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A RARE SIGIT From the Deck of a Steam Ship in Mid Ocean. SAW AN ISLAND BORN. The Officers and Men of the United States Stfamer Albatross Sud denly Behold a Red Hot Moun. tain Rise Out of the Ocean. Lieutenant Hepburn, of the United States Navy, navigating cffler of the United States steamship Albatrose, has j-ast had the extraordinary ex perierce of witnessirg the birh of a new is:and, says the New York Amer The Albatross, which is constantlY employed-in making diecove'ies in the deep seas, was cruising off the Aleu tian Islands, which stretch out west ward from Alaskajorming the dlvaion between Behring Sea and the PACO^ Ocean. She was in latitude 33 5v north and longitutde 168 west wben the astounding phenomenon cecurrd. This spot lies - bout fift-y mile north west of UBaieska Island and near the Bcgusiay I lands, which are of vol caniO Crigin. L'cutentut He;turn was on deck shortly after sunrise, when his atec. tio was attracted by an exraordi nary dIsturbance of the waters. The mutace of tl.a ocean at a particuk: spot rose into a dmelike swelling a large as the dome of the Capitoi at WashingtoA, then subsided and the, rose aain. Before each subsidence there was a tremendous escaps of gas, like a huge bubble pushing- its way through the water. Then the dom-e-like formation csased, and new and more ternfic disturbances riveted the attention of the astounded watcher. Great clouds of smoke and steam issued from the surface, where the bumps had been. As he watched, tce eruption rapidly grew in immensity until It seezxe! as if it wculd invoivi the whole of the ccesn acd th-e sky. Tcie ccein bciled up as if It were lying In an immoasursble furnace. A vast column of steam, smoke, fire, rocks and other materials shot from the ocean up into the sky so high that the top of it could not be dis oerned. . The column was probably three miles in width. It was an in describably terrifying spectacle. All the cificers and men of the Albatross came tumbling on deck to see it. Within the /.smcke and other material could be discerned a vast column of fame which rcse up into the sky with a rcaring noise. Huge boulders shot up in the flames with a report louder than th at of all the 12-inch gun~s on the biggest battle ship firing at etu cc. The t-eat sacrohed those on the Albatross and must havw been perceptible for fifty mllet around. Thae entire ocean was heat Sd. , The column of smoke and fire charged in color. It was red, yellow, blu, and dark brown by turns. The molten matter thrown up Into the sky came down again in a partiallr cooled condition and fell Into the ocean with a continuous s'zzfing and a migh y splashing, sending forth constantly concentric hot waves of water which rocked the Albatross violently. Ashes were scattered by the fiery pillar and fell on the ocean for miles arcund. Dzubtless the( were being ca3 ried round the world, as haa been happened in other vol canic eruptons. The spectacle which Lieutenant Hepburn and the cre.w of the Alba tross were witnessing was the eruip tion of a submarine volcano. Some where beneath the ocean bed an im mense mass of burning matter had gathered such force that its expan sion was great enough to bust through the crust of the earth even wheni weighted down by. the ocean above it. When the fiery mass met the ocean the water was immediately convmred Into steam. Thus there was formed a column of burning earth and ex plosive gases leading from the ocean bed away up past the surface int.o the sky. It was an infinitely more terrible eruption on account of the mixture of water than would have occurred from a volcano whose crater was exposed to the upper air. After an hour or so the watchers saw a dark brow'n solid mass of irre gular shape forming upon the water at the base of the fiery columag. That was the birth of the Iilad. The lava and burning earyth had compe*e ly filled up the ocean from its bed hundreds of fathoms down, to the surface, end'wa now rising above the surface. Higher and highar it mount ed, while flame, smoke and molten matter continually belched forth from its centre, which was a volcanic crater. The matter flowed out on all sides and gradually increased the size of the island. The sumimit of the maleano appeared to be climbing - up Into the sky. In has since besn estimated to have reached a height ot 1,000 feet. To the great disappointment of many of the cffcsrs and crew of the Albatross, the captain decided that it was impossible to attempt to land on the new-born Island or to go any nearer to It. Hi. knew from his study of the sur-ject that the Islard wou.d be in suon a beated condition tna.t it i uAd uean d ath to land on it, -and that even to approseh nearer to( it would be to risk the fate of many ships that had been overwhelm ed in the Mont Pelee eruption. The Albatross, therefore, sailed away while the eruption was raging furious ly. Later the United States revenue cutter Perry paed the island and a party of offikers and men from her landed upon it. They gave it tus name of Perry Island and hoisted ths American fing upon It. Tney found the surface of tce island almost un bearably hot to walk upon, anid their shoes were ruined by the exnaditicn. but in spi'e of the ducomafort and tarnger th-e.1 ezpierd it thorcugtiv. W: en cne of t::n m thrust a theormi- me, ter into a erevice in the ground Lnr mercury ezpar.ded so rapidly that i smasbed the instrument to pieces. Tne volcano was still in violent erup tiion.I Two other islands of recent volcauie I origin lie near Perry Lland. One a came into existence about a century ki * ago, when A'lska belonged to Russia. el and was named Bogu.elav biard ?r Twenty-four years ago a new 1sland, T a mileand baot awaywaso erupterd ti 'rom the ocean and received the ne.me of New S- gualav. A narrow ridge, of ro-k rected the two. Old Boguslav Island had a high peak at %ne tme, but It now rises only 250 foot atove the sea and is being rapid ly washed away. In the compvrative lV short period of its existence it bas cecome very thickly populated. Mil lions of.sea birds gathor on its rocks. and many sea lions lead a happy azd contented life upon its shores. A number of polar bears also reside there B-t will be extremely interesting to naturalists and others to watch the development of life from the begin ning on our new possession-Perry 131and. Will land r-atlas come into existerce there, and, If so, how will they g:t there unless taksn by man? If the island is at al capable of sup porAtg life it Is ortain that insects and- reptiles will soon be found there, ar.d h tha. can happen is a-puzzl ing p'oblemn. Islards of volcanic oMigin are usual ly 1xtrmcely fertile when there is any water supply to moist, n t bem. Noth i7g could excsed the fert.iy of Mar tix ique end the other islands of the West Indiies that were created by vol anric activity. How dengeic.us they are a3 dwelling plaes for a large hu an population has been proven by recent disasters in Martinqui and St. Vincent. A large proportion of all the islands that lie t ut in the ccean are volcanic fornasiceni, but most of thew came into existence in prehistoric tizae3. A considerable number, haver, have b'ze- created in recent cimes. Falcon Islard added itself to the Tonga group ,n 1885, tut only kept its surface . b-ove the water long enough toacquire I little vegetaticu in spotz, and sever al years ago it sank again into the deep. Mach tumult of the sea and great ;l ufs of ash ard at .am cbn-unced tbe birth of a new island in 1904 nuar t1ae Volcano Group in the Pacific. It was nearly three miles in cirermfer ence; its hghest point w& 48) feet above the sea and the Japanese proud ly raised their flag over it and named the new territory Nit Shims; but it has melted away like sugar in a tea cup, and at last accounts it was a menace to shipping, no part of it ris Ing more than a few feet above sa level. Incomes and Wages. The Democratic party relies onk the common sense or the people to vote for their own-interests, instead of re taining In power those who are the friends of the trusts and corporations. The fact that in spite of a great meas ure of prosperity for the fethe many are compeled to practice lose eco:.om. and deny themselyes many comfo!m doesnot requre to be told to the farmr the storekeepers, the clerks the wnge earners, as they are well aware of it. The Republican system of fostering monopoly, by giving special privileges and tariff protection, is the reason for this inequality in the distribution of the large profits of production. Why has the RIspublicin party de cided to continue to standpat and persist in allowing the trusts to in crease the cost of living, so tns;t now it is 45 per cent hIgher than before the present tarff law was enacted and 13 seadily advanoi g ? It cannot be to help the people, for unless incomes and salaries keep waoe with this In cred outgo, there is yirtually a re duotion of incom~s and wages which must be followed by privation, or at all events by .ack of savings for sicknes' or old age. Rsvision of the tariff would compel the trusts to reduce the price of their prodacts and -the result ing decreased cost of living, would vir tually be an Increase in income or wages, but this the Republican lead era declare they will not do and the natural presun-ption is that their p> litical fortunes are bound up with trutt supremacy. If your income or wages has not been increased 45 per cent, you are not as wellcff now as in 1897 when the tariff rates were increased at the dictation cf the trusts. For every collar you recsived then, ycu must be getting one dollar and forty-five cents now to be even. So the man whose income was 860 a month12a 1896 must be receiving 887 a month now to live iqually well. It does not re q2re sta tiatics to prove the advantase, or dis advantage, of the Republican system of protecting the trusts, for everyvoter hass the facts In his own possession frc m knowing how much he formerly receiv e-i and expended and what he is now receiving and how much more it now costs him to -live. A vote for the Ee publican candidate for Congress is to continue the protection to the brusts and fo- continued high prices, and a vote for the Democratic candidate for Congress is to so revise the ta~rif that the fear of c.mpetition will compel she trusts to reduce their enormous profits. .Honest: (onteEsion. At a recent banquets at Salem Mass., Congressman Augustus P. Gard ner, who is a son-in-law of Senator Lodge, made some most remnarkab'e admissions for a Republican. Accord ing to the Salem News, Gardener touched on the past in his speech, and refered to the past and the f a ture of Salem as being wrapped up In her shipping, when her merchant prindes sent cargoes of toys-and fire arms which wouldn't go if f.0 tus be nighted hesthen in f Treiga larnda, and brought becr their ships heavily lad en with the rich products ct-the eset Including "ivery and lving black wool beneath the hasches." At this remark, the News says Mijor Spencer who was sitting near Mr. Gardner said sotto voce; "Look out you're treading on dangerous grcd," to which Mr. Gardner repied, "It's my own family history, M.-j r, and tbe< products have helped to pay my cam paign expenses," which 5sally eccas sloned some amusement. Ii is re .marki~ble that a man who has iifia-e encs enough to get to Congress should boast of the knavery whereby alis Yankee ancostry accumula:ed soi nueni dishcnest wealth, or jok<ed ~but his own family's great posses- g ions being derived from the saive i ~rade. Not withs anding Mr. Garc-1 'ers admits that he pays his cam-r ~aign expense frcm the mnoney his >ious ancestors made while dealing n human f sao, no doubt he pretncd: o be a great friend to the decoend-1 uts of the black people his fore ter stote and~ brought over to tus j onary and sheds capious crcc~r;e ars over the oppression to whien iey are subjected in the South. IN a spec ' at Terre Haute, Inc'., t: ae week Bry an said: "I am here in 1diana not as a candidate for cfflke, r I Lave insisted it is too early to p 3ow who ought to be nominated by I ' ther perty. But I am hers in the I-C terest of Lho e who tr catdid ares. rfr ls year we have to lay the founda- Ia ons for the next two year's ...--2' THE CROP IS fH-RFI And Cotton Should Bring at Least Twelve Cents. Cotton went up again on Monday, and sold in Augusta for 11 1-4 cents, and the Chronicle says it. is believed by. some of the dealers that there will be but little more cotton sold soon that will bring tess than that figure. The price of cotton goods is also ris ing very probably on aczount of the short cotton crop. The following from the New York Commercial on the advance in cotton goods will show that there is something in the report that the cotton crop is short: In the primary market It is stated that buyers are now takiprg goods with less reluctance than was the case earlier in the week. They real :za how short supplies are in first hands and believe they are safe in tak ing stock at present valuations. Many buyers hava tried to conceal the ur gency of their needs, in hope of get Oing some concession granted them. Bau this has ceased to bB their policy &,d they openly admit they want goods and are willing to pay sellers .heir price. For spot delivery, the cutting-up of trade has been forced to accept special constructions in lower count clotbs than they are accustomed to use. These specials have brought value far above their proportionate Torth. D*scu3sing the question o delivery, selling agents state that the labor scarcity in the south is acting, as a serious impediment to the filling of orders. The high catton in spin ning grades is acting as a check to New Esgland mills, so that both east and south productioi is being retard ed. This operates strongly in keep Irg values on cotton goods regular throughout the market. Jobbers are doirga steady business in all departments, as the store trad; and sales made by road men show no diminution on account of prices. In fact, goods as cffered by jobbers, are comparatively cheap. In the woolen 5iv'slon of the crixary market it is stated that values on the 1906 heavy weights that are being callea for on late reorders are regular, and that suitings and overcoatings in staple grades are in quite active demand. AGREES WITH TLXAN. Rev. Washington GWadden Discusses the Race Problem. Before the American Missionary Aiociation at -Oerliln, 02o, Rv. Washington Gladden of Ohio discuss ed the Ameriban Missionary Associa ton and the problems of emancipa ton. saying in psrt: "The legancy left as by emancipa tion is .,zre of negro- raze in United States. I is uational problem. Bar den of this obligation rests on the whole nation, as many of the wisest southern men ensist. T-e problem also confronts us, involves principles on which our nation is founded._..It is well stated in the words of Carl Sohurz. _There will be a movement either in the direction of reducing the negro to a permanent condition of s.'rtdom, the condition of a mere plan tation hand-pract~calty witnout any rights of citizonship or a mcvement in the direction of recogaizmng him as a citizen in the full sense of the "Such a movement as that In the first alternative is n;;w in full prog ross. In the Southi conditions are rap idly becoming mare unfavorable to the negro. The manifesto of Gover nor Vardaman which some time will os endorsed by the people of the state and the recent campaign In Georgia, in welch the candidate most unequiv ocally favoring repression of the negro was over whelmingly elected, show the drift of opinion In that section." Continuing he said: "Senator Tll man's prediction that race struggles of a very bitter nature are likely to be frequant and continuous in the future is not without probability. I can see no other outcome of a strife of this nature than segregation of the races." He favored creating three or four states In South composed wholly of negroes governing themselves and rep rr-sented in congress at Washington. The b'soks, he says, would sdifbr by being thrown on their own resources In their poverty and It would take them Eeveral generations to work cut problem of civillzstion. To the whitee the prosperity In which they are now j icing would suffbr a severe and per naps deadly b'o-'v. The Le-mon (Unre. A writer in American Motherhood says every morning take a pint of hot water, squeeza Into It the jaice of one lemon and sesson with a half tea spoon of salt. Drink slowly half an hour before breakfast for two weeks; keep this up for three months, e iery alternate two wreeks and it willi clear the complkxion, clean a corded congue, tore up the stomach and acot direily upon a torpid liver without injuring the health, as the use of strong casbh artics or quantities of "liver medi clnes" do. * DAnGAN,. the negro who was hung on ra& Friday at B-.nnettsvyme for as sauling a white lady, said while sanding under the gallows. "If I had listensti to my wife that Sunday and gone hon a with her, ta she told me, I would nlot have been here at this moment. Insteam of doIng as ,lhe told me, I went out and drank whiskey with otar~s, and got into thie Erruble." As Marlboro County 15 a so :all al rock-ribbed prohibition county ne.rb diid Dargan get the whiskey on unday that miade him commit such L hienous crime? TEDDY made a speech at the dedi a5%,r the new statehouse at Har 'burg, Ps., the other day. But he orgot to pre'scn about a square deal, he simple lii' clean poli:.ics, re f rm, to., whIch are his usaal thenes. n~ere was sucht an odor of graft about he building and its furnishmgs, and :e wrs so "de-lited" witth it, that e jast couldn't preach. He j ost raised the whole nasty bus'ness, ouse, furniture, grafters, and all. f 'eddy Is a bocn companion of Pen- a I Tnz chandeliers In the new Cap ital C utl 2 at E.rrishurg, Pa., cos~t $2, 8.217.03. Those who bought tnem mr~zc authority of law, are all ad. Ocai~tes o the simple life, decent gcy rmnt a isquaru deu and general .x sevaltian ?:o1u? picas. R casvelt as put his 0. K. on the job. But erry, the D.:mocratic treasurer of s commonwr-alth, is kikng "Is the democrat party dying?" ' tc atively queries the New York f orld in the samne Issue wherein It t ~oms' Grov.er Cleveland for- senator om Nsw Jersey. The World seems . ifully anicus to furnish the affir- h t+v.ansmwe to It qnery: th NEW YORK'S READING R~ECORD. Heads the List In Number of Books Drawn-From Libraries Per Capita. The observation of some visitors to New York that "everybody is on the move" here doesn't it with the fact that New Yorker are the greatest readers of books from libraries in the country, as the reoords of these li braries show, says the New York Tribu.,. Last year there were 6,318, 000 books taken from public libraries in New York for perusal at home 6,318,000 in a city of 4,000,000 inhabi tants. Chicago last year used 1,800,000 bodks from Its three public libraries, and Philadelphia 1,700,000 from its one public library. Chicago has half a million more population than Phila delphia, and the library standard of Philadelphia Is therefore very much higher than that of the city on Lake Michigan. St. Louis Is a largir city by 25,000 than Boston, but .here Jlast year 1,000,000- books were drawn from the public library of St. Louis for perusal, the number taken from the public 11 brary at Boston was 1,500,000. A city which ranks high in respect to the number of books read by its .people Is Buffalo, in which last year 1,250,000 volumes were drawn from the public library for perusal, while Baltimore and Cleveland, larger cities, had a smaler number-Baltimore 750,000 and Cleveland 1,000,000. The hiiixy Sea. Of the many sights witnessed in the ocean of the globe, one of the most curious and most weird Is that de scribed by sailors as "the milky sea," ships being .surrounded for several hours by water that appears to be of snowy whiteness. Compiled from ex periences recorded during the last seventy years, an interesting account of the phenomenon is given on the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Pilot Chart, published by the Meteor ological 'office. The spectacle is re stricted to the darkness of the night and rare occasions, and while it is limited mainly to the warmer waters of the tropical belt, it appears to be more common in the Indian ocean than in the Atlantic and Pacific. From the white water the light Is so strong that ordinary newspaper print can be read on' board ship, but the scene all around is of an awe-inspiring descrip tion.- The horizon Is blotted out, sea and sky seem to become one in a sort of universal luminous fog, which, like a London fog, robs the observer of the sense of distance and direction, the deck being lit up with a ghastly, shadowless light. Last June, off the west coast of South America, a bucket of the white water emptied back into the sea resembled molten lead. This curious sight has interested scientific investigators, but, while it is, no doubt, related to the many phosphor escent displays common at sea, there is no sufficient explanation forthcom ing of this particular manifestation or of the singular atmospheric effects resulting from It. Bankrupts In Livery. At one time in England and Scot land bankrupts were compelled to wear a distinctive dress. This was a result of enactments passed at various times in Scotland from the year 1606 to 1688. The Edinburgh court of ses sions specified the _dress to be of partl color, one half yellow and the other brown, something after the style of the dress now worn in English pris ons by the worst class of prisoners, those who have attempted to escape or been guilty of murderous assaults on officers. The enactment also pro vided that the bankrupt should be ex hibited publicly in the market place of his town for a period of two hours and then sent away, condemned to wear me dress until such time as he had paid his debts or some one else had done It for him, Although this was a period of laws wich. can only be ascribed as feroci ous, this law was such an outrage on public sentiment that In 1688 it was so far repealed that the wearing of the dress was only compulsory in cases in which fraud had been proved or, curiously enough, if the bankrupt had been c9nvicted of smuggling. The same practice was legal, but not gen erally in force in England down to the year 1836. The idea was, of course, to warn persons who might have given credit that the bankrupt was not able to pay, but popular senti ment soon recognized that it was wholly unfair to Impose such exces sive penalties on a man who might have become bankrupt through no fault of his own. Curiosity Saves Two Lives. The habit of a postoffice official of entertaining himself by reading post cards that pass through his hands led to the saving of two lives in Huttel dorf, a suburb of Vienna, recently. The postman in this case read a card which stated that the two writers were about to commit suicide in a neighboring wood. It was apparently addressed to. the parents of one of them. The postman informed the police, who went to the spot named and found a young man and a girl lying unconscious with severe bullet wounds in their heads. A revolver lay beside them. They were at once taken to a hos pital, and are now expected to recov er. Disappointed love was the reason of their resolution to die together. Governor Higgins and W .R. Hearst 2ave been conducting anti-vice cru ades in New Yyrk and police trans ers are expected to be one result. Edward!E. Nicholas is said to have onfessed to killing the actress, Mrs. d argaret Leslie in Chicago. Rev. Richard B. Dilworth of Ox ord, Pa.. disappeared after an alleged1 ssault on him by negroes and the esidents are wrought up over the ase. A proposed act to restrict divorce res reported by the resolution comn tittee of the divorce congress. Editors catch it coming and going. c asses have been abolised, and now 0 ere has been an advance in 2e price of shoes The newspapers are making a great ~ 40 over a girl who offered herself r sal* to the highest bidr'er. Is S tre anyh~ing so strange in that? The presidIent acted wisely in issuing! d s Thanksgjiving proclamation before.r e Nem y0*rk electin, TRACING AN ERRING LETTER French Postal Officitis Require Time For Such an Undertaking. A young English woman visiting in Paris received a note from a friend saying that tickets had been sent by an earlier post for a concert to take place that afternoon, but by error a wrong street number was written on the envelope. This, said her corres pondent, might make a delay in the arrival of the letter, and it would be well to make Inquiries at once at the post of the nearest division. Arriving at the post office of our quarter I made known my errand to three gentlemen in successien. The last young gentleman took ont a long paper and demanded peremptorily my name, age, address and birthplace. He was proceeding to that of my father and mother when I suggested that all, this Information, although doubtless of thrilling interest to the post office, could scarcely assist in restoring my lost letter, which contained tickets I must positively have before 1 o'clock that day. "Ha, it is then a letter lost!" he cried, as though suddenly illuminat ed. "Well, misdirected, as I have al ready explained to three persons here." "But it is not here where one brings the letters which find themselves bad ly directed. Those letters are united in another department of the great post. This document here," he point ed to my biography, "the chief of my department will despatch to the great post. One will make a communication to you as soon as traces of the letter are discovered." It was half past 11 when I reached the great post, and I was sent to nve different departments before arriving at the one for misdirected letters. Feeling both snubbed and Ill -used, I inquired whether before we proceeded to fill in more forms this monster would kindly tell me whether there was the i'emotest chance of recovering the letter that .day before 2 o'clock. "Today! This day itself!" he cried, in shrill indignatibn. "Parbleau, but you imagine to yourself, then, ma dam, that the post conducts Itself like an automobile!" "I hoped that since my letter is here-actually here in this department -that one.could place the hand on it in the course of two hours. In Eng lan'd," I continued, with a fine out burst of patriotism, "we have such a perfect organized system that I should have the letter I required In ten min utes." "Remind yourself that England Is, .after all, but an island. Here we are in France"-he threw back his head proudly-"dnd here things march not so quickly. It will, perhaps be fif teen days before your case comes up. Each must/proceed in turn." "Then it is useless to go into the matter," I answered, and in deep de pression turned away. Eccentricities of Author, Many qualities which would be re garded as censurable if possessed by ordinary men and women are often regarded with a respect that Is tinc tured with admhation when they are possessed by persons of genius. There is scarcely an author or mu sician of note who has not been dis tinguished by some foible that has excited the amusement of his friends. In many instances these foibles afford an index to the character of their vic tim. Some are natural, while otbers would seem to be the result of some inexplicable affectation.- Viewed in any light, however, all are* interesting. Keats liked red pepper on his toast. Sardou imagines he haa-a perpetual cold. Dickens was fond of wearing flashy jewelry. Joaquin Miller nailed all his chairs to the walL. Ernest Renan wore his finger nails abnormally long. Walter Savage Landor threw, the dishes around to relieve his mind. Edgar Allen Poe slept with'his cat. He was inordinately'proud ot his feet. Daudet wore his eye-glasses when asleep. He did his best work when hungry. Victor Hugo spoke little; his re marks usually were made in the form of questions. Thackeray used to lift his nat when ever he passed the house in which he wrote Vanity Fair. Thomas Wentworth Higginson pos sesses a singular power over wild birds, and can easily tame them. Alexander Dumas, the younger, bought a new painting every time be had a new book published. Edmund Clarence Stedman has his favorite cat sit in a high' chair at the table every day at dinner. Robert L.ouis Stevenson's favorite recreation was playing the flute. In order, as he said, to tune up his ideas.' Robert Browning could not sit 'stilL.I With the constant shuffling of his feet boles were worn in the carpet. Longfellow enjoyed walking only at sunrise or sunset, and he said his sub limest moods came upon him at these times. Washington Irving never mentioned the name of his fiancee after her death. and if anybody else did so, he Imnmediately left the room. Envious. A.--That bewitching siren has cost me all my fortune. B-And me my uderstanding. A-You always get off easily. WAR with .Japan is said to be re garded in oilicial circles as a r ossibili ty of the not too distant future. Govcrnor Magoon has scored a hit in Cuba by receiving the resignations )f two unpopular moderate ollicebold-! trs _______I BANDmTs held the inhabitants of a iorth Dakota town at bay while they lew open the safe and carried off $4 00. c J. R. Shannon, who was for a num >er of years engaged in the printing >usiness in Greenv:lle, died in Texas. The turn~stiles at the state fair il rounds indicated that the attendance e n the second day was more than 8, 0. The international congress for the tj uippression of the "white slave" tl tade convened in Paris, the United Ic Lates being repr sented. A woman injured in an auto acci- m ent sent $5,000 to the hospital, which' b] ~spected her request for a conceal-* er ent of her identity. re SLAUGHTER BY ROAD AGENTS. Mysterious Disappearance of Miners In Early Days of Montana. The discovery up I* the Ua of 1863 of no less than U0 bedies et victims of the road agents bad Anally aroused the feelIngs of the law abiding citi Bens to a pitch of frenzy. They felt that the Mysterica disappearance of many ethur ma whom they had known was to be Usced to the b=a dits. Scores e minrs who set out with large sums of money for various places had never been heard of and had never reached their destinations. Murders occurred daily, almost hour ly. Had there beer 'hs most perfect system of legal procedure time would not have permitted of the orderly trial of offenders, so frequent were the crimes. Alder Gulch continued to disgorge its treasure In a steady stream, and the very excess of its bounty excited the most selfish pas sions of men. The heart of a man possessed with the thirst for gold is like the country where gold is pro duced-it Is wild and barren, and the flowers wither. It must not be supposed that during these long months of sickening dread and doubt attempts had not been made to organize justice. Rude courts were established and the guilt or in nocence of offenders submitted to regularly chosen juries, but the swag gering outlaws would boldly force their way through the lines of specta tors and into the preseiice of the qualified twelve . men, announcing their determination to avenge upon evcry one connected with the case, any outcome other than acquittal. iWitnesses and jurors under these circumstances were afraid for their lives, and justice had miscarried un til the outlaws, seeing the blanch of fear everywhere, were supreme. In the early stages of this reign of terror some of the road agents had been tried, found guilty and condemned to death by unanimous vote, but between conviction and punishment motions to reconsider had Intervened, and the vacillating mob, through fear or re lenting doubt, had revoked the action' of the previous hour. World's. Largest Station. The South Terminal in Boston not only Is the largest. station In the world but sends out daily more than 400 trains, nearly twice the number dis patched from the Grand Centr'a sta tion 'by the three roads starting from there. The next largest number sent from any station in this country is about 350 from the Boston and Maine terminal in Boston, and the next about 325 from the BroaO, Strest sta, tion, Philadelphia. . Then come the Grand Central station, New York, and the Reading terminal, Philadelphia. But these figures do not equal those of the great London terminal. There one station sends 700 trains dady, the greatest numb'er from any one station In the world, and. all of the twelve great terminals send ont large numbers of trains. Including all suburban trains, and figuring on a mean average of winter and summer, the regular scheduled trains leave the four great centers In the following numbers daily, the Ag ures being for all roads and approxi mately correct: New York city, 1,400; Boston, 1,000; Philadelphia, 850; Chi cago, 850.: :To other America city has 400. . Keen Sight of Birds of Pdey. The sharp-eyed hawk can spy a lark upon a piece of earth almost ox actiy the same color at .twenty times the distance it is perceptible to man or dog. A kite soaring out of human sight can still distinguish and pounce upon lizards and field mice upon the ground, and the distance at which vultures and eagles can sight their prey ia almost incredible, Recent discoveries have inclined naturalists to the belief that birds of prey have not the acute sense of smel or of hearing that has hitherto been accredited to them. Their keen sight seems better to account for their ao tion, and they appear to be guided by sight alone, as they never sniff at anything, but dart straight at the ob ject of their desire. Their counterparts in the ocean doubtless smell and see, but are more guarded by smell than sight In both sharks and rays the eyes are good and have a distinct expression, though since they scent their prey from a short distance and swim up to It with greatest rapidity, smell may be called their real eye. The Baby Beetle's Cradle. If, at almost any time of the year, we walk through the woods where the red, scarlet, black or pin oaks are growing-that Is, where, we find those that ripen their acorns In two seasons and therefore belong in the pin tak group, says St. Nicholas. we shall probably find on the ground fallen branches that vary in size from that of a lead pencil to that of one's thumb or even larger. These at the broken end appear as If cut away within the vood, so that only a thin portienl is eft under the bark. Within the rather uneven cut, generally near the enter of the growth, Is a small hole ightly plugged by the "powder post"1 f a beetle larva. Split open the ranch or twig, when a burrow will be seen.- and the little, white, soft, iard-jawed larva that made It will be ound or perhaps the inactive pupa. Fossil skeletons to the nimber of 2 00, representing many ancient ani- c nals. have been found in the Rocky iountains. The council and churches of Gaffney ave inv'ited the Methodists of the ate to hold a conference in that city est year. A $5,000 factory for the manufacture b anke-cheifs has been organized atp ~reenw ood and the nec'ssary machin y ordered. Parker, the one-armed painter, whoA 11l a distance of 65 feet while at work Colum bia, is still living and hope is 2 itertained that he will recover. -2 A negro woman was killed and an- . her badly injured in Columbia by a i 'lley car, which bore down upon fl em while they stood on the track a: king at a passing train.M A valise in which a wealthy Ohio an was carrying $48,000 in negotia- W ebonds, disappeared, but was recov ~d, and a railroad fireman was ar ~ted.I th HERE AND THEM. Items of General Interest Culle" Frcm Our Exonanges. E7ery time you rention sa tbir/ term Mr. Roosevelt rmiles clear acrof' his face. Mn. FAirbanks' reception to hlr eloping son was only coldly cordia) How naturalI ATLANTA bankers think real cotton is better security for loans than pipe dreams like Segal's or a large part oi the security the big banks accept. . Rsymond Townsend, aged 16, wa drowned' in a pond at the Brvgon mll,- Andenoi, on Saturday. He -nd cther boys were in a boat which upset with them. THE governor has removed Sheriff M. M. LImehouse, of DorchesterCoun ty pending his trial on the charge cf malfeasance in Ll3a in giving up a prisener to be lynched. Allbn Denton, the young negro who stole into the room of Miss Worrell. in Charleston, at aight, was oonvict d on Friday and was senterced to 4he penitentiary for five years. Ix 1900, there were more than ten million farmers In this country. There are not half a dczen farmers ib COugres to represent tce agriculturali -aterest. Isn't there something wrong shout this. . General Fred Grant's calculationj that bad ?quor acco'unts fr. 0 pir cent of army troublee may be said to be substanixted by popular experience vith the stEf in civil life, It is no respeotor of occupations. IT's too bad we can't annex Cuba jats to quiet Senator Beveridge's n rves, i-s.ead of allowing him to make speeches the Uspublican part3 could better ifford to pay hi :,xpenses at a Sanatorium. Ex 'ENATOE J. B : Burton of Kar sas began his six months sentence 2 Ironton, Mo., Monday. He wa convicted of practicing before a gov ernment department while a member of tho United States senate. An Interekting and little known item taken from an exchange is that merchants handling cigars must- de stroy the cigar boxes as soon -as the contents are sold, and not give, the boxes away as was customary in the past. A recent law requires thls BonznT Clark, alias. Dan Dove, a negro, was lynched on Sunday near Mobile, Ala., by a crowd of three hun dred men, who had followed him from Jackson county, Miss., wherr he had attempted to assault a white wo man. The Union Times says: "Au idle loafer, be he white or black,As a men awe to any city or community. It Is up to the authorities to make these vagrants move on, - or put theri to work." The Cherokee News says: "There never was a time when, labor was hardAr to get than it is now; yet there are men, white and black, loaf ing on our street? who never pretend to work." The same is true of this town. ME. Hughes, In his speech Accept lng the Republican nomination for governor of New York, declared that he and his associates 'bad become ''the trustees of the conscience and sober sentiment of the State." ' His associates are Woodruff, Sheldon & Co. backed by the corporations. Fine keepers of public conscience, truly. Tum~Washington Star asks If there is any excuse for the further booming of Mr. R'osevelt for a third term But then the Star, since the Mrs. Miner Morris Incident. has taken a greenish colored view of the occupant of the White 'House, although the Star Is a Epublican newspaper and swallows most anything that that party perpetrates. AJOT Eta YIElD BWUNG, I An Aiken Negro Hangad for Assanlt .. ig Northern Woman, At Alken at 11:25 Friday morning Isaac Knight paid the penalty of death for his crime and thus was re corded the ifrst legal execution for criminal assault in the annals of Alk en county. Friday morning Knight was given the freedom of the jail corridor and for an hour or more he and his spirn teal adviser, Bev. Isaac Johnson, were In constant prayer. When at 11:15 KaIght requested that he be allowo oretire tohis cell to engage in secret prayer this was granted the doomed prisoner who remained In his. cell but a fe w moments, Announcing his readiness to proceed on the deatb march. Just before the death march was begun his spiritual adviser asked if he was guilty of the crime for which he soon was to hang. Knight oeplied "No." On ths way to the scaffold Knight stopped and asked for a match with which he lighted a cigarette. He then proceeded to the gallows with a ner ous and unbteady step. Mounting she scafiold he cifered a prayes and aid he had nothing more to say. Wile the cap was being adjusted he aw on the wall surrounding the jail rard a friend to whom he requested to reallowed to speak. To tnis party is said: "Tell all my fdlends to meer nte In heaven." The cap was readjusted and at 11:25 he drop fell. At 11:40 Drs. Wyman, 4 Eura bull and Tools pronounced him a ind and at 11:45 the body was cui 'own and turned over to Undertaker sesabbs. But for the actual know-. edge no one would Imagine tat an xecution had ccourred within the ty and the course of the law in this ase has resulted satisfactorily to the a etter classes of both races. There fl ras absolutely no unusual demonstra on from any source. Pruning Grapevines- S One of cur friends has suggested at we call attention to the fact that ? n:s Is the proper season of the year ' ir pruning scuppenougs, The soup- Y' ernong Is very d:farent from the 2nah grape and will not stand prun- lb g during the winter. It will bleed diy if pruned as late as December. safe rule to follow when your vines 'ed pruning is to cut them back ti :out the time the leaves are begin kE og to fall-aay Oct-.ber 15th -to oember 15, according to the asyns. Bunca grapes should be are sentraly pruned, than soupper- a ugs, but this work can be donca y time between October and rchr. harleston is getting so she canM ather any old storm now. er w. Wild geese and wild automobiles are a NAJY LOST AT SEA. Only Five Saved Out uf One Hundred and Fifty. Five Emu V'rs cf the great Florida f orm was landed al. Norfolk, Va., on Friday by the British steamer Heath rpcol, C7.pt. John Grieves, command -g, wbict arrivzd F:day to coal, qr New O'.*ns to Rotterdam.-The survivors ar. Fr..nk BZvely, fordman, nf Ma.ranna, Fla; Gos Johnson, of a-merville, Mass; Abner Belle, of Kiissimee, FYa-, and John Campbell, .,f Philadelphia. They, with about 145 others, were consttrctIng a concrete viaduct for the FiorIda East Coast railway, -brcugh the Florida keys, and were' abard house boat No. 4, which lay anchored off the coast onthe night of Oatober 1Mh. The grat hurrica which swept over the coast struck the house boat about 1 o'clockin tbe morn ing of gat. 18, and No. 4 -broke adrift. The house boat soon aferwards foundered and all of the 150 men abcard were thrown- into the raging sea. The house boat was daed to pieces in the angry waves which were rolling mruntainhigh arid the survi vors tell of haing seen many of their comrades killed by heavy timbers. striking them as they werestraggling msdly to fiad soms means of rescue. z Sx men managing to get two tim hers, one ten b7 twenty. inches and, the other six by fourteen inches with. twenty feet long. 'lashed these to. getber, and lived on this raft until one became mad from a.2Ering and injury, and threw himself Into the sea. On 0.tober 19; Captain Grieves, standing on the bridge.of his. jhip, heard cries for help from a raft and aSuncbing a life boat scon brough the. 3erishing men aboard the Hearther .'ool. The survivors are being cared or at the NeIt.11CIty Mission. WALL BiatWd. Dr- Jas. H, Onrlisle Granted a Gas% negiePension. Dr..Jemes H,. Carlisle, president emeritus of-Woffird college and Bouth: Carolina's -greatest educator, has been granted a pension of $1,1Ca year -by the Carnegie Foundition. The c iflioal notice of the iecisionof the Carnegie board was received in Spaitauburg ten days agobutnotbe coming generally known-untilriday. The gantng of this .pensionl18 a d!stinct compliment to Dr. Carlisle the State of South Colina and Wof. ford college. The Ctmegie Foundation was are a ted by the celebrated millinnaire for the purpose of pensioning educatid who had done great service for thls cause; It is arule of the bo d and. the founder that the pensions aree or the professors and eachers in the' State and private Institutins, the professors of denominatioal colleges being excluded. On account of the eminent services rendered to his State and the cause of education an excep tion was made in the amse of the "grand old man" of South ina and he became the first and only pro-' fessor of a denominatIonal college to receive the pension. - The securinggf the pension was t a largd'etent due to the ff brts of Dr. H.. 198nyder, prersent -president 6f Wofagcollege While engaged In his work as edncator, DrcBnyder came WIn Contact with Dr. PFte':ard, the'chair man of the Carnegie Foundation. Dr. Snyder called the .attentIon offthe chairman to the work that had-bed!. done by Dr. Carlilse. Dr. Pritchard was vary much interested, and, afteir making Inestigation, tcok the matter up with the board. The result was the board w'llinbgly .recognized ihe great services for the cause of educa tion, overstepped the rule and voted in favor of placing Dr. Carlisle on the list of the beneficIaries of the funid. For Sake os flite. In order that his wile might re. elve $200 which would come t10 her from life insurance Ifj he died. before. Thursy, Samuel A. Marshall1 sae enty years old, killed himself just be fore thre time expired. About two yes:s ago the Marshaflsbeingold, poor and nearly belpless were obliged' to seperate. - The hutba Liliient 1o0 live wish his daughterand 'the wife - with a sister in Bsdbim, Name. When Marshall went into big daug - ter's house honsigned over a policy for 8L000 inillranca bn the contrast stipulated that~fih e- I~ within -two ears $200 of tihe money would go to hswife. The two years expired Thursday. /As the time approached, - Marshall became more and more des pondent.' Last 'Saturday he tookf cyanide of pot-asslum and died in con vlsions. The 'fact that death wa's not natural did not heome known until after his burial. Dashed Down Gryde. At Clevland, Ohio., eight mnt were Injured and one perhaps fatally in a 'wreck' on the Eastern Ohls Traction Line today. A spacial car, bund west carrying eleven persons, en of whom were employees of the cad, dashed down a steep. grade .sh errific speed. The train was thrown rom the tracks at a curve, burying ~hose on board in a mass of wreckage. he accident was due to wet rails bd the inability of the motorgan to 'ontrol the speed of the crr. Feu- From a Trazn. J. A. Massey, a farmer of Chaster Jonty, while beating his way, it is aid on top of a Seaboard-train bound or the State~air, fell and was pIcked o about seven miles above Columbia. I was taken to the Columibia Hos ital and died Thursday-night at 6 'clock from his injuries, which were rgely Internal, He leaves a widow if Chester County. He was aboa ray yaars old THOL&s Alexander Pnelan. with loney,mn nis pocket and several thou mds in bank, committed suicide in ew York on Tuursday by shooting Imselfn tehead wiua pistoL. Ha id spent $300,000 in the last file ears. James y. Hill declare that credit is tter than money.' Yes; for a man ho has credit doesn't need money. An elephant ranch has been started Texas. Texas, though, will con nue to vote for the democratic don A contest of the will or Russell s ige las been avoided by Mrs. Sage treeing to pay the heirs double the uount of tihe legacies named in will Senator Tillmnan it is said, made 5,0 out of his lecture business dur g the past summer. The Anderson ail says some of his critics have nev made that much during their ole lives. [t takes a girl to know she can do ythmng she wants with a man by rn how bwa ire is