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-' * "'~ i ' MtefadCtartHigat Cards Ladto Battle st Sea. t V V Battle Which Put Loser In Hottpltal ? and Winner in Irons?Many Hows r Aboard Ship. * The fistic battle that took place on board the Kaiserin Augusta Victor- a ia, of the Hamburg-American ^ine, ' on her last eastward voyage and which resulted in the c^viete dis- : at. ? * one 01 the participants the day before the liner reached Plymouth, Friday morning, August j 16. was graphically described in a j letter which was received in Brooklyn from Dr. C. F. Bandel, the oste- ; ?1 ? 1 - - 1 upuLnic pnysician ana presiaent of ( the New York State Osteopathic so- . ciety, Dr. and Mrs. Bandel left on : the Kaiserin on August 8 for their ! annual tour abroad. According to the story told by , Dr. Bandel, which corroborates the meager cabled details of the affair j received here on August 16, a fight , started in the smoking room of the ( Kaiserin Augusta a day or two after the vessel left Sandy Hook behind her. Notwithstanding all the precautions of the Hamburg-American line officials at this end to prevent card sharps from bearding the liner at Hoboken, a clique of men got aboard, who, it is said, were prepar- ( ed to fleece such of the male passengers as'they could get into a crooked game. The clique had a woman accomplice, whose special business it was, it seems, to draw men of wealth away from the deck and into the smoking room or into a private state room for the purpose of a game. Several minor arguments and fistic encounters occurred every day on the second, third, fourth and fifth days out of New York. 'On the afternoon of Thursday, August 15, as I was sitting in my deck chair," writes Dr. Bandel, "1 was startled by seeing two men rush out of the smoking ? om in a state , of great excitement. My chair ad{'oined the smoking room entrance. had been able to hear a pretty strong argument that had been going on for some time, but 1 was not ! prepared for what happened. , "As the two men rushed out on j deck one of them, a Mr. Clarke, of Manhattan, handed a Mr. Cassidy, j also of Manhattan, a solar plexus blow that took all of the fight out of iho man wiiK fKo ? ?..w . o.v*? wnv taviiui uamu. i III* j blow actually iarred the Kaiserin. | Of course, we all jumped to our feet. The two men were separated, but j they vowed that they would 'get even* at Plymouth where we were due that same evening. "Two hours later at 6 o'clock, the two fellows went at it again. They fought all oyer the deck. It seemed that Clarke charged Cassidy with cheating him at cards. There were . many rounds of drinks following the encounter in the afternoon, and when the two met at 6 o'clock both were well primed for trouble. "The finale of the battle occurred in the smoking room. Cassidy was carried out of the smoking room badly used up, and from the way one of his legs appeared to be, it looked as if had been fractured. "1 saw Cassidy pounded practically to a jelly and saw him carried out of the smoking room. He was in a bad way when he was landed at Plymouth. Clarke, I understood, was placed in irons by orders of the capta-'n. But naturally the ship's offic 3i*8 wanted to keep thintrs as quiet as they could, and therefore there i was little friutful questioning to be done. The greatest excitement was on board. The continuous performance of fights in which the gambling clique figured during the voy- i age kept the passengers agog with j the details of the battles. The officers of the Kaiserin deserve the hicrhMf nroieo 4r\v flw. 1 r. uiuv. ivm uic sjroiciiianc aim quiet manner in which they went about trying to keep trouble from l breaking out in the smoking room, k After the Kaiserin landed her Plyk mouth passengers the gambling cliwk que subsided somewhat, and at Cher bourg the last of them left the ship. The captain was very much vexed that the card sharps should have crept by him at Hoboken, for I un|g4 I derstand the steamship company makes special efforts to keep those follows off their ships." PltKlMlTS AMKRICA'S IHJOM ||?B?ut Was a Little Off un (he Pate ' of Knd. country will he entirely deii*?:^':?pyed on account of its wickedness Mgsfe^^the last day of this month," said Hj WlllhitO, a Baptist prearhoi Arkansas, who arrived from al New York recently. ^isSBMMjMllhtte was accompanied t>y his ^^Hwno 18 ai>out thirty-five year: |P?IBisMpd two children, the elder nine SH^n^^wnd the younger nix months. preacher said thnt he and his were compelled to flee from because he prophesied that would be destroyed. flSffidQn^^Hiily 22." said Willhite, "1 in which 1 was told that we should all he iinnlour wickedness. up my belongings, and and children wo has"w York and sailed for August 3. jH in London eight days jjMMKraSffiwM^Lhct to work preaching in wai) arrested twice aud B ^edered deported." HHflBQunHk KXI? LOOKS. fl^S^^B^H^^H^Eed~Outrigh^ One ( jfi HUOtgj^Eu^H^HRBc dead and afourth Besult of a saw-mill t l8H88Eti|j|B^SB^Et a lumber camp in < H^^H^^Hn^nHn^^ker on the of | BHDB^^IBTho body ^H[hHmH8KH9H?mA -mill was hurled fc AWAY MILLIONS. owa Philanthropist Hits Upon Novel Scheme to Spend Fortune. Abraham Slimmer, millionaire and he most noted philanthropist in Ioira, is distributing his millions among he poor and needy of the state in trhicn he amassed his wealth. His esidence is a mansion in Webster 'ity. He declares that after he has elieved suffering in all parts of Iova, he may continue his tour into >ther states. "I propose to spend the $5,000,KX) which I have before I die," he laid, "qnd I am going to spend it nyself and on people I know need t." No account is kept of his charties. He personally investigates very case that comes to his notice. That he is distributing tens of thousands of dollars about the state is certain. Thp r?lH rnon tolfoc cnuninl I v. V? ?!? VMUVVJ JJ7VV IUI UVlI^Ilb n the novel method he has hit upon ,>f getting rid of his money. "I have fiven little," says Mr. Slimmer, when asked the significance of his rambles about the state. "What does it matter to a man who has 40 loaves, he actually eat but half a loaf. He gives way two or three. Tell me what credit is he to have for giving? A dollar given by a man who has but that one dollar is 'more than a Rockefeller million. "I give because I love to give. I have enough left to eat, enough to wear, and enough to pay my traveling expenses. What more do I want? It is a relief to be relieved from a weight of gold that imposes a consequent care. 1 see others benefitted while 1 am not deprived of what I need." lirynn S?mii<ls Warning. In commenting on President Roosevelt's speech at Province town last week Bryan says Roosevelt has at last disclosed his scheme for centralization, at which he has hinted in former speeches. In the speech referred to by Bryan, Roosevelt proposes the national incorporation of railroads and other corporations engaged in interstate commerce. "Here is the secret," says Bryan. "The States are annoying the corporations and the corporations demand federal protection from Stale legislation. The president thinks that action 'is most pressing as regards these corporations which, because they are common carriers, exercise a quasi-public function.' The States have been enacting 2-cent fare laws and laws reducing freight rates and the railroad managers demand that they shall be relieved from further fear of such legislation. The president's Hamiltonian ideas make kim an ~ -J b ? - >> > an caoj vivliin ami lie vieius CO the entreaties of the railroads. If it is the public he sought to protect he would recommend federal remedies which would not interfere with State remedies, but it is the railroad, not the public, that demands the removal of authority to Washington." M r. Hrvan goes on to say that the Democrats can be depended upon to oppose with all their might this movement toward centralization. If any Democrat wavers his constituents should look into his business relations and see whether he is under obligations to the railroads. A Hamiltonian Republican like the president may honestly think that the farther the government is removed from the people the better it will be, but a Jeffersonian Democrat does not cherish any such delusion. Even the Hamiltonian Republican ought to hesitate to trust congress with any more power while the United States senators are elected by legislatures. "It is fortunate that the people have had an object lesson so recently. The federal law stopped rebates and passes, but the railroads make more money than they did before. The States, on the other hand, gave the people a reduction in rates and those who are receiving the benefit of these reductions will be slow to surrender the advantage thus far gained. "It is doubtful whether the Republican congressmen from the West will dare to support the president's proposition, but if an attempt is made to put such a measure through congress the Democrats will stand a good chance of retiring every Western Republican who votes for it." Tillman on Itooscvclt. Senator Tillman was interviewed recently at Clarksburg, Ohio. He talked freely on the matter of Republican Presidential thnber. Senator Tillman said: "I do not believe that the fact that President Roosevelt is, on the face of it, backing the effort to nominate Secretary Taft for the Presidency will serve in any degree to strengthen the chance of the Secretary's nomination. In my opinion, Taft. will hurt his prosjiects if he attempts to stand as a stool pigeon and personal representative of the President. If he stands as the representative of Taft rather than of Roosevelt he will be much stronger before the people. "Really, however, I think that the President, is after ilio r.,,--.-.;?? vw. v??v iiv/iiiiiiai iwu himself and this present maneuvering is for the purpose of getting the situation so tied up that a deadlock will result at the Republican national convention and that the President hopes and expects that it will stampede to him, nominate him by acclamation and hand the nomination to him on a silver platter with the assurance that he is the only man who can lead the Republican party and the country out of the wilderness, "The President did not tell me cms, ior i, never called on him you know, but this is what 1 think." "Whom do I think the Republicans will nominate for the Presidency?" "Well, Gov. Hughes will surely get the New York delegation to the convention. He seems to have made himself popular in his State, and his I :hances of securing the nomination ieem to be better than those of any ather man now mentioned. With such i State as New York back of him, he will be a power in the convention from the start. Senator Tillman declined to ex-; jress himself on the Democratic j Presidential nomination further than i :o say that he knew of no Democrat n South Carolina seeking it. ' * FOtU KILLED IN OUTO. *. i A Trolley Car Hits the Machine at a Crossing. i An automobile run by Dr. George Waldron, of Rochester, N- Y., was struck by a Rochester and Eastern trolley car at a crossing near Canandaigua Wednesday arternoon and 4 persons, Dr. Waldron, Mrs. Willlaira Scandling and Mrs. Jane Hobbs, of Hopewell, and Mrs. Katherine Farnsworth, of Rochester, were instantly killed. Dr. Waldron went to Hopewell that momrning with his daughter to visit at the home of William Scandling, ana naa lUKen me tnree women, ail of whom were more than 65 year*; of age, for an automobile ride. Witnesses of the accident say that as the machine approached the trolley tracks it was seen by the motorman. According: to them the motorman made a signal and Dr. Waldron slowed up, hut started on again. The bodies were frightfully crushed. l*rlM>ncrn and Crime. The Bureau of the Census has recently published the results of an investigation by Dr. Roland P. Falkner of prisoners and juvenile delin?nents in institutions. Some of thfe acts and conclusions of the report are of great interest and significance. In a recent editorial The Columbia State compiled from this report the figures we present below. Not including juvenile delinquents in special institutions for that class, and exclusive of persons imprisoned for the nonpayment of fines. 81,772 sane persons at least five years of age were serving sentences in civil prisons in the estimated population on June 30, 1904,1,004 were prisoners. On June 1, 1890, the total number of prisoners was only 60.803 but the number in each million of the population was 1,067. The investigator warns us, however, not to accept these figures as showing a diminished tendency toward crime. There have been changes in the treatment of young offenders that remove, for the time, a large number of them from the records; and the report admits that the figures do not indicate whether or not crime has actually decreased. There is an increase in crime among the negroes, while there is a marked decrease in criminality among foreign-born whites. The increase among the negroes is particularly noticeable in the North Central States, where it was nearly fifty per cent. Following is the remarkable conclusions drawn from the figpires: The foreign-born whites, unlike the colored, appear to be of decreasing importance among prisoners. In 1890 the immigrant class formed 28.3 per cent, of all white prisoners of known nativity, but by 1904 this percentage had decreased to 23.7. The native whites, on the other hand, show and increased proportion, forming 76.3 per cent, of the total number of white prisoners in 1904 and only 71.8 per cent, in 1890. This change, moreover, is not confined to any one section of the country but is common to all. Even the North Atlantic States, which have absorbed most of the late immigration, show a larger percentage of native prisoners and a smaller percentage of foreign than they did in 1890. The number of prisoners in each million of population varies very widely in the diflfersnt States. In 1904 Nevada reported 5,386; California 5,234; Massachusetts, 4,823: New Jersey, 4,199 ; and Connecticut, 4,143. At.the other extreme are Oklahoma with 333, District of Columbia with 419, Arkansas with 552, Alabama with 557, Georgia with 577, and South Carolina with 586. In the country as a whole 34.753 persons were sentenced for drunkenness, 28,339 for vagrancy, and 17,264 for disorderly conduct. In other words, more than one-half of the total number of prisoners committed during the year were sentenced for some of these three closely allied offenses. No less than 25,098 prisoners, 16.8 per cent, for lar ceny; 10,877, or 7.3 per cent., for a*3aults: and 7,161 or 4.8 per cerlt., for burglary. Of the remaining offenses, homicide showed the largest number?2.444 or 1.6 per cent of the total. In discussing the relative proportion of criminal among the white and colored population, the report has the following to say: Among the 149,691 prisoners committed during 1904, 125,093 were white and 24,598, colored of whom 186 were Mongolians and 714 Indians. In other words 16.4 frer cent, of the total nnmber of prisoners committed during the year were colored. Of the general poDulation in 1900, the colored formed only 12.1 per cent. Since it can not be presumed that the proportion of colored in the population increased materially between 1900 and 1904, it is evident that the colored contribu1 ted to the prison class in excess of their representation in the general population. This condition is not confined to any one section of the country, for the figures show that it obtained in every State andTerritory except North Dakota and Arizona, where the colored population A:^i.. i-J: in tuni[Ai!*:u Clllfliy ill uiumns. The colored, moreover, formed a larger percentage of the prisoners convicted of the more serious crimes than they did of those who had been sentenced for the lesser offenses. They formed 31.5 per cent, of the major offenders and only 13 per cent, of the minor. A particularly noteworthy portion of the report^deals with the relation of age to crime. Of the total number of prisoners of known age, it states 60,2 per cent were between the ages of 20 and 40 years. The negro prisoners, however were very much younger than the white, for of the 71.1 per cent, were under 30 years of age as con"rasted with 39.9 per cent, of the whites. Whether thtse figures point to an earlier development of criminalty in the negro race < or rather indicate that among negroes coming into maturity at the time of this investigation the criminal tendencies were greater than in ,.r~ ' " ... . ^ v SALARIES GRADED. %. :-t % , * ____________ * An Increase Is Given To Each Rural Mail Carrier. . i And' AU of Them Are Paid According to the Length: of the Routes Tliejr Horve. There seems to be a general misunderstanding among the postal emnloVPH AH to tho otfwl of lha now ool. ary schedule for rural carriers, which was adopted July 1. In this State there are several routes of less than the stardard length?2 4 miles or upwards?and the carriers thereon have iu some instances gotten the impresssion fhat they would be entitled to the full raise?from $720 per annum to $900?made by the new schedule. In order to settle all questions on the point, Congressman Lever early this month wrote to the superintendent of rural delivery. In Washington. requesting a construction of the law. The reply goes into the matter at some length. It Is as follows: Hon. A. F. Lever. Peak, S. C. Dear Sir: The receipt Is acknowledged of your letter of the 5th Instant, addressed to tbe superintendent of rural delivery, inquiring as to the attitude of the department in the matter of the salaries of those rural letter carriers, who, up to July the 1 st, 1907, were paid the maximum salary, which under the law could be HI lowed to rural carriers, $7 20 per annum, although serving routes of less than the standard length on account of having been in the service June the 3 0th, 1904, when the mnximum salary was increased the length of the standard route raised from 20 to 4 0 miles. In reply. I have to say that the schedule of salaries adopted by the department, effective the 1st of July, contemplates the payment of the maximum salary authorized by congress to carriers serving routes of 2 4 or more miles, and a proportionate increase to all carriers Bervlng routes of less than that length. The arrangement of the new schodule is the re nun ui cnreiui uennerauon Dy experts, and is undoubtedly the most equitable adjustment ]>ossible, based upon the intent of congress as shown *by the records, namely, the allowance of an adequate compensation foi servce performed, as recommended b> the department. Under the recent adjustment of the 37,731 routes in operation, on June 30, 10 07, the carriers on 23,502 routes are receiving $900 per annum; on 7,816 routes, $864 per annum; on 4,075 routes, $810j?er annum, and on 1.2S4 routes, $720 per annum leaving the carriers on but 1,000 routes below the grade of $720 per annum. The idea of the department has been to make the readjustment conform to the Intention of congress that carriers shall be enabled to properly maintain their equipments, and in that view it Is manifestly essential that carriers on routes of 24 or more miles should be given greater compensation than those serving routesof less mileage, some of which it is practicable to cover with one horse, | while on all routes of 24 or more miles two or more horses are necessary. iteadjustment on a basis th&t would give all carriers, who up tc July 1, 1907, received $720, a salary of $900 per annum, or a bonus for having been in the service prior tc July the 1st, 1904, would necessitate a complete change in the basis of adjustment, and according to the re cords, would be contrary to the evi dent intent of congress, and It would then be necessary under the appropriation available to pay many carriers now serving routes of 24 or more miles less than $900 per annum, and those on shorter routes, who have entered the service since July 1, 1904, materially less than the amount embodied in the newschedule. For your information, there Is enclosed herewith a copy of the schedules governing the salaries of rural letter carriers. Very respectfully, A. C. Conrad, Acting Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. Schedule of Salaries. m Following is the list of salaries effective July 1 of this year: Per Annum. O 4 ... i I I A - i iiincn mill iiYur J'.MMI 22 to 24 miles 864 20 to 22 miles 810 1 8 to 20 miles 720 16 to 18 miles 630 - 14 to 16 miles 540 12 to 14 miles 504 10 to 12 miles 4 68 8 to 1 0 miles 4 32 6 to 8 miles 306 A dispatch from Atlanta says "A R. Lanier, of 379 Glenwood avenue former employe of the Georgia rail road, who has been ill from typhoid fever for 11 weeks, was ejected from his home by a bailiff on complaint of W. P. Kelley & Co. Lanier, who is just convalescent, was too ill to be moved but all of his furniture and belongings were thrown into the streets while he was left alone in his bed. The Associated Charities took hold of the case, stored the furniture and had Lanier sent to the hosKital." Kelley & Co., must be a ard harted concern. the older generation of negroes, must probably be left an open question. . The report also points a lesson upon the question of illiteracy. Of the total number of prisoneis, 18,880 or , 12.6 per cent, were unable to read and write. The maj >r offenders i were more than the minor and the colored were more illiterate than the white. Among the colored 32.3 1 per cent, were illiterate, while among the whites the corresponding percentage was only 8.7. DOZEN PLOTTERS CONVICTED. \ Three Russians Sentenced to be Hang ed For Conspiracy. ^ The Courtmartial, which has been trying the eighteen persons accused of plotting against Emperor Nicholas and the Russian Government last May. has found three of them, Nikitenko. Smisky, alias "Purkine," and 1 Naumoff, guilty of organizing a plot nuu (rmcuceu iu??m iu ufuui uv Hanging. Four others were found guilty of organizing a plot to overthrow the existing form of government. Three of these were sentenced to eight years Imprisonment and one to four years penal servitude. Five of the prisoners were con- i vlcted of having "Supported a conspiracy," and were condemned to banishment and the loss of civil rights, while six persons. Including M. FoedosslefT. a lawyer and his wife were acquitted. Want Southern Men. . Civil Service Commissioner Mcllhenny is anxious for Southern men to enter the service of the government in all branches. He has just returned to Washington^from the South, where he had been for the purpose of interesting the people of the South in the service. There are throughout the South, he says, many men of high literary attainments, of learning and ability, the type of the college professor, to whom the fierce struggles of commercial life are reKugnant. Men of this class would e most valuable to the government in many capacities and government employment would be congenial to them. The benefit would be mutual. There are young men also of this same type who could come to Washington and serve the government while studying in professional schools. He says among the greater part of the Southerners the impression prevails that the civil service is not for them, that they can have no part in the clerical administrative work of the nation. It is not in the least difficult to understand why this impression persists. This belief was once a fact and not so long ago. It is a conviction based upon years of exrwirion/vi U ? * Kw.vuwi uuiniK y\iiiv,11 iv was evident to everybody that a Southerner was the last man who could hope to get a federal position. Politics not only entered this question, but permeated it. There were Southerners, of a sort, who held office under the government, but these were not of the class which I have been trying to interest in the service. And it was largely because persons of a character of which little need be said?although much could be said?succeeded in obtaining and holding office that desirable citizens came to the conclusion all avenues were closed against merit and respectability." Mr. Mcllhenny says the Southerners of the better class which he wished to influence held aloof from such things as civil service examinations, feeling that civil service reform was a farce. It was his endeavor to impress upon the people that the condition which they had come to regard as unchangeable had changed forever; than no longer were they without the pale of the government; but that they were part of it; that the attitude of President Roosevelt had put the civil service upon a plane where performance equaled promise and that this state of affairs had become so firmly fixed during his administrations that the country would never allow another president to go , back to the abuses 01 the spoils sys VC III* Under the civil service rules each of the Southern States is entitled to its quota of government servants and the people of the South must be convinced that those positions belong to them. Such posts must, of course, be filled, and when Southerners do not come forward to take them others must be chosen." We wish to call the attention of our young men especially to what Mr. Mellhenney says above. There would be no trouble for scores of young men in this county to prepare themselves, stand civil service examinations and got good positions in the government service at Washington. The South is entitled to many more positions than she has, and we urge our young men to seek these positions. The work is easy and the pay is good. No News in the l'ajier. . The Nevada Mail says frepuently you pick up one of the local papers, and after glancing at the headlines wearily, thrust it aside, remarking, "Nothing in the paper today." Did you ever stop to think what the phrase?"nothing in the paper today?means? It means that in the day or week just passed that no misfortune has' befallen any one in our city, that no fire has wiped out a neighbor's worldly goods; that the grim angel of death has crossed no threshold of a friend; that no man driven by liquor, hatred or fear has taken the life of a fellow-human; that no |K>or devil, haunted by the {>ast or the misdeeds of some other, las crossed the great divide by his own hand. So the next time you Dick UD a lianpr that dno 1' ?? nounce a tragedy, givea little thanks instead of grunting because there is no news. SI Iil'II I'll HAT US AT MOM K. They Ileal the Skin and Take Aw?) 1(8 Impurities. Sulphur baths heal Skin Diseases and give the body a wholesome glow Now you don't have to go off to a high-priced resort to get them. Put a few spoonfuls of Hancock's Liquid Sulphur in the hot water, and you get a perfect Sulphur bath right in i your own home. Apply Hancock's Liquid Sulphur < to the affected parts, and Kczema and other stubborn skin troubles are ? quickly cured. Dr. R. H. Thomas, of Valdosta, Ga., was cured of a pain ful skin trouble, and he praises it In the highest terms. Your druggist sells it. Hancock's Liquid Sulphur Oiut ment is the best euro for feoics, Pim- j pies, Blackheads and all lulluination. Give* a 8oftj velvety sklu. * SHE STANDS TEST. o Eusapia Puzzled the Scientist in Italian City. ? K _____ S( tl She hn.s Never Been Luucatnl, but d p Conveiws in Several Ijauguuges t| While in a Trance. " t; Palladina, the well-known Neopo- Sl litan medium, who was rather a failC1 ure when she appeared before the s Physical Research societv in T-nnHnn a few years ago, has just subjected ? herself to a series of experiments v held under the auspices of the Uni- f versity of Naples, and participated 0 in by Profs. Bottazzl and Galeotti and other yell-known scientists. Eu- v sapia is an ignorant woman, and is N known to have received no education j whatever. Nevertheless, while in a j trance she is able to converse in sev- | eral modern languages, and writes p in each of them in a script that is , like copper plate. j At the University of Naples the t Erofessors deliberately set traps for i er, placing objects with which she t could bring about effects within t reach of her hand and fixing electric \ lights close by so as to throw instant , illumination upon them if she at- j tempted to make use of them. A dish > containing clay to receive possible i moldings or marks was placed at a , considerable distance from the med- i medium, and her hands were care- t fully controlled by two persons. < when she suddenly stretched out the i three middle fingers of one hand, ] and, rubbing the under part of her fingers on the table in front of her, ( said: "How hard it is! What is it?" i As there was nothing on the table < she was asked to what she referred, and she replied: i "It is hard clay. 1 wish it taken i away. I do not need it." < Wht n the professors came to ex- : amine the distant dish of clay it was i found to have the marks of three I fingers upon it, of which the move- < ments corresponded exactly to those which had been made ny the medium, on the table, and it appeared as t hough she were able in some way to Iransmif tho uor?coii<mnl .>f - v>>v. uvunabiuiiai \/X 1IV1 UW II hands to a distance. In one of the experiments the wrists of Eusapia were tied to two iron rings fixed in the floor; the cords that held her were knotted and sealed, and yet under '.hese conditions a bottle of water was carried about, and a seat and large human hands were seen to apper. Prof. Galeotti declares that, while he was holding Eusapia by the hands, he distinctly, saw a double figure in her place, with identical arms, which, however, were held in different positions. Prof. Bottazzi, the leader of the experiments, once touched the fingers of Eusapia, and an electric light, the tap of which had been fixed inside her cabinet, hut out of her reach, was lighted four or five times, and as many times extinguished. Prof. Bottazzi also had a large and apparently natural human hand laid upon his neck, his head, and his arm. Each time he was able to touch it, and, when on his arm, to see it by suddenly touching on the electric lights, when it was not dragged away but fadded out of sight and touch as he held it. In these and other similar experiments the scienfific men present are acrreod thatfriuiH wasnrnoHnollu i*v^ CATALOGl I^irge White Iron Bed Cflr, *"?" nra?,??,TU. 36 inches hit Hoslin Blanket, per pair .. ,.$I.AH $-' 'Shi Floor Oil Cloth, p.-r Iff LION FURN Cash or Credit. UB'*? **woornwn p/xr TTTWTJ7 Hall Ump $<1.98 L?UJ_i U MUl Welsh Neck I HART8VIL LB, The 14th scvsion will I Literary, Music, Art. Kxprcsslon am graduates of our leading colleges and phasized In every department. Health with electric lights, hot and cold hat naces. Itest Christian influences. Mil logue. I?oI>*. \V. Durrot t, CLI FFOR D 5 VNION, SOI Til A home School of high grade. Tt al normal course for those preparing Music. Only a limited number of pup ?iven to each. Healthful Mountain t'l Address. Rev. II < A Cataloj; o any of our customers for the ask ui jlumbng or hardware business, an 1 ^age catalogue which will be found ra >ricee on anything In the supply line. COLUMBIA SUPPJUYC ' IS WILT RESISTING COTTON. I DiiKn-sMimii Lcvor frying to Help I I lie Farmers Out. The farmers of Sumter and Orngeburg counties havo*boen laitheri greutly by cotton wilt, and Conressman Lever has been active in ^curing relief for His constituents irough the nietfiilm-of the Federal epartment olb'afci'iFhHftre. The deartment has lieefr'^tibserving this roul?le for about -thjwe years, with tie result that a wiir-cpsistant variey of cotton has l?een. tjged, and this t?eins to be the remedy for the evil. The llngood section of Sumter ounty has especially- suffered, and everal years ago Congressman Lever put a quantity of this wilt resistant eed to farmers in that community P-ith the most satisfactory results. Mr. Lever has recently received the allowing letter from the department n this subject: United States Department of Agriulture. Bureau of Plant Industry. Vashlngton, 1). C., August 12. 1!?07. ?"Hon A. F. Lever, Peak, S. ('.. >ear Mr. Lever: Since our letter ?>f t?ly the 23rd, in regurd to the outtrenk of the cotton disease at lla;ood, Stunter County, S. C., speclnena have been received from Mr. >1. S. Kirk, of that place, and 1 litul he trouble to be the cotton wilt. I >elieve you are already quite well icquainted with our work on this lisease. Mr. \V. A. Orton, of our aboratory of plant pathology has just eturned from a trip to the South, md reports that the disease resistant rarieties now being bred are showng tip very well, the percentage of eslstance being higher than ever. In 'act it is a rare exception for a plant o become diseased front wilt, or- . jept where the farmer has allowed die seed to become mixed, or has jlanted them in a field badly inflected with root-knot. We shall have more , >f this cotton to distribute next winter, and will arrange to supply your correspondents at that time. "We find it more and more necessary to urge upon the farmers the necessity for a rotation of crops in combination with the use of our resistant seed. A great many fields are effected by root-knot, which is in most cases propagated on the roots of the common cowpea. It is, there fore essentian on wilt-infected lands the use of the common cowpeas, such as speckled, black and unknown, be discontinued, and the iron pea or the velvet bean substituted. Hefore planting a resistant variety of cotton, the land should be put in oats, fol lowed by corn, or iron cowpeas lor at least two years. Yours truly. "A. F. Woods, "Acting Chief of li'iroau." possible. They all, however, exclude any supernatural or spiritual < x >lanation, and can only suggest thai Kusapia Palladino's manifestations are biological phenomena, dep ?ndent upon the organism of the ni >dium, who at will can double or increase the range of her psychic personality, and even her physiological personality. 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