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RAISE THE DEAD. Prof. Poe Has Wonderful Machine Which Will Do It PUMPS IN NEW LIFE. Medical Men and Other Profession al Men Are Greatly Interested in the Model of the New Machine, For Which the Inventor Claims - Great Things, and Upon Which He Has Experimented. Almost sightless and semi-paralyz ed, Prof. George Poe, living the life of a recluse on a backwoods farm in Norfolk county, Va., claims to have solved the problem of raising the dead by means of his "respirator," as he calls the machine which he has invented for the purpose. Tests of it have already been mide in the presence of Norfolk and Portsmouth city physicians, asphyxiated or smothered dogs and rabbits being the subjects. In each case the ani mal, after being pronounced dead by the physicians, was brought back to life by Prof. Poe's device, and soon afterward was frolicking around in the full joy of living. A ten-year-old boy, Arthur Ostran der, son of the man with whom Prof. Poe lives, acted as his eyes and hands in the construction of the machine, which injects the air of life into the lungs as it pumps out the deadly gas es. The inventor claims that the ma chine will resuscitate persons killed by asphyxiation, poison or drown ing; prevent death by an anesthetic while a patient is being operated upon; prevent "infant asphvxia" at birth; make drunken men sober in a few minutes; revive men electrocut ed or hanged, the latter only in cases where the neck has been broken; pre vent freezing to death even in the Arctic. Prof. Poe had long been studying the problem, "When does life really leave the body?" One day, while he was illuminating the centennial of 1879, an employe brought in a trap containing a huge rat. After the ro dent had been killed the professor said: "Stand 'asike, boys, and I'll bring it back to life." He pumped oxygen into its lungs until he actual y did revive it, so that it leaped from the table and escaped in a hole. This encouraged Prof. Poe, and he redoubled his efforts to ascertain the exact moment when life ends. His interest in it was stimulated by the fact that a young sister who had been pronounced dead from typhoid fever and placed in her coffin had re vived within two hours of the time set for a burial and lived to be the mother of a family. Several years ago Prof. Poe, strick en with paralysis, was advised by his physicians to live in the country. He went to Norfolk county, and it was while in seclusion on the farm of his friend. A. C. Ostrander, that he evolved his artificial respiration ap paratus. The boy, Arthur, of whom the professor was fond, assisted in assembling the model and in doing what the professor's dim eyes and palsied hands could not alone accom plish. The professor's model is simply that of the human heart. The prob lem in the case of persons drowned, suffocated or dead through anesthe tics was to remove the fluid or the pisonous gases from the stomach or lungs, anid at the same time pump life-giving oxygen in. So Prof. Poe began experiments on what he calls double larynx tubes ard two tubes to connect the nostrils- -o .a for inlet. Studying the action of t ia heart, he saw that it was that of a double cy linder, or, rather, two cylinders; rgt and left ventricals and right and left auricles. With the assistance of young Ostrander he built a work ing model in line with the construc tion of the heart, a simple machine with two clyders, each having an in let and an outlet valve. The plung ers of each cylinder are made to work simultaneously. The machine will in a very few minutes sober up a drunken man who has fallen into a stupor. It is the slow respiration caused by liquor that makes a man "drunk." By the help of the respirator the respiration would be quickened, and, the poison thus carried out of his system, mind and body once more resume their normal state. Thomas Black, a retired business man of Norfolk, on being shown the, plans obtained permission to exhibit them to Dr. Francis M. Morgan, a' physician of Norfolk. Dr. Morgan immediately saw that it promised to be an immense boon to huiranity, and he induced the professor to de monstrate it before a committee of Norfolk county and Norfolk city doc tors. They witnessed the smothering of rabbits and dogs to the point of what they declared on th.eir profes sional honor was absolute death, and then saw them resusZaiated. Dr. Morgan Wednesday described a demonstration givin in his office by Prof. Poe and nis machine in the presence of himself and Dr. J. P. Jackson and Dr. N. G. Wilson. On the operating table was the little brass machine, composed of two smnan cylinders about a foot high and six inches in circumference, with a pump-handle. Pipes led from a tank of oxygen to the machine, and from it tubes fitted with nostril pieces were to be fastened to a rabbit. The rabbit was put on the table and one of the doctors injiected two grains of morphine into its leg, after which four ounces of ether was given. Of course the rabbit was dead after this, and the doctors applied every known test to discover signs of life. No life wa there and the doctors agreed that life was positively ex tinct. Then Prof. Poe applied the tubes to the rabbit's nostrils and, pumping out the poisons with one cylinder and pumping oxygen into the lungs with a simultaneous movement of the val-: yes, within three minutes the rab bit, but lately dead, was breathing naturally, and within six minutes it was running around the room. ItI showed no sign of nausea, proving that the ether wais entirely out of the system. Next a dog was placed in a box containing a heavily charged atmis phere of acetylene gas, one of the most poisonous gases known, and smothered there for forty minutes. The dog was then taken out and doz tosexamined him and pronouncei dead bevondi hope of resuscita-1 ~ But the sittle machine got in five artificial respirations, began breathing naturally, and soon bis pulse was beating normally. NOTHING GAINED. Mr. Brunson Compares the Old and New Dispensary Laws. He Does Not See Where The Prohi bitionists Have Gained Anything By New Law. To the Editor of The State: I do not wish you to think that prohibition is dead, or that I am dis gruntled at defeat. The truth is, while I do not intend to again be a candidate for any office, I shall con tinue to vigorously oppose the sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage Pur poses,, and with this in view shall lend a hand to the organization of the prohibition forces during the next two years. To this end I hope you will give me space in your col umns for an occassional letter. The prohibitionists were chiefly re sponsible for the enactment of the old dispensary law and true to their compromising tendencies they de serve, in large measure, the credit for the passage of the new dispensary law. There has been much rejoicing all over the State at the death of the G. M. I., but it- behooves an intelli gent Christian people to examine carefully and if possible see wherein the conditions have been bettered. Will not the county dispensaries, now being so eagerly established sell just as much liquor as when they were under State control? Will not the stuff now sold by them make just as much drunkenness and crime as the stuff they sold before? Have not the opportunities for corruption and graft been multiplied by the number of new county boards authorized to buy liquors? *Is the general distribu tion of graft germs over the State better than to keep them in a pest house in Columbia? Is there some thing peculiar in the soil of Charles ton and Columbia that will purify the liquors there distilled; or was it for some other reason that to those cities was given the exclusive right to establish new distilleries and brew eries? It is necessary in distillation to have 20,000 people to watch the process, or was it the object of our legislators to give to the cities of Charleston and Columbia the bulk of the liquor trade of the county boards throughout the State? Under the Brice law we had all the "local option" we needed and the question was between prohibition and the old dispensary with its establish ed corruption-a convicted criminal. Now, under the Carey-Cothran com promise we have only the same local option and the question is between prohibition and the county dispen sary, the corruption of which must develop as it is operated. Are we in better condition? The old dispensary law gave us by far a stronger, better organized sys tem for handling intoxicating liquors than this loosely-jointed system of county dispensaries can ever be; and yet we saw every good feature of the law violated, every restriction re moved and every barrier to corrup tion broken down within a few years. It should not be forgotten that the county dispensers under the old sys tem were entirely free from temp tation in the matter of buying liqu ors-greatest of all the temptations -and yet about 50 per cent. of all those employed had to be dismissed for shortage' in their accounts or other crime. Can we hope for better results with increased temptations? I believe the time will soon come when the authors of the Carey-Coth ran compromise will be as much ashamed of their product as certain others should now be of the old dis pensary law. JOEL E. BRUNSON, Greenville, S. C., March 4, 1907. BRAIN LEAKS Bright Sayings of W. M. Dauphin in Bryan's Commoner. An ounce of will is worth a pound of wish. The true Christian has seven Sun days a week. Credit is the grease on the run ways to bankruptcy. It is a disgrace to be poor if it is your own fault. A "fashionable church" is a vesti bule to perdition. Infidelity makes no converts at the mouth of the tomb. Profanity is the drum major of the whole parade of sin. The recording angel never has to strike a trial balance. When you can fully realize the depth of a mother's love you are just beginning to realize the depth of God's love. Real sympathy is always accom panied by the helping hand. The seed of duty well done pro duces the flower we call happiness. The weight of the trangressor: Fourteen ounces to the pound. It is awfully easy to be good natured when things are coming your way. The man who is doing, his whole duty has very little time for grumb ling. The wife who really loves her hus band will always laugh at his jokes. A whole lot of husbands have for gotten how they courted their wives. A man cannot raise a crop of brains by irrigating his stomach with booze. Satan always keeps a large force busy coining excuses for not doing right. There is a great difference be tween having fast friends and friends that are fast. When you meet a man who has the itch for office it is a good time to "scratch." A lot of people give God promis sory notes in order to have cash on hand for Satan. Law and MoralsI. A Missouri graduate in law, says . politician of that state, wrote to a prominent lawyer ini Arkansas to in-* juire what chance there was in that! ~ection for such a one ashe described iEelf to be. He said: "I am a re ublican in politics and an honest 'oung lawyer." The reply that ame back seemed encouraging in its nterest: "If you are a republican, :he game laws here will protect you, dif you are an honest lawyer, youi CHINESE PRISONS. Terrible State of Men and Women Confined in Them. Some of the Tortures Inflicted on Prisoners Are Almost Beyond Be lief The East of Asia Magazine says the first thing which impresses the European visitor to the Chinese pris on is the absolute flimsy character of the structure itself. If one gets per mission to visit the prison in Canton -and shoals of globe trotters do wend their way thither after they have seen the execution grourid-it will be found to be a ramshake build ing of no pretence whatsoever. The question will be asked: "By what means are the prisoners held in safety if the structures in which they are incarcerated are so flimsy and in secure?" the answer is brief. With out exception the prisoners are fet tered. Many have chains on the legs only. These are the less dangerous and have been guilty of the less im portant crimes. Others, in addition, have letters on the arms, which make it impossible for them to escape. Lastly, a few prisoners were not only manacled on. the ankles, but wore a-chain around their necks, at the dangling end of wichh was at tached a block of granite. The pris oner would walk from place to place within the court yard, but ere he could move beyond the length of his chain he must stop and lift the stone and, carrying it in his shackled arms, drop it again where he wishes to stop. In addition to the chains worn by day, all the male prisoners are furth er shackled at night. By means of two heavy beams, in which holes have been made for the ankles of the pris oners, a rude but effective method is discovered for detaining the prison ers in absolute security. The prisoners, who during the day have been loafing in the court yard, are in the evening driven into the wards and made to lie side. by side on a raised platform. The upper of the two beams is then raised and each man is compelled to place his ankle into the hole made to receive it, whereupon the upper beam isreplac ed and the prisoners are held by the feet in these rude stocks. There is no possibility of escape. They are allowed bricks for pillows, and in this uncomfortable position they pass the hours. In addition to this however, special cruelties are perpetrated on certain prisoners who, for some reason or other, are exempted from capital punishment. Prisoners there are whose appearance becomes as wild as the beasts of the forest, who, with heavy cangues on their shoulders, are incarcerated in a tifthy dungen for the term of their natural life..I have seen them moving to and fro ike caged hyenas in their dens at a men agerie. Their appearance is revolt ing. Night and day, as far as I remem ber, both asleep and awake, this heavy burden rested on their shoul ders, though how it was possible to sleep therein I was unable to under stand. On the other hand, in a pris on I visited for a few weeks ago, I was informed that the cangue was removed at nights that the prisoners might sleep. A crowd in the prison quadrangle, with their, unshaven heads, their unwashed faces, their clanking fetters, their hopeless looks, their diseased bodies and their be bruted souls can never be forgotten. But although under the recognized system of punishment Chinese pris oners must live a life which to us of the West would be unbearable, it would not be so to them if they were fairly treated and were saved from the exactions and barbarities to which they are exposed at the hands of their rapacious keepers. When a prisoner first goes into the wards the warders claims his clothes and his money and he is left with the barest rages to cover his nakedness. He is robbed of all his cash, as a mat ter of course. Those who are con dened are compelled under a threat of the whip, to write begging letters to their relatives, requestmig them to fcrward money. If the unfortunate man hesitates to accede to this demand the ward ers, assisted by some of the oldest prisoners-for it appears that inmat es of more than 20 years' residence have accorded them certain privileg es-take the man in hand during the night. The hands of the prisoner are fastened by a rope, and the other end of the rope is then passed through a ring which hangs from the roof of the ward. The warders then hoist the unhap py wretch, who is left hanging in mid air by the hands. Should he attempt to cry out, his mouth and throat are filled with ashes. When the breath aas almost left his body and he is hoking he is lowered, and under the terror of renewel of this torture he is eager to promise almost anything. Many die under this ordeal. But as it is assumed among the mandarins that mortality must be high, and as o official probing is ever dreamed of, a general statement as to natural death is sufficient. Sawdust Alcohol. "Glorious Opportunities Lost" is the name for song that the drinking men of the country can sing with much pathos, said Dr. Wiley, the pure food expert of the agricultural department, Friday. The doctor ex plained that science has discovered that sawdust is a good material for the manufacture of alcohol. "It's not wood alcohol," declared the ex pert. "But the genuine stuff can not be told by taste, smell or ana lysis from alcohol made from Indian orn. Just think of the millions of tons of sawdust that have gone to waste. Sawdust alcohol is now be ing manufactured commercially in Pennslyvania and the industry is ex pected to spring up and thrive in all sawmill communities." Brutal Murder. When he returned from his office Friday night, Herman W. Quern heim, president of the Quernheim Hardware Co., stumbled over the ifeless form of his wife in the front hall of his residence, 3720 Vesta ave nue, one of the fashionable residence streets of St. Louis. Mrs. Quern heim's throat had been cut, she had been shot once and her body had been brutally torn and bruised. scattered about the floor were num rous jewels and several hundred] lollars in currency. The only thing at was missing was a pair of dia nond ear-rings which had been torn from the dead woman's ears. Noth ng hasbeen leaned atothe iden st o Mrs. Quernheim's assailant. I PRISONER RESCUED. Negro Taken Out of the Rowes ville Guard House. Jake Bonaparte Wrenched Pistol from Officer Inabinett and Shot at Him, but Without Effect. Rowesville was somewhat stirred up Friday night when a negro man by the name of Jake Bonaparte re sisted when ')ffler Inabinet under took to arrest him for disorderly con duct on the street. In the scuffle Bonaparte wrested a revolver from the officer and fired point blank at him but fortunately the balls went wild and the officer escaped injury. The affair caused considerable ex citement for a time, and the negro will be severely punished when he is caught. Bonaparte was employed at the J. L. Blake Lumber Company's mill at Rowesville as a log turner and came from Sumter some months ago to work in the mill. While he had never been under arrest, he was al ways to be found standing around when there was trouble going on and he had the reputation of being a sullen negro About eight o'clock Friday night he was standing on the sidewalk amusing himself by pushing negroes into the street. Alderman George H. Inabinet came out from the store where he works and attempted to Place Bonaparte under arrest. Bona parte resisted and Mr. Inabinet at tempted to subdue him by tapping him on the head with the butt end of the pistol, which he had drawn when the negro refused to submit to arrest. The negro then caught hold of the pistol and wrested it from Mr. In .ibinet's hand. As soon as he got possession of the pistol the negro opened fire on Mr. Inabinet. He then ran and the peace officers of the town, w~ho are the mayor and alder men, started out with a posse of citizens to run him down. They rent to the cabin of Aik Martin. where they had reason to think that he had hidden and the woman of :he house barred the door against them and would not allow them to en ter. The woman's refusal to open the 'oor made the officers certain that Ionaparte was in the house, and so 'ey determined to force the door hich they did by putting their .ioulders against it and the -r fell in on the woman and her e eek old babe and other chil e-i. They did not find the.man )0Y wz nted. but did find that he it through the yard a few minutes e 'c* e they were there. The pcsse returned to Rowesville vi later O'icers Henry Wolfe, W. Mazych and Robert Fairey went o the cabin of Rosie Jones. where -e knew a **hot supper" was to Ye served and waited in the woods u:side the cabin saw the man they anted, who walked into their arms nd was placed under arrest with ot trouble. He did not have the nin that it was known that he had in his hand when he ran away. He :laimed to have thrown it away. Bonaparte was then placed in the ;Lard house, but when Sunday morn ing came he was not in there. Some of his friends had wrenched the lock from the door and rescued him, and he is now at large. The officers of Rowesville should spare no effort to find out 'who released the prisoner. ad' when they are found out they should be prosecuted to the full ex cent of the law. Bonaparte is a round faced .negro about 25 years of age and weighs in the neighbor hood of 200 pounds. It is hoped that he will be caught and punished. The News of the Day. Archie Roosevelt,, young son of the president, is critically ill with diphtheria. Names of several Yale students were mentioned by witness in the Norton divorce case. Hamburg shipowners are import ing English stevedores to take the places of the strikers. Dr. C. J. Moffett, the originator of "Moffett's Teethina" died in Rus sell County, Alabama. Ambassador Bryce called at the state department and discussed mat ters of pending business. It is probable that Mrs. Eddy will be summoned to appear before a magistrate to tell of her affairs. Standard Oil on trial in Chicago for rebating, suffered two setbacks in the shape of adverse rulings. M. Golovin, the president of the lower house of the Russion parlia ment, had an audience with the czar. N. T. Maxwell, accountant of the Southern at Spencer. N. C., is in jail charged with padding the pay rolls. Western railroads have abolished all reduced fares in retaliation for egislatures passing 2-cent rate laws. A bomb thrown at Gen. Nepleuff, the retiring commandant oi Sebasto pol, 'vounded him in the feet and legs. The British woman suffragists say they will keep on having themselves sent to jail until their object is at tained. The Pennslyvania railroad Com pany reached an agreement with the trainmen both sides making conces sions. Senator Bailey denies that he has asked to succeed Senator Blackburn as the democratic leader of the Uni-, ted States senate.I A Pennsylvania Railroad passen ger train plunged over an embank ment near Warren, Pa., and nine persons were hurt..I Thousands of Georgians paid their last homage to Judge Logan E. Bleckley at the funeral in the capi tol in Atlanta Thursday. It is reported that a battle took place between the forces of Hondu ras and Nicaragua in which the Nic araguans were defeated. Cl. E. R. Fox, of Los Angeles, Cal., was arrested and held in $5,000 bail on a charge of criminal libel made by Dr. H. McD. Peggs. The story sent out from Washing ton that a machine had been invent ed to take the fuzz off of cotton seed is pronounced a fake. It is claimed that the Louisiana slphur mines can supply the world ith that article of commerce. The [talian government is interested in] ;he statement. Ex-President Grover Cleveland is hooting ducks at Georgetown, S, C.,i is the guest of Gen E. P. Alexander. {e is accompanied by E. C-. Benedict mnd Admiral Lanmberton. E Detectives announce that they ave located W. F. Walker. the de aulting treasurer of a bank in New ritian, Conn., in Fant Francisco. 'h~ aait ent1tA,.o),. Turn on the Light. Had the Legislature passed the Raysor-Manning Bill before the last election the people would have stood by the State Dispensary by a large majority. The enemies of the State Dispensary knew this, and that Is the reason why the House of Repre sentatives refused to pass the puri fication measure. The State Dispen sary as originally designed was al most graft proof, but it had been so changed by the Legislature that graft became an easy matter In its management. The Raysor-Mannning Bill would have put the institution back where Senator Tillman put it when he designed it, but the prohi bitionists, the County Dispensary ad vocates and the high license or bar room element in the Legislature by acting together prevented the pas sage of the Raysor-Manning Bill and thus prevented the purification of the State Dispensary. They claim ed that the State Dispensary could not be reformed. It must be admitted that there was considerable graft in the man agement of the State Dispensary, and the Legislature must be given credit for turning out the old board of directors and electing a new onet but the House of Representatives refused to do what the friends of the State Dispensary asked them to do. which would have made the State Dispensary graft proof. When the new board of directors was el ected it was hoped that its members would so act that there would be n'o ground for the slightest suspicion of any wrong doing on their part, but unfortunately this was not the case, and very soon after the Legis lature met a committee investigated them and the Legislature unani nously recommended that they be re moved from office, which to his cre dit be it said Governor Ansei very promptly did. The revelations brought out by the committee doom ed the State Dispensary, It was brought out by the com mittee that Mr. Black, one of the members of the State Board of Dis pensary Directors, had placed a ver'y large order with one whiskey house under very peculiar circumstances. In repozting their findings the com mittee said in reference to the case mentioned above that they "found that Mr. John Black, a member of the Board of Directors, purchased a large amount of liquor amounting to about one thousand six hundred barrels, from Clarke Brothers & Sons of Peoria, Ill., Black making the pur chase in person at Peoria. The com mittee went on to say that the li quor thus purchased by Mr. Black from Clark Brothers & Sons at $1.50 to $1.75 per gallon, is a very infer or quality of liquor, being what is known as high wine, and it is not worth more than $1.33 to $1.35 per gallon and can be bought in the market at that price. Mr. Norfolk, the blender at the State Dispensary under the old sys tm, testified that the rye whiskey purchased of Clarke Bros. & Sons, was nothing but "chlogne spirits" worth but $1.32 per gallon in the market, whereas the State of South Carolina was expected to pay from $1.50 to $1.75 per gallon, notwith standing the fact that the single or der aggregated nearly $109,000. He declared that the corn purchased of this firm was about as cheap whis key as one could buy, and was worth about $1.33, while the State was to pay $1.60 for it. According to these igures it appeared that the State paid about thirty thousand dollars too much for this one order. It was just such transactions as this that caused the downfall of the State Dis pensary. This matter should be probed by the commission appointed to wind up the affairs of the State Dispen sary. Let the commission hold up all the bills of Clarke Brothers & Sons until this transaction is sifted to the bottom. They should be fore ed to tell how much they were to pay for this large order and to whom If it should develop that. some dis pensary official was to get this rake off he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Let an ex ample be made of some old State ~spnsary official If he has been dishonest, and it will have a most wholesome effect on the officials of the County Dispensaries throughout the State. If the dispensary system is to stand it must be conducted honestly from top to bottom. Afne rension Army. The oldest member of the Gran rmy ot the Republic, Willian -ed 106, is dead, and the Grand Army Is considering the dis atinuance of Its anu.: through infirmities due to advancing e. "Prehaps," says the New York Times in noting the above fact,"the veterans will never again be seen in line with their tatteredfiags. It is a pity, and there will be real loss In the disappearance of such a whole some stimulas of patriotism. It is a pity also that this sympathy for the brave and decrepit is marred by the wonder that although the Grand Army ranks are thus thinning, the far from grand army of pensioners is surprisingly healthy and superior to every consideration of morality. .If the pension roster and Grand Army roster shrunk together both classes would be enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen, but what shall be said when the pension roll grows faster than the old soldiers die.?" Very Much Mixed. Suit for divorce was filed in Cleve land, Ohio on Tuesday by Elizabeth Gordon Hanna, wife of Dan R. Han , only son of the late Senator Mark Fianna. Hanna is accused of gross neglect f duty, abandonment and extrerne .ruelty. Mrs Hanna asks for divorce, ample inony and the custody of her laughter, Elizabeth, aged five years. The plaintiff is Hanna' s second 'ife, her first husband being Walter es Maud, an Englishman. She was ivorced from him in 1900, and on ~edruary 19 of the same year she was narried to Dan Hanna Hanna has also been married wice. Dan Hanna's first marriage as to May Harrington. She obtained divorce mn 1898. She has since re aarried. Hanna's p resent wife is the laughter of the late Charles W.i ordon, a millionaire, who beqeath: Glad Ther Are Few. Sometime ago we heard a young man making fun of ieligion. From our soul we sincerely pitied him, be cause we thought he lacked some thing in his head. His moustach had just begun to sprout and judg ing from his talk his mental facul ties were not as well developed as his moustache. During our brief stay upon earth we have seen many just such young men cold In death. We have seen the atheist at rest in his casket, but before consigned to their last resting place they have all been carried through the doors of a chdrch and had prayers said over them. This young man could scoff at religion in his strength and beauty of health, but if the dark an gel should get after him he would instinctively regret what he said and look into the future with fear and trembling. When one stands before the open door of eternity his desire to scoff at religion vanishes. We ad mit there are bad men in the chiurch but even these black sheep i the flock might be blacker if they were outside. No young man, or old one either, should condemn the noble efforts of the army of Christian men and women are making towards bet tering the condition of things, and whether we attend church or not but few of us would desire to live in a community where there was no church. We thank God that such young men as we speak of above are rare. Taught Tem a Lesson The Southern memb-rs in Con gress had an opportunity last week to again show to the!r Republican friends that principle was worth more to them than "opportunity". It came about in the fight against the ship subsidy graft. In derision the Republicans moved to strike out the provision for a suusidy for the one line from a southern port, and were surprised to note that to a man the Democrats voted ;a strike it out. is the Florence Times says the South might have gotten rich long ago if her representatives had shared the tariff graft with the North and let the principle of the thing alone, but they have never ac cepted such doubtful benefits for themselves nor been content to see others doing the robber act. It is very gratifying to see that there is still some of that high principle in Southern politics, we were greatly fearing that the Southern Statesmen were being "modernized" so that they considered anything that they could get without being caught by the police was right. In voting against the subsidy bill the Demo crats gave the Republicans a lesson in honesty. A Sharp Trick.. Our readers should keep their weather eye open for fakirs and swindlers, they are numerous and work every scheme to catch people. The latest swindle, worked by a sharper In one of the cities recety is an apt illustration of the ability of these dead beat fakirs to catch not only the ignorant but all others who are not c'onstantly on their guard. This swindler walked into a jewelry store and selecting a $125 watch left a check for $600 drawn on an out-of town bank, with instructions that1 the watch be regulated and that he would come after it and his change a week later. On returning he was informed that his check was no good "Well, that's strange," he said,"It's the second time the bank has done that thing to me. But here's the mon ey for your watch," and he counted out $125 in currency and started for the door. "Oh, yes," he said, turning round, "you'd better give me that! check." It was willingly handed! over to .him. On the back was the jeweler's endorsement. With this he man went into a bank, got itl ashed and was never heard of af terward. Hope This is True. A dispatch from Washington says one of the most important devices in the history of cotton culture prac tically has been perfected by experts of the department of agriculture. It Is a machine for the removal of the fuzz on cotton seed and for the sep eration of light from heavy seed,The process has been In course of devel opment for about two years and It is the opinion of the cotton experts of the department that its universal use would effect a saving of about 10 per cent. of the entire cotton crop As the crop of America amounts to~ $750,000,000 a year, it easily can be realized that isuch a saving would be of vast importance. By the remov al of the fuzz from the cotton seed the seed may be planted with an or dinary gravity drill. By the ease with with the smooth seed cain be manipulated they can be planted In hills, without unnecessary waste, and the plans so located can be tilled in two directions. The machine. it is stated, can oe made at very small expense, and as the invention is In the hands of the government, cotton planters who use It will have to pay no royalty for it. Penny Wise Pound Foolish. It Is said that the appropriations made by the legislature will exceed by $187,000 the Income of the state~ under the 4%~ mill levy and from! license and all other sources. This levy was fixed by the legislature In the face of the comptroller general's* tatement that this deficit would oc cur. In commenting on this condi tion of the finances the Spartanburg Journal says It Is difficult for the people of the state to understand :he legislature's motive in such an 1 nbusiness-like proceeding. A heavy leficit a year hence will be a serious ambarrassment to the state govern nent and we think the states cred t would in some degree suffer from uch a situation. No man in his5 >wn business would neglect to pro ride for his expenditures; yet the d Agislature of South Carolina has lone that very thing. Appropria- v ions were increased and the tax! evy decreased. In trying to be eco iomical the legislature pursued a I enny wise pound foolish policy. Sam Johnson, a member of the! 'exas Legislature, denounced Sena- h r Bailey in a public speech as a b wilful, premeditated andI mallious sr." Tbat Is putng it pretty fe SECON(D HANDO MAfl 0MX Why a Little Village May Not Have Mi Numbers in Its Post Office. The man who was spending his sunmer vacation In the conntry wi ' looking quizzically at the mail bo in the rural post.office. "I did not know this was such large place." he said. "I thought it had a population of only abo, 4,000, but the mail box numbers r much higher than that, and I do suppose every one in town rents box either." The postmaster peered out of h' little barred window. ,"I can explain that," he said. "Y see th'e country post offices never a new boxes, but we have those ! over when the city establishme: make over their offices and get u' boxes. So you see lots of count places are bound to have high nu ber boxes. "Although our numbers run o,. 4,000, you won't find any less fl, 1,000, some other country post - Aee drew the lower ones. I myv would rather get the big numb. for it makes us seem like a busti: little city." Chamois Skins. Charles C. Druedling has wrItte an article for the American Jourr of Pharmacy on the subject of cbs ols skins. What is known in market as chamois skins, he s is really an oil-tanned sheep or la skin lining. The supply of skc from the chamois animals is '" limited-enough could not be obt)it ed In a year to supply -the Unit States for more than a single e. He made special inquiry on a recf. visit to Switzerland about the a.: nual crop of the chamois skin -n ascertained that from 5,000 to 6.00 skins would be a fair average yearl. crop. This skin is heavier than th skin of the sheep or lamb, also muc' coarser. For strength and durabilit. the chamois skin is preferable, but for ordinary use and appearance th-, oil-tanned sheepskin lining would, in most instances, be preferred. Made His Own Teeth. Charles Bennett, aged 60, a Franklin county convict serving ave years in the Ohio penitentiary to: burglary, not only pulls his own teeth but he makes new ones and puts them In himself. He makes the teeth out of rosim beef bones obtained in the kitchen using -only a little saw and a pen knife. He has been using two of the teeth several months and is now at work on others. He pulls his old teeth by meaa.Oi a fiddle string and then makes the new teeth the shape of the ones pulled out. They are grooved so they fit to the gum and also to the. teeth on each side. Origin - of "Flat." Possibly the exact origin of "flat" as applied to an apartment will for ever remain in obscurity. In recent years owners of "flat houses" have rebelled against the term most ho-ly. A short while ago a tenant was threatened with a suit for libel be cause he persisted in saying that he lived in suchland-such a fiat ho-ase The landiord declared that the structure was neither a fiat house nor a tenement, but an apartm~ent hotel. The repeated use of "flat house" as a designation tenderi to lower the reputation of the place and drove away would-be occupants. .Choir-of Birds. At the Chapel of St. Peter in Flor ence there is a choir of birds, the1 only one of its kind in existence. The birds-300 in number are all in sep arate cages, which are arranged in1 rows on both sides of the altar. The leader is a girl, who has had ~the 'irds under her own personal tan Ing for more than two years. The whole of the musical pare of the eer vice Is most exquisitely rendere'd byf them. The leader starts eaeh hymn~ by whistling the first few notes, and then the birds take it up, in obedi nce to the movement of their in structor's hand.-E.change. Work of Earthquake. Street car lines leadingout of San Francisco demonstrated the eIfects of the recent earthquake in a pecu liar way. Photographs of ths line show the track apparently undisturb ed except In spots ~ the rails, are twisted or buckled longitudinally. It was as if each rail hod been pushed together toward the middle from the end with the result that the sterp rails bent as if they had been me-re wire in the hands of a man. The buckling on this line occurred in spots over a distance of three miles Legend of a Leather Bag. At Lullingebone Castle. the Kent-) ish residence of Sir William an Lady Emily Tart-Dyke, is preservee' a leather bag of coins. The radci ton is that whenever the heir is mat red: he and his bride must place :. coin in the bag. The legend fur-the enjoins that this matrimonial oi?" tory bag must never be counted some dire misfortune will overtaL the newly wed couple. Flight of Birds. .Eagles have been noticed flying:i a height of 6,000 feet, and stork and. buzzards at 2,000 feet. A larsj wll rise to the same height, and at wil crows. As a ruie, however, bird. do not fly at a greater height thai. 1,000 feet.-Exchange. Japanese Boom in Bricks. The price of bricks has risen 2' per- cent. In Japan, owing to order received at the principal brick fac tories from San FrancIsco. We believe there will come a tim(! when Charleston will be one of the largest and richest cities in the world. This. may cause a smile te lay over the faces of some, but i' is true, never-the-less. As we see the tuture, with the canal completed ~harleston has the brightest out ook of any city in America. He: lay is comilng. Sixteen young lady operatives i bag factory at Wilmington wen n a strike because a notice was post d that there was to be no talkin; uring work hours. They did e ctly right. The idea of sixt@ oung ladles being together for tei ours a day and not talk. The fel r w that concocked that rule need: oking after. An zinxious inquirer wants tc ow wseat it is to be "flimfiammed ncoed, an d panhandled." Tha flow evidently has never tried hi: u A NEEW, JUST LIKE SLEEP. is the tastidet of Natmal Death Sa ; in tankindt The most. convincing fact in proof of &e existnee In man of an instinct of natural death seems to me that reort ed by Toxarsky in relation to an old woman. in the lifetime of Toarsky I begged an acqualntanle of his to oN-. tina for me the details of this'most In teresting case, of .which I had found but an incomplete satement To arsky unfortunately could add nothing to what he had published In his article. I believe, however, that I have found the source from which his instance had been taken. In his -Sook upon the physiology of taste, which had its-day of celebrity, Brillat-Siarin relLtes - the followlnur "I had a great-aunt, ninety-three years old, who was dying. AlthoUgh for sow. time confined to her bed, she had re tained all her faculties, and hdr.;endI-. tion was only betrayed by her loss of appetite and the weakening of fher voice. She: had always shown a fond ness for ie, and I was near her bed, affectionately ready to wait on ber which did not prevent my- watching her with the philosophical eye I have ever had for the things and events sUr rounding me. 'Are you there, nepbw she asked, in a scarcely audible voice. 'Yes, aunt; I am here at your servi, and I think you would do well to take a little good old wine' 'Glie, mos aml. One- can always swillo M-qid I hastened. Raising her gently, I mads her take half a gliss of my best wine. She brightened for a moment and. look Ing at me with eyes whichdrad once been very fOne,' 'Thank you,'sbe said -for this last favor. If ever you reach my age you will find that death be omes - need, just like sleep. "These were her last words. Half an hour later she had fallen asleep foreV er. We unmistakably have bere saAIn-. stance of the Instinct of naturald The Instinct was -hown at a relatve. early age in a perusz who hidr ad all her intellectual facultie.-I fessor Elie Metchnlkoff In Harper' POINTED PARXGRAPHS. Beat a'boy out of a urie at -h crime will never outlaw. Comparison may not be a. but It.is certainly'a half siater.7 The truth with: unselfish peopf I they are liable to bragiabouLtit There is only one way In thls1world to get your own way-Insist upon Almost any ' defense wouldbe sil right if you could make peple be lieve it. . it is just as dangerous t SOe people secret as it is ti fl/wit a loaded gun. When a man snbmits to a wedding the other men look at he the way boys look at a bait:h: mother makes him wear Jongn The man who: hasmade an line of business never good opinion of themaiw In the spme line at the same' made it a success.-Atchiso-G The stor.is told of late looking farmer who' oaW4mye" Ing the progress of a potictlA 1 esfI in Cooper Institute stood oetetsi with the~ air of one who has bd -s~ felted with a fatof somesacL. "Do you -knowwh'gkn now?"' demanded a strangerbsl pausing for a moment -eie ~ds consolate farmer, "or are you astje ig In?" "No. sir.. I've just come out."-a the farmer decidedly. ")fr .Evarta taling In there." ^ -"What abouty' asked-the-strangien - "Well, he didn't say~ he.-fa*isi answered. .passing a lotted hbi across. his forehead. Out of a-ri'ver bed where It ha in bled when its dam was put to.ight some hunters in India fished. a tiger 3 cub. In two. days it was-as tamea kitten and grew, up the piayydatedC~ the camp terriers. It was verefo.& of thiem and the terriers *otsh]pd~. tgres& To allay'the feirn f womn visitor the tigress was one nightzchalfl ed up. Nert morning theinnimal was found with a man under her.. Sahedfa not hurt him. He was a thIf~~t knowing of her -exlsteinee, ha wvithin the area- which- her lut~ 'hain enabled her to cnmmand., spang upon himA ay on him and~ept him prisoner until guards came. t s lease him. ..A Fanmous Tene. Apart from Its wide ran. the asb ural beauty and sweetness'of tbSodke' of Sims Reeves held his audieces spellbound and fully entitled him tabis termed the finegt English tenor of his day. He especilly -excelled in erae toro parts. whilein opera'his uae was scarcely less pronouned. ~e haps It was as a singer of Englih b. lads that Sims Reeves appealed'to th majority, and It will probably be many a long day before we shall hear a mats exquisite. rendering of. "Sally .In Owr Aley" than that of which this gut tenor was capabie.-Iondn MalL Negleeted Uasas. Visiting Britisher - But you have nothing to see ,over here-nothing I mean, in the way of grand old :thig tat have long since fallen lnts di.. see. Gothamte- We haven't. eb? Wat till you get a copy of the olty ordinances.-Life. Coeaparing Notes. Bleeker-My wife got the best of me in an argument this morning. Meeker -y .wlfe never got the best of-ine but once. Bleeker-When was:3hatt - ieeer-when she married 'me.-ChI eago News. Five miles of one of the rural mail -outes out of Townville in Anderson ounty have been cut off by the de >artment bcause the road was 1nt assable. Let us remember this nd keep our roads in good order. Charles Howard and Thomas No an, alleged yeggmnen, were acquit ed at Marion of burglariging the lank of Mullins. They had no law1 r and gave no testimony. It pays ometimes to keep -your mouth We congratulate the juries of herokeer County, and oinmend telr way of dealing with mansayers >thie ;ries of other counties. As ~es of :-:oir .-arless work a hite man goes to the gallows for Brother W. W. Ball, of the -News id Cfourier editorial staff, has de ied the honor of a' position on: w. Ansl's staff, and Col. Coleman