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SLING COTT". SOUTHERN COTTON ASSOCIATiON TO SECURE A CHARTER And Institute Ware Houses, Which Will Inable Ivery anL to Hold His Cotton. Mr. E. D. Smith, president of the South Carolina Cotton Groweri' Asso. latIon, thinks the recent Birming ham Corvention was the test yet held by the Southern Cotton Asoola tion, Indeed, he Is enthusiastic over the work aecmplished and the plans outlined there, which he regards as of the greatest Importance. "One of the greatest drawbacks un der which the organ!ztion has bee-Z working," he says, "was Phat under our present plan the man outsiCe of the organization really g-t more bn. a dit from the efforts and sacrificae of t e men inside than the men inside got themselves. We also recogn'za that the Cotton that hurt the market wa' the cotton encumbared with etbt. which had to be. sold regr'less o what the price was, to meet debs that was upon it. Now, the qaesuoo wa, how could we devise a p:an by which we could offer special Inducements to the owners and growers of cotton tc join the orgaufzstion, and to show how it would be of personal beneft te him ratter than be outside. Next. how to formulate a practical buslness plan by which the poor fellow who owed money against his cotton. and was forced to ralize on it, to mcet his obligation, oculd be helped by our organ'zstion to bold without damege to himsef, and receive the benefits of the organization. "Both of these matters were given the most earnest attention, and wr believe that we have found the boiu - lgon of each. In the first place, we have ordered a properly constituted committee to secure at once our char ter, maring us a legal organization; and under this charter, we want every county in the Dltion growing states to meet and organize their holding companies; open books of subscription for the purpose of raising, if possible, at least $5 per bale on all cotton grown in that county; to elect a board of directors and president, who shall select moms man, either from among their number or otherwise. who shall become the buying and sell ing agent for that organization, who shall negotiate all loans; who shall have supervision of all ware housing, and to whom an be given the power of attorney to dispose of the cotton plaed under his supervision. In other words, he is to become the agent of that division to receive cotton, to su pervise the buying of what cotton the organization buys, to procure adequate ware house room and, with the na tional officers and local officers of sim ilar county divisions throughout the .South to negotiate loans on whatever cotton is held by him upon which loans are requested. "Under this plan a member of the Southern Ootton Association can carry his cotton to the local company, turn It over into their hands, receive a cer tidicate of ownership, and give to this company the power to sell that cot ton, provided itis not sold before a price agreed upon by the national or ganization. This price, If enough counties in the South enter into It, shall be made net to the grower.' If, for instance, the price agreed 2ipon is 100 a pound, middling, and I carry my cotton to my local organization and they ware house it, Insure it, and store it, a price will be fixed upon that cotton sufficently above the 10 cents to pay for the inburance and storage and the expenses attached such as salaries of offiers, Interest on money, etc-and the buyer pays this. "There was an enthusiastic adop tion of this plan, and a careful study of it will reveal the force of it. We were asured that there was suffcient capital, both at home and elsewhere, to finance all the cotton that needed financnn, providcd we cncenntrate It In such form as to make It availablei for financing- Again these local com panies will report daily or 'weekly to ths State offic how many bales, the grades, and whatever information Is necessary, and the mils and the buy era, when they desire cotton, can come to our State offcials, place their order for the number of bales and grades that they want, and these or d!ers will be placed with our local ware bouss, and the cotton will be deliver ed to the Purchaer direct by us. "This will eliminate the present great army of local buyers, brokers and mill men and put us In a position to fix and maintain a stable price, and enable the mills to placs orders with those who have the actual stuff, and haveit in such shape andlin such le gal status that they can place their orders for twelve months ahead for the actual cotton in our ware houses. "Mill men tell me-and I have no right to doubt their I word-that they would welcome such a plan as the above. Instead of having to go to brokers and speculators and place their orders, as they do now, and be dependent upon the rise and fall of the market, as controlled by these speculators, for their cotton, they would rather come and buy their coli ton direct from the man who owns It and let our organization store It and Insure It and charge interest on it, nut have a fixed carrying charge for each month. They would not then be at the mercy of the present system, under which they never know one day what their next day's purchase is go ing to cost them. I have been assur ed-and have no reason to doubt It that mills making a certain quality of goods to-day could pay much higher prices than they are now paying and also make money. But in view of the fact that they have no guarantee what cotton will do from day to day, in order to meet the contingency of the market, they are forced to buy their cotton asocheaply as possible in order to have as large a margin as possible to meet the violent fluctua tions of the trade. This plan will en able the poor man to get the same rate of interest as the well-to-do; to get the same ware house facilities; to get the same price as the best posted, and will also furnish Suffcient capltai to take up what cotton is floating on the market from day to day at a price less than the minimum Price set by the Association." As early as possible pamphlets will be printed setting forth the details more perfectly and particularly than this article has done, and each county will be asked to perfect Its organiza tion as soon as possible, so as to get ready for the balance of this crop, If possible, and certainly to be In a posi tion for next year's crop. In a word, the plan proposes that the maker of the cotton shall be she last and final asher of the cotton, and that the buy er of the cotton, after a prie hoti been tixed, shall pay the expensts In-| curred in carrying out from month to month this organization. This is no.hlng more nor lass than the sirMp' iaw of business observed now in ih1 sale of every article of commerce t!ave cotton. The man who buys a pair of noes, pays the freight, pays te clerk nitre, pays the Insurance 1 the store. pays the expenses of the business pils the divinend of the owner. The wan who buys a pound of cotton, deducts the freight, deducts the clerk hire, drducts the Incidental expenscs and makes the tran who sells it brar all the expenses of handling it. So that the cotton growing to day, under our present system, pays the erpense bills on everything he buys, as well aU on everything he sell&. This just simpo, reverses that order, and makes him only pay the expenses of what he buys an.d forces the other man to pay the erpenss of what he buys from us. There is not a single mill man, to whom I have outlined the plaa, but what has agreed that it Is the ;oper principle, and that they we:cama the above, and will co-operate wilh us in seelrg It established. Hoke Smith, governor elect of Geor ota. Heywzrd, of South Cavolins, and Comer, of Alabama, were present and gave the association their endorse ment. Bsankeis, merchants, manufac turpre, as well as northern capitalists were also present pledging their aid ana supPolt. The fight against the New York Ex...hange was endorsed entt usiasti. cally. and as the result, a few days ago tie grade committee of the New -York Exchange modified their grad ing, and now require spinnable cotton as tenders on contracts. Also they have widened the difference between :pots and futures; proving that the one is purely a uambling scheme and &ny old price will do for tisaue paper chalk, but when ther promise to de Uiver the sp,*t article they have got to quae a plica in keeping with the seib'ne of the Southern !armer, which is from 10- to 1V, cents. This Is the result of the work of the South ern Cotton Association. We begin a new year with more wis dom, with more experience, with more determination, with brighter hopes, and a more assured futire for our or ganization than ever before. All the old officers of the National Association, says the secretary, were re-elected. Qaite a considerable amount of money was raised for the liquidation of past Indebtedness; and if the counties will but rally to the support of the organIzation suffcient ly to finance it from now on, no man can calculate what may be accom plished in the next twelve months. We are asking every legislature tr pass a law requiring the ginners irt the several states that raise cotton, to take out a small license, and to re quire them under law to report to the state government under their signa lure, the total number of bales gin ned by them up to each date reported, Also a committee was appointed to gc to Washington and to urge upon the national congress a bill requiring the secretary of agriculture to publish foi each stage the name, occupation and poUtofoe of each reporter from that state who reports on acreage and con dition of crops from month to month.~ These names to be furnished in pam phlet form to the agricultural depart' mont each month as the reports come In. MAso to require the census bureau to give the name and postoffie cf each ginner reporting and the numbaz of bales reported by said ginner. This will enable each and every state tc know whether or not the reporter is correct, and to know whether or not those reporting on acreage and condi tion of crops are qualified to make such report. We have gained the air and the con fidence of the entire world; and by wise conservative, consistent action and earnest determination to solve our problem, we are going to solve it. In this connection the convention was of the opinion that the lien law, as now operative, was a serious check to the perfecting of our work. And I hope that every farmer reading this article will write to his representa tives in Columbia, giving their opin ion on this very Important matter, and asking that such legislation shall be enacted at ishis session as to re move this barrier to the control of the cotton crop by the owners of the cot ton. I pledge the people of the state an other year of the very best work that I am capable of; and, if my health re mains good, to keep In tcuch with them for our mutual intere..t, and the solution of our great problem. I hope that the press of the state will from time to time express itself upon this great question and give its powerful influence in aiding us to re tain our present prosperity. They surely can be of incalculable beneflt to us, If they will but enlist themselves, enter in supporting whatever plans that they think wise, and in givi sg us their advice and the benefit of their thoughts and study along practical lines. The state offcials stand ready togo into the several counties and lend what assistance they may in bringing the counties into line. E. D. SMTH. arter the oul Truisr. Senator Tillman has announced that he is preparing bills Intended to correct the discriminations and monopolistic practices of the Stan dard Ol Oompany as revealed by the latestest report of the interstate com merce commisin One of the ob jects sought to be obtained wl be the separation of pipe lines from oil1 producing concerns. Senator Tillman, Senator Bailey, and other democrats, tried to have this provision incorpor ated In the rate bill last year. They succeeded In bringing the Standard Oil Company under the regulating power of the commission to the ex tent of declaring its pipe lines com mon carriers under the law. Then later an amendment by Senator Bailey was adopted, which provided that common carrier should not pro duce the commodities which they carried. This provision, If it had rained in the act, would have divorced the Standard's business from its carrying business. After a hard fight in the cor frence the provision separating the operation of produc ing from transporting was limited to the railroads, leaving the Standard free to retain Its own pipe lines. The republicanr, led by Senator Aldrich, are responsible for the change. Now, the commission finds the law isn't working well, just because this excep tion was made In favor of the Stand ard, and Senator Tiliman proposes to renew the tight. Fiteen Kinedl. Near Berlin, Germany, fifiieen per sons were overwhelmed by a snow avalanche on Thursday. Eight bod ies of victims have been recovered. Thirty cattle were killed in the same fall f snne. OIliIN OF FRUITS. wm:Rt-: SOME OF TBER CAME FROM TO US. Many of Them Have Been Known and Used for Thousauds of Years. The principal fruits of the earth, though long known, have been so changed by cultivation that the crig inal ancestors would not recognize their descendants. The peach is sup posed to be a native of the hill coun try of China and was doubtless culti vated there at a period so remote that It antedates history. The apple, most widely distributed of all fruit, is said by science to have descended from the Siberian 3iab which grew wild over large parts of Asia, Earope and northern Africa. It is a far cry from our Jonathans, Bellflowers and Greenings -to this sour little deniz3m of the steppes, but like many otber things .n earth, including man, it has no reason to be proud of its ancestor. It was brought from Asia into Greece after having been cultivated for many centuries, and the Romans obtained it from the Greeks, as they did many other good things. In later ages it spread throughout the world, but thrives best in the cooler parts of the temperate zones. It does not grow in the tropics but Is at its best in cer tain sections of the Mississippi Val ley. It is not only the best but the most famous of fruits. Though the Garden of E den story, so far as the apple is concerned, is somewhat fanci ful, it has been the meani of greatly extending the fame of this fruit. When Julius Cassar invaded E igland, some years before the Christian era, he gave the barbarians then Inhabit ing that island their first taste of ap ples and cider. Ever since then it has been a staple in the British Isles and of course has been much Improv. d by cultivation during the two thousand centuries that have succeeded its in troduction. There was a special reason that caused the apple' to bcome popular throughout the countries of Northern Earope. The prevailing religion was that of the Druids, who worshipped the mistletoe, and as this parasite was found chiefly on oaks and apple trees, these becaniie objects of great venera tion and care to the devotees of this strange superstition. The priests and priestesses of the Druids said prayers and sang devotional sangs to these %rees and believed they had the pow sr of granting favors. They were right, too, so far as the apple tree is concerned, for what' greater blessing has been conferred upon men, then ox how, than the luscious, health givlng fruit that falls from their boughs? A trace of this old Druid veneration foz ,he apple tree still remains in certain parts of England, where the farmers on stated occasions salute the trees and beg them for good crops. They fil] a wassail bowl with cider and put l it a piece of toast then pour some o: the cider on the rooks, hang the toast in the most barren branches, after which all join hands around and dance as they sang: H ere's to thee, old apple tree, Whence thou may'st bud, and whence thou mnay'st blow, And whence thou may'st bear apples enow Hats full! caps full: Bushels and sacksfull! Iluzza! The pear, which in sjcientlflc horti culture is nearly allied to the apple, seems to have been the most difficult of the fruits to educate up from bar barism to cultivation. The tree on which it grew wgas originally covered with sharp thorns, which It took many centuries Cf cultivation to elim inate, and the fruit was practically worthless. E ven as late as the first century of our era Pliny, the Roman naturalist, though he describes many varieties known to him, declares that "all pears whatsover are but a heavy meat, unless they are well boiled or baked." This shows what Improve ments have taken place to bring us to the Bartlets and other luscious varle ties that fill our markets to-day. How ever, it was a cultivated fruit during remote ages of antiquity and is thought to have been lirst de veloped in Central Asia. It is mentioned in Homer's writings and became common in Syria, Egypt and Greece, being taken from the latter country to Italy and thence to Britlan. Virgil, the popular Roman poet, returns thanks to Cato for a gift of pears of which, It seems, these people had thirty-six varieties. Figs and grapes are also very ancient fruits, mentioned in the earliest writings of the Asiatics as well as the Greeks and Romans. All these and other fruits, of course, were orig inally wild and It does not appear that any fruit has ever been of much value in Its wild state. But for cultivation and the endless pains of thousands of centuries of careful horticulturists, these luxuries, which contribute so much to the happiness of man, would be unknown. They furnish especially strong proof of what civilization has lone for the race and show how the world has been made so much more worthy of habitatIon by invention and scientific experimentation, aided b~y industrious farmers and professional fruit-growers. Shot Girl in Foot. Girls had better be careful how they go with 1.istol toating young men. Peachtree street, Augusta, Ga., was greatly excited Wednesday afternoon by the sound of a pistol, shot fired from the pocket of Lester Davis, a printer, the bullet entering the foot f Miss Gertrude Clark, a stenogra pher, with whom he was walking. rightened, he ran away. The young lady's Injuries are slight. Davis was oying with the gun in his pcket, the discharge being accidental. Second Suicide. Edward P. HIpple, a brrther of the late Frank K. Hipple, who ended his life last summer after 'vrt clng the Real Estate Trust company, of Phila delphia, of which he was the presi dent, committed suicide at his home Friday by shooting himself. Ote of Er. Hipple's friends said that Mr. ipple worried a great deal over Frank Hipple's part in the trust com pany failure, but he did not think he was in any way Involved In that crash. Killed the MlarshaJ. Friday night Will Bolton, of Athens, Ga,., shot and Instantly killed Tim Hammonds, marshal at Stathamr, Ga. Bolton was drinking and Ham nonds was trying to get him to go home when he shot the marshal through the heart, Bolton made his scape. Kind words are legal tender where -ve old coin i counterfeit CHINESE FAMINE May RrIng on Worse Trouble Than Boxer. trict of China, where thousands of na tives are dying and millions are near death from starvation and disease, may lead to anarchy and a general reign of terror, menacing foreign mis sionaries and citizens and greatly eripplirig commerce with this coun try, Is made plain to this government in startling reports just received at the State department from Counsel General Rodgers, at Shanghai, and Counsel Haynes, at Danking. That officials of this government are greatly perturbed by these re ports there Is no attempt to Lide. and it is considered as probable within the next few days the president may feel himself called upon to Issua a tecond proclamation appealing to the people of the United States to con tribute to the 15,000,000 starving peo pie in the flooded and desolate dis tricts of the interior provinces. Of this American branch relief, although previously it seemed that they were doing all within their power to rush food and clothing to the devastated territory. Until zow, relief has been sought in a spirit of humanity to alle viate suffaring; from now on, aside from this motive, it will be bought as a diplomatic move to remedy condi tions that might lead to even wors de% elopments than the Boxer up-rIs ing. Last winter offiaials of this and Ea ropean governments were alarmed over the boycott situation and it has been generally conceded that serious distrurbances as an outgrowth of that movement were only prevented by the prompt steps of this country in send lng a squadron of warships to the Chinese coast and two additional reg iments of infantry troops to the Philippines. There is no attempt tc conceal the fear that the present con ditions Decause of the famine im which women are selling their babiesl for a mouthful of food, or throwing them Into streams and themselvei committing suicide, may easily lead to a most dangerous situation. In view of this, while the Red Cros proceeds to raise all money and food possible to stave off starvation, it if expected that the State department will enter into the matter thoroughly, and that otner govefnments will be consulted within the next few days, with a view to concerted action ir cse of a crisis. The army and navy will be expected to stand as ready foi possiblee emesgencies as they did lu winter. ON TE RIGHT LINE. Dispensary Directors to Be Hauled over the UCoals. In the senate Thursday night H B. Carlisle, chairman of the j adiciary committee, to which was referred the report of the special committee ap pointed to investigate the affairs of the State dispensary, presented the following concurrent resolution, which was adopted without a dissenting vote: "Be It resolved by the senate, the house of representatives concurring, That in our opinion the directors o1 the State dispensary have violated the law in the purchase of 1iquors and are liable to removal by the governor and prosecution; that It be referred to the governor to take such action as he may deem necessary and proper In the premises; and that a copy of this res olution be transmitted to his excel lency the governor, with a copy of the testimony taken by the legislative committee on the affairs of the State dispensary, together with their report thereon." The following senators compose the committee which reported the above resolution: H. B. Carlisle1 chairman; LeGrand G. Walker, T. M. Raysor, F. P. McGowan, G. H. Bates, W. H. Wells, J. R. Earle, W. N. Graydon, T. Yancey Williams, Huger Sinkler, P. W. Haynes, 3. C. Ot, T. I, Rog ens. Attorney General Lyon was seen by a representative of The State Imme diately after the resolution was adop ted by the senate and asked for an expression. "I do not care to make any public expression," said Mr. Lyon, "until the matter is placed be f ore the governor and he takes some action. I won't object to ta~lking at the proper time." Governor Ansel was informed of the senate's action at 11.30 o'clock last night but would make no statement. COTTON DISEASES. A Matter That Farmers Are Vitally interested in. Practical investigations upon the diseases of the cotton plant in South. Carolina have been started at the South Carohna Agricultural Experi ment Station, and these investiga tions can be materially aided by the cco-operation of the cotton growers In the State. During the coming seasorn specimens of diseased cotton plantn are earnestly solicited from growern who will send with the specimens the following informatIon: 1. When planted? 2. When were diseased plants'.[irst observedy 3. Do you find lie or red spiders on he under side of the leaves of the plants which appear diseased, and when were they first observed y 4. What kind of fertilizer was used formula); when applied; and how much per acre. 5. Do you find the boll-worm doing mch damage? When did It lirst ap pear? 6. What crops were grown on!!the and the three preceeding years? 8. Is the soil red clay, yellow clay, pipe clay, or a sandy clay; loam, sandy oam, or chiefly sand; If ablack.1 soil, ottom land or upland? 8. Has the weather been dry or ainy a'nd is the crop growing''.vigor usly or is It unhealthy? 9. Has the particular trouble re ported been observed in previous years and are the affected areas in circular r irregular patches, or is it scattered ere and there over the field? Address all communIcations and pecimens relating to this subject to he Botanist,_Clemson College, S. 0. Killed Himself. D. W. Ford. a well known resident of :Rchland, Va., and a relative of nited States Judge Waddili of the astern district of Virginia, commit ted suicide by shooting himself Thurs day In his room at the Southern hotel n Elzabeth, N. 0. Ford, whose lath r Is wealthy, left money and tola- a rana and! lettnrs of instantiona I HOUSE SET ON FIRE DASTARDLY ATTE'3MI*T AT INUFN DianYiSDm AT SPUINGUFlIELD Some Fiend Attempts to Burn Down the Residence of Marshal Holloway. Tuesday morning at 3 o'clock the handsome new two story dwelling of Mr. L. E. Phillips at Springfield together with the entire contents was burned. It is thought the house was set on fire by some flend. Town Marsha! Henry W. Holloway, who was seriously wounded by Wm. L. Fleming in an attempt to arrest Fleming at Springfield January 15. with his wife and little children, 00 cupied rooms on the top floor, and it looks like some midnight assassin was attempting to burn him as he lay, as it were, chained to his bed. Those who first saw the tire affirm that the dwelling was saturated witb kerosene oil and the oil was yet burn ing on the ground and base of the chimney when they got to the fire. There is a grim determination on the part of the citiz 3ms that the perpe trators shall be brought to speedy jas tice. Fortunately the fire, which had been lighted with kerosene, was dis covered in time and extinguished, and the wounded officer was taken to Co lumbia. The 'following statement from J. W. Jumper, Intendant of the town, caused the governor to offer a reward for the l icendiary. "I beg to inform you that there wal a fire at Springfield Tuesday morning at 3 o'clock which destroyed the hous' of L. E. Phillips. It is thought bi everybody that the acb was incendi arism. I also beg to inform you thai the barn of L. B. Fulmer has als( been burned, and I think that was a act of incendiarism. The dispensar and two stores were burned the 21s of last November, and I respectful ask your excellency to offer a sultabli reward for these burnings." It will be "emembered that th shooting affray which resulted in th serious wounding of three ersons tool piae when Marshall Holloway arrest ed Fleming--who Is an itinerant pho tographer traveling out of Brooklyn and a companion with whom he hat become intoxicated. Fleming shot th, marshal and a citizen deputized to as sist him and was himself shot in thl thigh by the marshal, as -the latte was falling. Altter the shooting, whiol Fleming says took place at a tiln, when he was so drunk as to be uncon scious of his actions, Fleming wal placed in the Orangeburg county jail at Orangeburg. He appealed through a friend t Secretary H. S. Fox, of Congaree aeril Fraternal Order of Eagles. asking f3 assistance and representinghimself a a member of the Brooklyn aerie. Mr Fox communicated with the Brooklyi srie and 'upon receipt of instruction from there to do everything in hi power for Fleming, retained an at torney, Mr. W. Boyd Evans, an througn him secured a court order fo Fleming's removal to the State Hos pital for the Insane, on the grouni that the Oran~geburg Iail was no plac fcr a man so grievously hurt. Sabsequently Fleming was agal moved, this time to the hospital 0: the state penitentiary, because thi insane asylum proved too crowded ti afford facilities for adequate treat ment. He is now at the penitentiar hospital, and making a good recovery It is said that if the Brooklyn Eagle do not drop the case, application wil be made for an order admitting Flem ing to bail as soon as he shall havl beconie strong enough to leave th hospital. Marshal Holloway is thoroughly in dignant over the attempt to destro; his home this morning, and feeli sure that the incendiary meant thi dlames to wipe out his whole family as well as the dwelling in which the, were asleep, unsuspecting, He de nies most positively statemehts frog Fleming in the press that he has often taken drinks with Fleming an< that Fleming had begun carrying:i pistol at his suggestion. TRTED TO LYNCH NEGRO &nd Other Negroes Got Their Headi Badly Binnped. At Pittsburg, Pa., 0. A . Jackson a negro. bleeding from many woundi on the head, Is locked up in the cen tral police station following an exefi ing and almost successful attempt ti lynch him Wednesday night by crowd of several hundred persons ii the heart of the business district., . number of unknown negroes who tiet to protect Jackson were roughli handled by the mob. Several womel who were caught in the crush weri takent to their homes suffering fron nervous shock. The trouble started when a news boy asked the negro to buy a paper Jackson shoved him roughly into thi street. The boy threw a stone and struck Jackson on .the head, and thi negro choked the boy. In a momeni several men caught the negro and be gan to beat him. Some one criei "lynch the nigger" and hundreds o meni and boys rushcd upon Jackson Canes, stones, rolled up newapaperi and fists were. the chief weapons usst by the mob. Several osther neg.roei endeavored to protect Jsckson. Im mediately there were cries of "lynol: them" and "kill the niggers." Th4 infuriated mob caught several of thi negroes and bmped their headi against the stone buildings. Jackson, bleeding and his clothes almost torn off, was temporarily for. gotten, and he ran down Fifth ave n~ue. Somebody cried "the nigger's escaping" and several hundred per sons took up the chase. Down Fifth avenue to Libert:T avenue, two blocks, and then down Liberty avenue to Fifth, the chase continued. Just be low Fifth street Jackson ran into the arms of several ;olicemen. The ctm ers hurried Jackson into an alley and attempted to hold back the crowd with their night sticks. Thety were fast losing ground, however, -when a force cf city firemern. from a nearby engine house came to their aid. The police and firemen guarded the en trance to the alley until the patrol wagon, loaded with officers, respodd to a riot call. The crowd 'was scat ered by the free use of night iiticks ad Jackson was taken to the oratral station and locked up on a chari of disorderly conduct. When a man does his best by !sa pretty safe in dei.ending upon God'" 30 do the tilt. SOARZD TE CREW. A Btray Shell Went Too Near a Little Stearmer. The tow line of the target drawn by the army post steamer down the Charleston harbor Wednesday after roon was out by a 10-inch projectile just as smoothly as if a knife had been used, but, fortunately, the trim little government boat and her crew were not hit, and the only damage done was in the repair of the hauser and the scare that the men on the boat experienced. The firing of the big guns is-lgured to a mathematical nicety, the otticers and soidiers say in telling of the fine target work of the artillerymen at Fort Moultrie and elsewhere. but the big projectiles will go wrong some times. The master of the govern ment tug tendered his resignation several years ago, when he was oraer ed to rake the target in tow. It was too much like suicide, and he was against self-destructioi, he said, and, rather than expose himself to a stray 'projectile, he gave up his job. He did not trust the man behind the gun as much as the soldiers trusted them selves. The seafarer was not afraid of taking his chances with the sea and wind. but he otjacted to bein. shot at. He thought that the little raft behind the tug was too small and the length of the rope was not greal enough. It looked to him as If th whole business-tug, master anc crew-were included In the target anC he gave up a good job. This decisioz is tald to have been reacted when i protectile once crossed the bow of hi boat, and master and crew held thel breath and lost a beat of their hearts At all events, the target was ou loose by the 10 inch projectile, weigh ing nearly a thousand pounds, firei from Fort Jasper. The job was neatl: done, but this was no exception to tb fine scores which were made in th heavy firing of the afternoon, whic] could be faintly heard in the city ani more perceptibly felt in the tremor o many houses and the ratt'ing of win dow sashes, as the big guns woul belch forth regular service charges Often a tube Is Inserted in the gun and smaller charges used, allowance being made for the small charge an lighter proj3atiles in arriving at th drills, but, once or twice a year, ser vice charges are used, as would b done in case of war in repelling al hostile fleet, and these are the load of powder and projectiles which wer used yesterday afternoon and to-day The firing shook up things at lively rate on Sullivan's island, smash Ing the glasses and doing some othe damage, but this is the penalty tha attaches to the seashore resorts ad Sjoining the army posts, and the Sull] van's Island people have become ac customed to this little shaking u Snom and again. With Prophetic Eye. -Nearly forty years ago Hon. B. H Hill, of Georgia, in a speech at Al lanta, referred to Gen. Robert E. Le in the following words of classi beauty: "No people, ancient or modern, ca look with more pride to the verdic which history will be compelled to rex der upon the merits and charactersc our two chief leaders-the one in tb military and the other in the civil sel vice. Mostiother leaders are great be cause of fortunate results and heroe because of success. Davis and Lee,b4 cause of. qualities in themselves, ar great in the face of fortune, and b roes in spite of defeat. "When the future historian sha come to survey the character of Le4 he will find it rising like a huge mor tain above the undulating plain of hi ianity, and he must lift his eyes hig: toward Heaven to catch its summil He possessed every virtue of other grea commanders without their vices. fl was a foe without oppression, and victim without murmuring. He was public oflicer without vices; a. privat citizen. without wrong; a neighbc without reproach; a Christian withou~ hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was Coesar, without his tyranny Napoleon, without his seliishness, ani Washington, without his reward. H was obedient to authority as aservan1 and royal in authority as a true king He was gentle as a woman -in lii4 modest and pure as a virgin in thought watchful as a Roman vestal in duty submissive to law as Socrates, an grand in battle as Achilles!" iWhen Lttering these words near] forty years ago Senator Hill must hav been lookmng with prophetic eye to th recent celebration of the centennial c the birthday of Gen. Lee. All ani more than what he prophecied abou Gen. Lee was re-echoed by the Hot Chas. Francis Adams, of Massacht setts, in his great speech at Lexing ton,Va., on the occasion above refern ed to. Mr. Adams, an ex-Union so] dier, put Gen. Lee upon a higher pit acle of fame even than Mr. Hill, tb Confederate soldier, forty years befor prophecied he would occupy. N prophet of old ever uttered a true prophecy than the gifted Hill di when he said that "when the futur, historian shall come to survey th character of Lee, he will find it risin, like a huge mountain above the undu lating plain of humanity, and lhe mus lift his eye high toward Heaven ta katchi its summit." Brain Leaks. h's hard to make your boy belevy 1the stories of your early struggles. A setcipt for the pew rent is not pass~ thre.h the heavenly portals. Men woo fear death are those wh< are always locking brekwards. Some people make no bones aboul the skeletons in their closets. Now if it had only been a greer perimmon that Eve plucked! When doubt enters the door faiti flies out of the window. Those who walk by faith are neyeJ alone. it takes a real sleety day to make a man realiza his advancing years. Some men mistake moral dyspepsia fo sanctification. Agitation is the deadiest fo oi stagnation. The door of hope has no blocks, belts or bars. Straight voting often makes crook ed politics. Sunday piety ia not an antidote o1 week day depravity. Trouble will double when worried 1abot. AN iNaUNCT1ON. AT VARIATION. After a While the Dog Understood the Gamie and Played. Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland in his fight against a street railway tore up some of the railway's tracks. An injunction was served against him and then he In his turn secured an other injanetiun, says the Washing ton Star. "We are like the old lady and the dog, with our injunctions and man damuses and what not," said Mr. Johnson the other day. "There was, you know, an old lady who rented a furnished villa for the summer, and with the villa a large dog also went. In the sitting room of the villa there was a comfortable arm chair. The old lady liked this chair better than any other in the house. She always made for it the first thing. -But, alas, she nearly always found the chair occupied by the large dog. Being afraid of the dog she never dared bid it harshly to get out of the chair, as she feared that it might bite her; but instead she would go to the window and call 'Cats!' "Then the dog would rush to the window and bark and the old lady would slip into the vacant chair quietly. "One day the dog entered the room and found the old lady in pos session of the chair. He strolled over to the window, and, looking out, appeared much excited and set up a tremendous barking. "The old lady arose and hastened to the window to see what was the matt.r and the dog quietly climbed into the chair." - Had a Long Root. An Irishman, with one jaw very much swollen from a tooth thst he wished to have pulled, entered. the office of a Washington dentist, says Success. When the suffering Celt was put into the chair and saw the gleaming forceps approaching his face, he pos itively refused to open his mouth. Being a man of resource, the dentist quietly Instructed his assistant to push a pin into the patient's leg, so that, when the Irishman opened his mouth to yell the dentist could get at the refractory molar. . When all was over, the dentisi smilingly asked: "It didn't hurt as much as you expected, did it?" "Well, no," reluctantly admitted the patient. "But," he added, as he ran his hand over the place Into which the assistant had inserted the pin, "little did I think them rootA wint that far down!" Senator Spooner's Shooting r Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, i a successful hunter of big game, ac cording to the Milwaukee Sentinel. On one of his trips he had for his guide BillMurray. They were oai looking for bear and deer one day when Murray suddetly threw up hih rifle and fired. The Senator saw ax animal fall heavily and called, "We've got-him this time, Bill." "We!" sneered the guide. "There't e no we about it. I killed him plai2 enough." Quickly making their .way tc where their quarry lay, they found tfine specimen of Jersey calf. "We've killed somebody's calf!' yelled the guide. Senator Spooner gave him a with ering look and said: "William, yoU should be more particular In you: choice of pronouns. 'We' Isn't adapt, Sed to this particular instance." rhest Was a Punster. TeRev. Francis Mi. Kielty, ree -tor .of the Church of the Holy An gels, St. Louis, Mo., who died re. icently, was a good deal of a wit, says ~,an exchange. Father- Kielty begar L-his sermon one Sunday morning by annoneing, In a voice full of pathos Sthat he had a confession to make. "I might as well make a cleai breast of it," he said. As the congregation igasped, he waved in the air a document, signei and sealed to resemble an order o: acourt. "Yes, I mean It," he continued, al rif to kill any lingering doubts,. ani Sthen, pointing through one of thi stained windows, continued: "That alley out there has beei paved and the city has sued me fo: alley money." Ambiguous. An amusing relic'of the civil wa: is in the possession of a young worn an in Baltimore, into whose father'i hands it fell some years ago witi effects of a Southern relative. At the time of the seige of Mobil4 the women of the city were busy fo: Vmany hours making bags to be filled ewith sand and used in the defence. eThe young ladies in one popula: *fboarding school not only made .auci jbags, but decorated them with met toes in silk or worsted. The relic referred to was one o the bags sent out from the school and bears in faded blue the unpune tuated device: "God save the Sout2 from Martha Bliss." Easy. "We are getting' up contributions Sfor the Home for Inebriate Working. Smen," explained the committee a& Mrs. O'Flarity opened her door tc Mrs. O'Flarity smiled broadly. "Come back on the inside of hal: Ian hour," said she, "and yez kin gli Marred in Making. )Because she marred a lady's face A "beauty" doctor had to pay. Arise, ye homely of the race And sue Dame Nature right awayl SWilliam Welsh, a hungry tramp, broke into an unoccupied dwelling in Greenville Ohio, and stole five pouind, f corned beef. Judge Allead a day or two ago sentenced him to the pen* itentiary for life. Welsh said he. en tered the house knowir g it to be un ccupied and because be was nearly famished. But his excuse "didn't go" with the law. If he wanted to steal e made the mistake of not becoming a "highway financier," when he would have been practically immune from a prison sentence. Mt. A. J. Tindall, of Clarendon county has scored the highest record of corn production winning the first prize o1Iered in a natiorial contest by The American Agriculturist. Mr. Tindall produced 182 bushels of corn net on a single acre, and with that sore beat the corn growers of' every State in the Union. This is the third time that South Carolina has beat the whole country raising corn, and yet at least one-half of our farmers ae teiax CQf crihs in lihe West. 13AIIHE IN HOT STEA3L Finns in a Maine Village Adhere to Old Country Methods. rlis. several hundred of whom reside in the vicinity of Long Cove, in St. George, Knox County, and who co-airise a large proportion -of the pa.ing Cutters ad q4-uarrymen on the granite wurks there, have a peculiar method of bathing. It has -some 'nrps of both the Turkish and Ru0izian beths, but the Finnish batb is unique and rather curious. When ever any considerable number of the nationality take up their residence they build a batfi always on the sanie plan. The Finish bath house, Is built substantially of wood, and is abont eight or ten feet square, with' peaked roof. There is a small vesti bale, with bench seats running on two sides, where the bathers may disrobe:,: The' bath room. itself is provided with a furnace of some what' crude masonry,. with a circn lar receptacle on top that is ^illed and heaped up with rounded and smooth stones gathered from the -seashore. When the apparatus is to be used - says the Philadelphia Record, a- fire-. is liggted in the furnace ind the stones are heated.until they are all sizzling hot. Then the-bathers-enter and close the doori and- single win dow and a- small ventilation aperture near the roof. Water Is then poured over the hot stones, and is at once .onverted into steam, which fills the room with a vapor at a temperature so 1igh that it is said that a novice ca'nn.ot stand the heat. But'theFtinns who have practiced this so-t f bath ing all their lives; just enjoyit. High up on one side of the room, just beneath the. roof, is -a wide bench seat, extending~ all the way across, on- which the.-bathers sit,ind where they get the full beneft of .the steale. Belowit, ata 'convenient dii. taice, is a plank on' which they rest their feet. And there they sit and steam until their poies- are -opened way up, scrubbing themselves with small boughs cut fronbushes and trees and having thick foliage These pecnliar towels are thoughtfully left for the convenience ;the net sa t ' of bathers. Whether yaf aupple mentary. dryting process is ever _1elf, we are not info.ried. Wbile, as stated.there i is place for disrobing, in which *the bathiers probably remain, to cool off after the ordeal; -the. Finns generally prepaie berniselves for it.at home id go to the bath: No..sheets wrapped abot the person.- Aaf evenings, as te wvhite forms flit about he village, one might suppose that a parade of ghosts was' -in- progress, or a shee and pillow case party was on.Stur day evening is the time gerally favored for the ceremony, .and on , that night- the fires -In the- furnaces are kept burning to a late hou e Every Finn takes the' bath at: leasit anee a week-men, women, and dhi 7 dren. There are five of -these bath houses in Long- Cove -village, .qnd, some -privatie 'residences are provide&d with them. Highly Prized Trophy. The Roosevelt Cup was won after an interesting contest by the:Ameri can yacht. Vim, which defeated- not only the other American compet tors in the race, but also the Ger nan yachts which had -been sent the most coveted international- tre Iphies ever offered. - It is not a' chal lenge trophy, but remans -the propK arty of that winner. Its value 1a $1,000. - A.Few Irish Proverbs. The proverbs of a nation aredthe listilled wit of generations of its deople: and. the true wit of the race is oftentimes in proportion to the truth .and beauty &f its proverbs. Few nations and few languages poe sees more beautiful sayings than the -rish. "The silent moulth Is -me- - dious," is an Irish aphorism. preg aanti with beauty and poetry. And. another -saying, inculcating a charity' - which .is, spiritually .needed .In this :noden world of ours, is that which tells us "Our eyes should be.blind in the -abode of another." . The beanui 'u1 faith and the magnificent optim' ism of the Irish race is well pictured in their. proverb, "God never shuts one door, but He opens two.'" "Au tumn days come softly, quickly, like the - running of-Ia .hound upon a moor," 'is .poetic, vivid truth. And ere is a sharp, satirical one that cats several ways at the same time~ "A poem ought to be wiell made -at - frst, for there"'ls many a on.e to spoi~ it afterwards." Wn are a nation of invincible optimi ists. Earthquakes, fires, cyclones and railroad and marine disasters cfnot shake our conviction that -things might be very mvch worse, and that all will be well one day;that eyen if all is never well, at least we' shall es cape the storm. Perhaps this is a good frame of mind to cultivate. WHAT seems likely to .prove one of the most expensive toots On record ' ws tooted by John-Fox in Sunbury. Pa., aday or two ago. The toot was from an automobile horn. It fright enedj Henry Klerks horse, causing Klerk to be shrown from its beck over an embankment and permanently in jured. Kierk wants $20,000 damages, and it is said he has a clear case. AT this time it seems.- that bucket shops in South 'Carolina will soon things of the past. Nunibers of bills have been introduced in both houseg l oking to their destruction, and it the opponents get together on a bIll they will go as they 'did In Georgia and Iieth Cainan