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I THE PEOPLE'S | Contributions From ssjsjsjwxxjwwwswxxxssvowxxs ? IK ENGLISHMiS ON IMMIGB4T10N Hie Views on the Methods That Must Be Employed to Brine Immigrants to South Carolina. Tn the Editor of The State: I have been much interested in reading reports in the newspapers express ing public opinion on the question of i introducing into the State of South Carolina a class of European immi-1 grant9?farmers, who in some respects! are less ambitious than American j farmers?a class of people who vJlll be content with small farms, say 20. SO or 50 acres of ground. I am told that; the south has enough even now of! common laborers, and that the need! is simply those who will enter the; State and buy up the large tracts of' lands and convert them into small | farms. The peasantry of France have small farms which they till with artistic skill and reap excellent harvests for . their industry. They are a thrifty people, save their money and at times j of great financial depression have sav- j d the government from impending; bankruptcy. These French peasants fire In rural villages and go daily to I their little farms, which may be distant from one to three miles from the! domestic roof. Under prevailing cir-1 oumstances it would hardly be prac-! ticable to Introduce such a system in this country. It would be better to follow out the American method, a I farm for each farmer of say 50 to 100 j acres with the dwelling in which the I family it to abide on the farm. But how will the better class of pnwnoati immigrants be attracted to the south? It must not be forgotten that the farmers and immigrants from Ihirope have been attracted in vast numbers to the great northwest, where millions of acres are yet unoccupied; i that western Canada is attracting settlers by furnishing free farms and homes for all who will come. By rail- j road companies and local communities thousands of dollars are being expended to get these settlers on those, lands. Now, the south has no free i homesteads, but every one who enters the State and secures a farm must pay for it. The western people reckon every healthy, laboring man who makes a permanent home in a com- j munlty to be worth to the place a i sum not less than $2,000. That is, if 100 able-bodied, industrious and enterprising men should settle in a farming eommunlty, they add to the permanent wealth of the locality $200,000. 11 should say such an estimate is very conservative for there may be among the 100 half a dozen men who alone I would add more than twice that sum to the taxable wealth of that community. But how shall the immigrants be j obtained? One man having a thousand | or more acres for sale cannot afford to; equip and maintain an immigration > real estate office for the purpose of finding purchasers for his lands. A j town, county, immigration association i and the State, acting in co ijunction .with railroad companies, may adver-1 tise the agricultural, commercial and j manufacturing advantages through newspapers, circulars, folders, etc., and distribute them through the mails all over the land. They will do some good and in time will, bring some people. But that is not all which is needed. I remember once spending a week on a cotton plantation a short distance out from Yazoo City, Miss. The planter . was a native Alabamian. He had a beautiful place of many thousands of j acres and one or the nnest m tne stare. One morning his good lady said they must send to a distant orchard for fruit and to a garden for vegetables for the table. I said to my friend. "Why is this? Why do you not on yonder rising ground plant your orchard and cultivate your garden vegetables; have your meadows for hay and your own corn fields? By producing these necessary supplies at home you will save money." He replied, "I only make cotton. If you want to kindle a fire with the sun's rays, use the sun-glass to concentrate all the rays of the sun at one spot and it will scorch it." 1 I would apply this process of analogical reasoning to secure people to j become permanent residents of the State of South Carolina^ I think it would be unwise to wai?te money in initiating a plan of work and then suffer it to languish for want of support An agricultural commissioner with a secretary to begin the business is only a first step. The department must be amply supported. This work is not only to get immigrants, but they must get them. They must go where these people are to be found and must select just such families as will be most suitable. You don't want all that come out of a ship. You want them selected. Of course your commissioner will have his principal office in the capital of the State, but he must have an office in the city of New York. No matter what the cost may be, even $100,000 In this work will be a profitable investment. When you get 5,000 or 10.000 of these people into your State and they are content, they will advertise the advantages of the State all over Europe without cost. But the expense at the start must be borne by the State. The newspaper^ of the State, publishing gratuitouslyj communications like this and others descriptive of the country, are doing! tneir pan most iiDerany. j&verv 10-! cality and every individual should do a part. As the Alabamian said, "focus the - sun's rays." Owners of large tracts of land, some improved and some not improved, want to sell so as to be | getting an ineome. They are getting! nothing now. They better sell these! ; lands to the immigrants, if they be of j the right kind, even with a very small! payment down and in small yearly i payments and at a low rate of interest, j It will take pretty much all the ready j money the immigrant has to get a start with implements and stock for! his little farm and to buy needful j supplies until he can grow and market J a crop. Hence, he will need the advice, | sympathy, and- often forbearance of I those with whom he deals. With a fair i chance he will be able in a few years j to pay for all. But the intelligence, j the kindness, and generosity of south- ! ern communities need no suggestion; in this regard. The State of South j Carolina is broad enough in area and i ample enough in resources, yet unde-1 veloped, to afford homes of wealth and _ abundance for 5.000.000 to 7.000.000 of, 7" an Industrious anu euterpipcopxe. j Will this generation, the present pop- ! ulation of the State, seize the oppor- ! tunities afforded of increasing theirj individual wealth and adding revenue to their native commonwealth? South! Carolina is worthy of the greatest j efforts of her people. I read in an; encyclopedia spread cut before me that | "the soil is highly productive, yielding i such staples as cotton, indigo, rice. 1 tobacco, sugar, tea, the cereals, hemp, j flax, hops, and many varieties of fruits and vegetables: and en-; joys a climatic temperature corres- i ponding with that of Italy and the j south of Prance. The mineral re- j sources of this State are considerable, i comprising gold, iron, lead, copper.! manganese, coal, bismuth, plumbago, I soapstone, limestone, granite, china j i EDITORIALS. \ 1 The State's Readers. $ >NV\\VSVV\\VVVSVVVV\N\W?^ J -clays, etc., etc" The heart of man can ask for nothing more. Then recall the famous men whom the State has produced. Their very names are an Inspiration and awaken the noblest aspirations of manhood. In the roster of South Carolina's eminent sons in a past generation. 1 noie '? IfiSt V % V\ /\ >% *"1 | T-T f\n ill UlC C'i IklllliSJk V'llC.O l.VJI. John Caldwell Calhoun, an incomparable statesman, sc-holar and philosopher: Henry Laurens, honored above most men. an accomplished diplomatist and the friend of Washington: then there was Gen. Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States; another honored name, an advocate and jurist of great renown, likewise statesman, scholar, diplomatist. Hugh Swinton Legare; the Hon. Francis W. Pickens and the Hon. William Aiken, of the early governors of the State. 1 mention with the highest regard the names of Gov. Robert Young Hayne. the most accomplished orator the j State ever produced, a match in forensic debate of the great Massachusetts Demosthenes. Daniel Webster, i And may I mention the names of; Generals Wade Hampton, the older and ! I the younger, both effulgent stars in the diadem of the commonwealth.' These are but a few names to conjure by. Such a galaxy of honored ones ; casts a halo of glory not only over I their native State and their own times, ! but they belong to all time and to the (universal brotherhood of man. Struggling men in this generation may look I to those great ones and gather strength I in their efforts to accomplish worthy ; undertakings?imitating such noble j lives. I Frederick A. Salaman. Ro?ms 1305-6, Vincent Building, New ! York City. THE RUSSIAN IN HISTORY. ! Why American Sympathy Should Lie With Japan In Present Conflict I JL U IXIV JUU?bVl VA A XXV . It is difficult to understand how anyone who is at all acquainted with European history, especially the part of it that relates to Russia, can sympathize with that country , in its struggle with ; Japan; for viewed from a/iy standpoint, except that of brute foice, Japan is by far the more highly civilized nation of the two. From its very first contact with civilization Japan has made a progress that Is almost mar| velous, while Russia has remained i practically barbarous despite the fact ! that she has been in intimate association with the civilzing influences of the other countries of Europe. The truth of the matter is that Russia has a pretty black record behind her, a record of tyranny, oppression and duplicity that almost surpasses beI lief. It is easily within the memory of | people now living when it was a not [ uncommon occurrence for ladies of the Polish nobility to be stripped to the | waist and whipped in public -by offlI cials of the Russian government. When Sweden was practically forced to cede Finland to Russia, the* latter country pledged itself that it would not interfere with the language or local government of the people. This promise has been most shamefully violated, and the virtuous, enlightened and patriotic Finns have been subjected to almost every indignity that Russian ingenuity could devise. But the darkest blot on Russia's record is found in Siberia. Countless thousands of its own citizens and from its provinces like Poland and Finland have been consigned, for i no offense whatever, at least nothing that would be considered such in a civilized country, to a living death in the | mines of Siberia, without the slightest hope of relief except by death, held as they are by the iron hand of a despotism that would have hardly been exi rnsflhlp in tlic dark apps. There is something almost farcical in the attitude that Russia assumes as the champion of civilization and Christianity, for she stands in sore need of civilization herself and, in act at least, is a stranger to the precepts of Christianity. What was the conduct of the Russian troops during the recent trouble in China? Looting by wholesale and the murder of thousands of helpless and inoffensive Chinese, driving them into a deep river just as if they were wild beasts. While the Russians were acting like savages, the Japanese troops maintained their splendid discipline, and returned to their own 1 country with clean hands and with' out a single blot upon their record. But putting all other questions aside, Rusi sia is the aggressor and this being the i case deserves to lose. Japan clearly I sees that the time has come when she must make a supreme effort for naj tional existence and she can be counted j on to struggle to the bitter end. Rusj sia has no need of additional territory ' while Japan, with its dense population ! stands in sore need of an extension of i its land area. j It is very easy to make comparisons. I but the present struggle is being waged j under conditions that have never here| tofore existed. In the South African ; war England had to transport troops ! and munitions of war 6,000 miles, but ! there was not a hostile vessel to inter| fere with her transports. It will be impossible for Russia to send a single man or gun by water and her sole dependence is on one single line of rail| road, and this is a very long one. Ex; perience has demonstrated that a sini gle line, even for a comparatively short : distance, is not adequate for the transportation of large bodies of troops. ! Germany has probably about eight sepj arate lines leading to the Rhine and ! o Kaii f tVto oomo nnmhnr in ri i rar?_ i t ClUUUt 111V. OUiiiV. H VA AAA k/V- k 1*1 w lit Ull ! tion of the frontier, facing Russia. In case of hostilities breaking out between France and Germany they would each have a million men on the frontier in | less time than it would take Russia to put one-tenth that number in ?Manchuria. Unless something entirely unexpected happens Russia will be confronted with very much the same conditions that prevailed during the Crimean war. She had plenty of troops and resources but could not, owing to the: lack of transportation facilities, get them to the front quick enough. ThiSj being the case, baffied but not crushed, she had to accept the terms offered by | France and England; Japan cannot, of course, exhaust the resources of: Russia but stands a good chance of exhausting all the resources that Russia can make available. To call this war a struggle between ; Christianity and heathenism is the j veriest nonsense. Russia today is more ; a barrier to the propagation of Chris- j tianity than is Japan, for a nation, just as it with an- individual, that professes to be Christian and who, at the same time does th? greatest violence to the teachings of *;-he Master, is a greater euom-> to CferW^u.v thnn an av<wH i disbeliever. ifTt could mvompiM-d without bloodshed the partition of ;h>Russian empire would 1>^ n tremendous grain for the cause of civilization. f*>r then the Russian people, steeped in dense ignorance and ground beneath the heel of an iron despotism, would breathe the air of freedom and happiness and be given the opportunity to emerge from a position that is but little superior to that of the beasts of the field. ; The people of the south at least ought to hold in everlasting remembrance the' fact that while they were engaged in their great struggle for independence1 Russia used her influence to the; uttermost to prevent the reoog- j nition, by the other countries of Eu- j rope of tbe jConfederate States. This i j < 4 i was but in keeping with her national i ! policy for oppression and against lib-: i erty. The people, however, who have ; the greatest cause to execrate the very name of P.ussia are the Jews, that is^ ; if they care anything for the honor of the women of their race. W. D. Woods. Darlington, Feb. -0. i LOCA1. OPTION VS. THE DISPENSARY j Some Question* Concerning the Evil Fruits of Latter System. ; To the Editor of The State: Allow ine to submit a few pertinent , questions to your readers and the re.} tiling general assembly: i. is it right and does it show a I democratic citizenship, not to say a : spirit of justice on the part of oui t lawmakers, not to allow a free (?) peo- j J pie to vote the whiskey evil from their j 'midst, when inxfact in many instances} : the people did not vote or petition its i establishment? i 2. Is it not an apparent fact that the: ! whiskey clement?ring if yon choose?is ; getting a firmer and deeper hold on our j i State institutions and using it for po- j litic-al ends to the extent that ere long j it will dominate church, society, busi- ' ness. morals, politics and every instiitution in the land and throw around j ; them the mantle of corruption that is } ! sure to lower us in the scale of state-1 I hood ? ( | I 2. Are the ministers of Cod's holy; I writ doing their duty by their passive- ; ! ness in accepting prevailing conditions j | instead of inveighing against them on I all occasions? ; 4. Can any man, be he friend or foe j ; of the system, in truth lay his hand j : upon his heart and in presence pf his j | God say he does not know that the \ [ dispensary as it is managed is a de- I I moralizing agent to every legitimate j I business or institution in the State; de-! basing its manhood, making drunkards } 'of its youth, yea, of its children even?} i Doing this, does it not bring woe and i j misery, suffering and hardships untold i I to a helpless and innocent class?the: ; women and children? I 5. Is it for political and sinister gain [ ; that our wise men?masters, not ser vanis?can snui tneir eyes 10 glaring \ facts and refuse to trust those whose suffrage placed them In their exalted ; position, and force them to be un- j | willing particeps criminis to the j traffic? 6. Does the revenue derived offset j j the evil it generates? Has it mate- { rially contributed to the State's finances, or reduced taxation? Is it not one of the potent factors calling for more judicial circuits to relieve the! congested dockets of those in exist-1 ence? Is it right to apply any por- j tion of the revenue (blood mon^y) to i 'the education of our children? Has it; ! not created a stronger ring than that j j the great (?) Tillman claims to have: overthrown a decade of more ago? ! Is it not a little strange that, in the light of after events, the palmetto tree ! was banished from the wiskey flask? Justice. St. George, Feb. 17, 1904. Betting on Cock FightM. j To the Editor of The State: In several sections of our fair com! monwealth the practice of cock fighting is indulged in and ordinarily the usual accompaniment of betting prevails on such occasions. As a lover of my fellowmen and j seeking always their highest welfare. I J concluded It might prove helpful if the : general assembly enact a law forbidj ding the custom, and accordingly 11 I wrote one of the representatives about! i it. He replied that a bill was Intro-1 ; duced last session which would havei I given entire relief from this evil, but j ! sDorts in the senate killed it. though i j passed to its third reading. He adds | J that the senate has at the present ses-1 | sion been polled touching the matter j I and that it cannot be passed, i Disappointed in securing help from j ; that quarter. I wished to secure advice! of some wise, good man as to the bestj way of getting the matter on the conscience of individuals who indulge in the baneful pastime. A letter from Dr. James H. Carlisle of Wofford college contains information I beg to share with your readers. He says: j "The great subject of crueltv to an! i mals is now attracting more attention | than before. It is verv important, j This is one starting point. To take! ! the beautiful, spirited bird, and make I j him kill or be killed, to excite and ' amusesome coarse, hardened men, and l to decide where some piles of money j must go?this is sad! But tender ap peals are not felt where there is no ' tenderness: still, these appeals, wisely | urged, may in the end make seme impression. A lift up re igiously, of i course, will generally settle many of j these questions that cannot be met on | a low plane." Now. Mr. Editor, let me ask the kind aid of your own skilled pen in encouraging the introduction and passage of a bill affording relief in some degree. But the enactment of a law forbidding the sport is only oart of our duty: we must have an increasingly ! strong sentiment current, such as will be possible alone by intelligent agitation of the subject. Yours very truly. Civis. | Piedmont, S. C. TIIF CHARLESTON BUDGET. I | Damage Suits Against the Consolidated Railway Company. ! Special to The f.'tate. j Charleston. F eb. 20.-?A number of ; damage suits were filed today in the court of common pleas against the ! Consolidated Railway comnany. Thos. Smith wants $5,000 damages for having been ejected from a car and forced to walk two miles to the detriment of his j health. The same sum is wanted by I Health Detective Nipson, whose buggy ! was run into by a car. Frank Norh| den is suing for $5,000 because he was j run into while riding his bicycle and j former Conductor Reeves Ford, who | was hurt in a collision between two i cars, asks for $5,000 actual damages} i and $5,000 punitive damages. Isaac j i Coughley has entered suit against the j I American Pipe company for $1,975 for j 1 injuries sustained in digging a trench. I The approaching term of the court of j common pleas will be noted <or the. j number g? like suits which have been : filed. The laying off of a number of field i I men at the navy yard has caused some j disappointment and no little dis- I quietude, but it is said that the laying f off of these men furnishes the only | foundation for the rumors of a general suspension of work. No statement could be gotten from the local officials of the | navy yard in regard to the rumor that the secretary of the navy had ordered J the unexpended balance to be turned, j into the treasury. It < was said at thei navy yard that the men were only laid off because they were much ahead in their work and the rules of the department are against keeping men on the payroll who are not actually at work. Advices received here state that the course of the dispatch boat Mayflower may be changed, and in this event Admire! Dewey and staff will not visit; ?'hnrleston on their \v;iy to join the! N<>r;h Atlantic Meet l*?>r ih<* manoeuvres in the t'aribbean sea. I Tito temperature tumbled early thisj morning to a reading of degrees, a; fall of :;.l degrees from the maximum j reading of yesterday. The wind was! high, reaching a velocity of :16 miles I from the northeast at l o ciock ionay. | Orators Selected. Special to The State. Ninety-Six. Feb. 20.?At the closing! of the Ninety-Six high school, to be held June 5-7. Itev. S. H. Zimmerman of Newberry will preach the annual sermon, and Hon. Charles F. McKesson of Morganton, N. C., will deliver the anuual address. ' Dim PES SKETCHES ! OF CU01IH1 LIFE.: i i What People of the Middle and i Pee Dee Country Are Doing. If? FIRES OCCUR ATDEMlBKl t 1 he Railroad Signal Station iluxned. Other XrnN from the Tonu / Where Railroad* CroiiN. Special to The State. \ Denmark, Feb. 20.?The telegraph of- i floe at the junction of the Atlantic j Coast Line and Southern railroads, in this place, was destroyed by fire this morning at 7:30 o'clock. The structure! was a two-story wooden building, gen- i orally known as the tower. All trains J over the two roads were signalled from j this office and could pass only when i the tracks were thrown open by the j operator in the tower. The fire started in the ceiling and j owing to the fact that there is no! water near, could not be extinguished. The trains were delayed only for a few minutes, and will stop at that point as they do at other junctions. Another fire alarm was given yesterday at about noon. In some way a j curtained closet in the residence of | 3Ir. Fuller caught on fire. The room j was closed at the time and became f.lled with smoke, causing every one to think that the house would necessarily burn. However, the fire was soon put. out, there being considerable loss from removal of furniture and damage to the house by water. AT BEECH ISLAND. A Delightful Entertainment for the Benefit or tbe Scfiooi. Special to The State. Beech Island, Feb. 21.?On last Saturday night all the good people of Beech Island were assembled at the Downer hall to obtain some of the pleasures of a delightful Valentine party, given j by Miss Helen Brice, for the benefit of j the Downer library. By the little sock | arrangement and the serving of refreshments the neat sum of $25 was raised. With this and our pro rata share from the State the management hopes to make some valuable addition i to the already well equipped library. J There has been some discussion about establishing an agricultural experiment station in each county. If this is done we see no reason why the j Downer institute should not be the central station for Aiken county. We are well equipped here, the school owns enough land to start an excellent experimental station. We are interested in this and trust that our board of trustees will pull for it. On last Monday night Mrs.' James j Hammond gave a delightful pit party! in honor of her sister. Miss Nita Black of Atlanta. Among those in attendance were: Misses Helen Brice, Georgia Galphin, Helen Davies, Harriet Da vies. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Fair, Mr. and Mrs. Seth DuPuis. Messrs. R. B. and W. B. Duriiar, Henry Lake, M. E. Brockman anA Dr. P. H. Eve. Mrs. Ed. Atkinson gave a delightful oyster suppeb last Tuesday night in honor of her cousin, Miss Belle Bailey of Ellenton. Miss Helen Brice has gone to her home in Blackstock for a short visit. DEATHS IX EDGEFIELD. Popular Young Physician'* Wife?A Child Choked to Dentfa. Special to The State. Edgefield, Feb. 21.?News has just \ been received here of the death at i McCormick of Mrs. Fuller, the youthful wife of Dr. R. M. Fuller, a lady well t known and much beloved, a daughter j of Mr. Edgar S. Reynolds of Long-1 mire's and a sister of Mrs. A. E. Pad- 1 gett of this town. Dr. Fuller is also a young man of, Longmire's, but moved to MtCormick six or eight months ago as a wider j field for his profession. The untimely death of this popular young woman j will bring deep sorrow to a very wide j circle of relatives and friends. She will be buried at old Bethany J church, near Longmire's, tomorrow. Another sad death in our section and' very sudden was that of a little 2-yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. Tandy Culbreath of Rehoboth. This child was by some terrible mishap choked to death. L. W. C. Pleruant Hill Notes. Special to The State. . Pleasant Hill, Feb. 20.?Mr. Tom Peach, a resident of the Russell place, died yesterday of pneumonia after a short illness. On the 18th the Rev. S. N. Watson; performed the ceremonv uniting Mr. j Lewis Cole and Miss Alice Beckham,! daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. "W. Beckham. Mr. Edmund Tiller and wife of Tiller's Ferry are visiting Mrs. Tiller's brother at this place. Mr. W. A. Beckham and wife of ] Kershaw are here on a visit to Mr. | Beckham's brother, Mr. M. L. Beck-1 ham, of this place. Owing- to the very cold and rough weather very little farm work has been done as yet. It is generally talked that there will be no increase in the cotton acreage. As a matter of fact j the farmers cannot afford to do it, for i the presumption is. that labor is going! to be scarce. Hopkins Happenings. Special to The State. Hopkins, Feb. 20.?After several days of excessive cold the weather is more favorable and farm work is progressing. Oats are small, owing to the bad weather. / County Superintendent of Education E. B. Wallace was in town Thursday J on a tour of inspection of the country I schools. ' Invitations have been issued by the I primary department of the Hopkins J graded school to Washington birthday j exercises. The invitations are in the i shape of a small hatchet decorated | with cherries. This department is un- [ der the very efficient management of \ Mrs. Whitlock. There have been sevtral additions to the school, which is' in a nourishing condition. Mrs. Brandenburgh is much improved, after her recent severe illness. t Plnewood's Roads. special to rne state. i Pine wood. Feb. 20.?The public reads! in this vicinity are being repaired by j the county chaingang, which is well i equipped with proper implements for J the work. Their advent has beenh hailed with delight, as places on the' different roads leading into town were almost impassable, and could never j have been effectively worked by the public. Mr. R. H. Johnson, a fanner living j near here, was married on Thursdayj evening to Miss Norvelle Stukes, of Paxville. The Rev. Mr. Huggins ofil- J ciated. j The continued severe winter has re- i tarded farming operations and for the ! same cause the small grain crop is ] very backward. The v.*eathcr bureau in its forecast i issued Saturday had this ominous pre- i diction l'or yesterday: "Rain!" And] the prediction was verified from 6 a. j m. until 6 p. m. without a break. * THE HILL COUNTRY !. OF SOUTH CAROLINA Li 1 nfP ? ? ' ? ' be; _ j em Events of Greatest Interest in the: ^ cla Btisy Piedmont Section. 'set pe< FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S GLOBSi2? ihl i yo Tht? Slute Executive Committee Meetii | Id Xexvberry?Delegate* to the Xa- | eel : ex ttocnl Gathering In St. I.outs. j r __. fir: I eh Special to The State. j pg Newberry, Feb. 21.?The State exoeu-1 dk tive committee of the Federation ofj^ Women's Clubs of South Carolina niet!nu here Thursday night at the residence I ta! of Mrs. R. D. Wright for the purpose: inj of arranging a programme for the ! State federation, which will convene j here on Tuesda\-, June 14th. The | Iot meetings will be held in the auditorium jco of the new building-of Newberry col-|^n lege. On Tuesday night the meeting jge will be opened with an informal re-1 n,| ception. Wednesday night will be!st| given over to the art, music and civic j th committees. Thursday night the crown- j ?r< ing event of the session will be a very j ^ large and elegant reception. j The following delegates were ap- j ag pointed to represent South Carolina in j a the National Federation of Women's clubs, which will convene in St. Louis, I Mo., in May: Mrs. Julius Visanska of tir Charleston; Miss Blanche Jones of Co- j ot lumbia; Mrs. M. F. Ansell of Green- j wi Ville; Mrs. Joseph Roddey of Rock! ci? Hill and Mrs. L. T. Nichols of Chester. I Se Mrs. James Orr Patterson of Greenville, j a president of the State federation, is a j co delegate by virtue of her office. ; P*1 TTolan I wi 'ine auernaiea tut. .u. ! Mower. Newberry; Mrs. L. M. Cole- j man, Charleston; Mrs. A- Robertson, I hi Columbia; Mrs. Ira B. Jon-s. Lancas- j "* ter; Mrs. J. R. VanJiver. Anderson; i Mrs. S. L. McLaughlin, Spart nfcurg. , Four new clubs were federated. They were the Fortnightly club ot Newberry, . Rotary Book club of Greenville, the Old Homestead of Darlington, the I Alumnae association of Mrs. Smith's j school, Charleston. , After the business of the committee j f had been disposed of Mrs. R. D. Wright; gave a delightful reception in honor of . the visitors. At a joint meeting of the federated clubs of the town, Mrs. S. B. Jones, president of Woman's club; Mis9 Bernice Martin, chairman of Bachelori t Maids; Mrs. L. W. Floyd, president; of Fortnightly club, were made a general committee to arrange for the en- j tertainment of the State federation. j Mesaames T. C. Pool, W. II. Hunt, 1 do O. B. Mayer, C. D. Weeks, A. T. Brown, j M Misses Fannie McCaughrin, Lalla Mar- ! PC tin, Cora Dominick, Nina Carlisle, I Ft Helen Mower, were appointed chair- ha men of the sub-committees. Their T1 committees will be appointed nearer m< the time for the meeting. 1 th ? lal INTERSTATE T. M..C. I. GATHERING jc< There Are Two Hundred Delegate* In j Attendance at Spartanburg?Bad Weather Prevail*. Special to The State. j Spartanburg, Feb.. 2L-?There are 200 I delegates attending the interstate T. CI M. C. A. North and South Carolina are well represented by an earnest, active ha body of workers, young men who are ^ directing their efforts to the advance- W] ment of moral and religious thought wl and life. co Today's weather has been the very worst of a season of unchangeable mid?a? ~ flrot anrl th winter unit:. me iv.. <uurl V...V. the ground was frozen over in a slip- m pery condition; an icy rain succeeded. {m Despite this inclemency, large congre- as gations were at the several leading T1 Protestant church this morning to hear gr instructive and helpful addresses from hi the prominent workers of the Y. M. PI C. A. in atendance on the meetings. to A mass-meeting for men was held 1 fo this afternoon at the opera house. C. j na C. Michener was the speaker of the |ce occasion. He is from New York and ; se a leader in Y. M. C. A. work. He j in made a strong address, emphasizing j kr the adherence to Christianity along all : th lines of business, and asserted that j icj the man with the right kind of charac- ! ga ter has a decided advantage over oth- j at ers. Gambling, drinking and impur- j sp ity were touched upon and in an earn- lig est, effective manner Mr. Michener dis- | coursed for an hour or more to one of ar the largest male audiences ever as- ac sempled in the opera house. As a re- j na suit fully 300 Christians expressed their j pe intention of leading better lives, and j of 150 "sinners" signified that they wished j lir the prayers of the Christian people. In j ar a brief meeting, held after the address, i la: at least 35 of the latter professed con- ! B1 version. IM Dr. Van Dyke, the lecturer, aaaressea i ge the convention at Converse college this IAi evening. P. H. F. {fir THE HEAR EASTERN TROUBLE ? ( bv Bulgaria TrjbB to Keep Out of a Fight, I a.\ I 1*1^ According to Their Agent j in Pari*. j Paris, Feb. 21.?M. Zolollovitz, the nr Bulgarian agent in Paris, made the! fe: following statement today: i Fc "I can give the forma) assurance I at that Bulgaria has more than ever re- j be solved to do nothing to .vmpromise j G( the peace. It is with great satisfac-jso tion that we have seen the powers elab- < fa. orate a plan for reforms in Macedonia ! ni( and we wish, without reservatiqn, the | he reforms realized. Above all, with this j fe< moment when the powers are follow- j rn ing with anxiety the events in the far! in east, Bulgaria will avoid doing any-1 th thing that would cause the belief that! wj she proposes to profit by the crisis. The j th Bulgarian people have unanimously m; expressed warm sympathy with Rus- ha sia. ev "It is unfortunate that Turkey per- m< sists in her regrettable hostility. Be- na sides the annoying police measures she pr has taken against our people our com- rh merce suffers serious obstacles; and to finally, the continued concentration of co Turkish troops along our frontier and M the mobilization of troops at strategic th points is menacing us." th M. Zolollovitz said there is a war m party. in Constantinople which has a : tv preponderating influence and quoted th from consular reports to the effect that! lo< the Turks fear a military uprising if j so war wttTr BtTgnria is "not*declared. j "In the light of these facts." M. 1 as Zolollovitoh concluded, "it is natural , loi that Bulgaria, too, should be prepar- ; iiur." j so j do I.nte Senator Hill'* Widow Dead. ; of Washington, Fob. 21.?Mrs. Hill, the ; po widc.v of the late Senator Bon H. Hill i tr; of Georgia, who has been ill here for j on some time, died here today at the res-! ar idenee of her daughter, Mrs. H. H. ! ee: Thompson, in the 79th year of jier age. wl At her bedside when the end "came also bo were her daughter and two sons, Ben Tl" II. Hill and C. D. Hill, Accompanied I 30C by them the remains were taken to At- | ou lanta. where the funeral services will; wl he held on Wednesday at 11:30 a. m? i afi in St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal i ey church. .. wc St. Hngtiii's Hcadtmv. eciai to The/State. ! m liken, Feb. '20.?Thme annual enter- w nment of St. Angela's academy came tl] on Friday afternoon and evening | w fore a large and appreciative audi- ! pj -e- I ra Chat the numbers were varied, high-J m .Ssed and superbly rendered Is as- j ^ ited to by all who were present. Ks- tJ?lally is this praise well founded and j ^ tiering in view of the fact that in ? brief life of the academy there i v>. ve been no pupils as yet beyond the j ^ rd term in music, declamation and j jn ice culture; indeed, the great ma-1 iri ity are lirst and second term pu- j t'r s. Thes olos and choruses were ex- j tr ilent, as the most fastidious could: ;U peet under the circumstances. I f0 The boys and glrlselasses made their j st bow to the public In pleasing; w orus. Before many years they will j fT ure successfully in person as they i }ar.t Friday evening "in gobs." C1 For brevity sake, the special points ja excellency of individual pupils, or mbers. cannot be emphasized in de- rj [1. It is but fair to point out In pass- hi however, the eleeutionary profici- j g( cy displayed in teh scene from ; 0j hiller's "Mary Stuart;" the beauty of j w e arias and recitations in Longfel- | v's "Wick of the Hesperus;" the i S ntrol of voice and breath in the "An- I a 1*9 Serenade," "Grass and Roses," I Cj d the selected Terzette; then the j w neral excellence of the instrumental j si imbers. n( St. Angela's is rapidly becoming a I ^ ronghold of intellectual power among y, e youths of this ection. Judging 3m the splendid exhibition of last g. iday it is safe to assume that, as the 3rk progresses, the patrons and tl lends of the school will be welcomed & ain to still a better programme and a; more excellent rendittion. tl pi A Fatal Wreck. g. Kankake, 111., Feb. 21.?James Mar- n. i of Kankake, 111., was killed, and five g her passengers were injured in a jj :eck of a Knights of Columbus spe- p. il train today on the Kankake and neca railway near Wauponset, due to ^ spreading of a frog. One passenger S( ach: containing 25 people turned com- j, etely. Martin was hurled through a sl indow. The special was en route to orris, where the Knights of Colum- gl is were to participate in an installa- ^ >n. a h A Government Victory. Pan Domingo, Feb. 21.?Yesterday a V- - ? ? ? A. WM AM A?A^ dicu iiieruxiitiit sicciuicx culcivtu hh. rer, convoyed by a- launch from the _ cited States cruiser Columbia. The | bels abtsained from firing on the ssel. . h This morning the government troops h tacked the rebels outside the city ^ id severe firing ensued, lasting many >urs. The rebels were rfoced to re- h e, leaving many killed and wounded r i the field. The action resulted in tj complete victory for the government tl id the siege of the city is considered a have been raised. j p; Suspicions Circumstances. ' ci New York, Feb. 21.?Following the' k ath late tonight of Mrs. Florence b yers, 46 years old, from morphine h isoning at a boarding house in West II jrty-sixth street, the woman's hus- w ind and a colored nurse were arrested, it ley are said to have administered n orphine tablets to Mrs. Myers. This ey admit, according to the police, but P lege that the woman was addicted the use of morphine. The husband is d< >1. Frederick Myers, a veteran of the vil war 71 years old, this being his P: rthday. The dead woman is said to le ive been Col. Myers' fifth wife. le ? _ b ""PISGAH FOREST" RESERVE.[j Vast Primial Wild \ow an Adjunct a: to Blltmorc Estate. w larlotte Observer. Raleigh, Feb. 6.?No greater interest is ever been felt in any hunting pre- ^ rve in the south than in the ma^nifl- a]' nt one of George W. Vanderbilt, p tiich is know as "Pisgah Forest," and (j) iiich embraces a large section of the t( unty of Transylvania, in one of the p ost exquisite sections of all the noble n, ountain country pf which Western T orth Carolina affords. , It is certain at this perk or preserve has had w uch to do with the now great move- A ent for the national part to be known t the Appalachian Forest* Reserve. ^ lis originated in Vanderbilt's two n eat developing ideas, shown first in ja s Biltmore estate and next in his g sgah Forest. The latter is a true t< rest, Mr. Vanderbilt having been so t( ltunate as to discover a place where n iture had been almost unmolested ex- pir pt by occasional fires, and then to g cure this and gently aid her in work- ^ g her own sweet will. Everybody v iow? about Biltmore. and its chateau, g e finest private residence in all Amer- tj i, 'but few know anything about Pis- a] :h Forest, and so this will be a story g >out the latter, the writer having jfl ent a fortnight there in the most de- ai rhtful manner in the world. v Pisgah Forest is about 45 miles long ei id embraces something over 100,000 :res. It takes its name from its domi- ei iting peak Mount Pisgah, the most g irfect mountain amid the hundred tl mountains in Western North Caro- j la, being a true cone, a landmark h aid all the peaks in the vast, irregu- ir r and lofty plateau betweeen the ti ue Rridge and the great Smoky a ountains. There are various way of ei tting into Pisgah Forest; one by s; sheville and Biltmore and by a very rr le road constructed by Mr. Vander- a: It to Pisgah Lodge; the other by way w Hendersonville and Davidson's riv- b . un a rather steeD and rough road, w it one full of charms and surprises, 01 ens the French Broad. Davidson's tl rer and Avery's creek. To the na- u ,*es Pisgah Forest is know as Mr. e1 inderbilt's place, and its boundary is k arked by a three-strand barbed-wire n nee. The best way to see Pisgah s( >rest is on foot or horseback, prefer- ei ily the former, as in this way the full ir auty of the place can best be seen. > where one will there is ever the s< und of falling water, the rush or the tr 11 of the mountain streams, which p< ost of the time is invisible, high over- sc ad or in a gorge, perhaps a thousand sc et below. Going by the Davidson d< ,er way, when the crest of the "gap" re the great mountain wall is reached, is ere is a glorious view to the south- fe ird, far into South Carolina, and to fe e northward over the Vanderbilt do- a: ain. The heart of this great forest is been known as the "Pink Beds" la er since white settlers went into that ei ountain region. The origin of the s< ime is in some dispute, but very n< obably comes from the color of the pi ododendron, which is so profuse as L make the whole region look like a 01 nservatory during the' months of ir ay and June. The mountaineers call ol e place the "Pink Beds," and under ir is name it appears in the geological tl aps. It is a-sort of table land, be- O een high and nearly parallel ridges, ir readed by streams as bright as a ti Dking glass, all running in beds of ji lid stone, literally like flights of r< ep*. and which seem like quicksilver ti they flash or fall from under their! ftv sources. j Pisgah Forest cost Mr. Vanderbilt mething like a quarter of a million ! liars, or about ?i'.r>0 per acre. Most; it he secured at once, and the other j? rtions were bought in large or small i icts. so that now his rangers are the j sa ly denizens of the wide area. There i , e five of these, all picked mountain- iai rs. good riders and dead shots, to! ^ 10m the mountains are like an open ( ok. These men have many duties, j gi iev must see that the boundary fence, | > miles long, is all right; must keep j t poachers, look after the game, re lether in l'ur or feather, and also jn ter the trout,- and further keep an e on timber stealers. Poachers "? mid come from near and far to getiro perbly stocked. killing them by eroding dynamite in the dep pools, heie the l>lg trout lurk, or to kill o deer, the turkeys or the grouse, hlch are known In the mountains leasants. The trained ears of these ngers hear the explosion of dynaIte a great distance, and they track e offenders as a bloodhound would nek them. Into other counties, and en Into Tennessee. Through this great Plsgali reserve, liich now is leased for use by one the most exclusive hunting and fisl_g clubs In this country, there are 75 lies of wagon road and 275 miles of ails, the latter leading alongside each out stream. These roads and trails -e always kept cut out and ready u* use. There are miles of what are [town as "shooting paths" 15 feet ide, which branch out right and left orn certain of the roads, so that when *?r are driven by the dogs they must oss these paths, and by means of the tter alone can they be seen in time to ford a shot. Deer can stand in the lododendron thickets In 10 feet of a jnter, and yet be absolutely invisible, v ind en ricrfcot is this naradise ' game in which there is so much of ild animal life. The foot print9 -of ^ le deer are constantly seen, and once >ven superb specimens were notlcd in group, drinking from Looking Glass eek. High overhead a golden eagle as soaring and later on the ranger towed a mounted specimen of this able bird, which he had killed with Is revolver as he sat in a tree top 80 ards away. Mr. Vanderbilt began to acquire Pis*h Forest 12 years ago, and he romptly began the work of restocking le streams with trout, in the simplest lanner, that is, by protection, without ny artificial protection. In some of le streams rainbow trout have been laced, but these are not nearly so itisfactory as the native trout. The umber of trout in this particular reion was years ago incredibly great, i the old days, before th?re was any rotection, there were caught In two ays by three fishermen 1,650 trout, and lost of this neeCles slaughter was abilute waste. Pisgah Forest has larger been chosen as the place for the :udy of forestry, under the direction f the very talented Dr. Schenck, who jcceeded Gilford Pinchot, now the ead forester of the United States. As 11 the world knows, Mr. Yanderbilt as at Biltmore, which adjoins and V a ith its 10,000 acres forms In a way part of Pisgah Forest, an arboretum f over 300,000 trees and shrubs. PIsah Forest is the complement of this rboretum, and in these magnificent oods Dr. Schenck has a lodge, where e spends much of the summer with is class, making a tree study undejr onderfully favorable conditions. In lese classes are youths of wealth and igh social position, who study forest- * > i, a study sorely neeaea in tms cuuu y, where there is so much destrucon. Nowhere east of the Pacific slope re there nobler trees?tulip trees or oplars, Spanish and red oak, hem>cks, chestnuts, black walnuts, cuumbers and pines of half a dozen inds, rise in stately symmetry, this c eing one place where the lumberman as never injured the primeval forest. : is this great covering of woods 'hich gives that tender blue to the lountains, which is the/reason for the ame of the Blue Ridge. % , There is a trail to the very peak of isgah, and on the mountain crest are >und lovely meadows, lush with tenerest grass and studded with dwarf ; ees, wind-blown and Indescribably Icturesque. The trail along this cr^st ads by Pnsgah lodge, the finest colotion of log houses in this country, uilt in Imitation of Swiss chalets, only le finest selected logs being used, and le furniture being all of native work ad of mountain woods. Sportsmen ill be charmed with this lodge, with s stately dining hall, the walls of hich are covered with dressed skins f the deer, fox, wild-cat, skunk, etc., lainly those of the wild-cat, all these aimais having been shot or trapped in isgah forest, while great eagles peer own from the beams upon the visits. The view of Biltmore house from isgah peak or front from this lodge Is early like a vision of enchantment, v he house seems to hang in the middle ^ Istance, like Aladdin's palace, snowy hite and vast, and quite near it is sheville. Four counties corner on this peak, outhward there spreads the unbroken lass of Pisgah forest, to the eastward i the rich valley of the famous French - ,? , i? v.a aiahh. : xoaa river, uuuuueu uj ????>uching wall of the Blue Ridge, while > the westward there Is a wild and jgged view of mountain piled upon lountain, finally bordered by the Great moky range, which towers like the all of a world. Within the sweep of Ision one sees the culmination of the reat Appalachian system with no less lan 43 peaks exceeding 6,000 feet In Ititude, there being the Smoky, the alsam and the Black ranges, Mt. [itchell in the Black dominating them II with its 6711 feet. In its entirety the iew is the very noblest which the istern part of America affords. The conservation of game in the for5t will be promoted still further, as reat care is to be taken in limiting ie "kills" whether of fish or f9wl. he grouse have greatly increased, V ardly any hunting having been done i the dozen years, and there are many irkeys. Squirrels are, of course, bundant, both the gray and the smafir brown ones, the latter being univer- < illy known in the North Carolina lountaiiis as the "boomer." There is nother kind of game in this region, hieh is not so much esteemed, this eing the rattle-snake, which shares ith the general public the appreciation f the Pink Beds. The rattlers are of ie black variety, and while short are nusually large, three inches in diamter sometimes. One of the rangers eeps a tally-stick with a cut for each ittler killed, and said that during one iason he killed 26 himself; his three mployes saying they had killed as lany more. A watchful eye is, therefore, necesiry when one is out of a road or a ail. The rattlers, as a rule, are "very saceable," as the mountaineers say, ) much so that wnen iney uun& y?n>ns do not see them they lie quiet and 5 not coil and rattle. That there is sally little danger from these snakes shown by the fact that surprisingly :w persons are bitten and of these but ,'W die, whiskey being instantly taken 3 an antidote. Mr. Vanderbilt has other holdings of nds, not connected with Pisgah for?t or with Biltmore and its forest, >me of these holdings lying to the srthwestward. There is another game reserve in this State, this lying along inville river, which is over in ari:her mountain plateau, the owners beig perhaps a score of gentlemen, some ? whom are New Yorkers, others beig residents of this State. The streams lere have been restocked with trout, ne way into this preserve is by BIowig Reck and along the Yonahlossee lrnpike, which is considered by .good ldges to be one of the finest mountain )ads in America and over which old| | r,W?. o,d3. " Ti^opi Landing la Cores. Paris, I^eb. 22.?In a dispatch from V arbin the correspondent of the Matin tys Gem. Velkoff, who is on guard , / " ong tfcfe Mongolian line, has arrived if iere vt-ith Gen. Dasilevski, of the en-- JmbB neer corps. Half of the Japanese fleet, the corspondent says, is covering the landg of troops in Corea and the other I ilf is seeking the Vladivostock squad*