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HIGHER PRICES. Why the Farmers Should Stand by Their Guns and HOLD THEIR COTTON. Strong Argument for the Cotton Growers and Against the Middle Men. Five Months Before the New Crop Will Move and the Middle Men Short on Their Contracts for Delivery. We commend the following letter from Mr. J. E. Wannamaker of St. Matthews, to the careful perusal of all who are interested in the pros perity of our Southland: Although I do not claim to be a prophet, or the son of a prophet. I venture to assert that cotton should not be sold in the present low mar ket; first, because of the moral effect upon the farmers themselves. I need not tell you how for forty long years the middle man, the speculator and the gamblers have made a foot ball of cotton; how for the time being, he has set at nought the great law of supply and demand, and thereby rob bed the cotton producer and the South of millions of money; how the farmers tamely and ignobly submitted to this thraldom until a few years ago the slumbering manhood of the South asserted itself, and at New Orleans mase a new declarations of indepen dence. I need not tell your readers how steadily our organization has grown, how bitterly it has been fought by the New York and other cotton ex changes; all these things are matters of history. To surrender now, four to five months before it is possible to put new cotton in quantities in the market, would be to take counsel of our fears, to show the white feather, to play into the hands of our enemies and to invite defeat now and here after. Then, again, it is not the time to sell cotton, because the low prices prevailing would entail too great fi nancial loss upon those who have risked all for the common good. It is well known that the last crop was made at high cost. Mules, wagons, fertilizers, farm supples of all kinds, including labor; all commanded high prices. Then, once more, it is not time to sell cotton because conditions present and prospective warrant much higher prices. "But," says some one, "I am willing to grant that the moraleeffect of selling out now would be bad, and that the loss would be heavy on those who- have held; but let us face facts. Is it not, true that the depressing in fluence of the panic- still lingers .That the sale of mill products is slow? That many mills are running on re duced time? That the buying capacity of the world seems to be diminished? What are the chances for higher prices?" I answer, much of what you say is doubtless true; still, with firm holding of the remnants of the crop I believe the chances of higher prices are first class. When fertilizer mills have more goods than they can sell they maintain prices, ware house the surplus stock and cut down produc tion. The diamond kings do the same,same, we are told. When the cotton mills find prices for their pro ducts too low they often warehouse their stock and curtail their output. These are wise men. Shall not the farmer profit by ther example? Then, remember, trade is steadily moving toward the normal, even in this country, where the depression has been greatest. In England, I am informed, the export trade has ap prcached close to the figures of last year for some time. England is wide~ awake. Note these straws: Liverpool, May 7: Cotton, spot. good business done; sales 20,000 bales, of which 18,000 American; re ceipts 1,000, no American. Futures opened easy and closed steady. "Liverpool, May 8: Cotton, spot, in active demand and a good business done. Prices 1S to 20 points higher. Salesgof the day were 15,000. of which 14,200 American; receipts 1,000 bales, no American." Here are some facts which should not be lost sight of. While a good many mills have curtailed their out put, this is offset, to a certain extent, by the new spindles which are merri ly humming away for the first time this year. And let no one forget that there were 2,000,000 bales of cotton less made in this country last year than the year before, and that India also fell short 2,000,000 bales. Then mark well this fact, which is very sig nificant: The cotton manufacturer ig nores the farmer and buyes his sup plies of raw cotton, by contract, months ahead, sometimes a year ahead, from middle men. Higher prices now for raw cotton would not hurt, but help the mills. These mid dle men are shrewd, smart men. They have no cotton, but sell short to the mills. They utilize the New York Ex change in all their trades. The New York Cotton Exchange is the arch enemy of the eotton planter. The distinguished edito' of the Saturday Evening Post has declared that n inetenths of its activities are pernicious. And now comes United tates Corporation Commissioner Her bert Knox Smith. who in a report published last Monday, say.s: "However~ this me be, the New York Cotton Exchange, if it can not e'xist under a just and equitable sys - 'a, has no excuse for existence at r'The present New York system of :9 .ed differences is uneconomic, in de:... r. -~ of natural law, unfair, and like a]! ' her efforts to defy natural law, res - in such complex and de vious eff- r-hat the benefit of its transaction ac.: nes only to a skilled few. . To return to the mi.ddle men: who have sold short to the mills. They come into daily contact with the far mers through their agents, who cov er the whole cotton belt. They play daily upon the hopes and fears of the cotton farmer, always taking their cue from the New York Cotton Ex change, and have grown strong and waxed fat in their successful dealings with him. If the truth wore known hales of cotton are now sold on contract to the mills by these middle men for May, June, July, August and September delivery. Suppose, Mr. E'itor, the farmer realized the true stauation; suppose he quietly put his cotton in a good ware house and went aoui s bsness, cutting down his KILLED HIMSELF. 'onvicted Cashier Found Dead When Sought for by an Officer. S When he finally succeeded in ef ecting an entrance to the barricated -esidence of John W. H. Geiger, for vhose arrest and incarceration in fail he had an order of the United? tates district court. United States Marshal Langhammer found Geiger lead. Later Coroner Caruthers ound a bullet wound in the roof of 3eig r's mouth, and a 3-claibre pis .ol lay beside the body. d Geiger was the central figure of s; one of the most sensational cases hat has ever been tried in a Balti nore court. He had been cashier of he Canton National bank. but re- 0 ,igne(d the position in January of last 'ear. As a result of investigations 0 )f Narional Bank Examiner Hanna. t ae was arrested on February 22, a L907. and his indictment by the tnited States grand jury on 109 1: ,ounts preceeded his trial. Of the k sxtensive misuse of the funds of the 3 )ank he was convicted on five of the u 7 counts. He was sentenced by $ fudge Morris to serve five years in all. t Geiuer's counsel appealed the case h o the United States district court of t< ppes, which, about a week ago. t itting in Richmond, decided against P im. Appeal was taken to the United e tates supreme court, but Judge Mor- t is decided that pending the court's ecision Geiger must begin to serve s us sentence. Accordingly, Marshal e .nhammer Friday went to the Gei- si ter residence, only to find Geiger e lead by his own hand. * e 0 TROUBLE AT PEEDEE t d not her Sensational Hold up and n Robbery Near the Junction. a The Florence Times says: Blake S Z'. Godbold. station daypumper for b . C. L., was assaulted and robbed e about a mile from Pee Dee last Fri- t lay p. m. at 5 o'clock. Godbold was )n the Dillon road attending to his t amps when he was jerked backward a ver the track choaked. ' Only a Eew hours before, he had drawn a - month's wages, $30.00, which the a ssailant got. He is described as e being a tall. powerfully built negro, a scar on his forehead and supposed t to be named Witherspoon, a former workman of the Marion County Lum ber Company. Three negroes were within a hundred yards of Godbold but neither went to his assistance. [t afterwards developed that there was another negro implicated who was hiding in the bushes. Pursuit was given by the railroad. men, Capt. B. E. Waley, of the trestle force tak ing the lead. The negro has not been found yet, though he is sup posed to be still hiding near Pee Dee. A susuicious looking negro was held for identity but Godbold said he was not the robber. He was freed and told to leave Pee Dee at once. After wards it was discovered that he was the man hiding in the bushes. A plan yas also on foot to rob S. J. White: the night- Watchman, but a little oy told White in time for him o thwart them. This recalls the mysterious case of C. E. Kale, for mer night watchman whose body was found almost lifeless on the railroad track last December, * SREBUK~ES NEWLANDS. Major J. C. Hemphill Calls the Ne vada Down. A dispatch from Washington to The State says Maj. J. C. Hemphill, editor of The News and Courier, in the drainage conference Tuesday af ternoon reproved Senator Newlands of Nevada for criticising the South. Senator Newlands had declared that the South before the war, because of slavery, was strict in construction of the constitution and a habit of mind had descended to this day, which un fortunately kept the South from be ing prominent in the great reclama tion measures. Maj. Hemphill said that the Southern people were will. ing at any proper time to discuss with Senator Newlands their habit of mind towards the construction but that the drainage conference was not the place for a discussion either of that ques tion or for the resurrection of the Aavery issue. He therefore deplored the remarks from the senator from Nevada. A Human Monster. At Montgomery. Ala.. five children of Jim Kennedy were burned to death Tuesday night, and two others so bad l burned that they cannot recover. The crime is charged to the father, who, the mother says, locked -the seven in and set fire to the house. The police are looleing for Kennedy. The couple were seperated and had been at law over the children. The woman says she say Kennedy lock and set fire to the cabin. cotton acreage, putting in more corn, harvesting his small grain, increasing his pasture lands and truck patches; wouldn't there be something doing in1 the cotton world? Wouldn't the p rice begin to jump? Would't the world wake up out of its slumber af ter all it must not go naked? Mr. Editor, I tell you the manufac tute of c'otton and the civilizationu of the world go hand in hand:t But, says some one: "The farmersI wll plant the earth in cotton this year." Let not the manufacturer, nor the middle man, nor the speculator pin their faith too strong to wbat the fool farmer may or may not do. 'Paul may plant'and Appollos may water. ti but God alone giveth the increase,'. i as true in material as in spiritual things. Already in the wisdom of Providence. by frost. by fiood, by - cool nights and withering. blighting winds, cotton has been killed outright and stands badly broken the i~ngthC and breadth of the cotton belt: and yet still it has to run the gauntlet ofI flood and drought and frost. ''Three 1 ' n'any a slip t.v: tie c'ut- andr the Mr. Editor, I believe we are fight ing in a great cause, a cause whichi embraces the financial, industrial and economic welfare, and, therefore, the educational and spiritual welfare of all our people of the entire sunny South. In view of all I've 'done and tried to do. no matter what the out com e may e. I feel that I can adopte as my own the motto of the disting- I aished Rqbbi Elzas: 'Men say I've failed; I have not fail ed.. [f I have brought truth to men,p they'd not receive. i Ti is they have failed, not I." c J. E. Wannamaker. z COTTON BOOMED. ENSATIONAL RISE IN TILE PRICE OF THE STAPLE. ew Cotton King Has Caused the Great Southern Money Crop to As sume Much Greater Value. A dispatch from New York under ate of last Friday says in the sen ational rise in .July cotton in the last ?w days, amounting to 109 points r $9.50 a bale, it has become known at a new "Cotton King" has risen i the finantial world, one whose perations have played havoc with 1e bears in the cotton pit and have ssisted in cornering the July option. J. L. Livermore's name was on the ps of every one in the coton mar et Thursday as the price of July. 'hich has been steadily soaring, shot P from $9.40 to $9.90, a gain of 2.50 a bale. As the price of the staple continued mount, the fear-stricken men who ad sold July short contracts began > say that the market for July cot n was cornered and that a new Na oleon of the cotton market had ar 3 n and was already beginning to d':. ite terms. Since April 2S. when July cotton )ld at S.20 cents a pound. the low t in five years. Mr. Livermore has teadily accumulated contracts deliv rable next July. It is now estimat d that he has made a profit of 500 - 00 in the last two weeks. He stands make millions more if his plans on't miscarry, but he says there is o pre-arranged deal, so far as he nows, to corner July cotton. Nevertheless. the cotton trade was s excited as it was in the days of ully and the New Orleans crowd .eaded by W. P. Brown, when similar oups were attempted and carried hrough successfully. "Who is Livermore?" was oiie of he questions generally asked. "Who .re his backers?" was another, which vas coupled with the report that 'heodore H. Price had poined forces .nd was lending his aid to Mr. Liv rrmore in a plan of campaign. Mr. Livermore make his headquar ers with E. F. Hutton & Co., at New treet and Exchange place. There te has a private office. He is almost boyish in appearance. ooking younger than his 30 years. vhich he says he will reach on his text birthday. His youthful appear nec is accentuated by his almost laxen hair. One forgets his youth owever, when he discusses in a lear-cut and direct manner the trength of his position in the cotton narket. "I am not creating a corner in the uly cotton market." he said. "The narket has simply cornered itself. [he enormous advance in the last 'ew days has been the result of buy ng by persons who had sold cotton hat they did not own. "I discovered the unreasonableness >f the cotton situation two or three 'eeks ago, when I saw that spot cot on in the South was selling about $10 a bale higher than in the option narket in New York. I then began : accumulate July cotton. Others did ~he same. The old situation could ot continue very long and now there s a scramble from all sorts of in erests. spot- dealers, mills, spinners md shorts, to 'get July catton. I meer saw a market corner itsself as >rettily as this July market has lone. "'I want to go on record as saying am not running a corner. I will eer attempt it. In the first place have not got enough money. I in end to leave the financing of corners o0 spot dealers if ghey desire. They an get the money from the banks o finance heavy accumulations, but peculators -cannot. "Whatever. I am doing in the July eal I am doing alone. It makes me >eevish to hear the current reports hat I have created this situation ii he July options. The remind me of he story of the fly on the cartwheel vhich was raising a great dust while he fly believed itself to be the ~ause of the clouds that followed the ~art." "Are you not afraid the big cotton erchants will bring cotton up from he South and tliver it to you in Tuly, swamping the market?" "Let them do it." was Mr. Liver nore's reply. Fingering the ticker :ape, he continued: "I see that 4,500 ales of spot cotton were scid in 1emphis at 10 '% cents a pound. It osts something to bring it North in addition, and yet cotton deliverable n July sold in this market today at nly 9.90 cents a pound. "There are only 80,000 bales of va 'able grades of cotton in New York. et us say. and the short interest may e 300,000 bales. Mills and spinners ave not been in the market for months and their supplies are ex austed. Exen if one considers the :rade stagnation, the world needs a ~ertain amount o f cotton, and these nanufacturing 'interests have been uying the cotton where it was the :heapest-rignt here in New York. [hey found that in the South they would have to pay $10 a bale more han in NewYork, consequently spin ers bought here. From whom did he buy it? From speculators, as a ule, who had got themselves into ~uch a condition that all they did r.as to sell, sell; until the present ~ituation was created." Mr. Livermore adlded that Mr Price was not assisting him in an" way and hat he wfts conducting his operations tone. Wall street fir's.t began to talk Ibbout the new Napoleon last year. rhen he was credited with having nade $2.000.000 in the fall of stocks Lnd another $1,000,000 in the fall >f cotton. He bought a steam yacht ast fall and made a trip to the West ndies. He r'eturned about a month Hydrophobia Increasing. t is rep~orted that hydrophobia is ncreasing alarmingly in the United ;tates. This is the conclusion r'each d hy Government exper ts, who have 'xamined the subject. They say the ~isease is not confined to any partic lar section of the United States but s generally prevalent throughout the ountry. The report on the subject trongly recommends that all dogs be auzzled. and the declaration is made hat the disease cannot be stamp~ed ut until the dogs are muzzled for a eriod of several years. Tihe exper' ence of some European countries is ited to show that only by the muz ling of dogs can the disease be ab WARNING To POSTMASTERS. Merchants Resort to Tricks to Hav Their Packages Delivered. Information having reached th: Postoffice Department of certai methods by which the p:stal laws i regard to the mailable and unmai able merchandise on rural route have been evaded. Fourth Assistat Postmaster Degraw has taken stet to prevent future evasions. Rural carriers are permitted to do liver as exp:ess matter for hire. f< patrons of their routes, unmailabl merchandise and packages of mai able merchandise weighing in exc: of four pounds. An example of t: abuse of this privilege is that of merchant who sent out by rural ca rier as extra matter a pair of shoe to whieh he added a bag of salt i make the package overweight an to avoid paying postage so that ti carrier might carry the package fc hire. In view of such abuses, Mr. Di graw has issued the fol'owing stat ment: "All packages of merchar dise to be sent out by rural carrier by merchants of the town should b presented at postoflice for inspectic and in case it is found that extraneou matter not ordered by the patron has been added to any mailable ma ter or package for the purpose < making such package matter unmai able. postmasters should refuse 1 permit the carrier to carry any sue matter or package for hire outsic of the mails, and rural carrier should not receive any mail matt( from patrons as unmailable matt for hire which they suspect has bee made unmailable by such devices adopted by the merchant referred to. A PAIR OF ROGUES Obtained Money Under False Prete sions and Blew It All In. A young white man by the nan of Zeb Vaughn was arrested in th city and carried to Newberry by She if M. N. Buford of that county stand trial for misappropriatir funds entrusted to him by a cott< mill in Newberry. Vaughn is charg with securing forty dollars from ti mill to take certain of his relativ from Orangeburg to Newberry work in the mill. Instead of usir the money in this way: Vaughn charged with using it for ihmself. Deputy Sheriff Dukes return( from Newberry on Tuesday with young white man named Will Ponell. who is charged with dol in Orangeburg what Vaughn is char ed with doing in Newberry. Mi Vaughn, the mother-in-law Vaughn, the mother-in-law of Va ghn, charges that she got forty d. lars from the Orangeburg Manufa turing Company nad entrusted it Ponell to go to Newberry and sh some of her furniture from th place to Orangeburg and arran some other matters up there. Inste of doing as directed Ponell is chat ed with appropriating the money trusted to him by his mother-in-It to his own use. Bonell and Vaughn are brothei in-law, and it semms that they we using the same family of people get -money on from the mills. The young men have been committed jai to await trial. This is a sad cac and these young men will find ti way of raising money will not Pt They will find hard labor more hc orable and profitable in the end. URGED TO HOLD) COTTON. President Harris Call Upon the Farn ers to Stand Firm. President Harris, of the Stc Farmers' Union Friday gave out statement in which he says: "It because trade conditions are heil or a cause of necessity. Futures e not be spun and woven inito cloth; they could, cotton would not ha made this advance. Do not let a little advance in 1i11 influence you to sell. HolN onl un the minimum is reached. Reimmt the cotton broker has sold your c; ton to the mills: now make nirn gi the minimum before he gets it deliver to the manfacturers. Th are calling him for cotton is why has advanced. "Now. lboys, frieze to it, and t Price will get right. The spot ci ton is in your hands, and it is you The other fellow is beginning to wa it badly now. Remember, 4,300.0 bales short means something a.nd i shortage is all in your favor. ."We all know that crop conditio are bad. not only East of the Mitss ipi, butt west also. The cotton cr is at least three weeks late and h stands, andI the cold weather b 'aused much replanting. Every d wvill have to be an ideal day from ni until the crop is made for us to dui) cate the ]907 erop). "The European mills will need 000.00O bales more of American cc ton this year than they have been1 ing. The Egyptian and India cr is 2.(000.000) bales short and th have been getting most of that ci EAING AW~AY RIOADS. Exerimnts Prove that Automnobil Are Very D estriuc(tivye. . Automobiles are road destroye: This is the conclusion reached the experts of the good roads depa: mlcut of the National Departmient Agriculture and of highw"ay expei in pract1ic'ally every country of t civilized wor'ld.. The ont rsuits of' the conclusi eventually will ie that every own f an automobile will have to p. a tax on his nmac'hine, the prtocee of which shall go to the repairing damages clone to r'oads by the hors less vehcic'les. The good roads .department is co ductig a series of e'xpteriients determine .lust what attounit of dIa age is dune to highways by autom biles. The ex per imenlts are hecii miade uinder the dire'tion of L. \ Page. (director of pub lic toads. ac he expects to subitl ant elaborate r' pot, to the im erntiona tltIl r'oad co gress. which is to be held next Oct her in Parnis. T ihcy WVill Swingz. sentences were'( prononnttIteed oin E ward andc .lacis Pierre. negroes. co iced of murder'i. They are membeI of a sect of negro fanatics who la fal lbarricaded t i:emselves in a how and defied the police for sever; CUPID'S BOW AND PRINTER'S Th e S es no Wrong in Advertising for a Wife. TC LET-Lonely heart. Has beer e occupied before, but is in good repair 11 and will be found warm and com n fort..ble. May be leased for life b3 p the right party. s There may be places where Cupid'i t old-fashioned bow and arrows are s still efficient and the darts reach the -ts without undue delay, but the sprite knows that sort of ammunition wo:1't do in a town like this. r So to cover more territory Cupid e suggested the want ad. columns to - Rev. J. Holwell Geer, who offered the 's foregoing as a perfectly innocent ex e pression of the needs of the hour. a But Dr. Geer was much disturbed because of the notoriety that befell s him when he wrote to a newspaper 0 asking if they would insert such an d advertisement. e .It seems to me perfectly proper to advertise in the papers for a wife," hl said. "Is it so unusual? You. see I know very few persons in this city-and If a man wishes to get mar - ried under such circumstances, what .s is more simple than making his e wishes known through the newspa n pers? It is no more than asking an ts asquaintance for an introduction to ts a person one would like to meet. t- "If ' had a toothache and advertised I for , dentist, it would escape notice. - So why, if I have a heartache. should ,o I not advertise for a wife? Why h should it seem so strange?" ,e Dr. Geer. who is a very pleasant 's person, looked remarkably young in r spite oL his gray hair. He has a r keen sense of humor, and a gentle n demeano that augur well for the ts peace of the woman, whoever she 0 may be, who accepts his name. * "It is true that I am lonely," he continued, "and would like to be married. Being poor I would want the lady to have some means. This was said with an engaging simplicity that belongs perhaps to the clergy man's acceptance of poverty as part of his life. le "The paper referred to my rosy is cheeks " continued Dr. Geer.- "In r- view of many causes contributing to to such ruddiness in this great city I Lg thirk mine should be classified. I >n got It from the Devonshire air." 'd As he spoke the hotel clerk an ie nounced another reporter and the ?s doctor looked alarmed. to "How long is this likely to last?" ig he exclaimed. "Why, I,can't get out, is to luncheon. I don't understand it. England reporters would not think 3d of asking about one's private affairs. a Even In case o. murder they would ie not enter a private house to get news. ig It wouldn t be allowed. Why, do g- you know, when the bishop of Lon s. don was here recently a reporter call of ed him on the telephone at 5 tn the u- morning to ask his engagements for ,- the day. He was very indignant.' c- "I tried to explain to the doctor to tre digerence between a private af ip fair and a "heart interest story," to at use a "trade" term, but I had to give e it up. He couldn't see it. But any td way, Le's got his "ad" in the paper .g and hope he'll get the wife. He de nserves a good on , too.-St. Louis .Chronmele. .Razorback in His Lair. s- The wild hog is still to be found in to the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma. W. se A. ..andridge, a citizen of that tribe, to says the land owners there count on , these hogs and try to keep tab on them just as they d'd many'years ago, sbefore any good hogs were raised ythere. Hesays that farmers are rais ing good breeds of hogs, but they . still own some wild hogs which run In the op~en ecountry in the heavily timbered districts. As many of these hog as can be caught when they are small, are marked on the, ears, and some are branded. Then they are turned loose and allowed to ru te wll'd with the other hogs until they a grow up. is "The round-up," says Mr, Dan.. er dridge, "is exciting sport. There is a no use trying to round up these hogs if on foot, or even on horseback. They ye can outrun a horse through the tim ber. and he can get clear-out of sight :e. In a few minu'es. We go on horesback ii and on foot, but use dogs to do most er of the work. The dogs go into the >t- he vy brush after them,; and bring v them out, and in that way we finally to corral them. 'lhe". they are kept in eva strong enclosure for a few weeks. it w~here they are fed on corn, till they get r, enough to butc'.er. They are Susually leggy and thin with long bris., >t- ties. They live on acrong and grass .s and seem to be free from all kinds atof disease which destroy so many of the- tame hogs. The round-up sea hson is in the fali when the wild hogs are at their best."-Chickasha u(Okla.) Express sNew Method of Watch Advertising. A watch, frozen into a ca'ke ol aIce for twelve hours, during which as time it recorded accurately the fleet aymg seconds and minutes, is one ecf Sthe latest wrinkles in .jewelry adver I-Goats in Dixie. > In Dixie almost every third yo'ing ster owns a goat, and many have 3> pairs of them. -t is a common sight, ey n any of the fashionable strmi's. >even of large cities,~ to see well * groomed billies drawing miniature carriages with juvenile drivers. Many of the goats owned by South'ern children are handsome animals. es - The greatest cathedral at Cologne, although completed but a few year' . ago, has so deteriorated from factory smoke that the body of the church 4vill have to be renovated throughout, ts. The biggest army depot in the le coun~try is to bi established near San Francisco. er It is easy to get all the credit y'ou r ant when you don't want it. of When you see a man advertising e- his virtues i is to keep your attention off his real char-acter. to Time will tell; but gossipers man na.e to tell it tirst. Don't he afraid to do more than is req~uired of you. e- Bewar-e the geese when the fox 1- p1eehes. I"THE nomination of Mr. Bryan is as good as an accomplished fact," says the Charleston Post. "'There is no good end to be served by Dem ocrats kie-king againsi the pricks. It is Bryan or a Republican. Those t who want a Republican for Presi Sdent may continue to oppose Bryan. 1but all others will acccpt and sup ENDS HIS OWN LIFE. Because His Daughter Was Not Al lowed to See Him. Because his visits to his ten-year old daughter were stopped by his di vorced wife. Rudolph Witte. a book keeper, shot himself through the head in a hotel in Brooklyn. His wife obtained a divorce years ago and sc cured the custody of their daughter rielen. Witte was permitted to see his daughter at his former wife's home until recently when she mar ried again. Pleadings and letters were disregarded by the former Mrs Witte. ft was said that the father became heart broken. He went to the hotel and told his story to a friend. Then he went into another room and killed himself. Witte died before a doctor arrived. - INSTRUCTS FOR BRYAN. Wyoming Joins the Triumphal Pro cession of States. The Wyoming Democratic State Convention Thursday selected dele gates to the national convention in structed for William J. Bryan. Res olutions were adopted favoring the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people, favoring an amendment to the Sherman anti trust law, excepting labor unions from the effect of its provisions and opposing the forest reserve policy of the present national administra tion. , * WHERE DO THE OLD PIANOS GO? l'hat Is, When They Get So Old You Can't Give Them Away. What becomes of all the old I pianos? Any piano dealer will take E your old piano when you want a new I one and will allow a substantial credit on it even If it is of another make. From time to time the deal ers announce sales of used pianos. All dealers have large stocks of them on hand constantly. One- piano firm has on exhibition an old fash- 1 loned square piano which was made I at least half a century ago. The piano bears a placard to the effect that any one who will pay the cart age may have it for the asking. 'No one has accepted the offer. Suppose no one ever takes that piano off the I hands of the dealers who want to 1 get rid of it. What will the deal ers do with it? Obviously with rents as high as they are it wouldn't pay to store a piano. you can i give away. So the quest:on remains.: What,- in the last stage of undestra o'iity, becomes of all the old planos? -N. Y. Sun. Filling Many Wants. One of the most useful trees In the world is a species of palm which grows in Brazil. It might fafely be called a vegetable emporium, for it yields everytying from medicine to cattle food. From the 'roots is ob tained a very valuable medicine which is used for purifying the blood in springtime. Its timber takes a very bigh polish, and is much sought after by cabinet makers for fine Iwork. The sap becomes wine or vinegar. according to the treatment it receives. From the sap, starch and sugar are also obt' . The fruit of the tree Is give. -cattle for food; the nut, '-round ~o powder. makes a good substitute for, coffee, and the pith becomes bottle corks.. .Birds That Fight Windows. "The mating season of the birds approaches," said a nature student, 'andl, If. you live in a good bird coun try your windows will kill off many a male. Male birds In the mating season become extraordinarily hold and fierce. Houses have no terrors for them. A~pproaching, they see their own reflections in the glass of the windows, and mistaking these images for rival males, they dart in doniltably upon the glass, to fall back stunned. or bleeding, or broken winged. I have a south winoOw that i can always rely on in the spring to kill me two birds a week. I grill them en toast." .Av'oided the D~anger. It was a wise young man who paused before he answered the wid ow who asked him to guess bier age. "You must have some idea about it," she said, with what was inte~nded for an arcn sidewise glance. "I have several Ideas," he admit ted with a smile. "The only trou ble Is that' I hesitate whether to make you ten years -younger on ac counts of your looks or ten years older on account of your brains."' Then while the widow smiled and blushed, he took a graceful but speedy leave.-Youth's Companion. Not That Kind of a Talker. "On one occasion wnen In Con gress," said James F. Banks of Bos ton, "Gen. Benjamin Butler arose in his place and intimated that the member who occupied the floor was transgresslng the limits of debate. "'Why, General, said the member reproach fully, "you divided your time with me." "'I kn'ow I did,' rejoined Butler grimly, "but I didn't divide eternity with you.' A Bequest Refused. The French Acadenmy refused the $20,000 bequeathe-.. to it by MIle. Louise Hi. Leclere, to be used, ac - cording to the terms in her will, "in( raising the moral tone of France." The Academy holds the acceptance of this fund would be tantamount to ad mitting the opinion of the testratrix, I who regarded ner native country as a sink of iniquity. Why Indeed. One old member of the New York bar, who has long been In touch with ~ court methods and proceedings, says 's he wonders why a certificate of good s character is required before a man Is admitted to practice, Where Grafters Live. The guides on the Washington C rubberneck automobiles take greatE pleasure in pointing out the Graf ton Hotel and in forming the passengers' that a great many politicians stop there. Diamonds From Crater. A South African diamond mine or "pipe" is the crater of an extinct vol-d cano and the diamondiferous ground forms the filling of that crater. n When McCormick built nis nrn h hundred reapers In 1S45 he paid 4% cents for bolts To-day 50 bolts are. madei for a cent. i 4 Absolutely Pure From Gra the most healt * of fruits, comes chief ingredier o The ma Gr of Casts or phe O. Royal; A Test of Strength. A Republican from Vermont uts the matter so clearly that we. dopt his letter written to the New. fork World. It is good tonic for ome of South Carolina~s weak need Denmocrats: 'o the Editor of The World: I am not an admirer of W. J. Bry n, neither am I a Democrat,'but the esult of the poll made recently by he Success Magazine somewhat muses me. Last January that pe iodical sent out about 12,000 votes, o be returned with preferred can Lidates for the next president. The ubscribers to this magazine nust admittedly be men of - more han the average clear-headedness nd ability. The total number of )emocratic preferences - returned as 1,404. Of these W. J. Bryan ad 1,178: Gov. Johnson 191; Folk I 2, and Judge Gray 12. Or, in other words, Mr. Bryan. the gentleman who you are saying every day can tarry only one small corner of this ountry, received 83.8 per cent. of he total; Johnson, the Democrat who you seem to think is as liable as my to carry New York and Pennsyl ania,13.6 per cent., while Judge ray, the gentleman for Delaware whose "carrying abilities you have een expounding to a considerable xtent, received .8 of 1- per cent. . From this result, gathered from LI parts of the country, the East as el as the West and South, it al ost seems-as if you had been in a easure mistagcen in your conclu ons that Mr. Bryan was politically lad and buried and that .Johnson r Gray should take up the standard ie had let fall and bear it on to vic >ry. Dorman B. E. Kent. Montpelier, Vt., May 4. Most Pojlmlar and~ Powerful. The Richmon'd Tim.Dispatch ays "beyond any peradventure of oubt, the 'two most popular and owerful citizens in the United tates today are Theodore Roosevelt d William Jennings Bryan. Both ire feared (nd abhorred by many of 2eir party leaders, and both are olized by hundreds of thousands of heir fellow citizens. It is this per moal prestige and this enormous ~old .on the masses that have given resident Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan heir extraordinary position as 'lead rs. T he remarkable. feature. :in the career and power of these two ien is the fact that neither of them re deep thinkers, wise counselors trained statesmen. - "There must be some reason for he almost reverential attitude hih the real followers of Mr. Bry n and Mr. Roosevelt feel towards heir leaders, and the explanation is > be found in the fact that these wo men have risen up to teach* orals at a time when morality was nore needed than statesmanship. n preaching their crusade against aterialism both Mr. Bryan and M oosevelt have been led into decla nations with which The Times-Dis th can not agree. Both have nade charges which can not be roved, and both have offered reme-. les which would be entirely ineffec ive or disastrous. "But despite these mistakes Mr. 3ryan and Mr. Roosevelt alike. have. tood for manhood before money, d for the inalienable and glorious ights of the individual to live his n life under that freedomn for| vhih the fathers of the republic ied. But the heart of the Amern an people understood and sympa hized with the real motives of both reachers. And the good sense of e American people* pierced hrough the frequent claptrap and mogogy to the underlying prmeci le. Again we have seen it demon trated that the heart has its reasons ihch the head does not unider ad." The Charleston Post says "that is nquestionably the condition of the eople's mind today, and that aec ounts for the prevalence of the1 ryan sentiment and presistence of ie Roosevet legend. There is an ssential difference between the two, owever, for while Mr. Bryan has e een spreading an evangel Mr. t ,oosefelt has been capitalizing a mtiment. Mr. Bryan is a sincere, a ivoted radical, and, in many things. E sled, reformer. Mr. Roosevet ti is caught the trend of the publid cl ind and put it to political purpos- j .To the end Mr. Bryan will con- d an for whrw: he thinks is rigzht for o1 1 pes, Eful4 the - t of RAKIN .POWDER nly baking powder . de from Royal pe Cream Tartar * little morethantheinjurious alm sphate of lima powde, but with aumeof pre,ealthifulfood. DRINK MORE WATER. OST PEOPLE DRINK ENTIRELY Too LITTLE. t Should Be Taken Chiefly Between Meals and Not While Eating--Give.. the Water Cure a Tria'. One - of the most universal dietetic railings is to neglect to take enough eater into the system. : When one stops to think of the many functions which water has to perform in the >ody, the need. of a large supply is\ ealized. The uses of water in the >ody may be summarized as follows: 'It furnishes the blood with a. fluid medium so that nourishment may be Laken to all parts of the body and the waste removed, and , this .causes rapid changes in t.he tissues. 2. It enters into -the composition if all tissues of the body. 3. It forms the chief ingredient of all the fluids of the' body and main tains thei- proper degree of dilution. 4. It .serves to distribute the heat of the 1r dy. .;. It regulates the temperature of he body by the process .of absorption ad, vapo ration. It is estimated that water com oses abcut '70 per cent of the entire ody weight,. and it is an almost universal .solvent.' Its importance, hereore to the systemi cannot be verrated. The amount of water required .by a iteal:.iiy .ndividual in twey-four ours is on an average between sixty five and seventy -vunces, besides tout ltwenty ounces taken in as an ngredient of solid' 'food, thus mak ing a Lota- of eighty-.nve to ninety ounces. / A great many people- leading sed ntary lives taketoo little water, and also err in taking it for the most ~art whe:: eating. A ~certain amount a water should form a part of every meal, and particularly is it necessary to those who have very active diges-. ions It assists l.'th~ escape from the stomach of those substances made l uble by the action of the' ;;ptric juice and the cirurning effect of- the1 stomach,- and will oftentimes make igestion comfortable when it other wise would be attended with <4is tress. While some liquid should be taken with the meals, 'the foods ahoi:ld not be washed down, for this interfere; with digestion.* (especially starch digestion), end may dIlso cause the ndividual to swallow-morsels of food altogether too large and resisting for the stomach to manage comfortably. . The proper time for taking ithe ulk of fluid is betyveen meals, par ticularly early in the morning before >rcakfast, and at night before retir ing. Favors Unit Rule. It is hard for Senator Tillman to lease The News and Courier in hat he says about the delegates . from this State to Denver. The Senator and the News and Courier both agree that the delegates should ot be instructed but they reach the ommon conclusion from different no,tives. The News and Courier don't want them~instructed because it hopes to slip in an anti-Bryan del 2gate or two, while the Senator iont want them instructed because e thinks "it is foolish to tie up the nen who go to BDenver 'when we know that they wjould vote for 3ryan. anyhow." The . Senator. pent on to say that he believed in Ie unit rule, which means that a najority of the delegation wou'd etermine for who our eighteen rotes would be cast. As a majority . )f the delegates will undoubtedly avor Mr. Bryan they would cast outh Carolina's eighteen votes for in, even should,~ The News arad ~ourier manage to slip in an anti ~ryan delegate or two on the dele .tion. Therefore The News and ~ourier says the "Senator's notions hat the del'egation, or the State ionvention for it. should adopt tha nlt rule is illogical and unreason ble." Those papers that can find omfort in Senat or Tillmnan's posi ion are eas:iy com ' '- :. d benncial to the people. Mr. :oosevlt will contend for what he 'iinks th~e people want-until they ,ange their minds or he changes ;dgment of their views. And this e intinn the people a finding