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THEY FEEL BLUE. Republicans Are Afraid That Taft Will Be Defeated. THEY ARE WORRIED. Even Pry. ident Roosevelt Thinks His Man's Election is Doubtful-Re cord of Congress Far From Satis factory to the Majority Party, and Republicans Are Anxious. A Washington Litter to the Charleston Post says the Republicans In Congress are in a bad .amor. Things legislative and political have not broken well for them during the last winter. They are disappointed and anxious, and the leaders are trying to foist the responsibility for existing conditions from one to an other. Many blame President Roose velt. The President, on the other hand, blames the Congress. No doubt exists that the Republi cans are concerned over the Presi dential and Congressional elections that are to take place next autumn. They are not scared, but the fact that the legislative program which was recommended by the President has not been carried out leads to the belief that something may happen during the approaching campaign. An apprehension is felt that Secre tary Taft. if nominated for the Presi dency, may be defeated. The reali zation is that Taft will be nominated; and it is not going too far to say that the Republicans, in and out of Congress who have carefully gone over the situation, are fearful of the result. President Roosevelt regards Taft's nomination as a foregone conclusion. He, too, entertains some misgivings about the result next November, but he lays the blame for the condition that may oring about such a result at the door of Congress. He points to the fact that the leaders i the two branches of Congress have taken this year to settle some old scores with him. There is no doubt of that fact. With an assurance that Roosevelt would succeed himself, Congress undoubtedly would have treated his recommendations with greater consideration during the last winter. It was taken for grant ed, however, that he was to retire early next year, and the Congress has played horse with him. More bitterness of feeling than ever before has been created between the House and the Senate. Crimina tions and recriminations have been made by the one branch and by the other. Speaker Cannon has 'been charged with all sorts of things by the Senate and the leaders among the Republicans of the Senate have lbeen charged with ignoring the public will and standing only for their own sel fish desires. Thus, a serious condition of politi cal affairs has been created. Gen erally. it is believed that Taft and Bryan will be the opposing candi dates. A short time ago. it was ex pected that the Republican candi date would have practically a walk over at the election, but in the last month there has been a notable chan ge in sentiment. Among both Re publicans and Democrats it Is con ceded that Bryan has a strong chance of winning this year. Some Repubil cans even are pessimistic about the November results if Taft be nomi nated. It is realized that there will be a spirited contest with the result much in doubt. It is perfectly evident that the Re publican physicians have not been able this year to prepare the country for the great operation next fall. In a speech on the financial measure a few days ago, Senator "Bob" Taylor, of Tennessee, told this significant story: "I am confident that before the Re publican financial physicians get through with the job they will have the country in the condition of the old man in my state who was very sick. The doctor examined bf and said: Old man, you are dying; have you any wish to express before you pass over the river?" "Yes." whispered the feeble old man. "I wish I had got another doc tor." NEGRO PROTECT'S WIFE. Shoots and Kills A Very Bad White - Man. Boyce Stone was killed ..onday afternoon on the outskirts of Greer by Henry Fowler, colored. It seems that Stone and two other white men went to Fowler's house and attempt ed to criminally assaud. his wife. Fowler came in answer to calls of his wife. Hie expotstulated with the men wnen he was set upon and badly beaten. Recovering from the attack, he seized his gun and fired at close range at the first man in sight. The contents of the load hit Boyce Stone killing him instantly. Fwier at once surrendered to the authorities and was committed to jail. Stone was about 24 years of age and was a bad fellow. About four years ago Policeman .r oster of Greer was foul ly assassinated and St ne was tried for the crime and was acquitted. Since this time he has lived until .- nriy in the far West. where he *:in tried for murder but came clea> sine has always been a wild and r.- - s life, and the sad endibg to his c::. ar was what every one ex pected. A Home*-7: Refrigerator. Take two Iary. Wes, the second somewhat smaller "n -:l! sides. and bore two one-inch holes in each cor respondingly, to give drainage and ventilation. Fill up the bottom of the larger box with powdered char coal (or sawdust, if charcoal cannot be procured) until the stnaller b~ox will stand on a level w-,- the top of the larger box. Put the inner box in place, and fill up all the space around the sides with the charcoal. Fasten lids on both boxes to fit tightly. On each side of the inner box, by means of cleats, put several shelves, leav ing a space in the center for the ice. A rack made of lathing may be laid at the bottom, for the ice to rest upon. Legs may be added. also, and the drainage and ventilation in this way be improved. This is a rough - r1eam-r but i wil save your ice. SERVANT PROBLEM. ENGLSH GIRLS TO BE USED TO SOLVE IT. The state Inunigration Bureau Eu tering Upon an Experiment of Great Interest to the State. A letter from Columbia to The News and Courier says in the ex periment which Commissioner \Wat son has started of substituting a high type of English-speaking house hold servant girl for the negro ser vant girl he is convinced both from employers a nd the girls themselves that he has finally laid the founda tion for a successful, practical solu tion of the vexed negro servant pro blem in this State, and if the experi ment proves a success here it will be "a go" throughout the South. After repeated failures during four years' hard work the commission is now sa tisfied that success is at hand. The first experiments along this line were with foreign-speaking peo pIe, and in every case this proved a failure. These are the kind of fore ign servants that are being placed to a large extent in the North. Com missioner Watson then concluded that this section would have to have a higher type than is used in the North In order to supplant the negro. who is daily growing more useless exacting and that the new servants must speak English. He was further persuaded that the newcomers in or der to be satisfied tnemselves and render satisfactory service would have to be in touch with the other mem bers of their families. so as to give the home touch and alleviate the so cial alienation which had made other experiments with English-speaking girls failures. Accordingly persis tent, energetic work was carried on in the desirable farm section of En gland with literature, lectures and personally conducted tours with big vans. The thirty-three English people brought here less than a month ago and located in and around Columbia. Edgefield. Abbeville, Greenville and elsewhere in the State, have all writ ten letters to the department express ing satisfaction, and every girl so .ocated has written letters through the department to friends and rela tives abroad, urging them to come on to South Carolina and live. Those Pety Expenses. Speaking of starting things and not finishing them." said a business man, "did 1 ever tell you of the cu rious habit that an uncle of mine had? He uses to carry a memoran dum book aroun' with him and whenever he spent any money he worild jot down the figures. We al ways looked upon him as a model ir keeping accounts. One day I got taking to him about it and he pull ed the book out of his pocket to show me. What was my amazement on looking at it to dis'cover that not one of the pages w .s totaled up. I ask ed him, naturally, whether he never added the columus to find out how much he was spending. He told me that he did not and never had; the practice was too discouraging. A sense of diiiy impelleo him to put down the items, but there he stop ped. An interesting m a,. my uncle. although a trif'e' eccc ntric. ''Not so very unlike the majority of humankind," said the business man's friend. "unless perhaps. in his honesty of avowal. I think there a-e mi1ghty few people who keep the record of their person~al expenses in shipshape fashion. Lots of us start out with the best of inuntions. say at the beginning of a year, but its a. good deal like keping up a diary. And just w.iere nine out of ten fall down is the matter of totaling. It takes but an inflintesimal amount of time to run up a column, but some how we don't like the operation: it's too much like bringing a charge against ourselves. So we salve cur consciences by jotting down items when we think of them-and let them go at that. Pr'etty soon the account or memorandium book be -me"n nopolessly in arrears and it is ut away where It will not be an ir ritation. The ziext January anoth er beginning may be made. but un less the conscience is In very good working order there will be the same result." Here's a Simile. What would our language be with out a similie? No one can forget George Aubrey's remark that an ac quaintance had Invested about every thing he had in an ochre mine. "You've got about as much use for' that mine as a cow has for a side pocket." Dr. Smelzer was trying to tell the Merry Sixty Club about a certain prominent financier who is oted ter' his longness and leanness. "Is he so very thin?" asked a listen ~r. "Thin: Why, he looks as if he could go an excursion up a gas pipe." --N. Y. Press. U. S. Cemetery in Mexico. "Though very few people are aware of the fact,." said an army officer the other day. "the United States Gov ernent owns and maintains a nation al cemetery In Mexico. It is located at San Cosine. near the City of Mexi co and was purchased and establish ed' in the year 1850 for the purpose of interring the remains or soldiers of the United States who died or were killed in that vicinity during the war with Mexico and also for in terring the bodies of citizens of the United States who have died in that vicinity since that period." "See here." asked. the cautious stranger. "if I decide to stay here for a week, how much Is it going to cost me?' "You can answer that best yourself." replied the clerk of the Flo da hotel. "Hor much aave you a~t?"-Phi ladelphia Press. Immigration has almost stope' it is reported from the East. So loin as it brings In Black Hand gangs I! seems desirable to have it cease al. together, WE congratulate Columbia on the saving of her boat line. The public spirited men who came :forward1 and saved it from going out of ex istence appreciate the great advan-' tage this boat line is to Columbia and are willing to make sacrifices to maintain it. The -great wonder is that a place the size of Colunmt ia has not got a great many more sucih NAPOLEON'S OLD COAT, garment for Which He Had a Sort of Snperstitious Reverence. At the 13 Vendemiare Napoleon 'as in such a state of poverty that .ls 'lot hes were all torn and he did 3o' own a sword. He had to borrow -no. and the day following his suc -ess he had to get a quantity of cloth rong the State t3 have a suitable uni- ! -rmn made. From this moment, :owever. he paid great attention to als toilet. and took a certain pride in chly decorated clothes. At Marengo he wore a unitc rin coy red with gold embroidery---a uni -in to which he attached a quecer rt of superstitious reverence. When ,F went to Milan, for instance, to be row led King of Italy. he attended a .iew on the field of battlr in the ,i fashioned and much tarnished : it he ha- worn on the memorable .8Th of June. 1800. He never parted with his old coat. .le brought it with him to St. -ele .. and when he was dead. his corn ;jan'ens put it over him. When Na :>oleon became Consul he took great are of his toilet. but he affected sim 'lic'tv all the more. as he wished his generals and suite to be gorgeous in -old u.iforms and plumed helmets. It was then he took to wearing the :ray redigote and the hat which. as cel! as the uniform has been le reed to the :-opressEugenie. At rst h: .t was low crowned with a wide -order. but littl' by little it got his - -t and higher until it became the hat -very one knows. The hat was of of ,., hairy felt what hatters call 'cistor francaise," and it had a lin n- of grayish green silk. Napoleon .vore niis hats for a long time and -ent them to be repaired again and -gain. -.re' Mother Bnrled Before His Birth The one hundred and first anni -ersary of the birth of General Rob -rt E. Lee. recalls the little known act that he was born more than a :ea. after his mother had been bur ea. furnishing to the world one of he most astonishing cases of reviv seence on record. General Lee's mother was by no .eans an entirely healthy woman. he suffered from catelpsy. and dur ug a prolonged trance, she was pro }cout ced dead. The body was pre >arcd for Interment and the morning 7f the third day after her snppcsed Leath the remains were laid to rest n the family vault in the graveyard if Stratford. Va. . While the sexton was cleaning up :nu arranging some fresh fowers to ,e placed on the casket, he heard a 'aint voice as though of some one 'ling for ass'stance. He listened 'osely and the voice was distinctly :eard aga'n. .seco.iing satisfied that the voice I 'e from witbir the casket he at >nce opened it, discovering that Mrs. Lee was alive. Within a short time -.h was safe in bed at her own home. \1rs. Let's recovery was slow, but -:h did regain go;od health and a lit 'le more than a .year after she was mrie alive her yr--ngest son, Robert E.. was born. and thus came into the world one of her bravest men and -eatest generals. Shortage of Horses. Dealers and breeders who are pre licting a shortage of horses almost amgunting to a famine in the next ew 3-ears will find much to confirm their opinion in the records of the trade at the Union Stock Yards, Chi -ago in 1907. There was a falling off of 24224 head IL the arrivals of the .ear; and all classes of horses .aver aged higher than in 1906. nothwithm ta nding the financial disturbances and the fact that users of horses all over the ~ountry were economizing n~ their purchases. There seems to be no doabt In the r~inds of market experts that the shinkage in arrIvals diuring the year .ras due to the fact nat the nu.- rr of marketable, or. rather. serviceable orses had cfeelined. Farmers and breeders seem to havr discovered too uly the expected results of the use of the automobile and to have tiredi fewer berses of late years. Certain ly if they had been in the couintry the Lgh prices of the year nmust t are brought them out! Records of the Union Stock Yar-Is show that 2.000.000 horses have ar rved there in the last twenty Mars This is an average of 100.000 hors-s a year. The banner year was 1 90F, when 127.250 head arrived. The largast receipts for one month were day, 2.177 head, on March 6. 1905l. The total value of the horses arri--ing in 1907 was$16.97000ad tOra was an advaiee ot from $20 to $30 a head in the prices for all classes. as compared with the figures for 1902 fancy draughters artd matched ear riage pairs, making the greatest gains. One consignment of twenry one head. all big Percherons, msa-e lb record avera:m of $422.15 e-ach at auction. Rope Machines. H-. L. Shaw ef Glen Rock, York County, Pa., has some rope machines ver one hundred years old. He got them quite recently from Joel and Eli Craner. Eli said he used to .1elp ii father, John Craumer, to twist bedords and washlines with thcse uaint old wooden macnines. Negro) Gets a Medal. . John B. Hill of Atlanta is the fir-st negro in the country to receive a Car negie hero medal. A check of $500 was sent as a reward for risking his life in saving several people In dan ger from a runaway team In Atlanta.' Confessed to Bigamv. The Columbia State says WV C Fogle, an Orangeburg cotton mill operative. recently came to Columbia. Wednesday confessed to higamy be fore Magistrate Riley. He says his first wife, whom lhe married five yeas ago when YIe was 16, was Miss Nell Bryant. who left him and raar ried another man. Afterward, two yeas ago, he married Miss Lillie Herring. of Orangeburg. with whom he has been living with since. The prosecuting witness is also a co-.ten mill operative named Brown, who came here with Fogle about thi-ee "FROM now on, according to the! anti-Bryan leaders," says The Wash ington Herald "the struggle to de termine who shall control at Denver will be confined to the South, Mary and, Virginia, the Carolin-as, Geor~ gia, Louisiana and Arkansas, will be! battle grounds." The Charleston ost thinks the fight in South Caro ina should be particularly interest ing after the decree of the State TEN LOST AT SEA. Greek Ship Sunk After Going Ashore on Bahama Island. Fron in for:nai ion received by their relatives in l'ensaeola. Fha.. it is be !ie'ed that four Greeks, two of whor are young girls. and six of the crev havt been lost. in t he wreck of th< Greeks steamship Cycladus, whic] went asround and sank off Baham. Islands. May 11. The four passeng ors on the vess"i took passage a Pensacola, ineaing to go to Ge nog, and there secure peassage to visi relatives in Greece. The Cycladu lft Pensacola ater ta.king a part o a cargo. and went to New Orleans where sie filled out for Genoa. Whe1 off the Bahama Islands, from in formation recoived here, she went of a reef and later sank. The crew ani four Pensacola passongers got of safely. The men were short of foo< supplies. One of the boats, th largest, has reached Nassau. N. P and this contained the captain an. fifteen members of the crew. Th other boat, which contained six c the crew and the four passengers has not been heard from. It is feat ed that the smaller of the boats ha been swamlo'd. A Sumter Colored 3)tan Meets Wit ifortunate Accident. At Sumnor Charley Lawry. one c the colored scarenger cart driver of the city. net with a most terribl accident Saturday night about 10.3 o'clock in being run over by switch engine in the Atlantic Cons Line yards. Inth of his legs, ju below the knees. woro so badly crust ed that they hid to bp amputate< his chnces of recovery are fair] good. but it. will require several da3 yet before any definite idea may t formed. The accident occurred neE the water track, on a frog switch, an it is said that Lowry was sittin down on the track .nd that one < his feet became wedged in -the frc and that he could not get his foe out in time to get out of the way. FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS SHOR That's Why a Florence Man Le Home Some Days Ago. A dispatch from Florence says ti officials of the Bank of Florence gal out another statement in regard 1 the Lee Brunson affair. After g< ing over his books very careful they have found a shortage of $5 000. They have r.ot yet finish( their work on his books, but it not thought that the shortage wi exceed this amount. This inform; lion comes as a severe blow to tl many friends of Lee Brunson the and throughout the State. Wh< the statement was given out th; there was a shortage in Brunson's a counts, his father. .Judge W. A. Bru son, and the other relatives prompt made good the shortage, and a] other that may bbe found, thus o viating any prosecution of his bond A LADY RUN OVER. And Killed by a Train on the Atla; tic Coast Line. Mrs. Wilson, aged about 65 year was run over and instantly killed1 Atlantic Coast Line southbound pa senger train No. 35. Engineer Hou ton, at Jackson. S. C., ten miles fro Augusta, Tuesday morning abo 9.35 o'clock. Mrs. Wilson stepped directly front of the passenger train from position behind a freight car on t1 adjoining side track. and the ens neer had not time to stop. The Coa Line passenger train makes no st< at Jackson, and was therefore ni running at slow speed when the w man made her sadden apipearance He Does Not lKnow Us. Gov. John Johnson, of Minnesota should learn something more abol the political cond itions5 of this cou try before he comres forward aga as a candidate for the Presidene According to an Associated Pre report of an interview with him Norfolk on Saturday, Gov. Johnso: in the course of a general denunci tion of the Crumpacker bill for r duction of the South's represent tion in Congress said he did not b lieve the President would sign su< a measure should it pass Congre and he believed it would cause ti defeat of Secretary Taft. "Th; measure," said Gov. Johnson, "w array the solid South against M Taft." In commenting on this ha bxeak on the part of Governor Johl Ison the Charleston Post asks "what the 'Solid South' if it is not a fixe and immovable opposition to M Taft or any other Republican cand date for President? Why shoun the passage of the Crumpacks amendment have any effect on t Republican candidate's standing the South? The Minnesota Govern< knows the conditions in the South little that it would never do to cor mit their guardianship to him. Every word the Post says is true, bi what could we expect from a ma who knows nothing about us or ot politics. He lives too far away to b much interested in us and would ne er have known us had not the pres dential bee got to buzzing in his et and sent him amnorm us in questc votes.Timv ad1 D m-',crat. Was Not Sure. The oppositlon to Bryan in th Democratic Party has now becom helpless. G;overnor Johnson hirr self, addressing the American Cotto: Manufacturers in Richmond, Va. Thursday humorously remarked tha he came South partly to gratif: what he supposed to be a cerain cur isity on the par t of this section t< see and hear him, but since gettini the returns froin Alabama anti Souti Carolina, he wa not sure that an; such curiosity hadl ever existed? THE News and C'urier is a polit ca dreamer. It still ecaternds thai a majority of the people of Soutl Carolira are opposed to Bryan'; nomination and that Johnson wil be nominated by the Denver conven lin. Dreaming is a harmies amusement, and we hope The New] an Conier will enjoy it. FARMERS' HOLD YOUR COTTON. Advice Given by Mr. Harri-s President of the Union. President Harris of the State Far . mers' union has issued the follow-. ing circular to the '5.u00 members of the order in this State: 'Cotton has advanced $7.50) perhale ' in 10 days and if we will hold to it. i and not be influenced to sell, it will in the next 10 days make the same -ladvance and the minimum will be t reached, Remember the 1.907 crop - is 4,b00,000 bales short. This makes t cotton scarce. not enough for con s stnption. Crop conditions the low f est in 20 years. "On the 24th, Texas and Oklaho 1 ma were visited by the most destruc - tive flood that has everr been known. a "May 10th. our national rpesi i dent. C. S. Barrett, issued a circular f letter. asking the union men to plow I up 1 0 per cent. of the cotton planted e and put it in food crops. One million acres has been reported plowed up. 1 This looks as if the boys mean busi e ness and will stand behind their guns. f -"Do not listen to those who tell you to sell, it is going lower, when they know it will go upward by s June. "Do not forget that corn is $1.10 per bushel and plenty of time to plant yet. Well filled corn cribs and smoke houses will always make cot 1 ton bring the minimum price. "Both the European and American mills are about out of cotton, so hold f to your spots and get the minimum - price." 0 Negro Republics Failures. a The appeal of Liberia for aid to " the United States confirms the edi , tonal that appeared in The State a .few days ago on the decay of the y Black Republics. The State says - the "eyes of the thinking men of e the world have been on Liberia for d a long time as the most perfect ex .g periment of a negro republic and as f a test of the negro to rule himself g under the most favorable conditions, and the result is proof that the race is and will always be, the infant' T in the races of men on earth." The views expressed by The State in the f article we copy below is held by many of the best friends the negroes e had at the North. Take Charles Fran e eis Adams as an example. He has .o become convinced that the negro is )- incapable of self-government and i .at seperated from the white mar he has n6 future, He has reached is this conclusion after studying the II negro for nearly fifty years. Here a- is what The State says: ie "The fate of the black. republics m is'one of the most striking, and at at the same time one of the most- de e- pressing, facts in modern history. - There were no negro nations in , ancient times, at least none that - could properly be so called; and it .is only in very recent times that the experiment of a genuinely black na tion has been assayed. There are .now but three of these independent black republies---Liberia, Haiti, and San Domingo. The causual classifi -s, cation of Abyssinia among negro ~nationalities is, of course, due to s- carelessness or ignorance. The true SAbyssinians are of the Hamitic Ut tyoe, a people very much more ad vanced and very much more richly n endowed than the negro. Leaving -out of consideration the petty and -mongrel principalities and so called St States of Darkest Africa, the only pelno governments of the world oare the three we have mentioned Liberia, vwhich we founded; Santo Domingo, which we control; and Haiti, which we govern. All are a, manifestly doomed to early extinc ation. n- "Liberia seems confronted by at in least two dangers, either of which y. may soon erase her from the map. ssOne peril is the imperialistic amnbi at tions of France, which may deem it n expedient or desirable some day to a- throw round the turbid black do e- minion the widening boundaries of a- the in.perial republic. The other is, e- of course, the inherent decay of all :h black governments. The race in its ss unmixed strains, hams yet shown no ie trace of political ability. Whatever acapacity it has had here and there i n oliticel affairs has come through lan infusion of Caucasion blood. Li r beria, therefore, is about as good as ,d done for. It has utterly failed to -provide a rallying point for negro is progress and civilization, a nucleus d of the future negro power. Even -. no~w its submergencies into Darkest - Africa-commingling its own blood d with that of the parent stock r would, if anything, add a little e darker pigmentation to the darkes n' region of the world. >r"As to the other black republics, ~o whose case may be treated al 1- most as if they constituted but a osingle petty domain, as they, make iup but a single island, the peril that ilowers over them is partly political, ,partly commercial, partly of the r warp and woof of that modern fey e en of the nations---imperialism., - They also are beset by the danger of i- decay :from within, and would soon mr perish of that malady, were it not >fj tl at a surer and swifter fate awaits them. The first visions that France and America had of a canal through e the Isthmus of Panama marked the doom cf both these black republics e as it very likely marked the doom of -of other petty dominions and loosely Simoored islands of the seas in which ,are "the still-vexed Bermoothes," tthough no longer remote or unes I 'ied or undesired. When the P'e am~:a can il became a ne::essity ir: the - iurther development of cormerc: > along lines that would centinue to favor this country, the doom of these !ittle black splotches on the man became as certain and as un changeable as a decree of the Medes and Persians." WA R is being made on stray dogs ali over the country in an erfort to; stamnp out hydrophobia. The time has come when all dogs must be muzzledb or killed if found at large. This is right. It is better that a thousand worthless curs should be killed than that one human being should diei from rabies. This county should1 jnin the pnoesion. THE DIVINING ROD. %o Mysterious Virtues hidden in the Dowser's Wand. In experimenting with a divining rod as used for discovering under ground supplies of water one of the geologists of the United States Geo to ical Survey found that at points it turned downward independently of bis will, but more complete tests 1 sho'ved that the downward turning resnlted from slight and--until watched for-unconscious changes in 1 the inclination of his body, the ef fects of which were communicated thro':gh the arms and wrist to the red. No movement of the rod from causes outside the body could be de tected, and it soon became obvious that the view he'd by other men of scen'e is correct-that the opera tion of the "divining rod" is general ly due to unconscious movements of th- body or of the muscles of the han-1 The experiments made show ti at trese movements happen most rreauently at plac.s where the oper. zor's experience has led him to be ileve that water may be found. The uselessni .s of the divining rod is Indicated by the facts that the rod ray be worked at will by the opera tor, that he fails to detect strong currents of water running in tunnels and other channels that afford no sur fate id.aations of water, and that his locations it, limestone regions where :rater n)Ws in well defined channels are rarely more snce:sful than those dependent on mere guesses. In fact ts ..rerators are successful only in regio:s ir. which -round water occurs in a definite sheet in porous material, or ir more or less elayey deposits. such as the pebbly clay or till, in which, although a few failures occur. wells would get water anywhere. Ground water occurs under certain definite conditions, and as in humid regions, a stream may be predicted wherever a valley is known, so one familiar with rocks and ground water condi::ions may predict places where ground water can be found. No ap pliance either electrical or mechani cal. has yet been successfully used tor detecting water in places where plair. common sense or good guessing ould not have shown its presence just as well. The only advantage of employing a "water witch." as the operator of the divining rod is some times called, is that skilled services ire obtained, most men so employed heitg keener and he~ter observers of the occurrence and movements of grot.nd water than the average per son. Scientific American. Symbol of the Marble Gallows. You will real in "The Cloister and the Hearth" of the gallows of white marble and fine workmanship that stood over against the dukes palace In Venice. It was there as an ever present warning to the people's chief servant that if he was faithless to his trust he would be hanged. We are pleased to consider that later period of the middle ages as "tide and simple. In its familiarity ith all forms of coldly administered leath It would justify this unthought ful estimate. Yet even in that sinis ter inarbie adnmonition of vengeance there is a certain symbol of good fath, of high ideals of public service. that shows strong in any civ'ii1zation. Witb all our justly cherished pro gre w e might wish for as fine a sense of honor in our public steward ships. Let us claim at once that the basis on which our public service rests Is far better than it was in even the ta;:nt ,.:lvic republics. There is not the caste of birth: there is not now the fatalisticclasslfication of rank, at cast politically-u~nd while there was n the period of the Renaissance a ~erard for culture. let rrng, and arts and craftsmanship, saill, today, we have a fa!rer nield which many more can enter. But when that claim is amide and allowed there was a cer tain something in the old noblesse oblige which has nct yet permeated democracy as it can and must some fay pervade it. A burgomaster in a free Dutch or German city. 2 duke or magistrate in an oligarchical Italian republic, even a feudal lord in an~y country. exempli ied a respect for the obligations im posd by his pos~rion that our experi .ence ha: shown us is not so prevalent now. Let us acknowldge that much In a system of government, a frame work of society, which is happily left behnd. Let us admire'the civic vir tue of those Venetians who "let no man. not even their sovevreign. be a'ove the common weal." And let use realize that, even in the-great ad vane- in the social and political order we have made since that fifteenth entury of "The Cloister and the Hearth" there is still lacking the re spect for the place of trust. the fine reverence for the common weal which eventually will be the perfect flow ers of popular government.-Kansas City Star. The Mercenary Thunderbolt. A party of American tourists whe were comfortably established in a hotel in Germany. discovered a niew contr.bution to "English as she is spoke," only this time they found it in the written word. The building had been recently wired for electric ity and uinde. the bulbs in each room directions were posted in French. German and English. The French was irreproac aable, the German near ly so. The English read as follows: "To open and shut tihe lightening electrical on, is requested to turn to the right hand. On going to bed it irust be closed. Otherwvise the light ning must be paid."-Boston Her VOTES OUT WFTISK~EY. North Carolina Goes Dry by -Forty Thous.and Plurality. North Carolina was carried for State prohibition Wednesday by a majority that is estimated at from 40~.0'O0. The prohibition ticket car 'ed 78 out of the 98 counties b~y anjor'ities approximating 48,000. The t-prohibition ticket has 20 coun :es by majorities app)roximating 5. 30. This calculation is based on ;onr.- rstinmates and the prohibition~ eadrs say it is possible for the pro 1i~tionl majority to r'each 50.000O. A :lose 'stim ate of the vote would give prohibition majority of about .45, 100. The election passed off very inietliy, no0 disturhanuces of any mto aent being reported. The total vote. ast in the State was abbout 175.000. When a man is forced to eat crow. .e is apt to consider a bir'd in thte usiabrettcr than two in the hand. HARRY THAW IS INSANE. layer of Stanford White Will Re main in Asylum. Harry K. Thaw, the slayer of Stan ord White, will not be released fron: he Lunatic Asylum. This is the de ision reached by Justice Morse causer of the New 'York supreme ourt. in an opinion filed early Tues lay morning in the matter of Thaw' Lpplication for release on a writ o ialeas corpus. Both points brough ip by Thaw's attorneys are decides against him. The justice declare :hat Thaw is now insane and shouls wt be allowed at large and he fur :her declares that the commitment t he lunatic asylum by .ustic Dowlin; after the last trial of the case, na ?ntirely legal. FLAGMAN KILLED. elI in Front of Engine on Blu Ridge Road. While flagging his train at And. son Monday morning Mr. Geo. Ree Keith fell in front of the engine. Th trucks passed over his legs, coruiplet< ly severing both of them below tb knees. He was quickly picked u and hurried to the Anderson hospita At 10.30 o'clock he had sufficientl recovered from the severe shock ai companying the accident to unders : surgical operation. Both of h legs were amputated above the knee He was. however, unable to recovc from the wounds, and he died 1 2.15 o'clock Monday afternoon. GROWING RAPIDLY. Interesting Statistics of the Souther -Baptist Church. Dr. Lansing Burrows in his stati tics for the Convention minutes giv the following figures for the fiftee States in the Southern Baptist Co' vention: 21,266 churches; 129.li baptisms; total membership, 2.01: 080; contributions for. missions. $: 134,695; contributions for afl pu poses, $7,863,416; value of chur property, $30,861,438. He plac our colored membership in the Un ed States- at 1,900,000; our tot membership in the United States 5,059.133; and the entire number Baptists in the world at 6,001,905. IN speaking of the coming pre: dential campaign. the Sprinfield R publican says "there is going to be fight, with Mr. Bryan nominate which will make the Parker car paign se'm like the dead march fro Saul." This is the opinion of an i dependent Republican paper pubhi ed up in Massachusetts and indical pretty well what the non partis oress of the North thinks of N! Bryan as a candidate. BEREA'S CO1fENCEMENT. Miountaineers of Kentucky 3Make , nimue. A collegra commencement. whit 'us~des possessing the rural arad ni solemnity, partakes of the n -,re at a~ county fair and a coin 'ourt day is one of the anna -eatures , at Berea Colles rhue institution is in the borderlal *eftween the Kentucky Blue Grass .ioni and the Cumberland Mountail andi to It come -arly eaich June son Sve or six tihousand men, women ar hIldren of' the strongly inilividu ypes develoofd by~ the independe ife of ihnt trc-gon. .O-' comme-ncement day the usual liet college campus becomes -therin g gro unni for thousands :orse-s, and is almost choked wil vagons which, with hickory chai ~or sets. have brought whole fan ies froa the lue hill over unspea able roads, with buggies and smarta orn ui's from the more prospero1 b~ue Gr'ass fairms. While the gtra .. tion cer'emonies are being "arr'iI on3f in a great "tabernacle" built f' use on that one day of the year on& nr swapping, elcineig diu' w ~irg cver wooacand land deals. wil :nrumuerable family reunions and u: imited gossil;. are going on outsid and i~ooths which dispense the usu : oncoctions of a circus do a rush it busness. their wares being almo ank'nown in the mountains and b ng, therefore, greatly desired. Just why those thousands, mar >f whom have little Interest in ti -ollege or the students, shoul ather on its campus annually, ha never' been explained. but the crow. have been there since the Civil W: .ays and in about the same 'number n tihe old days it ofte'n happen' rhat feudsm-. n who had successful voida meeting at home w'oul I ee upon each other in the thron ar then there would be a sudal attering of the crowds to the she ter -a the tree trunks and wago: till one. man went down. But of la years the peaceful influence of tI lace nas made itself felt, and no hre L. seldom even a case of "drar it'd disorderl.'.' The assenmblly remains. howeve -he greatest drawing card in Easte: Kent'zcky. and many a wagonload untn nd women comes to it over undred miles of mountains, fori g streams and walking up hii bich are too steep for the horse trength, often spending two - hree days on the road. As t 'ear the towns they find the lhospit: le homes filled to overfiowin -nd on the nights before and aft; Le gieat day parties may be see onamped along the great pikes ieat og into the hilis and often on th ampus itselr. One girl living fifty miles fro: derea. was found awndering aroun the coilege buildings one commene mert morning, and was taken in to by a girl student. In the coursec de disjointed conversation it camr ou tirat she had kept a four-acr plot of corn hoed all spring in orde t earn her transportation to tows .he was asked why she wantedt come so badly. "Oh. hit seemed like I'd never gl r- other chanet to see the world, was the response, and the girl seeme atisfied as she started home tha night. Glasses Cure Fits. Sriable eyeglasses are reported t have~ recently cured a victim of a vre epileptic attacks after he har undergone two surgical operatioqi with no relief. The patient's owr conviction that his eyes had some thing to do with his trouble was en tirely -tisregarded as quite contrar: :'~ ll pevius eperlnce An Effort to Save Souls. I in the Southern Presbyterian As I sembly, now in session at Greens boro, N. C., the following resolution on evangelistic wirk was presented on Wednesday xiorning by Rev. Dr. A. A. Little: "Whereas, we believe that the great need of our church is more evangelistic preaching on the part of our pas'r: and a more dili gent effort on th- part of the church to reach the unchorched and unsaved this general assem.bly would urge on all our ministers to seek more and' get more of thi. spirit of prayer for -,the salvation of souls and to use more evangelist;:: efforts in the pul I pit and out of it to bring souls into the kingdom of God." This reso lution hits the rail on the head, and i it is adopt-d and acted on' it e will accomplish great good. If the churches were doing their duty j there would be no need of such a resolution, bu: we fear that the churches of all denominations are e too much engrssed in money get ting and other material things to bother with tr irng to save souls-. The greatest preacher that ever y lived said in an immortal sermon: "But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." Let the churches follow this, and it it will have no need to bother about money and other material things, as then,people will give without the asking. What all of our churcbes ,n need more than any othe- thing is a true, genuine baptism of the Holy Ghost extending from the door to S- the pulpit. Then the old dry bones s would be made to live again. a- Made a Bust. 2 It seeems that the people of Rich mond. Va., was very much disap pointed in the sneech made by Gov. h Johnson, the News and Courier's e candidate for President, before the t- American Cotton Manufacturers a 1 Association, in that city, which he et had been invi cd to deliver. The Richmond Evt ning Journal. in com . menting on the speech, says: "We hardly think an association of men e- so thoroughly, familiar with the cot a ten busiress ir:'all its details would have invited a man fitxm far-off Minnesota to givethem information m upon a subject about .which he him n- self 'acknowlek ed he knew, little, h- and that litt'e what he gathered e, from government statistical reports "i which are op-n to all. We must r therefore, corelude that Governor Johnson was invited here in the ex pectation tha: he would make. an address upon the vital issues of the day." W- see no reason why any one shouhi expect Gov. Johnson to un~derstand ihe South, her people, eher needs or her institutions, and it a is nonsense to expect hirr. to discuss L- them intelliger t1y. He was afraid to say anything about them and Stherefore he discussed the old thread bare subject of cotton, about which s b s auditors knew more than he e culd tell ti-m Fin a -hundred ~ s eeches. If Gov. Johnson has ever b en. Sr'uth before he came down h -re in the lan' few weeks vote hunt 4 jr g we have inever heard of it. If C-overnor Johnson knew.more about Sthe South and her people his name would never have been associa -ted with that of Gen. Miles on - a Democratic presidential ticket by his chief backer and most inti -rate personal aind political friend. C ngressman Tlammnond, of Mihne 's ,ta, who claim', that this man who -treated President Jefferson Davis with extreme e'r:elty and brutality while a helpless prisoner in Fortress Monroe would make an "ideal run ni ng mate" for Gav. Johnson. No doubt Gov. J: hnson agrees with SCongressman Hammond in his choice of a running mnate.-Timnes and Democrat. Denounce Exchange Methods. dThe committee of the Cotton Man ufacturers Ass-ciation, which was ir appointed to investigate the meth s. ods of the New York cotton ex Schange and to reccomend a change e in the form of cotton contracts, has .made a very , exhaustive renort. They denounce the speculiative fea ture encouraged especially by the New York exchange and lament the e fact that it is not possible for spin ners to depend on quotations for k Ithe purchase of cotton. The varia .tions in the market and especially the discrepancy between the spot Smarket and the contract prices, a!makes the exchange of value onlyjto speculators. The committee recom mends qiuite a number of changes in th-e classification, which it is hoped will tend to make the contracts more denite. C )tt~a spineis a i well as cotton growers are interest ~ed in anything that will tend to give stability to prices. This will be pr~imoted by the proposed changes in the form of o-itions. ~'IT seems that faft is much put to it to find a running mate. He wants -a man who can help him capture fthe negro vote. If we are in order Swe would suggest that he try Book er T. Washington. The Republican pa.rty pretends to be a great friend o a the Negro and the nomination of the greatest Negro in the t country for Vice President by that party would be a tangible proof of I its sincerity. But it would be a t cafe wager that they will not do it. THE can.l aign <-v.r in Gorgia is red hot. As-a s,.nple o: ; - f > the~ elegant lan::uage indue a by mern of the p- icwians just now take this- from Jud - !wiggs, who is pa: - inr is resp cts to the R v. Len Broughton, of Atlanta: "He is nothing but a foul-mouthed seaven ger of the filthiest falsehood, a Ian Itern-jawed political polecat." Please pass the selling sali.