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HEAR C AN D ATES. SE NATORIA L CAMPMGN PARTY Chief Imierest Seems to Have Center ed in the Cross Fire Between Ma yor RIhett and 3Mr. Grace. Yorkvii . JTulv S.-Sucial: The Senatorial candidaoes spoke to a rt ipresentat ive audience of about three hundred veters in the Court House here to-day. County Chairman Vil son presided. The only incident of special mo ment was an a:ack on 3Mayor Rhet by Mr. John P. Grace and it is gen erny conce'-ed tmat the onslaught was ineffective. 1essrs. Evans. Smith. Johnston and Grace devoted much of their time to criticism of Mr. Rhett and his platform. and this was construed by manly of the auditors to mean that theyhelieved hint to be the man in their way. The first speak^r was Hon. 0. . Martin. who devoted himself to the subjects heretofore discussed by him. Mr. R. G. Rhett was next introduc ed. He outlined his platform as to the needed changes in the financial system of the country in the need O such legislation as would correct the evil of dis'-rimination in freight rates between differnct sections of the country. and mnaie clear the fact that he was opposed to so hamper ing the roads that they would no, be able to properly maintain their tracks, rolling stock. pay their em ployees adequate wages and th< stockholders reasonable dividends or their investments. In conclusion h asserted that he was a lifelong De mocrat and said that while this fact was fully recognized in his homc town, a party from there. who was posing as a candidate for the same office as himself, would follow hin' and attempt to impugn his Democra cy. He stated that the only charge the party would make against hin" that was true was that he did no vote for the President in the genera. election in 1896, but did vote foi Bryan in 1900 and for Parker ir 1904. Mr. Rhett stated that after hl had announced as a candidate foi the Senate he was approached by a party in Charleston who evidently spoke with authority and assure that- if he would support a certair candidate for sheriff that Mr. Grace would not be a candidate for thi Senate, and that otherwise he would and that he refused to enter int( the conspiracy. Mr. E. D. Smith followed Mr Rhett. He devoted most of his tim< to reiterating his well-known plat for throttling Wall street gambler: and securing for the down-trodden starved. naked and ignorant cottor rniders of the South their share o the recessaries. comforts and !i'xurie: or life. evidently oblivious of th<t fact that the people of York County where the farmers are the most pro sperous class, were utterly unal< to appreciate the conditions so elo quently set forth. Mr. John Gary Evans followed an( devotedhis time to an attack on th< financial system outlined by Mr Rhett and also to the need of revis ing the tariff. Mr. J. P. Grace was next introduc cd. He spent his thirty minutes in an attackon Mr. Rhett, seeking t< impress the audience with the tde; that Rhett's entire career was ont of treachery to the State. to Charles ton and the Democratic party. H< sought to engage Mr. Rhett in a col loquf, but that gentleman stated tha after Grace had finished he woul< have a few words to say in reply When Grace closed he received lit tle applause. Mr. Rhett arose at his seat an< stated in a few words that absolute 1y every charge Grace had made in his attemp~t to wash Charleston dirt: linen before a York County audienc was tfale, except that he had no voted in the general election Tfo President in 1896. This was follow ed by long and general applause and when it had lulled Grace at tempted to say something. The ap plavse was renewed. r ud tM- --o'ra minutes he stood and atten:,! 1 speak, and it was not until the chair man appealed to the audience tha he was allowed to say anything, an< then his statement fell on apparent ly deaf ears. Col. George Johnston was the nex speaker, arnd by reason of his wel known ability as a hlender of wi and sarcasm he had the audience ir a good humor. He devoted some time to criticising Mr. Rhett an< then took up "Smithy" and kept th audience convulsed for a time wit] his recital of the dire calamity tha awaited the cotton raisers of th South in case the people should b so foolish as to elect a man wh had accomplished so much single handed in so short a time, not oni: for South Carolina but for the wholl United Stares, in forcing Europe t< pay for cotton what it was worth, Mr. WV. W. Lumpkin was the las of the Senatorial candidates to speal and confined his remarks to subject on which he has dwlet at previou meetings. In the afternoon speeches were made by Messrs. Finley. Butler am Pollock, candidates for Congres from this district. Democrats Forced to ('4nribiute The paper trust has just 'rporte<i to the New York Stock Exchange hait its gross prof ins for the past ter r -'ths were $17,,1870f9. For whicl - :'I showing the Trust must he Thi'a to the- R-publican pIart: w "sprocte itfronm compe, tith n.:rrh -ig n ariff' nraes WheV-acae its c-entribu .ion to 1 --': nca paign tnt every De: * - newspape-r prop priete''r nwillingly la the indirect doc - K :-' rt of the boo. dle to elect Taft and Sherman. a another Repub ilcan Congress. whicl would. if successful. Porhap~s revis( the tariff hiniter, instead of abolish ing the tariff on wood pulp an print paper. Cossacks Watch British TLegationx. Sixty Cossa-ks are watching nt British legarion at Teheran. Persia to prevent the escape of marny r-efu res who arc in con'ealnment by tis British charged' affairs. It doesn't do niuer good to iaik to the average man for his~ "-::- wd It isn't necessary to cngg a hen on OFF FOR THE POLE. F"r COMMANDER PERRY SAILS FROM N EW YORK. Pt an Famous Explorer Feels Confident That He Will Go Father Than Any (t a;t Pr""vious Attempt. Wah the Perry Arctic club's pen 'anti fluttering from her main ti tick and the Stars and Stripes at her miz- ol yen. the Arctic exploration steamei ha RToe.relt left her pier at New York 1n Mona:?y carrying Commander Robert E. Pea ry, who is to head another ex- hE lto in quest of the North Pole. vy The Roosevelt, accompanied by a sa goviifllernmet tug. proceeded to near ;: City sland, where she anchored for ti the ntight to permit the adjustment .)f her compasses. Tuesday she will di ;o to Oyster Bay. where President m Roosevelt will board her to bid good- di hye to her commander and crew. The ce Roosevelt will then head for Sydney. tb Cape iireton. where she will stop ta e coal. Before the ship left Commander " Peary said: d have done too much work in fr the A rctic regions to believe that I n can make the pole without strenuous n work. I am not foolish enough to y say that I am going to do or die bt S I an certainly going to put int- this w 1!".!) every bit of energy--mntal. h :norai and physical-that I have in d ardor to succeed in my undertaking. ti I know my path will be hedged in by w many trials and undoubtedy many w disappointments but I feel confident e, as my ship leaves New York today t4 that if I do not reach the pole itself. cc at least I will carry the American o flag farther north than it has been carried by any previous explorer. Unless unforeseen circumstances in tervene within the next year, I hope to plant the Stars and Stripes at the p pole." G As the Roosevelt swung out into a the East river, a few minutes after t 1 o'clock a crowd on the pier cheered n good-bye, while thewhistles of river s craft joined in the farewell. p On board th Roosevelt. besides, p Commander Peary, Mrs. Peary and tr their children, Marie and Robert E., e Jr., were a number of members of n the Peary Arctic club, including its a president. Thomas D. Hubbard; its n vice president, Zenas Crane, and its r secretary. Herbert L. Bridgman: tI several members of the Explorers' it club and friends of Commander M Peary. Madame Arctowski, wife of Prof. Henry K. Arctowski, who was t meteorologist of the Belgian Anarc- I tic expedition of 1S97-99, was one of a party of ladies on board. The crew was kept busy up to the x nour of departure, stowing away.P stores in the hold, including large p quantities of hooks and magazines k and a billard table. Just before leav- r lng 21 Bibles were received aboard., the gift of the New York Bible so eilety. The Daughters of the Revolu tion presented to Commander Peary t a peace flag with the request that he carry it wh him to the pole "as 1 a shield and buckler against all dis-a aster." C A Pecular Well in Florida. 1 In their investigation of the wells a and underground waters of Floridat the geologists of the United States1 C Geological Survey have noticed many interesting things. Among these is a well at Welaka, on the St. John's River, from r. hich two kinds of wat- e er are obtained. This well is 309 f. E deep. The ' length of thecasing :b 110 feet The v~ 'ell was first drilled 160 feet. and from this depth ordinary "sulphur" f water was obtained. The well was f then carriedd to a depth of 309 feet, C -whiew~ it encountexed a strong miner- I al wate:, having a disagreeable sa'w~ s taste. In order to use both knds of x water an inner tubing was run near- a ly to the bottom of the well. Both 1 this and the outer casing were con- a nected with pumps, so that ordinary f water and mineral water can be I pumped at the same time. A fai'orite t jkce played on visitors is to give them a drink of the weaker water in t %e first glass and to replace it with t the brine in. the second. t Not more than half a dozen wells of this kind are known in the coun try, but there is no reason why sim ilar wells can not be obtained in re aions where the waters in the upper strata differ from those lying deeper. In these investigations of the wa ters of Florida the National and - State surveys are cooperating, and much valuable information has been athered during the wnter's work. W TSA YEAR FOR FORTINE. t French Soldier Losses His Winning - Lottery Ticket. A private soldier named Claret, of~ Paris. some weeks ago boughlt a ineket of four lottery tickets, kn' as as prise, for half a crow -. 1i noated the numbers of his tickets andl then lost the envelope in which he had placed them. Fortunatel'y he had written his name on the envelope, which was found and returr-ed to him in bar racks. But one of the tickets was missing, and t'.at ticket won $100, 000.r Claret wrote to the lottery man agemenlt and the ticket has been stopped. He will now have to waitt a year and a day before he will en-V ter into possession of his fortune. John Mitchell Hans Fat Job. i. John Miitchell has accepted the ~ position of secretary of the Trade JAgreement department of the Civic Federation. at Scranton. Pa. It pays a salary of $6.000. and its duties in volve the promotion of trade agree ments between empl)oyes and em ploers, with the ultimate end in view of more friendly relations be tween the forces of capital and Ia o. * Popuilists Not ify' Watson. Georgiao Populists held their State 'cenvntion Thursday. at Atlanta. Ga.. when Thomas E. Watson was notifi-t d of his nomination for the Pres *idecy.* Od(-e"sa Faces a W~heat Famine. .ndbea-ions are that the wheat crops in th Ode-ss region of Russia will h -o ' to 5 per cent. below the aver Xu.Amrican agricultural machin- a rymanufacturers are countermand- c RECLUSE FOR FIFTY YEA>RS. ench Woman- Grieved for Husband Who Died on Wedding Day. For fifty years No. 19, 3onevard isoniere. in Paris, a house of four )ries. has been closely shuttered. d yet it has been continuously in bited. Servants were seen to en r and leave the building and the her day it was dressed in the black .d silver trappings which usher -'ice's citizens to their last resting ace. -me. de Provigny. its occupant for ty years. was dead. She was an d lady of seventy, and for the last iii century she lived in that closed id shuttered house without a news Lper, without an open book. with it a flower, and without a word to >r from any living soul. For fifty ars Mme. de Provingy wore white tin. She wore it on her wedding ty and always dressed in white to .e end. Fifty years ago Mme. de Provingy ed. They had been married in the orning. and the young husband ed of applexy an hour after the remony. When sl recovered from e shock. if. need. she can he said 'er to have recovered from it. Mme. Prorigny had the house shut up, it she retaiaed : er servants on con tion that they were never to con ont her with a living being and ver to speak to her again. She did >t know the trend of public events. otor cars were unknown to her. ae did not know whether France as a republic. She had never Eard of the Dreyfus case, of the ath of Queen Victoria, or any na onl or international event. In her ii Met-e. de Provigny left he, hole fortune to men and women ag 1 over sixty years of good charac r. She left a large house in the untry as a home for them and $2, i)0,000 for its support. Proposed Forestry Law. If the legislature of Louisianna asses the -forestry law proposed by overnor Blanchard of that State, ad said to have the support of the rgest timber owners, it will be the ost advanced step yet taken by any ate to regulate timber cutting on ivate lands. By the terms of the roposed statute, the cutting of ees under twelve inches in diam :er, four feet from the ground, will At be permitted. The' law does not pply to those, who, in good faith ish to clear the land for agricultu il purposes, or need the timber on ie grounds for roads or ditches, or i case of an owner or tennant who ses the wood for domestic purposes. The lumberman will be required > fell his trees in a way to cause ast damage to young timber, and i refuse must not be left where s presence will invite fire or other ise endanger the small trees. The enalty provided for violations of the roposed law is a fine of $25 to $100 r each offense, and imprisonment iay be added. Each tree wrong -lly cut will constitute a seperate fense. The proposed law not only elimits offenses and names penal tes, but also sets forth the reasons thy such a law is thought advisable. ''mber is becoming scarce, it says nd ought not be needlessly wasted. orest destructon will carry with it ther evils besides dearth jf wood. t will cause destruction, soil erosion nd increase floods and droughts, to he damage of the whole people. 'he forests ought not to bbe wholly ut down, the proposed law further ays, because they assist in obstruct. g disast-ons tornadoes. The Supreme Court of Maine re ently ruled that that state may law ally restrict il" (clearing of private y wned forest land, if the public ould be injured by such clearing. ,ouisianna's prop)osed law goes still rther in the same direction and allows the lines of the opinion ren ered by the Main Supreme Court. t is worthy of note that the two tates which are first to take this ad anced stand in forests protection re fifteen hundred miles apart and ave forests not at all alike in char ter, different soils, climates with ew points~ in common, crops of whol y derent kinds, geography 'and apography of opposite extremes yet ach realizes 'the immense impor ance of its forsts and how essen ial their protection is to the contin ed prosperity of its people. As to Hot Weather. The torrid wave now sweeping ov r the North is playing the mischief. Iany have been prostrated by the xcessive heat and not a few have ied. That section of the country is be commisserated. Here in the South it has so far een pleasar-t. We have had one or wo warm days, but nobody has been ,ade sick. The nights, without cx eption, are cool. When we read how eole in the tenement district of ew York city have to crawl on the !re escapes t..t !ight to get a be.: f air and percr a;cc a little mr1~ unning the risk of fallng off to the 'avement below, we begin to ;re ize that we know very little about ot wather. One of the most disa 'reeable summers we ever spent as in a Northern city. We longed r the cool nights and breezes of be South. Take it yesr ir and year out. and 1 the year round we have about be firest clinmmate to be found any 'here in the world. The winters are ild and th summers are generally ir pleasanter than in latitudes far her North. What a charming spring -as the one of this year. and what a lorious winter we had! And al ough the summer is 'mcre than al over, few feel the need of go ig to the mountains or to the sea bore. Those who have gone did so. o because a change of climate was ecessary, but simply because it is ieir custom to go somewhere for acaton. The rest of us who staid at ome have been about as comiforta ie as we would nave oeen had we oie to the mountains. One has got to travel about a ood it before he appreciates the ?ally magnificient climate of the auith. We who have lived here all ur lives don't value it as we ought. 'hen it gets a little warnm we imna e that if we could get up North e should find it cooler. Perhaps: iough the chances are that we aould find it not near' so cool. Bar arbor. Nahant. Castine Littleton. arraganzet Pier, Shelter Island and ther places of resort during tbc immer season can be as hot as the ottest mlaces one eve:: saw. Yes, we are upon the whole pretty li satisfied with the South and its mate in spring, summer, autumn. a ...~ winer Weinow one may go BREAK IS MADE, )UR DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS 13 WITH VENEZUELA AND. 4enor Veloz-Goiticoa Notifies Secre- F tary Bacon That His Government Orders the Legation Closed. A dispatch from Washington on Thursday says the diplomatic rela- 1 tions between America and Venezuela I that have existed uninterruptedly for more than half a century, though in recent years severely strained, were Thursday completely severed. That r afternoon Senor Velzo-Goiticoa, the i Venezuelan charge d'affaires, called .1 at the state department at Washing ton by appointment to present to . Acting Secretary Bacon notice from his government that he was to quit his post here, close up the Venezue Ian legation in Washington and re pair to Venezuela. The charge explained to the acting secretary-that the action of the state department in withdrawing Jacob 1 Sleeper. the American charge, from Caracas and in closing up' its lega- f tion there made it necessary for his goveerument to take similar action in the case of its own legation in Washington. Just what took place between Act ing Secretary Bacon and the charge can not be known beyond the fact that the latter presented his letters of recall. He made no demand for his passports. nor could he do so consistently, in view of the fact that Foreign Minister Paul had declined issue such passports to the Ameri can charge when he withdrew from Caracas, on the ground that there was no necesity for passports, the country being in profound peace and his person not being threatened in any way. Senor Veloz-Goiticoa did communi cate to Mr. Bacon the fact that the files and papers of the Venezuelan legation would be placed in the cus tody of Senor Jacobo Pimental, the Venezuelan consul general in New York. This statement is regarded as an indication that the Venezue lan government will follow the pre cedent established by the United States in refraining from interfering with trade by closing the consulates, notwithstanding the branch in diplo matic relations. It ispointed out by officials who have followed closely the develop ments in the Venezuelan situation that there is not the slightest danger of war in the immediate future or indeed at all. Rather will the situa tion resemble that following the rupture of diplomatic relations be tween France and Venezuela, for in stance, where legations were closed on both sides and all official relations terminated while trade between the two countries continued. The history of these episodes in tbe case of Vene zuela is very much alike. Senor Ve loz-Goiticoa's withdrawal , follows that of Minister Rusell as diploma tic representative of the United States to Venezuela about two months ago and that of Mr. Sleeper, the secretary of the legation, and Lieut. Ruggles, the military attache, about two weeks since. The reason for the withdrawal of the American legation at Caracas arose from the persistent refusal of Venezuela to give redress for the governmental action by which all American interests in Venezuela were either destroyed or confiscated, or to submit the claims of American citizens to arbitration. * DUST GERMS Tuberculosis is Ti-ansmitted Through Germs Flying in the Dust. One germ found in dust needs es pecial mention. Tuberculosis. which may be classed among the dust diseases ravages our country beyond all other tubercule bacilli. Every time the consumptive sends forth sputum where it can mix with the dust of streets or room he sends forth hundreds and thousands of liv ing tubercle bacilli. Once mixed with that dust, deposited on sand or other cutting particle, the poisoned weapon flies upward ready to cut through and enter the body through the lesion formed in the lungs. In case after case we find in the lungs of perfectly healthy persons small tubercular lesions which have heal ed, showing that they were able to combat the poison when attacked. Bht how about the time of low re sistance? How can the citizen tell when that time may come to him or to his family? The magnificent crusade against tuberculosis is doing much to convince the individual of the necessity of care against conta zion. The municipality can do al most as much towards the stamping out of the plague by a steady con stant struggle to achieve the clean est possible street. In the dirt of the assembly hall. of the theatre, of the hotel and the railway car we find conditions in which the difficulties which exist in the private house are fourfold multi plied. For hours the crowds of peo le in such places sit breathing the accumulated dust brought from the streets which, rising from the floor. floats in clouds into the air and set tles heavily on the antiquated plush still in high favor for such places. It is but a year or two ago that the news~apers considered briefly the dangers of that bacterial paradise. he Pullman sleeping car. A brief pasm of remonstrance passed over the country and disappeared as sud lenly as it came. The peril from such sources was. however, recogniz ed two decades ago by more than one, 'nd a quotation concerning the pres~ce of tuberculosis in such plac e from Dr. Mitchell Prudden writ ten almost two decades ago, holds as true today. "Sleeping cars and the staterooms of steamships and hotel bedrooms ae almost always liable to contain infectious material, if they have een recently used by uncleanly cnsuptives or~ those igncrant of he danger of their expectoration. When the infectious nature of con sumprtion becoes generally appre eiated hotels and transportation companies over long routes will be "-mlled to provide special accomf oations for such persons as are kown to b~e thus affected." -Hollis Godfrey in Atlantic. much farther into higher latitudes ad fare a great deal worse.-CO Newspaper Folk. mi The hundred r.ewspaper men at:i Su women gathered at Gaffney are repre sentatives of that which is best and noblest in South Carolina. The gathering is thoroughly repre sentative. Not all the newspaper workers in the State are here and the th pity is that more are not here to join in the pleasures that have been th provided; to talk shop and enjoy a brief and needed rest. g1 No people on earth deserve a chance to get away from the "ever lasting grind" than do these men and women who day after day toil Cc to p~rovide the news. lo Dr. Lodge said that he thanked te God that there was not a single yel- to low journal in South Carolina; this was simply saying that there is not a dishonorable or unclean newspaper il published in all Carolina. It may tk be more renumerative to publish a th "sensational sheet" but that is not the sort of journalism that is prac ticed in this proud old State-and will never be. U Newspapers workers deserve ap preciation and they are receiving it more and more every day. It is largely because people are better in fomr3.ed because they read more and 1 because they see results of conserva tive and well directed journalism. Th rewards of the real newspa- a r ner man are not what they should 'I be, but that will come too, in due a time. An independent and self-re- le specting press is the surest way to 3 receive just appreciation.-Gaffney . -Ledger. c Another Star on the Flag. r After July 4, all flags made for the use of the government w1l con tain forty-six stars in the field, or a union, to conform in number to the L a states. b s The additional star follows Okla - homa's admission to the Union, in c conformity with an act of congress, a requring that on the admission of a a a new state, one star is to be added to 1 t the union of the flag, to take effect s e on the Fourth of July next, succeed- c - ing such admission. c f Okklahoma came into the Union on November 16 last.1 e The forty-six stars are to be in six v rows, the first, third, fourth and v f sixth rows to have eight stars, and e the second and- third tows seven stars each. The stars will be on a a b'ue field. t d A great many flags now flyin i Q ficm govern n'.nt building, will have r to be altere1 Lo meet the new condi I ticnS. v h Not Guilty of Election Perjury. t Hugh Hood, who was manager of the Crown bank at Scotland, Ont., was acquitted on a charge of wilful ly making a false oath. The case arose out of incidents in Oakland township, in the recent provincial election. Coal Strike in Alabama. Alabama union miners have called strike. Lagging Business. The boast of the Republicans that their policies have carried the coun - try safely through the panic, and that business is rapidly reviving, does not seem to agree with the facts. For instance, the United States Cast Iron Pipe Foundry Comn pany, known as the Pipe Trust, has just made its report which shows very disappointing results, The President of the company says in his report: "During November, 1907, business absolutely stopped; the company did not lose its business. There was no business. "When there was added to this natural condition the depression which was caused by the panic, the1 result was a stagnation such as has never been known in the history of the cast iron pipe business in this country. Not only was there a ces sation of busiress and a sharp fall in prices in November, but there was a declining market all throuigh t~he winter and early Spring months." But the report tries to encourage the stockholders, although no divi Sdend is declared even on preferred stock, by saying "that with the op ening of Spring business has im- 1 proved." It need hardly be said that but very small orders would be .~an improvement over the entire cessation of business reported. The other branches of the steel and iron business, although not making quite as disastrous a show ing are nearly in the same fix. Yet the Republican platform boasts that1 Repoblican policies have protected the business of the country. Aspect of the Yellow Peril. The danger of any union between '.China and Japan, for aggressive1 purpose, does not loom as large as 'it, undoubtedly, did three or four year ao, Indeed, between China., and Japan, there are evidences of strained relations, consecquent to1 Japan's hold on to Manchuria, which it almost looks as if she is ready to divide with Russia. The island em pire has also lost, rather than gain-1 ed by her forceful attitude in her 1 recent collision with China, over the seizure of arms, imported from Ja pan, presumably for the use of reb els in China. And it may be that < the passage of the fleet of the United ( States into Pacific waters had a deeper meaning than that which has been heretofore attached to it.C Without control of the sea, Ja- a pan's fine army would find it most ~ I dificult to make any serious impres- ~ sion on-the~ great celestial empire, and while it would crumple up the , army of China, should the :latter i kingdom accept the gauge of battle ' and contend for mastery in the ~ r!ains of Manchuria, the destruc tion of Japan's fleet would lead to the inevitable discomfitnre of Jap- a ans army in time, Possibly it is a the appearance of the fleet of the United States on the Pacific coast,t Pwhich has enabled the astute Japa- a nize to ra the possibities .hich a ght ensue from any undue pres re exerted on China. [t is extremely doubtful that Jap could count on British support, 31 aggressions against China brought monstrances from the United ates; for if that was rendered sm, there would be the extreme obability that intervention upon H a part of Germany would follow d then there would ensue a strug 3, in which the Napoleonic wars )uld grow small and pale their es, in contrast with the titanic v ntest thus aroused. British dip- c moacy would not permit any such C rrific risk, to involve the empire, save the amour prope of Japan , td a settlement would be effected o some manner. Perhaps, the r orough understanding of this is I "e explanation of the recent con latory attitude of the attitude of t e island empire towards the a nited States. C THE CURIOUS INK FISH. he Veracious Seaman Relates Some t of its Wonderful Doings. "You talk about fights with sharks nd sighting sea serpents," said 'hird Officer Carl Ducks, of the Ger an steamship Alleghany, as he Caned over the chart table. "Do ou see that spot on the map in the 1 lay of Bengal? Well, we were be- 1 aimed there for a week when I was I orking before the mast on the full 1 gged ship Arethusa ten years ago. here had not been as much as a reath of air stirring for a week and 11 of us lay around despondent and opeless, for the Bay of Bengal is ot the happiest place in the world to 1 e becalmed In. "The skipper had no orders to Eve, so didn't give any, and no one f us in the fo'cs'le knew what to do ith himself. On the seventh day rhen this idleness got on our nerves nd we were lazily drifting with the urrents, the man at the wheel sud enly discovered that the Arethusa ,as being pushed over to port, not rithstanding that he had his wheel Lard over endeavoring to keep the essel in a straight course. "None of us could understand it, r there did not seem to be as much a a small current in the sea and here surely was not a puff of wind a the flapping canvas. "Suddenly Metzger, the bos'un, eaned over the starboard rail for rard and pointed excitedly to the rater below. All of us ran to him Lnd there dimly visible and almost ntirely submerged, was a huge ink Ish close to our starboard side. CARVING THE INKFISH. "Because the inkfish had spread ier peculiar coloring on the water Lout her we could hardly make her >ut. It Is a peculiarity of the ink Ish, this spreading of a haze aroun-d ler. I think here you call the ink Ish an octopus. Whichever It Is, urs was actually pushing our 3.000 on ship over out of the course to which the helmsman was trying to eep the Arethusa. "The captain ordered a harpoon trought out and the hook was drop >ed right on top of the inkfish, catch ng the monster amidships, and she ras, with the aid of a block and ackle, rigged to the foreyard, soon igh and dry on the fo'c'sle deck.s. "One of the boys was investigat ng the monster which weighed every unce- of seven hundred pounds when iuddenly out shot one of the dozen entacles from the inkfish. When hat was wit-hdrawn another would hoot out, and in this way the inkfish >ent our foward stanchions, twist d the rail Into a shapeless mass and pread ruin and damage all over the orward section. "Darmsadt, the carpenter, had a ight Lsuggestion. None of us coul-d et near to the inkfish whose arms e'e about twenty or twenty-five et in length, and which were now waying all around, keeping the rew at a safe distanice. The carpen er brought an axe and when the irst arm reached his vicinity off same five feet of tentacle. He kept his up with each tentacle in succes ion until the dozen arms of the ink sh had been shortened by five feet. [hen he got nearer and again made :he 'rounds' as the arms were shot orward toward him. "Finally, when the inkfish had on y a dozen stunps left and Darm tadt could get close enough to the onster, he gave it one blow between he little doorknob like eyes and that ras the end of the inkfish on the Are husa. As the final blow was struck rome that inkfish gave forth a squeal ust like a rabbit. I never knew a ish to be able to utter a sound. But he death squal of that octopus ink ish will never leave my ears.', Surse for an Oyster Shucker. As George Schuek was opening ysters n the Susquehanna House, 'atawissa, he opened one that gave .im a surprise. It was apparently assolid and as sound as any he had pened, but when he removed the hell he found therein a small fish bout two Inches In length and a mall hard-shell crab, the top of rhich was three-fourths of an inch width. The fish was plump and fe-like, though dead, but the crab ras as lively as a cricket. There *as no sign of an oyster in the shell. 'hich was 2%x4 inches.--Philadel ia Record. The Pet Dogs of Paris. In Paris dogs are treated as wel: s human beings are. They wear, utomobile togs when they go mo :>ring, they hrxve a hospital, and] ay even have a good-sized ceme >ry, with monuments and head rtones, and inscriptions and mortu RABE i3 GIVES UP AX CONV!(TED IN OCONEE ON SE1Utl'S CHARGE. [e Was C4mvi. ted of Receiving Stol en Goody in Connection With Post office Ro'meries. H. Rudo l:h Rabens of Charleston, -ho was ewivicted in his absence at conee corny of the charge of re eiving st- :en goods, and for whom sealed se'n '-'ice was left with the lerk of cout of that county. Thurs ay mornin_ walked into the office f Sheriff K;.y at Walhalla and sur endered h self. He was quietly laced in ?Al, and the bars were curedly pi -ed behind him. Rabens -:. convicted of receiving he stolen sz s secured by the yegg L recent t :r. of criminal court of en when :i'y blew open the safe >f the Courtnuy Manufacturing com any at NYery several years ago. -e was arrc med on the charge sever tl months !:efore the case came to rial, and b- was let out on bail of x,000. Wh.n the case was called or trial he - :1 not put in an appear nce.- It will be recalled that the -eformed s;:,lower, McCarthy, tes :ified again- Rabens, and .upon his :estimony a verdict of guilty was re :urned. No ti.,e of appeal to the su ireme cour1 was given, and he was et out on a $5,000 bond, pending. he appeal. The supreme court con frmed the verdict of the lowercourt. Since then R:'bens has been at large, md the officers of the state, including Postofficer l:ispector H. T. Gregory md other pestoffice inspectors, have been on the watch for him. The urrendering act must have been a prearranged one between Rabens and the officers' for Postofficer In Spector Gregory was present to re eive him when he entered the sher ift's office. Rabens is quite a noted Charles ton character. His reputation ex tends all over the state, and the ma jority of the people of South Caro lina will be interested in his arrest. Think of the Horse. During the warm days; while you keenly fee? the discomfort of the heat hourself; do you think of the horse? You are careful to make the best of ev, r; opportunity and cir cumstance to make the condition of the tempe- ature more endurable; do you do the same for the horse? If you drive out you go as lightly and loosely clad as possible; do you show the same human consideration for the hor- ? You take a cooling drink when ver there is opportuni ty, and seek this opportunity if not in the regi r course; do you think of the hor= ? Muchjmay be done by a little fort ight and care to rob'the ot weather of its discomfort, for beast as wc'1 as for manm. The horse is a noble anima1, al ways willing, if treated right, to please his master. He is worthy of all the consideration and cate- that may be diown him. He suffers from heat as much as man, and tougitmyb the heat in the street or inthe road. sometimes, this may be made en durable b~x proper care. To take at horse, load him with heavy, chd. ig harness check up his head so that he is compelled to hold it stiffly er( ct. and in this condition drive him through the sun unmind ful of his suffering, without perhaps even giving him sufficis"t water to drink, is mo~nstrous cruelty. Water is needed~o prevent the blood ris ing to an a' ormal temperature and quench the thirst produced by this condition, .r~:d this should be offered at short inteivals to a horse that is being driv.. n in such weather as we are having now.-Augusta Herald. flryan's Strength. According to our view,- Bryati's phenomenal strength in the Demo ratic conver tion,.now admitted by his opponents as overwhelming, has been due to a great popular demand for him on thpart of the rank and file of the Democracy; but this -view is questiornet by persons as -entitled to their opini.on as we are, and pos sibly as weli informed upon matters pertr ining to politics. Many of these claim Bryan worked for the nomination and the result is due. to persistant ti fort upon his part. If it is, he is one of the greatest polit ical leaders this country has -ever produced: fur, in the face of the protests of the greatest . papers of his own party, and the persistent ef forts of its brainest leaders and cleverest politicians, he has swept everything before him. If he can do that and yet do it so quietly as nardly to be noticed in the doing of, what will be the result when he gets before the acuntry for the election?, Parker has fought his nomination, but declares he will be for him if nominated and believes he will win, Ridder has fought his nomination and will fight it to the last; but will be for him, if nominated. Johnson has fought his nomination fairly and openly; but will be for him if nominated. And so will Gray, even if he will not accept the Vice-Presi dential nomination. Some man in Georgia, whose name escapes us, says he will not notify him, if he is nominated, and Dr. McElway, of Brooklyn, can not surrender the right of the t ail to wag the dog and will oppose him under any and all conditions. But these two will not hurt him seriously--Columbia Ree >rd. Will b,. Tried for firit'rn. United Pu es Attorney Baker and Special A :stant Attorney General Pugh have announced that John A. Benson. of San Francisco, Cal., will be tried .on a charge of bribery in -nectin with *thaes~etern land SWEPT BY FLAMES. OSTON PROPERTY VALUED AT $1,500,000 BURNED. anned by Stiff Northwest Wind Fire Races Through Buildings Along the Harbor's Edge. Fire believed to have been caused y spontaneous combustion or a >comotive spark, and fanned by a risk northwest wind, swept nearly quarter of a mile of the harbor ront of East Boston late Wednesday ausing a property loss estimated at .early $1,500,000. Much of the los: ails upon the Boston & Albany rail oacl. One person is reported miss ng and it is thought that he perish d in the flames. He is Daniel Sulli an. a watchman at the Cunard line pier. The fire was the biggest and mos estructive that has broken out along he ha:bor front for many years 'he flames spread with remarkahl' 'apadity and by the time the first fir ighting apparatus arrived on th< cene they were beyond control an( eaping from pier to pier. Within an hour of the time the ire was discovered four piers, thei vare-houses, a grain elevator con aining 30.000 bushels of grain an< nany loaded freight cars had bee1 lestroyed. Several vessels and lighters nar -owly escaped destruction. The bil Leyland line steamer Devonian vhich arrived from Liverpool. wa noored at one of the piers whic was destroyed. The discipline of he Devonian was so excellent, how ver, that she was warped out into he stream without even having ;quare inch of paint blistered. Les ortune were the British bark Be] nont of Yarmouth, N. S., and th chooners Paul Palmer, a five-mast ad craft, and the O. H. Brown. our-masted schooner. The Belmon was moored by steel cables to th >ier where the fire started. So quick y did the flames envelope the whar d warehouses that it was impossi >le to slip the cables from th nooring posts, and it was necesar to resort to the tedious process o uting a half dozen more of th reat wire ropes. By the time the Belmont was gol .on out th stream, the paint ha )een burned off her hull, her cabi had been practically destroyed, he le hosts charred and ruined, an her spars, sails and rigging bad] burned. The Palmer escaped- wit slight damage to her fore topsa and fore rigging, while the riggin; sails and spars on the forward pai of the Brown were badly charred. Dress Made of Stamps. At a ball in Bermuda :a wonderft dress was worn, and in the making it over thirty thousand stamps wer used. Years were spent in the co lecting of the stamps and three week~ in the making of the dress which wa of the finest muslin. The stami: were not put on anyhow, but in a elaborate design. Birds in Family Esl~cutcheons. Baronm Peckover, one of the ne peers, who has decided to incorpo ate the woodnec'ker in his armori bearings, adds another to the lot 1s of members of the upper hou' who have laid ornithology under trit ute -n the composition of their fan ly Escutcheons. Cotton Mill in Egypt. "bert Is only one cotton mill i Egypt, which in this respect is b1 hind all other cotton-raising cotr tries, where the tendency is for th cotton mills to -,o to the cotton field 'The anomaly is due to taxes and 1 the insufficiency of ef'acient help. Dress of Madagascar Women. Women of Madagascar drape thei shawls as the old Roman Senato1 did their togas. The Roman cus to: was to wear the toga wrapped aro~tn te body and across one shoulde leaving the other uncovered. Expensive to Run New York. It costs nearly as much to pay th .ala'e of the municipal servants - New York City as it does to suppoi the entire army of the United Star The salaries amount close tc sevent million dollars annually. Got Rich Quick. Jesse L. Livermore. the plung' waz cleaned up $3,000,000 in WVa street, and now has 300,000 bales< cotton is only 28. Ten years as he was marking prices on the boaI of a Boston broker's offle'. Silk Hat Caused Riot. The first silk hat was worn in tb streets of London by John Hietherit ton, a haberdasher, on January 1797. He was arrested for incitmn a riot, bat was dismissed with a rel rimand.. Cathedral Damaged by Smoke. The great cathedral at Cologn although completed but a few year; ago has so deteriorated from facto' smo- e that the body of the clhire will have to be renovated throutghou IBread From Peanut Meal. They have made bread from pea nut meal for many years in Spair The bread is light and porous. bu rather unpalatable. and it is care only by the lower classes. Lawyers Out of Practice. It is estimatedi that in New Yor City that are 12,300 men who wer educat& for the bar who are in va rious employments outside of law 01 Constantinople Dentists near. In Constantinople It is nothing itn usual tt be charged $5 for deintistr: for which one would pay $1 in th United States. Egg-Distributing Stations. Irelnd maintains nearly 400 cai distributing stations for the puirros of betering the poultry of the coun Te Flansana of Madagascar'. The tourist in Madagascar mai travel by the fiansana, which is mad< from two poles six feet long and wit) a seat and feet rest. Woman's tears and a dog's Uim ar not always what they seem.