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THE WORSTEThf Late Earthquake Destroyed More Lives and Property THAN ANY OTHER ONE It Is Now Estimated That at Least three Hundred Thousand People Were Killed and Millions of Dol lars Worth of Property Was De stroyed by the Earthquake. A fearful convulsion of the earth, which devastated Southern Italy and Sicily on Monday of last week, wip ing out the lives of 300,000 people. and overwhelming two large cities as well as a score of smaller towns. will go down in history as one of the most terrific disasters that have ever visited this planet. There is no record of any earth quake that wrought as much fright ful damage and caused greater los of life than the earthquake that vis the lower part of the Italian peninsular and its neighboring isl ands, last week. Few regions oi the world have suffered more heavi ly in the past than the province of Southern Italy and the beautifu, island of Sicily, which are now stag gering beneath the weight of anoth er blow even more terrible than an. which preceded it. Of all known earthquakes of an. -tent and modern history the most 'estructive up to last week was that which visited Antioch, the capital of Syria, in the year 526 A. D. It is said that the streets of t1' incient city literally opened and hat rot fewer than 250,000 human be ings, as well as innumerable tem pies and houses were engulfed ir the yawning chasms. In 115 B. C., while the city was thronged with visitors, who had come to attend celebration in honor of the Emper or Trajan, another earthquake oc -urred, less destructive than the one which was to come some six hun 'red years later, yet violent enough to cause the death of thousands. among them being many Romans of :istinction, the Emperor himself barely escaping from the ruins of his castle. In Yeddo. Japan, in the year 1703. an earthquake occured, in which 200.000 people are said to have lost their lives; and just twenty eight years afterwards the city of Pekin was practically overwhelmed by a similar disaster, in which it is believed that nearly 200,000 of the inhabitants ..perished. Of other earthquakes in which the lost of life was so great as to render them mem orable for all time, there are so many as to forbid enumeration. Sev eral of these, as remarked above. took place in the same region' which was affected by Monday's appalling disaster, and in the other countries .f Southern Europe. In 1137 seismic disturbances caus ed the death of 15,000 people in Sicily. In Lisbon, in 1531, 1,500 houses were wrecked and 30,000 lves were lost, and again, in 1755. 'n the same city, 60,000 people per ished as the result of earthquake, and a large portion of the town sunk beneath the waves. In 1783 Mes sina, which has been practically ob literated by this most recent disas ter, was almost entirely destroyed by a mighty shake, which at the same time, caused the death of many thousands. The same ill-fated city .uffered heavily from seismic dis turbances in 1894 and 1896. In 1851 the South of Italy, the~ -. same region devastated by the earth quse of last week, was visited by an earthirusake which blotted out 10. "00 souls, and-sgain, in 1857, there "-ere other convulsons, the death coll of which amounted to about 10, 0. The most famous o'r -all seis ," 6saster whIch have visited Italy S-that In which the twin cities of H-erculaneum and Pompeii were de stroyed-was not an earthquake, but an erption of the volcano Vesuvius. Some of the Great Disasters. Number Year, Place. Killed. 526--Antioch. .. .. .. ...250,000 1137--Sicily .. ............15,000 1158-Syria ........ ..20,00' 1268-Cilica .. .........60,000 1436--Naples . . .... 40,00') -1531--Lisbon ............30,000 1626-Naples . .-..... 70,000 1667--Schamaki ..........80,00') 1603-Sicily ...........100,000 1703--Jeddo .. .........200,000 1716--Algiers .. .......20.000 1'~81-Pekin...-----.. ..10~0,000 1 754--Grand Caire..-.-..... 40.00 0 1755-Lisbon ............50,000 '755-Kaschan, Persia ..- . 40,000 1797--Central America ... 40,000 T1 12-Venezuela .. .. .. ...20,00 0 1822--Aleppo. .. .. .. .. ..20,00 0 1867--Peru and Ecuador . . 25,000b 1888-Island of Krakatoa . 50,000 1893-Persia.-.-.-.-.. ....12,00 0 1896-Japan.--.--........35.000p 1902--St. Pierre. Martinique 25.000 1905--Northern India .. .. 19,000 MIessina City of Disasters. Many times has Miessina been overwhelmed with disaster. Some i the most important are: y'ifth Century. B. 0.-Seized by :ives from Samos and Miletus. 296 B. C.-Destroyed by the Car theginians and rebuilt by Dionysius of Syracuse. '69 B. C.-Oxce more fell into the W-~.ds of the Carthaginians, under - annibal. 831 A. D.-Taken Ey the Sara cens. 1061 A. D.-Recaptured hy the -~' A. D.-Forty thousand per s'.ns diedi of the plague. 1783 A. D.--Town almost entirely -. ~ overthrown by great earthquake. 1848 A. D.-Greatly damaged~ by bombardment. 1R54 A. D-..Cholera carried off 1~~~ and 1896 A. D-Suffered great loss of life and property by earthquakes.* Anarchy Reigns in heggio. Reggio, via. Catania. Dec. 31.-A state of most frightful anarchy pr vails. Mobs of ruffians roam among the ruine, giving full sway to their 1 vilest instincts. They are pillaginga the wrecked jewelry stores andl hanks, and do not hesitate to sh:-l CITY ALL IN RUINS NOT A HOUSE LEFT STANDING IN MESSIN A. :mpossihle to Give a Faint Idea of the Desolation o fthe Awful Scenes. Rome, Dec. 31.-The commandant of the Russian cruiser Admiral Mak Zaroff, which arrived at Naples yes .erday with refugees from Messina today, gave the following account >f the disaster: "Hearing at Goata. Sicily. of the iisaster, I hurried to Messina. The :ity was literally nothing but a heap -f ruins. Every building there has ^oilapsed. but in many cases the out -vard shells remain standing and as a result the general contour of the !ity is less changed than might be expected. This is particularly true of the sea front. In spite of what has been said, the form of the Strait >f Messina shows little if any change. "The harbor is filled with refuse of ,very kind, and at one end lies the -reck of a sunken steamer. "-It is 'impossible to give even a 'ant idea of the desolation of the scene. Every now and then we heard the crash of falling floors nd wails. This oonstitutes the greatest danger pf the rescuers. 't is not safe to approach any stand ng masonry. Men from my vessels ad many narrow escapes, tnd I :aw several terrible accidents to the ',rave Italian soldiers who were do ng more than their duty. "We lost no time in setting about he work of rescue. We established 'n open air hospital on the shore, where we received and treated :; housand men. women and chil Iren. We also saved the safe 01 the Bank of Sicily with its treas ure, weighing two tons. "I estimate the deaths at Messina -onservatively. at 80,000. The mind shrinks from contemplation of the -resent condition of the stricker pity; that there are thousands 01 'ersons still alive in the ruins, anc that countless numbers must die The tidal wave lasted much longel han the earthquake. During all the time we were in the harbor of Mes ina. our vessel shivered intermit ently, as though shaken by son huge marine monster. "I could relate pathetic storie without number. Under some wreck age. inclosed in a kind of little cub )y hole and protected by two heavy beams, I discovered two babies. safe and uninjured. They were comfort -able as - possible, and laughed anl ->layed with the buttons on thei clothes. We could find no trace o 'heir parents, who undoubtedly los heir lives. "It made a terrible impression tc tee the bereaved chiidren. Many o the little or.,-- 've while their par ents are dead, while we saw man mothers with dead babies in thei arms. It was als o indescribab)1 nainful to see the many who ha' one crazy from grief. They search ed and searched aimlessly for theri loved ones, keeping up the ques even after they had been brought oi board our ship." CAST ACID IN HER FACE. Iealousy Causes Serious Crime ii City of Atlanta. Atlanta. Ga., Dec. 28S.--Followin a few heated words about what n< one knows, Mrs. Alfa Garner threv what is believed to have been - 'strong acid in the face of Mrs. Clem ma Long, in the doorway of the lat ter's home at 39 Glenn street, las ight. Jealousy is believed to hav 'een the cause. Mrs. Long was called to the doo .vere she m't Mrs. Garner. The3 aiked- excitedly for seve.ral moments when passersby were startled by scream from the former. Mrs. Gar ner dashed away, and rthe polica have not yet been able to locatt her. The victim was fou'id to be suf feing with serious burns on tht ace, the same having been cause& by a strong acid. She was taken tc the Grady Hospital, where doctor5 ould do nothing beyond relieve het f the pain. She will survive~ any material injury beyond a marrin;: of her facial beauty, which had prm~ viously been of rare order. HELD FOR SIX YEARS. At Least That Is the Tale Told by a Boy.. Valdosta, Ga., Dec. 31 .-T. F. Ramsey. a well-known farmer of Brooks county. was arrested by Dep uty United States Marshal Sutton and brought to this city under -a harge of holding a negro boy 10 a state of peonage. The negro boy's name is Gus Scott. and he alleges that he has been held for six years as e slave. During that time, he says, he has received only nine doi lars for his services. It is alleged by the prosecution in the case that two or three times the boy ran away. but that Ramsey followed him andI brought back to his home and kept him there. Shoots His Fau.... Greenville. S. C.. Dec. 31.-Th&e as Springfield. a merchant near the Monaghan mill village in the sub urbs of the city, was shot this af ternoon by his son and his condi inn is considered critical. Spring field was shot in the stomach. it is reported that Springfield was drunk and that he had some words with his son, which led up to the shooting. Consul Lost. Washington. Dec. 30.-The State iepartment received a dispatch from onsul Gayle, at Malta. saying that he consnlate at Messi'ta has been to :ally destroyed vi~d Colonel Cheney [nd his wife and official family all ost their livca. Their bodies are tii in the ruians of the consulate. He Had to Go. San Francisco. Dec. 29.-Clauis p~ckes. the famous sugar million ire, died here- of pneur -mia Mon y morning. Claus Speckles was orn i: Lamnst. Germany, in t828 d came to the United States in 846. Ater being employed for ome time in Charleston and New FREE DINNER GIVEN TO POOR CHILDREN IN CHARLESTON At the Masonde Banquet Hall on New Year's Eve, Nearly Six Hundred Attended. Charleston. Dec. ,11.-Nearly 600 poor children, their sisters, cousins and aunts, mothers and grandmoth ers, attended the dinner at the Ma sonic temple this afternoon, the Rev. )r. Vedder opening the entertain :nent by saying, "Help yourselves. -hildren," and the f"n was on. Re markable changes of scenery made ,p this remarkable dinner, where nothing was eaten, and yet the ap >etite of hundreds was satisfied. It was a play of three acts under :he heads of preparation, realization, and mastication. The preparation :ook weeks, the realization about :wo minutes and the mastication was of indefinite length. This din er is one that requires the 'going out into the highways and the by ways for guests, of which work of several good people of the city each year diundreds of poor people are :ade very happy by the dinner, and .his year they seemed especially so. Promptly at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon Miss George F. M. Fowler ;ave the signal to Metz's orchestra *n the large Masonic temple banquet fall. and the waiting children, wo aieu with babies in their arms and ittle ones tugging at their skirts. old women who ne'eded assistance. nd one old man, moved up stairs and into the hall. They found rows >f tables gay with many good things. On the rostum was seated the Rev. Dr. Vedder, with visiting Ia jies and gentiemen. Metz's orches tra, of seven pieces, was there, as it is every year. with music for the accasion given free. When all was ready, the Rev. Dr. Vedder gave a three-minute talk appropriate to the occasion, and toll he children to help themselves. Dr. and Mrs. Vedder, Miss Geor sie F. M. Fowler Mrs. J. H. Holmes, drs. C. J. Larsen and all the ladies interested in ithe dinner returned most hearty thanks to all who had helped to make the dinner success ful. Some 35 hams, 35 turkeys, a dozen bunches of bananas. several boxes of oranges, scores of pounds of candy, boxes of raisins, scores of loaves of bread, hundreds of takes, several bushels of apples, an-I other food were distributed. The cash donations were liberal, and there was no lack of interest or -help. Many ladies and gentlemen boys and girls helped to prepare the tables and iood this morning, in work from early morning, and much good was done in the feeding of the noor. The poor children's dinner is an institution that bids fair to ontinue many years in Charleston. ~t is a large work. REFUSE THEMI BAIL. The Coopers Must Stay in Jail Until Tried. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 2S.-"Gen 'lemen, I desire to say thatI have tiven this case careful consid ration rom every standpoint and after hay ing done so, I am of the opinion that it is not a bailable case, thereictre lecline to allow bail, as to any of the defendants, and deny the appli cation, this is all before court this :'norning." The above is the opinion of Judge William Hart delivered this morntng in the criminal court, disallowing the men bail who are charged with :he murder of ex-United States Ser 1tor E. W. Carmack. The decision seemed to come like a stroke of ightning out of a clear sky to the lefense, which side had seen~ed most confident of recelving a fawerable iecision. The attorney for the defense seem ri dazed and stunned. The defend 'nets themselves bore up well and hield a sort of reception in~ court and received re-assurinig words from friends about them. Some of the friends of the Coopers about the city are statin'g that they really did not want bail at ai!, but that the defense simply made the move to ascertain some of the mo)st inmportart evidence against them in the hands of the State. HTow~'ver:. 'his may be the decision of Judge Hart that the case is not a bailable one, it is thought will prove quite a blow to the defense, the standpoint of public sentiment. The tmial comes up on January 20th next. on the merits, and at the same time the' legislature will be in session~ and a State-w'ide prohibition fight will be on. KEPT IN A QUEER PLACE. Find Will Nailed to the Bottom of Washtub. Boston, Dec. 2 9.-Enclosed in a red envelop and nailed to the bot tom of a washtub the will or Pat rick Monahan, of Charlestown, dis posing of property valued at $250. 000 was found today and offered for probate. When Monahan died last Septem ber no will could be found.' John F. Lynch. his former counsel, believed a will had been left, and today, with relatives of the dead man, resuime-d the search, In a sub-cellar the law yer kicked ever a washinb and eaught sight of the envelope contain ing Monahan's will. After bequests to relatives $10,000 is left to Cath -lic charities. Killed Himself. Hazlehurst, Ga., Dec. 28.-John Pickner, a well to do farmer of this section, shot himself in the head with a .38 Smith and Wesson pistol bore last night, while seated in a rocking chair in his home talking to his wife. Death was instantaneous. No cause is assigned for the deed. V'ery Foolish Boy. Rome. Ga.. Dec. 28.--Cliffordl Clark. 19 years old. committed sui-1 cide here today Tby drinking an ounce of carbolic acid. He had been pay ng attentions ::o a young woman of Rome for the past several months. f and because she did not reciprocate TILMAN SPEAKS The Senator Makes a Notable Speech to Teachers. BREAK SOLID SOUTH. By Use of Patronage is What Presi dent-Elect Taft Aims to Do, Says the Senator, Who Warns South ern Democrats to Be on Their Guard. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 1.-Senator B. R. Tillman, in delivering an ad dress before the State Teachers' As sociation here tonight took occa sion to warn the people against the agitation for compulsory education, asserting that should such a law be >assed it would mean the education. t the negro, which would in the and mean a blow to white suprem acy. Senator Tillman urged the Demo crats of the South against the scheme which he said President-elect Taft and his associates were hatch ing up to break the solid South. He said it was the purpose of the presi dent-elect to hand out feleral of fices to the Democrats of the South in order to build up a white Repub lican party in this section. The Senator took issue sqi'ar sly -ith two of the speakers he had ' urd In the morning, Prof. Clax ;.. of Tennessee. and the Rev. C. . eltner. of Columbia, and de 'nied his speech largely to argu nents against compulsory education. rasing his objections to the propo ition on the presence of the negro. 'o began by asserting in effect that .ducation is not an essential of good citizenship, and cited the example of he Revolutionary soldiers, who 'iiht at the battle of King's Moun tain, yet many of whom could not read and write. He rasher resented the stricture on this State's illiteracy in the ad dress of Prof. Claxton, and in dis cussing the negro question, referred at length-to the purpose of President elect Taft, of whom he'spoke in friendly terms as a gentleman, to break up the solid South by the use of patronage. He said that if this intention was successful, instead of negroes and scalawags in the Legis lature, we would have negroes an: some of our bank presidents and cotton mill presidents representing the Republican party. He declared that the Republican party was the black man's party ir the South and the Democratic party the white man's party. He did no. believe that any great. number of Democrats would be bequiled by offices. Some times servers would sell out, but he did not think there were many of such men in the Democratic parey in the South. In speaking of the efforts of the Re publicans to break the solid Sough, he asked why they did not advo cate the breaking of the solid North as well as the solid South.. Taking up the question of com pulsory education he urged that to compel under the law the negrc must be given equal rights with the white man, and that this would mean the education of the negro to vote. In concluding the Senator praised the efforts to cultivate the love of the beautiful in the school room. The speech of Senator Tillman was plain ant to the point, as all of his speeches are. The hall of the House of Representatives, where the Senator spoke, was crowded with a large audience of cultured and in telligent people to hear him. His audience seemed to be in sympathy with what he said, and it fre quently applauded him enthusiasti cally. While the Senator did not say so, his speech indicated that he would rather have the offices in this State filled by true blue Republicans -than by Democrats who had sold out for office. WHY NOT SWJNG HI? A Seventy-Year-Old Negro Held for Second Killing. Anderson, S. C., Dec. 31.-Sam Beant ' negro aged twenty-five. was shot and perhaps fatally wound ed by Houston Tribble, colored, aged seventy, six miles south of Anderson early today. The shooting followed a dance held by the ne groes of that section and it is stated hat Tribble was drinking. Beaty was brought here a few hours after the shooting and is now in a dying condition at the hospital, the ball having penetrated the liver, Tribi ble is in jail. It is said that Beaty attemptedI to persuade a woman who was with Tribble to go with him when Tribble cursed him and fire.l the shot. In October of last year Tribble killed Will Fuller, colored, and was cleared. * Farming Requires Brains. "Back to the land" is the cry much heard these days, and it is well to a4~ upon iet that thme congested condition of the cities w-ith its attendant evils of poverty, m'isery and crime may be relieved. But many men of slendcr means who buy small farms in th. expectation of making a living and enjoy life are bitterly disappointed. The trouble is they have had no experience, and searcely% any business today needs a practical working knowledge to insure success more than farming. If peop~le of small means -want to succeed and realize the advantages of country life, they should find work for a time wikh some progressive successful fa' mer.* Should Not Change. Too many men who before their marriage were always particular to get out of the buggy and helrp the y'oung woman in, may be observed a -ow years afte- marriage sitting i'. her wagon while the good wif' e~lambers in over the wheel as best she may. There ms sormething wrong t'hen 'the man is less thoulghtful of tis wife than he was of his sweet ~uilty of it should le't one of his Cew Ye'ar resointions he a determi mation to treat his wife as he did mis sweetheart. The queerest thing about women's ashions is how they can shift their1 raist from around 'their knees an-l KILLED AT A FROLIC FATAL SHOOTING IN LEXINGTON NEAR SWANSEA. Murder Follows the Too Free Use of Booze at a Christmas Country "Breakdown." A fatal shooting took place a few miles from Swansea on last Satur day night, and as a result Garfield Iutto lies beneath the sod and Thomas Craft is languishing behind the bars in the Lexington jail as . result of the Christmas frolic and ;.he Christmas dram. A gloom has been cast over two households, x hich generations cannot wipe out, Lnd the life of a young man once .o full of promise, has been ilighted forever. On last Saturday night there was n old-time country "break-down," ,s they are termed by the average oun-try person, at the home of 'Feg" Brown, said to be a question tble resort in the vicinity of Swa'i ea. There was plenty of whiskey here, and soon a row arose between Chomas Craft and another 31oung ian, ins which a number took a part. ,raft became angry and left the >use, only to bring a Winchester fie into play, which he had hid >utside upon his arrival for the frol With this rifle he fired several :lots'into the building with the re ult that Garfield Hutto was struck i the head by one of the balls, in 'icting a wound from which he died n Sunday about noon. At the inquest, which was held by \Iagistrate U. W, Jeffcoat several witnesses were sworn and the tes imony was conflicting, it is said. But it was sworn that Craft, afteT leaving the house, remark -d that he "would get somebody," and began firing, the second shot s'triking -oung Hutto in the head. It was Stated that several shots were fired ')y. Craft, although he says that only )ne shot was fired, and that the rifle vent off accidentally. He claims that the whole affaii was an accident; that he and Gar field Hutto had been the best of 'riends and that he had no intention of killing him. It is stated, as 2 natter of fact that Craft and Garfield had been bosom friends, and tha1 hey had taken several drinks to ;ether just a short time before the killing, and that it was another "ounl man by the name of Hutto hat Craft. wanted. Young Garfield Hutto was just 2( 'ears old. He was a son of Mr Terome Hutto, a well known farm r. Craft is 26 years of age, and s a son of the late Walter Craft Craft was arrested early Sunda: -ight by Deputy Sheriff Miller, whc went to the scene immediately upon 'tearing of .the tragedy, and was !odged in jail late last night. EXPERTS ENGAGED. Services Result in Great Comnmercia Benefit to Owners. From recent reports received a. the Department pf Commerce ant L~al~pr it appearsi sthat the bonel interests of England have foundi worth while to employ experts t< supervise that industry. Cornwall the best honey producing county ii that count-ry, was the first to engag' the service of an expert In beekeep ing, with vast commercial benefit When, three years ago, "foul brood,' -in rinfectious disease among beer attacked the apiaros at Cornwall, and worked great destruction, the sup. ervisors determined that it would b< niecessary to destroy hundrede o: 'iives where tihe disease was preva 'ent. This forcible extinction of th' hives saved the industry in the coun f~.-There now remain but a few 'races of the disease. In order that attention may be Irawn to the success that may at end beekeeping the authorities have instructed their expert inspector tc. visit all beekeepers in the county, examine the hives kept by them, and give advice as to their condition and management. It is also the duty of the inspector to work up markets. KILLED BY AN OFFI",ER. Drunken Negro Resist Arrest and Is Shot Down. John Mays, a negro who was drunk and disorderly in Wagener Tuesdaiy night, was shot and killed by Police' man Kirkland. Kirkland attempted to arrest M-tys, who said he would not be arrested, pulling a pistol at th~e snme time, when Kirkland began tiring, one bu! let taking effect in the centre at the abdomen. Dr. 0.- F. Fortwood was summon ed, but found the negro in a dying condition. A post-mortem was held by Drs. Portwood and Schofield. with the above findings. The shooting took place about 7 o'clock p. m. Mays liverd abt'i 30 minutes after the shooting. I~ is a strange negro in this sectiaai. Ibut is said to have ,deserted his famiily in Edgefield. Strange n'egroes and mind tiger whiskey is responsiajle fo- mnany of the murders with which South Caro lina is charged. Policeman Kirk land had to shoot Mays o'r be sh:at himself. Ship and Crew Lost. London, Dec. 28.-A report from Nrew Castle today brought the in telligence to the English maritime centers that the Bri-tish steamshiin Advance and the bark Iverna col lided with the former, sinking with all on board but the first officer. French Consul's Wife Escaped. Milazzo. Sicil. Dec. 31.-The w'ife of the French consul at Mes sina, the sole survivor of her fati ly. reached here this morning. She s badly injured. Her husband, son mnd daughter, were killed. When you hear a man boasting f what he is going to do it won't ake you long to enumerate the hings he has done. Poverty is ilhe devil's best grab WILL NOT CURE OR PREVENT HOGS FROM HAV ING CHOLER~A. The National Agricultural Depart. ment Warns Farmers Against Cer tain Cure Als. "Bruschetfinis Hog Cholera Vaccine' and "Hog Cholera and Swine Plague Serum" have been tested by the department of agricul ture and found to be worthless for :he purpose for which they are man ufactured. Both products are dis tributed by the Sorby Vaccine Com pany, 163 Randolph street, Chicago, and are extensively advertised in ag ricultural paper. The act of congress making ap 'ropriations for the agricultural de nartment for last year contained . orovision that the secretary of agri culture was authorized to purchase in the open market samples of all tuburculin serums, antitoxins,. or analogous products of foreign or -lomestic manufacture, which are :old in the United States for the de ection, prevention, treatment or -ure of diseases of domestic animals, o test the same and to publish the sul ts ofd the tests in such manner is they may deem best. Exercising this authority, samples of the prep 'rations mentioned above, which are videly advertised as preventives of .holera and plague in swine, were purchased and tested. The report of ai"' rests is in part as follows: "In testing this product the direc ions for use furnished by the dis ributors were carefully followed. The test was made by injecting bealthy pigs with Bruschettini's hog cholera vaccine, and after the lapse :f ten days, placing these pigs in -lens with hogs affected with the hog Cholera. All of the treated hogs re nained well until exposed to disease in this way. After this exposure they all contracted the disease with in the usual time exhibiting typical symptoms, and all finally died, showing at autopsy typical ~sions ,f hog cholera." The statement of the department concludes: "These tests indicate that neither Brusche'tiui's Hog Cholera Vaccine nor Bruschettiui's Hog Cholera and Swine- Plague Scrum are reliable -gents for protecting hogs from hog -helera." Which is no doubt useful infor ,'ti'n for many farmers, even though it is bad grammar for a gov -mnlert executivc department te ise. YOUNG MAN KILLED. By the Girl He Was Telling Good Bye. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 30.-A special to the Ledger-Dispatch from Wash ington, N. C., today says: John Emerson Stone, aiged 22 'iighly connected in Boston and New York was shot and killed here earll today by May Woodward, who ther Ishot herself twice and may die Stone went to the woman's house to avow his intention of leaving her -It is said she coaxed- him -into thc house and when he refused to re main drew a revolver and shot StonE in the right temple. When he fel she fired again -the ball lodging ir the base of his brain. Then she shoi herself twice in the forehead and temple. The doctors at the hospital sa3 that the woman has a fighting chancE for her life. Stone has two brotl ers, Albert Stone, New York, anC Captain Edgar Stone, U. C. A., sta tioned in Luzon, Philippine Islands The former is on his way here tc take charge of the body. SUICIDE AT DENMARK. Berry Gibson Takes His Life Witl1 Carbolic Acid. The Herald says news reached Bamberg Tuesday night that just about dark Mr. Berry Gibson, a young white man of Denmark, had committed suicide by taking carbol ic acid. Mr. Gibson was cotton weigher at Denmark, having been elected to the position last July by the county board of commissioners. He was about twenty-four years old, and leaves a wife and a numb.er of relatives. He was married only a few -months ago to Mrs. Davis. No real cause can be assigned for his act, but it is said that he has been despondent for some time, arid has often said in the presence of others that he wished he was dead. About dark he went to his room in his home at Denmark, and shortly afterwards when his wife went rto the door, it was locked. He did not an swer when she called 'to him, so she 'alled for help at once and entrance wvas effected by the window. Mr. Gibson was found in a dyinsg con dition, and death ensued before a physician could be summoned. He must have drank the carbolic acid immediately on iroing to the roomi Value of Sweet Milk. The value of the pure sweet skini mnili fed to pigs fresn from 4:.ae cream separator, wm's fo:mnd by the wve'-k-own dairyman. Mr. C. P. Goodrich. to he much greater than sually 'totimted. H-et found that 100 pounds of gain in pigs weigh ing 125 pounds when red alone, a-ed one bushels of corn fed alone made a gain of ten pounds. This puts a high value on sweet skinm mi-Ik. When he j-oined skirn m'ilk and corn "n du'mpropor-ti'ns the feed value 0! l,c th were in.cr'esed 70 par cent, sihowing that both made a fine bla anced ra ie-n. He fed 100 pounds of sw'eet rk'm milk with one bush.:I of '0c:zi and that gave 18 noninds of gain to the shoats. Heard's Darymnan sasxs: "In o:ur own exx- rfence we have r'ade skim railk wt.rth 8?2 cents p'r 1 00 when fed to grade Guernsey -,1lres sol-1 at. 7 months of age at $25 each. "It to well enourh to say that a large part of the feeding value of separ:stor skini n-ilk riay be wastesd [b iipr-oper methods of feeding: al so itis best value is always found in fhedintg it 'to young pigs and thc-at-." The kind of a novel a woman dotes on is where the beautiful clothes and costly jewels of the heroine arec an adorable setting to all the heart agoney she has to suf DEATH TOLL AWFUL TWO RtNDRED THOUSAND PFO t PLE PERISHED. 1: r C Vandalism of the Worst Kind Has I Broken Out-- rmy to Bury the t Dead and Relieve Suffering. Rome, Dec. 29.-Basing statetics f ipon the very latest reports receiv ed from the devasted districts of j Southern Italy, whicif' was swept by s earthquake, tidal waves and fire, it s predicted this morning that the casualties will reach 200,030, per haps more. Hundreds of men and women and children were buried alive, caught in the debris and car ried to suffocation and instant d - th. The disaster in the P ovince of Caalbria and Island of Sicily ha= to lay assumed staggering iroportiens. Each succesive report received from the stricken region makes it more apparent that the first store.s of widespread destruction were little, if any, exaggerated. Reggio still remains in the tragic isolation. It is impossible t0 get word from the sitricken city lnd the- silence gives rise to the most tearful apprehensions. News has ome from Messina, eight miles norhI )f Reggio, but no reliable estimate 1 >f the dead there has been made. Vandalism of the worst kind has broken out and the government has adopted the most energetic and most severe measures for It-, repression. Robberies and looters are shot on sight. The prison at Messina col lapsed, and some of the prisoners were killed, but the survivors made their escape, and joined the Hooli 3ans who were sacking the city. Such confusion reigned teat the rob bers met with no resistance. The local chief of police lies dead. The barracks at Messina were demolish ed, the commander of ta troops was killed outright and there were n..any victims among the enlisted men. The government sent 'n army crops commander to take charge of the troops in the devasted district One of his first measures will be to declare marti'al law. Robbers pil laged the ruins of shattered build ings, and even stole clothing and valuables from the corpses of the victims. They were not deterred b'y the flames that broke out in several sections of the city, but took advan tage of the light for their vandal ism. The night in Messina was, one of horror indescribable-fire, robbery, dead and dyinlg on every side the city in utmost confusion and people panic stricken and under the spell of terror. The finest palaces, church es and theaters of Messina are heaps of ruins; countless dead bodies are scattered through the wreckage. No part of the Province of Reggiu de Calabria escaped. Premier Gloletti has received a telegram from Deputy Feliceat at |Messina confirming the previous re ports of the complete destruction of Messina by the fire following the earthquake. The report says that the& dead at 'Messina will be connted by tens of thousands. jIn some towns gas meters explod ed. The tidal- wa e that completed the destruction work of the earth quake was thirty-two feet high and sank numberless small boats in the harbor of Catania. Wireless tel': gra'phy has been of great assistance; an Italian nava? squadron at sea was reached by wireless and ordered to Messina. Some Good Advice. |There are persons who will, with out a murmu'r, pay an office fee of $10 to a "city doctor," and yet ~rum'ble when the local physician, -lpmands $1 for the same advice. Iwith seventy-five cents worth of -meaicine thrown in. Don't be one 'f this kin ihae; the Farm Thurnal; but be willing to pay a fair feeTo~ your home physician who, In nearly ill cases, can give as igood advice as the d'octor In the city. Due to Monoxied Gas. I Washington, Dec. 2 8.-Deadly fumes of monoxied gas caused 'the death of another person in this city yesterday. The latest victim, Wil liam McGowan, was over come while in his bath room and died within 20 minutes after lighting -a water heater. Monoxide gas is caused ,y Improper combustion. Three miem bers of a family were killed by such a gas at their home on October 6th. The Commercial Standing of a Tow. In a great measure the commez gial standing of a town is reckoned according to the number and value of Its business enterprises; its mora. standinig, according to the number and power of its institutions, ent erting a good influence as opposed to those exerting a bad. These things being true, it should be the Intent of the citizens of Orangeburg to encourage such new enterprises as tend in any way to make the place better; for a town Is greatly what its citizen's make it, nothing more and nothing less. Pointed Paragraphs. As a rule -thieves display morei discretion than honest men do. The good form displayed by man) a woman is du~e to her dressmaNr Most of the average malt's laughs are inspired by his own alleged wit. The reason the average man can be so satisfied with.- his brains is he5 hasn't any. Even a man who prefers a prize fight will lie about how he enjoys t grand opera. ~ t A woman can always convince herself you are in love with her un less you are. u It sometimes happen that a ginra may get rid of a persistent suitor by marrying him. t More people have been civilized , with the bathtub than with the Ten Commandments. d: A mean 'trick for a man to play o' nn a girl who rejects his. proposal is to take her at her word. w Not until the undertaker gets busy el with a man does he cease to be un popular with his relations. t Every man likes to hear a wise w'oman talk-because she always e alks to him about himself. A girl wants to stay in bed when hi ;he has a cold so that men can't is :ee the red nose that ges with it. to USES LIMESTONE ?'OR - t Louis Man ie It .With t. -" and Obtains Intense Heat' Alexander Marshall' of S,t Louis 7ld recently how he has solved an nportant problem that may greatly educe the world's -consumption of oal. He claims to have' discovered a ethod whereby the cost of coal byy<,' be use of limestone, in' unnaces lny kind may be reduced to one aif. The limestone exists in suf tcient quantities in the Piasa Bluffs long the Mississippi River to supply Liton with fuel for centuries to come. larshall's scheme proves generally ucoessful. "You see, 1 throw in plenty of coal o get 4 red-hot fire in the furnace. he former dark, back smoke from he stacks began to be transformed to a light, airy gas-carbonic acid as released from the carbonate of *. ime. The heat was intense and in L few minutes seemed as if the earns of the boilers would melt. "Coal alone never gave such a. teat," remarked Mr. Marshall. " few weeks I will have a testing >aratus here for the purpose of ng out exactly the amount of tnd then the number of units innlmte nd Limestone.' After the test the residue left ehibited in the grate. There were io clinkers; the coal had evidently tIl been consumed. "The residue makes a good fertil zer," Mr. Marshall said. * "Of course ,he asses are not so good as the lime ;tone before burning, for that con ains forty per cent more of carbon. he advantage lies in th= fact that as has already been made of the oal. Left in the ground for a long ar time, tue burned ,limestone will bring about exactly the same effect ts the pure limestone; that is, In orrectang the acidity of the soil. The Eternal Feminine. -I'll tell you how I am saving money so that I can entertain my [riends at dinner, Marie," said a New York stenographer to her chum is they soared upward in the office elevator. "Whenever I am invited to dine out and do not have to pay [or my own dinner, I put the amount [ save in my little iron bank. "How ever," she continued, with the par tiularly pleasant purr that some times precedes a scratch, "that pltn ron't do you any good, will it dear, for you are never invited- oat, are you?" Swiss School 'isdom. Whenever the natural temperature reaches a certain point-in Switzerland . the schools are dismissed. This is on the theory that after a certain point of suffering- has. been reached by both teachers and pupils, the -one cannot impart 'nor the other absorb instruction that would be of - any value, and so the time spent in at tempting it is wasted. First "Dress -Suit" In Kansas. The first dress suit that ever came to Kansas came with the "aid" from Boston during the dry summer of 1860. Somne rich man in the east contributed it, having outgrown .it and a farmer named Paswell,. in Kpioma township In this county~ ploughed corn in It all summner-, Atchison Globe. - .' Friendship. z. A slender acquaintance -t~th~ world must convince every. mrbt actions not words, are thetrue v teon of the attachment of friend~; and that the most liberal professios of go'od will are very far from being the surest marks of' lt.-George Washington. What Hurts Most "I tell you,' said Snnick, "men are getting so deceitful tihese- days that you can't trust your best friends--" "And what's worse." interrupted Bor roughs, gloomily, "you can't get your best friends to trust'you.'-Pha -- phia Press, Rivers .n I~ Little riverss em to have the In definabeqX iYthat belongs to cer ata people in the world-the power. of.drawing attention .without court' ing t, the faculty of exciting interest by their- very presence and way of doing things.-Henry Van- Dyke. straight Business Offer. An advertisement in an English pa'per reads as fogbows: "Stolen, a watch .worth ?10. if the thief will return It, he shall be informed gratis, where he may steal one worth two of it, and no questions asked." Beyond Mans Realization. Men make fun of the fashions, but even the wisest of them do not realize that the style change in the Invisible .clothes, with quasi-visible ribbons, just as often as they do for the more apparent ones. Sweetness by the Ton. Perfume manufacturers of Italy every year consume 1,860 tons of range blossoms, 930 tons of roses, L60 tons each of jasmine and violets md 15 tons of jonquils. City's Benefactors. No greater good can befall a city han when several educated men. :hinking in the same way as to what s good and right, live together In t.-Goethe. In Manchuria, Siberia and North Jhna much use is made of Chinese rick tea, not as, a beverage, blit as avegetable, boiled with rice and nutton. The owenr of a smart dog does 1ost of the barkinte. When a girl's hair is a golden halo astead of being just plain red, it's sign it's her mother describing ik. A man seems to be able to out rcw most any superstition except hat his whiskers couldn't be finer. The average girl is ambitious to iake a name for herself, but she sun.i1y ends by acoaptmng some man's. . The kind of photograph a woman inks is good of her is one her ~n mother couldn't guess who it The man who can make his chil en smile does not need to worry rer his inabilit'r to preach sermons. Women seem to rega-d, acharity ork as a stepping stone into soci The largest 'band saw in the e world is in use in a mill at Hia mim, Wash. It is 65 feet long by Sinches wide and has teeth 3 inch apart. There's no way a man can help s wife to enjoy herself when she having a good cry as to tell her