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CABIN. r ft Cards Ltd to Battle at Sea. aUto Which Pat Loser In HospHnl wnd Whuior In Iron*—Muj- Hows Ahonrd Ship. The fistic battle that took place on boai^d the Kaiser in Augusta Victor ia, of the Hamburg-American line, mi her last eastward voyage and ' which resulted in the complete dis ablement of one of the participants the day before the liner reached Plymouth, Friday morning. August 16. was graphically described m a letter which was received in Brook lyn from Dr. C. F. Bandel, the oste opathic physician and president of the New York State Osteopathic so ciety, Dr. and Mrs. Bandel left on annual tour abroad. According to the story told by Dr. Bandel. which corroborates the cabled details of the affair here on August 16, a fight started in the smoking room of the Kaiwrin Augusta a day or two after the vesselleft Sandy Hook behind bar. Notwithstanding all the pre cautions of the Hamburg-Amencan fine officials at this end to prevent card sharps from boarding the liner at Hoboken, a clique of men got aboard, who, it is said, were prepar ed to fleece such of the male passeng ers as^they could get into a crooked game. The clique had a woman ac complice, 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 dura out of New York. r, On the afternoon of Thursday, August 16, as I was sitting in my deck chair," writes Dr. Bandel, ‘M was startled by seeing two men rush out of the smoking room in a state of great excitement. My chair ad joined the smoking room entrance. I had been able to hear a pretty "I propose t< 000 which I- ha’ said, “and I am going to spend myself and <on people I know need it." No account is kept of his char ities. Rt) personally investigates every c&se that comes to his notice. That he is distributing tens of thous ands of dollars about the state is cer tain. The old man takes special delight in the novel method he has hit upon of getting rid of his money. “I have given little,” says Mr. Slimmer, when asked the aigaificanoe of about the state. ^What does it mat ter to a man who has 40 loaves, he mai action is mosi pressing as re- among me to aU carr i erB gerring routes strong argumentthat hadbeea go- g-snfe thrserrrrporatioTurwtrtctrr be- ir Tnarketf dtWfg&Se m criminality -»n- ing on for some time, but 1 was not prepared for what happened. “A* the two men rushed out deck one of them, a Mr. Clarke, Manhattan, handed a Mr. Cassidy, also of Manhattan, a solar plexus blow that took all of the fight out of, the man with the French name. The blow actually iarred the Kaiserin. Of course, we all jumped to our feet. The two men were separated, but they rowed that thev would 'get jouth where we were evening. ‘Tr?. hours later at 6 o’clock, the two fellows went at it again. They fought all oyer the deck. It seemed that Clarke charged's Cassidy with cheating him at cards. There were many rounds of drinks following the encounter in the afternoon, and whan the two met at 6 ojglock 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. *T mw Cassidy pounded practical ly to a jelly and mw him carried out of the emoking room. He was in a bad way when ha was landed at Ply mouth. Clarke, 1 understood, was piaoed in irons by orders of the cap tain. But naturally the ship’s offl- c 'rs wanted to keep things as quiet j ty. as they could, and therefore done. mance of bling clique excitement wa.- continuous perfor- fights in which the gam- . ic figured during the voy age kept the passengers agog with the details of the battles. Tne offi- of the Kaiserin deserve the praiae for the systematic and t manner in which they went breaking out in,the smoking room. After the Kaiserin landed her Ply mouth passengers the gambling cli que subsided somewhat, and at Cher bourg the last of them left the ship. The captain was very much vexed JkftLJ^Sjaild-sharps should have crept by him at Hoboken, for I un derstand the steamship company makes special efforts to keep those follows off their ships." PRBDICT8 AMKKiCA'H IKMttl But Won n lilttle Off on the 4l»te of Lud. , ^4 ' J* ' “This country will be entirely de- •»W_ .. * stroyed on account of its wickedness on the last day of this month,'* said Samuel Wtllhite, a IlapUst preacher from Arkansas, who arrived, from Europe at New York recently. Wlllhite was accompanied by his wife, who is about thirty-five years old, and-two children, the elder nine years and the younger six months. The preacher said that he and hi^ family were compelled to flee from Arkansas because he prophesied-that America would be destroyed. "On Juiy 22,” said Willhite, “1 had a vision in which I was told that 4o forty days we should all be anni hilated for our wickedness. *T packed up m*y belongings, and with my wife and children we has tened for New York and sailed fpr England on August 3. “We arrived in London eight-days later, and I set to work- preaching in the street. I was arrested twice and Ily ordered deported.” BOUEdSB hJlPLODE8. GIVING AWAY MILLIONS. Iowa Phtlaathroplat Hits Upon Novel ; . ? J ‘ Scheme to Spend Fortune. Abraham Slimmer, millionaire and the most noted philanthropist in Io wa, is distributing his millions among the poor and needy of the state in which he amassed pis wealth. Hia residence is a mansion in Webster City. He declares that after he has relieved suffering in all parts of Io wa, he may continue his tour other states. into to spend the |6,000,i ve before I die,’? he actually eat but half a loaf. He gives way two or three. Tell me what cred it is he to have for giving? A dollar given by a man Wfho has but that one dollar is more than a Rockefeller million. ”1 give because I love td give. T have enough left to eat, enough to wear, and enough to pay my travel ing expenses. What more do I want? It is a relief to be relieved from a weight of gold that imposes a conse quent care. I see others benefltted while I am not deprived of what I need.” liryan SouimIm Warning. In commenting on President Roose velt’s speech at Province town last week Bryan says Roosevelt has at last disclosed his scheme for central ization, at which he has hinted in former speeches. In the speech re ferred to by Bryan, Roosevelt pro poses the national incorporation of railroads and other corporations en gaged in interstate commerce^ •"Here is the secret." says Bryan. "The States are annoying the cor porations and the corporations de mand federal protection from State legislation. The president thinks that action ‘is most pressing as re cause they are common carriers, ex ercise a quasi-public function.’ The States have been enacting 2-centfare laws and laws reducing freight rates and the railroad managers demand that they shall be relieved from fur ther fear of such legislation. The E resident’s Hamiltonian ideas make intan easy victim and he yields to \he 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 remov al of authority to Washington." Mr. Bryan goes on to say that the Democrats can be depended upon to oppose with all their might this move ment toward centralization. If any Democrat wavers his constituents should look into his business rela-' tions and see whether he is under ob ligations to the railroads. A Hamil tonian 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 cher ish any such delusion. Even the Hamiltonian Republican ought to hesitate to trust congress with more power white the UiilteffTS senators are elected by legislatures. tthe t "It is fortunate that the people have had an object lesson so recent- |4ahoma with 333, District of The federal law stopped rebates and passes, but the railroads make Nttte friutfuUjueattonmg ta he. .mare-.money than they did- before. FOUR KILLER IN OUTO. A Trolley Cor- Hits the Machine 'at -5*5 a Cromilng. ~ An automobile run hy Dr. George Waldron, of Rochester N. Y., was ■truck by a Rochester and Eastern trolley oar at a crossing near Canan daigua Wednesday afternoon and 4 persons, Dr. Waldron, Mrs. Willlaim Scandling and Mra. Jane Hobbs, of Hopewell, and Mrs. Katherine Farns- w»rth, of Rochester, were iniQMIly killed. Dr. Waldron went to Hopewell that momraTng with his daughter to visit at the home of William Scandling, and had taken the three women, all of whom were more than 66 years of age, for -an automobile ride. . Witnesses of tbe accident say that as the machine approached the trol ley tracks it was seen by the motor- inan.\ According to them the motor- man made a signal and Dr. Waldron ■lowed up, but started on again. The todies were frightfully crushed. i-Yfwiim imtf mme. The Bureau of the Census has re cently published the results of an in vestigation by Dr. Roland P. Falk- ner of prisoners and juvenile delin J uents in institutions. Some of the acts and-condustonk of the report are of great interest and signifi cance. In a recent editorial The Co lumbia State compiled from this re port the figures we present below Not including juvenile delinquents in special institutions for that class and exclusive of persons imprisonet for the nonpayment of fines, 81,772 sane persons at least five years o: age were serving sentences in eivi prisons in the estimated population on June 30, 1904,1,004 were priso ners. On June 1, 1890, the tota number of prisoners was only 66.80J but the number in each million the population was 1,067. The investigator warns us, how ever, not to acceijt 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 Air SALARIES GRADED. Is Mm T$ till Ru ral Man CarrUr. And All of Them Ate Fold Accord- ' lag to the Leagttu of the Roetee the CourtmsrtUl, which has born trying this eighteen persons accused of plotting against Emperor Nicholas and the Russian Government last May. has fouad three of them, Nikl- tenko, Bmisky, alias “Pvrktne," and Naumoff, guilty of organising a plot and sentenced them to death by hang- in*. . There seems to be a general min* understanding among the postal ess- ployes as to the effect of the new sal ary schedule for rural carriers, which was adopted July 1. In this State there are several routes of less than the stardard length—24 bailee or up wards—and the carriers thereon have In some Instances gotten the lmpress- sion that they would be entitled to the full raise—from $720 per annum 00rr-^nade hy the new schedule. In order to settle all questions on the point, Congressman Lever early this month- wrote to the ifaperlnten- dent of rural-delivery, In Washing ton, requesting a construction of the law.-'The reply goes into the -matter at some length. It is hs follows: Hon. A. F. Lever, Peak, S. C. \ Dear Sir: The receipt is acknowl edged of your letter qf the 6th in stant, addressed to the superlnten dent-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 1st, 1007, were paid the maxi mum salary, which under the Jaw could be allowed to rural carriers $720 per annum, although serving routes of less than the standard length on account of having been tq the pervIce.June the 30th, l#04> when the maximum salary was increased the. length of tbe standard route raised from 20 to 40 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 authorised by con gress to - carriers serving routes of 24 or more miles, and a proportionate among foreign-born whites. The increase among the negroes is partic ularly noticeable in the North Cen tral States, where it was nearly fifty per cent. Following is the re markable conclusions drawn from the figures: The foreign-born whites, unlike the colored, appear to be of decreas ing importance among prisoners. In 1890 the immigrant class formet 28.3 per cent, of all white prisoners of known nativity, but by 1904 this percentage had decreased to 23.7 Tbe native whites, on the other hand, show and increased propor tion, forming 76.3 per total number of white prisoners in 1904 and only 71.8 per cent, in 1890 This change, moreover, is not con fined to any one section of the coun try but is common to all. Even the North Atlantic States, which have absorbed most of the late immigra tion, show a larger, percentage o: native prisoners and a 'smaller per centage of foreign than they did in 1890, . r_ •The number of prisonera in each million of population varies very widely in the different States. In 1904 Nevada reported 5,386; Caltfor- 11 ilia 5,234; Massachusetts, 4,823: New Jersey, 4,199 ; and Connecticut, 4, 143. At the other extreme aje Ok- >f Colum bra with 419, Arkansas with 652, Alabama with 567, Georgia with 577 The States, on the 6 the r tiaM ; gtve the people a reduction in rates and those who are receiving the benefit of these reductions will be slow to surrender the gained.; "It is doubtful whether the Re- publican congressmen from the West will dare to support the president’s L - " - • ■ jg* trying to keep trouble from proposition, but if anr attempt Outright and One **—^ : .w . . j mij nun, Are dead and afourth the result Of a saw-mill a lumber camp In on the Hsyett t mile* north of The body of the made to put such a measure through congress the Democrats will stand a good chance of retiring every West ern Republican who votes for it." Tillman un Roosevelt. > Senator Tillman was interviewed recently at Clarksburg, Ohio. He talked freely on the-matter of Re* publican Presidential timber. Sena tor Tillman said: "I do not believe that the fact that President Roose velt 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 prospects 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 Tie will be much stronger before the people. Really, however, I think that the President is after the nomination himself and this present maneuver ing is for the purpose of getting the situation so tied up that a deadlock will result at the Republican nation al convention and that the President hopes and expects that it wiJI stam pede to him. nominate him by accla mation and hand the nomination to him on a silver platter with the as surance 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 this, for I never called on him you know, but this is what I think." “Whonp do I think the Republicans will nominate for the Presidency?" "Well, Gov. Hughes will surely get the New York delegation to the con vention. He seenui to have made himself popular in his State, and his chances of securing the nomination seem to be better than those of any other man now mentioned. With such a State as New York back of him, be will be a power in tbe convention from the start. Senator Tillman declined to ex- the Democratic ness, 28,339 for vagrancy, and 17,- 264 for disorderly conduct! In ot- one-half of the .total number of prisoners com mitted during the year were sen tenced for some of these three close ly allied offenses. No less than 25,- 098 prisoners, 16.8 per cent, for lar ceny; 10,877, or 7.3 per cent., for assaults: and 7,161 or 4.8 per cent., for burglary. Of the remaining of- fenser,-homicide showed the largest number—2.444 or 1.6 per cent of th£ total. . , ......... „ In discussing the relative ~propqr tion of criminal among the wnite 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 1J56 were Mongolians and 714 Indians. In other words 16.4 per cent, of the total nnmber of prision- ers committed during the year were colored. Of the general population in 1900, the colored formed only 12.1 per cent. Since it can not be pre sumed that the proportion of color ed in the population increased ma terially between 1900 and 1904, it is evident that the colored contribu ted to the prison class in excess of their representation in the general population. This condition is not cohfined to any one section of the country, for the figures show that it obtained in every State andTerri- tory except North Dakota and Ari zona,' where the colored population composed chiefly of Indians. is further than io Democrat 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 of fenses. 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 knojvn age, it states 60,2 per cent were between the ages of 20 and 40 years. The negro pris onera, however were very much younger then the white, for of the 71.1 per cent, were under 30 years of age as contrasted with 39.9 per cent, of the whites. Whether these figures point to an earlier develop ment of criminally in the negro race or rather indicate, that among a* into maturity at the ^Bgturitju DOEBN PLOTTERS CONVICTED. > to be Haag Four othms were found guilty of organising s plot to overthrow the existing form of government. Three of thdie were sentenced to eight years imprisonment and one to four years penal aenritude. Five of the prisoners were con victed of having “Supported a con spiracy,” and were condemned. to banishment and the loss of civil rights, while six persona, Including M. Foedossieff, a lawyer and his wife were acquitted. ment of the new schedule is the suit of careful deliberation by perts, and is undoubtedly the most equitable adjustment possible, based upon the Intent of con|freM8"lk shown by the records, nameiyr the allow ance of an adequate compensation foi servee performed, as recommended by the department. Under the recent adjustment of tne 37j731 routes in operation, on June 30, 1907, the carriers on 23,692 routes are receiving $900 per annum on 7,816 routes, $864 per annum: on 4,076 routes/-$810 per annum, and on 1,284 routha, $720 per annum leaving—the- carriers on but 1,000 routes below Abe grade of $720 per annum. ^ The idea of the department has been to make the readjustment con form 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 com pensation than those serylng routes of lees 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* arp sary. ^ Readjustment on a bl^ls that would give' all carriers, who up tc July 1, 1907, received $720, a salary of $900 per annum, or a bonus foi having been in the service prior to W-ga-theraMe^ i m mi Commissioner Mcll- henny Is anxious for Southern men to enter the sendee of the govern ment mail brandies. He has just returned to Washington from the South, where he had been for the purpoee 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 Hfe are re pugnant. Men of this class would be 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 Wash ington and serve the government while studying fa professional schoolg, - He says among the greater part of the Southerners the impression pre vails that the civil service ia not for them, that they can have no part in the clerical administrative work of the nation. It is not in the least diffi cult to understand why this impres sion persists. This belief was once a fact and not so long ago. It is conviction based upon years of ex perience, during which it was evi dent to everybody that a Southerner jjaaibeJastmaRwhn could hope to get a federal position. Politics not only entered this question, but per meated 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 charac ter of which little need be aaid-al- though much could be said - succeed- ed in obtaining and holding office that dfesirable citizens came to the conclusion all avenues were closed against merit and respectability." Mir. Mcllhenny says the Southern ers of the better class which he wish ed to influence held aloof from such things as civil service examinations, feeling that civil service reform was a farce. It was his endeavor to im press upon the people that the con dition which they had come to regard as unchangeable had changed for ever; than no longer were they with out the pale of the government; but tbit 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 affaire had be come so firmly fixed curing his ad- ’ ‘ country would never allow another prerident to go back tq the abuses of the spoil9 sys- Under the civil of the Southern States is entitled its quota of government servants ggh VIIN? \*4*\AUVAjr MO CO w tavssv: u~wp • n jmrmmpdmrmb ID vaaa? Meenan w> persons were sentenced for drunken- adjinffment, and according to the re cords, would be contrary to the evt dent-intent of congress, and it would then to necessary—under the appro priation available to pay many rierr now serving routes of 24 or more miles less than >900 per an num, and. those oaWlfrprter routes, who havq entered the service- since July 1, 1904, materially less than the amount embodied in the .new schedule. ■ r - •" — 1 F6r your information, there Is en closed herewith a: copy of the ached uies governing the salaries of rural Tetter carriers. Very respectfully, 1 , • - A. C. Conrad, Acting Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. Schedule of Salaries. Following is the list of salaries ef fective jTily 1 of this year: Per Annum. 24 miles and over .. . . 22 to 24 miles .. 864 20 to 22 miles.. . . .. 810 18 to 20 miles ' 16 to 18 miles. . . . .. .. 630 14 to 16 miles . . 640 , 12 to 14 miles . . 604 10 to 12 miles .. 468 8 to 10 miles. . .. . . .. .. 432 6 to 8 miles . . 396 A dispatch from Atlanta says “A R. Lanier, of 379 Glen wood avenue former employe of the Georgia rail rood, who hoe been ill from typhoid fever for 11 weeks, was ejected from lis 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 longings were thrown into the streets while he was left alone in his >ed. The Associated Charities took told of the cose, stored the furni ture and hod Lanier sent to the hos- )itid.’’ Kelley A, Co.,‘must be a lord harted concern. the older must pro tion. ir generation bably be left tion of Degroea, an open qaea- I The report also points a lesson up on the questionof illiteracy. Of the otal number of prisoners, 18,880 or 12.6 per cent, were unable to read and write. Tbe major offenders „ere more illiterate tl he white. Pet, ohs tiblong to them. Such posts must, of course. v>av*a«a« v/wavaa aaaaaovp vr* WVtx be filled, and when Southerners do not come forward to take them others must be chosen.” We wish to call car- Jthe attention of our young men es pecially to what Mr. Mdlhgnney soys above. There would be no trouble for scores of young men in this coun ty to prepare themselves, stand civil service examinations and get good in tbe government service Jit-Washington. The South is entitled to many more positions than die has. ' we urpe our young men to seek - positions. The work is easy pay is good. —— .No News In the Paper. . The Nevada Moil says frCpuentiy you pick up cffie 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 to day-means? It means that in the day or week just passed that no mis fortune 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 token the life of a fellow-human; that no poor devil, haunted by the post or the misdeeds of some other, has creased the great divide by his own hand. So the next time you pick up a paper that doesn’t an nounce a tragedy, givea little thanks instead of granting because there is no news. - -vr SULPHUR BATHS AT HOME. Empta PuzM thi SeMMf 1* ^ ttaSm City. ie has Never Been Luaeatod, Converses in Sevemi Palladina, the well-known Neapo litan medium, who waa rather a fail ure when she appeared before the Physical Research society in London a few years ago, has just subjected herself to a series of experiments held under the auspices of the Uni versity of Naples, and participated in by Profs. Bottazzl and Galeotti and other xell-known scientists. Eu- sapia is an ignorant woman, and is WILT the The fanners of Sumter and aageburg counties htye been bother ed greatly by cotton wilt, and Con gressman Lever has been active la securing reljef for his through the‘medium of the department of agriculture. The de partment has been observing this trouble for about three years, with t h» can»ttg>h*t jt wilt-resistant varie- . ty of cotton has been bred, and this seems to to tbe remedy for the evH. The Hagood section of Sumter county has especially suffered, and several years ago Congressman Lever sent a quantity of this wilt resistant seed to farmers in that community with the most satisfactory results. > Mr. Lever has recently received the following letter from the department oiL-this subject:, ’ United States Department of Agri- ». culture, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C., August 12, 1907, — ‘Hon A. F. Lever, Peak, S. C«— Dear Mr. Lever: Since our letter of July the 23rd, in regard to the out break of the cotton disease at Ha good, Sumter County, S. C., speci mens have been received from Dr. * M. S. Kirk, of that place, and I_flnd the trouble to be the cotton wlR.. I believe you are already quite well ' acquainted with our work on this disease. Mr. Orton, of onr latoratory of plant pathology baa just returned from a trip to the South, ailtT reports that the disease resistant varieties how being bred kre show ing tip “very well, the percentage of resistance being higher than ever. In fact it is a rare exception for a plant to become diseased from wilt, «c- cept where the farmer has allowed the seed to become mixed, or has ^ planted them in a field badly inflected ; with root-knot. We shall have more of this cotton to distribute next win ter, and'will arrange to suppty-youv correspondents at that time. “We find it more and more neces- , sary- to urge upon the farthers the necessity fot&AjTotation of crops In combination wffli the use of our re sistant seed. JA great many fields are effected by root-knot, which Is In . most cases propagated on the roots of the oommott oowpea. It is, there- T whatever. Nevertheless, while in a trance she is able to converse in sev eral modern languages, and writes in each of them in a script that is like cornier plate. : - At the University of Naples the professors deliberately set traps for her, placing objects with which she could bring about effects within reaeh of her hand and fixing electric lights close by so os to throw instant illumination upon them if she at- tempted.to moke use of them. A dish containing clay to reeeive posable moldings or marks was placed at a considerable distance from the med- medium, and her hands were care fully controlled by two persons, when she suddenly stretched out the •three middle fingers of one hand, and, rubbing the under port of her fingers on the table in front of her, said:' "How hard it is! What is it?" As there was, nothing on the table she was asked to what she referred, and she replied: # *, "It is hard cloy. I wish It taken away. I do not need it." When the professors come to ex amine the distant dish of day it was found to have the marks of three fingers upon it, of which the move- meats corresponded exactly to those. fpre vssentian on wilt-infected lands which had been made UWLJ oy the medi- e,fpre_i - the, u were able in some way to transmit the sensational of her own hands to a distance. In one of the experiments the wrists of 'Eusopia were tied to two iron rings fixed in the floor; the cords that held her were knotted and sealed, and yet under these condi tions a bottle of water was carried about, and g seat and logge human hands were seen to apper. Prof. Gal eotti declares that, while he was hold ing Eusapia by the hands, hedistinct- ly, saw a double figure in her place, with identical arms, which, how ever, were held in different Lions. Prof. Bottazzi, the leader of the experiments, once touched the fing ers of Eusapia, and an electric light, the tap of which hod been fixed in side her cabinet, but out of, her reach, was lighted four or five times, and as maqy times extinguished. Prof. Bottazzi also hod a large and apparently natural human hand laid upon his neck, his head, and his arm. Each time he was able w topch.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 kfgtit and touch as he held it. Ulack tka4. u*kiu*w*i, to use of the common cow peas, such possible. They oil, however, exclude any supernatural or spiritual explan-, ation, and can only suggest thxt Eu sapia Palladino’s manifestation are- biological phenomena, dependent m upon the organism of the medium, P 031 ' who at will can double or increase the range of her psychic perso:iality, and even her physiological personal ity.- - In thepe and other similar experi ments the scientific men present ore ~ that fraud was practically im- discontinued, and the Iron pea or the velvet bean substituted. Before planting a resistant variety of cotton, the land should be put in oats, fol lowed by corn, or Iron cow pea* for at least two years. * Yours* truly, __ - “A. F. Wtofls. “Actlnf Chief of Bureau.” This is Heilqiarters FOB Pianos and Organs. You want a sweet toned and a dur able Instrument. One that will last a long, tong life time. Our prices are the lowest, consis tent with the quality. Our references: Are any bank or aputgble business ho are in Columbia terms. 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