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WILL SOON OPEN., The National Campaign is Begin- I ning to Thaw Out AND GREAT ISSUES Will Be Discussed On the Platform' by Thousands of Irators. Sen ator Tillman Will Be Prominent Among Them. Some of the Oth er Speakers on Both Sides Are - Given Below. .. National political issues will be discussed to a greater extent the present spring and summer than they were during the recent session of congress. This statement may seem odd. but it nevertheless, is true. A change has came over the people of America in the last decade-a change that is particularly noticeable in Washing ton. Years ago, political campaign~s were conducted practically througnl only three or four months, in a pres ,idential contest, and during only two or three months in a congressional contest. Times have changed and so have political methods. There is no: awaiting now for the presidential campaign to begin next spring or summer. It is "on" at the moment. Candidates, in their personality, may not be discussed so much, but issues! of the campaign are being threshd out from every rostrum in the coun try. Political arguments and partisan appeals formerly were made either through the newspapers or at stated gatherings of one or another of the political parties. In the opinion of the best political observers, the day! of the political meeting, as such, is passing, if, ineeded, it already has not gone into history. So far as in fluence is concerned, it has become a reminiscence. People attend politi cal meetings as a matter of curiosity or to put in the time, but not to get instruction as to how they shall vote. In a few years more the "spellbin der" will be out of a job, because he no longer is able, in the judgment of the politica managers, to deliver the goods. For several years the lecture plat form has been increasing in import, ance and influence. It supplements thoroughly the newspaper press m conveying.to the people facts and in formation about the government and about the live questions of the day. This is indicated by the number of prominent Americans-men who are identified with the political life of the country-who have appeared on the lecture platform and who prac tically have abandoned the political rostrum. Year in and year out they preach their doctrine from Chautau qua platforms and lyceum stages. The discussions of issues which they present to the people are supposed to be non-partisan. but as a matter of concrete fact they are as partisan as is the individual who delives the address. Political lecturing is not only profit able to the man who is successful at it, but it enables the lecturer to reach a greater number of people whom he probably desires -to reach than any other method. Several members of eongress have lecture engagements * which will consume practically all of their time between this and the con vening of congress next December, For these lectures, which are either plain political speeches of disserta tion on various phases of social or economic life, those who deliver them receive $50 to $250 each. The price varies with the lecturer and the subject. It is not unlikely that Senator Till man of South Carolina, will deliver his lecture on the race question 150 * times before congress reassembles next December. In that time he will earn many times his salary as a Uni ted States senator, ir he is Yaukee enough to get a mighty good price for his lecture engagements. Every lyceum manager and lecturepromot er in the country eagerly sought Sen-| ator Tillman's services this year, for he draws enormous crowds wherever he is billed to appear. Senator LaFoliette, the diminutive statesmani from Wisconsin, will spendj much of his time during the spring and summer on the lecture platform. William Jennings Bryan, too, will, appear frequently at important pub -lic assemblages as, also, will Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, who just now is conducting a debate with Mr. Bry an on the issues of the next presi dential campaign. Former Senator Fred Dubois, of Idaho, will attack the Mormons on the lecture plat form. Representative Champ Clark, of Missouri, Governor Folk, of the same state. and Governor Cumnmins, of I',wa, also will be prominent sum rner lecturers who will seek to strengthen their political pocket books by talking politics, for a sub stantial consideration. Farmers and Telephones. Many farmers do not realize the immense advantages and labor-sav ing possibilities in the telephone. By its use, one may learn from city or village the state of the market, the probable demand, any shortage that exists, and be prepared to take ad vantage of it promptly, while Mr. Slowpoke is finding out too late that there was a brisk demand for the very goods he had to sell. Market' reports in weekly papers are ancient' history wheu received these days. What we want is advance informa- I tion. The telephone was certainly the most valuable invention of the last half century, and none have ben efitted more by it than farmers. They can~ now sell their stuff in wholei or in part before leaving home and do not, as formerly, have to tak'e the! risk of driving to town with a load only to find the market glutted. There is no excuse now for making such mistakes as this and it is safe to say that no farmer who under stands his business is ever caught in such a trap. -Dr. Leon Goldburg, who has been - acting as interpreter for the state bencharged with being implicated in the seduction of a young girl who came over in the Wittekind, has dis appeared from Columbia. Five Belgians, who have been working for the street railway comn-' pany in Anderscn, have gone to Ne braska, where there is a large Bel gian colny. HUMAN TORCH. )ours Oil Over Her Clothes and Sets Them Afire. RAN OUT IN THE YARD. A Neighbor Who Tries to Save Her Beaten Off Cntil He Knocks Her Down. .Survived llness,- but Be lieved That 'She Was Slowly Going Blind and Wanted to Die At Once. A terrible tragedy was enacted in St. Louis, Mo., one day last week. Driven to desperation by the fear that she was about to lose her eye sight, Miss Mary Ollinger, 27 years old, poured coal oil over her clothing at the home of her sister, Mrs. Bar-: bara Anderson, No. 2611 North Broadway, touched a match to her dress, and was fatally burned. She was removed to the City Hos pital, but the surgeons could do lit tle for her, and she died, in a few hours after reaching the hospital in great agony. While the flames were scorching her flesh, Miss Ollinger fought with persons who tried to save her, and i pleaded with them to be permitted to die. She made no outcry because of pain, but was enduring the tor ture stoically when her sister discov ered her and called for help. Miss Ollinger was alone in the house shortly after 1 o'clock on the day of the tragedy. She opened a bracket lamp and poured the oil upon her clothes, then lighted a match and touched the blaze to a loose waist she wore. She ran into the yard, apparently that the wind might fan the flames, and was standing there when Mrs. Anderson first saw her danger. Mrs. Anderson screamed for help Richard Rosenkranz, an insurance agent, who lives across the street, rushed into the Anderson yard and tried to beat out the fire with his hands. Miss Ollinger, who was large and strong, fought him with her fists, and cried to him to leave her. "I want to die!" she exclaimed frantically. "I am going blind, and there is nothing left in life for me!" Rosenkranz could not overcome her, so he ran into the house, seized a feather bed, dragged it into the yard, and threw it at the burning woman. The weight knocked her down, and he soon had smoothered the flames. Doctor Oliver Bacon, of No. 4363 North Market street, administered soothing lotions, and an ambulance conveyed the young woman to the City Hospital. Mrs. Anderson said her sister sev eral years ago suffered a serious ill ness whichaffected her eyes. Recent lyess i e imagined she was about to lose her sight entirely and was subject to melancholia. None of the family, however, believed she would attempt to destroy herself. IHer near relatives were Mrs. An derson and George Ollinger, a broth er, who is an engineer in Kansas that Miss Ollinger's body from the waist to the neck was a mass of blis ters. __ _ _ _ Young People on the Farm. If the young people on the farm are discontented, says the American' Farmer, would it not be wise to in vestigate the case? If there is dull ness and lethargy there is something wrong. A morbid disposition kills every joy, and it should be combated at once. Morbidness is infectious, and its contagion is evil. It is a duty we owe to ourselves and friends to be cheerful, and the cheerful mood is also contagious. Our young people on the farm can, and they should cultivate cheerful ness, self-control and serenity. The "blues" are not commendable. Things will happen to annoy us, but we can keep our voices low and our faces pleasant. We achieve something worth while every time we repress in speech, tones and gestures and ex pression, irritation, impatience and ill temper. Our young people on the farm should be thoroughly interested and alive in all that is going on. We must keep on climbing the mountain side; we can not stay where we are, and we must not fall back. Advancement must be made, and our interest should be so great there will be no room for morbidness. If we cease to grow we cease to live. Our young people will not suffer from the blues if they read good, strong books, if they study with earnestness the preparatory course for their life work, if they keep up their music or anything else in which they are interested and have some thing to talk of beyond the gossip of the neighborhood and the mere friv olities of life. All of our young men and women should have a practi-cal work to do, and then some skill of the hands or some fad to fill in the old moments. Many of our girls like the needle, and beautiful pieces of embroidery have grown, little by little, using the frag ments of time. We must live outside of ourselves, make self worth something to the people around us, and this will give us a large interest beyond self; with the other young people, enlist in a cause that will help the world. If you do this, it is not likely that you will often be very moody or depressed yourself.________ The News of the Day. A dispute over the merits of the Russian army resulted in a captain of Sjberian sharpshooters lopping off a prince's ear and being shot twice by his antagonist, the affray occurr ing in a St. Petersburg hotel. The Thaw trial, it is estimated, will cost the lense a quarter of a' million and4he'state $100,000. Half of the business portion of Summall, Miss., was destroyed by fire. The, loss is $50,000. The iron output of the Alabama mines amounts to more than 13,000, D0 tons for 1906. The Milliners' Union -of Chicago lemands that Easter hats must bear :he union label.( In a will case in New York the iisposal of $600,000 depended upon a ;ingle word. The governor has appointed four :onstables to look after the blind iger in ichlnd Cunty OFFICERS SALARIES i I list of the Act Passed by the I Last Legislature. rhe Aumounts to Be Paid Auditors,; Treasurers, Clerks, Sheriffs and Other Officials. A showing of the salaries paid to :ounty officers in the State appears I :elow and will doubtless prove in teresting to people throughout the State. Some changes were made by the general assembly, though there ere fewer this year than usual. It should interest the citizens of ne county to know what their neigh boring county is paying her officer, or what any other county is paying. A study of the figures will show that there is a wide difference in the amounts paid the same officer in the respective counties. Some are doubt less well paid, while others are poor ly paid. Of the various county offices per haps that of sheriff carries with it a larger salary in the most counties. It ranges from $700 in Pickens county to $4,000 in Charleston county. Ab beville, $1,100, deputy $100; Aiken, $2,000; Anderson, $1,800; Bamberg, $800, for keeping jail and dieting prisoners $100; Barnwell, $1,500; Beaufort, $1,550; Berkeley, $1,000; Charleston, $1,400; Cherokee, $1,500; Chester, $900; Chesterfield, $900; Clarendon, $800: Colleton, $1,500; Darlington, $1,800; Dorchester, $900; Edgefield, $1,000: Fairfield, $1,000; Florence, $2,250; Georgetown, $2,100. Greenville, $2.200; Greenwood, $1. 400; Hampton. 81.000: Horry, 8700: Kershaw. $1,200; Lancaster, $1,500: Laurens, 81,500: Lee, $1,600; Lexing ton, $800; Marion, $1,800; Marlboro, $1,900; Newberry, $1,400; Oconee, $1,000; Orangeburg, $2,500; Pickens, $700; Richland, $2,400; Saluda, $1, 100; Spartanburg, $2,500; Sumter, $1,800; Union, $1,500; Williamsburg, $1,300; York, 1,350. In addition to the salaries Ramed the sheriffs of the various counties receive 30 cents per day for dieting each prisoner while in custory, with actual necessary expenses for him self, prisoners and lunatics when called beyond the county. SUPERINTENDENT. OF EDUCATION. As a rule the man who fills the of fice of county superintendent is a very poorly paid official. The salary ranges from $4,00 to $1,200, as fol lows: Abbeville, $700; Aiken, $700; Anderson, $900; Bamberg, $500; Barnwell, $800; Beaufort, $400; Ber keley, $400; Charleston, $1,000; Cher okee, $600; Chester, $600; Chester field, $500; Clarendon, $650; Colle ton, $600; Darlington, $800; Dorches ter, $450; Edgefield, $600; Fairfield, $500; Florence, $900; Georgetown, $700; Greenville, $700; Greenwood, $600; Hampton, $550; Horry, $400; Kershaw, $700; Lancaster, $600; Laurens, $750; Lee, $600; Lexington, $600; Marion $800; Marlboro, $700; Newberry, $800; Oconee, $700; Or angeburg, $850; Pickens, $700; Rich land, $1,200; Saluda, $450; Spartan burg, $1,200; Sumter, $900; Union, $500; Williamsburg, $600; York, AUDITOR AND TREASURER. The salaries of county auditors range from $675 in Pickens~ county to $3,200; in Charleston county, as follows: Abbeville, 1,000; Aiken, 1,200; Anderson, 1,500; Bamberg, 800; Barnwell 1,200; Beaufort, 1,200; Berkeley, 1,050; Charleston, 3,200; Cherokee, 1,000; Chester, 1,000; Ches field, 900; Clarendon, 800; Colleton, 1.200; Darlingon, 1,100; Dorchester, 900; Edgefkcid, 1,000; Fairfield, 1,000; Florence, 1,100; Georgetown, 1,200; Greenville 1,500; Greenwood, 1,000; Hamptoni, 900; Horry, 750; Kershaw; 1,000; Lancaster, 900; Laurens, 1,000; Lee, 1,000; Lexington, 900; Marion, 937; Marlboro, 900; Newberry, 1,000; Oconee, 900; Orangeburg, 1,500; Picke'is, 675; Richland, 2,000; Salu da, 800; Spartanburg, 1,800; Sumter, 1,200'; Union, 900; Williamsburg, 900; York, 1,300. In addition to their salaries the county auditors are allowed a fee of 25 cents for each conveyance of real estate transferred upon the records of their respective offices, which fee is to be collected of the person or persons presenting the conveyance for transfer. The countty teasurer in each of the counties of the State receives the same salary as that paid to the coun ty auditor of such county, except in the counties of Union and Marion, where the salary is 1,200, and in the e-nty of Lee, where it is 850. In ac ition to the salary each of the county treasurers is entitled to a fee of $1 for each tax execution is sued against delinquents. Only in Chesterfield county is this fee charge able against the county, where 50 cents is charged. SUPERVISOR, County supervisor--Abbeville, $1, 100; Aiken, 900' Anderson, 1,200; Bamberg, 800; Barnwell 900; Beau fort, 800; Berkeley, 800; Charleston, 1,500; Cherokee, 700; Chester, 800; Chesterfield, 800; .Clarendon, 800; Colleton, 850; Darlington, 1,000; Dorchester, 650; Edgefield, 900; Fair Feld, 1,000, Florence, 1,100; George town, 1,200; Greenville, 1,200; Green wood, 1,000; Hampton (county com missioners 500; each); Horry, 600; Kershaw, 800; Lancaster, 800; Laur ence, 1,000; Lee, 800; Lexington, 750; Marion, 800; Marlboro, 1,000; Newberry, 1,000; Oconee 700; Or angeburg, 700; Pickens, 600; Rich land, 1,500; Saluda, 600: Spartanburg 1,250; Sumter, 900; Union, 600; Wil liamsburg, 700; York, 700, In the most of the counties the supervisor and board of commission ers are provided with a clerk at a salary ranging from 100 to 500. The clerk of court in each county is paid a small salary and given the fees of the office, which amount to a great deal in some of the counties. The coroner's salary in Charleston county is 1,800: in Richland it is 650, in the other counties it ranges from 75 per year to 400. Ban Young, a watchman at a rail r-oad crossing in Columbia was nocked down by a runaway team md run over by a locomotive. He vill probably get off with only the Limputation of a foot. William DeLoch severely cut . eorge Blatin near Good Hope. Thurch in Saluda County. Both arei e'hite and had been drinking, it is~ aid. An extensive series of photographs C f Clemson College are being prepar d for exhibition at the Jamestown ! W0BBED ON STREET. k Northern Visitor to Columbia 1 Held Up by Thieves. Ehe Victim Says They Were Negroes They Took Victims Coat, Shoes and Money. The State says Mr. M. M. Hamel 7eth, a Northern man, who has been topping at the City hotel since Tues Jay evening, was held up and robbed rhursday night about midnight, at the corner of Assembly and Green treets by two negroes. He was re lieved of his coat and shoes and $37 in money. Mr. Hamelreth was walking down Assembly street toward the union station and on approaching the Green Street Methodist church he noticed a negro coming down Green from the direction of Main. The negro met him at the intersection of the two streets, on the sidewalk, and asked for a match. Mr. Hamelreth replied that he did not have a anatch and continued on down Assembly, without hesitation. Just ns he had passed the negro he was grabbed in the collar and almost thrown down. He tackeled tbe negro and was making a pretty lively fight, when he was suddenly grabbed from behind by another negro and thrown to the grown. They held him firmly on the ground while his pockets were gone through. While the big negro held him the smaller one took his shoes off and told him to "scoot." Having secured their booty, the negroes started off down Assembly, in the middle of the road, at a rapid pace. As soon as he regained his feet, Mr. Hamelreth went in pursuit of the highwaymen, running them to within a short distance of the un ion station before losing sight of them. The -negroes disappeared around a street car and it is thought that they went straight to the rail road tracks beyond the depot. Mr. Hamelreth describes the rob bers as follows: One about 5 feet 7 or 8. inches, yellow, weight about 140, mixed sack coat, ripped in the back of right sleeve, wore cap. med ium negro voice; second man about 6 feet 1 or 2 inches, weight about 175, real black, heavy thick lips, wore slouch hat, slightly stooped shoulders, dressed decidedly coarse and rough. Just before they let go of their victim, one of the coons said: "Run, Tom," Mr. Hamelreth reported the mat ter to the police within 10 or 15 min utes after it happened, but nothing to indicate the identity of the rob bers has been discovered. The hold-up was almost under an electric light, which was burning brightly. Mr. Hamelreth says he would recognize either of the ne groes if he sees them again. His ap pearance Thursday night showed that he put up a good fight, his shirt be ing badly torn in several places. He was presented with a pair of shoes at the Union station by a railroad empoye. Mr. Hamelreth is an attorney at Long Run, Ohio, and has been in Florida and Georgia for the past three months and was on his way back to his home. He says he receiv ed $40 Thursday by mail from bome and expected to leave Friday or Sat urday for Ohio. Tillman Quotes Burns. A Washington correspondent says one Sunday afternoon recently a party of gentlemen met in Senator Tilman's rooms at the Normandie and, strangely enough, the conversa tion did not touch upon the negro question, Mr. Roosevelt, State rights or any political topic. Mr. Tillman directed the talk to the shams and humbugs of modern life, particularly among the class that had recently required great wealth. His remarks, if reported, would have made an ad mirable sermon that could have been delivered f-rom almost any pulp.t. Mr. Tillman especially deplored and con demned the practice that so many men had followed of deserting the partner of their earlier struggles and seeking younger women with whom to share their newly-acquired wealth. "To my mind," said Senator Till man, "there is nothing finer or more beautiful in prose or poetry than the second stanza of that gem of Bobbie Burns, 'John Anderson, my Jo John.' Gazing out of the window at the driv ing rain, Mr. Tillman repeated the verse he had mentioned: "John Anderson, my Jo John, We elamb the hill thegither; And monie a cauty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither. Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go; And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson, my Jo." ''Those are my sentiments exact y," said Mr. Tillman softly, after a brief interval of silence. "What a world of trouble and heartache hould be saved if we would all live1 p to them!" Has a Mission. The weekly country paper has as lefinite an excuse for being in the world as can be furnished by the city lailies. Such a publication is not nly a business guide, but is a pulpit >f morals; it is a kind of a public ros brum where the affairs of the state are considered; it is a supervisor of streets and roads; it is a social friend, a promoter of friendship and good ill. Edited by a board and just man, such a publication so treats the ifferent sects that they realize their brotherhood and become in reality hat they are pictured in print. The :ounty weekly is not Presbyterian, or Methodist, or Baptist, or Luther n, or Episcopal, or Christian, but it oes select the valuable in each :hurch, and thus it becomes the aarmonizer of discord it binds those hom theology would often seper-j] ate. Even the so-called small matters : >f a village or incorporate town are small only to those whose hearts are K :o full of personal interest. It isI rery important if some school boy eads a good essay, or speaks well a< iece, or sings well a song, or stands iigh in the class room. that kind nention should be made publicly of< ;ch success, for more young minds tre injured by the want of cheering vords than are made vain by an ex ess of such praise-. JOHN D. Rockefeller has announc d his intention of giving two hun red and fifty million dollars for the enefit of the poor. It will take ' ruore than that to save you, John, t MAY GET ALIENS. j. S. Attorney General Bonaparte I Elucidates His Opinion. qoney For Prepayment of Passage May be Given Aliens by State but Not by Individuals. The President has made public the lecision of Attorney General Bona- i 5arte in answer to questions asked t by Gov. Ansel, as to the efforts to promote immigration through Com- ] ~missioner Watson. Replying to the first question-. whether it is a violation of the im-; migration law in force at this time, before the act of February 20, 1907, takes effect, for a State to advertise its inducements and publish abroad a scale of wages prevailing in its borders, provided no contracts or1 agreements expressed or implied are ] entered into-Mr. Bonaparte ans wers in the negative. Neither would the State violate any law nor would the alien be subject to deportation. The second question of Gov. Ansel's was whether the State may prepay the passage of immigrants secured in the manner asked in the first question, provided there is no con tract and the immigrant is left free to choose employment upon arrival. Mr. Bonaparte says that the passage may be prepaid provided the aliens do not come within the catagories of undesirable immigrants. He says that the law prohibits any "person" from prepaying passage but the State cannot be regarded as a person. The introduction of immigrants under these circumstances, provided every thing else had been legally done, would not be illegal. The third question is an important one as Gov. Ansel asks whether the State, through its officers, can accept contributions to its immigration fund, provided the funds are con tributed free from a contract or agreement, the funds to be used in defraying the expenses and passage money of immigrants. What would be the status of immigrants applying for admission under these circum stances. The Attorney General says the auestion is a difficult one to an swer. He points out that if the con tribution were given with the know ledge that they would be used to pay for advertising and other purposes the act would come within the inhibi tion of section six of the present law. The effect, however, would not be the ,same as to the immigrants. They could not be excluded but the parties furnishing the money "might be in my opinion, liable to the penal ties imposed by section 5." It is doubtful, however, if the govern ment would undertake to bring pros ecutions against contributors. Mr. Ansel then asks whether the act of February 20 will materially change matters. The Attorney Gen eral answers with emphasis that it will. Under the new law he says aliens solicited or induced to emigrate by reasons of offers or promises, even when there is no contract of employment, will be excluded. In the next place, the new law excludes immigrants whose passage money shall have been paid by a "eorpora tion, association, society, municipal ity or foreign government." He says the language of the new law does not prohibit a State prepaying passage money, but if the payment is made from funds contributed by persons or associations, the immigrant would be liable to exclusion. The prohibi tion, curiously enough does not ap ly to prepayment by individuals rep resenting the State, providing their action is in good faith, and it is uot attended by combination or concert of action. Under the new law, there fore, a State may prepay the passage of immigrants but the funds must be wholly those of the State unass sisted from outside. The Attorney General significantly calls attention to the fact that in both the old and new immigration laws the important of skilled labor is. not forbidden-when the like can not be found unemployed. As South Car olinia cotton mills suffer much from want of skilled labor, the point may open the doors to considerable skilled labor in that State.. The Farmer Feedeth AIL. Very few of us appreciate the great things the farmer does for this country. In addition to feeding the nation the farm still overshadows the mill, the factory and the workshop in providing exports. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1906, the surplus exported amounted in value to $976, 000,000, the largest ever reached by agricultural exports for this or any other country, and exceeding the ex port values of 1901, previously the record year. During the last seventeen years the exports of farmers have exceeded the agricultural imports by $6,000;000, 000, while all other' producers find themselves at the end of the same period with a total on the debtor side of $459,000,000. Thus, it will be seen that the farmer saves the "balance of trade" for .this .eogntry and is the prime factofr-64 all the prosperity. It will thus be seen that the farmer the~ chief factor in making~ this great country rich and prosperi. When he prospers we all ' jgi' Yet, with all of his importance he gets very little consideration in com parison with those of other callings, Congress will do anything nearly that the Wall street gamblers ask them to do. But when it comes to legislating or the benefit of the farmer, there are numerous reasons wby it cannot be done, or if anything is done for them it is done in a kind of "we lon't think you deserve it air." Why is it that the farmers are thus treated by those whom they send to represent them in congress r the State Legislature? It is be ause the farmer does not hold their public servants to a strict account for the way they vote when it comes : legislation that will help or pro :ect the farmer. The farmer could 1elp himself if he would. He should rganize, when a member of congress r other public servant does not vote :o suit him, he should be defeated 'or re-election. In this way and no ther will the farmer make himself 'elt and respected in oublie affairs. SOETIMES the hardworked coun- 1 ry editor has very little time toa levote to editorial writing. He has great many things to do besides I vriting editorials that the editor ofr city daily knows nothing abou.t. That is why the city editor thinks e lat the country editor has a week a MAN FOUND DEAD. larchant and Postmaster Killed I and Body Robbed. t Is Believed That the Person Who Robbed Him Gave Him a Deadly Drug. C. F. Ferguson, pastmaster and nerchant at Newsoms, Southamp on county, Va., was found dead in m alley leading to the wharf of the; 3ennett Steamship line, just off 1 Water street, Norfolk, Va., early unday morning. It is thought that leath was the result of a drug ad ninistered by some one for the pur pose of robbery, although Coroner Knight, after a careful autopsy, tated that he could find no signs of poisoning. Ferguson, it is said, had been Irinking heavily. To support the irugging theory is the fact that the Eace of the dead man had turned pur ple by noon. The coroner will .con duct an inquest, at which time he hopes to be able to assign, without question, the cause of the man's death. Ferguson wore a handsome gold watch, with his initials engraved on it, and to which a chain and charm were attached. These were missing, as was everything else the man's Dockets may have contained. The pockets were turned wrong side out. Nothing was left in them by which he could be identified and the police were for a time at a loss. A Masoaic emblem which Ferguson wore and which the pickpocket over looked finally gave the police a clue, and the body was later positively identified by Mayor's Clerk E. M. Dardeo, who had known Ferguson intimately for many years. Furgeson is not supposed to have had a great amount of money, or much else of value, save the watch and its appendages. Two rings of small value were left on a finger. Furguson was last seen Saturday night about 9 o'clock, seated on the sidewalk,- reclining against a brick wall, and it was there and in that position ;that he was found Sunday morning. Whether the body was robbed before or after death is not known. The police will conduct searching investigation into the case. Ferguson was about thirty-eight years old and unmarried, Keep It There. Mr. George P. Rowell, of Printer's Ink, in writing on the scenes and in cidents of a visit to Columbia, he takes this state to task for erecting a tablet in the state capitol whereon is emblazoned the ordinace of secession. and the names of the men who sign ed it. He thinks the boy who fired his father's barn should as appro priately preserve the fagot which caused the conflagration. That may be Mr. Rowell's opinion, but we do not agree with him. The men who signed the Ordinance of Secession in this and all the South ern States were as true patriots as the men who signed the declaration of independence at the beginning of the rovolutionary war, and in honor ing their memory the State does the proper thing. She not only honors them, but honors herself in erecting the tablet Rowell complains of: The Spartanburg Herald is right when it says "the men who signed the ordinance of secession were the flower of Southern chivalry, and the world has found no nobler. They were the representatives of a race who counted not on devastation and ruin, on sacrifice even of human lives when the eternal principle of right was involved. Disinterested students of history with one accord agree that these men were moved by a conscientious re gard for what they concieved to be their duty. Many foresaw the con sequences, but they did not hesitate. It is not creditable to be present gen eration to say that it is doubtfull if that "ordinance"~ would be signed by a representative body of men of this day, especially with the lights be fore them. But* so long as men reverence de votion to duty, so long as they honor those who dare to- do right as they see it regardless of pecuniary or personal consequences, they will de sire to keep in mind the men who had the boldness to declare South Carolina a free and independent state rather than submit to what they be lieved injiustice, and to back it up with their lives and their treasure." Too Deep. The story Is told of a lank, disconso late looking farmer who one day dur ing the progress of a political meeting In Cooper institute stood on the steps with the air of one who has been aur feited with a feast of some sort. "Do you know who's talking in there now" demanded a stranger briskly, pausing for a moment beside the dis consolate farmer, "or are you just go ing in?" "No, sir. I've just come out," said the farmer decidedly. "Mr. Evarts Is talking in there." "What about?" asked the stranger. "Wel., he didn't say" the farmer ansyered, passing .a knotted hani across- his forehead. -A Pet Tiger. Out of a river bed where it had tum bled when its dam was put to flight somae.hunters in India fished a *iger cub. In two days it was as tame as a kitten and grew up the playmate of the camp terriers. It was very fond of them and the terriers worshiped the tigress. To allay the fears of a woman isitor the tigress was one night chain d up. Next morning the animal was ound with a man under her. She had not hurt him. Hie was a thief. and, not kowing of her existence, had come within the area which her length of :hain enabled her to command. She prang upon him, lay on him and keptj mm prisoner until guards came to re .ase him. A Faanouu Tenor. Apart from its wide range, the nat iral beauty and sweetness of the voice f Sims Reeves held his audiences pellbond and fully entitled him to be ermed the finest Engiish tenor of his lay. He especially excelled in ora :orio parts, while in opera his success vas scarcely le'ss pronounced. Per iaps it was as a singer of English bal ads that Sims Reeves appealed to the najority, and it will probably be many .long day before we shall hear a more xqusite rendelring of "Sally In Our Iley" than that of which this great mo was canpa....Tonrnn Mail LOOKOUT FOR THEM hree Astute Forgers Are at Work in This Section. )escriptions of the Men and Details of Their Crimes Furnished the Lo caf Force. The Columbia State says the po ice of that city is in receipt of a etter from Mr. William H. Pierce, uperintendent of police at Boston, dass., containing the descriptions of hree men and also a facsimile check f one of a number of checks that c lach of these men have passed which tre forged papers. The men are: Nelson B. Sears, a nan calling himself J. Simpson, alas [. Barlow, alias H. Mosher, alias Jul [us Sternberger, and the. other man is known by the names of Charles 1 Williams, Charles Morgan, Charles oore, Frank Stephenson, Fred Nel son and Charles Fisher. The men are professional check forging swindlers who have duped many business men and merchants in the United States and who are said to be headed this way. Nelson B. Sears is described as be ing a man about 40. years of age height, 5feet 6 or 7 inches; weight 150 pounds; complexion, medium When last seen had a smooth fac< but previously wore a brown mous tache and Vandyke beard mixed wit' gray, and had on a long gray co, 2nd black derby hat. He some times wears glasses. Sears' scheme is to enter a store buy a small bill of goods and the. tender in payment a check, usuallb on the State Bank of Chicago, re ceiving back the difference -in the bill and the amount of thg forged check calls for. He sometimes works on millinery and dry goods stores. J. Simpson, with his aliases, ik said to be from 35 to 40 years of age height, 5 feet Sinches; weight, 160 to 175 pounds; broad shoulders, ra ther stout build; dark complexion apparently a Hebrew. When ' last seen he had a dark monstache, dar' overcoat and black derby hat. He speaks with a foreign accent. His scheme is to have some wo man present herself to the manager of the store or one of the firm, rep resent that she wishes to purchase some goods, show a check and ask him to place his "0. K." on It, say ing that she desires to give same in payment for the goods.. This check Is very small, usually $2.50. He puts his' "0. K." on it with his ini tials or name. This check is never offered for payment. Later on the man calls at the stoe and watches his opportunity when the manager leaves the office and then steps Into the managers office. Afterwards he walks over to the cashier, 'who had presumably seen the man go into the manager's office, presents a check which is raised in valus to a much larger amount than the original to get It cashed. The scheme of the first check is to get the managers's signature and this being had, he forges the en dorsement or "0. K." to the bogus check and the trick is done. The purpose of the crook in going into the manager's office Is to give the cahier the impression that he has just seen the manager and the check is good. . The man,'calling himself Charles Williams et~ aI.,ffdescribed as be ing between 30 and..,.35 years old, heIght, 5 feet 6 or 7 laches; weight, 150 pounds;- ,complexion; Imedium; chestnut haly'round faces. sometimes wears a small moustsacre; dark clothes and black derby. hat. His scheme is to visit grocers, re tall shoe -dealers, whiskey houses and dry goods stores, and after buy ing a bill of goods offers a .check larger than the amount of the bill receving the balance in cash. These checks are usually made out on the Boston and New York banks and are entirely worthless. It -would be well for the police here and elsewhere to be on the lookout for these light fingered gen tlemen- They should not be allowed to run at large. A NEED, JUiSI uIK. SLEEP. . Ea the Instinci of Natural Death Bora En Ma skind t The most convincing tact in proof of' the existence in man of an instinct or natural death seems to me that report ed by Toxarsky in relation to an old woman. in the lifetime of Toxarsky 1 begged an acquaintance of his to ob tain for me the details of this most in teresting easqe, of which I had found but an incomplete statement. Tox 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 book upon the physiology of taste, whIch had Its day of celebrity. Brillat-Savarin relates the following: "I had a great-aunt. ninety-three years old, who was dying. Although for some time confined to her bed, she had re tained all her faculties, and her condi tion was only betrayed by her loss of appetite and the weakening of her voice. She had always shown a fond ness for me. and I was near her bed, affectionately ready to wait on her, 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, nephewy she asked, in a scarcely audible voice. 'Yes, aunt: I am here at your service. and I think you would do well to take a little good old wine.' 'Give, mon amL One can afways swallow liquid.' I hastened. Raising her gently, I made her take half a glass of my best wine. She brightened for a moment and, look ing at me with eyes which had once been very fine, 'Thank you,' she said. 'for this last favor. If ever you reach my age you will find that death be comes need, just like sleep.' "These were her last words. Half an hour later she had fallen asleep forev er. We unmistakably have here an In stance of the instinct of natural death. The Instinct was shown at a relativel) early age in a person who had retain. ed all her intellectual facultes"-Pr fessor Elie Metchnikoff in Hardier's. 1 POINTED PARAGRAPHS. 4 Beat a boy out of a dime and the rime will never outlaw. Comparison may not be a detraction,i aut it is certainly a half sister. The truth with unselfish people Is hey are liable to brag about it. . There is only one way In this world I o get your own way-Insist upon it ,. Almost any defense would be all ight If you could make people be leve It. It is fust as dangerous to tell some eople a secret as it is to fool with loaded gun. When a mnan submits to a procession redding the other men look at him he way boys look at a boy whose other makes him wear long curls. The man who has made a failure inc ny line of business, never has a veryb ood opinion of the man who started Sthe same line at the same time anda iade it a success.-Atchison Globe." DESIRE BLONDE CHILDREN. 4any People Want Light Children When Adopting Little Ones. Strange as it may seem, said a rominent philanthroPist-in. the New rork Tribune, not a few children of he thousands who must be classed LS street waifs receive a valuable in eritance of blue eyes and light hair, vhich, without too great a stretch of he imagination, may be called ;olden. While I do not pretend to inderstand the psychology of the uestion, facts will nevertheless bear his out. Of the great number of requestsre eived by the charitable institutians >f this city for children for adoption he majority of those who specify as 'or the blue-eyed, golden-hairedtype. o, you see, the inheritance of such !oloring is a sort of "open sesame" :o a good home. This curious predi ection was much more marked 14 or [5 years ago than now, but it still :rops up occasionally and is certainly an interesting trait. The figures 'and letters obtainable 3t charitable institutions contain in" formation cdrroborative of this state ment. For Instance, in the records of 7 the New York Juvenile Asylum,. an institution which for the- last O years has given a real home and useful trainin g to some 40,000-children who would otherwise have grown up in the slums and has placed 6000 -of them in outside homies, mostly in the West, there is a multitude of letters asking for children to be adopted. -Some of them show this -curious blue andyel low choice. Can you send a enild out here. for adoption? says one letter from a West em state which every year receives-, many children - from the institution.. ; "If so, have you a little girl with-iie - eyes and curly golden hair?" We should be glad to give a good home to-a, little boy, saya anotaer.. We orefer one- with light hair aiid blu s eyes. Of course a brunette compleois% ao handicap to the child for whioh the juvenile asylum Is' strivingi 'oj* a square deal. But those who w - to adopt light-haired-children -gene - I ally specify on ,this paiticular, sice on other points the judgmentohe asylum authorities Is'regar'e& as an -.-. ficient. One man who has long watched - work of this and other 0 a similar kind:finsists that. te p chology of a selection. is simple. cording-to his theory theWest, a rial chance is found for many children, has, a population made z large part of settlers from European countries, where blue eyes and light hair constitute the revail3; ing. type. iNatumly enough w'Iern adopting a child one- of such .colorig is preferred, all of whicwhile direct - ly opposed to the theory of attraction of opposites, serves to emphaie th value of blue eyes and light bamr the New York waifs. Strange Hoiday Custom. - The posadas ("pos!da". mana dwelling place or inn) commemorate the journey of 'Joseph and Mary from7 Nazareth to Bethlehem, whitaer-they& went in obedience to the- Roman em peror's mandate, to ble enrolld in te census. This' journey, made by Mear~ on a donkey led by Joseph, Is s6.p-y posed to have occupied nine days. - Wherefore the posadas last -also"fori ine days. .- Each evening, as- -the shades of night descended, the halable pair naturally begged shelter, which, in many cases, was at first. reftiuied. It. is this nightly episode that Is-corn memorated -in' Mexican homes -by the posadas," or "begging shelter." Very nearly 'tery Mexican family, of whatever rank, gives a series a "posadas" on varying scales of gran' deur, and- to these functions numerous guests are invited. Each guiest Isex pected to be .present .at the entire series of nine "posedas," and .t Is considered extremely discourteous t absent one's self from even one. of them. In the conservative anfd old fashioned fnames, only dear .friends and relatives are allowed to share the podada season, but the more cos mopoltan, Mexicans are'Drdader indln& ed, and frequently invite foreIa,.ers to join their Christmas parties,. impermeable Corks. Referring to the manufacture of Im penerable corks for vessels contain ig extracts, The Scientiiic Americia draws attention to the following pro cess, taken from The Deutsche Ded tillaturazeitung, for makin corks absoluteiy impermeablet Fhive. per cnt. of glyccrine is addied -to a. per cent. solution' of gelatin'e ad the corks, which, of course, must. ba properly weighted, allowed to remaia for several hours in the liquid. Care - must be taken that the temperature of the bath is warm enough to retain the gelatine solution in a fluid condi - tion. The gelatine fills ~up the pores of the corks, while the glycerine serves to keep the latter elastic.. The corks remain in the bath till thy .are completely saturated, and are then al lowed to dry in the ordinary way, no special- method being necessary.. Tightly-ftting corks, elastic and at the same time impen-etrable even by gases, can be obtained by this proce. Missionaries' Motor Boat. A- motor-boat is to .be utilized- for mission service In the North sea by - the' Missions to Seamen Society It will be named the Frances Roget, and. will be stationed at Harwick. - THE Anderson Mail says "just as - pt as not in the next Congress some neber from Massachusetts may :ome right out and advocate a bill : keep ships of any kind from en-. ering the port of Charleston." No Loubt they would liketo,but it would lo no good, Charleston is destined o be agreat city, and the hate ofa a hosnd Massachusetts will not re ;ard her a day. ANNA Bell Russell, a respectable oung colored woman, was shot and nortally wounded in Winnsboro on Vednesday of last week by Stork eans, a twenty year old colored - oy, because-she refused to marry im. He way laid his victim and shot er on her way from church and. rounded two colored men who at mpted to protect her. Instead of lowing out his own brain, as such - yols usually do, Means made his es Albert Bailey, electrician at the rr Mills in Anderson, was severely ~arned by coming in contact with4 live wire. His right hand was art, but he expects to have the use ~itagain in ashort time. -