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I, -Iff.. YOL. XXIX. BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY II, 1906. NO. 19. -r'V MINERS KILLED. Twenty-One Men Lost their Lives in a Mine. FEABFUL DISASTER jiiSns la the Cooper IMioe at CoalSale, W. Va. The ExpLsioa Waa Very Soddea and Its Rumbllnf Could be Heard (or Miles aad Miles Around. * A apodal to The Times from, B’ue- field, W. Va , says: Twenty one min an wore killed in ao explosloo of mine gas in the abaft of the Oooper >Mine oompany atOoaldale, W. Va., atnooo Thursday. Up to m'dn'gbt Thursday only one b.>dy had been recovered. Im mediately followlog the cxploslor, which waa heard for several miles, rescue parties set to work to explore the wrecked shaft. Ooaklale la a mining town situated In Meroer county on the line of the Norfolk: and Western railway said ts 15 miles west of Bluefield. But once before In the history of the Pocahon tas ooal Held baa there been such a fearful disaster as that In the Coal dal Coal c >mpany's shaft Taursday. The victims of that < ther disaster sleep in the c imetary s P cahontas. r Thursday at noon wh»io the mines were crowded with men there was a more in the depths of the mountain and through the miles of passages and air abaft of that immense mine the shock was felt. B f >re the detonations had died ou t , Bi k B ws Thomas Wil llama, who was a loi g ways from the explosion, staggereu wo h s feet, and feeling bis way to a - mine telephone, called to those on the outside that there had been a terrific txploelon of mine gsa and asked for help. Gathering about the entrance, has tening erowda urged by coal beads and anxious hearts hurried to p re pan tor the rescue of the missing ones and an exploration cf the wreck workings. At 4 o’clock one man was brought out. He was H. C. Conrad, and his body was llu r Jly torn to pieces. His efrthing was hanging in shreds. Up to a late hour Ttursdry night no other bodies bad teen i above red. There was ooosld rable tmt ke and gas in the entries and not withstand leg the fact that the big fans were in good order and were working wHb fuilj,—- capacity, the gawaud smoke were n^t being driven out very fast. The following, are the dead and their bodies are with the exception of Ooniad. still burird |>n the mine: i. W. Larne, W." Jiin v 8 u«, Larsz Aladar/Hungarian; Anthony Bruce, Polr; H C Obhradf Silas White, JobA P^^u-.son, Gus H*rr>s W. T. Sul^van, WWliam Price, Wd lism WardWalter uMlnn, Slpb Gray, Sterling Williams, Albert B.rnum, v Nathan Harrtstor, Willitm Curry, *«811aa Harris June Kelly, Lee Price. TORNADO SWEEPS NEED NOT FEAR. A GEORGIA CI1Y WITH DEATH AND r RUCTION. , '/*: ' Two Pe< pie Killed, Many Injand and a Great Teal of Property lestreytd. A to made of terriffls foroe passed over Albany, Ga^fet' 1.30 o’o’ock Wednesday afternoon, eomtng from a southwesterly direction and spreading ruin and desolation over portions of a drz.n blocks. Sevr.ral persons are dead, o’heis will die as a result of In Juries and many are more or less ser louslyimrt. Viewing the wreckage eft by the toonalo, It seems a .mira cle that scores were not kllltd out right the tribute claimed In tbeway it hum \n lives being astonish ingly small. The known dead ar«: Ben Jone, a negro machinist In the employ of the Virginia Oarollna- Chemleal company. Jake Johnson, a 9-year-old negro boy. Among those whose Injuries will it all probability prove fatal ah: Luta Gladden, Je«r Davis, Annie Davis and Jeaaie Woodall. The Hit la still Incoodplete owing tc the fact that much of the destrue tiou wrought waa well beyond the city Hmite. Reports from the torna do after it left Albany have uot been received. Hundreds of nrgroes in the city an homeless tonight and many have lost all'their heu Ahold directs. The In jured are being cared for and elf arte are being made to si cure shelter for. all. Thll'is difficult owing to the The South Must Furnish Cotton for the World. . ; ■ — ' v SO SAYS A N 1 XPERT. ie Mock Exploited! Assouan Dam Across (he River Nile Will Have . Little EKect la Increasing the Production of Cotton in v Egypt es In the city. Under direction of Mayor Bauson, relief will be secured and promptly furnished thus# in greatest distress. j. It (i d ffirolt to estimate the ‘'prop erty lose. The V.rglnia Oarolina- Chemloal oompany Is tbe principal sufferer, Us destroyed buildings and machinery having bem worth prob ably 160,000. It Is safe to say that the total lots will be found to <xooed 1159,000. Very little of the destroy ed property was protected by tornado Insurance. - The srulhern Bell Telephone oom pany is among the heaviest sufferers. Ite lines were blown down In several parts of the dty. Some little ap prehension Is felt for Pretoria, in the the bounty. south weneru part of The tornado came from that direction and hi the telegraph wires are down nothing can te beard fiom there. MUST BV KISP1CTXD A 8aobbtah ottijer cl the Army K> duoed in Rank , For req testing a sergeant of arMlery tobharge his seat at a theatre, F.m Beat it > 1 Taylor of the eoast ar tillery,is r die vd in rank 12 Lumbers. He wls tried by oouitnarttal Iasi week at New York sod the verdict was announced Wednesday. The of tense was oommitted at a theatre In Naw Lbudoar-Coan., where a sergeant of Taylor’s own ojmpany, who was In TheOca’d »le opeiation la owned and operated by tbe Obrper Brothers, who are also owners of tbe Mill Creek and MeDoweB Ooal and C >ke companies. -Tbe-Cealdale tlantti considered one of the bept operailons in tbe field Ed Cooper Is on tbe grout d supervising, Abe work of rescue; ^ Cannot Ham Corn Crop The rail loads of Kansas are uneb'e to furnish oaraAo movj ooe-ialf of the corn 'irop. Grain men, farmers and millsrs appeal In vain for trains In which to ship to market tbe 190,- 000,600 bushels of this cereal. Ad atony the Haek of tb* anm belt are. heajptM eotn waltipg to be shipped. At soA temporary cribs have been built tofctore this but In the gnat majority!of the plic.e it has been merely piled up on the ground, and uniform, v»cated a seat at tbe n q iest of L*iu’. Tay or. "It is hoped,” states the decision which is I'gnad by Brig. Gen. Grant, “that tbe sentence of the court will eave no douot in tbe mind of any one that tbe uniform cf a soldier Is mark of m nor which must be respect ed to tbe Uulted States. 1 ’ It also stated tuat a sentence mote severe than the one given is warrant ed. —1“. / . The theatre incident took place last Ojtcbrt. Sergt. Patrkk F. Buttler of the One. Hundrtd and Twenty-fif Ji company, dbast artillery, which was Taylor’s company, was seated in front of his superior iffimr at a . Leak Taylorwat not in unl- f^m: whom he knew but who Were not members of bis party. It was in or , „ der to make vacancy for one (f them •o™* °L th “ e u D l68 ,x > a * lD “ m ^^hathp told tbe sirgeant to move. mm 1A r AS) KttmKmla »» - 10, COO bushels. This corn has been hauled to ship ping points with the idea that It was to bo loaded Into oars which bad been ordered, bat in mast Instances the corn got there before the cars and Is sUll waiting for them, Storms might seriously damage this corn, which Is exposed to the element^, and the men who own It are keeping the wires hot with messages to the railroad asking that their orders for oars be filled. Char ice U Mr an Harder. A dispatch from Anderson to the State says Hebert Bird and Lm An derson, two yonrg negroes living In tbo-lower part of this county, have been lodged In Jkll on charge with the murder of.a negro weman at a hot ’•upper. It was alleged that the .ne groes were returning borne fronrigthe frolic, when they met a party alto re turning home. Tney fired two shots Into the ogowd, one of wtgeh struck negro *bm*h, and (t Sidled It Jures from which she-died a day or two af terwards. A preliminary hearing was given the negroes yesterday by Mag letrate McAlister and the evidence was each that accused were sent to the county Jail to await trial at the approaching term of the circuit court. A landslide. On account £oent heavy rains a . landslide occurred TTmnday on tbe Booth end Western railroad. In pro- , «m~6T ebLStrtidting near Ptoe Bi^.i S 1 .; If. 0., killing three men and fatally tojuiitf Vfo etben. The bodies of Mm dead men have been it covered. That the much exploited Aseouan dam across the Nilfi will have little or no effect In stimulating cotton pro duction In Ejypt, is has been claimed for It, ie the assertion of a gentleman who probably knows more about Egypt and E/vtian conditions than any man In the United States, i This gentleman Is Oope Whitehouae, who is now In Washington in conneo tion with what is known as the Lake Morris project, in which he ie inter ested, and which has attracted the at tentton of the governments of the United States, G.eat Britian and iypt- egyVtian cotton (irowing. “In 1894,” said Mr. Whltehonss, In dl&cu^stng the matter a day or twp ago, “American cotton growers were told that there was an immense area of abandoned land, admirably adopted to cot’QB ruitlvatlQT,Jylog between he cultivated section of the delta and Cardwell, of Houston, then oonsu general at Cairo made an elaborate report on tbe condition apd prospects of the country, as a whole. In treat-, ng of cotton, Mr. Cardwell said that little of that staple was prodnoed prior to the time w^en the trade of ports in the cotton-growing states was cut eff by tbe bke'eade during the civil war. Egypt*ans then began to bend their energies to supply; so far as lay In their power, some of the re sultant deficit. Oie dollar a pound was a great Incentive, and the cultiv ation of cotton In the Nile valley be cams general. In 1886 1887, the total cultivated area of Egypt waa astlma i»d by btm at 4 498,520 tores, with 826,114 acres of cotton in lower Egypt and less than—«N)00 aeree to the outb of Carlo. Oily 24*4 per cent of tbe population was engaged In cot ton oulture.iThe cotton crop wae then s )rt of bj-pnduct of tbe general agricultural operations, being grown or export after abundant provision bad been made for a food supply cf rloe. Indianoorn, barley, beans, wheat to theivalue of 813,000,000, etc. Sag ar cane land in upper Egypt was worth 150 an acre. - r-- STIMULUS OF BRITISH INFLUENCE. ’ The Egyptian cotton was used In. the United States in the manufacture of cotton velvets or plushes, prlncl pally. It ould never compete with AmeTloao sea Island cotton at 30 or 35 oents for fine threads, nor with tbe average quality of Texan growth, on aeeouot of tbe price. The quantity was also obviously limited to the neighborhood of a ml lion acres, so ieng as there was no government In terferenoe with tbe food supply. But when theTTrltlsh took poeeeaslon of i Jie ministry of public works and of finance, In 1883-1884, the cotton crop became the end and aim of all their administrative energies. They forced tbe farmers to abandon rice so that the water might be used for cotton, and by practically abolishing the Im portation of fresh seed and the substi tution of a nativd aeed, known as the quantity was inereae could be any Increase In cotton cult! vation it was nrcessary to atore fioo^ water, and the amount proposed t< be stored by Mr. Whltehou«e was 3/ 000.000,000 oublo vardi. Tnis could nave been obtained from tbe Bit) an valley, with a depth of 220 feet and a surface area of 250 square miles, by allowing tbe Nile to raise the level If the proposed lake to that of the In undation in the adjacent valley, and then cloeiDg the slu’ce gates, to be opened In March. As the Nile ris?8 about 20 feet, it was, and is, Mr. Whltehouse’s opinion that this differ ence would have been more than suf- ffalent. NO DANGER TO AMERICAN COTTON. “I take much Interest Id this ques tion,’’ wrote Mr. Cardwell in bis re port. “I desire to see tbe .-scholarly -florts and tbe persistent researches of one of my countrymen succeed; to see A mei lean mind do good as ac un terbalanoe to barm dene by European armies But years have elapsed and the swamps and sand strewn regions of the delta remain as they were when the Texas man was consul general at Cairo and for 1,700 years before that, although the scorpoln infested and hyena haunted depths of the “regi m of Gehenna” have been traverstd, measured and explored by arc ire of experts employed by the Egyptlin government, or representing scientific societies of Europe and the Unit'd States. “While the suceeesful carrying of tbe pn j et wi uld obvlnus’y have a wounderfully stimulating t ff±ct on cotton growing In E rypt/’- sald - Mr Whitehouse in discus Jng this pbaa- of the ease, “tbe cotton growers of the south need not fear that a single acre will be added to Egypt’s cotton area through mvtfihrts for at least five years. In 1891 and again In 1894, It seemed certain that the work would be undertaken at once. In 1898 a contract was made for a reservoir oam MADE SLAVES. Ugly Traffic in Chinese Laborers For South Africa. WILL WORK IN MINES Herded Like Cattl*. Tbi Contractors^ Furnish Them to the Mine Workers •nd They Belong To Their Em* 1 pioyies, Body and Soul. Sent to Mines. . A letter from Washington to The Charleston 1’oat says an Interesting story has just reached this country o mrernlng the traffic In Chinese collies in tbe mines of the Transvaal The methods of collecting, separating ai d shipping the oooltee is fullv de scribed and the whole treatment tf them resembles tbe selection of bat tle for the great slsughter houses more than of human beings: Durlug tne last year the “Industry,” as It is called grew to large proportions. Wblte labor, sihoe tbe oiose of tbe Scuth Afr cm war baa been found In aumulent lor the purposes of mining go:d In the Transvaal, and conse qu mtly ft has been neocessaYy to ex port thousands of c idles to that place. Tbe prlmiry work of collicting the coolies is begun by missionary ck c an, at tbe expense of the edntraotors. The c opted ooolles are first marched to toe nearest railroad stationjmd for warded to the shlp jig pointy Being ftm cstaraetf awf even so vran tak^Aftom theAralaa they are.placed 0 f ed a representative of the m barracks of diffirenfc six*, usually sti Informed a representative United States as Hon. E C. Penfield, appointed by President Cleveland, ventured the i rediction that 1 «00, 000 ices would be added before 1900 with an Increase In the agricultural output of at least 20 per cent. THE DAM NOT A SUUfcRBS “Brtth s expectations have proven to be baseiess. Tbe dam Itself is a well a mile and a quarter In length. Tbe English engineers who designed It as a private speculation for an E g- llsh oompany declared that it wuu d offer no obit ruction to the high Nile, but that the flood would pass as freely through tbe Sluiceways as a river tiueugb the piers of a bridge. Oh August 8, last, when the reservoir should have been empty, the Nile had headtd up over 30 feet and was tear ing through 140 passages, about 40 to 60 feet Id length, and 7 t'* 21 in width, at a rste of more than 50 miles an hour. Deep crevices had developed on tbe downstream side, and it was neoeesary to construct buttresses in groat haste. It will take at least two* years to complete these and other re- pairs. ‘The cotton crop has hern Incrcxs- ed by the transfer of sugar cane land cotton cultivation,” continued Mr. Wbltebouse, “but the official reports show that the e dps before 1898, whenfendexvor to sec rtain whether or this contract for the dam was signed, have actually exceeded those raised since its completion. There has been a loud outcry to the effect that the large enough, however to a eimmo date from three to fourhhndrod Chi nese. Each is then stripped and Examined by the doctors, Including te,ts for eyesight and hearing. Those accepted pass Into a large tank of warm water and are there scrubbed with soap bv other coolies. They are then viccinatid, r photographed and t ielr identification cards written up on. A number IS bung about their necks, and they are ushered again into another compound until tbe next transpjrt satis. It is said that they are here furnished with a c py t f the contract they are to sign both in claimed that the coolies are told what the contract means, where they are golrg the wages they are to reoeive, etc., but thii Is seriousty doubted. Few coolies have enorgb intellect to understand a contract even should it be read to them. Opium and Chi nese 1’qior are now denied him, though ue may ha 'e all the rloe and Halt afifl,i ed god the quality lowered to a . at which it oould be used In the Eug Uah mills. At a later period, a roduc > — . earby were a party of friend jj on wu | n Me area allotted te the cultivator at any such prices. whole toheme was a gigantic swindle;< that a group of English speculators, of whom Sir Earnest Cassel was ih* principal, quietly acqured over 1 000 000 aerea, At priose ranging from the government registration fee of 1) cents p»r acre up to 810 and 820; and then agreed to build the dam in order to raise prices and enable them to un load the land on the French and E g- llan. public during tiie four years tbe construction work was in progress. Even Lord Oromer appears to have become alarmed at tbe impending crash. The price of the lands was near’y S500 an acre, and when the speculators have unloaded the ground could not be remunerative Hls words to the under i ffioer, accord ing to the prlnti d verdict of the court martial, were; “Strgent, you had better get vour ticket changed and gtt your seat somewhere In the rear,’ or words to that«fleet.” Lieut. Taylor pleaded not gulltjr to the charge of conduct to the pnj i dice of good order and military disci pllne, saying that he had asked the sergeant to mowe but he spoke as one might to another incL.did not Intent to convey to Sergt. Butler the idea that he was being ordered to move. Negro Drowned. A dispatch from E1ge.fi.id says middle sgtd negro min of Colliers, nsmid Ned Thomas, was drownec Wednesday night in Log crock, four miles west of that town. He undr r the li fiuenoe of whiskey his mule was drowned with him. daughter walked serose a bridge got safely over. He was an Indus tiious fellow and had just borrowed sum cf money from the Bank of Edge- field, which money be tsjyppoeed to hive had upon hls person. sugar cane. Egyptian sugar, lo beau- titul yellow crystals, was sent to France to be used with beet sugars,' being conveyed In French steamers, while the cotton went in British ves sels to Eogllsh and Scotch mills. GREAT PLAN FOR IRRIGATION. It was in 1887 that Mr. Oardwell toe k cognizance of Mr. Wbltehouse’s work. In bis report, he said that the curious historical and scientific researches of a citizen Oi the United States had unfolded a huge plan of Ir rigation, known to tbe ancients, and tbe present Egyptian government, after at first turning a deaf ear to his propositions, seems at this time disposed to profft by this man's phil- sophy.” But he added a warning benefits end Killed bj Rocket. A dispatch from Union says Clar acoe Rochester fired a sky rocket ac* etdentaily at hls friend, Sweet Those* es, killing him Instantly. Both are white, and tbe affair ooonred at £t The sky mnknt waa nnusstty large and pierced Thpm as’ breast like in arrow, producing death in a tew moments. . that benefits would not be realised “unless foreign power again establish ed decaf.” Under the bead~“A Scheme,” be then described Mr. Whltebouse’s Lake Morris projected. In tbe early part of 1882 M? Whitehouse visited Egypt and went into the desert, where be found a val ley corresponding In shape, depth and position to that which he had found depicted on a map copied nearly 500 yean before from a more ancient map drawn more than 1 200 yean before tbst time. It wee by the nee of this valley, with a canal about 8 miles in length leading off from the flooded area of the Nile about 70 mike up ■treem from Cairo that it waa expect ed to double the available supply of water during the period known as low Nile. _ “Although the greet African river looms tonrandliugw-on the map, -fir more than throe months every year it itfc discharge any water into the WILL NOT EFFECT PRICE. “But to return to the cotton ques tion,” said Mr. Whitehouse inoonolu slon, “the American growers have nothing to fear. Tbe Egyptian crop of this year Is estimated to bs no larg er than that of 1897 8 or about 1 260,- 000 bales.” A resolution oaHIng on tbe state de partment for all the papers relating to Mr. Whltebouse’s operations In Egygt has been Introduced by Sena tor Lcrtge and adopted, and the data Is now in course of preparation at tbe department. Dost Hls Litre In attempting to avoid a b'c/cllst, Mathew Summers, a chauffeur, los’ hls own life at Harrison, N J. Sum men vfos employed bv tbe Worthing trm Pump Works, and was running hls automobile Into Harrison after taking the manager of the oompany to Orange, when James Brown, on a olcjele, turned In front of him. The chauffeur, swerved hls mtohlnA Into curbing with suer force that be was hurled over the hood of tbe automo bile against a tree. Brown waa thrown from hit wheel and liadly hurt. _ _ JLttKL .. The annual statement of the coro ner of Charleston County shows that hscffiMated In 66 eases during the pest year, there -having been this aomber cf violent deaths, which d es not Include the many sudden deaths from natural oabssa There were 24 homloldds end two suieidee, both of Of the deaths, 30 were Eight of tbe number were ktUed la tbe railroad yards. new Election law. ABOUT USING MONEY AND L(Q UOR TO SECURE VOTES. Will Be Tsp'dally Important This Tmt as All f fflc*rs irs to be>lec .ed. At the last session of the G neral Assembly an Act was passed maklrg •rtain offenses in primary eleotiens misdemeanors and prescribing a form if p 1 edge to betaken and filed by svery candidate before offering for election. Tbe Aot has been in effwt since last Marob, but was of no spec al Interest last year, as no primary elec tion was held. But In the election this summer for tbe State and some of the county effloes all cindldates *111 have to abide by the provisions of the Aot. Among other requirements every oandldite, immediately after -the election, must file an Item’zed state ment under tbe election. In at least one c unty tbe filing of such a state ment has been required before, but only aoo-rdlng to a rule of the county executive committee, but it was in oorporated into the State law at the laat session of the Legislature. The provisions of the Aot will be of Interest not only to prospective candi dates, but to tbe people generelly, and is given In full as follows: . ALIVE. Distinguished Washington Fhy sician Discusses the Horror. SOMETIMES HAPPENS. Many P epic Insist ee Past Mortem Set* fry to Satlsly Themselves That Their Relatives end Prieadn A-e Dead, lastancrs Are R called by Doctors. -f- An Act making certain offences In- (8^ Itself, In order to HSBCRfi primary elections misdemeanors and proscribing penalties therefor. Section I—Bi it enacted bv the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, at or before every political primary eke Ion held by anv political party, organisation or asso ciation, for tbs purpose of choosing candidates for office, or the election Tbe Washington Post says It not Infrequently happens that persons who have been seriously ill an thought by friends and attendants to have breath ed their last whan then Is still life in tbe body. In fact, oases are on record of premature burial, and this particu larly so in times of war and psstileDoe. So groat is the horror of snob a pro bability among some people that they have insisted upon poet mortem sur gery being performed upon them after their death, something that would be till dire calamity of being buried alive. Phare is one instanoe on record in this city where a woman, a member of a prominent family, who at tbe Hem of her last illness exacted a promise from her family that when she wee pro* nouncNi dead her heart should be taken from her body. This operation was made by her family phytic an, one able Pi the .befit known among |bf gMjUfc, u ov titinners of former yean. « State, any person shall, by.thrsats oi any other form of intimidation, or by the payment, delivery or promise of money, or other article of value, pro cure or offer, promise or endeavor to procure another to vote for or against any particular candidate 11 aun elec tion, or who shall, tor sucu oooaidsra- tion, offjr'to so vote, shall be guilty of a mlidemoanor, ^ . , . .. Section 2—Every candidate offering V* UMem ’ .“ d There are many residents of Wash ington to lay who hear well in a lad the circu ■»■»-**>** ct a oertilii gftptl#- mao, a pbysjoian himself, and at one time a surgeon in tbe Confederate, army, who, when hls wife died, ob jected for several day* to her inter ment Thera was not sufficient evi dence of death to prove to him hfewtotpfcoh Is capable of holding the day before shipping, tbe cool o ire taken in lots of ten to the tffice of the (Jiiineee protector for a final ex aminitlOQ. Here they are not only given another severe .physical test, but are asked many questions In the not t ha beat he r n unde n lands fully where he it going and*what he la expected to do after getting there. In a large hall stand or r<i lat soon two hundred ooolles in rows along the wall. Their only clothing is a piece of string and a paper tag. If passed up as being all rlgat. they are given another Wftgfa ipiT nlSr^*^" given clean clothes, shoes, belts, socks, straw bate, etc.,, and reappear In dark blue uniforms. The paper or temporary teg which has heretofore been hanging around the ooolles nook is now exchanged for a permanent aid one with a number on It. He has no name, hereafter a number. This lead tag becomes as muor a part of b m as bl» fioger or any other sec Mon of his gntqmy. —r. ^ He Is now given S38 CM xloan) two months pay, and 18 oonus, and asked again if he prefers lo return home or retain tbe silver. The answer Is In variably in favor of tbe silver. Hav log decided to retain the money in ex change for a tag with a number ^on It he pushes It into a tin pan, which ater serve him for hls rloe bowl, hls wash pan, and for many other use to which be may wtah to put It. At this point the cjoly belongs to the con tractor soul and body. He is now placed In a kind of Jail, and hero he bids farewell to bis family and erodi itors. He receives hls kit bag con tainlug clothing, a blanket, a tin oup and a bamboo pillow, and la now ita dy to take bis place in the gold mines of the Transvaal. Tie first shipment of ctollea was ■udajtn July, 1904, and the total number of shipments from all ports to the preeent time is twenty nine. The total number of coollm shipped from all parti of China la 49,000. The deaths have been comparatively tew Contractors are making many thou lands cf d illars annually out of this slave traffic, and as will be seen from tbe numerous physical tests to which the ooolles are put, they endeavor to transport only what are onsldered good risks. On the others they would undoubtedly lose money fir election, under the provisions of Section 1, tiall make the following pledge and file the same with the clerk of Court of Common Pleas for the county in which he Is a candi date, unless he should be a cuidldate to more than one oountv, In which oass hs ahail file-with the flecrotary- of State, before be ahail enter upon hls campaign, to-wit: I, the undersigned .of tbe ooanty of and State of South Carolina, candidate for the office of.. hereby pledge that 1 will not give nor spand money, or use intoxicating liquors for tne purpose of obtaining or Milaenclng.votes, and that I shall, at the conclusion of tbe campaign and oeforo the primary election, render to the Clerk of Court (or Secretary of State, as hereinbefore provided,) under oath, an Item.zed statement of all moneys spent or provided by me during the campaign fur campaign purposes up to that time, and I further pledge that I will, immediately after the pil mary election or elections that I am a candidate In, render an ItemisNl state ment, under oath, showing all farther moneys spent or provided by me in said election. Provided, that a failure to comply with this pro vision render aicb election null and void, in j so far as the candidate who fails to file the statement herein required, but shall not iff ;ct the validity of the election of aav candidate complying with this section. And provid d fur ther, that such itemized statement and pledge shall be open to public In spection at all times. Section 3—That any violation ol any of the provisions of this Act shall be a misdemeanor, and any upon ooevietioa thereof, shall not leas than 1100 nor more than 1500, or be imprisoned at hard laber for not than one m n nth nor more than six months, or both fine and imprison medt, in the d.ssretion of tbe Court. Approved tbe 6tii day of March, A. D. 1906. suing a kind if try u Defending his mother against ter quarrelsome husband Joseph Pollock aged 22 years, of 138 West Cumber land street, Philadelphia, stiuok hls father In tbe face Monday a blow wb c i resulted In hls death. Tbs son has been arrested, charged with mar a witness. Another son, who is A, was absent from borne conducting Christinas vptfrH < T i> y t k that she was only In a trance, In whisk ha was sustained by others, were se strong that only after several days and when there oculd be ao longer doubt of her death, dleoompoMtkm having brooms muoh advi he consent to her bur ink p jousting these nwA timlDtr one day during the tiding physician mentioned a el ream* stance that earns immediately under hi* observation. “When I was par- post gradusts stody fong ago,” be remarked “and nearing the and of my won in the contagious disease hospital in New Yjrk, a call was mads upon cay to attend a little girl who rlounly ill from dlptbsria, 1' patient in tbe attic of a oouse on the East Bide of aot more than a block distant tbe hospital. “If you have ever soon that tio p oiure in which yon notion doctor sadly gating upon an am child lying upon pillows fixed open two chairs, sod th« attitude of the lorrow-stricken parents,” bs oowtlna- * you may get some Idea of the >oene presented to me whan I entered a room. Toe abeenoe of the doctor the only thing that prevented the painting from reproduction as a liv ing picture. “Tbs anther was robbing, with her bead bowed over a table And the fath er was in a standing potitioa abeo- lately ossei witn sorrow, tm chua vas lying on pillows stretched upon .wo chairs. ‘Don’t touch bar, doctor,’ the father said to me. ‘Sbe is dead And in heaven now, and eo I thought myself,” said the doctor, “out upon careful examination, I found the ttint- est Indications without any delay I obe windpipe tbo latest surgteal itrament invented for such < In a few seconds plainly tbe child breathing. Later on, hav ing called for a hospital ambnlanee, 1 wrapped the child in a blanket and took her in my arms to the proper ward. ’ ‘To sum It all up, the little one re covered, and when her parent same to S3e her they found her dose upon complete recovery. 1 had dlffieulty In escaping their embraces when knew for an sbrotate truth that still bad their baby. ‘‘ When I first mw that child,” ha said In onoluston, “I felt sbe was dead as I knew I myself alive.” Otve Them a Cftaaee. ’ ^ ” Do not try to make the child think as you do “Going at him with pla cers,—nipping him there aad pinching him here, ” is a deplorable thh* ter a teacher or a pamnt to dx Btthar thank tha Lord that be has a mind of his own and that he uses it. Do your part by furthering its development in such a way that its inherent ori ginality win remain Intact for a young man to think too highly ‘ himself than too mianly; to i powere too Terrible.Traced/. ^ ^ At Caledonia, Minn., Matthew Styler, infatuated with Pearl Whea ion, daughter of S. N. Wheaton, a wealthy farmer, broke Into the Whea ton home shot and killed the-^glrl and wounded bar sister Ruth her moth er and himself. Styler Is a dental studens at the University of M ono rota. Psarl Wheaton had refused to marry ulm. Unable to secure en trance through thk doer, Styer broke tbrougb a window and was met by Ruth Wheaton, who, armed with revolver attempted to protect the family. Styer wrestled the revolver from her and shot her twice through the breast and then turned on Mis. Wheaton, shooting her In the throat and anna He ran upstairs to Pearl’s room. Breaking in the door he shot her through tbe heart and than shot himself. . When neighbors rushed in Styer was found with hls head oo tbe girl’s breast She was dead and he was barely living. The only other inhufteof thehoeae, a child, escaped by leaping tbrougb tbe window Slyer broka Mr. Wheaton was away from home at the time. •. Two Job*. I hearers did, look aad me who James B. MeLiughlin is the only the ones and yon will find that member of the District of Columbia they an not them who r ' bar with two widely different and die ^ lom,** but t>»*m who base 1 ttnet professIons. He is an excellent rheiumlim a«mi thte i lawyer and an. hidtincd mlnieUr of the Methodist Epieopal Church and 1 ^tgKty tatm. God i regularly prsaobm to Washington j powuttodolt them SDOUgh, I to his congregation. If you i captions to Wls vtiw, as maa hearers did, '