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SPIRITUAL SIDE Of William Jennings Bryan as Seen by Men. SPEAKS ON MISSIONS In a Charlotte Church After His LectulreC at the Auditoriti-His Observations In the East-Com pares Christianity With Other Re ligion, Showing the Strength of Our Faith. The Charlotte News says a strange sight was the marching into the au ditorium of the Second Preshpterian church Tuesday night of 800 or 900 men at the hour of 11 o'clock. It was in order to hear Mr. Bryan speak on "Missions," followin" hisI brilliant address at the auditorium. It was alnost 11 when Mr. BryanI concluded at the auditorium. having spoken for about two hours there, and yet these 900 men, tainy of them from out of town, filed in. unwear ied and still anxious to hear the great commoner from the religious side. The address was under the auspices of the laymen's missionary move ment. His address was different from anything ever heard from him be fore. It gave a glimpse into the spir itual side of this eminent citizen of I the republic, and revealed him as a follower of the Christ who redeem ed the world. After a warm tribute to his friend. Dr. Hardin, whose fa ther and whose wife's father were his great friends, he began. "The older I grow," he said in the course of his address, "the more I am-convinced of the need of men of the realization of the cdnscious pres ence of personal God to whom we are personally responsible for all we do." This was a sentiment which re minded his hearers of the testimony quoted by Dr. Poteat in his great1 lecture the other right of such men as Gladstone. Josh Fiske, Sir Henry Lodge, Browninz and Tennyson, as to the truth of Ch ristiantity. Mr. Bryan was introduced by Dr. Hardin in a brief word, in which he said: "If we have listened wi1i great interest to Mr. Bryan in his magnifi cent address in the auditorium on a political subject, with how great in terest must we hear him when he speaks on the gr. atest of all sub jects." Mr. Bryan said that in the limited time he had at such a late hour he could only approach his subject under one phase and that would be the result in favr of Christianity after a comparison of it with the other religions of the world. "I became a member of the church," he said, "when I was only 14 years of age. I joined so early that1 I knew little of creeds. I confess it without shame. I have been so busy! since that I have not had time to look up the matter. But I got a grip on the fundamentals of the Christian religion and I hold it yet, I believe. "My father was a Baptist and my mother a Methodist at the time I was born, though she afterwards went to the Baptist church with my father. I joined the Cumberland Presbyterian church and later took my member ship to the regular Presbyterian church. My wife is a Methodist and though our membership is in the Presbyterian church. I am now go ing with her to the Methodist church to sort of even up. "While I say I am stil! in the Pres byterian church I have been a little troubled about one doctrine of that church-the doctrine of election, (Laughter.) But I accept the moral in the illustration your own treat citizen, Senator Vance, used to give, when his old colored slave refused to! be floored by an examination on this doctrine but said: "Boss, I ain't never heered of no one being elect ed 'thouten he was a candidate.' "I am interested in the funda mentals. I sometimes feel indigna tion over Dr. Osler's remark that a life should be snuffed out at 69. Os ler must have spent so much time examining bone and muscle that he forgot the spiritual side of life. There is a continual growth in the' moral man. The influence of myf wife's father, a Methodist minister, who went blind in later lEfe but wh continually grew stronger in spirit ual power and enthusiasm, upon my children and in my family has been inestimable. I take more interest in< Christianity and the influences flow-. ing from it the older I grow" Mr. Bryan, after pointing out the devoutness and abstinence from in-( toxicants, etc., of the Mohamma dans, yet pointed to their amorous heaven and their degradation of wo-i men, as showing the inferiority of!1 their religion to Christianity. t "Their religion rests on force, ours is based on love. Dr. Parkhurst's i- C lustration shows the difference. The hammer breaks the ice, but the sun- r shine melts it. The religion of thet prophet has reached its limit, but 1 Christ's is still spreading. C Touching on the tenents of Budd- I hism, which is a reform Hindooism, Mr. Bryan said that an Englishman who had become a mond of Buddha 1 at Rangoon in India told him that he embraced Buddhism because it did- t not require him to believe in any thing. Buddhism sent delegates to a recent agnostic convention in Rome. I The Buddha's heaven is mere absorp-I tion-as Matthew Arnold put it, "a' dew drop melting into the ocean." It is incomparable to Christianity,; which teaches that man may be born again, recover from a wrecked life and begin a new life over again, with t eternal life in the future. "A Jap- a anese b'w told me that Buddhism pointe: do wnward and Christianity t upward, v d that expresses the diff erence web." sid the speaker. h The repulsive idolitry seen along . the Ganges, the elephant-headed and d monkey-fa ced gods in the temples, i the cultivation of psychic power by p self-torture, the obstructing herds of garlanded sacred cattle, the bury- jfc mng of dead bodies in the river, the m naked fakirs at the Elahabad fair,.e one of whom killed a baby snatched in from a mother's arms as they march-;e ed along, claiming that the deity had L( ordered him in a dream to do the murder-all these were touched upon by Mr. Bryan as showing the need of mission work in India. - "I believe we owe it to them. heN said. "to carry Christianity to themn. I am not going to quarrel with ynu a about the fate of the heathen in t'th THE WHITE PLAGUE. The State Board of Health Will Wage War On It By listructin-g the Gener'al Public How Best to Fight the Dread Dis ease of Consumption. The state board of health has start ed its campaign of education for better sanitation, with the special end in view of acquainting the peo ple generally of the state as to how to care for tuberculosis cases and prevent the spread of this terrible disease. The campaign was initiated in a practical way Thursday by the send ing out of a letter to each county medical society in the state request ing that as early as possible one or more public lectures be arranged for on some appropriate subject, such as the supnression of tuberculosis, tvhoid fever, smallpox and other infectious diseases. Already the Sumter and Charles ton county societies are doing excel lent work of this nature and it it felt that the other counties of the state will readily fall into line. Members of the state board are es pecially anxious to erlist the hearty cooperation of the weekly and daily press of the state in disseminating the information given at these coun ty society lectures. The members of the board think there will not be much difficulty in securing this as sistance from the press, as it is rec ognized that the newspaper people are as anxious to inform the people along such important lines as the doctors are to have them informed. The letter to the county societies is a particularly strong one. "To the County Medical Society: "At a meeting of the executive committee of the state board of health it was resolved to urge upon the county societies of the state the importance of uniting in an effort to extend sanitary knowledge among our people. That we have so often failed to secure the ,nactment of proper sanitary laws is largely due to sanitary ignorance. But sanitary instruction is more important than sanitary legislation, for the preiud ice that is always associated with ig norance may render a good law of no effect as is shown by the difficul ty the board is now experiencing in endeavoring to enforce the present compulsory vacination law. "The extensive prevalence of tu berculosis and typhoid fever is in large measure due to sanitary ignor ance. And again, sanitary ignorance is often responsible for the spread of certain of the transmissable disease of childhood, as well as for the de fective development of many school children. "In order to remove as far as prac ticable this great obstacle to sari tary progress, the state board of health earnestly requests each coun ty society to arrange more public lectures upon appropriate subjects, such as the suppression of tubercu losis, typhoid fever, smallpox and other infectious diseases; school hy giene, etc. "The example has been set already by one or two county societies, and it is earnestly hoped that all will join in making an aggressive and effec tive crusade of education. "Respectfully, ROBERT WILSON, JR., "Chairman State Board Fea -.h, "C. F. WILLUAMS, "Secretary." not--but I do think we should give them the opportunity to get the ben efit of life." Mr. Bryan went on to show that Confucianism was far inferior to Christianity. Confuscius' golden rule-"Do not unto others as you would not have others do unto you" ---was negative while Christ's golden rule was positive. One followed out makes a life that is a stagnant pool. the other a life that is a living stream. For instance, a Chinaman will rarely endanger his life to save a drowning man. Confucius' teaching would not impel him to do so. "Reward evil with justice and good with good," taught Confucius. "How, now." asked Mr. Bryan, "can a man with hate in his heart toward i fellow man know what justice is? Eow infinitely below Christ's 'For rive your enemies,' etc., is this1 :eaching? I believe the doctrine of ~orgiveness is the great distinguish ng characteristics of Christianity. 'A man who keeps a book account f his good works never do enough rood to make it worth while to buy book to put it in. "Confucius' ideals ;vere so low that hina has never risen under them. he has stood still. "Other religions judged by their ruits fall infinitely below Christian ty. Except when aided by Chris ianity brought from without, the1 agan nations are where they were enturies ago-China where she was, 0 centuries ago. But the Christian eligion has taken our people and led hem to higher things. I never real aed until I got to Asia the influence four Christianity in its uplifting ower. I saw a chain of colleges for thousand miles-they were builtI| y western Christianity---and their fluence was great.I "'We should rer care tc boast hat the sun never sets upon our Pos-' essions, but we may well have al ride in the fact that the sun never ets upon American philanthropy. r India most of the children in Sun- I ay sc-hools are in American schools. We are sending to India for Chris anity and education almost $100,-| a.000. What sends our missionar s abroad? The love of God and of teir fellow men. The missionary broad is doing a work the impor-' mece of which can not be estima- o Drawing a picture of what we at yme enjoy. Mr. Bryan concluded: "We owe no obligation to those stant people that we can not pay s dollars and cents. We owe it to ~ >sterity to hand down the blessings e enjoy to others. It is necessary L r us to exert ourselves to the ut- e; ost to spread our religion over the* rth and I am sure the time is com g when every knee shall bow andi ry tongue confess that Christ is Nineteeni Killed. .\ fran nmad up (7 passenger whosv 5mmd from Sodand and the wi eof England to P.rigocl. left the : Sit was cutering the station at w r* u-at an early hour Tuesday ti; irning. Ninetee~n persons. juciud- li; ENTERTAiN NEGRO BISHOP Bishop Potter and Wife Drives With Bishop Ferguson. ? special dispatch to The News and Courier, from Richmond, Va., says Bishop and Mr.s. Potter, of New York, who are occupying the resi dence at No. 600 West Franklin street during the General Convention of the American Episcopal Church, Friday evening entertained at lun cheoin Bishop Ferguson, of Africa, the only negro invited to a seat in the House of Bishops. The action of Bishop Potter in thus receiving a negro into his home cir cle on terms of social equality and breaking bread with him at his table is worthy of special consideration be cause of the fact that the occurrence takes place in the heart of the South, where racial lines are more strictly drawn than in other sections, and in a house where such an entertainment could not have occurred during its occupancy by its owners. While the dinner in honor of the African Bishop was quiet, it has been the occasion of considerable comment Friday night among those who have heard of it. The matter is being con sidered by the general public as a slur upon the South, the hospitality of which Bishop Potter is accepting. George St. Sulian Stephens, color ed. a newspaper representative, who lives at Miller's Hotel negro hostelry, where Bishop Ferguson is also stop ping during the Convention, was au thorized Friday afternoon by Bishop Potter to conduct Bishop Ferguson to his carriage when the colored Bish op left the House of Bishops in the State Capitol. Later Bishop Potter and Mrs. Potter and Dr. Hunting ton, of New York, entered the car riage with Bishop Ferguson and were driven to Bishop Potter's residence, where dinner was served. A telephone message to the house with a request to speak to Bishop Ferguson elicited the information that he had finished dinner and gone back down-town. Bish->p Ferguson left word at his hotel that he would not return for dinner. This is the only occasion of Bishop Ferguson be ing entertained socially in Richmond. There were no other guests present so far as can be learned. SNAKE ATTACKED MAN. Twine Around His Legs But His Boots Saved Him. Robert Rogers, who lives near Plainfield, N. J., and who is one of New Jersey's best known hunters, had a thrilling snake experience while beating through the Passaic valley woods in search of game re cently. He was making his way through dense underbush when he encounter ed two copperhead snakes. Before he could jump back, both sprang at him and coiled about his legs, mak ing vicious strikes at him. The fact that he had long hunting hoots on prevented them from inject ing their poison, but the situation un nerved him so that for a moment he was unable to fight them. He finally succeeding in uncoiling one of the reptiles and forced it from him far enough to blow its head off with his gun. The remaining snake attempted to carry on the battle alone but clubbing his gun, Rogers man aged to gct it on the ground without being bitten. The next instant he had crushed its head beneath his heel.. Rogers abandoned the hunting trip to hurry home for stimulants. The snakes were each five feet in length, a size unusual in this species. Rogers carried them to Berkley Heights, where they are on exhibition at the hotel. INDIAN BUYS MAIDEN. He Could Not Win Her and So He Bought Her. A dispatch from Denver, Col., says unsuccessful in his suit to win the hand of an Indian maiden who is in the Carlisle Indian school, Charlie Redhorse, a U'te, departed Thursday morning on an eastbound train, hav ing in his pocket a letter from the girls's parents on the New Mexican U~te reservation telling that the girl had been sold him for the sum of our ponies. The question now arises, and Red orse has evidently overlooked it, hether or not the girl who has en oyed four years in Carlisle, will be willing to marry him, simply because the Indian went through the primeva], ustom of handing over four ponies o the girl's parents, who are in need f stock. There is much of Indian romance ~onnected with the story of Red ~orse and his fair Ute maiden of Car isle. Both were children together on :he reservation years ago. Redhorse oved her and she loved him, but 'hen she was sent to Carlisle, her ifections changed, and when Red orse went to claim her, he was ;purned. With the stolidness of the Red Man e did not give up, but returned to Vrizona, where he induced the girl's ather to sell her to him for four onies. With the bill of sale in his ocket he is now on his way to Car sle to claim his property. NEVER TOO OLD 'or Cupids Darts to Make a Lasting1 Impression.t It is stated that Rear Admiral Oli r Selfridge, U. S. N., retired, will . iarry on next Tuesday Miss Gertrude e [iles. of Boston, a long time friend T fthe family. Admiral Selfridge is about 71 v ears of age, and his fiance is 65. 1i dmiral Selfridge left the other day pl r Boston. where his son George ti elridge, has lived for a number of a) ars. Admiral Selfridge was placed ti the retired list of the navy in it 98. after a distinguished naval 34 ~ree. W HITE PRISONERS ESCAPE. B: f Time Convicts Walk Out of the Penitentiary. Walter Allen and Jim Sudduth, at [tite, both life term prisoners sent mn from Greenville, and both trusties. h lked away from the State Peniten- im iy Tuesday morningu before day- Ti ht and neithe: of them has been sc MOST HORRIBLE KILLING. Father and Uncle Assaulted and the Father Will Die. A most horrible tragedy happen- I ed at Mt. Carmel last Saturday night in which a young man killed his fath er and mortally wounded his uncie. The news of the affair reached An derson only Friday night. From the information that can be learned it seems that William Thrift, a farmer of the Mt. Carmel section, his son and his brother got into a drunken melea. They began quar reling, which resulted in a fight. When the fight commenced, some woman, whose name or connection could not be learned, separated the fighters. The father and uncle were fighting the young man. After the woman had separated them, they took some more~ drinks and became friends again. When young Thrift left the house and went out into the yard, Thrift and his brother began abusing the wo man for interfering in the fight. It is said that they were either striking her or about to do so when young Thrift walked back in the room. Finding he could not quiet them and being in a drunken state himself, he picked up a bed slat and struck his father on the head. The blow felled the old man and he died almost in stantly. The young man then turn ed on his uncle and gave him a rap on the head. The rap was sufficient to knock the old man unconscious, and from last reports it is doubtful if he will recover. Young Thrift, after felling his fa ther and uncle, went up the street, it ,s said. asking for a pistol. He said he intended to get one and go back and kill his father and uncle. Find ing no one who would let him have a pistol, he returned t the house where the fight occurred and there learned that his father was dead and that his uncle was dying from the blows he administered before he left. Young Thrift has been lodged in the Abbeville jail. Everything is quiet.-Anderson Daily Mail. FASTED'THREE WEEKS. Dog in a Dry Well Without Food for Twenty-Three Days. On the night of the 17th of Sep tember, Messrs. Wade Lamar, Brooks Cato and Dave Gaston went fox hunt ing near the town of Sally. When at Mr. Phillip's place they missed one of the hounds, a white and spotted dog. They searched all the neighbor hood the next day without finding her, and came home presuming that she had been stolen, and was shut up somewhere. Well, on Monday. the 14th of Octo er, Mr. Phillips came to town and reported that during the middle of the week before he had found the hound at the bottom of a dry well on his farm. She had remained in the well for twenty-three or twenty four days without food or water. and of course was extremely emaciated and weak. She was carried to Aiken and de lived to Mr. Lamar. This occurrence is so remarkable that it would seemi incredible if all the parties concerned were not well known, and highly rep utable citizens of Aiken county. BROUGHT BIG PRICE. Corn Sells for Two Hundred and Fif ty Dollars Per Ear. Two hundred and fifty dollars was the world's record price paid at Chic ago Thursday night for a single ear of corn. The ear from "Bone county" was knocked down to the highest -bidder in an exciting auction at the National ~Corn Exposition at the Colisseum in Chicago. The purchaser of this ear of corn a bushel a. that rate would have sold at $15,0-was the man who raised it, L. B. Clore, a tall farmer from Frasklin, Ind. He has taken prizes amounting to nearly $8,000, including a Texas farm. He raised it on thirteen acres of land. The ear was taken from one of ten that took the sweepstakes in their class. FARMER KILLED. And Another Badly Mangled in a Cotton Gin. A dispatch to the Atlanta Journal says H. F. Jones, a well known far mer, was instantly killed in a gin at the Heath place. about ten miles from Macon, Ga., Thursday morning. He was working with the gin when his 1 hand was caught in the saws. His body was jerked into the machine, head down. An oil can struck him in the head, penetrating his* brain mnd killing him instantly-. Spivey Fuller, a well-known East Vacon man, was terribly mangled on [hursday morning, and now lies at e city hospital. He was working ina he g:In, when he was caught in theg aws and pulled in. Before the ma ~hinery could be stopped he was ter- I ibly mutilated. GET RICH QUICK. ~oncern Fails After Spending All Its I Large Capital.I The CargiUl company's branch ouse at Columbus. Ohio. has closed b nd excited investors are crowding c< he place asking where the agent. L. t' inclair, is. Mr. Sinclair, according el : a circular from the company is in d Few York at the general offices of the ti ompany there, having gone last l uesday night with the books. ul The company was a race horse in estment corcern which paid some- a: mes 3 per cent and at other times 5 a er cent weekly. The circular states I lat the company has met with sever- hi t losses which has wiped out its en- s re capital and that an effort will be di cade to organize the company within 2: days. The capital was S200h.000. TW~O MEN KILblAD y the Explosion of a Boiler Out in Texas. Ramie Day. white. the' engineer, id Roberi Owens, the negro fJixt- 4 an. were killed when three large se ilers in the plant of the Belton oil fl ill of Belton. Texas. exploded~ early ki iursday. The boilers wer'e torn to fa rap iron bv the force of the explo-! r DIED IN POVERTY After Making a Fortune Out of His Inventions. Invented the Spark Arrester Now Used on All Locomotives in Amer ica and Europe. David Redfield Proctor, 81 years old, a cousin of United States Sena tor Redfield Proctor of Vermont. was found dead Thursday in a cheap lodging house at 148 South Clark street Chicago. He had heen in straightened cir cumstances for several years, al though he made a fyrtune from the sale of royalties on an invention which he patented in the early '70's-a de vice which arrested and extinguished the sparks from the funnels of loco motives making the kindling of pra rie fires by passing trains an impos sibility. In the Columbian exposition he was one of the most picturesque fig ures who haunted offices of Director General Davis and Graham with of fers of marvelous plans for enhanc ing the beauty and magnitude of the great fair. He designod the Proctor-Morrison tower which was intended to make the Eiffel tower seems a dwarf in comparison. For the rights to this tower he was offered, it is said $100, 000, and a company to build it was started under the presidency of En gineer Morrison the "steel construc tion bridge builder." But the col lapse of steel Mackay's "Sectatori um" theatre caused the business in terests identified with the fair to look with disfavor upon so gigantitic an enterprise as that proposed by In ventor Proctor. The local tower which was to be 1,000 feet higher than the Eiffel tower at Paris, was not built. When Engineer Morrison was plan ning to construct at Memphis, Tenn., the largest steel cantilever bridge in the world he intrusted the work of building a minature working, model of the structure to "Inventer Proc tor" as he was known. The model was to be only two inches square and was to have 912 joints and almost as many separate pieces. Proctor completed it in two months. The huge bridge was constructed exactly after his model. He received $4,000 for the work. The first "working" gondola launches at the world's fair was designed by Mr. Proctor. When his lifeless body was found at the dingy room in which he had lived and dreamt his dreams of as tounding inventions for the last few years, the narrow little bed wa's sim ply festooned with tiny hold carved models of flying machines which he had guarded and embodiments of some discoveries that he claimed to have made in the field of aronautics. Mr. Proctor was a native of Glou cester, Mass. He is survived by a widow and two daughters, Mrs. Ar thur Rowe and Mrs. William H. Per kins of Gloucester. The managers of the lodging house told the police that a doctor, who had been called to view the remains, found that death had been due to old age. FIFTY LIVES LOST. Were Drowned When Danish Steam er WVent Ashore. Fifty lives were lost when the Dan ish steamer Alfred Oilandsen w n ashore off St. Abbs shore, Scotland, Thursday night. A heavy sea was running when the vesses struck and the efforts of the life savers to reach - her were futile. Time and again the attempt to launch the life boats were foiled by the mountainous seas and it was equally impossible to throw a line to the imperilled mariners. Through out the night the doomed vessel pounded heavily on the rocks and was repeatedly smashed by the gi antic waves. At dawn Friday. little of the ves sel was left and there was no sign of ife aboard the hulk. It is regarded s practically certain that all hands ave been swept overboard and eith er drowned or smashed to death og ~he rocky shore. Shot Up Mail Boxes. Dennie Davis and Hampton Durr, ~wo young white men, from St. eorges were up before United States ommissioner Lide on Wednesday of ast week for shooting up mail ~oxes in Dorchester County. A num- ( er of witnesses appeared against the * efendants and they were bound over o the next term of the United States ~ourt in Charleston. The testimony showed that Davis nd Durr had damaged the boxes by hooting into them. Prominent mong the witnesses were Postoffice t spector Gregory and United States i [arshall A. Fischer. Messrs. W. C. Wolfe, of the Or ngeburg Bar, and M. S. Connor. of t. George. represented the accused I arties, and Assistant District Attor- t ey Lathrop appeared for the Gov- g rnment.r PREACHER INDICTED. Ie arents of His Girl-Bride Want Him t Punished by Law. For eloping with 1 5-year-old Ma el Lyeth, the Rev. Harold A. Pres- e ~tt. a graduate of Colgage universi and pastor of the Congregational urch at Lisbon. N. Y.. has been in ted. The father and relatives of Ial e girl want him punished for vio- s ting the law of concent, as she was der age. After the elopment the minister d his b)ride returned to Lisbon and I nounced their union. This was in E 1. About a month ago she left t m and said she nevfr' wanted to~ e him again, as his conduct hadlh iven her from him. Prescott is years old.e FATAL PRACTICAL Jol-:. t nii Young Girl Jumped From a Secoim! cc Story. p Frightened by he" si'ter, who) wast apped in a sheet, and playing!n ost. Clara Osgood leaped from a e ond s'y window at her home o r Redville. Ky.. and was instantly led. her- neck being broken by the ha . The sister, Annie Osgood. is us stratedl with grief, and is beins a fthd for fearsthe wim take her life. an LINEMALN'S HORRIBLE DEATIH. Employee of the Telephone Company jiwled by Live Wire. At Charleston E. M. Daoust, a Bell telephone lineman, met a horrible death Friday morning while at work on an electric light pole, at Rutledge avenue and Bee street, and W. R. Kittrell, a fellow lineman, had his hand badly burned. Daoust iclimbed a light wire pole at the northest corner of Rutledge avenue and Bee street a little after 10 o'clock Friday morning, to get at a cable of telephone wires which crossed a few feet above the cross arms of the electric light wires. He placed his left knee against a wire on a cross-tree, and instantly he receiv ed a terrible shock. Literally stuck in the horrible hiss ing flame, Daoust could not extricate himself. He fell forward, and grasp ed the cable overhead and beyond the crossarms. His body acted as a conductor for the powerful current, and the lead cable was charged. Daoust's left hand, gripping the ca ble. was burned to a crisp, and his head pierced by the fire. When the stricken lineman's hand came in contact with the cable, the current was sucked up from the electric light wire and sent along the cable, to where W. R. Kittrell was swinging, and Kittrell's hands were badly shocked. He was dangling over Rutledge avenue, above the middle of the street, suspended from the cable by means of a small swing. Kittrell managed to save himself from' falling, and to avoid a fatal shock long enough to have a rope thrown up to him, by which he low ered himaelf to the ground. Meanwhile Daoust was being con sumed by the crackling electric flames. Mr. Arthur Israel, who was passing at the time, begged the oth er linemen present to cut the wires on either side of Daoust. This was done as soon as possible, W. E. Fin cklin, a room mate of the dead man, clambering up the poles and snip ping the death-bearing metal off. But it was too late to save Daoust, who must have died a short while after he was first shocked. A Gloomy Outlook. Both the religious and the secular press are taking a gloomy outlook regarding religious prospects. Just at present they are concerned over the decreasing number of clergymen and their rapidly diminishing salar ies. One paper goes so far as to say that men cannot be expected to de vote their lives to the ministry when remuneration is insufficient to pro vide comfortable living. The average salary of clergymen in the United States is a little more than $600 a year. The Chicago Tribune has been in vestigating the situation with spec ial reference to the Methodist church, some of its discoveries are sufficient to warrant the concern now being felt. In the Des Moines conference, f or instance, 37 of the 217 pulpits are vacant because of insufficient salaries. In the Indiana conference living has increased 40 per cent. in the last few years, while there has been less than 10 per cent. increase in salaries. In the Wisconsin conference 20 pastors receive less than $400 a year, and several of them have to preach in two places at that. In this con ference there has been a decrease of 20 per cent. in salaries during the last 35 years, while the cost of living has increased 50 per cent. Other il lustrations might be cited, but these are sufficient to show that the situa tion is not such as to be inviting no matter how desirous men may be of engaging in the ministry. Besides the cost of living, there are other! demands on the income of clergymen~ which have to be made in the course1 of their administration. What is true of the Methodist church is also true of other denomi-f nations, and the situation is not so! much a reflection on clergymen as it~ s on church members and the gen ral public. It is a fact that the re- I straining influences of the church are1 iot appreciated as they once were, id the prosnect is that, unless thereI shall be increased interest in relig-! ous matters, the people will pay learly for failure properly to support ;he church. . Growing and Handling Cotton. In the Cotton Spinners and Grow rs Convention at Atlanta last week discussion on the subjects of bet-t er cotton, through seed selection, mproved ginning and compressing nd uniformity of bales, brought out hat the losses to foreign spinners t rom faulty bailing and damage in e ransportation are so enormous that ti teps have been taken by the spin- ~ ers to increase the output of for- is ign fields, to the jeopardy of they Lmerican expert trade of raw cot-p As the foreign delegates told of ti beir losses of years, the American c< rowers were, many of them, amaz- n l. They were shown photographsB pyramids of American cotton on 1e piers at Liverpool, broken, soiled t 2d crushed. The remedy, it was a2 tid, lies in gin~ompressing and uin- r orm bailing, and the Americans ere made to see where an enor- Z4 ous saving lies in adopting the PJ yptian method of bailing advoca-:d d by the visitors. sa: In reply, the Americans said they d Le been told by the compress own- hi s that the foreign spinners would >t receive the gin-compressed cot- er n. This the foreign spinnres de- asr ad, and said they preferred the gin- G mpressed cotton if it was properly the eked. Now that the farmers Anow tf actly what the spinners prefer, trii ry should make an effort to fur sh it. Especially so, as it would hance the worth of the cotton crop lab the South several millions of dol. the *s. The old compress people will die Al] rd, but as they have outlived their WI E'fulness it would be a good rid- she e-e, and the 1uicker the2 g' the anc aroth DASH FOR L1BERTY SPOILED Convict Makes Unsuccessful Attempt to Escape From Penitentiary. The Columbia correspondent to The News and Courier says there was another sensational dash for liberty on the part of a white convict at the Penitentiary early Thursday morn ing. It was thwarted just in time by reason of the fact that four escapes recently have caused the manage ment to be more cautious. The prisoner this time was a des perate white man named D. C. Mur phy, who is serving a life term for the murder of Treasurer Cope, of Orangeburg County, his death sen tence having been commuted. Mur phy was taken to the cook room in side the prison walls early that marn ing under guard. No sooner was he in the building than he made a dash through the rear door, springing at a lively clip for the rear wall, which he evidently intended to scale by means of a long pole, as Harry Dean and Will Smith had done. The guard was following him, but at some distance, and he might have succeeded in getting over the wall but for the fact that another guard who had been stationed at the work shop near the rear wall, came around the corner of that building and surprised him, effecting his cap ture. Mfurphy and W. H. Collins, a Wes tern man, sent up for life for bur glary and compound larceny commit ted in Florence, made a sensational escape on September 20, 1900, while in some mysterious manner they se sured a file and cut their way through the main prison door, scal ing the wall by means of a long hook the made from an iron pipe and letting themselves down on the other side by the same means. They swam both the Columbia Canal and the Congaree River to get into Lexington County. Murphy was caught five years later in South Geor gia, but Collins is still out. Murphy had all the odds against him in this attempt to escape, but he had grown desperate in several attempts to se cure a pardon. Up to this time he has been one of the best behaved prisoners in the Penitentiary. NEGRO IN DANGER. Came Near Being Lynched in an Ohio Town. The timely arrival of Henry Cary, the town marshal, and half. a dozen citizens, prevented the lynching of Will Gray, a negro suspect, who was taken from the town jail at Hatwell, Ohio, Friday night by a mob of fifty that stormed the village lock-up, and battered down the doors to get at their victim. The mob had a rope about Gray's neck, with the end of the hemp thrown over a limb ready to draw him up, when Marshall Cary and oth er citizens appeared on the scene and put an end to the attempt at lynch ing. Gray was arrested in connection with the murder of H. B. Howard, at Hartwell, who was found dead at his store. Gray was arnested on suspi cion, having been heard to make threats against Howard. Stealing Bryan's Thunder. "If some one does not head off President Roosevelt there will soon be no platform left for Democracy to stand on in the approaching na tional campaign," says the Augusta Chronicle, which cannot be classed as a Bryan partizan. This is liter ally true. The Chronicle then goes on to say: "Time was when there was as much difference between the meas ures advocated by the Democrats and the Republicans as there is be tween the poles. But that was be fore Roosevelt trimmed his sails and went flying over the seas of popular disapproval into the waters that had been opened up by Mr. Bryan. The Nebraskan discovered all the planks now groaning under the read of the Sage of Oyster Bay mnd his balloon d'essai, the peace maker. Bryan has cried out against his plagiarism, to use a mild term, but his agonized pleadings have had 'o effect on the heart of the Rough Rider. A platform must be had hat will meet the approval of the ;eope and as Bryan seemed to have t, then from Bryan it must be aken. And that it has been, there an no longer be any doubt. Mr. Bryan, we believe would be >erfectly willing for Roosevelt to teal his thunder if he would make Lse ofit for the benefit of the peo >le. But this Roosevelt does not do. le uses Bryon's platform to get in iice and make him popular with he people, but he does not attempt o enforce any of the good ideas he1 urloins from Bryan. Roosevelti iakes great pretentions about what .e is going to do but its all talk. le has no idea of hurting a singlet rust. tihey put up two much mon-< y to elect him to be hurt by him. r Bryan's ideas are all good, but bey need a man behind them liko ' imself to make them of any bene- t t to the people, and we hope next p ear they will commission him to y ut them in execution. Roosevelt tl a talker while Bryan is a doer of d ings. Roosevelt is under obliga- te ons to the trusts for campaign t< mtributions, and consequently will ~ ot hurt them. On the other hand tc ryan is free from entangling alhi-I aces with trusts or any other mon r power, and would be in a p'sition tI enforce the law impartially. Bry- ) isol be given the chance to car- I out his own platform. A hundred years ago, Lieutenant n ~ublon gazed at Pike's Peak and m ophesized that the foot of man de auld never touch its summit, so fin flicult was the ascent, and here ys the Columbia State, "the other G< y, some goggle-eyed chump ran te: motor car up the old peak." 01 FLLOwiNG the lead of the Farm- PE Union and the Southern Cotton 'i ociation, the directors of the orgia Excperiment Station have de- ,5 ,ed to hold the cotton raised on hr station for a minimum price of w ;een cents per pound. That is pa tie. w th o farmer shouid hire another's or, contract or no contract, until expiration of the present year. the farmers are in the same boat. rie iat hurts one hurts all and they the ud not add to the burdens of erne hoa ther lby interfering with each ivoi SHOULD BE TESTED. Does Lint Cotton Gain in Weight by Being Held? Mr. G. M. Davis, of Georgia, Says It Undoubtedly Does, and Is Anxious For a Thorough Test. low There seems to be a widely preval ent conviction that cotton lint gains - both in quality and weight by being allowed to rippen on the seed for' a few months after it is picked, and tli6 belief seems to be based upon more or less clearly defined experince. In .the last issue of the Progressive Far mer for August was published a statement from Mr. G... 3I .Davis, State Leturer of the Farmers' Union for Georgia, to the effect that "it is an unquestioned fact that cotton held in the seed will gain about one-tenth in weigbt for the first three mQuths after picking." - A month later The Progressive Farmer printed a communication: from a correspondent in Mecklenburg County, N. C., signing himself .. A. W., who also holds to the belief that cotton will. gain both in quality and in weight .from ieing allowed to rip en, the time required being from. three to five months. This, he .said, he had learned fifty years ago in .the days of the old horse-power:gins, an he ~had known seed cotton to yield 37 1-2 per cent. -of .lint.after ripen ing. . The question raised- is o"ne tf1irl capable of scientific demonstration and if the results are such as its sd vocates claim, the truth of the matter is well worth the cost andJtroub1e-oL.' demonstration. As to the present status of tfie matter, the subdoined article from. Mr. Davsill e fou~d of -interest. A few eeks ago'The Progressive Farmer 'referied to Mr Davis, the followingletter "Chicago; Sept 4 VOL" "Editor Progressive Farmer, Rale N. C. "Dear Sir: In the As 29 th i sfie of your- paper, a statement-s.. is - printed over name-of G.M. Davis t the effect: that cotton, -as rule, is ginned too soon' after-picking, and a money loss is the reslt Will you be. good enough to ad vise us of the addressof Mr. D that we may write him 'for his an-. thority on the subject ~stated.. "We certainly hope MrDavis s correct in this position andsiuld like to know .more of the iatter "Thanking you in advance for this courtesy, we are, "Very truly, "Dixie Cotton Pieker Co., "W B. Stone 'Sec. In reply, The 'Probressive Farner , has just received from-Mr. -Davis tibe following which we are glad to print as a current contribution to this n teresting and Important topic: "There- is no published. benk or printed authority on the-subjec(. 3n. existence to-day, so far as I 'no. If there is, IT have never 'seen i.o heard -of it.' "The_ Government' Bureau of Agri cultural Information has sno bulletin on the subject, but this does .not ar~ gue that 'there should be-none in the future. I have been trying for sonme time to interest the Agricultural.:De partment and some -of -their,.special agents in this and othes matters-of a like nature, but they all seemn-too busy with other things to giveime a hearing or a. chance to have the matter thoroughly investigated along scientific lines. "My authority is based on experi ence 'and investigation along inde pendent lines. That cotton grows and continues to mature and gain In .lint weight for from two to three months after being picked, as set forth in- a. previous article on the- subject and for which I am asked to give-aispe cific authority, there is no.-questin The chief authority 'is the cold fact known to all growers and handlers of cotton who observe cotton closely. "The first cotton- which dpens-is green, and if carried to the gin .soen after beng picked the lint it cut by the gin saws and the staple so badly damaged that 'the loss-in price is con siderable. Perhaps the firsst- cotton inned is actually worth-a cent a pound less to the manufacturer be :ause of the damage to the staple than the same cotton would be if eft to dry and ripen, in the house. In this respect cotton only followsithe aatural laws followed- by an~other egricultral products. . Melons;-fruit rnd a hundred other tiings~tipen af er being gathered. - "The greener and wetter the cotton he more closely it' sticks to the seed, ,nd the harder it is to- seperate when eing ginned. Every man who has iad a day's experience about a cotton ~in will be::r me ou~t in this state nent. The closer the lint adheres to he seed the less the lint -"from' the otton when ginned. In othdr words, nore of the lint is left on -the seed nd a proportionate lost is' the result. "It now seems to be an unques oned fact that the seed. is the lint roducer of the interior cotton boll. 'he seed is the mother upon which ie lint feeds and grows long and eecy. The oil which the seed ,con ins is, in part, conveyed' to: the Iint give it the rich. silky-glbss, and el that it ought to possess in order class as first-grade cotton. .If this it is seperated from the seed im editately after the picking process ere is no chance for this to take ace. "Fifteen hundred pounds of cotton - the seed, when picked dry, may t weigh in the seed any more three >nths afterwards than it did the y it was picked, but the lint ginned >m the seed will weigh more. "I am especially anxious for the vernment to have this thoroughly ~ted, and a complete bulletin Issued the subject, and I believe if the ople will demand it that the matter Ll be taken up at once." ['HE newspapers that are deluded th the notion that Roosevelt is aking uip trusts will learn better en they go up 'g inst the paper ist as we have done ini the !as f".w eks. Printing pap' r j k her n-.-w mn it ever has been. 'liha is trust lsting" with a vengeance. /H E sI Miss Gladys Vaniderbiltmnar s her Australian Count she will be Countess Szechenyi. That is a ~rid name, but it will cost the og.lady five million dollars and