 12-year-old boy was instantly killed by his uncle Wednesday after noon in the county, 12 miles from Co lumbia, on the Winnsboro road in the Camp Ground neighborhood. The name of the little fellow who was the victim of the lamentable mishap was Sam Sharp, a son of S. S. Sharp, a prosperous farmer of that section, the uncle, whose gun was discharged with such deadly result, was D. T. Sharp. Mr. Sharp, the uncle, is only 22 years of ago. A heartrending feature of the tragedy was that the mother of the boy was standing nearby when the gun was discharged and was a horrifi ed witness of the entire affair. Mr. J. L. Sharp, a brother of the young man in whose hand the gun was discharged, came to Columbia and notified Coroner Walker. From what could be learned from Mr. Sharp when he arrived in the city D. T. Sharp went to the home of S. S. Sharp in the afternoon-and had his single barrel breech-loading gut with him. Wnile there his reiative laid the gun on a piece of lumber and traced the outlines of the stock on it for the purpose of making another gun stock. When he started home, young Sharp, thinking that the shell had been extracted from the gun, threw it over his arm and went to ward the front of the house. The little fellow was on a shed near which his uncle passed and in the play be tween them the gun was discharged, the load entering the child's head, making a fearful wound. It is said that the uncle is almost crazed with grief. CHAGES AT CLBMSON. Vacancies in Faculty Filed at Re cent Meeting. The board of trustees recently held a very important meeteng and con sidered carefully all the interests o: the college. Appropriations were made for carrying on the work of the various departments. F.jur member, of the faculty resigned: Prof. J. S. McLucas, assistant professor of Fng lsh for ten years; Mr. B. M. Par her, instruct.or in textile industry Mr. Timberlake, instructor in draw ing, and Dr. Nelson, assistant veter inarian. Prof. McLucas has been elected pro fessor of E iglish at the Carnegie Technological institute, Pittsburg, Pa He graduated at the Universit3 of South Carolina and later took hii mraster's degree at Harvard. Mr. B. M. Parker has accepted a position with his alma mater, the Agricultural College of North Caro lina at Raleigh. Mr. Timberlake has gone in t< more remunerative work than teach. ing he will be in the cotton oil mil business at Hartsville. Mr. Timber lake was at Clemson only one year but during that time he made man: warm friends. Dr. Oscar Nelson has gone t< Hackensack to practice as a veter! narian. He is a skilled practitione: and will likely succeed. Mr. D. W. Darniel was elected as sociate professor of English, Mr. D. E. Earle assistant professor in the textile department and Dr. M. R Powers of New York university assis tant veterinarian. Sherifr shot By Deputy. Sheriff J. R Turner of De Land Fia., was shot in the left breast ani perhaps fatally wounded by his deputy Q. M. Kuriz, while they were raidini a"'blind tiger" at Lake Helen Tues day morning. Kurtz fired at ont of the negroes, who was try-ug ti escape. The bullet struck the side c a door, glanced and penetrated Sheri: Turner's breast. In the excitemen that followed all the negroes escaped Kissed Wrong Woman. Testimony in the divorce case o Mrs. Mary E izabeth Jones agains1 Judge Orville Davis Jones, of Edina Me'., Pcpullst candidate for Governo in 1896, reads like a chapter from the Decameron. The case was called be fore Judge O'Neill Ryan, of the Cit cult Court, and Mrs. Jones testifie< that she changed places with her ser 'rant and received a kiss from her bus band intended for the lips of the maid. Judge Jones, who is fightin; the case, looked surprised when hii wife recited the details of the schemi into which she had entered with thi servant to entrap her husband. Sai said she took her seat in the dininj room one dark, moonless night. Th shades were closely drawn and th' room was black as a dungeon. He: usband's room, she testified, wa: next to the dining room. About 1. o'clock her husband opened the door she said, and called to the servan1 asking if he could come in. "I did not answer," she said. "I sat per ectly still. My husband crept sient, ly into the room, threw his armi around me and planted a kiss on m' lips. All the time he thought he was kissing the servant. The next dayJ hid in the pantry and heard Judgi Jones telling Kate how he enjoyed the kiss. They Were Thirsty. In the capital city of Maine in a hotel not far from the railroac station, was employed for some years before the enactment of the Sturgir law a very popular dispenser of ardent comfort. Onie stormy night the trali from Bangor was belated until nearly midnight, and a p,rty of Bostor men arrived tired and hungry. After registering, they spied a light in the dispensary, and found the "chemist" on duty, and a supply of malt and spirituous fluids and some crackers and cheese were obtained. As the ordinances of most cities in prohibition states required 10 o'clock closing, "Jake" was asked why he happened to be open so late. "Well,' he replied, "we don't generally, but just now the legislature is in session, and we have to be accommodating tc the members.--X Wheat Crop For The Year. The Daily Trade Bulletin has is sued its annual estimate of the wheat crop, making the total yield 720,000, 000 bushels. Including supplies c-rried over, the total supply for the year is 821,000,000 bushels. The estimated consumption is 45,000,000 bushels. The aggregate world's crop is 8,000.000 baishels more than last year. Children Burned To Death Annie Wimbish, aged 16, and Rob ert Wimubish, aged 6, children of Mr. Ind Mr. R. W. Wimbish, of Savan 2ah, Ga., were burned to death Thurs lay night at the home of their grand STORM HITS TENT OF PAWNEE BILL'S GRE'AT WILD WEST SHOW. And Causes Panic Among the 2000 Spfc-ators Pawnee Eill Pre. serves Order. One of the most violent storms of the season swept over Bayone, N. J., on Wednesday as the climax of a pe riod of heat and humidity that had caused a number of deaths and many prostration, and driven several per sons insane. The wind blew at fifty miles an hour and lightning struck in many plices while the rain for an hour fairly de luged the city. Lightning struck two of the Nei York Yacht Club's thirty-footers, the Minx and Dahinda, caught in the storm during the race off Glen Cove L. I., and their escape from destruc tion was remarkable. A. bolt als< struck the dome of the Brooklyn Firn Headquarters and played havoc ir many places in Staten Island, killing one man. Portions of Williamsbur were flooded. More than 2,000 men, women and children in the main tent of Pawne Bill's Wild West and Far Est Sho7 at Bayon:e, N. J., were thrown.inti panic when the storm pounced down The spectators stampeded, while thi wind tore down all of the auxiliar tents, liberating 400 performing hors es and uprooting trees and sendiig tie water in sheets driving through the streets. The horse tent collapsed upon thi herd and the animals kicking thei: way to liberty, while Major Lillit (Pawnee Bil) and his aids were doing 6heir best to restrain the audience ii the main tent. To the co 'lness is dui fact that no one was seriously hurt though women had their hats ant gowns torn in the mad rush for the ex!sts. In the ring of the main tent troupe of Arabian acrobats were be ginning their performance when th+ storm broke. Suddenly two of thi guy ropes, shrunk by the rain, snap ped at either end of the great ova tent. The ridge poles bent and the main supporting poles swayed ant trembled. From the spectators went up a or: that the tent was about to fall. :" end did fail. Pawnee Bill caught a the supporting pole which threatener to drop on the heads of a group o w: n. The pole struck his shoulder dislocating it, but he had diverted it fall: Pawnee Bill stood with a mega phone, and in spite of the pain in hi injured shoulder called in stentorial tones: "All spectators came into the arena The tent will not fall, but you wil keep dry here." Many obeyed him, but hundreds o others fought their way to the exit and rushed into the drenching raii despite the assurances of the attend ants and of the police on duty. Thy reserves from the stations reached the tent when the stampede was fairl: under way and aided in extricatini the women and children. rMany reported the loss of purses ani jewels. RBags and bracelets were pick ed up by employes and sent to th police station. The horses from their collapset tent raced through the streets, bu Pawnee Bill's cowboys raced af te them and lassoed the animals on after another. No eff irt was made t bold an exhibition Taursday night Pawnee Bill said his loss would rese] $5,000. .________ Charged With ?heft. A dispatch from Cbarleston say three Southern railway baggag Smasters, Mallet, Browning and Pea cock, of the Charleaton-Columbia run have been dismissed from service oi account of theft. Search of thel homes in Charleston has netted th constables considerable quantity o the stolen goods and upon the con ffessions of the men, tie railroad au thorities have decidad not to prose cute them. One of the men has beet in the ser vice of the company for li years. The men have been suspecbe< for some time, but it was not until few days ago that the e tidence was deemed sumciently conclusive by thi detectives of the road to charge the men with the guilt. The matter wai brought to a focus by the repeatec claims for losses on the run bet weer Charleston and Columbia, which havy increased considerably recently. Thb railroad cfflials refuse to discuss the matter, except to admit that losse; have occurred and three men havi been dismissed. The reason givet for not prosecuting them is the recen failure of the juries to convict met who were charged with breach 0 trust. Tb.e Horse's F'oot. If the horse cannot readily use hi foot in a natural way, it is a grea hurt to his value. The Horseshoers Journal says tha t a large per cent. 0: all the horses are continually more 0: less lame. Of this number It is esti mated eighty per cent. are lame i the foot. How many horses retair the shape of the foot in colthood! Very few and for a very short time not losing this shape solely on acconn1 of shoe, but bcciuse the shoe Is ai improper one, usually, in fact, nearly always, too heavy, the use of the frog entirely destroyed; this consequently wasting, the sole pared and drying ui in consequence; the wall losing iti strength to carry the weight througt excessive rasping of the whole fabric of the horn becoming a dry, brittle atrophied mass, instead of being sup pie, firm at the heels, with perfect bars and an elastic frog, giving a springy motion to the leg mn the riding horses of so much value. These evils could always be remedied it we could only get all farriers sufficently inteli gent and humane to leave cif the old practice.__________ Make R~aia on Ice Wagon. Five hundred men, women and children took part Thursday In a riot in the E st Side of New York, dur ig which they made a raid on a wagon load of Ice intended for free distribution anong them and took every pound in the wagon. Police r a serves were nalled out, but when they arrived the ice and crowd had disap peared. Typhoid fever is "caught" nine times in ten either from flies or drink ing water. And the drinking water catches it not from the-lower regions, but from filthy premises-the germs of the diseases being swept In by the rains. The fly, likewise, fetches the disease germs from not distant filth. Now this Is not theory. It is a fact. It is not to be questioned. Being so, one can prevent fever. If you keep your premises clean and wholesome using lime freely--the flies and the losw illm have no germs to carry. i BODY OF POCAHONTAS Was Baried at Gravesend, Eng., and Later Burned. Wm. E Curtis, writing from Lon don to the Washington Star says: Speaking of distingui :hed Ameri cans, reminds me that there has been d active ingniry here of late concerning the whereabouts of the remains of the first American princess. Pocahontas was her maiden name, and she after- b wards became Mrs. John Rolfe. She g was the mother of a considerable pot- 2 tion of the present population of Vir ginia and also has several prominent 1 des'endants on this side of the water. including Licut. Gen. Baden. Powell, Inspector general of cavalry in the a British army. The present inquiry seems to have been inspired by the approaching celebration of the 300th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown, Va., and the Jamestown expo3ition. An association of women has apparently undertaken to recover the oust of "La Belle Sauvage," as she was called by admiring Europeans upon her first appearance in London, and rebury it in her native country, after the manner in which John Paul Jones has recently been honored. It will be very d-f ult and, indeed impossible to gratify their ambitious and commendable intentions, for the dust of Pccahontas was destroyed by fire nearly 200 years ago. Mr. Her~r S. Welleome, one of the leading Amer ican cit:zmns of London, who nas taken great interest in everything that relates to Pocahontas, presented her portrait to the senate of the Uni' - ed States several years ago, and Senator Daniel, who is descended from Pocahontas, accepted the gift in behalf of congress. Mr Welicome's investigations show ed that Mrs Jjhn RBlfe died in 1617, of smallp-x, at Gravese:d, at the mouth of the Thames, where she was waiting for a vessel to return to Vir ginia. She was buried in St. George's church, and the - register contains an entry of that fact. The cburch, how ever, was entirely destroyed by fire in 1720 and rebuilt in 1831. Daring the rebuilding theremains of several half burned coffil.is were removed from the vaults, They had no marks by which they could be identifed. It is believed that the remains of P-cahontas were among this nameless dust. THIhKs TILLMAN. CUTE Fair Visitor in Senate Gallery Thus I Expresses Her Opinion. An observant person in the senate gallery yesterday noted an occurrence which, while without bearing upon the matters of state which were un der consideration in that august body, is interesting for several reasons, one of which is the fact that Senator - Tillman unconsciously figured in the episode. Taree beautiful young ladies enter ed theigallery and seated themselves near the above mentioned person. 1 Two of them; judged by their con versation were frequent visitors to the galleries while the third was ap parently a visitor to Washington. She asked first of all that Senator Tillman be pointed out to her, and an expression of dIsappointment came into her face when she was told that he was not in the chamber. Several minutes were spent then In casual referercas to the "next best" Sen atar Tifiman being absent, and the next best was Senator La F'oliette. 1 rSandenly o e of the two were more1 oa less familiar with faces of the SSenators' exclaimed, "There is Till man right bey ond Bailey-see?" I mmediately the other two looked and saw the South Carolinian in a characteristic pos',.-wish his thumb Sin his vest, hair magnificently tous. Sled, and his one eye looking keenly at the presiding omeer. There was a moment of silent con templation on the part of the young lady who had never before seen the senator; then, in a tone wuich evi desced a desire to contradict what] had become a fixed impression with a bit of emphasis on the "I" which isi beyond the printer's art, sie said: "Why, I think he's cute," ALL SI'EL 00ACE. F'irst or ts Kind Ever Made in United States. The first all-steel passenger car for a railroad -ever made in the U~aited States passed through G:eenville over the Sorthern Einway Monday morning, the car fur the past two weeks having been on exhibtion at the master car builders at Washington Wednesday and equipped for active1 service says The Ntews. Tae new carns the first of three1 which are being made for the South ern Rad as an experiment. If these three prove successful, the entire road wi be equipped with the all-steel coaches ana other roads with less courage for experiments will quickly follow suit. The Paennsylvania off cials have recently bebome interested in the move of the Southern and they also have ordered an ?xperimental car, which will soon be in actual ser nice. If they prove practical, that road also will adopt them iminediate ly. The first steel car is considered a handsome airair by tehe railro'ad men who ha~ve seen it, and has created a stir of interest among the officials of the roads. it Is over 74 feet in lenth, 66 feet Inside length, 9 feet 1 inch wide and 14 feet 2 inches high. The entire car is made of compressed steel and what little wood is used Is fire proof. Many a wreck could have been pre vented if steel had been used inste'ad of wood. Such a thing as being crushed beneath the seat would be almost an impossibility. So, if the steel cars are adopted generally by the railroads as It seems probable a that they will be reduced to a mini- ti mum. The greatest disadvantage of t the new car Is Its excessive weiht. e: Expliosiun Kills Five. t As a result of an explosion in the ~ Dixon mine, at Huger, W. Va., in the east end of the Tug River field, at 8 ' o'ccck Thursday Wallace Mitchell ~ and four miners. Ernest Jones, Pal-E men Harris and R~bert Harris, broth- I ers, and John Gilmore are dead, and P Bill Crouse and Langdon Whitesides E will die from burns and shook. The men were going on duty for the night and had started down the shaft in a hl bucket. They had gone about half way down, when the explosion occur red. The first five men named werew blown out of the bucket and down tow he bottom of the shaft, where they f were later Dicked up. Their bedles were crushed almost to a pulp. The xploion was caused by the men hayv-g ng a gascline lamp In the buckeu, while descending, the light Igniting an accumulation of gas. It Is easier to laugh trouble away se an tocry1eaway. ze A .ISPXNSAaY TICKsT. 1 csaltot Senator Ti1iman'a Sp-ch at L: mar. A special to the Coumbia State iys the speech of Senator TiThrar slivered by him at Lamar Wednef d. the general top-c of conversation. It is c!aimed by many that the: ava never seen Tilmwan more ener etic and vigurcus. S:vjral remark d that "it is the same old Ben o: 12." Taere isno doubt but that he ?ade a great impression on the "wco] ats." "'Ihs old court house rig" i% be cry. Some people in Dariington nd other parts of the countr3 'rought out Mr. D. T. McKadthan or the State Senate and The Countl tessenger, in commenting on his can Id.e, mentioned his pl:tform and ,dvised the opponents of the Statt. Eispensary to form and advised the pponents for the house of represen atlives and it has been said that a late was made. It seems that Till nan was informed of the fact and ence he urged organization of those avoring the retention of the S.ate lispensary to join they n-uat be at ,ell organized as the ',antis" and nust work as energetically in order o defeat the "court oasse ring." It is reported that immediately at er the mesting a number of peop. net and discussed the situation and is a consequence it is likely that a ull dispensary ticket will be put in she field for the legislature. NEW X .M O TBEMBLES. )ne Eartbquake After another Passes Over Rio Grande Valley. A dispatch from Santa Fe., N. M., aye that two more earthquake shocks >ccurred at Socorro Wednesday morn ng. The shocks were felt distinctly is far south as E. Pao, Texas, where rPesday a streen car was thrown from the track by a shock Refugees fron ocorro and otner towns in 'the Ric xrande Valley are daily coming to Santa Fd and Albcquerques. All Wednesday nighs one tremor ifter another passed over the lower &io Grande Valley, keeping the peo ple at the highest tension. But few people have slept in houses for the past few nights. Ooservers reported in spirals of smoke in the lava fields n the direction of Alama Girda, probably from hot springs or other rolcani manifestations. A drench ng rain passed over the v .lley during he night, adding to the discomfori >f campers. Brain Leaks. Envy is the tribute small minds pay to success. Is is better to ride a hobby than so sit by the roadside and grumble. Uhildren may go the way you point, but they are more apt to go he way you lead. When a man begins hunting for an axcuse for a mean action he can gen :rally find it. Some men let troble drive them to rink, but there are more men who sat trouble to it. There is something wrong about a >oy that does not take kindly to pow ler burns and noIs3 on the Fourth >f July. There Is something good in even she worst of us. The packing house roprietors have not yet put canned erman carp on the market. - This is about the time of year when the ambitious college graduate ~lcovers that his diploma does not pn jidice the prospective employer iganst him. This Is the season of year when she weary professional man 'goes to i northern fishing resort for a change snd rest. After disposing of all his hange he comes home to rest. All the world's a stage, and the press agents earn their money. You can not down a man who ises his failures for building stones. Yesterday was a failure if you can sot recall it with pleasure today. The easiest wuaj out somtimes pro rides the shortest way In again. A lot of men have lost character by itrivng to build up reputation, You can not estimate the good a iurch is doing by the height of its spire. God mesures the gift by the heart >f the giver, and not by the size of se gift. We are too apt to think about the rirtues of our friends and talk about Jer faults. The man who spends all of his time >oasting of his ancestry is not giving ls posterity an equal show.. If the women ever strike for eight uours a whole lot of men will go to orking overtime without pay. Don't make the mistake of think og the opportunity knocks but once. )pportunity knocks every day. Methodism in J:pan. A commission representing the ietodist Episcopal Church, the ethodist church of Canada and the lethodist EpIscopal Church, nani acsly adopted a resolution that mis. on stations In Japan which have eretore been supported by the bree seperate churches, be consolida d, the union to be in effect in May, 907, at a general conference to be eld In Japan. The church will be nown as the Methodist church of apan. A superintendent to serve >r eight years will be appointed at Ire conference In Japan next year. Lmong the members of the comnis on was Bishop Galloway, from the outhern church. Onr Enormons Trade. A statement Issued by the Depart ent of Commerce and Labor-says dat the foreign commerce of the rnited States in the fiscal year just aded aggregated *2.970,000.000. If a trade with Porto Rico and Ha all, which was included in our reign commerce prior to their an- 1 exation were added, the total would laterally exceed 33,000,000,000. oth imports and exports exceed ose of any earlier year, total 11m rts being 81,226,000,000 and ex. rts *1,744,000,000. Salt For Poultry. Salt is as essential for poultry as for amans or animals, but it Is notc le to fet d It by itself. ~The better t asy s to use it to season the food benever that can be done. The rm mash in the winter, whether d morning or night, gives one an portunity to supply several condi nts which could not be so readily d en to the fowls in any other way. f Many that shout Hallelula on the t ltops do It more to praise them- I les than to help the lonesome citi- a nsin thevuaeyseliw The Administration is protecting ,be de .facto gov. rnment of Santo )omingo from revolutionists by send ng a warship to every port in the >lack republic where there is a custom iouse and an American collector in ;tall' d. The activity of the revolu ionists is urged on-by the fact that here is $1-;300,000 on deposit ii. New York, being the sharp of the customs ;ollections to apply to the payment of .he debts of Santo Domingo. The re usal of the Senate to ratify the treaty which President Roosevelt made with santo Domin.o, to carry out the "big stick" policy, would allow the with Irawal of the money by the Island ;overnment. By the failure of the treaty to be ratified, it is equally not binding on either country and if the Santo Domingo government wished to change the policy of debt paying the United States cannot prevent it. With that large sum virtually hung up as a purse for the winners, it is no wonder that every revolutionary gen eral is rallying his forces to seize the government and divide the plunder. The Administration has a modus vivendi with the de facto government to carry out the principal object of the treaty, which is to use, part of the money collected from customs duties for the payment of the debts of the island republic, but if the present government is overthrown, the suc cessful revolutionists could ignore the arrangement and demand. the prize. So the people of the United States are paying for warships to be used as po liceman to protect Santo Domingo against her own people and ,o help foreign governments collect their debts from those unruly debtors. The "big stick" policy has its embarrass ments, its moments of victory and de feats, and this Santo Domingo exper iment is -but he Opera Bouffe of it, which may be followed by much more serious results when Venezuela and some of the other republics are - tack led by their foreign creditors and President Roosevelt undertakes to settle the matter. So far his interfer ence has had but little good effect and the statesmen of his party do not seem to endorse this new idea of the object of the Monroe Doctrine. Named Judas 'scosiot. An exchange has the following gocd story. "A speaker at one of the sessiors of the Philadelphia Methodist confer ence tells this story, 'which he lsas was relattd to him by Bishop Hart yell: "The bishop while on a southern tour met a darkey who was the father of sixteen children, the - oungest ' f whom was scircely out of arms, and on asking him what the ycungest'snare was rtcilved this reply 'Judus -'Scar lot, sah.' 'You don't mean to tell me that that Is really hip baptismal name do you?' asked the bishop. 'Indeed I do, sah; ain't dat a scriptural name?' Yes, but do you know who Judas- I cariot wat?' 'Course I does, sab; but doan de Ecripture say it would -have been better for Judas 'Scar!ot if he had never been borned?" 'Yes, but what has that to do with ths poorlit tie chap?' 'Dat's jest It, .sah; dat's jest it; it would have been better for this poor litt-le chap if he had never been borned, and dat's why we calls him Judas 'Scariot.' " Snieaked Through. At last, by grace of the fifty-ninth congress, which made such "a' great record," the natioal City Bank of :New Kork, a Standard Oil institution - receives $130,000 for rental of the old Customs House property. This ap pro'priation was carefully concealed in the general deficiency bill and its presence there was a secret guarded with the utmost effort by the commit tee on appropriations. The bank is withholding from the government$50 000 of the purchase price of the prop erty in order that the deed and title may remain with the government and the bank thereby evade payment of taxes to the state and city of N~ew * York. The pendency of this steal has. been a national scandal for many years. It remained for the .congress. with "a great record," which so arous ed the admiration of Roosevelt, to do* that which its not over-virtuous pre decessors avoided as a disgrace too great. Thoroughness. -. - It pays to do everything that you do just as good as you can do it. Whatever you make, make it as god or a little better than any one else can make. After it is made, .prepare it formarket in the most neat and at tractive style, giving attention to every detail, putting nothi -e in that s not first- class. I have known par bies to injure a whole community by placing on the market damaged f nit er vegetables not fit to eat. -When a person buys fruit or vetables of such :uaity, or so damaged as to be u2. wholesome, they are apt-to cease buy ing that variety of truck for a whille, but as long as a person gets~ notnaing but what is first-class they are apt to buy. So strive to supply the mar tet with the best of everything, and get it before the consumer in first 31a88 condition, using that whicu is iferior on the farm for stock focd. Editors Haied to Court. Editor in- Chief Hamilton, General Kanager Schaefer, night E iltor Burke, Sunday E litor Miner and AI ertising Manager Gillam, of The tew York Herald, for whom war ants were issued at the r:q rest of 21e Federal authorities charging them with violating the postal laws in hay ng depcsited in the malls copies'of. iheir publication containg "pssoa sis" alleged to be obscene, Tnuriday lurrender, d to the Uited S ates narshal, wavied preliminary examia ion before the Urited States com nissioner and were paroled to answer in Oftober 10 any charges the grand ury may find. Justice At Last. The Supreme Court of France has nulled the corndemnation of Dreyfus ithout a re-trial. The eff.ca of the ecision is th e compete vindication if Dreyfus, entitling him to restora ion to his rank In the French army a though he had never been accus d. Lightning S.rites at Union. During an electrical storm Weines ay night lightning struck the wire com the power house at Neal's Shoals, rulon, S. C., opening the circuit at rion and Buff lo Mills and Power 'lant. Work at Buffalo stopped about n hour, and at Unien iabout fiva